Giovanni-Paolo MARANA
L'espion dans les cours des princes chrétiens
Chez Erasme Kinkius|à Cologne 1739|10 x 17 cm|6 volumes reliés
New edition. This edition was successively expanded and 1684 is given as the date of the original, certainly in 2 volumes. It is illustrated with 21 attractive figures, of which 5 are folding (portrait of Mehmet; a view of Constantinople, of Perpignan, portraits of Richelieu, of the Knights of Malta; figures of Chinese, Tartars, Arabs...
Plates on Morocco, inhabitants of the Antilles etc.). Title pages in red and black. One often observes a significantly different number of plates from one edition to another, and according to dates.
Contemporary full brown speckled and glazed sheep bindings. Spines with raised bands richly ornamented and finely decorated. Red morocco title labels a
Plates on Morocco, inhabitants of the Antilles etc.). Title pages in red and black. One often observes a significantly different number of plates from one edition to another, and according to dates.
Contemporary full brown speckled and glazed sheep bindings. Spines with raised bands richly ornamented and finely decorated. Red morocco title labels a
€1,300