Lot 323
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William II (Abbot of Tyre): Historia Belli Sacri Verissima ... Uná cum continuátion totius de Bello Sacro Historia, Basle, Apud Nicolaum Brylingerum, 1564, 2 vols. in one, folio, second edition, Roman and italic type, woodcut publisher's device on titles, woodcut initials, 14 maps and illustrations in vol.1, (first title altered and laid-down possibly because of the addition of the second vol., some contemporary ink underlining, occasional slight dampstaining, ownership stamp on title partially excised), modern half calf, gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). [Adams W178]

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William II (Abbot of Tyre): Historia Belli Sacri Verissima ... Uná cum continuátion totius de Bello Sacro Historia, Basle, Apud Nicolaum Brylingerum, 1564, 2 vols. in one, folio, second edition, Roman and italic type, woodcut publisher's device on titles, woodcut initials, 14 maps and illustrations in vol.1, (first title altered and laid-down possibly because of the addition of the second vol., some contemporary ink underlining, occasional slight dampstaining, ownership stamp on title partially excised), modern half calf, gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). [Adams W178]

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An important sourse of information on the Crusades up to the reign of Baldwin IV. The woodcut views purporting to be of the towns of Antioch, Tyre, Damascus, Ascalon etc. are in fact all of various Swiss towns.

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