GIRALDES, Joaquim Pedro Cardoso Casado.- Tratado completo de cosmographia, e geographia-historica, physica e commercial, antiga e moderna.- Pariz: Chez Fantin [e outros], 1825-1828.- 4 vols.: 2 retratos; 27 cm.- E. The author (1780-1845), scientist and diplomat, born in Oporto, was a member of the Academy of Sciences and other academies and consul of Portugal in Le Havre and Genoa, where he would die. From the preliminary discourse we can verify that the work initially had a more ambitious plan that consisted of six volumes. The last two, however, were never published. The collation of each of the volumes is as follows: I - XXIV, 477 p.: 1 portrait; II - VII, 474, [2] p.; III - [8], 423 p., 1 folding table; IV - [8], 413 p., 4 folding tables: 1 portrait. The copy preserves the two portraits (of King D. João VI of Portyugal and the author), mentioned by Inocêncio and that are missing in most of the copies. The four volumes with foxing, sometimes strong, covered in good contemporary bindings, entirely in crushed black morocco, with elegant romantic gold tooling decoration on the covers and smooth spines. On the front cover of the first volume, the following inscription gold engraved: A Sua Magestade Luiz Filippe Rei dos Francezes. Roll on squares, blue silk endpapers and edge gilt. Label typed by J.E.G.Rebello da Fontoura and ex-libris of Victor d’Avila Perez. Inocêncio, IV, p. 142 and 453.