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[NITRI, Maurizio]. Memoires de la guerre de Transilvanie et de Hongrie, entre l'Empereur Leopold I & le Grand Seigneur Mehemet IV. Amsterdam: Daniel Elsevier, 1680. 2 vols. in one, 12° (135 x 70mm), woodcut Elsevier device on titles, woodcut initials and ornaments. (A4 with marginal tear, occasional thumb-soiling.) 19th-century blue morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, speckled edges (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: H. Destailleur (1787-1853, architect and bibliophile; bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of this work on the recent struggle over Hungary and Transylvania, transposed into two volumes from the four books of the Italian original (Venice, 1665). It has also been attributed to Centorio degli Hortensi. Atabey 877 (refers to this second copy); Willems 1751; not in Blackmer.
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of this work on the recent struggle over Hungary and Transylvania, transposed into two volumes from the four books of the Italian original (Venice, 1665). It has also been attributed to Centorio degli Hortensi. Atabey 877 (refers to this second copy); Willems 1751; not in Blackmer.