Faria y Sousa, Manuel de (1590-1649).

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The history of Portugal... translated, and continued down to the present year, 1698, by Capt. John Stevens. London: for W. Rogers and Abel Roper; J. Harris and J. Nicholson; T. Newborough and T. Cockerill, 1698, 8vo (195 x 115mm.), [24], 572 [i.e. 564], [20]pp., binding: contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, brown morocco lettering-piece, [Wing 427a], small tears with loss (not affecting text) to some leaves, rust hole to Nn8 affecting a couple of letters, spotting, binding worn

Conestaggio, Girolamo Franchi di (d.1635). Histoire de la Réunion du Royaume de Portugal à la Couronne de Castille. Paris: [Claude Barbin], 1680, 8vo (174 x 97mm.), [6], 533, [1]pp., illustration: woodcut head- and tailpieces, binding: contemporary calf, [bookplate of John Hartstonge (1659-1717), fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Church of Ireland bishop of Ossory, described by Jonathan Swift as "the silliest, best natured wretch breathing, of as little consequence as an egg shell" (Journal to Stella, edited by H. Williams,1948, p.424), on verso of title-page], X6-Y2 bound before X3, small tears with tiny loss (not affecting text) to a very few leaves, spotting, binding worn

Vertot, René (1655-1735), abbé de. Histoire des révolutions de Portugal. Paris: François Barois, 1722, 12mo (163 x 91mm.), xii, 360, [24]pp., binding: contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, brown morocco lettering-piece, light spotting, binding worn

together 3 volumes