*Història de Catalunya*. Volume II

Soldevila, Ferran

Història de Catalunya. Volume II

By Ferran Soldevila

Barcelona

Editorial Alpha

Impremta Gloriosa, Vilassar de Barcelona

1935

Barcelona: Editorial Alpha, 1935

Catalan

Not identified

Catalan

Commercial edition published in several volumes.

392 pages

None

None

Large octavo (8vo)

23 × 17 cm

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Thick wove paper

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Good-quality letterpress printing with clear, well-defined type. Light foxing is present on several leaves without affecting readability.

Full leather binding

Smooth leather

Spine with five raised bands, gilt title and gilt ornaments; plain boards; marbled endpapers

Very good

Second volume of Història de Catalunya, covering the period from the Compromise of Caspe to the events immediately preceding the War of the Spanish Succession. It examines the establishment of the Trastámara dynasty, the Reapers' War, the Treaty of the Pyrenees, the reign of Charles II and concludes with the volume's index.

Second volume of Ferran Soldevila's major history of Catalonia, published by Editorial Alpha. The copy is bound in a high-quality full leather binding, probably executed after publication. It bears the handwritten ownership signature of Alfred Gallart on the front endpaper. The text is complete and the volume is preserved in very good overall condition, with light age-related foxing.

History of Catalonia, Crown of Aragon, Late Middle Ages, Early Modern period, Compromise of Caspe, Trastámara dynasty, Reapers' War, Treaty of the Pyrenees, Charles II, War of the Spanish Succession, Catalan historiography

2032

Very good

Biblioteca de Alfred Gallart i Genis

Second volume of the work. Full leather binding with a spine featuring five raised bands and gilt decoration. Marbled endpapers. Thick wove paper. Handwritten ownership signature of Alfred Gallart on the front endpaper. Light foxing is present on several leaves without affecting the readability or the structural integrity of the volume.