JAMES MURPHY - 1760-1814 Travels in Portugal through the provinces of Entre Douro e Minho, Beira, Estremadura and Alem-Tejo in the years 1789 and 1790. Consisting on the manners, customs, trade, public buidings, arts, antiquities, &c. of that Kingdom.- London: Printed for A. Strahan, T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1795.- XII, 311, [1 br.] p.: XXIV gravuras; 32 cm.- E. James Murphy (1760-1814), Irish architect, visited Portugal between the years of 1788 and 1790 with the purpose to study and record in drawings the monuments and the antiquities of our country. The trip was sponsored by William Burton Conyngham, collector, antique dealer and patron of the arts. An original edition illustrated with 24 intaglio (taille-douce) engravings (colourless), depicting usages, monuments, antiquities, inscriptions and the plan of Lisbon. Print IX with small patch of colour (watercolour?). Moreover, a clean copy with fine margins. A heraldic foreign ex-libris with RC initials. Entire veal binding of the time slightly faigued. Duarte de Sousa, 511. Foulché-Delbosc, 197A.