BIZZARRI, PIETRO: - Rerum persicarum historia, initia gentis, mores, instituta, resquegestas ad haec usque tempora complectens. Francofurti, typis Wechelianis apud Caludium Marnium & heredes Ioannis Aubrii, 1601.

. Folio. Pp. (viii), 644, (32) index. With woodcut devices on title and the last page. Several woodcut initials and headpieces. Some browning to the text. Contemporary calf, gilt spine and title label, worn and restored. Old bookdealer label on front pastedown. Dedicated to Augustus I, Elector of Saxony. Second enlarged edition (first 1583) of Bizzari's classic work on Persia together with tracts relating to Persia and the Turks by Callimachus, Tommaso Minadoi, Josaphat Barbaro and Ambrogio Contarini. Pietro Bizzari (1525-86) studied in Venice but converted to Protestantism at an early age and lived most of his life in England and Germany. His work covers the Persian history from antiquity up to the 1580s. Atabey 112. Diba p. 177. Schwab I, 47. Wilson p. 23.

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