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BUSBECQ, Ogier Ghislain de (1522-1592). Embaxada y viages de Constantinopla y Amasea, translated from Latin by L. Steban Lopez de Reta. Pamplona: Carlos de Labayen, 1610. 8° (137 x 84mm). Woodcut IHS device on title, a few woodcut initials. With blank +4 and colophon leaf. (C1 repaired at top margin with loss to one letter of headline, marginal repairs to G7 and O5, some shoulder notes cropped with slight loss, some headlines close shaved, without final blank.) Blue morocco by Brugalla, 1952, gilt supralibros and spine lettering, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: purchased from Librería Puvill, 1951.
FIRST EDITION IN SPANISH, following its publication as Itinera Constantinopolitanum by Plantin in 1581 and 1582; known as the Turkish Letters in English. The Flemish author and herbalist was Ferdinand of Austria's ambassador to the Ottoman empire under the rule of Suleiman the Magnificent. Writing his work while in Constantinople, he reported on plant and animal life in Turkey, and sent tulip bulbs to his friend Charles de l'Écluse who established them in the low countries for the first time. Palau VI, 102792: 'libro raro'; not in Goldsmith.
FIRST EDITION IN SPANISH, following its publication as Itinera Constantinopolitanum by Plantin in 1581 and 1582; known as the Turkish Letters in English. The Flemish author and herbalist was Ferdinand of Austria's ambassador to the Ottoman empire under the rule of Suleiman the Magnificent. Writing his work while in Constantinople, he reported on plant and animal life in Turkey, and sent tulip bulbs to his friend Charles de l'Écluse who established them in the low countries for the first time. Palau VI, 102792: 'libro raro'; not in Goldsmith.