The chief victories of the Emperor Charles the Fifth designed by Martin Heemskerk in M.D. LV. [and engraved by Dirck Coornhert] and now illustrated with portraits, prints, and notes, / by Sir William Stirling Maxwell, bart.
London, Edinburgh: Privately printed for the editor, MDCCCLXX
Physical Description
xxxvi, 91, [1] p.: illus. (including portraits, facsimiles); 466 mm.
General Note
The work is dedicated to Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale; includes Contents, Introduction, Table of the Kindred of the Emperor Charles V, [text], and Index.
Provenance
On the presentation page (verso of the half-title, facing the title-page) the editor inscribed within a decorative border, 'Presented to / The Library of the / Royal Academy, by / William Stirling Maxwell
Copy Note
On the presentation page, within the decorative border is printed within a shell, 'The impression consists of two hundred copies of which this is No. 143'.
Binding Note
The binding is a yellow and black cloth with imperial arms; there is no spine lettering.