BOXER (Charles R.)

Commentaries of Ruy Freyre de Andrada

In which are Related his Exploits from the Year 1619, in which he left this Kingdom of Portugal as General of the Sea of Ormuz, and Coast of Persia , and Arabia, until his Death. First edition. Broadway Travellers Series. Frontispiece and 9 plates (2 folding). 8vo. Original cloth, ex-library copy, stamped at intervals, lacking front free end-papers, but generally a good, clean copy. [lvi], 328, [viii]pp. London, G. Routledge & Sons, 1929.

£250.00

“The book deals with a period singularly interesting to English readers as it describes at length the operations leading up to the capture from the Portuguese of the celebrated city and island of Ormuz, in the Persian Gulf, by an Anglo-Persian force.” (Preface). West 14.

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