Histoire des voyages de Monsieur le marquis Ville en Levant, et du siège de Candie ; écrite par L. P. Ioseph Du Cros
Veuve de Guillaume Barbier|Lyon 1669|8 x 14.3 cm|Relié
First edition, a Paris edition appeared the same year, see Cioranescu, XVII, 26842. Brunet V, 1222, under the entry "Villa," mentions this Paris edition under the title Voyage. Blackmer 505.
Contemporary full stiff vellum, flat spine, inked title at head of spine, speckled edges.
"This work is an abridged version of, or rather based on, Rostagno's Viaggi Dell'… Sign. Marchese Ghiron Francesco Villa In Dalmatia, e Levante, Torino, 1668. Du Cros, who in the preface says Rostagno lent him his manuscript, has produced a day-by-day account of the siege of Candia and of Villa's part in it. Villa took up arms against the Turks in 1665, sustained the siege of Candia for 2 years, and d
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