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FIASCHI, Cesare.- Trattato dell’imbrigliare, atteggiare, & ferrare cavalli di Cesare Fiaschi, nobile ferrarese, diviso in tre libri, ne’ quali sono tutte le figure à proposito delle briglie, de gli atteggiamenti, e de’ ferri. Et in questa quinta impressione unito al Trattato de Mescalzia di Filippo Scacco da Tagliacozzo...- In Padova: Apresso Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1628.- [8], 139, [13] p.: il.; 21 cm. Junto com: SCACCO DA TAGLIACOZZO, Filippo.- TRATTATTO DI MESCALZIA | DI M. FILIPPO SCACCO | DA TAGLACOZZO | DIVISO IN QVATRO LIBRI; | Ne’ quale si contengono tutte le infermità de’ cavalli così interiori, | come esteriore, & li segni da conoscerle, & le cure con potioni, | & untioni, & sanguigne per essicavalli...- In Padova: Apresso Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1628.- 151, [1] p.: il.; 21 cm.- E.
Joint edition of two treatises on horse harnesses, hardware, handling and veterinary medicine, the first by Cesare Fiaschi (1523-1558), a native of Ferrara, one of the founders of the modern school of academic horse riding, and the second by Filippo Scacco (fl. 1591 ), born in Tagliacozzo (Aquila). Both are illustrated in the text with numerous figures and xylographic prints and were originally printed, the first in 1556 (in Bologna) and the second in 1591 (in Rome). Volume a little trimmed but clean. Moroccan half binding from the 20th century.

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ILLUSTRES (LES) modernes; ou tableau de la vie privée des principaux personages des deux sexes, qui depuis la renaissance des Lettres, ont acquis de la célébrité en Europe, tant en Politique ou dans les Armées, que dans les Arts, les Sciences & la vie contemplative.- A Paris: Chez Leroy, 1788.- 2 vols.: il.; 40 cm.- E.
Original edition of a collection of 100 biographies illustrated with copperplate printed portraits of characters who stood out in the field of politics, religion, science, weapons and arts, from the Renaissance to the third quarter of the 18th century. The collation of each of the volumes is as follows: Tome premier - 104 p.: 1 frontispiece grav., 50 portraits grav.; Take second - [4], 100, [3, 1 br.] p.: 50 grav portraits. Outer margin of the title page of Volume I, carefully reconstituted; engraved allegorical frontispiece bound after p. 4, with stamp and label of Livraria d'Alcobaça. Both volumes have two stamps from Livraia de Alcobaça on the title pages (second volume with the same stamp also on the half-title). Slightly trimmed copy, with slight browning. Recent full sheepskin bindings, with patina and gold tooling in the manner of the period, smooth spines with different coloured labels and marbled paper on the endpapers. Brunet, III, 408.

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FLORIANI DA MACERATA, Pietro Paolo.- DIFESA ET OFFESA | Della Piazze | DI PIETRO PAOLO | FLORIANI DA MACERATA. | Opera non solo utile, e necessaria à Capitani, | Gouernatori di Fortezze, ma anco di sommo | profitto à studiosi dell’Historie Militari, | cosi antiche, come moderme.- Seconda impressione.- In Venetia: per Francesco Baba, 1654.- [32], 216 p.: 1 portada grav., 1 retrato, 51 gravuras [i. é 52]; 34 cm.- E.
Pietro Paolo Floriani (1585-1638), Italian engineer and architect, born in Macerata, expert in military buildings and fortifications; among his numerous works, we highlight the fortresses of Innsbruck, Austria, Altenburg, Hungary, San Germano, Piedmont, and the defensive lines of the city of La Valletta, Malta. Second edition (the first was printed in Macerata, in 1630, by Giuliano Carboni), illustrated with an engraved allegorical title (heraldic and architectural), a portrait of the author (bust inserted in architectural composition) and 52 copperplate prints, numbered 1 to 51 (two engravings with nº 14, A and B), eight of which are printed with the text and the rest separately, the last one can be folded. Copy with slight foxing, but generally clean; title page with light handling and minor restoration; pictures 9, 10 and 11 bound backwards. Recent full sheepskin binding with patina and decoration in the manner of the period (à la Duseuil). Graesse, II, 602. Cookle (Military books), 825.

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CORTE-REAL, Jerónimo.- FELICISSIMA | VICTORIA | CONCEDI- | da del cielo al sñor don Iuan d'Au- | stria, en el golfo de Lepanto de la | poderosa armada Othoma- | na. En el año de nuestra | saluacion de | 1572. | Compuesta por Hieronymo Corte Real, | Cauallero Portugues. | (†) | Impresso con licencia y approbacion. | 1578. | Com Priuilegio Real.- [No final]: ¶ Fve impresso en Lisboa. por Antonio Ribero. Año de M. D. LXXVIII. [1578].- [8], 217, [1] f.: il.; 18 cm.- E
Jerónimo Corte-Real (ca. 1533-1588), poet and painter of Renaissance humanism, born in Lisbon, whose most famous work, "Sucesso do segundo cerco de Diu" (Lisbon, 1574), was dedicated to King D. Sebastião. His poem Felississima victoria..., in fifteen cantos, composed in Spanish, narrates the naval battle of Lepanto, which took place in 1571, between the forces of the Christian League, led by D. João of Austria (bastard son of Charles V) and the Turkish armada, under the command of Ali Pasha. The edition, almost entirely printed in italics on very thin paper, is illustrated with 15 allusive woodcuts (80x105 mm.), accompanied by as many historical capitals, at the beginning of each canto. The title page has a xylographic cartouche surrounding the title, bearing, on the back, the coat of arms of Philip II, King of Spain, to whom the work is dedicated. The last folio, with a blank back, includes a colophon, with the printer's mark. Exemplary overly trimmed copy, especially on the outer lateral margin, affecting the composition of the title page (front and back), beginning of the first canto (engraving and text of sheet A1r) and beginning of the second canto (only engraving of sheet B4v). Stained title page; some handling, browning and more accentuated tidal stains in the first third of the volume. It is, however, complete and solid. Eighteenth-century full mottled sheepskin binding, retaining the original endpapers. Inocêncio, III, p. 263. Anselmo, 938. D. Manuel II Library, 128. Palau, 63002. Palha, 786. National Library (16th century), 199.

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REGIME[N]TO & or | denações da fazenda. M. D. xlviij.- [Lisboa: em casa de Germão Galharde, 1548].- 8, cxvj [i. é 115], [2] f.; 29 cm.- E.
Second edition of this "Regimento" that reformulates the Manueline edition printed in Lisbon in 1516. The beginnings of the Casa dos Contos (public accounting house) date back to the reign of King D. Dinis, but the oldest regiment (manuscript) dates from 1389 (reign of King D. João I), followed by those of 1419 and 1434 (by King D. Duarte). With the printed regiments of 1516 and 1548, the rules that would guide the Kingdom's public accounting were systematized until the mid-eighteenth century, establishing, among other provisions, the competences of the Treasury's supervisors. The copy has the autograph signatures of Dr. Ruy Gago and the account graduate Bernardim Esteves on the penultimate page, which includes a rare reference to the edition's circulation: 1000 copies. An extensive colophon follows: "Aqui se acaba ho liuro do regime[n]to da fazenda del rey nosso senhor. Foy impresso per autoridade e preuilegio de sua Alteza esta segu[n]da vez: em a cidade d[e] Lixboa em casa de Germão galharde aos. xxv. dias do mes de Feuereyro de mil e quinhentos e quare[n]ta e oyto annos". Copy slightly handled, trimmed, with tangential damage to the top of the woodcut frame of the title page, a little worn, which has two marginal restorations; small central support failure, in the last three sheets affecting some letters; occasional notes and underlining of the period, sometimes marred by the trimming on the outer margin; slight tidal stains on the inner and upper margins (including a few lines of text) in about half the volume. It is, however, 19th century full sheepskin simple binding. Anselmo, 634. National Library (16th century), 770. D. Manuel II Library only mentions the Manueline edition of 1516.

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GOUVEIA, D. Frei António de, O.S.A.- IORNADA | DO ARCEBISPO | DE GOA DOM FREY ALEIXO | DE MENEZES PRIMAZ DA IN- | DIA ORIENTAL, RELIGIOSO | da Ordem de S. Agostinho. | Quando foy as Serras do Malauar, & lugares em que morão os antigos Chri | stãos de S. Thome, & os tirou de muytos erros & heregias em que es- | tauão, & reduzio à nossa Sancta Fè Catholica, & obediencia da | Santa Igreja Romana, da qual passaua de mil an- | nos que estauão apartados. | Recopilada de diuersos tratados de pessoas de autoridade, que a tudo forão presentes, | Por Frey Antonio de Gouuea Religioso da mesma Ordem de Santo Agosti- | nho, lente de Theologia, & Prior do Conuento de Goa. | Dase noticia de muytas cousas notaueis da India, de | que a não auia tão clara. | Dirigida ao Reuerendissimo Senhor Dom Frey Agostinho de | IESV Arcebispo, & Senhor de Braga, Primaz das | Hespanhas Religioso da mesma Ordem.- Em Coimbra: Diogo Gomez Loureyro, 1606.- [6], 152, [2], 62, [9] f.; 26 cm.- E.
The work describes the pastoral journey of the Archbishop of Goa, D. Pedro de Meneses, O.S.A. (1559-1617), to the ancestral community of Christians from St. Thomas on the Malabar coast (Querala, India), which followed the traditional Syriac-Chaldean rite. It is, therefore, of the greatest importance for the history of this Christian Church in the East, of which previously little or nothing was known. The author (16th century-1628), born in Beja, professed in 1591 at the Hermits of St Agustine, at the Graça Monastery in Lisbon; in 1602 he was part of an embassy to the Shah of Persia, whose account can be read in book III of the present Journey; shortly thereafter he was appointed Bishop of Cyrene and Apostolic Nuncio to the Shah of Persia. As usual, the volume includes, with its own title page and independent foliation, the "Synodo diocesano da Igreja e Bispado de Angamale dos antigos christãos de Sam Thome das Serras do Malauar das partes da India Oriental ([2], 62 f.), seguindo-se a Missa de qve vsam os antigos christãos de São Thome do Bispado de Angamale..." ([9] f.). Copy with some browning and occasional marginal restoration, namely on the title page. Ex-libris of Miguel de Faria. 20th century full sheepskin binding with Miguel de Faria's heraldic book stamps gold engraved on the centre of both covers; slightly worn spine. Inocêncio, I, p. 151. Samodães, 1454. Auvermann, 542. Arouca, G 122.

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RODRIGUEZ, Pe. Manuel, S.J.- EL | MARAÑON | Y | AMAZONAS. | HISTORIA | DE LOS DESCVBRIMIENTOS, | ENTRADAS, Y REDVCCION DE NACIONES. | TRABAJOS MALOGRADOS DE ALGVNOS | CONQVISTADORES, Y DICHOSOS DE OTROS, | ASSI TEMPORALES, COMO ESPIRITVALES, | EN LAS DILATADAS MONTAÑAS, | Y MAYORES RIOS DE LA AMERICA.- En Madrid: en la Imprenta de Antonio Gonçalez de Reyes, 1684.- [12], 444, [7, 1 br.] p.; 28 cm.- E.
Rare first edition of an important title for the history of the New World, reporting, among other unpublished facts, the discovery of the Amazon. Copy without the Historical "Compendio historial, e indice chronologico pervano, y del nvevo Reyno de Granada..." (24 pages), which is usually found at the end, but which is missing in most of the copies. According to Borba de Moraes (II, p. 213), the rarity of the edition is due to the fact that it was published without the permission of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, against the express guidance of Pope Clement X, for which it was included in the Index. Copy slightly trimmed, with some browning and handling. Tear, with lack of support, on the outer margin of the C6 sheet (p. 35/36), without affecting the text. Oval stamp on the title page of the Jesuit College of Córdoba(?); some old ownerships deleted on the same page. Full parchment binding, not contemporary (reconstructed), with new endpapers, missing one of the silk ties. Palau, 273201, does not mention the historic Compendium, on the body of the record, only mentioning it in the commentary on the copy of Salvá (3389) and ...otro que estuvo en poder de Murillo. Sabin, 72524. Sommervogel, II, 1965, 1-2. Borba de Moraes, pp. 743/744.

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LA GUERINIÈRE, François Robichon de.- Ecole de cavalerie, contenant la connoissance, l'instruction, et la conservation du cheval.- A Paris: Jacques Collombat, 1733.- [8], 276, [8] p.: 1 portada gravada, il.; 44 cm.- E.
First folio edition of a monument to equestrian art, unanimously regarded as one of the most beautiful French editions of the 18th century (the first two, with a small in-16th format, were published between 1729 and 1731, this being the third). The edition is illustrated with an engraved frontispiece representing the education of Achilles, with the bust of Louis XV in a medallion, 24 icopperplate prints and three large allusive vignettes (140x235 mm), one at the beginning of each of the three parts of the work. , opened on copper plate by the best engravers of the time (Cars, Aveline, Cocart, Audran, Lebas, Beauvais et Desplaces), according to originals by Charles Parrocel and Antoine Coquart. François Robichon de la Guérinière (1688-1751), recognized as the founder of the French equitation school, began his activity as a squire to the Count d'Armagnac who, in 1715, commissioned him to found an equestrian academy in Paris. From 1730 until his death, with his brother Pierre as a partner, he directed the Académie des Tuilleries, having as patron Prince Charles of Lorraine, chief squire to King Louis XV. We can consider the set of 24 prints in five groups. I - Double prints: 1 - Le nom et la situation des parties extérieures du cheval (at the beginning of the text); 2 - The course des têtes et de la bague (p. 166); 3 - Maladies du cheval (p. 184); II - Technical prints (A. Coquart — Border): 4 - La bride (p. 32); 5 - Les différentes especes de fers (p. 40); 6 - La selle (p. 48); III - Teaching Schemes (printed next to the text, full page): 7 - Plan d'une académie régulière (p. 58); 8 - Plan de terre de l'épaule en dedans (p. 106); 9 - Plan de terre de la croupe au mur (p. 111); 10 - Le doubler (p. 122); 11 - Plan de terre des changements by main (p. 123); 12 - Les voltas" (p. 130); 13 - Demi-voltes, passades et pirouettes (p. 135); IV - Prints by Parrocel et Audran (allures): 14 and 15 - Les allures naturelles" (p. 74 et 74 bis); 16 and 17 - Les allures artificielles (p. 78 et 81); 18 - Le squelette du cheval" (p. 172); V - Figures of knights (originals by Parrocel): 19 - L'épaule en dedans (p. 104); 20 - Le marquis de Beauvilliers (p. 109); 21 - Monsieur de Kraut (p. 114); 22 - Mr. le Comte de St Aignan (p. 117); 23 - M. le Marquis de La Ferté (p. 125); 24 - SAS Charles prince of Nassau" (p. .143). Copy slightly handled, with occasional minor stains, but complete and solid, generally clean, with all prints well placed. Old handwaritten ownership on title page: "ex libris" G. Ducros, med. Stamp [22] (p. 177) added from another copy (shorter). Full sheepskin contemporary binding, a little worn, keeping the original endpapersin marbled paper. Cohen, 588. Graesse, IV, p. 79. Brunet, III, 769. Mennessier de La Lance (Bibliographie hippique), II, p. 27

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MANUSCRITO.- MONTEMOR-O-NOVO, Recolhimento de Nossa Senhora da Luz de.- Constituiçoens e leys.- Século XVIII (1779).- 1 vol.; [130 f.]; 38 cm.- E.
Carefully handwritten volume, with the following title: "Constituiçoens e leys por que se hão de governar as Religiosas do SS. Sacramento do Louriçal da primeira Regra de Santa Clara da Jurisdição Ordinaria do Illustrissimo Senhor Bispo de Coimbra, adoptadas por Authoridade Ordinaria do Emminentissimo Senhor Cardeal Cunha Arcebispo de Evora para o governo das Recolhidas do Real Conservatorio do SS. Sacramento da Luz na Villa de Montemór o Novo. Anno de 1779". The Convent of the Blessed Sacrament of Our Lady of Luz, from Montemor-o-Novo, was erected in 1760 next to the Church with the same name, built in 1582, which, in turn, gave its name to the fair held in this location since the 16th century, at the beginning of September: Fair of Luz. In 1878, the Convent was abolished, and the building housed the Holy Spirit Hospital, which is still installed there today. Apparently, the constitutions of the nuns of Louriçal were adopted by those of Montemor-o-Novo without any modification. Volume with slight acidity, but very clean, with the first notebook loose. Nineteenth-century binding, entirely made of sheepskin, with blind tooling decoration on the covers, squares and spine; carmine edges.

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KAEMPFER, Engelbert.- Histoire naturelle, civile, et ecclesiastique de l’Empire du Japon...- A La Haye: Chez P. Gosse & J. Neaulme, 1729.- 2 vols. in 1: 1 portada grav., 45 [i. é 43] gravuras; 30 cm.- E.
Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716), German physician and vajante, born in Lemgo (Westphalia), traveled extensively in Eastern Europe, the Middle and Far East. In 1669 he arrived in Jakarta (Indonesia) and the following year in Japan, as a doctor, at the service of the Dutch East India Company, where he would stay for two years. Kaemper was the introducer of acupuncture in Europe, where he returned definitively in 1693. His manuscripts, which are now in the British Museum, were purchased by Sir Hans Sloane, who published them in English in 1727 and in the present edition of 1729, in the French version. The collation of the two volumes is as follows: I - [8], LII, 217, [1 br.] p.; II - [4], 313, [1]. 96 p. The prints are all gathered in tome I, after the respective index, lacking engravings VII and XI belonging to the first tome. The volume (with the two volumes together), very worn, presents serious imperfections, namely: generalized wormholes, mainly marginal, but deeper in the last leaves of each one of the two volumes; the engravings, in general clean and well folded, the vast majority not showing cuts, with the exception of engravings 17 to 29 which are affected, although tangentially. Heraldic ex-libris on the back cover: Francisci Petit Doct. Med. Full sheepskin binding of the time, badly damaged, with the covers almost loose. Brunet, III, 638. Cordier (Japonica), 416. Cox (Travel), I, p. 332.

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[CHAMBON].- Traité général du commerce de l’Amérique. Contenant l’histoire des découvertes des Européens dans cette Partie du Monde, son étendue, ses productions. La description et le commerce des Côtes de Guinée, de Malaguete, d’Ivoire, d’Or, de la Barre de Juda, des Royaumes d’Andra, Benim, Loanda, Congo, Angola, la Caffrerie, Cap de Bonne-Espérance, &c. Les Mœurs des Negres & des Esclaves; l’état des marchandises propres à ce commerce... / par M. C**...- A Amsterdam: Chez Marc-Michel Rey, et se trouve à Marseille, chez Jean Mossy, 1783.- 2 vols.: il.; 25 cm.- E.
Edition published without the name of the author, of whom we only know to have been ancien receveur des Fermes du Roi. The collation of the two volumes is as follows: Tome premier - [4], 615, [1] p.: 5 maps (4 unfolds), engravings I to VII; Tome second - [4], 618, [1, 1 br.] p.: engravings VIII to XII, 2 unfolded maps. Complete copy, with all maps and engravings well placed, according to the respective indexes (I, p. 571 and II, p. 560). The maps, neatly folded, represent: Martinique, St. Domingue, Guadaloupe, l'Isle Vache, Cayenne, Louisianne and Côtes de Guinée. The prints represent plants, indigenous customs, sugar, cotton and tobacco manufactures and a slave market. Light browning and slight marginal (tidal) stains on the last 30 leaves of the second volume. For the rest, a clean copy, lined with full sheepskin period bindings, slightly worn, with carmine edges, keeping the original marbled paper endpapers. Sabin, 11814.

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CARAMUEL LOBKOWITZ, Juan, O. Cist.- PHILIPVS | PRVDENS | CAROLI V. IMP. FILIVS | LVSITANIÆ | ALGARBIÆ, INDIÆ, BRASILIÆ | LEGITIMVS REX | DEMONSTRATVS...- Antverpiæ: Ex Officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1639.- [32], 430, [25, 1 br.] p.: il.; 30 cm.- E.
Juan Caramuel Lobkowitz (1606-1682), Spanish Cistercian monk, born in Madrid, prestigious intellectual, philosopher and mathematician; maintained epistolary correspondence with great names of the culture of the seventeenth century, namely René Descartes, Athanasius Kircher, etc. Original edition of a work of great graphic apparatus, which seeks to demonstrate the legitimacy of the succession of Philip II of Spain to the throne of Portugal. It is illustrated with an engraving representing the coat of arms of Portugal (back of the half-title), an engraved title, an allegorical engraving depicting Lusitania (f. ****v) and 25 portraits of the kings of Portugal, also copperplate printed, next to the text, by the successive printing process (engraved by Neefs, according to originals by E. Quellinus). Exceptionally clean copy, retaining very wide margins. Heraldic ex-libris on the back cover: Nordkirchen (estate in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, acquired in 1903 by Duke Engelbert-Marie d’Arenberg, where today the Economics School in that state is located). Full burnished rigid parchment contemporary binding, with one of the silk ties missing. Samodães, 582. Palha, 2982. Palau, 43538.

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CARAMUEL LOBKOWITZ, Juan, O. Cist.- EXCELLENTISSIMA | DOMVS DE MELLO | AD IMPERATORIBVS | ROMANIS, CONSTANTINOPOLITANIS, | HISPANIS, FRANCIS, | SAXONIBVS, FRANCONIBVS, | SVEVIS, BAVARIS, | AVSTRIACIS; | A REGIBVS | CASTELLANIS, LEGIONENSIBVS | LVSITANIS, ALGARBICIS, | [...] | COMPOSITA; | Stylo Ioannis Caramuel Lobkovvitz.- Lovanii: Apud Everardvm De Witte Anno M DC XLIII, [1643].- [3], XLIII (i. é 44) f.: il.; 43 cm.- E.
Monumental edition, of great graphic complexity, dedicated to D. Francisco de Mello (ca. 1575-ca. 1652), Huntmaster of the Kingdom, ambassador to France and governor of the Algarve, one of the forty noblemen who participated in the conspiracy that would come to evolve into the 1640 revolution. The edition, without the conventional title page, consists of a sheet with the title abbreviation in large calligraphed characters: EXCELMA Domus de MELLO, three chapter separators, eight typographic sheets and 34 family trees copperplate printed (with typographed text ), which seek to demonstrate the direct descent of the Mellos from Charlemagne to the Dukes of Parma. The copy was washed and treated, showing the following most significant imperfections: reconstitution of the lower margin of the first three leaves (without affecting the text); excessive trimming with loss of the last letter of the word MELLo (handwritten) on the first sheet and on two other separators; deep restorations on the outer margin of the last engraving and the last sheet (65x50 mm), with loss of seven lines of text. Recent full sheepskin binding (with a protective case), with gold ornamental borders on the covers, seven gold closed panels on the spine, patina in the manner of the period and a golden roulette on the squares. D. António Caetano de Sousa (História genealógoca, I, p. CCXV) has not seen any copy, as well as Manuel Bernardes Branco (Portugal e os estrangeiros, IV, p. 540), Azevedo Soares (Bibliographia nobiliarchica, 1975) or perhaps even Palau (43547). Edition not mentioned on the Portuguese catalogues usually consulted.

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BERREDO, Bernardo Pereira de.- Annaes historicos do estado do Maranhaõ, em que se dá noticia do seu descobrimento, e tudo o mais que nelle tem succedido desde o anno em que foy descuberto até o de 1718.- Lisboa: Na Officina de Francisco Luiz Ameno, 1749.- [26], 710 p.; 28 cm.- E.
First edition of a work of the greatest importance in Brazilian historiography, by Bernardo Pereira de Berredo (†1748), born in Moura(?), governor of the State of Maranhão (1718-1722) and of the stronghold of Mazagão, in Morocco (1734-1745). Inocêncio only mentions 24 preliminary pages, but the copy includes an unusual page with a "Catalogo dos livros, e relações manuscritas, em que se achaõ algumas memorias do estado do Maranhão", a true reference bibliography, added at the end of the third section (preliminary page). d) and before the beginning of the text. Small handwritten ownership, from the period, on the title page; slight central stain on the last eight leaves. For the rest, a very clean copy, keeping wide margins. Full sheepskin contemporary binding with slightly worn spine, retaining the original endpapers, with a bookseller's cutout glued to the back cover (first flyleaf loose). Inocêncio, I, p. 382. Samodães, 2396. Reiss & Auvermann, 1025. Borba de Moraes also only mentions 12 preliminary pages (Bibliographia brasiliana), I, p. 89: "This first edition is rare and much searched for since it is a classic on Maranhão".

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OSÓRIO, D. Jerónimo.- DE REBVS, | EMMANVELIS REGIS LV- | SITANIÆ INVICTISSIMI VIRTVTE | ET AVSPICIO | GESTIS LIBRI | DVODECIM. | Auctore Hieronymo Osorio | EPISCOPO SYLVENSI.- Olisypone: Apud Antonium Gondisaluü, 1571.- 480, [2] p.; 31 cm.- E.
Original edition of one of the most important texts by the humanist scholar D. Jerónimo Osório (1506-1580), who would become the last bishop of Silves (1564-1577) and the first of the renewed diocese of the Algarve, based in Faro (1577) -1580), of whom Montaigne claimed to be "le meilleur historien latin de nos siècles". The author says in the prologue that he read the Chronicle of D. Manuel de Damião de Góis ... with great work, vigilance and wit. The work describes all the remarkable deeds that took place during the reign of the Fortunate One, namely Vasco da Gama's journey, the discovery of Brazil, the events in India and Africa, all narrated with great historical rigor. Complete copy, with slight handling, keeping generous margins (308x212 mm). Title page a little dusty, with some restoration and four old ownership marks. At least the first section appears to have been washed and reglued. Numerous underlinings, signatures and annotations from the period, or slightly later (mostly two-handed), some marred by the slight trimming; some scratches, scribbles and even marginal drawings; occasional minor stains. Full binding of non-contemporary sheepskin, with new endpapers, blind stamped on the covers and gold tools on the spine. Anselmo, 694. Samodães, 2292. National Library (16th century), 560. D. Manuel II Library, 329.

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GLAS, George (trad.).- The history of the discovery and conquest of the Canary Islands: translated from a Spanish manuscript, lately found in the Island of Palma. With an enquiry into the origin of the ancient inhabitants, to which is added, a description of the Canary Islands...- London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1764.- [8], VIII, 368 p.: 3 mapas (1 desdobr.); 27 cm.- E.
First edition of a work divided into three parts. The first is a translation of a manuscript attributed to Juan de Abreu Galindo, with the account of Jean de Bettaencourt's expedition (1402); the second contains an ethnographic characterization of the peoples and language of the islands; the third, a description of the archipelago. Clean copy, with the folding map neatly folded. Full flecked sheepskin 20th century binding, with gold decoration on the covers and spine and roll squares. Sabin, 79.

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GAMA, Manuel Jacinto Nogueira da (trad.).- Theorica das funções analyticas, que contem os principios do calculo differencial livres de toda a consideraçaõ de quantidades infinitamente pequenas ou desvanecentes, de limites ou de fluxões, e reduzidos á analyse algebrica das quantidades finitas. / por M. La Grange...- Lisboa: Na Offic. de Procopio Correia da Silva, 1798.- 2 partes em 1 vol.; 20 cm.- E.
The translator (1765-1847), born in S. João del-Rei (Minas Gerais, Brazil) was 1st Marquis of Baependy, commander of various orders, field marshal and senator of the Empire in Brazil. The collation of each of the parts is as follows: First part - [8], 156, [4] p.; Second part - [8], 214 p. Exceptionally clean copy, featuring an oval stamp on the title page of the first part: Bibliothecas de S. Mage. Imperial. Full tobacco shagreen contemporary binding, with the coat of arms of the Kingdom engraved in gold in the centre of the covers (identical), with ornamental borders and small vegetal tools in the corners; golden roulettes in the thickness of the covers; gilt edging; spine with five raised bands slightly discoloured and with little top damage; keeps the original endpapers in marbled paper. Inocêncio, VI, p. 8. Borba de Moraes (Brasiliana), I, p. 342 ("All of Nogueira da Gama's works are difficult to find").

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JESUS, Frei Rafael de, O.S.B.- CASTRIOTO | LVSITANO | PARTE I. | ENTREPRESA, E RESTAVRAÇAÕ | de Pernambuco; & das Capitanias Confinantes. VARIOS, E BELLICOS SVCCESSOS CASTRIOTO | ENTRE PORTUGUEZES, E BELGAS. | ACONTECIDOS PELLO DISCURSO DE VINTE E QUATRO ANNOS, E | tirados de noticias, relações, & memorias certas.- Lisboa: Na Impressaõ de Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, 1679.- [18], 701, [47] p.: 1 gravura; 27 cm.- E.
First edition of a work based on the manuscript of the "Historia da guerra de Pernambuco e feitos memoraveis do Mestre de Campo João Fernandes Vieira", by Diogo Lopes Santiago, which only came to be published in 1875-1880. In fact, it is a compliment by Vieira, nicknamed Castrioto in allusion to the Albanian hero and king George Castrioto, who at the time was a very popular figure in Portugal. The author (1640-1693), a Benedictine monk, born in Guimarães, was the main chronicler of the Kingdom, being responsible for writing the seventh part of the "Monarquia Lusitana". The volume initially includes an engraved and etched (very trimmed, with loss of subscription and reinforced margins on the back) portrait of Vieira with architectural framing. The title page has a restoration over the entire width of the lower margin (25x195 mm), tangentially affecting the imprint date. The specimen is somewhat trimmed, but generally clean, complete and solid, retaining the rare portrait. Recent full sheepskin binding, with patina and gold tooling in the manner of the period ("à la Duseuil"). Inocêncio, VII, p. 48. Samodães, 1632. Borba de Moraes, p. 427 (rare). Auvermann, 1062. Arouca, J 17.

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GESSNER, Salomon.- La mort d'Abel: poëme / traduit par Hubert.- Édition ornée d'estampes imprimées en couleur, d'après les dessins de M. Monsiau, peintre de l'Académie.- A Paris: Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, 1793.- 161 p.: [6] gravuras color.; 33 cm.- E.
Epic poem, translated into prose, by an author, born in Zurich (1730-1788), who in addition to being a writer was a printer, editor, painter and engraver. His literary style is typical of the Rococo period. A notable edition for being one of the first books with prints printed in colour, etching engraved and dotted by Colibert, Casenave and Clement, according to originals by Nicolas André Monsiau (1754-1837), one of the pioneers of colour engraving. Illustrated edition with a frontispiece (author's bust) and an engraving in each of the five corners. Copy with slight foxing and very slight stain (tidal) on the lower margin of about 30 leaves and three engravings. Good full sheepskin contemporary binding, with light handling, gold ornamental borders on the covers (flowers on the corners), panels closed on the spine and rolls on the squares. It retains the original marbled paper of the endpapers. Brunet, II, col. 1568. Cohen, col. 235.

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MAYER, Luigi.- Views of the Ottoman Empire, chiefly in Caramania, a part of Asia Minor hitherto unexplored; with some curious selections from the islands of Rhodes and Cyprus, and the celebrated cities of Coriinth, Carthage, and Tripoli: from the original drawings in the possession of Sir R. Ainslie... = Vues dans l’Empire Ottoman, principalement dans la Caramanie, partie de l’Asie Mineure jusqu’à présent peu connue; avec un choix de quelques vues curieuses dans les îles de Rhodes et de Cypre, et les célèbres villes de Corinthe, de Carthage, et de Tripoli: d’après les dessins originaux en la possession de M. le Chavalier R. Ainslie...- London: Published by R. Bowyer, 1803.- [4], 40 p.: 24 gravuras color.; 45 cm.- E.
Luigi Mayer (1755-1803) was born in Rome but worked in London under the protection of Sir Robert Ainslie, the United Kingdom's ambassador to Turkey between 1776 and 1792. The vast majority of his drawings were commissioned by Ainslie, making Mayer one of the first artists to represent the Ottoman Empire as the main theme of his extensive work. Bilingual edition, in English and French, illustrated with 24 hand-coloured aquatints, accompanied by the respective explanatory texts and an index in both languages, on the last page. Engraving nº 20 with two small cuts in the lower margin, without lack of support. Gift inscription, dated 1825, on the third flyleaf Very clean copy with wide margins, keeping the original cellophane separators in all engravings. Full fine calf contemporary binding with some wear, keeping the original marbled paper endpapers double romantic ornamental borders on both covers and gold tooling of the title on the front cover; smooth spine and gilt edges. Abbey, Travel, 369. Blackmer (Greece and the Levant), 1098

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MOLEVILLE, Antoine François Bertrand de.- The costume of the hereditary states of the House of Austria, displayed in fifty coloured engravings; with descriptions, and an introduction / translated by R. C. Dallas, Esq. = Costumes des états héréditaires de la Maison d’Autriche, constant en cinquante gravures coloriées; dont les description, ainsi que líntroduction on été redigées / par M. Bertrand de Moleville.- London: Printed for William Miller, by William Bulmer and Co., 1804.- [6], XXVIII p., L f.: 50 gravuras color.; 36 cm.- E.
Bertrand de Moleville (1744-1818), a leading French politician in the Ancien Régime, was a minister to Louis XVI and head of the secret police in the early days of the revolution. Bilingual edition, with two title pages, two print lists, two notices from the editor, extensive introduction, with texts on opposite pages and 50 aquatints (the first next to the title page), coloured by hand, accompanied by the respective explanatory texts. The prints were engraved by engravers William Ellis and William Poole, from a collection of images published at the time in Austria's Vienna ("Costumes des États de l'Empreur"). First print and first title page with a small marginal stain; all prints produced a slight offset in contact with the opposite page. For the rest, a very clean copy with large margins. Full green morocco contemporary binding, from Levante, probably of English making, with a golden Greek ornamental border on the covers and a very worn spine. Gilt edges.

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CONIMBRICENSES.- COMMENTARII | COLLEGII CO- | NIMBRICENSIS | SOCIETATIS | IESV, | In tres libros de Anima, Aristotelis Stagiritæ. | [gravura xilográfica com o trigrama da Companhia de Jesus].- Conimbricæ: Typis & expensis Antonij á Mariz, 1598.- [4], 558, [2 br., 26] p.; 23 cm.- E.
Seventh and penultimate original edition, from a total of eight editorial initiatives, with comments on the works of Aristotle, published by the Society of Jesus in Coimbra (4) and in Lisbon (4), usually designated by Conimbricenses and destined for the Philosophy course at the Arts College of Coimbra, in charge of the Jesuits since 1555. The person responsible for this volume, which contains the commentaries on the three books of Aristotle's Treatise on the Soul, was Father Manuel de Góis SJ (1543-1597), born in Portel, a leading figure in the golden period of Jesuit teaching in Coimbra. The editions were enormously successful, having often been reissued in Venice, Lyon, Cologne, Hamburg and Mainz and remaining as manuals for Jesuit colleges until the mid-eighteenth century. Copy slightly trimmed, but very clean (possibly washed), of recent full rigid parchment binding, with ties and gold tooling, to the taste of the time, on the covers and spine. Anselmo, 916. BN (16th century), 195. D. Manuel II Library, Res. 249 Adq.

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MANUSCRITO.- CASA DO INFANTADO.- Copiador de documentos.- Século XIX (depois de 12 de Abril de 1826).- 1 vol. [89 f.]; 39 cm.- E.
The House of the Infantado was created by King João IV in 1654-55 for the benefit of the second sons of the kings of Portugal and brought together a vast array of properties, income and other assets, the original core of which resulted from the confiscation of supporters of the Spanish cause during the War of Restoration. It was extinct in 1834. The volume, an exhaustive copier of documents relating to the institution, transcribes and summarizes hundreds of documents, dated between 1705 and 1826, including donations, wills, deeds, decrees, permits, consultations, royal letters, memoirs, notices, relationships, etc. The first document is a "Doação do Senhor Rey D. Pedro 2º em que este faz mercê ao Senhor Infante D. Francisco das lezirias de Montalvo, Moraceira, etc.", on July 28, 1705. The last is the "Cópia da carta que acompanhou a consulta levada ao Conselho do Governo do Reino em 12 de Abril de 1826". One-handed calligraphed document without any index. Full red morocco binding of the time, with gold ornamental border and rectangular reserve on the covers (identical) that present in the centre the coat of arms of Portugal gold engraved; smooth spine with six tools between the sections; gauffered and gilt edge. Keeps the original endpapers in fancy paper.

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