Histoire Des Rois De Chypre De La Maison De Lusignan; Et Les Differentes Guerres Qu'ils Ont Eu Contre Les Sarrazins & Les Genois

by Steffano di Loredano, Giovanni Francesco Loredano

$900 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Contemporary calf, raised bands forming 6 compartments, title lettered gilt, repeat gilt decoration in compartments, marbled endpapers. First French edition of a work originally published in Italian in 1647. First published in Italian under the pseudonym of Henri Giblet, Loredano's Histoire Des Rois De Chypre De La Maison De Lusignan offers a history of the Frankish kingdom of Cyprus, which lasted from 1192 to 1489. The author was a Venetian nobleman, politician

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