Early full calf binding with later rebacked spine with raised bands and leather gilt label. Professionally repaired dedication and introduction leaves. No text lost. Otherwise textblock is clean but for dust soiling to edges, binding is tight. Older boards show rubbing, wear. A. Islip And G. Eld London 1612 1st English Translation Hardback "Containing all the memorable Things that have past in the Realmes of Castille, Leon, Navarre, Arragon, Portugall, Granado, &c., and by what Means They were United, and so Continue under Philip the Third, King of Spaine, now Raigning" Folio with1380 pages followed by index.

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Bookseller: 12th Street Books, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BOOKS 49440 I
Title: THE GENERALL HISTORIE OF SPAINE:
Author: Mayerne Turquet; Edward Grimeston, trans
Book Condition: Used - Early full calf binding with later rebacked spine with raised bands and leather gilt label. Professionally repaired dedication a
Edition: 1st English Translation
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: A. Islip And G. Eld
Date Published: 1612

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