Leilão 203 Antiguidades e Obras de Arte Moderna e Contemporânea - 1ª Sessão

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Antiques and Works of Art Modern and Contemporary

2 and 3 December 2019 • 7.30 PM

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Compendio de Botanica, de Brotero, 1788
BROTERO, Félix de Avelar.- Compendio de botanica, ou noções elementares desta sciencia, segundo os melhores escritores modernos, expostas na lingua portugueza.- Paris: Vende-se em Lisboa, em casa de Paulo Martins, mercador de livros, 1788.- 2 vols.: il.; 20 cm.- E., Félix de Avelar Brotero (1744-1828), a natural physician and botanist of Santo Antão do Tojal (Loures), a PhD at the University of Reims and between 1778 and 1790 was emigrated in Paris; after his return to Portugal he was appointed professor of Botany and Agriculture at the University of Coimbra and director of the Royal Museum and Botanical Garden of Ajuda. Pioneering work, considered a milestone in Portuguese scientific bibliography. The collation of the two volumes is as follows: I - LXXVI, 471, [1 br.] p.; II - 411, [5] p.: XXXI engravings. The first 76 p. of 1st volume are part of a preliminary Speech; the 31 copperplate prints, engraved and printed separately, each of them accompanied by the respective Exposition, are all well placed; at the end of the 2nd volume, the index and 4 p. of erratas of the two volumes. Both volumes present, on the title page, a small contemporary possession manuscript: JMSoares. A specimen with some browning, as usual, with entire sheepskin 19th-century bindings, slightly worn. Inocêncio, II, p. 261.

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314

Flora Lusitanica, de Brotero, 1804
BROTERO, Félix de Avelar.- Flora Lusitanica, seu plantarum, quae in Lusitania vel sponte crescunt, vel frequentius coluntur, ex florum praesertim sexubus systematice distributarum, synopsis.- Olissipone: Ex Typographia Regia, 1804.- 2 vols.; 21 cm.- E., The initiative of the edition, of the greatest importance in the context of the Portuguese scientific bibliography, was by D. Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho, then Minister of State. Its publication was the subject of great opposition, especially by Fr. Mariano Veloso and Domingos Vandelli, author of a Florae lusitanicae et brasiliensis, published in Coimbra in 1788, but substantially less developed. The collation of the two volumes is as follows: Pars I - XVIII, 607, [1 br.] p.; Pars II - 557, [1] p. Three 19th-century handwritten possessions: Wenceslau de Lima, Coimbra, May 9, 1874 (pars I, p. III e pars II, p. 3); de A.P. SM(?) Joaquim Thomé dos Santos (pars II, title page). A slightly cropped but clean specimen, entire sheepskin contemporary bindings, slightly worn, especially that of the first volume. Inocêncio, II, p. 261.

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315

Description de sept cents dix-neuf plantes, de Geoffroy, 1767
GEOFFROY, François Alexandre.- Description vertus et usages de sept cents dix-neuf plantes, tant étrangeres que de nos climats, et de cent trente-quatre animaux, en sept cents trente planches / gravées en taille-douce sur les desseins d’après nature, de M. de Garsault, par MM. de Fehrt, Prevost, Duflos, Martinet, &c. Et rangées suivant l’ordre du livre intitulé Matière Médicale de M. Geoffroy...- A Paris: Chez P. Fr. Didot, 1767.- 4 vols.: il.; 22 cm.- E. , Edition of the initiative of the engravor François Alexandre Garsault (1693-1778), based on the works of Etinenne François Geoffroy (1672-1731), French chemist and physician, one of the founders of modern Chemistry, a discipline he taught at the Jardin Royal des plantes medicinales between 1712 and 1730. Set consisting of the following volumes: I - XIV, [2], 85, [1 br.] p.: 118 engravings; II - p. 89-184: 3 f. engraved (title page, avertissement and note), engravings119-292; III - p. [2 half-title pages], p. 185-277, [1 br.]: engravings 293-466; IV - p. 279-372: 3 f. engraved (rtitle page, avertissement and note), engravings 467-643. A specimen missing volume V, dedicated to Zoology, which should contain: 3 f. engraved (title page, avertissement and note), p. 375-472: enravings 644-729 and the Tables des planches [20 p.] of the five volumes. It appears that a rare sixth volume has been published later, of which we have no detailed news. Each of the volumes I and III also lack three engraved leaves (title, avertissement and note). Volumes II and IV are complete. Volumes I and III with the following restoration: I - typed title page with part of the left margin (blank, ±5x5 cm) rebuilt, certainly to eliminate possession; III - lower half (blank) of the reconstructed half-title page. Moreover, a specimen only with slightly browning, the 643 engravings (out of a total of 729), of the first four volumes, are very clean preserved. Entire flecked sheepskin contemporary bindings, with gold tooling on the spines and carmine and waxed edges. Nissen (Botanische Buchillustration, 687.

€ 300 - 450 Base - Estimate

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316

Materia Medicinal, de Dioscórides, 1733
DIOSCORIDES.- Pedacio Dioscorides Anazarbeo, annotado por el Doctor Andres Laguna, [...] nuevamente ilustrado, y añadido, demonstrando las figuras de plantas, y animales en estampas finas, y dividido en dos tomos. / Su autor el Doctor Don Francisco Suarez de Ribera...- En Madrid: En la Imprenta de Domingo Fernandez de Arrojo, 1733.- 2 vols.: il.; 30 cm.- E., Last renewed edition of the Greek classic, promoted by the Spanish physician Francisco Suarez de Ribera (1686-1738), demonstrating the longevity of the teachings of the Greek Dioscórides (19th century). I). The collation of each of the volumes is as follows: I - [28], 240, 224 p.: 1 allegorical frontispiece, 1 engraving (coat of arms of Spain), a portrait (Francisco Suarez), XXVI plant engravings; II - [16], 188, 226, 132, 88 p.: 1 engraving (coat of arms of Isabel Farnesio), [25] engrings (numbered from XXVI to XLI), XIX engravings. Paging is independent in each of the six books that make up the work. Complete specimen, but with some imperfections, namely: sharp cropping, with some prints presenting the outside margin bent or exceeding the edge; marginal restoration and reinforcements, more extensive in the last two leaves of the indexes of the two volumes, but without loss of text; occasional browning and foxing. A little worn 19th-century bindings. Palau, 324088.

€ 400 - 600 Base - Estimate

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317

Materia Medicinal, de Dioscórides, 1586
DIOSCORIDES.- PEDACIO DIOS- | CORIDES ANAZARBEO, | ACERCA DE LA MATERIA MEDI- | CINAL, Y DE LOS VENENOS MORTIFEROS, | Traduzido de lengua Griega, en la vulgar Castellana, & illu- | strado con claras y substanciales Annotacionnes, y con las figuras de in- | numerables plantas exquisitas y raras, por el Doctor Andres | de Laguna Medico de Iulio. III. Pont. Max. Añadiose vna TABLA par hallar remedio de todo genero de enferme- | dades, y otras cosas curiosas, nunca antes impressas. | Divo PHILIPPO, Divo CAROLI V. Aug. filio hæredi | Opt. Max. dicatum. | [gravura xilográfica com as armas de Espanha] | CON PRIVILEGIO | En Salamanca:por Cornelio Bonardo | M. D. LXXXVI. [1586].- [26, 2 br.], 616, [26] p.: il.; 27 cm.- E. , Annotated translation of medicinal matter of the Greek Dioscórides (19th century). I), the main pharmacological text used in Europe for more than sixteen centuries. Profusely illustrated edition with about 640 xylographies representing mainly medicinal plants, but also animals and a portrait of the translator and annotator Andres Laguna (1499-1559), famous physician and botanical, born in Guadalajara. The specimen, slightly cropped, with slight moisture stains, some browning and signs of handling, has numerous lines scratched by censorship and some underscores, whose ink caused some local browning. It is however complete and solid. Entire sheepskin contemporary binding or slightly later, with worn spine and crumpled corners. Palau 74023.

€ 600 - 900 Base - Estimate

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318

Naturalis historiæ, de Plínio, 1669
PLÍNIO, O VELHO [Gaius Plinius Secundus].- [...] NATURALIS | HISTORIÆ, | Tomus Primus [Secundus & Tertius] | Cum Commentariis & adnotationibus HERMOLAI | BARBARI. PINTIANI, RHENANI, GELENII, | DALECHAMPII, SCALIGERI, SALMASII, | Is VOSSII, & Variorum. | Accedunt præterea varia Lectiones ex MSS. compluribus | ad oram Paginarum accuratæ. | Item Joh. Fr. Gronovii Notarum Liber Singularis | ad Illustrem Virum Johannem Capelanum.- Lugd. Batav. et Roterod.: Ex Officina Hackiana, 1669.- 3 vols.: il.; 20 cm.- E. , Gaius Plinius Secundus (23-79), Roman scientist, naturalist and historian; the Natural History, considered his magna work, consists of 37 books. A very well-kept edition, with great critical importance, published simultaneously in Leiden and Rotterdam. Each of the volumes, with a different title, copperplate engraved, presents the following collation: tomus primus: [8], 838, [132] p.; tomos secundus: 917, [87] p.; tomus tertius: [8], 838, [134] p. Entire sheepskin contemporary bindings, slightly worn, sporting, in all covers, na unidentified crowned heraldic supralibros. A very clean specimen with carmine and waxed edges. Brunet (IV, col. 716): Belle édition et l'une des moins communes de la collection des anciens Variorum

€ 150 - 225 Base - Estimate

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319

Mémoire pour la conduite des sièges, de Vauban, 1740
VAUBAN, Sébastien Le Prestre de.- Mémoire, pour servir d’instruction dans la conduite des sièges et dans la défense des places [...] présenté au Roi Louis XIV. en M. DCC. IV.- A Leide: Chez Jean & Herman Verbeek, 1740.- 204 p.: XXIX gravuras desdobr.; 29 cm.- E. , Vauban (1633-1707), French military architect, Marshal of France and adviser to Louis XIV, was known for the effectiveness of his attack strategy, notably in the temporary fortication he conceived (trenches and landfills) and used in the more than 50 sieges he participated. Original edition, posthumous, illustrated with 29 copplerplate folding prints. A specimen slightly handled with traces of moisture, but generally clean, preserving all the well-folded engravings. Entire rigid parchement contemporary binding with severe support failures in the front cover and spine.

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320

Dell'unione del Regno di Portogallo, de Conestaggio, 1589
CONESTAGGIO, Girolamo Franchi di.- DELL' VNIONE | DEL REGNO DI | PORTOGALLO | Alla Corona di Castiglia. | ISTORIA | DEL SIG. IERONIMO DE | FRANCHI CONESTAGGIO | GENTILHVOMO GENOVESE.- In Genova: Apresso Girolamo Bartoli, 1589.- [22], 7, 412 p.; 20 cm.- E., This is probably the fourth edition of the most important work of Genoese diplomat and historian Jerónimo Conestaggio (†1635), by some attributed to D. João da Silva, 4th Count of Portalegre. Considered initially pro-Spanish, this did not prevent it from being banned in the court of Philip I (of Portugal). The work, which was quickly translated into German, French, Latin and Castilian, with several editions until the mid-seventeenth century, was now rehabilitated and is considered an objective and impartial account of the events that led to the loss of independence from Portugal in 1580. As for authorship, we should consult the article published by Giacinto Manuppela, in the International Bulletin of Luso-Brazilian Bibliography (Lisbon: F.C.G., 1960. Vol. I, number three, p. 352). Foliation errors in leaves 133 (127), 134 (154) and 141 (133). A slightly cropped specimen, with severe support failure (restored) on the title page, affecting the last three letters of the word GENOVESE, as well as some of the xylographies and the manuscript possession of the time. Some books slightly browned, but in general a solid and complete specimen. Entire flexible parchment contemporary binding, slightly handled, with new endpapers. Palau, 313372. Duarte de Sousa, 25.

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321

De Gloria Libri V, de D. Jerónimo Osório, 1552
OSÓRIO, Jerónimo.- HIERONYMI | OSORII LVSITANI | DE GLORIA | LIBRI V. | AD IOANNEM TERTIVM | LVSITANVM REGEM. | [gravura xilográfica].- Florentiae: Apud Laurentium Torrentinum, MDLII [1552].- 246 p.; 22 cm.- E., Second edition of one of the most important texts of the great humanist (1506-1580) who would become the last bishop of Silves (1564-1577) and the first of the renewed diocese of the Algarve in Faro (1577-1580). The work, divided into five books, initially published in Coimbra (1549), discusses some of the great issues that worried humanists in the second half of the sixteenth century. The text came to achieve great success throughout Europe, having been reprinted, at least 13 times still in the author's life (recently reissued text, with critical importance, by João Nunes Torrão, Lisbon, Colibri, 2006). Slightly cropped specimen (gilt edges), but clean, particularly notable for presenting several inscriptions and possession marks. In the second free endpaper, two registrations signed by António Augusto Teixeira de Vasconcelos (1816-1878): one purchased, dated Paris, 1860; another offered to Miguel Osório de Castro Cabral; on the free endpaper the bookplate of Miguel Osório de Alarcão Albuquerque. Stamp of Quinta das Lágrimas on the title page (repeated on the outside margin of p. 17) and the heraldic white seal of the recipient of the offer; on the verse (blank), an extensive biographical annotation in French, about the author, in ancient letters, possibly from the seventeenth century. Entire sheepskin binding, probably a 17th-century school prize (Plessis-Sorbonne College in Paris?), with a semée of fleur-de-lis on covers and spine. At the centre of both covers, a large oval vegetalist tool, with central reserve filled with three fleur-de-lis. The two pastedowns on marbled paper should have been added in the 19th century, missing their free endpapers. Edition not mentioned in the bibliographies consulted, including in the Library of King D. Manuel II of Portugal.

€ 800 - 1,200 Base - Estimate

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322

Histoire Naturelle des Coralines, de John Ellis, 1756
ELLIS, John.- Essai sur l’histoire naturelle des coralines, et d’autres productions marines du même genre, qu’on trouve communement sur les cotes de la Grande Bretagne de d’Irlande; auquel on a joint une description du grand polype de mer, pris auprès du Pole Arctique, par des pêcheurs de baleine, pendant l’Eté de 1753. / par Jean Ellis, membre de la Societé Royale. Traduit de l’anglois.- A La Haye: Chez Pierre de Hondt, M. DCC. LVI.,[1756].- XVI, 125, [3] p.: XXXIX gravuras; 27 cm.- E., First and only French translation of the work of Irish naturalist John Ellis (1710-1776), considered the most important scientific work on corals published in the eighteenth century (the original edition had been published in London the previous year). Ellis, who initially devoted himself to the linen trade, came to specialize in the study of corals, having exchanged extensive correspondence with Lineu (Carl von Linné, 1707-1778). An illustrated edition with a frontispiece engraved next to the front page and 39 numbered copperplate engravings, of which four are foldable (the prints of this copy are not coloured). Slightly disjointed and cropped specimen, with sometimes deep wormholes, next to the backbone(near the upper and lower margins) and on the lower margin which, however, do not affect the text or engraved area of the prints. It is, however, complete and clean. An entire sheepskin 19th-century binding, worn with marbled edges. Brunet, II, col. 963. Nissen, BBI, 590.

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323

Herbarium Amboinense, Rumpf, 1741-1755
RUMPF, George Eberhard.- Herbarium Amboinense, plurimas conplectens Arbores, Frutices, Herbas, Plantas terrestres & aquaticas, quae in Amboina, et adjacentibus reperiuntur insulis, [...] Nunc primum in lucem edita, & in Latinum sermonem versa, cura & studio Joannis Burmanni, [...] = Het Amboinisch kruid-boek. Dat is beschryving van de meest bekende Boomer, Heesters, Kruiden, Land-en Water-Planten, die men in Ambiona, en de omleggende eylanden vind, [...] Nagezien en uitgegeven door Joannes Burmannus...- Amstelædami, Hagæ Comitis, Ultrajecti: apud Franciscum Changuion, Petrum Gosse, Stephanum Neaulme [et al.], M. DCC. XLI - M. DCC. LV. [1741-1755].- 6 partes e 1 suplemento em 4 vols.: il.; 40 cm.- E. , Monumental posthumous edition of the author's main work (1627-1702), famous German botanist who lived the last 49 years of his life in Indonesia, at the service of the Dutch East India Company. Rumpf's work, which came to blind in 1670, consisting of an important survey of the flora of the Moluccas archipelago (especially the island of Amboina, where the author lived), would only be published 39 years after his death, at the initiative of the Dutch botanist Joannes Burman (1707-1780). The edition, bilingual in Latin and Dutch, consists of six parts and a folio format supplement, each with two front pages, containing 696 copperplate engravings (+ 3 with duplicate numbering), representing mainly plants, in addition to na allegorical frontispiece, a portrait of the author and the other of Burman. These three engravings, along with the title page typed in Latin, are missing in the first part of this copy. Text leaves sometimes with some browning; on the contrary, the engravings, printed on paper of higher grammage, are generally clean, with the exception of the 30 leaves of the supplement which have slight water stains (tide) on the outside margin. Double engraving of the first part (LI/L) with small restoration and loss of support in the central fold. Bookplate of the Marquis of Angeja on the four volumes. Entire sheepskin contemporary bindings, worn and scratched. A complete set of text, including all 699 descriptive prints.

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324

Compromisso da Irmandade das Almas do Purgatório da Vila de Palmela, 1604-1605
MANUSCRITO.- PALMELA, Vila de.- Compromisso da Irmandade das Almas do Purgatório da Vila de Palmela.- Século XVII (1604-1605).- 14 f.; 22 cm.- E., Manuscript on parchment, carefully red calibrated, with illuminated title page and 11 decorated chapter initials. Presents the following internal organization: 1 - Watercoloured title, inscribed in an oval inserted in a renassaince cartouche, with vegetalist motifs exhibiting at the top, the Saint James Cross on traditional scallop: Compremisso [sic] | da Irmandade das | Almas do Purgato | rio. | Da Villa de | Palmella. 1604 (p. 1); 2 - Examination visa of the Corregeor and ombudsman of the Comarca José Pedro Bayma de Barros, dated Septúbal, March 28, 1774 (p. 2); 3 - Title developed, followed by Preface (p. 3, 4 and 5, p. 6 blank); 4 - Chapter I: Spiritual alms... (p. 7); 5 - Chapter II: From Monday masses... (p. 8); 6 - Chapter III: From the masses of the month... (p. 9 and 10); 7 - Chapter IIII: Of the Suffrage... (p. 11 and 12); 8 - Chapter V: From the robes... (p. 13 and 14); 9 - Chapter VI: From the time you will be required to confess... (p. 15 and 16); 10 - Chapter VII: How to welcome the Brothers... (p. 17 and 18); 10 - Chapter VIII: From the day the election will be made... (p. 19 to 23); 11 - Chapter IX: How to welcome the Confreres... (p. 24); 12 - Chapter X: Provision (transcribe the royal provision of Philip III as governor and perpetual administrator of the master's and cavalry of the Order of Saint James); includes the closing term (Manoel de Paiva Cardozo did so in Lixª. on January 21, 1605) and a visa by visitors to the Order of Palmella on March 28, 1605; in the end, in three very faded lines, another visa at a visit, by the visitator of the Order Ferraz (p. 25 and 26). The devotion of the souls of Purgatory is very old and integrates into the worship of the deceased, transversal to all cultures and societies. But it was above all from the Counter-Reformation and the Council of Trent that the Catholic Church boosted its practice, with the brotherhoods of souls being, which from then on proliferated among us, their associative and solidarity expression, while the alminhas represent the corresponding most popular artistic aspect. Text entirely red calibrated, sometimes a little faded, ornamented with 11 watercolour and gouache decorated initials (?). All pages, from the second leaf, are square wrapped in five red parallel lines. The preface and eight chapters are toped with elegant red caligraphy vignettes (all different). The document was recently the subject of deep and full professional restoration, and it was possible to retain part of the green silk binding cover, as well as the two (original?) metal clasps.

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