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Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good - Fine. 288 pp, list of b&w illustrations, translator's note, Introduction by David Hannay, I. Of My Infancy and Parentage; II. Of What Happened Up to My Second Return to Malta; III. Of What Happened Up to the Miracle of the Isle of Lampedusa; IV. In Which are Continued My Vvoyages in the Levant and What Came to Pass Until I Came to the Island of Estampalia; V. Which Continues Till the Time When I Came to Malta Again from the Levant; VI. In Which Is Related How I Went Forth from Malta and Betook Myself to Spain, Where I Became an Ensign; VII. In Which Are Continued My Adventures as an Ensign; VIII. In Which is Related the Loss of the Lord Govenor of Castille at La Mahometa, Where I Was Present; IX. How I Went to Spain and There Was Falsely Alleged to be King of the Moriscoes, Which Caused Me Much Travail; X. In Which is Cintinued the Collection of evidence About Who Was King; XI. In Which Is Related the Departure Which I Made from Madrid for Flanders and What Happened at the Death of the King of France; XII. How, Being Come to Malta, I Returned to Spain and Became a Captain in the Spanish Infantry with Other Events; XIII. In Which Is Related the Voyage I Made to the Indies, and What Came to Pass There; XIV. How I Relieved the Forces at La Mamora, and Other Happenings; XV. How I Raised Another Company of Infantry in Madrid at Aanton Martin, and Other Happenings; XVI. Arrival of the Marquis of Cadreyta at Rome, Eruption of Vesuvius. My Stay at the Casales of Capua. My Governorship of the City of Aquila; XVII. Of Divers Things Which Happened to Me in Capua, in Praise of the Count and Countess of Monterey. I Retire from Their Service; XVIII. Voyages to Naples, Genoa, and Spain. My Brother's Pretensions; Appendix I-III. Translated from the Spanish by Catherine Alison Phillips. n.d. Price clipped. Minor edge wear to dj with lightly age-toned panels of same. Foxing to bottom and fore- edges, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black backstrip with cream title plate, orange decorative paper covered boards, and black top text block edge. Size: 8vo.
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