Bremundan Francisco :”Floro Historico de la Guerra Sagrada contra Turcos que contiene los sucessos del anno 1686”.Madrid 1687. First edition. In 4to 21x15cm.Contemporary vellum slightly soiled,back cover restored during contemporary binding time using same threads (!!!),internally clean and bright,252p.,complete the volume, overall very good condition. Francisco Fabro Bremundan (1621-1698) was a 17th century Spanish journalist who covered during the 1680s the war in Greece and the Levant between the Christian League and the Ottomans .The dispatches of the events were separately published in Spanish contemporary newspapers ,published every week, in long stories and collected and published after, every year, separately in an independent volume covering the news of the previous year .Titled very characteristically Floro Historico (Flora of History-Χλωρίδα Ιστορίας) is not a History but something much more rare, a primitive journalism ,a kind of gathering of first hand material to be used in history ,as it includes letters, reports ,first hand accounts from the front etc .The book is full with original contemporary descriptions from eyewitnesses ,as Venetian and Austrian armies were full with Spanish mercenaries officers .This volume deals with the events of 1686 and had been published in May 1687.The year 1686 was the most important year of the war of 1683-1699.Austrians took Budapest and Hungary and Venetians Nafplio and all the Morea .The first 100 pages of the book covers the events in Hungary, after Bremundan cover the events in the Morea. There is only day to day description of events in Greece during 1686,a unique account with meticulous details for the country ,the military confrontations ,the movements of fleets in the Archipelago etc. A very particular and very precious account ,a primary source. Not in Atabey,Blacker or any other known collection ,never seen before .Extremely Rare