CAMÕES, Luís de.- Os Lusíadas: poema epico.- Nova edição correcta e dada à luz / por Dom Joze Maria de Souza-Botelho, Morgado de Mateus.- Paris: na Officina Typ. de Firmin Didot, 1817.- [8], CXXX, 413, [1 br.] p.: [12] gravuras; il. 34 cm.- E. D. José Maria de Sousa Botelho Mourão e Vasconcelos (1758-1825), known as Morgado de Mateus, diplomat and politician, lived part of his life in Paris where he married Adelaïde Marie Filleul de la Billarderie, illegitimate daughter of Louis XV, also a writer who became known as Madame de Souza; owner of the famous Solar de Mateus and responsible for the present edition, from witch only 210 copies were taken, exclusively intended for gifts. Copy with an autograph dedication by the editor to the printer Firmin Didot, on the free endpaper: A Monsieur Firmin Didot - D. Joseph Marie de Souza. The edition consists of a half-title, title and two pages of dedication to D. João VI; followed by the Advertência (p. I to XLVIII) and the Life of Luís de Camões (p. XLIX to CXXX); this group of sheets is illustrated with the famous portrait of Camões, next to the title and the engraving of Camões in the Macao cave (with printed divider), before his biography. The text (p. 1 to 375) is adorned with 10 engravings, one in each corner, accompanied by the respective printed dividers. At the end, the notes on the Advertyência (p. 377 to 397) and on the Vida (p. 398 to 413). A copy with slight browning, lined in an excellent full red morocco contemporary binding, very fresh, signed at the foot of the spine by the most famous Parisian bookbinder: Rel. F. Bozérian Jeune. Covers decorated with multiple gilt ornamental borders, the Empire style, five large pre-romantic florets, with stipple, in the sections, chain roll on the squares, fillet in the thickness of the folders and the impeccably gilt edge. Volume conditioned in a protective box (from the 20th century), in the shape of a book, leather-lined, with the interior lined with velvet and watered silk. José do Canto, nº 58.