FREI ANTÓNIO DO ROSÁRIO - 1647-1704 Frutas do Brasil ROSÁRIO, Frei Antonio do, O.F.M.- Frutas do Brasil numa Nova, e Ascetica Monarchia, consagrada á Santissima Senhora do Rosario, author o seu indigno escravo Fr. Antonio do Rosario, o menor dos Menores da Serafica Familia de S. Antonio do Brasil, & Missionario no dito Estado; Mandandoa-a imprimir O Comissario Geral da Cavallaria de Pernambuco Simam Ribeyro Riba.- Lisboa: Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, Anno de 1702.- [24], 208 p.; 20 cm.- E. Friar António do Rosário (1647-1704), born in Lisbon, joined the religious life at the convent of Monte Olivete, of the Order of the Barefoot Augustins; Around 1686 is already in Brazil as a missionary of the order of friar Minors; After a passage through Olinda, he assumes the position of guardian of the Capuchin convent in São Salvador da Baía, where he would die. The work consists of a collection of sermons of missionary character, in the purest Baroque style, in which the author describes 36 Brazilian fruits metaphorically, with an edifying purpose. For its significance, it was reprinted four times: in 1828 and 1830, in Rio de Janeiro; In 2002, in facsimile, by BNP, with presentation by Ana Haterly; In 2008, also in fac-simile, by the BNB of Rio de Janeiro, with the presentation by Marco Lucchesi. A slightly cropped copy (carminate cutting) and with some imperfections, the most serious being: mirrored cover leaf and lack of support on the margins (without affecting the printed part); Three following leaves with remade outer margin, touching tangentially in five letters of the first lines; first leaf [11 (* * * 3)] with shorter outer margin; first and last leaves less clean. Recent full flecked sheepskin binding with gold-closed houses on the spine and blind decoration in the boards. Inocêncio, I, p. 262. Borba de Moraes, p. 749 (“This first edition is very rare”).