Viagem da Catholica Real Magestade del Rey D. Filipe II N. S. ao Reyno de Portugal

Viagem da Catholica Real Magestade del Rey D. Filipe II N. S. ao Reyno de Portugal
JOÃO BATISTA LAVANHA - 1550-1624, Viagem da Catholica Real Magestade del Rey D. Filipe II N. S. ao Reyno de Portugal, LAVANHA, João Batista.- VIAGEM | DA CATHOLICA REAL | MAGESTADE | DEL REY D. FILIPE II. | N. S. | AO REYNO DE PORTVGAL | E rellação do solene | recebimento que nelle se lhe fez | S. MAGESTADE | a mandou escrever | POR IOÃO BAPTISTA LAVANHA | SEV CORONISTA MAYOR.- Madrid: Por Thomas Iunti, 1622.- [2], 78 f.: [16] gravuras; 33 cm.- E. João Batista Lavanha (1550-1624), engineer, mathematician, cosmographer and Portuguese cartographer, born in Lisbon; In 1618 was appointed chief-chronicler of the Kingdom. The work relates the only trip to Portugal of King Philip II of Portugal (III of Spain) that took place between 9 May and 23 October 1619, with a long stay in Lisbon that lasted for more than three months. The edition is illustrated with 16 copperplated prints, four of which are printed separately: frontispiece, large folding engraving representing the landing of King Philip II of Portugal in the Terreiro do Paço and two large engravings (Arch of the Businessmen of Lisbon and Arch of the Flemish). The remaining 12, all of full page, printed next to the text, 11 represent allegoric arches purposely erected for the actual visit by the corporations and representations that received the sovereign, respectively businessmen from Lisbon, English, Officers of the flag of St. George, Silverers, cereal men, Italians, painters, Flemish, goldsmiths and Lapidarians, moeers, tailors, relatives of the Holy Office and Germans; The last represents the plan of the Great Hall of the Palace, where the Cortes took place, from 18 July to 29 August. Title page leaf and third engraving; Engraving of the landing (which is missing in most known specimens), mirrored, very cropped (by the interior of the crease of the Matrix), handled and with some loss of support on the lower edge; Coarse restoration on the inner and upper margins of the verso of the Arbol de los Reyes de Portvgal print (fol. 28), bound in reverse (image on the front and not on the back); Stamps of Quinta das Lágrimas on the face (next to another with the initials FMD, which repeats on the last page), flyleaf and p. 17. On the same flyleaf with two other indications of provenance: ownership manuscript of Pascoal José de Mello (on small xilography) and a typographic label Principal Castro (Francisco Rafael de Castro). Simple full sheepskin binding (19th century?). Although with the mentioned imperfections, the specimen is complete, clean, with good margins and retains most of the engravings quite fresh. Inocêncio, III, p. 306. Palha, 2938. Samodães, 1717.