
First edition illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece by J. Goeree engraved on copper, as well as a copper-engraved armorial vignette at the opening of the text (cf. Barbier, III, 560. Quérard, III, 212. Not held at the BnF. Not recorded in Fossati Bellani.)
Contemporary half tawny calf binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt friezes and blind-stamped fleurons now almost entirely faded, red morocco title label, a restoration to the head of the spine, marbled paper boards, early 19th-century binding,
A small black ink stain to a blank endpaper.
The work discusses, among other subjects, the Republic’s losses in Greece, the battles of Lepanto and the Dardanelles, Cyprus, the Morea (Peloponnese), Corfu (besieged by Suleiman), Dalmatia, Constantinople, Venetian trade, and competition with the Portuguese in the Indies.