PADRE ANTÓNIO CORDEIRO - 1641-1722 Historia insulana das ilhas a Portugal sugeytas no Oceano Occidental (History of the islands subject to Portugal on the Western Ocean) History of the islands subject to Portugal on the Western Ocean / written by father Antonio Cordeyro of the Society of Jesus...- LisboaOccidental: at Antonio Pedrozo Galram's printing shop, 1717.- [16], 528CORDEIRO, Pe. António.- p.; 29 cm.- E. Original edition of a classic work of Azorean historiography. Father António Cordeiro (1641-1722), born in Angra de Heroísmo, was based on the unpublished manuscript of Fr Gaspar Frutuoso (c.1522-c.1591), Saudades da Terra, which was in the library Of the Jesuit College of Ponta Delgada (currently in the Public Library and Regional Archive of Ponta Delgada). Divided into nine books, the work does not refer only to the Azores, but also to the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Islands, The Madeira and Porto Santo Islands. A slightly dusty copy with occasional minor moth cuts, all marginal. Entire calf binding of the time. Innocent I, p. 114. Samodães, 889 (very rare). Monteverde, 1809. Ernesto do Canto, 79. Auvermann, 229.