ALVAREZ DE COLMENAR, Juan.- Les delices de l’Espagne & du Portugal, où on voit une description exacte des antiquitez, des provinces, des montagnes, des villes, des rivieres, des ports de mer, des forteresses, eglises, academies, palais, bains, &c...- A Leide: Chez Pierre Vander Aa, 1715.- 6 tomos em 2 vols.: il.; 16 cm.- E. Copy of the small-format edition, in six volumes (bound in three volumes), of a very popular work on the Iberian countries, probably by a Frenchman who may have used a Spanish pseudonym. The six volumes present the following collation: I - [28], 216 p.: 1 Title, 1 engrav. dedication, 15 engrav.; II - [4], pp. 217 to 392: 1 engrav. title, 50 engrav.; III - [4], pp. 393 to 507, [1 br.]: 1 engrav. title, 48 (i. é 47) engrav.; IV - [4], pp. 509 to 688: 1 engrav. title, 18 engrav.; V - [4], pp. 689 to 816: 1 engrav. title, 21 engrav.; VI - [4], pp. 817 to 672 [i. é, 972], [50] p.: 1 engrav. title, 10 engrav. Each of the volumes includes a double engraved title page. Set missing engraving 61 (vol. II, p. 348) and failure of support on the outer margin of the first text sheet of volume IV (p. 509/510, without affecting the text). Otherwise, a solid copy, slightly cropped and with slight browning, conserving 165 of the 166 engravings, according to the index of volume VI. At the end of the last volume, with its own title page, a catalogue of books, maps and engravings published by the publisher in France, Germany and England (48 p.). Ex-libris by Gustavo R. A. Cudell. Contemporary bindings, full sheepskin, with some wear, missing the flying endpapers. Duarte de Sousa, 166. Palau, 9590. Auvermann, 1146.