Second edition, 4to (203 x 148mm.), woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut head- and tailpiece, and initials, contemporary limp vellum, titled in ink on spine and lower edge, three minor punctures in lower cover and into half of text block (affecting some letters, but without loss), spine slightly darkened and with slight wear

Atabey 440; Cobham-Jeffery p.20; Göllner 1809; Ioannou, Cyprus and the Levant from the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, I, p. 187; not in Blackmer

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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RARE. This account of the treaty against Suleiman II includes accounts of the siege of Nicosia, the formation of the Holy League after the loss of Cyprus, the capture of Famagusta by the Ottomans, the seizure of Methoni and Navarino in the Morea, Ottoman attacks in North Africa, and an account of the siege of Malta in 1565. 'The Italian Union catalogue cites an earlier edition published in 1585 in Genoa, however this is not recorded in COPAC, KVK, or by any of the [standard] bibliographies' (Ioannou).