Very rare early (3rd?) Portuguese edition of a romanticized life of the Scottish Capucin friar George Leslie (d. 1637), known as "Father Archangel'', written by the Italian Archbishop of Fermo, Giovanno Battista Rinuccini, originally published in Italian with the title Il Cappuccino Scozzese (Macerata, Agostino Grisei, 1644) and in the present Portuguese translation in 1667 (the first part abbreviated from a 1657 Portuguese edition and the second translated from a 1662(?) French edition). All early editions are rare: we have located only two other copies of the present one, at the National Library of Scotland and the John Carter Brown Library.
The Lisbon bookseller and publisher Joseph da Cruz Cardozo signed the dedication to João Mascarenhas (1699-post 1723), who became the 7th Count of Santa Cruz on the death of his father in 1723 but was forced to renounce the title due to his incestuous relation with his mother.
Of special interest is the beautiful and finely executed early 18th-century Portuguese binding.
With manuscript annotations, a library stamp and a library label. Spine damaged, head margin cut short, a piece cut out of the fore-edge margin of title-page (not affecting the woodcut or text), probably to remove. A rare popular religious biography, in a beautiful contemporary binding and in good condition. DNB 33, pp. 90-91; KVK & WorldCat (1 copy plus a digitized 2nd copy); cf. Borba de Moraes, pp. 155-156; not in Porbase.