History, Law & Philosophy / Law & Politics

MASCARENHAS, José Freire de Monterroyo. Epanaphora Indica na qual se dà noticia da viagem, que o illustrissimo, et excellentissimo senhor Marquez de Castelo Novo fez com o cargo de Vice-Rey ao Estado da India, e dos primeiros progressos do seu governo; e se referem tambem os successos da viagem do excellentissimo, e rev.mo senhor D. Fr. Lourenco de Santa Maria, Arcebispo Metropolitano de Goa, Primaz da Azia Oriental …
Lisbon, Parts 1-5: unknown; part 6: Francisco da Silva, 1746-1753. 6 parts in 1 volume. Small 4to (20.5 x 15 cm). With a large, folding, engraved map of Goa, 2 woodcut headpieces, and 5 decorated woodcut initials. Later quarter vellum. 59, [1 blank]; 70; [20], 67, [1 blank]; [2], 109, [1 blank]; [2], 86; [12], 72 pp. Full description

MATTHIAS, Johannes (Johannes Matthiae Gothus). Copie van een brief van Joh. Matthias Luthers bisschop in Sweden aen de koningh van Sweden inde welcke hy Sijn Majesteyt versoeckt, de Kerckelijcke eendracht onder de evangelische, te willen promoveren. Uyt het Latijn over gheset.
1656. 4to. Modern boards. 8 pp. Full description

MAURITS, Prince of Orange. [Declaration for Jan de Roo].
[The Hague], 4 December 1589. 1mo (41 x 31.5). Document written in brown ink on one side of a whole sheet of paper in an upright gothic cursive hand, with the autograph signature "Maurice de Nassau" and with his armorial seal (3 x 2.5 cm) stamped on a slip of paper over red sealing wax. With (separately added) Maurits's signature clipped out of another document and mounted on a paper slip. [1] leaf, written on one side. Full description

[LETTER - SIGNED]. MEDICI, Catherine de'. [Letter to Jacques de Germigny in Constantinople (Istanbul)].
Chenonceaux, 2 September 1584. Folio (34 x 24 cm). Signed letter in French, in brown ink on paper, written in a clear gothic hand. Folded for sending and addressed on the outside, with a slot for a ribbon and traces of a red wax seal. [1], [3 blank (except for address)] pp. Full description

[MEIBOM, Anna]. Relation veritable de l'horrible et detestable assassinat commis en la personne de Mr. De Schade, conseiller et resident du Roi de Pologne a la cour de Dannemarc; avec les cruelles persecutions & les injustices criantes, qui lui ont été faites pendant son sejour a Copenhague, & qu'on a continué d'exerces après sa mort contre sa veuve.
Utrecht, widow of Ernestus Voskuyl, 1713. 8vo. With a woodcut vase of leafy flowers on the title-page, a woodcut decorated initial, Contemporary tanned half sheepskin. [2], 212 pp. Full description

MELON, Jean-François. Mahmoud le Gasnevide, histoire orientale. Fragment traduit de l'Arabe, avec des notes.
Rotterdam, Jean Hofhoudt, 1730. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine, boards, board edges and turn-ins, both boards with the gold-tooled coat of arms of Louis Marie Alexandre, Duc d'Aumont, gilt edges. [2], VI, 162, [4] pp. Full description

[MELYN VAN DOORNINCK, Cornelis?]. Amsterdams tafel-praetje, van wat goets en wat quaets en wat noodighs.
Gouda, Jasper Cornelisz, 1649. Small 4to (20 x 14 cm). Modern half vellum. [31], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[MELYN VAN DOORNINCK, Cornelis?]. Amsterdams Dam-praetje, van wat outs en wat nieuws en wat vreemts.
Amsterdam, Jan van Soest, 1649. 4to. With woodcut illustration on title-page, repeated as tailpiece. Modern half sheepskin parchment. 20 ll. Full description

MENDOÇA (MENDOZA), Bernardino de. Comentarios de lo sucedido en las guerras de los Payses Baxos, desde el año de 1567 hasta el de 1577.
Madrid, Pedro Madrigal, 1592. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 5 half-page engraved plates in the text including a map of East Friesland with Emden, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary black-tooled mottled calf. [8], 336, [12] ll. Full description

MENOU, Jacques-François de Boussay de. Ordre du jour, du 29 nivôse an 9 [19 janvier 1801].
Cairo, Imprimerie nationale, 29 nivôse an IX [= 19 January 1801 CE]. Small folio (21.5 x 31 cm). Printed in French and Arabic in two columns. 2 pp. Full description