Printed at Napoleon’s Cairo Press and with the Contemporary Ownership of an Officer of the Armée d’Orient - "Annuaire de la République Française, Calculé pour le Méridien du Kaire, l’An IX de l’Ère Française" - 1800 15th century whose sad fate is told

whose sad fate is told in the pages of Dante

boards rubbed and worn on edges

Modern simple binding in quarter leather with marbled boards

The ninth part of De Bry Grands Voyages contains 3 separate accounts: Acosta’s “Historia natural y moral de las Indias”

richly highlighted with delicate white penwork and liquid gold

Printed at Napoleon’s Cairo Press and with the Contemporary Ownership of an Officer of the Armée d’Orient - "Annuaire de la République Française, Calculé pour le Méridien du Kaire, l’An IX de l’Ère Française" - 1800 15th century whose sad fate is toldPrinted at Napoleons Cairo Press and with the Contemporary Ownership of an Officer of the Arme dOrient Annuaire de la Rpublique Franaise, Calcul pour le Mridien du Kaire, lAn IX de lre Franaise Imprimerie Nationale du Kaire (Cairo), 1800. Octavo format retaining the original publishers paper boards, untrimmed. Complete: [1 4],5 68, [2], 48pp. Losses to lower corners of the final three leaves with old paper repairs. Losses to the outer paper covering