BERREDO, Bernardo Pereira de.- Annaes historicos do estado do Maranhaõ, em que se dá noticia do seu descobrimento, e tudo o mais que nelle tem succedido desde o anno em que foy descuberto até o de 1718.- Lisboa: Na Officina de Francisco Luiz Ameno, 1749.- [26], 710 p.; 28 cm.- E. First edition of a work of the greatest importance in Brazilian historiography, by Bernardo Pereira de Berredo (†1748), born in Moura(?), governor of the State of Maranhão (1718-1722) and of the stronghold of Mazagão, in Morocco (1734-1745). Inocêncio only mentions 24 preliminary pages, but the copy includes an unusual page with a "Catalogo dos livros, e relações manuscritas, em que se achaõ algumas memorias do estado do Maranhão", a true reference bibliography, added at the end of the third section (preliminary page). d) and before the beginning of the text. Small handwritten ownership, from the period, on the title page; slight central stain on the last eight leaves. For the rest, a very clean copy, keeping wide margins. Full sheepskin contemporary binding with slightly worn spine, retaining the original endpapers, with a bookseller's cutout glued to the back cover (first flyleaf loose). Inocêncio, I, p. 382. Samodães, 2396. Reiss & Auvermann, 1025. Borba de Moraes also only mentions 12 preliminary pages (Bibliographia brasiliana), I, p. 89: "This first edition is rare and much searched for since it is a classic on Maranhão".