Description
François-Aymar de monteil. 4 autograph manuscripts; sewn notebook of 48 fol. pages (wetness), and 22 large fol. pages (corners gnawed on 2 mss with loss of text). Episodes on naval conquests, in particular on the crusades against the Muslims and Turks. "En 1202 plusieurs seigneurs françois qui setoient croisises et se trouvoient prêts à Venise pour aller à la terre sainte, eurent occasion d'aller avec les venitiens faire le siege de Constantinople"... Then on the league against the Turks, with "the Knights of Rhodes, who under the name of Knights of St. John of Jerusalem had held that city for some time; episodes from the siege of Malta (1663), the defense of Candia (1669), the battle of Curzola (1298), the defeat of Sebastian I of Portugal in North Africa (1578), the battle of Lepanto (1571), etc... Historical notes on naval battles. - Second battle of Cape Finisterre. - Relation generale ou lon detaille l'heureuse victoire qu'ont remportes les armes dEspagne de notre catolique roy Philipe V que Dieu protege; sous les ordres de Mr de Navaro, chef descadre: traduite de lespagnol en françois": Spanish account of the battle of February 22, 1744 off Toulon... - Another copy of the same text, the French version opposite the Spanish text.Attached is a handwritten extract from a letter from Viscount de Bouville, Captain of the vessel commanding the Espérance, Plymouth November 23, 1755 (2p. in-fol.).
239
François-Aymar de monteil. 4 autograph manuscripts; sewn notebook of 48 fol. pages (wetness), and 22 large fol. pages (corners gnawed on 2 mss with loss of text). Episodes on naval conquests, in particular on the crusades against the Muslims and Turks. "En 1202 plusieurs seigneurs françois qui setoient croisises et se trouvoient prêts à Venise pour aller à la terre sainte, eurent occasion d'aller avec les venitiens faire le siege de Constantinople"... Then on the league against the Turks, with "the Knights of Rhodes, who under the name of Knights of St. John of Jerusalem had held that city for some time; episodes from the siege of Malta (1663), the defense of Candia (1669), the battle of Curzola (1298), the defeat of Sebastian I of Portugal in North Africa (1578), the battle of Lepanto (1571), etc... Historical notes on naval battles. - Second battle of Cape Finisterre. - Relation generale ou lon detaille l'heureuse victoire qu'ont remportes les armes dEspagne de notre catolique roy Philipe V que Dieu protege; sous les ordres de Mr de Navaro, chef descadre: traduite de lespagnol en françois": Spanish account of the battle of February 22, 1744 off Toulon... - Another copy of the same text, the French version opposite the Spanish text.Attached is a handwritten extract from a letter from Viscount de Bouville, Captain of the vessel commanding the Espérance, Plymouth November 23, 1755 (2p. in-fol.).
You may also like
