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"COMMENTAIRE ou diurnal de l'expedition de Thunes faicte par le tresauguste et tresvictorieux Empereur Charles cinqiesme": a narrative by an eye-witness of the expedition made by Charles V. in 1535 against Khair al addin Barbarossa, Dey of Algiers, to punish and suppress piracy, in which Tunis w...
"ABDICATION du Roi Victor Amadée de Sardaigne": a contemporary account of the abdication of Victor Amadeus in 1730, and of his attempt to recover the throne in 1731; [by the Marquis de Trivié, previously envoy of King Victor at the English court]. At the end is a copy of the Act of Abdication. F...
TABLES Of the strength and expense of the Sardinian army, circ. 1751. Three tables, in French. Small Quarto. Charles Emmanuel III; King of Sardinia: Statistics of the Sardinian army: circ. 1751.: Fr.
" ABREGÉ du Traité du Docteur George Rye contre les Non- Jurans Non-conformistes." Dr. Rye's work, in two vols., in defence of the position of the Church of England, was publiished in 1719. Paper; ff. 73. xviiith cent. Small Quarto. George Rye: Treatise against the nonconforming Non-jurors, abr...
PROCEEDINGS of General Assemblies and Synods of the Church of Scotland, 1560-1643 ; extracted from the printed works of Calderwood, Spotiswood, and Burnet. With a table of contents. Paper; ff. 124. xviiith cent. Folio. Kingdom of Scotland: Proceedings of General Assemblies and Synods of the Chu...
Vol. I. (ff. 300). ANGLO-GALLICA, or negotiations and treaties between England and France; 1359, 1525-1654. 1. " Traicté entre le Roy de France et le Royaume d'Escosse pour la delivrance du Roy d'Escosse, prisonnier en Angleterre " ; Paris, July, 1359. f 4. 2. Treaty of peace and alliance be...
TRANSCRIPTS Of despatches, instructions to ambassadors, negotiations, treaties, etc., chiefly relating to the general history of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Six volumes. Vol. II. has on f. 2 an engraved portrait, " W. Delff sculpsit," of Sir Dudley Carleton, Ambassador at Venice and the Hague, etc. (ob. 1632), and on f. 1 the book-plate of Richard, lst Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. All the volumes bear the book-plate, dated 1701, of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex. Paper; xviith ...
Scope & Content:
Treaties: Negotiations, treaties, etc., relating to European history: 14th-17th centt. Records, Public: Transcripts of State papers on the general history of Europe: 16th. -17th centt. Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex: Book-plates. Bookplates: Capell (Algernon), Earl of Essex: 1701.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Vol. II. (ff. 320). ANGLO-BELGlCA, or state-papers relating to affairs between England and the Netherlands, many of which refer to the trade of the two countries to the East Indies; 1585-1659. 1. Treaties of England with the United Provinces, viz.: 1585. ff. 12, 19, 34-42;-1608. ff. 53-63;-162...