Europe / Spain & Portugal

[MENORCA]. La ilustre junta provincial de sanidad de la isla de Menorca.
[Menorca], 15 March 1861. Folio (42.5 x 30.5 cm). Broadside with a wood-engraved border, the wood-engraved royal coat of arms of Spain at the head and a woodcut map of Mahon in the centre of the certificate. With on the verso three manuscript statements (in French, English and Portuguese), signed and stamped. Full description

MESA, Sebastian de. Jornada de Africa por el Rey Don Sebastian y union del reyno de Portugal a la corona de Castilla.
Barcelona, Pedro Lacavalleria, 1630. 4to. Each page framed with thin printed rules. Contemporary gold-tooled leather (blackened and flaking), each board with the helmed and mantled arms of the Mazarin family in the centre. [2], 169, [1] ll. Full description

METEREN, Emanuel van. Historia Belgica nostri potissimum temporis Belgii sub quatuor Burgundis & totidem Austriacis principibus coniunctionem & gubernationem breviter. Turbas autem, bella et mutationes tempore regis Philippi, Carli V. Caesaris filii, ad annum usque 1598. plenius complectens, conscripta.
[Cologne, A. Mylius, 1598]. Folio. With letterpress title-page in engraved border with scenes of trade and war (Verduyn, pl. XIV), additional engraved medallion portrait of the author mounted on blank back of title-page, by Hendrik Hondius the Elder, double-page engraved map of the Netherlands, by Frans Hogenberg and 22 engraved portraits on 19 plates. Contemporary vellum. [8], "623" [= 643], [1] pp. Full description

MEXIA, Pedro. Coloquios o dialogos compuestos por el magnifico cavallero Pero Mexia, vezino de Sevilla, en los quales se disputan y tratan varias y diversas cosas de mucha erudicion y doctrina. Al illustrissimo senor don Perasan de Ribera Marques de Tarisa &c.
Antwerp, widow of Martinus Nutius, 1561. Small agenda 12mo (14 x 6.5 cm). With Nutius's woodcut device on the title-page. 17th-century(?) blind-tooled overlapping vellum, each board with the coat of arms of the Landgrave of Hesse, gilt edges. 165, [3 blank] ll. Full description

[MONTEIRO, José Maria]. [A royal Portuguese proclamation during the Pernambuco Revolution 1817]. [Drop title:] Propclamação. Habitantes de Pernambuco!
Rio De Janeiro, Impressão Régia, 1817. Folio. Disbound, kept in a clear plastic folder. [4] pp. Full description

MONTESINOS, Manuel. Relacion de la entrada del Exercito Imperial en Italia, I puestos que su Magestad Cesarea ha ocupado en la Valtelina, I la ratificacion de las paces con el Rei de Dinamarca, y el Gran Turco.
Madrid, Bernardino de Guzman, 1629. Folio (ca. 29 x 20.5 cm). With a woodcut decorated initial. Early 20th-century browned light purple paper wrappers. [1], [1 blank], [4], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[MURILLAS Y FEXADA, Juan Lopez de]. Relacion verdadera de las Gloriosas proezas, y Vitorias, que han hecho las invencibles Galeras de Malta en los mares de Levante, en este ano de mil y seiscientos y cincuenta y dos.
Madrid, Gregorio Rodriguez, [1652]. Folio (29 x 20.8 cm). With the Spanish Royal coat of arms on the recto of the first leaf [4] pp. Full description

MURPHY, James Cavanah. The Arabian antiquities of Spain.
London, Cadell & Davies, 1815. Double elephant folio (500 x 675 mm). With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved part title and 103 plates (numbered 1 to 97, plates 8, 79 and 80 in 2 parts, plate 86 in 3 parts) including a folding plate (pl. 12), engraved by Porter, Turel, Roffe, Keux and others after Murphy. Contemporary red half morocco and marbled boards, raised spine bands, titled in gilt on spine. All edges gilt. [4], 21, [1] pp. Full description

[NAVARRA Y ROCAFULL, Melchor, Duque de la Palata]. Copia de carta escrita a un cavallero de la ciudad de los Reyes, dandole cuenta de la muerte del Excelentisimo Señor Duque de la Palata, en la ciudad de Portovelo, Viernes Santo 13 de Abril de 1691.
[Lima, 1691]. Folio (29 x 19 cm). With a woodcut decorated initial on the first page. Kept together by a marbled paper strip around the spine. [4] pp. Full description

NAVA Y ORTEGA, Henriques. Campo Atrincherado de Holguin. Documento no. 1. Memoria descriptiva.
Holguín, 1 September 1898.
With: (2) NAVA Y ORTEGA, Henriques. Campo Atrincherado de Holguin. Documento no. 2. Planos.
Holguín, 1 September 1898. 2 documents. Folio. With a double-page manuscript map, 2 full-page manuscript maps, and 4 manuscript plans on tissue paper. Ad 1: Original wrappers, side stiched through 3 holes, with the manuscript title on the front. Ad 2: unbound. [16] pp. Full description