GRAZIANI (Antonio Maria) Histoire de la guerre de Chypre Paris: André Pralard, 1685. - In-4, 250 x 176: frontispiece, (6 ff.), 424 pp. and (1 f.). First French edition of one of the best accounts of the conquest of the island of Cyprus by the Ottomans, translated from Latin by Louis Le Peletier (1663-1733). The work was written by the historian and Bishop of Amelia Antonio Maria Graziani (1537-1611). Divided into five books, it retraces the Ottoman conquest of the island of Cyprus (1570-1573) and its consequences for the Mediterranean, while revealing the weaknesses of Christian Europe in the face of Turkish expansion. At the head of the book is a biography of the author by Jean Victor Rossi, taken from the Pinacotheca imaginum illustrium doctrinae vel ingenii laude virorum... The edition is illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Simonneau, a title vignette, 4 handsome bands and four initials. A good copy in contemporary binding. Some wear and tear, tiny tear to the upper headpiece. Old label of a private library glued at the top of the spine. Stains in the lower margin of pages 26-27.