Embayxada do Conde de Villarmayor Fernando Telles da Sylva de Lisboa à corte de Vienna, e viagem da Rainha Nossa Senhora D. Maria Anna de Austria de Vienna à Corte de Lisboa. Com huma summaria noticia das provincias, e cidades por onde se fez a jornada.

Vienna, Na Officina de João Diogo Kürner, 1717.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, contemporary stiff vellum (small defects to spine, lower outer corner of rear cover; soiled). Typographical headpieces and page divider. Large woodcut tailpiece. Woodcut initials. A few small, very light dampstains. Overall in very good condition. Old ink inscriptions "Deus guard" on front pastedown endleaf and "Sobral // g Jose para [?]" on recto of front free endleaf. (8 ll.), 491, (1) pp. Page 140 misnumbered 149. *** FIRST EDITION. A rare example of a work in Portuguese printed in Vienna; the printer apologizes for any errors that slipped into the text, "mais de ignorancia que da incuria" (final page). An abridged version of this work was published in 1787 under the title Relação verdadeira da jornada que desde Lisboa fez a corte de Vienna d'Austria o Conde de Villar-Maior ....The author accompanied the Conde de Villar-Maior, Fernando Telles da Silva, to Vienna in 1708 to complete arrangements for the marriage of D. João V to D. Maria Anna of Austria, and to escort D. Maria Anna back to Lisbon. Telles da Silva's party travelled to London, then to Rotterdam, the Hague and Vienna. Fonseca gives descriptions of the United Provinces, England, Germany and the Court of Vienna, and also of such events as the celebrations at Vienna when Telles da Silva made his ceremonial entry.The work is dedicated to D. João Gomes da Sylva, Conde de Tarouca.Fonseca was born at Évora in 1668 and became a Jesuit in 1686. He studied humanities at Funchal before accompanying Telles da Silva as his confessor. After this trip, Fonseca travelled to Rome with P. Alvaro Cienfuegos, later a cardinal, and while there served as Procurador Geral das Missões do Oriente. He died in Rome in 1738. José Silvestre Ribeiro, quoted in Innocêncio, describes Fonseca as "um escriptor muito engraçado e escrupulosamente justiceiro."*** Innocêncio II, 376; IX, 291; Aditamentos 138. Barbosa Machado II, 147-8. Backer-Sommervogel III, 833-4. Not in Duarte de Sousa. Porbase locates a single hard copy, in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and a microfilm copy at the same institution. Jisc repeats the same four British locations given by OCLC. NUC: DLC, MH.