BEAUVAU (Henry de). Relation journalière du voyage... Lot n° 4

BEAUVAU (Henry de). Daily report of the voyage of the east made and described by high and powerful lord Henry de BEAUVAU, baron of the said place and Manonville lord of Fleville, Sermaise, Domepure, &c. Reveu augmenté et enrichy par l'autheur de pourtraicts des lieux les plus remarquables. Jacob Garnich, Ordinary sworn printer of his Highness, Nancy 1619. Engraved title and 49 engravings in-text. 181 pp. In-quarto half calf XVIIIth, spine with 5 nerves, caissons decorated with fleurons, red morocco title-piece, speckled edges, paper boards. Title page raised, bottom corner missing, scattered foxing, browning, stains in places (notably on p. 151), small marginal hole on p. 136, stains on bottom corner of first 4 leaves, binding rubbed, head and tail damaged. Very rare. Second printing of the illustrated edition, the first being of 1615. The text was first published in Toul in 1608. Henry de Beauvau campaigned against the Turks in the armies of the German emperor (travelling through Europe, Asia and Africa), being in the service of Jean Gontaut de Biron, Baron de Salignac, French ambassador to the Sublime Porte.