CORDEIRO, Pe. António, S.J.- Historia insulana das ilhas a Portugal sugeytas no Oceano Occidental / composta pelo Padre Antonio Cordeyro, da Companhia de Jesus, Insulano tambem da Ilha Terceira, & em idade de 76. annos, para a confirmaçam dos bons costumes, assim moraes, como sobrenaturaes, dos nobres antepassados insulanos, nos presentes, & futuros, descendentes seus, & só para a salvaçaõ de suas almas, & mayor gloria de Deos.- Lisboa Occidental: Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1717.- [16], 528 p.; 29 cm.- E. Original edition of a classic work of Azorean historiography. Father António Cordeiro (1641-1722), born in Angra de Heroísmo, based his work on the manuscript, then unpublished, by Fr. Gaspar Frutuoso (c.1522-c.1591), “Saudades da Terra”, which was in the bookshop of the Jesuit College in Ponta Delgada (currently in the Public Library and Regional Archive of Ponta Delgada). Divided into nine books, the work not only refers to the Azores, but also to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira and Porto Santo. Slightly dusty specimen with some foxing and wormholes on the first 30 leaves, especially marginal ones; a deeper wormhole on the outer margin of the last 25 leaves, sometimes affecting the printed marginalia. Small stamp on title page: F[?]. Ressano Garcia. Binding from the 19th century, in full sheepskin with a smooth spine (traces of wormholes), retaining the original marbled paper endpapers. Inocêncio I, p. 114. Samodaes, 889 (very rare). Ernesto do Canto, 79. Auvermann, 229.