MANUEL DE FARIA E SOUSA - 1590-1649, EVROPA PORTVGVESA (Portuguese Europe), CORRECTED, ILLUSTRATED

MANUEL DE FARIA E SOUSA - 1590-1649, EVROPA PORTVGVESA (Portuguese Europe), CORRECTED, ILLUSTRATED SECOND EDITION added with so many places and such advantages of this new work. SOUSA, Manuel de Faria e. in Lisbon: A costa d'Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, H.R.H Printer, 1678-1680.- 3 vols.: il.; 27 cm.- E. A complete set. The first two volumes, dated 1675, in the original edition (the engraved frontpage of the second volume belongs to a variant) and the third volume in the second edition, dated 1680. The first volume closes a history of the world since its inception until the foundation of Portuguese nationality. The second and third are made up of the history of the various reigns, respectively up to Kings D. João III and Philip III, including the intact portraits of all the monarchs (22 intaglio engravings), including that of Count D. Henrique. The collation of the first two volumes is as follows: volume I - [8], 491, [1] p .; Volume II - [8], 224 (alias 624) p .: 16 portraits. The pagination of the third volume shows a jump from p. 240 to p. 341. The cover pages of the first two volumes are intaglio engraved; That of the third is typographed. First and third volume with manuscript ownership of the time: From Diogo de Fon [se] ca to Pinto de Albuq [uerqu]e and (probably the chief captain of the town of Trancoso in the second half of the 18th century). The third volume presents a shorter second folio and notebook S (6 sheets), indicating that they have been added from another copy. The three volumes with slight acidity. Entire calf binding of the time (the one of the second volume slightly different). Innocent, V, p. 417. Samodães, 1161. Library of King D. Manuel II, 866. Arouca, S 538 (volume I), 540 (volume II, dated 1675) and 541 (variant not mentioned by Arouca).