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Small 8vo (154 x 95 mm) 8 unn.ll., 183 pp., 8 unn.ll., 3 woodcut folding plates. Contemporary calf, triple blind stamped fillet, floral corner pieces and central decoration, ink lettering on outer edge, spine with raised bands decorated in blind (spine skillfully restored).
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Adams, B-2972 (under Johannes Michael Brutus) ; Gay, 1376; see Göllner, II, 938.
Important second edition – a reissue of the identical 1554 edition also by Beller – in which Cornelius van Scheper gathers various texts (Calvete de Estrella, Giovio, Villegaignon, etc.), related to the expeditions of Charles V in North Africa.
The volume is illustrated with 3 folding woodcuts showing Tunis, Algiers, and El Kef (Aphrodisium).
Well represented in European libraries USTC locates 2 institutional copies of this edition in the United States : Houghton Library (Cambridge), and New York Public Library.
A fine copy.
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