BAUDOIN Jean, “Histoire des Chevaliers de l’Ordre de S. Jean de Hierusalem contenant leur admirable Institution & Police, la Suite des Guerres de la Terre Saincte, ou ils se sont trouves, & leurs continuels Voyages, Entreprises, Batailles, Assauts & Rencontres”, Paris, Thomas Joly, 1659.

Folio, pp. [16], 510, [24], 248, [24], 133, [12], 141-196, 28.

Complete the 4 parts bound in 1 volume.

Engraved title page and two additional engraved divisional title pages inside. Including all the nine (9) rare maps, of which 5 folding maps of Cyprus, Malta, Ptolemaide (Acre) & Margat and 4 in text of Jerusalem, Acre, Rhodes, Valletta. Also including 60 engravings in text of which 56 portraits and a family tree. Praised work that deals  with the history of the Knights Hospitaller starting from the foundations of the Order, its organization, biographies of the founder and Grand Masters of the Order as well as description of the siege of Malta (1565) and a description of Malta and the city of Valetta.

Contemporary full calf with extensive rubbing and wear with some loss to spine. Inside browning, spotting and damp-staining. Some mainly marginal worming, water-staining mainly at the end. Engraved title page with additional paper on lower part bearing handwritten ex-libris inscriptions partly erased “Ex libris in Commandorio Suez”.

Zacharakis 2898 & Stylianou 110 (folding map of Cyprus)