NUCULA, HORAZIO:

Commentariorum de Bello Aphrodisiensi libri quinque. Roma, per Valerium et Ludovicum fratres Brixienses [Valerio e Ludovico Dorico], 1552.

      Pp. 79, 90-368, (7). Including one double page map of the northern coast of Africa (Tunis) and partof Sicily. Title page repaired (slight loss of one letter) and two more leaves with marginal repairs without any loss of text. With some minor browning and partly with marginal wormholes. Contemporary limp vellum, top of spine restored, title in manuscript on spine. Stamp on title (Rome's national library). Scarce first edition of this trustworthy account of Charles V's campaigns against the Turkish corsair Dragut who was based at Mahdia on the Tunisian coast. Genoese Andrea Doria (1466-1560), the foremost naval leader of his time, attacked and captured Mahdia in 1550. This work is dedicated to Pope Julius III with his coat of arms as wood cut vignette on title page. Nicely printed by the famous Brescian brothers Dorico. Adams N368. Cf Gay 378. Göllner 926.