The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth (1857)
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The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth (1857)
by William Robertson
Full Title: The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth, with an Account of the Emperor’s Life After His Abdication by William H. Prescott
9 x 6. In English. Published by Phillips, Sampson and Company, Boston, 1857. Early edition. Three volumes. Complete. Calf over marbled boards. Five raised bands. Gilt titles to red and brown morocco labels. Minor to moderate shelf wear to boards and hinges. Bindings tight and secure. Sharp corners Spines rather unblemished. Marble pastedowns, endpapers, and text block edges in fine condition. No bookplates or ownership markings of any kind. Not ex-library. Title pages rather foxed from frontis engravings, otherwise an excellent copy internally. A sound and very pleasing set, the text quite smooth and clean. Heavier than a typical book of this size. (The image of Charles V we included on our website is NOT in the book.)
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, (1500 – 1558) was ruler of both the Spanish Empire from 1516 and the Holy Roman Empire from 1519, as well as of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1506. Because of widespread fears that his vast inheritance would lead to the realization of a universal monarchy and that he was trying to create a European hegemony, Charles was the object of hostility from many enemies. His reign was dominated by war, particularly by three major simultaneous prolonged conflicts: the Italian Wars with France, the struggle to halt the Turkish advance into Europe, and the conflict with the German princes resulting from the Protestant Reformation.
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