Ugly But Rare War Report

Wolfenbüttel: Hennig Rüdem, 1552. 195 by 150mm (7¾ by 6 inches). Contemporary marbled wrapper; 100 lvs. In German. From a disbanded monastery. Repair to spine and first few pages. Barely Good, with text loss to the first few pages—especially the repaired title page.

Originally written in Spanish, contemporary report on the Schmalkaldic War of 1546 — 1547, here in the first German translation from 1552. The author was Luis de Avila y Zuniga (ca. 1490 – ca. 1560), a Spanish historian, ambassador in Rome, Grand Commander of the Order of the Knights of Alcantara and a witness to the events of the war. OCLC locates only a handful of copies worldwide with no copies in North America. At the time of cataloguing, no other copies for sale. No records in Rare Book Hub. VD16 A 4510, USTC 705264.