Rare pamphlet, satirising several Portuguese notables. According to this pamphlet, presented as a fictional letter from "Ali-Charif of the city of Babylon" to "Suliman the Moor at the court of Constantinople", these notables are part of a Turkish regiment that might be sent off to fight "Thomas Kaulikan" (Tahmasp Qoli Khan), better known as Nader Shah. A follow-up to the pamphlet was published a week later and once again describes the regiment, now in a letter "from Mecca to Holland, to the city of The Hague", and from there to Cambrai in France" (cf. Rossi 2392).
Nader Shah was one of the most powerful rulers in Persian history, and waged several military campaigns in Afghanistan and India. Although not at war with Portugal, his war against the Islamic Mughal Empire in India, culminating in the capture of Delhi in 1739, led indirectly to Portugal's loss of its colonial territory in India in the war with the Hindu Marathas (1737-1741).
Browned throughout, with the spine damaged; a fair copy. Braga da Cruz, Catalogo da collecçaõ de miscelânes V, 7066; Porbase (2 copies); Rossi, "La Spagna nella 'Livreria do Convento de Nossa Senhora de Jesus' in Lisbona" in: Annali-Sezione Romanza XXIII, 1 (1981), 2391; WorldCat (1 additional copy).