Anti-Spain polemic.- Treatise Paraenetical (A), that is to say: an Exhortation. Wherein is shewed ... the right way and true meanes to resist the Castilian King ...by a pilgrim Spaniard, first edition in English, title with woodcut decoration, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, light damp-staining, a few ff. shaved at foot, affecting signatures, later wrappers, lower cover chipped and creased, [Palau 328878; Sabin 96752; STC 19838], sm. 4to, for William Ponsonby, 1598. ⁂ An important anti-Spanish treatise that includes references to Brazil and the West Indies as well as an early account of Sir Francis Drake's 1589 Lisbon campaign.

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