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Bizari, Pietro.
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Description
- Histoire de la guerre qui c'est passee entre les Venitiens et la saincte ligue, contre les Turcs pour l'isle de Cypre... mise en françoys par F. de Belle-forest. Paris: Sebastien Nivelle, 1573
First French edition, 8vo (157 x 97mm.), old calf, spine lettered "Guerre de Cypre", [Blackmer 147 (with imprint Chesneau); Cobham-Jeffery p.5; Göllner 1612; cf. Atabey 110-111], wormed at foot of page, more so at beginning where it occasionally touches a few letters, somewhat spotted and soiled, binding rubbed, new upper endpapers
Catalogue Note
This edition in French is rarer than the original Latin edition of the same year. The imprint varies, either Nivelle (as here) or Chesneau. Bizari was not present at the taking of Cyprus by the Turks in 1572 and his information must have come from returned combatants and other sources.