SOUTHEY, Robert.- History of the Peninsular War.- London: John Murray, 1823-1832.- 3 vols.; 28 cm.- E. First edition of one of the most important documents for the history of political-military events of the time. Southey (1774-1843), English historian and poet, born in Bristol, visited Portugal twice and owned a valuable library of 14,000 volumes, specializing in works on the Iberian Peninsula and South America. The collation of each of the volumes is as follows: I - XIX, [1 br.], 806 p.; II - XVI, 807 p.; III - XV, [1], 936 p. Very clean copy, slightly cropped with marbled edges. Armorial ex-libris by Charles Herbert (unidentified coat of arms wrapped in legend: Tenax et Fidus), in the first volume only. Good contemporary bindings, full leather, burnished and calendered, with the three identical spines (five raised bands gold highlighted), but different covers, the first volume being decorated with squares and blind and gold ornamental borders, and the two remaining identical volumes, with blind ornamental borders, also two blind rectangles and central diamond. All volumes keep the original endpapers on different marbled papers. Duarte de Sousa, 680.