GRAZIANI (Antonio Maria).Histoire de la guerre de Chypre.Par - Lot 25

GRAZIANI (Antonio Maria).Histoire de la guerre de Chypre.Paris: André Pralard, 1685. - In-4, 250 x 176 : frontispiece, (6 ff.), 424 pp., (1 f.). First French edition of one of the best accounts of the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus, translated from Latin by Louis Le Peletier (1663-1733). The work was written by the historian and bishop of Amelia Antonio Maria Graziani (1537-1611). Divided into five books, it retraces the Ottoman conquest of the island of Cyprus (1570-1573) and its consequences for the Mediterranean, while revealing the weaknesses of Christian Europe in the face of Turkish expansion. At the head is a biography of the author by Jean Victor Rossi, taken from the Pinacotheca imaginum illustrium doctrinae vel ingenii laude virorum... The edition is illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Simonneau, a title vignette, 4 handsome bands and four initials. A good copy in contemporary binding. Some wear and tear, tiny tear to upper headband. Old private library label affixed to upper spine. Stains in the lower margin of pages 26-27.