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COSTA, Bernardino Camilo Cincinnato da.- O Portugal vinicola: estudos sobre a ampelographia e o valor œnologico das principaes castas de videiras de Portugal = Le Portugal vinicole: recherches sur l'ampélographie et la valeur œnologique des principaux cépages du Portugal.- Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1900.- XLVIII, 483, [3 br.] p.: 2 mapas, LXXXIV estampas; 54 cm.- E. The author (1866-1930), professor, agronomist and veterinarian, was born in Margão (Salcete, Goa); he was a member of parliament, director of Companhia das Lezírias and member of the Academy of Sciences. A monumental work, commissioned and published by the Great Commission of Lisbon, presided over by Ressano Garcia, organizer of the Portuguese representation at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900. Particularly appreciated are the 10 chromolithographs representing bunches of grapes from different national varieties, signed by Roque Gameiro. Clean and unopened copy, with only occasional light browning, keeping all the platers intact, with the respective cellophane separators. Recent green morocco half-binding, with large allusive tools (bunches of grapes) between the sections, preserving the booklets covers, with flaps.