26th Oct, 2022 9:30

Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 77
 

Jauna. Histoire Generale....Chypre de Jerusalem. 1747

Jauna (Dominique)
Histoire generale des Roiaumes de Chypre, de Jerusalem, d'Armenie, et d'Egypt, comprenant les Croisades ...

2 vols. two titles in red and black. With 2 engraved portraits and 5 of 6 folding maps (lacking Le Titre du second Tome devant le Livre XV, p.762), contemporary vellum, red leather lettering labels, [Blackmer 870], 4to., Leiden, 1747

***'Jauna, a councilor of [Empress] Maria Theresa, to whom the work is dedicated, states in his preface that he spent many years in the Levant. His book does not contain accounts of his travels, being mostly historical, but contains very good maps of Greece, Egypt, Cyprus and Palestine' (Blackmer).

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