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cabral moncada leilões Q 19
First edition of the first two “Decades of Asia by João de Barros”, from the
presses of the printer Germão Galharde, of French origin, with established
typography in Lisbon between 1519 and 1561.
The edition is entirely composed in Gothic characters Rotunda, beginning with
renaissance xylographic initials, on heavy grammage and large format paper.
The major flaws are:
First tome: three ownership signatures (two with inscriptions) on the cover
page, which presents a spot on outer margin and a strengthening on the back
of the bottom margin; central patch in the lower third of first 13 sheets
(bookworm cut), with careful hand-written reconstitution of the missing text
(ca. 90x10 mm. on the title page, decreasing gradually to the 11th folio to
disappear in the following), two restorations on the back (blank) of last page
(a letter redone in front); inner margins reinforced in folios 89 and 96.
Second tome: title page’s upper left corner redone; minor restoration to folio
30; humidity spots.to the outer margin of the last 20 sheets,
with coarse restorations in the last 7 pages, affecting the text tangentially
and only on the last page.
Across the tome: light trimming mainly above the head, maintaining however
good margins, some lines underlined and rare marginal notes of the period,
one or two bookworm holes that run throughout the volume, at the lower
third center; occasional light spots and minor restorations.
Errors in foliation in Volume II: fol. 49 instead of fol. 53, fol. 73
instead of fol. 75, fol. 97 instead of fol. 100.
The binding is recent, from middle twentieth-century,
full parchment hardcover, with pen manuscript title on the spine.