WILLIAM II, Abbot of Tyre. Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme... Translated into Italian by Giuseppe Horologgi. Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.

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WILLIAM II, Abbot of Tyre. Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme... Translated into Italian by Giuseppe Horologgi. Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.

4o (205 x 145 mm). Printer's woodcut device on title and last leaf (staining to gutter margin at beginning, hh1 with repaired marginal tear, some minor marginal worming). 16th-century calf gilt, central arabesque within single blind fillet and floral tools at corners (spine ends vanished, joints cracked).

First Italian translation of the most important contemporary account of the first and second Crusades. Adams W-179.

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