ALVAREZ DE COLMENAR, Don Juan.- Annales d'Espagne et de Portugal, contenant tout ce qui s'est passé de plus important dans ces deux Royaumes & dans les autres parties de l'Europe, de même que dans les Indes Orientales & Occidentales, depuis l'établissement de ces deux Monarchies jusqu'à présent. Avec la description de tout ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable en Espagne & en Portugal. Leur etat present, leurs interets, la forme du gouvernement, l'étendue de leur commerce, &c.- A Amsterdam: Chez François l'Honoré & Fils, 1741.- 4 vols.: il.; 27 cm.- E. One of the most appreciated foreign books on Portugal and Spain, from the 18th century, whose author, unidentified, but probably French, may have used a Spanish pseudonym. Larger format edition, based on the work “Les delices de l'Espagne & du Portugal”, previously published in Leiden (Netherlands), by Pieter van der Aa, in 1707 (6 vols., in 12º), illustrated with three folding maps and 166 copperplate prints (in fact 165, due to a numbering error from 45 to 47 ), most of which are double (two per page). The collation of each of the volumes is as follows: I - [4], XII, 424, [2] p.: 3 unfolded maps; II - [4], 288 p.: 93 (in fact 92) engrav.; III - [4], 331 p.: engrav. 128 to 157; IV - [4], 340, [44] p.: engrav. 158 to 166. Copy a little cropped, with the loss of some subtitles of the engravings, with the lack of engraving 161 (vol. IV, p. 88); slight browning and restored stain on the lower margin of vol. IV. Bindings of the period, full sheepskin, slightly worn, with double miter on the covers, gold closed panels on the spines, conserving the original endpapers in marbled paper. Carmine and waxed edges. Provenance: Library Gustavo R. A. Cudell (ex-libris in the four volumes). Duarte de Sousa only refers to the smaller format edition (261). B. Xavier Coutinho, 413. Palau, 9589. Auvermann, 1146.