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MIRANDA, Francisco de Sá de.- AS | OBRAS | DO DOCTOR | FRACISCO DE SAA | De Miranda.- Agora de nouo impressas com a Rela- | ção de sua calidade, & vida.- [Lisboa]: por Vicente Aluarez, 1614.- [12], 160 f.; 19 cm.- E.
Second edition of the works of Sá de Miranda (1481-1558), unanimously considered the greatest Portuguese poet of the 16th century, right after Camões and perhaps the one who most brought to us the echo of Renaissance ideas, the introduction of new literary forms being significant among which stand out the prose comedy, the new meter, the sonnet, the eclogue, etc. Inocêncio (III, p. 54) states that this edition should be preferred to the first, both being rare. Although the verso of the last sheet bears the statement COME- the copy is complete as no more text has been printed. Slightly cropped specimen, with slight foxing and discreet handling. Some imperfections on the title page: circular stamp (ø 36 mm) erased, causing severe abrasion; minor restorations on the upper and outer margins; ancient ownership with three initials F.X. S. Two last leaves with minor stains; occasional underlining and pencil annotations. Contemporary binding, made fully of flexible parchment, with tries and new endpapers. Samodães, 2933. Palha, 797. Arouca, 382.

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SOARES, D. Frei João, O.A.D. (Bispo de Coimbra).- COMMENTARIVM | in sacrosanctum domini nostri IESV Christi Euangelium, | secundum Matthæum: rectu[m] & synceru[m] sensum explicans. | Plurimas etiã hæreticoru[m] minimè orthodoxas opiniones, egregiê dilues. | Cõcionatoribus, disputatibus, & omnibus catholicis apprimê vtile. | A Reuerendiss. Dño. D Ioanne Soarez, Episcopo Conimbricensi, | & Arganili Comite, æditum. | [gravura xilográfica com as armas episcopais] | Cum gratia & priuilegio Regio ad decenium. | Indice etiam locupletissimo adiecto.- Conimbricæ: Apud Ioannem Barrerium Typographum Regium. [Anno M. D. LXII. 1562].- [4], 577 p.; 26 cm.- E.
Br. João Soares (1507-1572), born in Urrô (Penafiel), was a hermit of Saint Augustine and participated in the third session of the Council of Trent (1561/63); he was confessor of King D. João III and bishop of Coimbra between 1545 and the year of his death. He left us the constitutions of his diocese (Coimbra, 1548) and an extensive bibliography on religious topics, including commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew, Luke and Mark. In 1548, he was responsible for publishing the new “Constitutions” of his bishopric. Second edition, with the royal privilege occupying the front of the second folio. The first edition (Anselmo, 158), in addition to other differences, presents the privilege on the verso of the first folio. On the verso of the last page (missing from the BNP copy) there is a colophon dated October 1561. Copy, cropped, with ablation of the last line of the press foot (with the date) on the title page. For the rest, a very clean and complete copy. Full sheepskin binding, from the 17th century(?) with mottled patine, keeping the original endpapers intact, on plain paper. Anselmo, 164. BN (16th century), 855. D. Manuel II Library refers only to the 1566 edition. Reiss & Auvermann (Auction 40), 1803 (the same copy, with the wrong cataloging as being from the first edition) .

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LEÃO, Duarte Nunes de.- PRIMEIRA PARTE [E SEGUNDA PARTE] | DAS CHRONICAS DOS | REIS DE PORTVGAL, REFOR- | MADAS PELO LICENCIADO | DVARTE NVNEZ DO LIÃO, DESEM- | bargador da casa da Supplicação, per | mandado del Rei Dom Philip- | pe o primeiro de Portu- | gal, da gloriosa | memoria.- Em Lisboa: Impresso por Pedro Crasbeeck, 1600.- [2], 239, [8] f.; 27 cm.
Edition published in the last year of the 16th century, comprising the chronicles of Count D. Henrique, D. Afonso Henriques, D. Sancho I, D. Afonso II, D. Sancho II, D. Afonso III, D. Dinis, D. Afonso IV, D. Pedro I and D. Fernando I. The chronicle of D. João I was only printed in 1643. Duarte Nunes (1530-1608), erudite historian, graduated in Law and judge of the Casa da Suplicação (former supreme court of Portugal), after the death of the Cardinal King D. Henrique warmly embraced the cause of Philip I, whose right to the succession he defended in writing against those who challenged him. Copy with slight foxing, slightly cropped, with mirrored title page and restoration (patch) on the lower margin of the second sheet. Last sheet (blank verso) with central restoration reaching the printed part, but without lack of support. Red stamp on title page with monogram of the House of Palmela. Full shagreen binding, not contemporary, probably from the 19th century, with borders and rectangles with gold florets on both, presenting, in the centre, a large tool engraved with blocking press; panels closed on the spine, with a quadrilobed floret on the sections; enpapers with different marbled papers. Samodães, 2247. BN (16th century), 406. D. Manuel II Library, 242.

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MARCOS DE LISBOA, O.F.M, Frei.- PRIMEIRA | parte das Chronicas da orde[m] | dos frades Menores do sera- | phico Padre sam Francisco, | seu instituidor, & primeiro | ministro geral. Que se po- | de chamar Vitas patru[m], dos | Menores. Copilada & toma | da dos antigos liuros & me- | moriaes da ordem, per frey | Marcos de Lisboa frade Me- | nor, da prouincia de | Portugal.- ¶ Agora segunda vez per elle reuista & emendada. Com Priuilegio Real.- [No final] Foy impressa esta obra em a muy nobre& sempreleal cidade de Lixboa: em casa de Manuel Ioam, & acabou se aos. xx. dias de Feuereiro de. 1566.- [12], ix-cclxiij f.; 27 cm.- E. Junto com; -----.- PARTE SE- | GVNDA DAS CHRONICAS DA | Ordem dos frades menores & das ou | tras orde[n]s segunda & tercei | ra, instituidas na igreja | per o sanctissimo Pa | dre sam Fran | cisco. [...] | ¶ Nouamente copilada & ordenada dos anti- | gos Liuros & Hystoriadores & memoria | es da ordem, per frey MARCOS de Lis- | boa frade menor da prouincia de | Portugal da obseruancia, per a glo | ria de nosso Senhor & & de se- | us sanctos, & edificaçam | das Almas...- [No final] ¶ Acabouse a presente obra de imprimir im [sic] Lisboa em casa de Ioannes Blauio impressor del Rey nosso Senhor [...] Anno de mil quinhentos sessenta & dous [1562] a. xxv. Dabril.- [6], CCLXXXVI f.; 27 cm.- E.
Both texts in second edition, almost entirely composed in two columns in rotunda Gothic characters. The first part was the only one printed in Manuel João's presses. The second part, printed by João Blávio, was published following the first, printed by the same printer in 1557. Fr. Marcos de Lisboa (1511-1591), chronicler of the Order of the Friars Minor (St. Francis), accompanied D. Sebastião on the journey to Africa and was bishop of Oporto from 1581 until the year of his death. First volume cropped, with tangential damage to the foot and right margin of the xilography that frames the title. Second volume with frail, handled and poorly restored title page; last sheet, with the printer's mark, mirrored and handled, with part of the outer margin redone; occasional minor restorations and stains. The two volumes are, however, complete and solid. Nineteenth century bindings (1st half), full sheepskin, slightly worn, with carmine edges. Anselmo 713 and 319. BN (16th century), 478 and 476. D. Manuel II Library, 282 and 281.

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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 traveller, 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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BARROS, João de; COUTO, Diogo do.- Da Asia de João de Barros e Diogo de Couto.- Nova edição.- Lisboa: Na Regia Officina Typografica, 1778-1788.- 24 vols: il.; 16 cm.- E.
Complete collection of the most beautiful edition of the “Decadas”, printed at Oficina Régia. The four “Decadas” by João de Barros are part of the first eight volumes, followed by a general index (and the author's biography) and are illustrated with three portraits (of the author, Infante D. Henrique and Afonso de Albuquerque) and five maps leaflets; also the remaining eight “Decadas of Diogo do Couto”, illustrated only with his portrait (missing in the present copy), are presented in 14 volumes plus the respective index (the title page was never printed). Note that the “Tenth Decade” is now printed for the first time. All title pages feature a monogrammed circular stamp (JPD?) with the indication Ex Libris ¿Fama?. First volume with some stains in the first section. For the rest, a slightly cropped but very clean copy, keeping the maps very fresh and well folded. Recent bindings, with leather spines and different coloured labels. Lot nº 85 from the auction Silva’s / Pedro de Azevedo, from May 1990 (the same copy). Inocêncio, III, p. 322 e II, p. 154.

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CONIMBRICENSES.- COMMENTARII | COLLEGII | CONIMBRICENSIS SO- | CIETATIS IESV. | IN QVATVOR LIBROS DE | COELO ARISTOTELIS | STAGIRITÆ...- Olisipone: Ex officina Simonis Lopesij, Anno M. D. LXXXXIII. [1593].- [8], 447, [1 br.] p.; 22 cm. Junto com; -----.- COMMENTARII | COLLEGII | CONIMBRICENSIS SO- | CIETATIS IESV. | IN LIBROS METEORVM | ARISTOTELIS STAGIRITÆ...- Olisipone: Ex officina Simonis Lopesij, Anno M. D. LXXXXIII. [1593].- 143, [1 br.] p.; 22 cm. Junto com; -----.- COMMENTARII | COLLEGII CO- | NIMBRICENSIS SOCIETATIS | IESV IN LIBROS ARISTOTE- | LIS, QVI PARVA NATVRA- | LIA APPELANTVR...- Olisipone: Ex officina Simonis Lopesij, Anno M. D. XCIII. [1593].- 104 p.; 22 cm. Junto com: -----.-IN LIBROS | ETHICORVM ARISTOTELIS AD NICHOMACVM CVRSVS DISPV- | TATIONES, IN QVIBVS PRAECIPVA | QVAEDAM ETHICAE DISCI- | PLINAE CAPITA CON- TINENTVR...- Olisipone: Ex officina Simonis Lopesij, Anno M. D. XCIII. [1593].- 95, [1 br.] p.; 22 cm.- E.
Original edition, of four of the 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 intended for the Philosophy course at the Colégio das Artes de Coimbra, in charge of the Jesuits since 1555. The person responsible for the four volumes was Father Manuel de Góis SJ (1543-1597), born in Portel, a distinguished figure in the golden period of Jesuit teaching in Coimbra. The Coimbra editions were enormously successful, having been republished in Venice, Lyon, Cologne, Hamburg and Mainz, several times, remaining as manuals for Jesuit colleges until the mid-eighteenth century. Carefully treated copy, probably washed, with no noticeable defects. Second half of the volume with a stain on the upper margin, affecting the current titles and, occasionally, the first lines of the text; some minor stains. Two old ownerships (one crossed out) on the front cover page. Interesting rebuilt contemporary binding, with blind and gold tooling, on the covers and spine (worn), with new endpapers. Anselmo, 794, 795, 796 and 797. BN (16th century), 194, 192, 191 and 196. Library of King Manuel II, 126, 125, 124 and 127.

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MANUSCRITO.- CARLOS II, Rei de Espanha.- Carta executória de fidalguia- Século XVII (1676).- 75 f; 32 cm.- E.
Manuscript on parchment. Execution of nobility charter (or letter of coat of arms) granted in the name of the Council of His Excellency El-Rei Don Carlos II, of Spain (1661-1700), to Don Garcia de Medrano y Varrio (or Barrio), neighbour of the village of Almagro, Granada jurisdiction, by H.M.'s fiscal attorney, Don Juan de Muriel. At the end: Dada en Granada a beynteiocho dias del mes de mayo de mil y seisc[ent]os y setenta y seis años. Executory letters of nobility were introduced during the reign of Fernando and Isabel, the Catholic Monarchs, and continued to be produced until the 19th century. They witnessed the blood cleansing of the applicants and their ancestors, as well as their faith, free from any heresy. At the same time, they defined their coat of arms and established the right to use them. The document is developed on 75 sheets of parchment (2 white), carefully ruled and calligraphed in Gothic characters, the last being occupied by an extensive visa. In the first two folios we find three large full-page (31x22 cm) illuminations, with the following representations: on the verso of the first folio the Virgin Mary; in front of the second folio, a genealogical scheme with 13 blue circles inscribed in gold (oxidized); on the verso of the same sheet, the applicant's coat of arms held by an angel or archangel with a sword (St. Michael?). In front of the next page, with two lateral vegetal stripes, the beginning of the text, with the first three lines (plus lines 21 and 22) illuminated in blue, red and gold. The text also includes three dozen illuminated initials, with one or two lines, two large letters and seven lines totally or partially painted. Document well preserved, fully legible, with only some oxidation in the gold decoration. Full crimson velvet binding, not contemporary, with two silver clasps. Protective case in burgundy canvas.

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ESTELLA, Frei Diego de, O.F.M.- Tratado de la | vida loores y excelencias del glorioso a- | postol y bienauenturado euangelista san | Iuan, el mas amado y querido discipulo | de Christo nuestro saluador: cõpuesto | por el . P. F. Diego de Estella, de la or- | den de los frailes menores: dirigido | a la muy alta y muy poderosa rey- | na de Portugal, y por mãda | do de su alteza agora nue- | uame[n]te impresso...- Lisbona: en la impre[n]ta de German gallarde, [1554].- ccviij, [3, 1 br.] f.; 20 cm.- E.
Fr. Diego de Estella (1524-1578), Franciscan religious, humanist, theologian and Spanish ascetic writer, born in Estella (Navarra) studied in Toulouse and Salamanca. In 1552 he arrived in Portugal (where he stayed for two years) as part of the entourage of the Infanta D. Joana of Austria, Princess of Portugal by marriage to the Infante D. João Manuel (1537-1554), parents of King D. Sebastião. First edition of his first work, dedicated to Queen Catherine. Title framed by a xilography similar to the one used in the first edition of “Os Lusíadas” (1572); on the reverse side of the title page, another engraving depicting the martyrdom of Saint John. On the reverse of the page cviij (f. CC8) an extensive colophon ending with the date of completion of the work: Acabouse a nueue del mes de Augusto. Año de mil y quinhientos y cinquentay quatro. In the first section, four sheets (A1, 2, 7 and 8) have restorations in the upper margin; apparently, section M was inserted from another copy. For the rest, a clean, solid and complete copy. Ex-libris of the bookstore by JG Mazziotti Salema Garção. Contemporary binding, full flexible parchment, missing three ties, but retaining the original paper of the endpapers. Anselmo, 651. Palau, 83902. BN (16th century), 235. D. Manuel II Library, 145.

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BRITO, Frei Bernardo de; BRANDÃO, Frei António [e outros].- MONARCHIA | LVSYTANA | ... | PARTE PRIMEIRA | que contem as historias de Portugal desde a cria- | ção do mundo te o nacimento de nosso sñor | IESV CHRISTO | [gravura] | DIRIGIDA AO CATHOLICO REI DÕ PHILIPPE * | II DO NOME REI DE ESPANHA EMPERADOR DO * | NOVO MVNDO.- Alcobaça: Alexandre de Siqueira & António Alvarez, 1597.- [1], 8, [8], 416, [8] f.; 27 cm. Junto com: -----.- GEOGRAPHIA | ANTIGA DE LVSY- | TANIA...- Alcobaça: António Alvarez, 1597.- 8 f.; 27 cm.- E. Junto com: -----.- SEGVNDA | PARTE, | DA MONARCHIA | LVSYTANA...- Lisboa: Pedro Crasbeek, 1609.- [4], 393, [15] f.; 27 cm.- E. Junto com: BRANDÃO, Frei António.- TERCEIRA | PARTE DA | MONARCHIA | LVSITANA. | Que contem a Historia de Portugal desdo Conde | Dom Henrique, até todo o reinado del Rey | Dom Afonso Henriques...- Lisboa: Pedro Crasbeek, 1632.- [6], 300, [20] f.|; 27 cm.- E. Junto com: -----.- QVARTA | PARTE DA | MONARCHIA | LVSITANA. | Que contem a Historia de Portugal desdo tempo | delRey Dom Sancho Primeiro, até todo o | reinado delRey D. Afonso III...- Lisboa: Pedro Crasbeek, 1632.- [6], 286, [22] p.; 27 cm.- E. Junto com: BRANDÃO, Frei Francisco.- QVINTA | PARTE DA | MONARCHIA LVSYTANA. | Que contem a historia dos primeiros 23. annos DelRey D. Dinis...- Lisboa: Paulo Craesbeek, 1650.- [8], 332, [18] f,; 27 cm.- E. Junto com: -----.- SEXTA PARTE | DA | MONARCHIA LVSITANA, | QVE CONTEM A HISTORIA DOS VLTIMOS | vinte & tres annos delRey Dom Dinis...- Lisboa: Ioam da Costa, 1672.- [12], 622, p.; 27 cm.- E. Junto com: JESUS, Frei Rafael de.- MONARQVIA | LVSITANA | PARTE / SETIMA | CONTEM A VIDA DE ELREY DOM AFFONSO | o Quarto por excellencia o Bravo...- Lisboa: Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, 1683.- [12], 601 p.; 27 cm.- E. Junto com: SANTOS, Frei Manuel.- MONARQVIA | LVSITANA | PARTE VIII. | CONTEM A HISTORIA, E SUCCESSOS | memoraveis do Reino de Portugal no tempo delRey D. Fer- | nando: á eleição delrey D. João I. com outras muitas | noticias de Europa: comprehende do anno de Christo | Senhor nosso 1367. até o de 1385. na era de Cesar | 1405. até o anno de 1423. | 1423...- Lisboa Ocidental: na Officina da Musica, 1727.- [16], 790, [14] p.; 27 cm.- E.
Complete set, all volumes belonging to the first edition. The first, still from the 16th century (along with the pamphlet “Geografia antiga de Lvsytania”) and the last, which Inocêncio considers the most difficult to find, are particularly rare. The project for the work was conceived by Friar Bernardo de Brito (in the century, Baltasar Brito de Andrade) as a grandiose history of Portugal, but the chronicler, born in Almeida (1568-1617) only completed the first two volumes. Frei António Brandão (Marcos Brandão), born in Alcobaça (1584-1637) was the author of the second and third parts, which many consider more reliable. Frei Francisco Brandão was also a native of Alcobaça (1601-1680) and was responsible for the fifth and sixth parts. The last two parts were respectively written by Frei Rafael de Jesus (Guimarães, 1614-1693) and Frei Manuel dos Santos (Cantanhede, 1672-1740). The specimen has some imperfections, which we now describe. First volume with restored first two folios and mirrored title page; restoration in the margin of folio 75, with loss of some text (glosas). Geography only preserves the first and last folios (with serious restoration, but preserving the entire text); all remaining six folios have been replaced with quality photocopies on laid paper. Second volume with folio 338 and 343 manuscripts in humanist handwriting from the 17th century, with restorations on the outer margin (and lower margin on the second). Fourth volume with title page restorations, where the ink of an owner's signature has corroded the paper. Sixth volume with wormholes restored on the outer margin (sometimes reaching the text), from p. 489/490. The seventh volume does not present the rare allegorical half-title, which, incidentally, is not mentioned by most bibliographers. Eighth volume with rough restorations in two sections (P and Q, ie 12 folios). Copy with stamps from Quinta das Lágrimas in all volumes and occasional minor stains. Full sheepskin bindings, recovered, with new endpapers. Inocêncio, I, p. 373 and 98; VII, p. 49; VI, p. 102. Samodans, 2115. Ameal, 1549.

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MANUSCRITO.- REGRA do Mosteiro de Santa Marta de Lisboa.- 1 documento.- Século XVII (1626).- 20 f.; 31 cm.- E.
Manuscript on parchment. The building that currently houses the Hospital de Santa Marta was initially (1569) an asylum for victims of the plague, in Lisbon. In 1577, during the reign of D. Henrique and on the initiative of the priests of São Roque, it went from being a retreat to a monastery. In 1583, D. Jorge de Almeida, Archbishop of Lisbon, authorized the establishment of a convent of Poor Clares nuns of the second order of Saint Francis, under the invocation of Saint Martha, having as founders three nuns from the Convent of Saint Clare of Santarém. The document is part of the “Regra do Mosteiro de Santa Marta de Lisboa”, granted in the third year of the pontificate of Pope Urban VIII (1623-1644), which follows the rule of Saint Clare. Manuscript consisting of 20 leaves of parchmentt, carefully ruled and calligraphed in round roman, with imposition of 31 lines per page. Features the following decoration: on the front of the first sheet, a large illuminated initial O (112x103 mm), representing the Virgin and Child, the page framed by four vegetal strips, in trompe-l'oeil, the lower one containing two medallions with the images of Saint Francis and Saint Clare; the remaining 19 leaves include a large card at the end of the introductory text (f. 4r.), 22 initials illuminated in blue, red and gold, 17 with three lines and five with two, and six initials calligraphed in red. The rule itself is developed into 23 chapters, which exhaustively regulate the life of the nuns, highlighting the following epigraphs: The rule itself is developed into 23 chapters, which exhaustively regulate the life of the nuns, highlighting the following epigraphs: Que as freiras morem continuamente encerradas em o mosteiro; Do habito das freiras; Em que maneira hão de estar as freiras em o dormitorio; Do silencio; Da maneira de falar; Do jejum & abstinencia das freiras; Da freiras enfermas; Do torno & da guarda delle; Do locutorio; Da grade & guarda della; Das pessoas que hão de entrar em o mosteiro; Da Abadessa; etc. Exceptionally well preserved document, consisting of two sections, each with five folded sheets, covered in a simple binding with red silk shantung lining; the set is modernly stored (certainly in the workshop of master Império Graça) in an ingenious red shagreen box/case, in the form of a binding, with elaborate gold decoration on the covers and spine.

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MEJIA, Fernando de.- ¶ Libro intitulado nobiliario perfeta | mente recopylado y ordenado por el on | rrado cauallero Feranto Mexia veyn- | te quatro de Jahen &c.- Seuilla: Pedro Brun [& ] Juã Gentil, [1492].- [96] f.: il.; 28 cm.- E.
Original incunabular edition of the first treaty on nobility and heraldry printed in the Iberian Peninsula, simultaneously the first illustrated book printed in Spain and the first book to include the names of printers Pedro Brun and Juan Gentil. The work, written between 1477 and 1485 by Fernando de Mexia (1424-ca. 1500), is part of the treatise tradition inspired by the works of Bartolo de Sassoferrato and Honoré Bonet, both from the 14th century, translated into Castile by Diego de Valera, in the following century. The “Nobiliário vero”, as it is better known, is divided into three parts and a prologue with the dedication to Fernando II of Aragon, the Catholic. The first part is a universal history from Adam and Eve, for the purpose of explaining the origins of the nobility; a dissertation on the foundations of the work of Bartolo de Sassoferrato follows; the third part is a treatise on heraldry, containing definitions of arms, insignia, coats of arms, flags, metals, and colours, which are distinctives of the nobility. At the end, it includes the following colophon: Acabouse la presente obra sabado xxx. de junio. año dela incarnacion: de mil y. ccc. xcij. años. En la muy noble y lleal çibdad d[e] seuilla impressa por llos onrrados varones maestros. Pedro brun. Juã gentil. fiel y verdaderamente corregida &c. Fully printed edition in two columns (three on the table) in Gothic characters, with sheets 5 and 7 composed on the front in black and red. The 93v sheets. to 95 v. include 64 small heraldic-themed xilographies depicting weapons, weapon quotas, insignia, banners, etc. Treated copy (washed and re-glued), slightly cropped, with the prejudice of occasional marginal notes from the period, which appear a little faded; it preserves, however, good margins. Fresh, fully binding of stiff parchment. Palau, 167245. Goff, M531. Haebler (Bibliography), 411. Maria Valentina Mendes (Os incunábulos das bibliotecas portuguesas), 1226. The only existing copy in Portugal (BNP, Inc. 173) is incomplete, with two leaves missing (g1 and g8).

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LIMIERS, Henri Philippe de.- Annales de la Monarchie Françoise, depuis son etablissement jusques à présent, ou l’on trouve l’origine de cette puissante Monarchie au delà du Rhin, son etablissement dans les Gaules, ses progrés, ses révolutions, sa décadence, son renouvellement, ses alliances, ses guerres, ses conquêtes, sa splendeur sous les rois de la seconde & de la troisiéme race, son agrandissement, ses richesses, sa puissance, son etenduë sous les derniers régnes...- A Amsterdam: Chez l’Honoré & Châtelain, 1724.- 3 partes em 1 vol.: il.; 45 cm.- E.
Large-scale edition of a work divided into three parts with independent title pages and pagination. The first “contentant les evènemens les plus remarquables arrivez sous les trois races”; the second “contenant la succession genealogique des Maisons Royales de France & de Lorraina...”; the third “contentant les medailles authentiquesqui on été frappées, sous les trois races...”. The collation of the three parts is as follows: premiere partie - [10], 335, [1 br.] p.: 1 engraved title; seconde partie - [2], 290, [25, 1 br.] p.: 7 unfolding engravings; troisieme partie - [1], 127, [1 br.] p.: il. The edition is illustrated with an allegorical title, copperplate engraved, seven folding family trees, in the second part, and 63 full-page illustrations, representing medals, engraved with the text, in the third part. Copy with some foxing, keeping generous margins and all engravings well folded. Heraldic ex-libris by René de Galard-Brassac Béarn. Contemporary binding, full sheepskin with signs of use, keeping the original marbled paper endpapers. Roll on the squares and gilt edges.

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PLUMIER, Pe. Charles, O.M.- L’art de tourner ou de faire en perfection toutes sortes d’ouvrages au tour dans lequel, outre les principes & les élemens du tour qu’on y enseigne méthodiquement pour tourner tant le bois & l’ivoire, que le fer et les autres métaux...- Novelle edition, corrigée & augmentée.- A Paris: Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1749.- xxvij, [1], 244 p.: 1 portada grav., LXXIX (i. é, 80) gravuras; 40 cm.- E.
Second edition, the first being published in 1701, also in Paris, but containing only 71 engravings. Father Plumier (1646-1704), a minor religious born in Marseilles, distinguished himself above all as a botanist and naturalist traveller, being considered a specialist in the flora of the Antilles and fish in Martinique. Copy lightly handled, with slight tidal stain on the outer margin of about 30 leaves; small wormholeds (repaired) in the upper margin of pages 121 to 180 and in engravings XV to XLIV. Free LXV engraving, with a rectangle of paper glued to the centre, covering the inscription of period. Manuscript ownership to the lower margin of the title page: Fr. Antonio José Carneiro de Villafanha (18th/19th century). Contemporary binding, made fully from sheepskin, a little worn, retaining two pairs of original endpapers on marbled paper. Brunet, IV, col. 729. Graesse, V, p. 353.

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DU HALDE, Pe. Jean-Baptiste, S.J.- Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l’Empire de la Chine...- A Paris: Chez P. G. Lemercier, 1735-1736.- 4 vols.: il.; 42 cm.- E.
Father Du Halde (1674-1743), French Jesuit historian, although he never traveled to the East, had access to numerous letters and reports from Jesuit missionaries of the China Mission, from which he produced his masterpiece which he came to have enormous repercussions in Europe, contributing in a lasting way to the construction of the image that Europeans now have of China and the Chinese. The work addresses a large number of subjects, namely geography, topography, medicine, Confucian religion, porcelain, traditions, agriculture and silk culture, etc. The numerous maps, of great technical rigour, are made by the French cartographer Jean Bourguignon d'Anville and were mostly engraved by Parmentier. Original edition, consisting of four folio volumes, with the following description. Tome premier: [4], VIII, LII, III, [1], 592 p.: 16 foldable maps (alias 15, lacking the map of the second province of Kiang Nan, p. 126), VII prints of 1 p.; Tome second: [4], IV, 725, [1] p.: 10 prints (7 foldable, 2 double, 1 of 1 p.); Tome troisième: [4], IV, 364, [3, 1 br.] p.: 2 plans, 3 prints (alias 2, lacking the foldable print between pages 78 and 79, representing the Jesuit priests Matteo Ricci, Adam Scholl, Ferdinand Verbiest and Paul Siu Colao;Tome quatrième: [4], II, 520 p.: 25 maps (13 double and 12 foldable). The four volumes are very worn and have serious imperfections, namely: generalized wormholes, mostly marginal, sometimes deep, occasionally affecting the text; the engravings are generally clean and the vast majority have no cuts, but some are affected by wormholes, especially marginal ones (a torn and loose map); lack of a map (in tome I) and a stamp (in tome III). In volume III, however, it preserves the appreciated double print that represents the astronomical observatory in Beijing (loose, with marginal wormholes). Brunet, II, 870. Sommervogel, IV, 35. Cordier (Sinica), I, p. 45/48. Cox (Travel), I, p. 355.

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RESENDE, André de.- Libri Quatuor | DE ANTIQVITATIBVS LVSITANIÆ | à Lucio Andrea Resendio olim inchoati, & | à Iacobo Menœtio Mascancello | recogniti, atqœ absoluti. | Accessit liber quintus de antiquitate minicipij Eborensis, ab codem | Vasconcello conscriptus, quo etiam autore, secundus | tomus quique atios libros continens, cito, | deo opt max. fauente, | in lucem prodibit. | Permittente regia maiestate, & supremo sacro sanctæ | inquisitionis senatu, cum privilegio | ad decennium.- Eboræ: Excudebat Martinus Burgensis, 1593.- [35], 259 (aliás 261), [1 br.], 46 (aliás 45), [21] p.: il.; 29 cm.- E.
One of the most sought after works by the author, a pioneer in the field of archeology in Portugal. Includes numerous illustrations depicting epigraphic inscriptions. Since the pagination is a little confusing, strict copy collation follows: first section (from the title page) with four folios (signature +); second section (signature A) with eight folios (begins with a dedication by Diogo Mendes de Vasconcelos to Philip II); third section with eight folios (signature B), in which the text of the work begins (folio B6 v.), curiously on the left page (Fol. 1 to Fol. 259, with the verso in white); 15 sections with 8 folios follow: signatures C to R (verso of R8 in white); 4 sections with two folios signed +, ++, +++ and ++++ (verso of ++++2 blank); three sections (signatures A, B and C) with eight folios, paged from 1 to 46 (in fact 45, due to an error in the last numbered page), erratum (C7 v.) and two more blank pages; finally, the section that integrates the index (signature §) and is composed of 9 folios with the last page blank. Exceptionally clean copy with good margins. Ex-libris of António Cupertino de Miranda. Nineteenth-century binding, made fully from painted sheepskin, with a smooth spine, decorated in gold. BN (16th century), 791. Samodães, 2761. Library of King Manuel II, 469.

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PINTO, Fernão Mendes.- PEREGRINAÇAM | DE | FERNAM MENDEZ | PINTO, E POR ELLE ESCRITA: | QVE CONSTA DE MVITAS, E MVITO | estranhas cousas que vio, & ouvio no Reyno da | China, no de Tartaria, no de Pegú, no de Mar- | tavão, & em outros muitos Reynos, & senho- | rios das partes Orientais, de que nestas nos- | sas do Occidente ha muyto pouca, ou ne- | nhüa noticia.- Em Lisboa: Na Officina de Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, 1678.- [4], 145 [i. é 445] p.; 29 cm.- E.
Second Portuguese edition of the famous travel book, rarer than the first, with considerably fewer copies being known. Fernão Mendes Pinto (1510/14-1583), famous traveler and adventurer, born in Montemor-o-Velho, left for India in 1537, having stayed in the East for about 21 years. The “Peregrinação”, a fantastic account of his troubled adventures, was originally published on the initiative of Fr. Belchior Faria, 31 years after his death, from the original manuscript bequeathed by the author to Casa Pia dos Penitentes. Cropped, stained and handled copy (paper a little fragile), with some foxing and restorations, mostly marginal, but affecting the text in sections Y, Z and AA, in a total of 10 sheets; last sheet (from the Index), with blank verso, facsimile on old paper; occasional ink stains. Stamp of Quinta das Lágrimas on the title page and 17. Interesting contemporary binding, made fully of sheepskin, recovered, with blind decoration on the covers, with new endpapers and a protective case. Edition not mentioned in the main consulted catalogues, namely, Samodães, Ameal, Palha, Ávila Perez, etc. Inocêncio, II, p. 288. Leite de Faria, 2 (with detailed description). Reiss & Auvermann (Auction 40), 644. Arouca, P 183.

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PESSOA, Fernando.- Mensagem.- Lisboa: Parceria António Maria Pereira, 1934.- 100, [2] p.; 18 cm.- E.
Original edition of an emblematic work of 20th century Portuguese literature. The only book published by the author (1888-1935), a year before his death. Copy very clean, keeping the booklet covers with flaps. Upper cover with circular stamp (Biblioteca Mattos Nº ___ ) slightly faded and minor restoration on the upper margin. Full red shagreen binding, with gold ornamental borders and engraving on the upper cover; moister stain on the back cover, without affecting the body of the book.

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MANUSCRITOS.- VILLA URRUTIA, D. Wenceslau Ramirez, Marquês de.- Correspndência diplomática e particular.- Séculos XIX e XX (1893 a 1933).- Cerca de 200 documentos.
Wenceslau Ramirez de Villa Urrutia, Spanish historian, diplomat and politician, born in La Habana (Cuba). An outstanding personality in Spanish political and cultural life, he was minister plenipotentiary in Constantinople, Athens Brussels, ambassador in Vienna, London, Rome and Paris; life senator and minister of state (Alfonso XII, 1905); member of the Royal Academy of History; awarded in 1913 with the title of Marquis de Villa Urrutia. Sets of approximately 200 documents, including 164 autograph and typewritten letters, addressed to D. Wenceslau, dealing with diplomatic and state affairs, some of which are equally private and reserved. We highlight the documents emanating from the following institutions and personalities: 1 - El Presidente del Consejo de Ministers (19 letters); 2 - El Ministro y Subsecretario of State (32); 3 - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lisbon (7); 4 - Private Secretariat of H.M., Madrid (8); 5 - Senate (4); 6 - Embajada de España cerca de la Santa Sede (6); 7- Deputados à Corte (6); 8 - El Ministro de Gracia y Justicia (6), etc. Other institutions represented: Embajada de España en Italia, Brasil e Paris (on the visit of the King of Spain to France in 1905); Legación de España en Washington, San Salvador, Constantinople, Hendaya, etc. The set also includes numerous private letters, sometimes difficult to identify, sent from various hotels in Europe, telegrams and some drafts. We also highlight: a set of 16 documents referring to the knighthood of the Order of Isabel the Catholic, attributed to the Portuguese António de Oliveira Calem; three letters on the fishing agreement in the River Minho (1898); etc., etc. Set of undeniable interest for the diplomatic history of Spain, especially for the period corresponding to the first third of the 20th century, placed inside two iron-locked covers with micas, with most of the documents identified and organized by entities and personalities.

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ARTIGOS DAS | sisas nouamente emen | dados per mandado Delrei nosso | senhor. | [gravura xilográfica com as armas do reino] | ¶Foi impresso em a mui nobre & sempre leal cidade de | Lixboa em casa de Manuel Ioam. Anno. M.D.LXVI. [1566].- [2], xxxvij, [1 br.], 7, [1], f.; 26 cm.- E.
Third edition, the first two having been published in 1512 and 1542, both in Lisbon. The sisa, an indirect tax on the transactions of goods, came to represent more than three quarters of the Crown's revenues, namely in the reign of King D. João I. Complete copy, matching exactly with the collection of the copy from the Library of King D. Manuel II, in other words, presenting the “Reportorio dos artigos das sisas” and the errata, at the end, unlike the copy of the BNP, where the same texts are found after the second folio. Autograph signature of Duarte Nunes de Leão in the lower margin of folio xxxvij, after taxes. Title page with small ink stains; old annotations on the verso (blank) of the second folio; small wormhole on the lower margin of the first 12 leaves; excessive cropping (carmine edges), affecting the last line, claim on the last leaf and some current titles. Recent binding, full face with small ink stains; old annotations on the back (blank) of the second folio; small moth cut in the lower margin of the first 12 leaves; excessive trimming (carmine cut), affecting the last line, claim on the last leaf and some current titles. Recent binding, full parchment, with multiple borders and the coat of arms of Portugal, engraved in gold on both covers. Anselmo, 716. BN (16th century), 634. D. Manuel II Library, 394

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SOTTO MAYOR, Frei Luís de, O.P.- CANTICI CANTICORVM | SALOMONIS INTERPRETATIO.- Vlysippone: Apvd Petrvm Crasbeeck, 1599-1601.- 2 vols.: 1 portada gravada; 29 cm.- E.
Fr. Luís de Sotto Mayor (1526-1610), Dominican religious, born in Lisbon, joined the order in 1543 and completed his studies at the University of Leuven, in Flanders; A notable preacher, mastering Latin and Greek, he participated in the third session of the Council of Trent and was cousin professor of Sacred Scripture at the University of Coimbra for over 20 years. His commentaries on King Solomon's “Song of Songs” reveal themselves as a vast repository of classical, humanistic, patristic and rabbinical culture, including quotations from Saint Bernard, Origen, Saint Gregory, Saint Jerome, etc.; among the Greco-Latin classics we find Homer, Plutarch, Euripides, Plato, Aristophanes, Virgil, Juvenal, Horatio, Ovid, Cicero and many others. The work, a large publishing and printing company, was subsidized by the University of Coimbra and took several years to be produced, due to financial difficulties. The edition, published in a single volume, but here bound in two, has the following collation: [6, 2 br.], 64, 1 - 723, [1 br.] p.; 725 to 1319, [1], 152, [3, 1 br.] p.: 1 engraved title. Copy slightly cropped and with some foxing. Allegorical title copperplate engraved, cropped, without prejudice to the image, with two circular stamps with the initials CVPF, which are repeated on the front of the sheet AA1 (p. 725); occasional slight stains. Contemporary bindings, full flexible parchment, keeping the original endpapers, with the four ties missing. Barbosa Machado, III, p. 141/144. Anselmo, 525. Palau, 320535. BN (16th century), 859. D. Manuel II Library, 507. Arouca, S 492.

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MANUSCRITO.- D. MANUEL de Bragança, Rei de Portugal.- English poems: [23 poemas].- Século XX (1916-1917).- 45 f.; 21 cm.- B.
Autograph manuscript. Section, containing about 45 sheets (35 pages used) with 23 autograph poems, by the king's own hand, some dated 1916 and 1917, written during his exile, on the outskirts of London. The poems are written in English (19), French (1) and Portuguese (3). On the first page, dated London 1916-1917, a significant dedication: “To my brother Antonio, Count of Sabugosa, I dedicate this book of essais [sic]. Although they are but a very poor and unskilled attempt at poetry, I know he will not laugh at them nor at the clumsy author. M”. The section, paper lined, has a label from an Oxford typography (Fox, Jones & Co.) on the top cover, with the handwritten indication: “Spoilt specimen copy”, which may indicate that the original was intended to be published. Section in brochure, packed in its own box, in the form of a binding, signed Victor Santos, profusely gold tooled, with multiple borders, with a royal crown in the centre of the upper cover, with the inscription “Manuel II - English poems”. Protective case.

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PINTO, Fernão Mendes.- THE | VOYAGES | AND | ADVENTURES, | OF | Fernand Mendez Pinto, | A Portugal: During his | TRAVELS | for the space of one and twenty years in | The Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchin- | china, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a | great part of the East-Indies. | With a Relation and Description of most of the Places | thereof; their Religion, Laws, Riches, Customs, and | Government in the time of Peace and War. | Where he five times suffered Shipwrack, was sixteen times sold, | and thirteen times made a Slave...- London: Printed by J. Macock, and are to be sold by Henry Herringman, 1663.- [14], 326 (i. é 318) p.; 30 cm.- E.
Second edition in English (the first is from 1653) of the famous travel book by Fernão Mendes Pinto (1510/14-1583), famous traveler and adventurer, born in Montemor-o-Velho. Fernão Mendes left for India in 1537, having stayed in the East for about 21 years. The “Peregrinação”, a fantastic account of his troubled adventures, was originally published on the initiative of Fr. Belchior Faria, 31 years after his death (1614), from the original manuscript bequeathed by the author to Casa Pia dos Penitentes. Paging error from p. 232 (wrongly 240) to the end. Copy lightly handled, with foxing, sometimes strong and other minor stains; third folio bound before second. Title page and last three leaves with the inner margin restored (reconstructed). It is, however, complete and solid. Twentieth-century binding, with double rectangles, blind decorated and with inlays on the covers, and panels gold tooled on the spine (joints slightly worn). Palau, 163209. Leite de Faria, 40-2. D. Manuel II Library, mentions only the 1653 edition (962). Cordier (BJ), 40 and (BI), 113. Reiss & Auvermann (Auction 40), 671 (same copy).

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LEÃO, Duarte Nunes de.- [...] CENSVRÆ IN LIBEL- | LVM DE REGVM PORTVGALIÆ | ORIGINE, QVI FRATRIS IOSEPHI | TEIXERÆ NOMINE CIRCVM- | PERTVR. | Item de vera Regum Portugaliæ Ge- | nealogia liber. | AD SERENISSIMVM PRINCIPEM ALBERTVM | ARCHIDVCEM AVSTRIÆ, S.R.E. | CARDINALEM.- Olisipone: Ex officina Antonij Riparij Tipographi Regij. Anno MDLXXXV [1585].- [4], 64 f.; 23 cm. Junto com; -----.- [...] DE VERA REGVM | PORTVGALLIÆ GENEALO- | GIA LIBER. | AD SERENISSIMVM PRINCIPEM ALBERTVM | ARCHIDVCEM AVSTRIÆ, S.R.E. | CARDINALEM.- Oisipone, Anno MDLXXXV.- 50 f.; 23 cm.- E.
First edition of a controversial work, published in response to the positions taken by the Dominican Fr. José Teixeira, supporter of D. António, Prior do Crato, who he followed until the end of his life, in exile in France, where he enjoyed the admiration and favour of Henry II and Catherine de Medicis. The last 49 pages include, with its own title page, but constituting a single typographic unit, the original edition of the “True genealogy of the kings of Portugal”, which would be published in vernacular (Castilian) five years later. Both works are dedicated to Archduke Cardinal Alberto of Austria. Copy only cropped at the head, keeping wide margins. Title page with extensive annotation and stain, passing on to the next two pages; about a third of the sheets with old annotations on the margins; two sheets with the upper outer corners burnt, without harming the text; occasional light stains on the upper margin of some leaves; rare minor wormholes. Contemporary binding, full flexible parchment, retaining the original endpapers. Regarding this work, we quote Alberto Navarro, Viscount of Trindade (Manuscritos & Livros Valiosos, Telles da Sylva, vol. II, p. 155): “Deste raríssimo livro [...] há exemplares na Nacional, na Torre do Tombo e na Ajuda; em livrarias privadas, parece-me que somente na minha”. Anselmo, 968. Monteverde, 3795. D. Manuel II Library, 241 and 243. BN (16th century), 405.

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