CORDEIRO, Pe. António, S.J.- Historia insulana das ilhas a Portugal sugeytas no Oceano Occidental / composta pelo Padre Antonio Cordeyro, da Companhia de Jesus, Insulano tambem da Ilha Terceira, & em idade de 76. annos, para a confirmaçam dos bons costumes, assim moraes, como sobrenaturaes, dos nobres antepassados insulanos, nos presentes, & futuros, descendentes seus, & só para a salvaçaõ de suas almas, & mayor gloria de Deos.- Lisboa Occidental: Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1717.- [16], 528 p.; 29 cm.- E. Original edition of a classic work of Azorean historiography. Father António Cordeiro (1641-1722), a Jesuit, born in Angra de Heroísmo, based himself on the manuscript, then unpublished, of Father Gaspar Frutuoso (c.1522-c.1591), "Saudades da Terra", which was found in the bookstore of the Ponta Delgada Jesuit College (currently at the Ponta Delgada Public Library and Regional Archive). Divided into nine books, the work does not only refer to the Azores, but also to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira and Porto Santo. Very clean copy with good margins. Full sheepskin contemporary binding. Inocêncio I, p. 114. Samodães, 889 (muito rara). Ernesto do Canto, 79. Auvermann, 229.