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NICOLAY, Nicolas de (Seigneur d'Arfeville). Discours et Histoire Veritable des Navigations, Peregrinations et Voyages, faicts en la Turquie. Anvers: Arnould Coninx, 1586. 4° (207 x 149mm). Woodcut printer's device on title. 53 full-page woodcuts only (of 57). (N 1-4 supplied in 18th-century manuscript facsimile on 8 leaves, with 4 integral pencil drawings being versions of the missing woodcuts.) Early-18th-century French mottled calf gilt, covers with the arms of Louis-Urbain Le Fèvre, seigneur de Caumartin, marquis de Saint-Ange (Olivier 651.fer 2), spine gilt, g.e. (extremities rubbed, spine chipped at head and foot). Provenance : marquis de Saint-Ange (binding). New edition with some charming replacement drawings and a distinguished provenance. Olivier notes that when Saint-Ange died in 1720 he left a library "remarquable tant par le choix des ouvrages que par la beauté des relieures".