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[OTTOMAN EMPIRE]. -- GRANGEUS, Claudius. De bello melitensi a Solimano Turcarum Principe gesto. [Lyons:] Gabriel Cartier, 1582. Small 8o (137 x 85 mm). Printer's woodcut device on title, final leaf blank (occasional slight offsetting, marginal wormhole). 17th-century German blind-stamped pigskin, sides panelled with floral rolls and tools, calf lettering-piece, edges red-stained.
[Bound with:]
CHYTRAEUS, David (1530-1600). Chronicon anni M.D.XCIII. M.D.XCIIII. et initii M.D.XCV. Leipzig: Henning Gross, 1595. (Browning, a few sidenotes and headlines cropped.) Woodcut devices on title, woodcut initials. Provenance: Shelfmark "C27" on first title, a few 18th-century marginalia in the second work.
FIRST EDITIONS of two rare histories principally devoted to the Turkish advance into Europe during the apogee of Islamic power. The first work, by a classics professor from Bourges, relates the Turkish siege of Malta under Suleiman I in 1565, one of the most famous sieges in European history. A large section of Chytraeus' chronicle of the years 1593-95 is devoted to the Turkish empire, at the time suffering reverses in Hungary and the provinces of the Danube; it includes a history of the Ottoman emperors from the end of the 11th century.
[Bound with:]
CHYTRAEUS, David (1530-1600). Chronicon anni M.D.XCIII. M.D.XCIIII. et initii M.D.XCV. Leipzig: Henning Gross, 1595. (Browning, a few sidenotes and headlines cropped.) Woodcut devices on title, woodcut initials. Provenance: Shelfmark "C27" on first title, a few 18th-century marginalia in the second work.
FIRST EDITIONS of two rare histories principally devoted to the Turkish advance into Europe during the apogee of Islamic power. The first work, by a classics professor from Bourges, relates the Turkish siege of Malta under Suleiman I in 1565, one of the most famous sieges in European history. A large section of Chytraeus' chronicle of the years 1593-95 is devoted to the Turkish empire, at the time suffering reverses in Hungary and the provinces of the Danube; it includes a history of the Ottoman emperors from the end of the 11th century.