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MARMOL CARVAJAL, LUIS DE. L`Afrique, de la traduction de N. Perrot d`Ablancourt. Avec l`Histoire de Cherifs, trad. de l`Espagnol de D. Torres, par le Duc d`Angoulesme, 4 parts in 3 volumes, Paris, L. Billaine, 1667.

Quarto (235 x 180 mm.). With 27 (of 28) double-page (1 folding) engraved maps by N. Sanson, lacking also as often the title to the third volume.
Contemporary calf, rebacked in style, some general wear. Probably washed copy with only some even unobtrusive browning, a few pages with repaired tears.

Collation: (16) ll., 532 pp., (16) ll, (8) ll., 578 pp., (25) ll, (5 - of 6) ll., 304 pp., (10) ll, 226 pp., (5) ll.
First French edition. Important description of Africa, where Marmol spent eight years as a prisoner of the Moors. The main body of this work concerns Northern Africa, but in the volume are also present maps of Italy, Hungary, Arabia, India, Turkey etc.
Palau 152.434, Gay 372.

Auktionsnummer:

6064

Datum:

2020-12-10