ANDRADE, Francisco de.- CRONICA | DO MVYTO AL- | TO E MUITO PODERO | SO REY DESTES REYNOS DE | Portugal dom Ioão o III. deste nome...- Impressa em Lisboa: por Iorge Rodriguez, 1613.- [19], 113, 134, 131, 155 f.; 27 cm.- E. Francisco de Andrade (ca. 1540-1614), poet, historian and chronicler, born in Lisbon, was chief guard of the Torre do Tombo and chief chronicler of the Kingdom; As a poet he left us the epic poem “The First Siege of Diu” (Coimbra, 1589). The volume includes the four parts of the work, with independent foliation. Inocêncio only records 17 preliminary pages, of which the present copy has 19 (the section contains seven folios). Cropped copy, with slight browning and handling; ink stain at the foot of the title page; small central restoration on the verso of the last sheet. Contemporary binding, full sheepskin, a little worn, presenting, in the centre of both covers, the heraldic book stamp of D. Luis Francisco de Benavides Carrillo de Toledo (1608-1668), 3rd marquis of Caracena (1621), 5th marquis de Frómista and 3rd Count of Pinto, knight of the Order of Santiago (1621), governor of arms of the Netherlands (1656) and Burgundy (1659), captain general of the armadas of the Carreira de Indias, etc. In 1664, D. Luis took command of the Spanish forces in the conflict against Portugal, having suffered a heavy defeat in the Battle of Montes Claros, which became decisive and final in the War of Restoration. It is worth noting that the catalogue of the collection "Encuadernaciones heráldicas de la Biblioteca Lázaro Galdiano" (Madrid, 2008), records 26 very similar bindings (nº 120 to 145) and, probably, with the same heraldic tool. Inocêncio, II, p. 332. Afonso Lucas, 63. Arouca, A 351.