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FONTANUS, Jacob

De Bello Rhodio libri tres. Clementi VII pont. max. dedicati

Roma
Francesco Minizio Calvo
1524

€500 - €900

In-f°, [43] ff, title page in woodcut ornamental border (incorporating the figures of Minerva, Mars and Roma). Some foxing and stains at the end. Lacking final blank. Modern half vellum binding, marbled boards

"Ref. Atabey 444 ; Blackmer 613 ; Brunet II 1330 ; not in Adams ; not in Machiels. First edition of this rare eye-witness account of the siege and capitulation of Rhodes in 1522, in the course of which the Ottoman Empire expelled the Knights of Rhodes securing the Ottoman control on the Eastern Mediterranean. Fontanus or Fonteyn (ca. 1450- 1538) was a legal adviser from Bruges and judge of the appeal court in Rhodes"

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