PADRE MANUEL SEVERIM DE FARIA - 1584-1655 Discursos varios politicos FARIA, Pe. Manuel Severim de.- DISCVRSOS | VARIOS | POLITICOS | POR MANOEL SEVERIM DE FARIA | Chantre, & Conego na Santa Sé de Euora.- Em Evora: Impressos por Manoel Carvalho, 1624.- [6], 185 f.: 2 retratos; 20 cm.- E. Manuel Severim de Faria (1584-1655), erudite historian and genealogist, chantre of the Lisbon Cathedral, from where it was natural, is considered one of the pioneers of Portuguese journalism. Original edition, especially appreciated for including the biographies of Luís de Camões, João de Barros and Diogo do Couto, illustrated with the intaglio portraits of the first two that came to serve as models for those who subsequently engraved. It also includes a curious discourse with which conditions the pursuit of hunting is commenseable (pp. 136 to 147). Cover sheet with severe restoration in the upper right corner, affecting the xylographic frame and the light letter S of the word VARIOS of the title (blank verse); Moth cuts restored on the following two leaves and final two; Portrait of Camões with well-restored tear, without lack of support; First se of leaves probably from another specimen. On the other, a clean, slightly trimmed specimen, 18th century entire caf lined binding, sightly tired, preserving the original guards and the marbled cut of the leaves equal to the paper of the guards. Inocêncio, VI, p. 106. Samodães, 3167. Arouca, F 22.