SPANISH POLITICS AND PERU

[Mascarenhas, Jorge de, Marques de Montalvão]: Carta, que escribio un cortezano de Madrid a un Señor de titulo de Andaluzia. [Lisbon] [Final page: Na officina de Lourenço de Anveres]. [1641].

Rare political pamphlet, containing discussion of the first minister of Spain the Count Duke of Olivares (1587-1645), and the Catalan revolt (Reapers’ War) (1640-1659), with a paragraph (sig. A3 recto) on Peru. Authorship has been ascribed (see PORBASE and cataloguing at Newberry Library) to Jorge de Mascarenhas, first Marques de Montalvåo (d. 1653), who became the first viceroy of Brazil after Portugal’s 1640 independence.

Our copy has the name at end only of the printer (the CCPB record has a second name, of the bookseller, here as well).

Details

One volume, 19.8 cms. x 13.7 cms., quarto, pp. [12]. Woodcut first initial. Foxing, bound in modern quarter-vellum and marbled paper over boards, title inked to spine.

CCPB000040076-9. PORBASE record 353398. Copies of this pamphlet located outside Portugal and Spain (OCLC) at British Library, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale (Rome), Library of Congress Newberry Library, and University of London Library.