Panegyrico ao Excelentissimo Senhor D. Antonio Luiz de Menezes Marquês de Marialva ….

Lisbon, Joam da Costa, a custa de Miguel Manescal, 1674.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4º, contemporary limp vellum (small nick at lower outer edge of front cover), 3 (of 4) ties, vertical manuscript short-title on spine, text block edges lightly sprinkled red. Woodcut rose on title page. Full-page engraved portrait on final preliminary leaf verso. Typographical headpieces and woodcut initials on second leaf recto and p. 1. Typographical headpiece on fourth leaf recto. Numerous side notes. A clean, crisp, fresh copy, in very good to fine condition. Small oval stamp of Vieira Pinto in outer blank margin of second leaf. (8 ll.), 198 pp. [i.e. 200, with 143-44 bis]. Pages 15, 106, 142, 195, and 197 wrongly numbered 17, 108, 141, 165, and 198, respectively. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The first Marquês de Marialva, one of those who acclaimed D. João IV in December 1640, was Governador das Armas in the Alentejo and, as such, played an important role in several major battles between the Spanish and the Portuguese. Most notably, he was in command in June 1665, when the Portuguese forces scored a decisive victory at Montes Claros, the final battle in the war of the Restauração. The Marquês served in 1668 as one of the pelnipotentiaries who negotiated peace with the Spanish.The portrait is of the Marquês de Marialva, by João Baptista, who sometimes signed as João Baptista Coelho or João Baptista Lusitano. He was one of the most prolific and skilled engravers in seventeenth-century Portugal. Some 30 engravings by him are listed in Soares, and a thorough study of his works was published by General Rodrigues da Costa in 1925.Correa de Lacerda (d. 1685), an inquisitor at Évora and Lisbon, was named Bishop of Porto by D. Pedro II.*** Arouca L9. Innocêncio II, 271. Barbosa Machado II, 22-24. Pinto de Matos, p. 194. Soares, História da gravura artística em Portugal, I, n.º 202. Soares & Ferreira Lima, Dicionário de iconografia portuguesa, II, 417. Exposição bibliográfica da Restauração 405. Xavier Cunha, Impressões deslandesianas, p. 578. Biblioteca Central da Marinha, Catálogo das obras impressas no séc. XVII 408. Avila-Perez 1984: calling for xvi, 193 pp. Monteverde 1830. Ameal 699: xvi, 198 pp. Avila Perez 1984. Not in HSA. Not in Palha. Not in Azevedo-Samodães. On the Marquês de Marialva, see Grande enciclopédia, XVI, 337-38. NUC: DLC, ICN, MiU.