BUSBECQ, AUGIER GHISLAIN DE. Itinera Constantinopolitanum et Amasianum. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1581. Printer's woodcut device on title. FIRST EDITION, containing Busbecq's first Turkish letter, written to the dedicatee Nicholas Michault. Busbecq's letters from Turkey (published in their entirety in 1589) contain "perhaps the most interesting of all accounts of Turkish life, and his description and analysis of the Ottoman state can hardly be superseded" (Blackmer). Adams B-3329; Blackmer Catalogue 248; Voet 851. [ Bound with :] ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM and JOHANNES VIVIANUS. Itinerarium per nonnullas Galliae Belgicae partes. Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1584. 2 folding engraved plates of tombal monuments, 3 large engravings in text of which one full-page, 2 small text woodcuts reproducing carved epitaphs, printer's woodcut device on title. FIRST EDITION, describing an archaeological tour through the Low Countries and into Luxembourg and Lorraine, couched in the form of a letter to Gerard Mercator. Adams O-349; Voet 1837. 2 works in one vol., small 8vo, 19th-century calf, rubbed, inner hinge s weak; full-page engraving on D5r cropped, first folding plate with small stain and 1-inch tear at gutters, some light browning, occas ional marginal dampstaining .
BUSBECQ, AUGIER GHISLAIN DE. Itinera Constantinopolitanum et Amasianum. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1581. Printer's woodcut device on title. FIRST EDITION, containing Busbecq's first Turkish letter, written to the dedicatee Nicholas Michault. Busbecq's letters from Turkey (published in their entirety in 1589) contain "perhaps the most interesting of all accounts of Turkish life, and his description and analysis of the Ottoman state can hardly be superseded" (Blackmer). Adams B-3329; Blackmer Catalogue 248; Voet 851. [ Bound with :] ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM and JOHANNES VIVIANUS. Itinerarium per nonnullas Galliae Belgicae partes. Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1584. 2 folding engraved plates of tombal monuments, 3 large engravings in text of which one full-page, 2 small text woodcuts reproducing carved epitaphs, printer's woodcut device on title. FIRST EDITION, describing an archaeological tour through the Low Countries and into Luxembourg and Lorraine, couched in the form of a letter to Gerard Mercator. Adams O-349; Voet 1837. 2 works in one vol., small 8vo, 19th-century calf, rubbed, inner hinge s weak; full-page engraving on D5r cropped, first folding plate with small stain and 1-inch tear at gutters, some light browning, occas ional marginal dampstaining .
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