SAINTE-MARTHE, Scevole & Louis de.- A | Genealogical history | OF THE | KINGS | OF | PORTUGAL. | And of all those Illustrious Houses that in Masculine | Line are branched from that Royal Family. CONTAINING | A DISCOURSE | Of their several Lives, Marriages, and Issues, Times | of Birth, Death, and Places of Burial. | With their Armes and Emblazons according to their | several alterations, as also their Symboles and Mottoes. | [...] | Written in French by | SCEVOLE and LOVIS DE SAINCTE-Marthe, | Brethen, and Advocates in the Court of Parliament | of PARIS, | Unto the Year, M. DC. XXIII. | Rendered into English, and continued unto this pre- | sent Year, M. DC. LXII. | By FRANCIS SANDFORD, Rouge-Dragon, | Pursuivant of Armes.- London: Printed by E. M. for the Author 1662.- [8 p., 1 f. desdobr.], 141, [3], [2], 53, [1 br.] p.: 2 [i. é 1] gravuras, il.; 30 cm.- E. Scevole and Louis (1571-1650 & 1656), inseparable twin brothers, scholars and historians, were the authors of a "Histoire genealogique de la Maison de France", a work they wrote together during 50 years of research and work. The translation by Francis Stanford (1630-1694) was dedicated to Catherine of Braganza, Queen Consort of England, by marriage to King Charles II. Illustrated edition with an allegorical engraving next to the title page, an engraving representing "The several emblems and mottoes of the Kings of Portugal" (missing in the present issue) and 20 copperplate prints, with coats of arms, integrated in the text. The title page of the second part of "The second book of the Royal House of Portugal...", is bound after the first page of text (Aaa2), when it should have been before. The first four leaves, including the engraving, with the inside margin carefully reconstructed, affecting five letters of the title that were retouched (on the title page). Foldable leaf with some browning. Recent full morocco (signed Frederico d'Almeida) binding profusely gold tooling, presenting, in the central reserve of both covers, the coat of arms of Portugal with the stamp of a winged serpent or dragon; watered silk endpapers, doublure with rolls in the squares and gilt edge.