Mappas das Provincias de Portugal (Lisboa, ca. 1769) CARPINETTI, João Silvério.- Mappas das Provincias de Portugal, novamente abertos, e estampados em Lisboa, Com huma illustração, em que se dá huma breve noticia da Geografia, ensina-se o modo de usar dos Mappas, explicão-se os seus caracteres, e se põem huma breve, mas curiosa, noticia do Reino, Provincias, Cidades, e Villas principaes delle / Offerecidos ao Illustrissimo, e Excelentissimo Senhor Marquez de Pombal, [...] por Joaõ Silverio Carpinetti Lisbonense.- Acha-se na Loja de Francisco Manuel Pires, com Loja de Estampas, no fim da Rua do Passeio em Lisboa, s.d. (depois de 1769].- [8] p.: 7 mapas; 20x27 cm.- B. João Silvério Carpinetti (1740-1800), a disciple of Vieira Lusitano, is considered one of the best engravers of his time. The volume, in oblong format, consists of a title page, another with a warning, two leaves (4 p.) with the illustration to the maps of the Provinces of Portugal and seven copperplate printed maps, five of which have the same subscription: Carp. sc. - Lxª 1762. The maps represent, respectively, the Patriarchate of Portugal, the Province of Entre Douro and Minho, the Province of Traz os Montes, Province of Beira, Province of Estremadura, Province of Alentejo and Kingdom of the Algarves. Second edition (the first is still dedicated to the Count of Oeyras), also undated, probably published in 1762, whose maps were printed from the same matrices. Copy sewn with thread, with two white endpapers, with the slightest browning, as it was offered for sale. Ernesto Soares (História), p. 157 et seq. (Nº 442, for the 1st ed.). Inocêncio, IV, p. 37.