Author: Dumay, Louis (and other authors)
Title: RECUEIL HISTORIQUE Contenant Diverses Pieces Curieuses de ce Temps.
Description: Cologne, Christopher Van Dyck (actually Brussels Foppens) 1666 Woodcut printer's mark (celestial sphere) + headpieces tailpieces and foliated initial capitals. . 128x68mm half gilt leather on 3 raised bands compartments gilt tan spine title-label sides of "tortoise shell" paper covered boards (tips bit worn but pretty binding). Title +[2]pp Contents +350pp. One marginal tear of 1 inch with no loss, towards the end some pages with pale clear tidemark not affecting legibility, all pages crisp and flexible. *Includes several mid 17th century voyages (Gigery, Le duc de Guise, Sieur de Bricard), wars in Hungary (by Louis Dumay), wars with the Turks, peace treaty between Mahomet & Leopold I etc. All current events from first-hand knowledgeable writers.

Keywords: travel war history Turkish invasions


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