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GIOVIO, Paolo (1438-1552). Turcicarum rerum commentarius. Antwerp: Joannes Steelsius, 1538. Small 8° (135 x 85mm). Large woodcut printer's device on F4v. (Title tipped onto front blank and guarded on verso, A8v soiled, several shoulder notes shaved with slight loss.) Modern calf. Fourth edition in Latin, translated from Giovio's Italian text by Francisco Nigro. Atabey 500 (refers to this second copy); Göllner I, 623.
GIOVIO, Paolo (1438-1552). Turcicarum rerum commentarius. Antwerp: Joannes Steelsius, 1538. Small 8° (135 x 85mm). Large woodcut printer's device on F4v. (Title tipped onto front blank and guarded on verso, A8v soiled, several shoulder notes shaved with slight loss.) Modern calf. Fourth edition in Latin, translated from Giovio's Italian text by Francisco Nigro. Atabey 500 (refers to this second copy); Göllner I, 623.

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GIOVIO, Paolo (1438-1552). Turcicarum rerum commentarius. Antwerp: Joannes Steelsius, 1538. Small 8° (135 x 85mm). Large woodcut printer's device on F4v. (Title tipped onto front blank and guarded on verso, A8v soiled, several shoulder notes shaved with slight loss.) Modern calf. Fourth edition in Latin, translated from Giovio's Italian text by Francisco Nigro. Atabey 500 (refers to this second copy); Göllner I, 623.

VIPERANO, Giovanni Antonio. De bello Melitensi historia. Perugia: Andreas Brixianus, 1567. 4° (200 x 147mm). Woodcut title device. (Lacks the map of Malta, title with small repairs.) Red morocco by Amand, gilt inner dentelles, gilt edges (slightly bowed). Atabey 1298 (refers to this second copy); Gölner II, 1222; not in Blackmer. FIRST AND ONLY SEPARATE EDITION of this account of the siege of Malta by Suleiman II in 1565. (2)

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