FRANCISCO MANUEL DE MELO - 1608-1666 Primeira Parte das Cartas Familiares MELO, D. Francisco Manuel de.- PRIMEIRA | PARTE DAS CARTAS FAMILIARES | DE | D. FRANCISCO | MANVEL | ESCRITAS A VARIAS PESSOAS | SOBRE ASSVNTOS DIVERSOS. | Recolhidas, e Publicadas em Cinco Centurias. | POR | ANTONIO LVIS | DE AZEVEDO...- Impresso em Roma: Na Officina de Filipe Maria Mancini, 1664.- [26], 800 p.; 23 cm.- E. D. Francisco Manuel de Melo (1608-1666), writer, poet, playwright, politician and military, born in Lisbon, where he studied at the Jesuit College of Santo Antão, was the maximum exponent of the Peninsular Baroque literature. Original edition of his family letters, written in captivity. The copy was added at the end, with numbering of P. 795 to 800, the hundredth and last letter (letter C) that is missing in most of the known copies, because it was ripped off by the Holy Office. A slightly trimmed specimen (cut of the carminated leaves) and with some acidity. Cover and title page with scrapped belongings of the time; It possession on the lower margin of the cover: De Fr [Ancisc] o Jozé caet [an] o de Vas [concel] Los Pestana. 20th century entire calf binding, with dry decoration on the plans and spine. Monteverde, 3327. Garcia Peres, p. 365. Samodães, 2044. Inocencio, II, p. 442.