1608 1ed Solis World Provinces ITALY Constantinople Paris Geography Geneva Pisa

1608 1^ed Solis World Provinces ITALY Constantinople Paris Geography Geneva Pisa

‘Discourse of the Provinces of the World’ is a fascinating and thorough geography account of Italian historian Giulio Solis. This book provides topographical descriptions of the world’s oceans, mountains, cities and towns, castles and cathedrals, and even cultures. However, Solis focuses primarily on the Italian and Turkish powers around the Mediterranean and how Turkish customs were influential in many other world cities.

This rare first edition also includes a short discourse on cosmography to accompany Solis’s description of prominent cities: Paris, Marseille, Constantinople, Geneva, Luca, Parma, Pisa, Savona, Gaeta, and many others.

Item number: #9776

Price: $499

SOLIS, Giulio Cesare

Discorso dove si hà piena notitia di tutte le provincie, città, castella, popoli, monti, mari, fiumi, & laghi di tutto di mondo: et quello che hocorso [sic] al mondo sino al’anno presente. Insieme co’l dominio, potenza, cerimonie, & legge de Turchi, con l’origine di molte città del mondo, & particolarmente di tutta Italia…

Modona, Per Gio. Maria Verdi, 1608. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [3], 4-96
• Language: Italian
• Binding: Softcover; tight & secure
• Size: ~7.75in X 6in (19.5cm x 15cm)

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