Ramberti B. : “Delle Cose de Turchi libri tre. Delle quali si descrive nel primo il viaggio da Venetia a Constantinopoli con gli nomi de luoghi antichi et moderni, nel second la Porta cive lacorte de Soltan Soleyman, nel terzo il modo del reggere Stato Imperio.” Venegia 1541. Second edition. Small 8vo 16x10cm complete, modern binding imitating Renaissance paper covers, marginal waterstain in few places, manuscript contemporary owner s inscription at the end, dated 1556. Overall intact and very good. Batholomeo Ramberti (1503-1547) travelled from Venice to Constantinople overland in early 1534. From Dalmatia, he crossed Bosnia and through Nissa entered Macedonia and Thrace. The 3rd of March 1534 arrived in Philippopoli (his spelling) where he describes actually lost monuments and four days later in Andrinopoli providing testimonies for several buildings of the city. Thought Silivrea arrived two weeks after in Constantinople giving accounts for the Hippodrome and its still standing monuments, the Palaces and several, still in Christian hands, Byzantine churches. Later part of the book provides his notes for the administrative organization of the contemporary Ottomans. A unique testimony. One of the earliest and more precious travel accounts for the Levant, especially taking into account its date and the overland journey. Not in Atabey or Blackmer . EXTREMELY RARE.