Le courtisan grotesque / Adrian de Monluc dit comte de Cramail ; [eaux-fortes de] Miro
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
The text is a short satirical treatise by a little-known aristocrat and amateur bellettrist of considerable charm, whose ascendancy under Louis XIII was cut short when Richelieu had him arrested in 1635 and thrown into the Bastille, where he languished un
Description:
Comprised of 34 sheets folded to form 68 leaves, of which 4 of the sheets are blank. Each 4-leaf gathering consists of a sheet bearing text and another bearing illustrations. Sheets bearing text are numbered [1], 2, [3], 4-14, [15]; those bearing illustra
North America --Maps, United States --Politics and government, and United States --Social conditions
Subject (Name):
Sanchez de Bustamante, D. A
Subject (Topic):
Democracy
Collection Created:
De la democracia en la America del Norte / por Alejo de Tocqueville, abogado de la real audiencia de Paris ; traducida de la cuarta edicion por D.A. Sanchez de Bustamente
The first section, a copy of Alonso de Leon's narrative, carries the account to 1649, the second, in the same hand, continues the narrative to 1689, and, the third, is an account by Fernando Sánchez de Zamora, "Viajo...de Don Alonso de Leon...desde la provincia de Coahuila a la Bahia de Espiritu Santo y provincia de Tejas en 26 de Marzo de 1690."
Subject (Geographic):
Texas--History--To 1846
Subject (Name):
León, Alonso de,--ca. 1610-1661 and Sánchez de Zamora, Fernando,--fl. 1659-1689