History of the Reign of Philip the Second. King of Spain [2 Bd. e].

XXXVI, 618 / XVII, 610 S. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - altersgemäß sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - PREFACE - The reign of Philip the Second has occupied the pen of the historian more frequently - if we except that of Charles the Fifth - than any other portion of the Spanish annals. It has become familiar to the English reader through the pages of Watson, who has deservedly found favor with the public for the perspicuity of his style, - a virtue, however, not uncommon in his day, - for the sobriety of his judgments, and for the skill he has shown in arranging his complicated story, so as to maintain the reader’s interest unbroken to the end. But the public, in Watson’s day, were not very fastidious in regard to the sources of the information on which a narrative was founded.