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[TEIXEIRA, Jose]. A Treatise Paraenetical, that is to say: an Exhortation. Wherein is shewed ... the right way and true meanes to resist the ... Castilian King ... by a pilgrim Spaniard. London: [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, 1598.
First edition in English. The Leconfield-Penrose copy of an important anti-Spanish treatise, presenting the ‘common sort of Castillians’ as ‘maligne & perverse … full of pride, arrogancie, ambition, tyranie, & infidelitie’. It also includes an early account of Sir Francis Drake's 1589 Lisbon campaign as well as references to Brazil and the West Indies. Palau 328878; Sabin 96752; STC 19838.
Quarto (173 x 128mm). Woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces (a couple of tiny rust holes, some numerals, headlines and marginal annotations shaved). 20th-century polished calf gilt (rebacked preserving spine). Provenance: ?marye mer… (cropped contemporary inscription on title) — contemporary marginalia — Boies Penrose (bookplate).
First edition in English. The Leconfield-Penrose copy of an important anti-Spanish treatise, presenting the ‘common sort of Castillians’ as ‘maligne & perverse … full of pride, arrogancie, ambition, tyranie, & infidelitie’. It also includes an early account of Sir Francis Drake's 1589 Lisbon campaign as well as references to Brazil and the West Indies. Palau 328878; Sabin 96752; STC 19838.
Quarto (173 x 128mm). Woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces (a couple of tiny rust holes, some numerals, headlines and marginal annotations shaved). 20th-century polished calf gilt (rebacked preserving spine). Provenance: ?marye mer… (cropped contemporary inscription on title) — contemporary marginalia — Boies Penrose (bookplate).
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