Catalogue 36
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Europe
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The Second Japanese Embassy to Europe
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AMATI, Scipione. Historia del regno di Voxu del Giapone, dell, antichita, nobilta, e valore del suo re Idate Masamune... Rome, Giacomo Mascardi, 1615.
Very rare FIRST EDITION of this critical source for THE SECOND JAPANESE MISSION TO EUROPE of 1614, a Franciscan public relations event that sought to repeat the success of the first mission of 1585, which had been brilliantly engineered by their rivals the Jesuits and to inspire financial and political support.
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The Mines and Mores of Eastern Europe
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BROWN[E], Edward. Relation de plusieurs Voyages faits en Hongrie, Servie, Bulgarie, Macedoine, Thesalie, Austriche, Styrie, Carinthie, Carniole & Friuli. . . Paris, Gervais Clouzier, 1674.
Scarce first French edition (expanded from the 1673 English original) of an early illustrated British travelogue to southeastern Europe and Greece
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The Siege of Rhodes
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CAO[U]RSIN, Guillaume. Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio. Rome, Eucharius Silber, 1482.
Rare early incunable edition of this eyewitness account of the first siege of Rhodes, a dramatic encounter in the summer of 1480 during which the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem successfully withstood a Turkish army of 70,000 for more than two months. The Obsidionis Rhodie, written by the vice-chancellor of the Order, ranks alongside the Columbus letter as one of the earliest incunable publications on a contemporary event.
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