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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 Fortress of Mazagan, in Morocco (1734-1745). Inocêncio only mentions 24 preliminary pages, but the copy includes an unusual sheet 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 (f. preliminary d) and before the beginning of the text. Two old handwritten belongings on title page. Otherwise, a copy slightly cropped but very clean. Contemporary full sheepskin binding, with new endpapers in marbled paper. Borba de Moraes also only mentions 12 preliminary leaves (Bibliographia brasiliana), I, p. 89: «This first edition is rare and much searched for since it is a classic on Maranhão». Inocencio, I, p. 383. Samodães, 2396. Palha, 4262. Reiss & Auvermann, 1025.

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