4to. 171 pp., [9 index], woodcut printer’s device to title, period-style blind-stamped pigskin, some light foxing and browning, lower corner of page 171 cut without any loss to text, otherwise a very good copy, Francofurdi Apud Andreae Wecheli Heredes, Claudium Marnium and Ioan, Aubrium, Frankfurt, third edition, 1596.

Synopsis

A volume of near-eastern studies by the Italian writer Caelio Augustino Curione (1538-67) comprising a history of the Muslims and Turks up to the year 1300 with additions by Wolfgang Drechsler, a description of the kingdom of Morocco, and an account of the then recent unsuccessful Turkish siege of Malta (1565), defended by the knights of St John, which checked Ottoman power in the region, and gave fame to the Order. Curio’s history of the Saracens was first printed in Basle (Basel) in 1567, and an English version appeared in 1575.
Bibliographic references: Blackmer 431; Adams, C3081; Gollner 2190; Graesse II, p. 308.