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SPANISH ARMADA — [LEIGH, RICHARD.] The copie of a letter sent out of England to don Bernardin Mendoza … concerning the losses to the Spanish nauie. London: J. Vautrollier for Richard Field, 1588.
The first edition; a contemporary account in English of the defeat of the Spanish Armada. The second part is separately titled and paginated and provides a harrowing description of the destruction suffered by the Armada in Irish waters, part of the founding myth of the “Black Irish.”
Two parts bound in one. Quarto (190 x 138mm). Modern brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Provenance: Bent Juel-Jensen (bookplate); Helmut N. Friedlaender (bookplate).
The first edition; a contemporary account in English of the defeat of the Spanish Armada. The second part is separately titled and paginated and provides a harrowing description of the destruction suffered by the Armada in Irish waters, part of the founding myth of the “Black Irish.”
Two parts bound in one. Quarto (190 x 138mm). Modern brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Provenance: Bent Juel-Jensen (bookplate); Helmut N. Friedlaender (bookplate).