CONESTAGGIO (Ieronimo de Franchi). Of the Union... Lot 26

CONESTAGGIO (Ieronimo de Franchi). Of the Union of the Kingdom of Portugal to the Crown of Castile. [Besançon], [Mongesse], [1596]. In-12 of (7) ff. (of 8), 478 pp. and (6) ff. (including privilege and errata). Missing the first title leaf. Contemporary ivory vellum. Binding soiled, first leaf of text detached with tear and missing, light spotting in places, wormholes on the last leaves. First edition of the French translation (by Th. Nardin) of this rare work first published in Italian in Genoa in 1585. "Curious work which had a lot of success in the time; it is by Jean de Silva, count of Portalegre, who accompanied Don Sebastien in Africa, as ambassador of Spain, and who, in this writing, took the mask of J. de Franchi Conestaggio." Brunet (II, 217).