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1783. BOOK. (HISTORY OF SPAIN). HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND DEEDS OF KING DON ALONSO THE NOBLE, EIGHTH OF THAT NAME, compiled by the Marquis of Mondexar, and annotated with notes and appendices by Francisco Cerdá y Rico. Madrid: Antonio de Sancha, 1783. Large 4º. Frontispiece with 1 portrait of the King engraved by Vázquez. XL + 436 pp. + 2 folios. [Follows:] Appendices to the Historical Memoirs... 2 folios + CXC pp. + 1 folio. Wide margins. Marginal illustrations at the beginning and especially at the end of the work, without affecting the text. Bound in half-leather, with a label and cardboard endpapers, somewhat soiled. A chronicle of the events that took place during the 54-year reign of Alfonso the Noble, VIII of Castile, compiled by the Marquis, inspired by that of Rodrigo Ximénez de Rada, Archbishop of Toledo and the king’s chronicler, and annotated by F. Cerdá. Appendices containing various texts on the king’s life and exploits, in Latin and Castilian, including the one written by Prince Don Rodrigo, as well as other documents known to Mondéjar. At the beginning, a remarkable portrait of the king at prayer, preserved in the Royal Monastery of Las Huelgas in Burgos.