MASCARENHAS, Jose Freire Monterroio.
Oran conquistado ou relacam histórica, em que se dà noticia desta Praça, da sua conquista, e da sua perda, e restauraçaõ, colhida de varios avizos, e dedicada ao excellentissimo senhor D. Domingos Capecelatro, Marquez de Capecelatro, filho dos excellentissimos Duques de Siano, do Conselho de Sua Magestade Catholica na sua Camara de Indias, e seu Embayxador na Corte de Portugal.
Lisbon, Pedro Ferreira, 1732. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a full-page woodcut map of Oran and surrounding forts, a letterpress siege plan representing troops with typographic ornaments.
With: (2) MASCARENHAS, Jose Freire Monterroio. Oran conquistado, e defendido, relaçam historica em que se referem diariamente os successos militares, que tem havido depois da conquista desta Praça, no seu territorio, ate a Armada Real del Rey Catholico se recolher aos portos de Hespanha. Parte II.
Lisbon, Pedro Ferreira, 1733. Half mottled calf (ca. 1785?), gold-tooled red morocco spine label. 20, [3], [1 blank]; 16 pp.
€ 1,500
First and only editions of two rare Portuguese pamphlets describing the preparations for and the proceedings of the 1732 siege of Oran by the Spanish. The second was clearly designed to match the first, it calls itself "parte II" and they are often bound together, so that some catalogues treat them as two parts of one publication.
In the first pamphlet gives the reader a general introduction to the history of Mediterranean conflicts, with examples including the Roman conquest in northern Africa and the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, which they held until the Reconquista (711-1492). After 1492 the tables turned and the Spanish directed their military efforts at North Africa, conquering Oran at the beginning of the 16th century. The rest of the first pamphlet and the whole second pamphlet describe in great detail the day-to-day proceedings of this military campaign, indicating who was in charge and what orders they gave, including a letterpress visual representation of the order of battle and a woodcut plan of Oran and its surrounding forts.
Binding slightly rubbed, with a purple stamp of the library of the Dukes of Palmela in Lisbon. Minor and mostly marginal worm damage to the head and fore-edge margins of ad 2, slightly affecting a few letters of the text at the head, the fore-edge margin partly restored without affecting the text. Otherwise in good condition. Barbosa Machado II, p. 856 (ad 1 & 2 separately); Inocêncio 3370 (IV, p. 348: ad 1 & 2 together); Porbase (6 copies, ad 1 & 2 together); WorldCat (4 copies ad 1 & 2 copies ad 2).
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