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...Reprinted by Schürer in the same year. A violent attack against Venetians and Turks delivered on 10 April 1510 in Augsburg to Emperor Maximilian. Hélian acted as ambassador of Louis XII of France, his task to prevent the Holy League...
...Italian manuscript, with watermark of coat of arms displaying bird, untrimmed, in wrappers. Probably composed during the pontificate of Gregory XIII (1572-1585), who spared no efforts to further an expedition against the Turks, and who sent...
...This letter announces the appointment of Sir Thomas Roe as ambassador and the recall of Sir John Eyre naming the bearer of the letter, John Chapman, as the 'Caya' (representative) of James I, King of England, until Roe's arrival, also...
...An unrecorded issue of the treaty between the Emperor Charles V, and the King of Tunis, Muley Hassan. In August 1534 Tunis was seized by Khayr ad-Din, better known as Barbarossa, who was the chief governor of North Africa and grand admiral...
...Second edition of Cronberg's letter to Pope Adrian VI. Hartmut von Cronberg, from a family of free imperial knights and a Lutheran, advised the Pope to divide the Papal States among the warring parties of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor...
...Engraved, including a vignette of the entrance of the ambassador of the Jardin des Tuilleries on 3 March, and four other small vignettes of significant events, and an Almanach for the year 1722...
...A fictional account of a pilgrimage made by one Dario Lobondo of Alexandria to Santiago de Compostela. On arriving in Galicia, Dario finds himself caught up in a battle between the Christian king of Galicia and the Moorish king of Spain...
...A very rare and fascinating description of the itinerary and residence in France of Süleyman Müteferrika, envoy of Sultan Mehmet IV, and of his audience with Louis XIV during the third quarter of the seventeenth century. The pamphlet tells...