Description
Embassy to Tamorlan (the route to Samarkand). Itinerary and narration of the trip, and relation of the Embassy that Ruy González de Clavijo made, by mandate of the very powerful Lord King Don Henrique Tercero of Castilla, 1403-1406.
Introduction and indexes by José Manuel Herrero Massari, adaptation and modernization of the text by Rosa María Rivas Ramírez. Texts in Spanish.
Special bibliophile edition in Madrid, 2009. Numbered and limited to 500 copies printed with artisan techniques, on boned laid thread paper.
Large folio format, 25 x 35 cm. 248 highly illustrated pages plus 10 sheets of thick white cardboard with double color illustrations by Ángel Roncero. Bordered text. Bound in silk with arabesque prints in gold and color, Persian-style endpapers specially designed for the work. Presented in a blue cardboard sleeve lined with paper and silk, format 24.5 x 35.5 x 4 cm.
Two-column texts, decorated with beautiful borders, capitulares and 5 color plates, made especially for this work by Ángel Roncero, with numerous illustrations taken from ancient codices between the text.
A beautiful copy of high bibliophile, in perfect condition, new, unused.
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