PINHEL, Aires.- AD RVB. ET L. 2C. | C. de rescin. vend. |commentarij. | Authore Ario Pinelo Lusitano. | [gravura xilográfica com armas eclesiásticas].- Conimbricæ. Apud Antonium de Maris, mense Octobri, 1558.- [4], 157, [7] f.; 27 cm.- E. Treaty on the rescission of purchase and sale contracts (De rescindenda venditione), written by a notable jurisconsult born in Sesimbra. Aires Pinhel (ca. 1512/1515- ca. 1562) studied in Salamanca and got his doctorate in the city of Mondego, in Caesarian Law, having been appointed by King D. João III of Portugal to teach at this University by charter of 2 September 1539, shortly after the definitive transfer of the University of Lisbon to Coimbra; he was a judge at the Casa da Suplicação and, at the end of his career, a professor at the University of Salamanca, replacing another Portuguese jurist, Manuel da Costa. The engraving of the title page represents the ecclesiastical coat of arms of Cardinal D. Henrique, brother of King D. João III of Portugal and future king of Portugal. A slightly cropped copy, with slight browning and occasional old underlining, but overall clean. Handwritten ownership mark of the period, on the title page: Miguel Osorio Cabral. Recent binding, full sheepskin, with blind decoration on the covers and spine, according to the taste of the period (silk laces). Anselmo, 825. National Library (16th century), 592. King D. Manuel II of Portugal Library does not mention.