[Turks]. First Italian edition of theLibro dell' origine, et successione dell' imperio deTurchi. Newly translated from the Spanish language into the Italian for Signor Alfonso di Ulloa by Vasco Diaz Tanco de Fregenal, printed by Giolito de Ferrari in 1558, unfortunately with defects and restorations with loss of text, within parchment binding. Also in the lot is the Discourse of St. William Choul ... Sopra la castrametatione, & bagni antichi de i greci, & romani ... Et una informatione della militia turchesca del 1582. (2)

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