Two volumes in quarto (260×180 mm), pp. (12), 472; (4), 384; two allegorical frontispieces engraved in copper by Alessandro Dalla Via after designs by A. Zanchi, and two chalcographic vignettes on the title pages; printed marginal notes. Large woodcut initials and terminal letters. Eighteenth-century full leather binding with gold decoration and title on the spine, spray-cut edges, replaced corner pieces. A unique edition of a rare work on the wars of the Holy League (Venice, Austria and Poland) against the Ottoman forces, from the siege and liberation of Vienna in 1683 to the fall of Buda and Pest a few years later (1688). Elegant typographical design. Beregani (1627–1713), a noble Venetian lawyer, ‘was a translator of Latin classics, a historian of the Turkish war in Europe during the time of the Holy League, a poet and a writer of melodramas (for performances at the Venetian theatres Grimani and Vendramin), among the most noted of his time’. (Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 8). Among other works, he wrote the libretto for the opera ‘Annibale in Capua’ and also for the cantatas of Barbara Strozzi (adopted daughter of Giulio Strozzi, * c. 1620), who had already gained fame as a singer by the age of 16 (cf. MGG 12, 1613 ff.). A very fine copy internally, with some restoration to the spines. Not in Vinciana; Atabey 100: Atabey 100 not in BLC, GL or Blackmer. Nuc for the Harvard and Yale copies only.