Lot 3124: DANDINI DA CESENA, GIROLAMO

(1554-1634), S.J.
VOYAGE DU MONT LIBAN... OÙ IL EST TRAITÉ TANT DE LA CRÉANCE & DES COÛTUMES DES MARONITES, QUE DE PLUSIEURS PARTICULARITEZ TOUCHANT LES TURCS. PARIS: LOUIS BILLAINE, 1675

12mo (149 x 86mm.), [28 (including half-title)], 402, [14 (including final blank)] pp., a few early ink manuscript annotations in French, illustration: woodcut head-pieces and initial, binding: contemporary calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, spine slightly worn, binding rather rubbed

LITERATURE

Atabey 318; cf. Weber II, 228-30 (other editions); Blackmer 447 (first edition); Sommervogel II, 1790; Cobham-Jeffery p.14; Tobler, p.87; Röhricht 838

NOTE

first edition in french. Girolamo Dandini da Cesena, a Jesuit philosopher and theologian, was sent to Mount Lebanon by Pope Clement VIII in 1596 in an attempt to strengthen the fragile bonds between the Maronites and the Papacy. Chapters 6-8 are devoted to Cyprus.