di Cesare Campana. Printer's device on the title page. Woodcut initials, head pieces. Italic type. First edition of Campana's "Historical Compendium of... Show moredi Cesare Campana. Printer's device on the title page. Woodcut initials, head pieces. Italic type. First edition of Campana's "Historical Compendium of the Latest Wars between Christians and Turks and Persians". After a biographical overview of the ruling house of Ottoman Turkey (the folding plates offers a genealogical table of the ruling Ottoman dynasty from Soliman to Mehmed III). Camapna details the armed conflicts carried out in the course of the Ottoman-Safavid War (1577-90) between Safavid Persia under Mohammed Khodabanda (and later Abbas I) and the Ottoman Empire under Murad III. The Ottomans had started the war with the objective of conquering Azerbaijan and the Caucasus, and they effectively came to rule over those areas as far as the Caspian Sea. A peace of Istanbul was concluded in 1590, in which Persia confirmed these Ottoman conquests and promised to end Shiite propaganda in Ottoman territories and persecution of Sunnis in her own lands. The advent of the Ottoman-Safavid war temporarily deflected Ottoman interest from European affairs, where the Ottoman Empire had been active with the Franco-Ottoman alliance and the support of the Dutch Revolt, in an interesting episode of mutually-supportive relations between Islam and Protestantism. - The volume's second part is dedicated to the Turkish Wars in Hungary and Transylvania during the 1590s; the end is brought up by a chronicle of events in Turkish history from 1257 to 1596. - Inkstains to title page; faint waterstain throughout; occasional worming restored (no loss to text). Main Heritage Shelves General DB924 .C36 1597 Book Item-ID: i16817308 BIB-ID: 1507109 Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel, Description and travel, DS47 .F44 1587
Note at end: Io Don Bartholomeo Dionigi da Fano, da un memoriale del soprascritto M. Cesare, ho cauato il presente viaggio, e fidelmente in questa... Show moreNote at end: Io Don Bartholomeo Dionigi da Fano, da un memoriale del soprascritto M. Cesare, ho cauato il presente viaggio, e fidelmente in questa forma disteso; che letto piu volte dall' istesso authore, come vero e fedele, ha voluto a commune delettalione & utile, al mondo publicarlo. Main Heritage Shelves General DS47 .F44 1587 Book Item-ID: i23166824 BIB-ID: 2451680 Show less
Prester John, Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, G159 .R36 1554, 910.8
Title for vols.. 2 and 3: Secondo [-terzo] volume delle nauigationi et viaggi raccolto gia da m. Gio. Battista Ramusio. In addition vol. 2 has "et... Show moreTitle for vols.. 2 and 3: Secondo [-terzo] volume delle nauigationi et viaggi raccolto gia da m. Gio. Battista Ramusio. In addition vol. 2 has "et hora in questa nuoua editione accresciuto." Title page vignettes; initials and printed marginalia. Vol. 2 dated MDLXXXIII; vol. 3 dated M D LXV. Leaves 22, 24, 104, 154 of vol. 1 misfoliated 15, 25, 105, 134. The 6 plates (double maps) are in vol. 1; the folding maps and plan in vol. 3 are each counted as 2 leaves in the foliation except for the last. Main Heritage Shelves General G159 .R36 1554 Book vol.3 Item-ID: i20302472 BIB-ID: 1009464 Show less
Prester John, Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, G159 .R36 1554, 910.8
Title for vols.. 2 and 3: Secondo [-terzo] volume delle nauigationi et viaggi raccolto gia da m. Gio. Battista Ramusio. In addition vol. 2 has "et... Show moreTitle for vols.. 2 and 3: Secondo [-terzo] volume delle nauigationi et viaggi raccolto gia da m. Gio. Battista Ramusio. In addition vol. 2 has "et hora in questa nuoua editione accresciuto." Title page vignettes; initials and printed marginalia. Vol. 2 dated MDLXXXIII; vol. 3 dated M D LXV. Leaves 22, 24, 104, 154 of vol. 1 misfoliated 15, 25, 105, 134. The 6 plates (double maps) are in vol. 1; the folding maps and plan in vol. 3 are each counted as 2 leaves in the foliation except for the last. Main Heritage Shelves General G159 .R36 1554 Book vol.1 Item-ID: i10078289 BIB-ID: 1009464 Show less
Prester John, Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, G159 .R36 1554, 910.8
Title for vols.. 2 and 3: Secondo [-terzo] volume delle nauigationi et viaggi raccolto gia da m. Gio. Battista Ramusio. In addition vol. 2 has "et... Show moreTitle for vols.. 2 and 3: Secondo [-terzo] volume delle nauigationi et viaggi raccolto gia da m. Gio. Battista Ramusio. In addition vol. 2 has "et hora in questa nuoua editione accresciuto." Title page vignettes; initials and printed marginalia. Vol. 2 dated MDLXXXIII; vol. 3 dated M D LXV. Leaves 22, 24, 104, 154 of vol. 1 misfoliated 15, 25, 105, 134. The 6 plates (double maps) are in vol. 1; the folding maps and plan in vol. 3 are each counted as 2 leaves in the foliation except for the last. Main Heritage Shelves General G159 .R36 1554 Book vol.2 Item-ID: i20302459 BIB-ID: 1009464 Show less
Description and travel--Early works to 1800, DT7 .L564 1556
Includes index. recently converted into a Latin loan. Performer Florian. Translation of: The Descriptive of Africa, first published Venice, 1550 in:... Show moreIncludes index. recently converted into a Latin loan. Performer Florian. Translation of: The Descriptive of Africa, first published Venice, 1550 in: Nauigation and Travel, volume 1, compiled by Giovanni Battista Ramusio. Show less
This is a one of the earliest printed maps of the city and beautiful example of a cornerstone map in attractive coloring. Translation of cartouche... Show moreThis is a one of the earliest printed maps of the city and beautiful example of a cornerstone map in attractive coloring. Translation of cartouche text, view of Algiers, the most powerful town of the Saracens, built in the Numidian province of Africa and situated on the edge of the Balearic Current in the Mediterranean Sea, across from Spain. The plate of Algiers depicts the formidably fortified town in a low bird's-eye view, with a figure bottom left dressed in a turban and kaftan, the coloring of which matches that of the surrounding countryside. The fortress-like layout of the town, conveniently located on a harbor, features a well-laid out Old Town with five mosques, including, in the foreground, the Great Mosque (Q) from the 11th century. While Algiers belonged to the Kingdom of Aragon after the Reconquista in 1492, in the early 16th century many Moors, Moriscos and Corsairs made Algiers and Tunis their base. Among others Ferdinand, the Catholic, campaigned against their piracy; on the other side the Turks helped the North Africans and, with the exception of Morocco, the land became part of the Ottoman Empire in 1518-1519. Bird's eye view, with key to streets, buildings, gates, and other features. Key is in Italian, but title and other text is in Latin. From Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates orbis terrarum, part 2 (Coloniae: Apud auctores, et ... apud Philippum Gallaeum, 1575-1612), leaf S9 verso. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00253 Print Map Item-ID: i11400602 BIB-ID: 1845452 Georg Braun (1541-1622) was a canon of Cologne Cathedral and was responsible for the descriptions for each of the plates in the series as well as the introductions for each volume. Braun conceived the idea of the publication and sought the advice of many artists and printers of the time in Europe. Amongst the contributors were Flemish painter and draftsman, Joris Hoefnagel and his son Jakob Hendrik van Schoel, the surveyor Jacob van Deventer of the Netherlands, the English cartographer William Smith as well as Heinrich Rantzau, to mention a few of the ones involved with the project. Special emphasis should be noted with Joris Hoefnagel [1542-1600] who was one of the most significant contributors to the Civitates. Show less
