IBID. Histoire contenant une sommaire description des genealogies, alliances, & gestes de tous les princes... de Hierusalem, Cypre, Armenie, & lieux circonvoisins. Paris: Guillaume Chaudière, 1579, FIRST EDITION

2 works in one volume, 4to (215 x 169mm.), contemporary vellum, lacking most ties

Prunier family, owners of an important library, various inscriptions at beginning and end (including Artus Prunier [de Saint-Andre, comte de Clermont]) and bookplate of Nicolas de Prunier

Cobham-Jeffery p.35; Ioannou, Cyprus and the Levant, p.314; not in Atabey or Blackmer

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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BOTH OF THESE WORKS ARE RARE. This first French edition of Description de toute l'isle de Cypre is an enlarged version of the original Italian edition (published in 1573), and is in three parts. The second part is La vraye et tres-fidele narration du succes des assaults, defenses, & prinse du royaume de Cypre, and the third La vraye et tres-fidele narration de l'expugnation et defense de Famagoste.