Lot 08168

Geoffrey of Villehardouin, Natalis de Wailly, “Geoffroi de Ville-Hardouin: Conquete de Constantinople. Avec la continuation de Henri de Valenciennes. Texte Original, accompagne dune traduction par Natalis de Wailly”, Firmin Didot, Paris, 1882. Small 4to, pp. xxiv, 616. Coloured frontispiece and illustrations in-text. Contemporary half leather binding, spine with blind-stamped decorations in gilt, light external rubbing, overall in very fine condition. The Villehardouin’s chronicle of the conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade translated in French and edited by the important French archivist, librarian and historian Natalis de Wailly.