Memorias historicas, e genealogicas dos grandes de Portugal (Lisboa, 1742)

Memorias historicas, e genealogicas dos grandes de Portugal (Lisboa, 1742)
SOUSA, D. António Caetano de.- Memorias historicas, e genealogicas dos grandes de Portugal, que contém a origem, e antiguidade de suas familias: os estados, e os nomes dos que actualmente vivem, suas arvores de costados, as allianças das casas, e os escudos de armas, que lhes competem, até o anno de 1742.- Lisboa: Na Officina de Antonio Isidoro da Fonseca, 1742.- [40], 601, [6, 1 br.] p.: il.; 22 cm.- E.
D. António Caetano de Sousa (1674-1759), historian, bibliographer and genealogist, was one of the first members of the Royal Academy of Portuguese History; Among its vast bibliography, we highlight the 19 volumes (in 23 vols.) of the monumental History of the Portuguese Royal House, published between 1745 and 1749. Second edition of Historical and genealogical memories, preferable to the first (from 1739), due to the numerous corrections and updates introduced by the author. It includes, in xylographic and typographic representation, numerous coats of arms and side trees, printed next to the text. Good specimen, very clean, slightly trimmed, but still with good margins with entire sheepskin binding of the time, with floral ornaments between sections. Inocêncio, I, p. 103.