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458. PEREIRA, Bento, S.J. Pallas togata, et armata documentis politicis
in problemata humaniora digestis, & in utroque pacis bellique statu Rempublicam formantibus, varia historicae atque poeticae eruditionis supellectili
ornatur. Évora: Manuel Carvalho, 1636. 4°, contemporary speckled
calf (label missing, rubbed), spine heavily gilt in six compartments
(top compartment defective, hole in another compartment), textblock edges sprinkled red. Title page with typographical border.
Woodcut headpieces, tailpieces, initials and factotum. Marginal
dampstaining, somewhat browned. Slight worming to last 30 leaves,
touching 1-2 letters on many pages. Still, overall in good condition.
Eighteenth-century owners’ signatures on front flyleaf (De Binis da
Costa de [illegible]), title-page (Dr. Costa, D. Manuel Gomes) and
verso of final leaf (Antonio Agostinho de Freitas Henriquez). (4 ll.),
326 [i.e., 328] pp., (12 ll.). $1,800.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this book by a Jesuit author that discusses ethical
and philosophical questions regarding politics, economics, and society. These questions,
treated in the abstract, are similar to precepts one might find in courtesy books of the
day. The volume ends with a 400-line poem on educational reforms by the Jesuits at the
University of Évora.
In the main text, Pereira is concerned with ethical dilemmas. For example: Is it greater
wisdom to laugh about the human condition or to cry about it? Is it better to be subject to
a ruler who was elected, or who inherited his position? Is it good or bad to be ruled by a
woman? Should princes aim to be feared or loved? Which is more powerful, the desire
for honor or for wealth? Where do leaders most shine, in battles on land or on sea?
The final seven leaves contain a 400-verse neo-Latin poem by Pereira that describes
the reforms instituted by the rector of Évora’s College of Arts, P. Antonio de Sousa (d.
1635). The University of Évora was established by Cardinal D. Henrique in 1559, and was
soon put under the control of the Jesuits. In the 1630s, the authority of the Jesuits was
challenged by the rector of the University of Évora. Sousa’s reforms defended the rights
and privileges of the Jesuits against those attacks. According to the Grande enciclopédia,
this poem is a major source on those reforms.
Pereira (1605-1681) was in an excellent position to recognize the importance of
these reforms. He entered the Jesuit order in 1620, studied humanities at Évora and
philosophy at Coimbra, before returning to Évora to work on his doctorate. For twenty
years he taught at Évora. Pereira was one of the most learned Jesuits of his time, and his
major works were much admired. His Latin-Portuguese-Spanish dictionary, Prosodia in
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vocabularum trilingue latinam lusitanum, et castellanum digesta, first published at Évora,
1634, went through many editions. Pallas togata is one of his rarest works.
j Arouca P105. Barbosa Machado I, 508-10. Backer-Sommervogel VI, 509. Coimbra,
Reservados 1849. Avila-Perez 5706: “muito rara.” Monteverde 4027. Not in Innocêncio; cf.
I, 352 and VIII, 376 for other works by this author. Not in Ameal, Azevedo-Samodães, or
Palha. Not in HSA. On Pereira, see Grande enciclopédia XXI, 124-5; on Sousa’s reforms at
Évora, see XXIX, 768-9. Not located in NUC. OCLC: 23049382 (Stanford University, Library
of Congress); 644635689 (ESSAL = Salamanca?); 433592126 (Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid);
249591858 (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin). Porbase locates six copies: one at Biblioteca João
Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa and five in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
(four in poor condition). Copac locates a single copy at British Library.
459. PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus. Aulo Persio Flacco, traduzido en Lengua Castellana, por Diego Lopez, natural de la Villa de Valencia, Orden de
Alcantara, y Preceptor en la Ciudad de Toro. Con declaracion magistral, en
que se declaran todas las historias, fabulas, antiguidades, versos difficultosos, y
moralidad que tiene el poeta. Dirigido al maestro Balthasar de Cespedes, cathedratico de prima de Latinidade, y letras humanas, en la insigne Universidade
de Salamanca. Burgos: por Juan Baptista Varesio, a costa de Geronymo
de Yepes, 1609. 8°, eighteenth-century vellum (some soiling and minor
wear), horizontal manuscript lettering giving author’s name on spine.
Small typographical vignette on title page. Woodcut initials. Front inner
hinge starting. Small piece missing at lower outer blank margin of title
page; even smaller piece missing in same place on following leaf. Small,
rather dark stains in lower margin and lower outer corner of first half
dozen or so leaves; other occasional light damstains, becoming more
pronounced and larger in second half of volume. Light toning. Despite
all these faults, a good, honest copy. (8), 228, (4) ll. $900.00
First Edition in Spanish, including the original Latin text and extensive commentary of
the six Satires of Persius, in which writings by Classical authors, by López, and fragments
of the original Latin are interspersed. The work is alternately literal translation, paraphrase,
critical edition, and commentary. The dedication to Balthasar Céspedes and a “Vida de
Persio” included in this edition were omitted when the work was reprinted together with
the first editon of López’ Declaración of the Satires of Juvenal, Madrid 1642.
j Beardsley 135. Palau 223859. Salvá 872. Heredia 1547. Not in HSA. Not in Ticknor
Catalogue. OCLC: 457583775 (Bibliothèque nationale de France); 494421114 (Université
Toulouse 1 Capitole); 55253526 (Biblioteca Nacional de Chile); 457517860 (Bibliothèque
nationale de France); 863423192 (Oxford University); 433594887(Houghton Library, University of Chicago Library, Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico, Sutro Library, Universidad
de Salamanca, Biblioteca Nacional de España); 46177229 (no locatation given). CCPBE
locates 20 copies (several incomplete or otherwise in poor condition). Rebiun repeats
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copies at Universitat de Valencia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad
de Oviedo, and Universidad de Salamanca, adding Biblioteca OCD de Andalucía, and
Universidad de Córdoba. Copac repeats Oxford University only.
460. PESSANHA, Camilo. Clépsidra. Poemas. Lisbon: Ática, 1945.
Colecção “Poesia.” 8°, original illustrated wrappers. Very good condition. 128 pp., (1 l.). $100.00
Second edition of the first and only volume of poetry by this noted Portuguese
symbolist; it was originally published in 1920. This edition contains 7 poems not printed
in the first, as well as a preface by João de Castro Osório explaining the difficulty of
gathering Pessanha’s work. Saraiva and Lopes (p. 977) describe Pessanha’s work as “o
melhor conjunto de poemas simbolistas portugueses, que exerceram profunda influencia
na geração de Orpheu.” Pessanha aimed to avoid any sentimental expression, and to
achieve simplicity, precision and an “equilibrio fonético” (ibid., p. 978).
Pessanha (1867-1926) helped found the Portuguese symbolist movement while
studying at Coimbra University, where he and several friends (Eugénio de Castro, António
Nobre, Alberto de Oliveira and Alberto Osório de Castro) published Os Insubmissos and
Boémia Nova. Pessanha seems to have been indifferent to whether his own works were
published, and only a few of his poems appeared in the 1880s and 1890s, scattered in
various periodicals. In 1894 he left for Macau, where he spent most of the rest of his life.
On a trip to Lisbon in 1916, he dictated many of his works (which he knew by heart, and
rarely wrote down), some of which appeared in the review Centauro. Clepsydra appeared
4 years later, from the press of his cousin Ana de Castro Osório.
j Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th edition, 2001) pp. 977-9,
987, 998-9, 1053. João Gaspar Simões, “Camilo Pessanha,” Encyclopedia Britannica (1972)
XVII, 725. NUC: DLC, FU, MoU, NN.
*461. PESSANHA, Camilo. Clepsidra e outros poemas. Introdução criticobibliográfica por João de Castro Osório. Lisbon: Ática, (1969). 8°, original
illustrated wrappers (minor soiling and a small fold mark in lower
outer corner of front wrapper). Some passages marked in pencil in
outer margins. In good condition. Former owner’s signature and date
of 1969 in ink in upper inner corner of front free endleaf. 551 pp., (1 l.).
ISBN: none. $75.00
Third edition. Aside from the poems in the second edition, this volume contains
about 40 pages of poems that did not appear earlier, plus interesting introductory essays
(pp. 13-155), and a lengthy supplementary essay by João de Castro Osório (pp. 331-465),
as well as many notes and variant readings.
Pessanha (1867-1926) helped found the Portuguese symbolist movement while
studying at Coimbra University, where he and several friends (Eugénio de Castro, António
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Nobre, Alberto de Oliveira and Alberto Osório de Castro) published Os Insubmissos and
Boémia Nova. Pessanha seems to have been indifferent about whether his own works
were published, and only a few of his poems appeared in the 1880’s and 1890’s, scattered
in periodicals. In 1894 he left for Macau, where he spent most of the rest of his life. On
a trip back to Lisbon in 1916, he dictated many of his works (which he knew by heart,
and rarely wrote down), some of which appeared in the review Centauro. Clepsydra
appeared 4 years later, from the press of his cousin Ana de Castro Osório. A second edition appeared in 1945.
*462. PESSANHA, Camilo. Clepsidra. Aveiro: Estante, 1990. 8°, original
illustrated wrappers As new. 91 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: none. $10.00
*463. PESSANHA, Camilo. Clepsidra e poemas dispersos. Introdução
biográfica e crítica, organização e notas de António Quadros. Mem Martins:
Europa-América, 1999. Obras de Camilo Pessanha, I. Livros de Bolso
Europa-América, 502. Sm. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new.
174 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972–900–432–4. $20.00
Second edition thus.
*464. PESSANHA, Camilo. Sonetos. Mem Martins: Europa-América,
1996. Mini–Biblioteca. 16°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 27
pp., (1 l.) ISBN: 972-1-04192-0. $15.00
*465. PESSOA, Fernando. Ficções do interlúdio, 1914–1935. Fernando
Cabral Martins, ed. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 1998. Obras de Fernando
Pessoa, 5. 8°, publisher’s boards with dustjacket. As new. 276 pp., (1 l.
adv., 1 l.). ISBN: 972–37–0474–9. $38.00
Includes all Portuguese poetry by Pessoa published during his lifetime. It is organized
in four sections, in chronological order: poetry published under his own name, beginning
in 1914; Campos, beginning 1915; Reis, beginning 1924; and Caeiro, beginning 1925.
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*466. PESSOA, Fernando. “Inscriptions” (Inscrições) de … (Texto original,
tradução e notas). Gualter Póvoas, trans. Com uma introdução por Francisco
Peixoto Bourbon. Odivelas: Europress, 1992. Europavizinha Poesia, 10.
Tall 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 95 pp., (1 l.), illustrated.
ISBN: 972-559-146-1. $18.00
The introduction occupies pp. 13-43, the notes pp. 77-91.
*467. PESSOA, Fernando. Mensagem. Fernando Cabral Martins, ed.
Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 1997. Obras de Fernando Pessoa, Poesia 1. 8°,
original illustrated wrappers. As new. 116 pp. ISBN: 972–37–0436–6.
$20.00
*468. PESSOA, Fernando. Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa. / [Title in
Chinese]. Tradução de Jin Guo Ping. Introduction by António Manuel
Couto Viana. Translation of the introduction by Wang Wei. Macau:
Instituto Cultural, 1986. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 133
pp. Text in Portuguese and Chinese. ISBN: none. $50.00
First Edition in Chinese? First Macau Edition? First edition printed in China?
*469. PESSOA, Fernando. Poemas de Fernando Pessoa: Quadras. Luís
Prista, ed. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1997. Edição Crítica de Fernando
Pessoa, Série Maior, volume I, tomo 1 [sic?; another volume I, tomo 1
was listed as being in the press]. Large 8°, original printed. wrappers.
with dustjacket. As new. 378 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.). ISBN: 972–27–0848–1.
$40.00
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*470. [PESSOA, Fernando]. Álvaro de Campos, heteronym. Livro de
versos. Edição crítica: introdução, transcrição, organização e notas de Teresa
Rita Lopes. Lisbon: Estampa, 1993. Referência, 3. 8°, published illustrated
boards. As new. 436 pp. ISBN: 972-33-0892-4. $65.00
The introductions, which occupy pp. 15–64, consitute a substantial contribution to
the literature of Pessoa criticism and methodology.
*471. [PESSOA, Fernando]. Álvaro de Campos, heteronym. A passagem das horas. Cleonice Berardinelli, ed. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional,
1988. Edição Crítica da Obra de Fernando Pessoa, volume zero. Large
8°, original printed wrappers. As new. xiii, 47 pp. ISBN: none. $25.00
Includes a “Nota prévia” by the series editor, Ivo Castro, on this work, as well as on
the projected critical edition of Pessoa’s work in general. The title of the series was later
simplified to “Edição Crítica de Fernando Pessoa,” and Luiz Fagundes Duarte became
series co-editor ca. 1995-1996.
*472. [PESSOA, Fernando]. Álvaro de Campos, heteronym. Vida e
obras do engenheiro. Introdução, organização, transcrição e notas de Teresa
Rita Lopes. 2nd edition, revised. Lisbon: Estampa, 1990. Colecção
Ficções, 16. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 151 pp., (1 l.).
ISBN: 972-33-0767-7. $19.00
Contains 63 previously unpublished pieces.
*473. [PESSOA, Fernando]. Ricardo Reis, heteronym. Poemas de Ricardo
Reis. Luiz Fagundes Duarte, ed. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1994.
Edição Crítica de Fernando Pessoa, Série Maior, volume III. Large 8°,
original printed wrappers with dustjacket. As new. 481 pp., (1 blank, 1,
2 blank ll.), illustrations in text, 8 pp. plates (facsimiles of manuscripts
and corrected typescripts). ISBN: 972–27–0657–8. $85.00
Out-of-print.
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*474. PESSOA, Fernando, Ruy Cinatti, Natália Correia, et al. Odes
marítimas. / Odes maritimes. Júlio Pomar, illustrator. Lisbon: Assírio &
Alvim / Michel Chandeigne / Casa Fernando Pessoa, 1998. Large
oblong 8°, publisher’s cloth with dustjacket. As new. 136 pp., (3 ll.), 16
full–page color illustrations in text. ISBN: 972-37-0446-3. $60.00
Other poets represented are Vitorino Nemésio, Mário Cesariny, Nuno Júdice, and
Al Berto. Texts in Portuguese and French.
*475. PIMENTA, Alberto. Metamorfoses do video. Compiled by Filipe Liz
and António Pocinho. Lisbon: João Ribeiro, 1986. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. [132 pp.], illustrated. ISBN: none.
$50.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this anthology, including a significant number of
previously unpublished poems.
Born in Porto in 1937, the poet, essayist, performer, and university professor Alberto
Pimenta has collaborated in various German, Italian, and Portuguese literary reviews.
He has been an important vanguard figure in Portuguese literature. Saraiva and Lopes
(p. 1086) refer to Albert Pimenta as “um dos mais originais e extravagantes poetas que
se revelaram nos anos de 70.”
j See Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th edition, 2001), pp.
1086, 1138; Álvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 380; Maria
Irene Ramalho in Biblos, IV, 144-8; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 4512. OCLC: 15654098 (19 locations). Porbase locates three copies: one in the Biblioteca
Pública Regional da Madeira, and two in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Copac
locates three copies: Birmingham University, British Library, and Senate House LibrariesUniversity of London.
476. PINTO, Alfredo de Moraes (Pan-Tarantula). Do outro lado:
cançoneta. Illustrações de Raphael Bordallo-Pinheiro. Lisbon: Livraria
Editora de Tavares Cardoso & Irmão, 1885. 8°, original illustrated
wrappers (light spotting). In very good condition. 16 pp., 14 halfpage illustrations in text. $200.00
FIRST EDITION. Comic verse accompanied by the caricatures of Rafael Bordalo
Pinheiro (14 in the text, and 2 on the covers).
j Innocêncio XXII, 55: gving publication date as 1889. NUC: NN. OCLC: This first
edition not located; cf. 16719092 for a 1984 reprint (New York Public Library, Harvard
College Library, Library of Congress, Indiana University, University of California-Los
Angeles, British Library). Porbase locates a single copy: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. This first edition not located in Copac, which cites the 1984 edition at
British Library only.
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477. PINTO, Américo Cortês [or Cortez, or Cortos]. Senhora da Renuncia,
seguido do Barba-Azul, poema de fetiçarias medievais. Lisbon: Livraria Ferin,
1918. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (minor soiling; spine defective at
foot, with ca. 2.5 cm. missing; slightly defective at head, and with split
to front joint of ca. 2.5 cm. at head). Overall in good condition. Uncut.
Internally very good to fine. Bookplate of João Lopes Holtreman. (1
blank l.), 91 pp., (4 ll., 1 blank l.). $500.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION—one of 2 special copies printed on “papel Whatmann”,
as stated in ink manuscript on the verso of the title page, and signed by the publisher.
This is the author’s second book of poems.
Américo Cortez Pinto [or Cortês Pinto] (1896–1979), physician, writer, poet and historian, native of the freguesia de Cortes in the concelho de Leira. He studied at Coimbra,
interned at Leira, served as a parliamentary deputy, a member of the Lisbon municipal
council, and inspector of health studies, among other posts. He was a contributor to
literary reviews such as A Tradição, Contemporânea, A Galera, Letras e Artes, and Ícaro, of
which he was one of the founders (along with Ernesto Gonçalves, Cabral do Nascimento,
and Luís Vieira de Castro). In addition to a considerable output of poetry, prose, literary
and historical works, he is best known for the polemical Da famosa arte da imprimissão: da
imprensa em Portugal às cruzadas d’Além-Mar (1948), in which he defended the priority of
Leiria in Portuguese Christian typography. While Chaves currently is agreed to have been
the earliest Portuguese Christian printing site, Cortez Pinto’s investigations and conclusions regarding the diffusion of printing in Africa and Asia by the Portuguese remain
valuable. He was a friend of Hernâni Cidade, Afonso Lopes Vieira, Carlos Queiroz, Lino
António, António José Saraiva, Sebastião Pestana, and Mário Saa.
The front cover was designed by Luiz Fernandes.
j See Paulo J. Pedrosa S. Gomes in Biblos, IV, 179-80; also Dicionário cronológico de
autores portugueses, III, 501-3; Grande enciclopédia, VII, 818; Actualização III, 498. OCLC:
36209816 (New York Public Library, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Universiteit van
Amsterdam-Centrale Bibliotheek); 253306126 (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Preussischer
Kulturbesitz). Porbase locates two copies, one in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, the
other at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. Not located in Copac.
*478. PINTO, Eduardo Bettencourt. A deusa da chuva. (Angra do
Heroísmo; printed in Ponta Delgada): SREC / DRAC, 1991. Colecção
Gaivota, 72. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 82 pp., (1 l.).
ISBN: 972-647-024-2. $18.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION, Eduardo Bettencourt Pinto was born in Gabela, Angola,
in 1954. He lived in Ponta Delgada, Açores, his mother’s birthplace, for seven years until
emigrating to Canada in 1983. In addition to the present award-winning volume of poetry,
he wrote another book of poems, Emoção (1978), as well as a volume of short stories,
Sombra duma rosa (1998), and the “romance” A casa da rugas (2004), about the waning of
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Portuguese colonial rule in Angola. In 2008 he published in Canada a bilingual collection
of poems, Traveling with Shadows.
j OCLC: 31080389 (Rhode Island College, Library of Congress, University of Arizona Libraries, California State University-Stanislaus, British Library). Porbase locates
a single copy, in the Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Copac
repeats British Library only.
479. PINTO, José Correia de Mello e Britto de Alvim. Joanneida, ou
a liberdade de Portugal defendida pelo Senhor Rey D. João I. Poema epico.
Coimbra: Universidade, 1782. 8°, recent antique calf, double gilt fillet
border on each cover, spine with raised bands in 5 compartments, crimson morocco lettering piece in second compartment from head, other
compartments gilt. Woodcut initials and headpieces. Light spotting
to first few leaves, very minor marginal worming to first and last few
leaves, otherwise crisp and clean. Uncut and partly unopened. Overall
in fine condition. xvi, 445, (1) pp. $500.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION, rare, of Pinto’s only published poetical work. Written
in 10 cantos, this ambitious epic poem is a Christian allegory in the style of Voltaire’s
Henriade. The Joanneida chronicles Portuguese history from the earliest times to the
acclamation of D. João I in 1385, concluding with the Portuguese victory over Castilian
forces at Aljubarrota which secured the Portuguese throne for D. João and ushered in
a new royal dynasty.
Pinto was born into a noble family in Coimbra, educated at its university and, after
attempting a military career, retired to his quinta outside Coimbra. He published several
short works in his capacity as a member of the Academia Liturgica de Coimbra, and was
a corresponding member of the Academia Real das Sciencias, Lisbon, until his expulsion
for unknown reasons in 1798.
j Innocêncio IV, 297: noting the work’s great rarity because few copies were
sold. Biblioteca Central da Marinha, Catálogo das obras impressas no séc. XVIII, II, 82.
Monteverde 1843. Not in Ameal, Azevedo-Samodães, Avila-Perez or Palha. NUC: DLC,
PU, MH. OCLC: 7497607 (Library of Congress, Cleveland Public Library, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tulane University); 17382415 (University of Pennsylvania
Libraries, Harvard College Library, Houghton Library, Thomas Fisher Rare Book LibraryUniversity of Toronto, Newberry Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University
of New Mexico, Brigham Young University, British Library, Oxford University, Radboud
Universiteit Nijmegen, Université de Poitiers, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Preußischer
Kulturbesitz-Bibliothek). Porbase locates seven copies: one in the Biblioteca Central da
Marinha, and six in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Copac repeats British Library
and Oxford University.
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*480. PIRES, Carlos Lopes. A poeira dos dias. Lisbon: Editorial
Notícias, 1996. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 77 pp.
ISBN: 972–46–0775–5. $18.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author has published over 20 literary works,
including a number of volumes of poetry, as well as several works of fiction. He was
born in 1956 at Quadrazais, a hamlet near the Serra de Malcata, by the side of the river
Côa. With a doctorate in psychology from Coimbra University, he has lectured on that
subject there, and has published a number of technical works.
j OCLC: 39057806 (Yale University Library, University of Kansas, University of
New Mexico, University of Arizona, University of Southern California, British Library,
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky). Porbase locates three
copies: Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and
Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. Copac repeats British Library only.
*481. PIRES, Daniel, Fernando Marcos, and Quaresma Rosa, eds.
Setúbal: terra de poetas e cantadores. Setúbal: Centro de Estudos Bocageanos, 2001. Centro de Estudos Bocageanos, 1. 8°, original illustrated
wrappers. As new. 140 pp., 8 ll. plates, printed on both sides, some
illustrations in color. ISBN: 972-98682-0-4. $18.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this anthology of Setúbal poets.
j OCLC: 798213459 (Yale University Library). Porbase locates three copies: Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and Biblioteca Geral
da Universidade de Coimbra. Not located in Copac.
*482. PIRES, Diogo. Antologia poética. Introdução, tradução, comentário e notas de Carlos Ascenso André. Coimbra: Instituto Nacional de
Investigação Científica / Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos
da Universidade de Coimbra, 1983. Textos Humanísticos Portugueses,
1. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 128 pp., (1 l.). One of 1,000
copies. ISBN: none. $45.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this anthology of the sixteenth-century Portuguese
Jewish poet Diogo Pires (Évora, 1517-Ragusa, 1599), one of the most notable Portuguese
humanists, who lived a good part of his life in Ragusa, is enriched by extensive and
interesting notes as well as significant introductory material.
j See Carlos Ascenso André in Biblos, IV, 208-10.
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*483. POPE, Alexander. Ensaios moraes de Alexandre Pope em quatro
epistolas a diversas pessoas traduzidos em portuguez pelo Conde de Aguiar,
com as notas de José Warton, e do traductor. Rio de Janeiro: na Impressão
Regia, 1811. 4°, recent crimson morocco, spine richly gilt with raised
bands in five compartments, gilt letter, covers with gilt borders, decorated endleaves, top edge rouged. Nicely printed on special thick paper.
Repairs to inner margins throughout. Light waterstains. In good condition. (1 l.), vii, ix, [2]-203 pp., (1 p. errata). First two leaves from second
quire bound incorrectly, immediately following the title page, but the
book is complete. $500.00
First edition in Portuguese of Pope’s Essay on Man, “uma das mais belas impressões
feitas no período; além do uso de papel especial, mais encorpado, vale observar a nitidez e a correção com que se apresenta o texto—a errata menciona apenas três falhas”
(Almeida Camargo & Borba de Moraes). The English and Portuguese texts appear on
facing pages, with substantial notes at the foot. The title page was engraved by Romão
Eloy de Almeida, and is very similar to the title page of Pope’s Ensaio sobre a critica, Rio
de Janeiro, 1810.
j Valle Cabral 205: calling for vii, ix, 203 pp. and 1 unnumbered page; “impr. nitida.”
Almeida Camargo & Borba de Moraes, Bibliografia da Impressão Régia do Rio de Janeiro I,
no. 225. JCB Portuguese and Brazilian Books 811/80. Not in Rodrigues. NUC: CtY, DCU-IA,
NNC, MH. OCLC: 83151851 (Columbia University, University of California-Los Angeles,
Yale University, Oliveira Lima Library-Catholic University of America, Newberry Library,
Houghton Library, John Carter Brown Library, University of Virginia, Universidade de
São Paulo, Oxford University). Porbase locates a single copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional
de Portugal. Copac repeats Oxford University, and adds British Library.
*484. PORTELA, Manuel. Rimas fodidas e outros textos escolares. Coimbra:
Fora do Texto, 1994. Colecção Poesia / Nosso Tempo, 57. 8°, original
illustrated wrappers. As new. 53 pp., (4 ll.). ISBN: none. $18.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author produced an interesting, ambitious study
(a revised version of his doctoral dissertation), O comércio da literatura: mercado & representação, ensaio (2003), concentrating on the commerce of literature in England and
Great Britain from late seventeeth to mid-eighteenth century, with some references to
developments up to the year 2000.
j OCLC: 30755737 (New York Public Library, Brown University). Porbase locates
four copies: Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto, Biblioteca Pública Regional da Madeira,
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. .
Not located in Copac.
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485. PORTELLA, Manuel Maria. Versos e lendas do Brazil. Rio de
Janeiro: Edictores Fernandes, Ribeiro & C., 1884. 8°, original yellow
printed wrappers (chipped at spine and fore-edge). Slight soiling. A
few manuscript corrections. Overall in good to very good condition.
Small rubber stamp (“Portella Junior”) on divisional title. 187, (1) pp.,
manuscript errata leaf tipped in after p. 184; pp. 71-72 cancelled
$150.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Includes poems about Camões, Bocage, and D. Pedro
V. The title on the front wrapper is Lyrica e lendas do Brazil.
The author (1833-1906), a native of Setubal, was a poet and journalist. He was a
friend of Castilho and at Castilho’s instigation was instrumental in the construction of
a monument to Bocage in his native city.
j Innocêncio, Aditamentos, p. 304 (without place, date, publisher, format or collation; giving the title Lendas liricas do Brazil); see also XVI, 265-6. Dicionário cronológico
de autores portugueses, II, 169. NUC: AzTeS, RPB. OCLC: 17154008 (calling for 184 pp.
only; 13 locations, including the HathiTrust Digital Library; Brown University, Indiana
University, University of New Mexico, Arizona State University, British Library, and
Universidade de São Paulo appear to have hard copies). Not located in Porbase (which
cites 15 other works by the author using the spelling “Portela” for his last name). Not
located in the online catalogue of the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. Not
located in Copac. Not located in Hollis. Not located in Orbis.
*486. PORTUGAL, D. Francisco de, 1º Conde de Vimioso (ca.
1485-1549). Poesias e sentenças de D. Francisco de Portugal, 1º Conde de
Vimioso. Fixação do texto, introdução e notas por Valeria Tocco. Lisbon:
Comissão Nacional Para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos
Portugueses, 1999. Colecção Outras Margens, Série Poesia do Tempo
dos Descobrimentos. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 266
pp., extensive footnotes and bibliography, index of first lines, index
of names. ISBN: 972-8325-93-2. $45.00
First and only edition thus. The author, courtier, statesman, military officer and man
of letters, was an illigitimate son of D. Afonso de Portugal, Bishop of Évora, and second
cousin of D. Manuel I. He contributed to the Cancioneiro geral (1516); the Sentenças were
published first in Lisbon, 1605, by his grandson, D. Henrique de Portugal, and were edited
by Mendes dos Remédios in 1905 along with some of the poems from the Cancioneiro geral.
D. Francisco wrote verses both in Portuguese and Spanish. Damião de Góis referred to
him as the “Portuguese Cato” (see Crónica do Príncipe D. João, chapter 17).
j See Zulmira Santos in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguese, pp. 389-90;
Manuel Ferro in Biblos, IV, 357-9; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses I (revised
edition); Garcia Peres, pp. 469-70. See also Bell, Portuguese Literature, pp. 103-4; Saraiva
& Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th edition, 2001), pp. 365-6.
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*487. PORTUGAL, José Blanc de. Descompasso. Lisbon: Moraes Editores, 1986. Colecção Círculo de poesia, Nova Série. 8°, original printed
wrappers with author and title tipped on to front wrapper on a smaller
rectangular label. In fine condition. Author’s signed and dated presentation inscription on initial (blank) page: “Para a Ana // Hatherly //
com a minha admiração // e amizade // de // Luís Blanc de Portugal
// Lxª 19 5/II 87”. 83, (3) pp. $125.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The work includes a poem about Camões, several about
Brazil (pp. 25-58, including a bilingual poem with facing texts in Tupi and Portuguese),
a poem about Columbus and the discoveries, and much more. The vast majority of the
poetry in this volume was written during the 1970s, mostly in Brazil.
José Bernardino Blanc de Portugal, poet, essayist, music and literary critic, and translator of Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Truman Capote and Fernando Pessoa, was born in Lisbon,
1914, and died in 2000. He received a degree in geology from the Faculdade de Ciências
of the Universidade de Lisboa, wrote several scientific books and papers on the subject,
and worked for a number of years as chief meteorologist for Pan American Airways in
Lisbon, later working as meteorologist for the Portuguese national weather service, in
Lisbon as well as in the Açores, Madeira, Cabo Verde, Angola and Moçambique. He also
served as a sort of cultural attaché in Brazil (1973-1978), and was Vice President of the
Instituto de Cultura e Língua Portuguesa (1978-1982). Much of his poetry was published
in reviews, such as Cadernos de poesia (of which he was one of the directors, along with
Ruy Cinatti and Tomaz Kim; later with Jorge de Sena and José Augusto França), Aventura,
Litoral, Tricórnio, A serpente, and Graal. Besides the present work his books of poetry are
Parva Naturalia (1960; Prémio Fernando Pessoa), O Espaço Prometido (1960); Odes Pedestres
(1965; Prémio Casa da Imprensa), and Enéadas (1959; Prémio do P.E.N. Club Português, for
the body of his work). In additon to Elliot, he was influenced by Ezra Pound. His poems
have been translated into French, Spanish, English, German and Swedish.
j Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 390.
Vera Borges in Biblos, IV, 361-3. Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 555-7.
OCLC: 16117643 (New York Public Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Brown
University, Cornell University Library, Harvard College Library, Library of Congress,
University of Virginia, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, University of Texas
Libraries, University of California-Los Angeles, Unisa-Muckleneuk Campus-Pretoria).
Porbase locates six copies: Casa Fernando Pessoa-Lisboa, Biblioteca João Paulo IIUniversidade Católica Portuguesa, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa,
Biblioteca Municipal de Elvas, Biblioteca Tomás Ribeiro-Câmara Municipal de Tondela,
and Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Copac.
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An Epic Poem Which Does Honor to the Spanish Language—Lope de Vega
*488. POVÓAS, D. Manuel das. Vita Christi, de Manoel das Povoas,
Canonigo de la Santa Iglesia de Lisboa. Lisbon: En la officina de Pedro
Crasbeeck, 1614. 4°, mid-eighteenth-century sheep (minor binding
defects), spine gilt with raised bands in five compartments, citron leather
label (slightly chaffed), gilt letter, text-block edges sprinkled red. Large
woodcut vignette on title-page, woodcut initials and tailpieces. Running
heads of two leaves almost touched. Minor stain and slight soiling to
title-page. Some insignificant marginal worming. Overall in very good
condition. Bookplate of Joaquim Pessoa. (2), 253 ll.
$2,800.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. This epic poem in Spanish on the life of Christ, from
conception to being handed over by Judas, was praised by Lope de Vega:
“Y con sus rimas triples á Poboas
Que honró la lengua castellana tanto”
The work also won the applause of Manuel Faria y Sousa. On leaves 175 verso and
176 recto (Canto 20), the author treats the Battle of Lepanto (1571), in which the Holy
League decisively defeated the Ottoman Empire. He planned to continue the poem, but
it appears that this object was never achieved.
D. Manuel das Povóas was a native of Lisbon, born ca. 1564. He was a canon of the
Lisbon Cathedral, and died in that city in 1625.
The Salvá catalogue says that this work has three preliminary leaves; Palau, who cites
no other copy, follows Salvá in calling for three preliminary leaves. However, all copies
actually located (the Houghton Library / Palha copy, the Hispanic Society of America/
Jerez copy, and the three copies in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal) have the same
collation as our copy, with two preliminary leaves. Moreover, all other bibliographies
and catalogues which give collations (Innocêncio, Pinto de Matos, Garcia Peres, Palha
and Sucena, agree that there are but two preliminary leaves. One can speculate that either
Salvá mistakenly cited three leaves when really intending to record three printed pages,
or that the Salvá copy contained a license leaf from Castile or Aragon not present in any
other known copy, and not required for the book to be complete.
j Arouca P238 (collation agrees with our copy). Barbosa Machado III, 346–7 (with
incorrect publication date of 1613). Innocêncio VI, 88–9 (giving the same collation as
our copy). Pinto de Matos (1970) pp. 514–5 (giving same collation as our copy). Garcia
Peres p. 472 (giving incorrect collation of ii, 235 ll., the 235 probably being a typographical error for 253, the correct number of leaves). Nicolau Antonio I, 270. Palau 234406
(gives an additional preliminary leaf, after the Salvá–Heredia copy, the only copy cited).
Salvá 889. Heredia 2085. Biblioteca Central da Marinha, Catálogo das obras impressas no
séc. XVII, p. 114. HSA p. 437 (the Jerez copy; this copy was examined at the HSA; the
collation agrees with our copy). Jerez p. 82. Palha 833 (with [2], 253 ll., the same as our
copy). Sucena 920 (collation same as our copy). Not in any other of the dozen or so
most important Portuguese auction catalogues since the Sir Gubián sale in 1867. Not in
Coimbra, Reservados. Not in Gallardo. Not in Ticknor Catalogue. Not in Orbis, Melvyl, LC
online catalogue, Ariadna or BLPC. Porbase cites 3 copies in the Biblioteca Nacional de
Portugal (all examined personally, all with the same collation as our copy, all in condition inferior to our copy), but none in any other Portuguese libraries. Hollis cites a copy
at the Houghton Library (presumably the Palha copy). OCLC: 459597149 (Bibliothèque
Nationale de France); 433606015 (Biblioteca Nacional de España); 78767846 (Houghton
Library, University of Toronto-Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library). Porbase locates three
copies in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal(collation also agrees with our copy), and
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one in the Biblioteca Central da Marinha (accoording to the library’s printed catalogue,
cited above, their copy is “Mutilado faltam 5 folhas finais; enc. muito danificada, folhas
manchadas com as primeiras danificadas.”). Not located in CCPBE. Not located in Rebiun.
Copac locates a single copy, at British Library.
Poems by Fernando Pessoa and Mario de Sá Carneiro,
Essays by Casais Monteiro and José Regio
489. Presença: fôlha de arte e crítica. Ano sétimo, volume segundo,
número 38. 1 issue. Coimbra: Edições Presença, April 1933. Folio (37.3
x 28.9 cm.), original illustrated self covers (very slight soiling). Wrappers and several inner leaves printed in red and black. Front wrapper
has large line drawing of Esperança, by Almada Negreiros. In very
good condition. 15, (1) pp. 1 issue. $650.00
FIRST EDITION. This issue has brief poems by Fernando Pessoa, Mário Sá
Carneiro (said to be previously unpublished), and Mário Saa, as well as essays by
João Gaspar Simões, Adolfo Casais Monteiro, and José Régio. The cover illustration, a
line drawing by Almada Negreiros, shows a woeful-looking Hope wearing a sailor’s
uniform and holding an anchor.
Presença was published in Coimbra from March 10, 1928 to November 1988 (nº 53-54).
A second series, in smaller format, was printed in Lisbon, but only 2 issues appeared
(November 1939 and February 1940). Complete sets are extremely rare. Presença was
probably the most important Portuguese literary review of its time and one of the most
important, if not the most important, of the twentieth century. António Botto commented,
“A Presença oferece-nos como que uma vasta e estranha síntese literária ... resultante dos
destroços do simbolismo aristocrático Coimbrão, do saudosismo portuense, do paulismo
e futurismo lisboetas, além de tudo o que respirasse liberdade, inclusive, ou sobretudo,
a sexual” (quoted in Pires, p. 245).
Successor to the modernist journal Orpheu, it too published works by the leading
figures in Portuguese literature, including Mário Sá-Carneiro, Fernando Pessoa, José
Régio, Casais Monteiro, João Gaspar Simões, António de Sousa, Saul Dias, Branquinho
da Fonseca, Almada Negreiros, Raul Leal, Alberto de Serpa, Irene Lisboa and Miguel
Torga. It was responsible for introducing such foreign writers as Gide and Proust
to Portuguese readers and for introducing the criticism of cinema as an art form;
in addition, it emphasized contemporary music and the art of Cubists, Futurists,
Primitivists and Expressionists.
Presença was directed by José Régio, João Gaspar Simões and Branquinho da Fonseca;
Casais Monteiro later replaced Branquinho da Fonseca. Graphic contributors included
Almada Negreiros, Júlio, Mário Elói, Dórdio Gomes, João Carlos, Sara Afonso, Arlindo
Vicente, Paulo, Ventura Porfírio and Bernardo Marques.
j Daniel Pires, Dicionário da imprensa periódica literária portuguesa do século XX
(1900-1940), pp. 289-94. See also Pires, Dicionário das revistas literárias do séc. XX, pp.
244-8. Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) pp. 1090-2, and Grande
enciclopédia XXIII, 180-1. Serpa 958. Almeida Marques 1725. Clara Rocha, Revistas
literárias do século XX em Portugal, pp. 382-437. Carneiro da Silva, Jornais e revistas do
distrito de Coimbra p. 109.
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490. Progressos Academicos dos Anonymos de Lisboa. Primeyra parte.
[All published]. Offerecidos ao senhor Antonio Galvão & Castello-Branco ….
Lisbon: Na Officina de Joseph Lopes Ferreyra, impressor da Serenissima
Rainha nossa Senhora, 1718. 4°, contemporary limp vellum (a bit soiled;
minor wear), title written vertically in manuscript on spine. Title page
in red and black, with woodcut floral display. Several large woodcut
initials. Woodcut headpieces and tailpieces. Typographical headpieces.
A fine copy. Engraved pictorial bookplate of Victor d’Avila Perez. (5
ll.), 380 pp. P. 15 misnumbered 51, p. 96 misnumbered 76; p. 302 not
numbered; p. 303 misnumbered 30. $600.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this anthology of baroque poetry, including sonnets,
romances, decimas, canções, liras, coplas, odes and epigramas as well as some prose, by
members of the Academia dos Anonymos de Lisboa. The principal contributors were José
do Couto Pestana, Francisco Leitão Ferreira, Lourenço Botelho Souto-maior, Agostinho
Gomes Guimarães, Jeronymo Godinho de Niza, Luís Godinho de Niza, Luís de Siqueira
da Gama, Julio de Mello de Castro (a native of Goa), José de Sousa (an oration about
Vasco da Gama, among other contributions), Fr. Simão Antonio de Sancta Catharina, and
D. Thomás de Noronha. Francisco Xavier de Oliveira gives an account of this work and
the Academy which produced it in his Memoires du Portugal, erroneously stating that a
second volume had appeared. He notes that the Academy met in the home of Ignacio de
Carvalho Souto-maior, and that Jeronymo Godinho de Niza was its secretary.
Provenance: Victor Marat d’Avila Perez was a great bibliophile whose library was
one of the dozen or so most important ever sold at auction in Portugal. The catalogue
contains 8,962 lots, sold in six parts by Arnaldo Henriques de Oliveira, probably with a
total of 30 sessions, the first part beginning 30 October 1939, with the final part beginning 29 April 1940.
j Innocencio VII, 26-7. See Barbosa Machado, I, 66-7; II, 169-73, 499-500, 841-3, 902-3,
922-4; III, 25-6, 102-3, 140, 709-10, 745-6. Avila Perez 6093 (presumably the present copy).
OCLC: 1253410 (some of these may be online copies: Rutgers University; University of
Pennsylvanis; Harvard University; Indiana University; Newberry Library; University of
California-Santa Barbara); 433609862 (Biblioteca Nacional de España); 719396067 (digital
copies at Hathitrust Digital Library; Simpson University Library). Porbase locates two
copies, both in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Copac.
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*491. PULGAR, Fernando de. Coplas de Mingo Revulgo. Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional, 1984. 8°, original printed wappers. As new. xv p., (20 l.).
ISBN: none. $35.00
Facsimile of the possibly unique copy, printed in Lisbon by Germão Galhardo,
probably before 1530. Interesting preface by Prof. Artur Anselmo.
j OCLC: 435127447 (Universidad de Salamanca, Biblioteca Nacional de España);
65583496 (Universiteit van Amsterdam-Centrale Bibliotheek). Porbase locates six copies:
three in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and one each at Biblioteca Pública Regional
da Madeira, Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and Faculdade
de Ciéncias Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Copac locates two
copies: British Library, and Oxford University.
Celebrating the Hapsburg King’s Entry to Lisbon
492. QUEVEDO [E CASTEL–BRANCO], Vasco Mausinho de. Triumpho
del monarcha Philippo Tercero en la felicissima entrada de Lisboa…. Lisbon:
Jorge Rodrigues, 1619. Small 4°, nineteenth–century purple quarter
sheep over marbled boards, gilt letters (spine browned). Portuguese
royal arms on title-page, woodcut initials, woodcut floral vignette on
B4 recto, E1 verso, and verso of final leaf. An unwashed copy, but with
waterstains, mostly small and light at lower outer corner; however, in
25 leaves a bit darker, apparently due to some mud in the water, mostly
in blank margins but affecting some text, though not affecting legibility;
overall in very good condition. (4), 66 leaves. [ ]4, A–H8, I2. Leaves 19,
20, 21, and 43 wrongly numbered 16, 32, 13, and 40, respectively.
$1,600.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Poem in six cantos of Octava rima on the subject of the
entry of King Philip III of Spain [Philip II of Portugal] into Lisbon in 1619. The Hapsburg king was genuinely popular in Portugal at this time. In a note to his translation of
Ticknor’s History of Spanish Literature, Pacual de Gayangos described this work as “obra
de bastante ingenio, escrita en octavas fáciles y armoniosas ….”
A native of Setubal, the author was a lawyer who had studied both civil and
canon law with distinction at Coimbra University. Mausinho is sometimes catalogued as Mousinho, Quevedo as Quebedo, and Castel–Branco as Castelo–Branco,
Castelbranco or Castelobranco.
j Arouca Q18. Innocêncio VII, 410. Barbosa Machado III, 777. Palau 183708–9
(citing a copy with the impossible date of 1610; then citing a note which says the book
was printed in 1619, with doubts; no collation). Nicolau Antonio Nova II, 322. Pinto de
Matos (1970), p. 425. Alenda y Mira 707. Garcia Peres pp. 474–5. Simón Díaz XV, nº 4074
(w/o collation or location). HSA p. 374. Jerez p. 66 (the HSA copy). Palha 824. Salvá 782.
Heredia 2201. Ticknor, História de la literatura española (1854) Gayangos, trans. & ed., III,
534. Azevedo-Samodães 2032. Ameal 1478. Not in Goldsmith. OCLC: 469255470 (Bibliothèque nationale de France); 33096605 (Biblioteca Nacional de España); 503821176 (British
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Library); 85191871 (Oxford University, European Register of Microform and Digital
Masters); [searching title under “Trivmpho”] 16159817 (Beinecke Library, Houghton
Library, Newberry Library, University of California-Berkeley). Porbase locates three
copies: two in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (one of which is described as in poor
condition, with preliminary leaves and the final leaf mutilated and reinforced, and
trimmed with some text affected), and one which belonged to the Visconde da Trindade
in the Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. Copac repeats British Library, noting as well a microform copy in Register of Preservation Surrogates. Hollis located a
copy at Houghton Library.
493. QUEIROZ, Carlos. Desaparecido, poemas. Lisbon: Oficinas Gráfica
do Anuário Comercial, for The Author, 1935. 8°, slightly later burgundy half morocco over marbled boards by Frederico d’Almeida,
spine richly gilt with raised bands in three compartments, gilt letter,
top edge rouged, other edges uncut, decorated endleaves, original
printed wrappers bound in. Title page and text printed in black and
brown. Very fine. No. 37 of 500 copies on “Mellotex” paper, signed
by the author on the colophon leaf and with an inscription by him to
Silva Tavares on the recto of the first blank leaf: “Este exemplar //
foi adquirido // pelo // Siva Tavares //Poeta que eu muito admiro
// e // Amigo que muito estimo. // Com um grande abraço // do
// Carlos // 1–11–935”. Amorial bookplate of Silva Tavares. Small
oblong printed paper book ticket of the binder Frederico d’Almeida
in upper outer corner of verso of front free endleaf. (2 blank ll.), 102
pp., (3 ll.), 1 plate. Nº 37 of 500 copies, numbered and signed by the
author on the recto of the final (colophon) leaf. $500.00
FIRST EDITION of a book which has had a number of later editions. The poet
and sometime literary and art critic [José] Carlos Queiroz [Nunes Ribeiro (1907–1949)]
received the Prémio Antero de Quental in 1935. He directed the reviews Panorama
(1941) and Litoral (1944). Poet from an early age, his work is dispersed in various literary reviews, the most notable of which was Presença, to which he was one of the most
frequent contributors; he served as a bridge between the modernist generation of Orpheu
and that of Presença in general, and in particular between Fernando Pessoa and Presença.
In the July 1936 issue (nº 48) he wrote a “Carta à memória de Fernando Pessoa”. Other
reviews in which the work of Carlos Queiroz appeared were Contemprânea, Cancioneiro
(do Primeiro Salão dos Independentes), Momento, Sudoeste, Revista de Portugal, Cadernos de
poesia, Aventura, and Variante.
Among the illustrious clients of the binder Frederico d’Almeida were the Count of
Barcelona and the exiled former King Umberto of Italy.
Provenance: One of the most popular and prolific writers of the first half of the
twentieth century, the poet, writer, and playwright João da Silva Tavares (Estremoz,
1893–Lisbon, 1964), wrote some 90 pieces for the theater, mostly in collaboration with
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others. He wrote the libretto for the Opera D. João IV, performed at the Teatro São Carlos
in 1940 as part of the celebrations to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of
Portuguese independence.
j See Maria Amélia Gomes in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 395;
João Bigotte Chorão in Biblos, IV, 502–3; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses,
IV, 325–6. On the Lisbon binder / finisher Frederico d’Almeida, see Lima, Encadernadores
portugueses, pp. 19–23. On the bookplate of Silva Tavares see Avelar Duarte, Ex–libris portugueses heráldicos 664 (cf. 665). On João da Silva Tavares, see Grande enciclopédia, XXVIII,
897; also A. Leitão in Biblos, V, 297–8; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses,
III, 463. NUC: CU, MH. OCLC: no mention of special limited edition copies; 26349290
(Brown University Library, Harvard College Library, Washington University in St. Louis,
Getty Research Institute, University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Santa
Barbara, Oxford University, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, Université de
Nantes, Université de Poitiers, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle, Ibero-Amerikanisches
Institut Preußischer Kulturbesitz-Bibliothek, Zentralbibliothek Zürich). Porbase locates
two copies [searching under “Queiros”] both in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal; one
has the author’s presentation inscription, but neither appear to be special paper limited
copies). Copac repeats Oxford University only (apparently the trade edition).
*494. QUIROGA, Carlos. Gong: mais de 20 poemas globais e um posfácio
esperançando. Ferrol: Fundaçom Artábria, Ed., 1999. Col. Poesia. 8°,
original printed wrappers. As new. 119 pp., printed in blue ink. ISBN:
84-605-8469-0. $20.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author, a professor at the Universidade de Santiago
de Compostela, has published a prize-winning doctoral thesis on Fernando Pessoa, and
has written much on literary history and criticism. He has also published, in addition to
this volume of poems, a narrative, Periferias (1999: Awarded the Prémio Carvalho Calero),
and a play, O castelo da lagoa, awarded the Mostra de Teatro infantil de Ferro-terra, 1988.
He founded and directed the Galego review O mono da tinta (1987-1991), and when this
volume appeared was editor of Agália.
j OCLC: 432911522 (Biblioteca Nacional de España). Rebiun locates two copies:
Universidade da Coruña , and Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Not located in
Porbase. Not located in Copac.
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Exceptional Sammelband with Exceptional Provenance
495. RAYNOUARD, M. (François-Just-Marie), 1761-1836. Camoens.
Ode. Francisco Manuel [do Nascimento, 1734-1819], Filinto Elísio,
[pseud.], trans. 23 works in 1 volume. Paris: de l’Imprimerie de A. Bobée,
1819. 8°, late nineteenth–century three quarters crimson morocco over
marbled boards (small defect of about 5 x 2 cm. to marbled paper of
rear cover), gilt monogram supra–libris of Bernardino Ribeiro de Carvalho on front cover, spine gilt with raised bands in six compartments,
marbled endleaves, top edge rouged. Some light foxing. In very good
condition. Inscription “Da Livraria Conde Linhares” in lower margin
of title page. Old rectangular printed paper ticket of Livraria A. Ferin,
Succ. Ferin & Co., in upper outer corner of recto of front free endleaf.
Clipping of a description of lot [1]198 from the sale catalogue of the
Condes de Linhares, 1895 (the present sammelband, but bound in a
different order). 19 pp. 23 works in 1 volume. $1,800.00
First separate edition. The original French and the Portuguese translation appear
on facing pages beginning on p. [6]. This work had previously appeared in Annaes
das sciencias, das artes, e das letras; por huma sociedade de portuguezes residentes em Paris, a
periodical which began publication in 1818 at the same press, and ceased in 1822 after
16 volumes had appeared.
The translator, Father Francisco Manuel do Nascimento, better known by his
pseudonym of Filinto Elísio, fled the Inquisition in 1778, living most of the rest of his
life in Paris, where he died in 1819. The present work was brought to the press just
following his death by J.D. Mascarenhas, Francisco Solano Constancio, and C. Xavier,
editors of the Annaes.
Provenance: The library of the Condes de Linhares, consisting of over 14,000 volumes, was one of the most important ever formed in Portugal. The title, extinguished
in the seventeenth century, was revived in the Sousa Coutinho family, one of the most
cultured and enlightened of the old Portuguese nobility. The first Conde de Linhares in
this line (descendents but not the representatives of the original line), was D. Rodrigo
de Sousa Coutinho (Chaves, 1745–Rio de Janeiro, 1812). He was created Conde de Linhares in 1808. His grandson, the third Conde de Linhares in the Sousa Coutinho line, D.
Rodrigo de Sousa Countinho (Paris, 1823–Sintra, 1894), married a daughter of the first
Duques de Loulé, who through her mother was a grandaughter of D. João VI and D.
Carlota Joaquina. See Catalogo da importante livraria do Exmºs Srs. Condes de Linhares, que
será vendida em leilão no dia 1 de Dezembro e seguintes no seu palacio da Calçada de Arroyos, 38,
sob a direcção de Francisco Arthur da Silva … Lisbon: Empreza Editora de Francisco Arthur
da Silva, 1895, lot 1198. The present sammelband was apparently purchased at that sale
and rebound, in a somewhat different order, on instructions by Bernardino Ribeiro de
Carvalho (1846–1910), born in the freguesia de Cabaços, concelho de Alvaiázere, who
came to Lisbon, was brought into the business of his uncle / father–in–law, and acquired
a great fortune importing exotic lumber. He was a passionate book collector, frequenting auctions and bookshops from the 1860s until shortly prior to his death. Among the
sales he attended and purchased at were those of Sir Gubian (1867), the Visconde de
Juromenha (1887), José Maria Nepomuceno (1887), José da Silva Mendes and Jorge César
de Figanière (1889), and the Condes de Linhares (1895).
j Cf. Ramos, A edição de língua portuguesa em França 47, giving a different transcription of the title. On the Condes de Linhares of the Sousa Countinho family, see Grande
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Enciclopédia, XV, 166–7; also Nobreza de Portugal, II 688–92 (for the Condes de Linhares);
693–99 (for the Condes, Marqueses and Duques de Loulé), and 629–30 (for the Condes and
Marqueses de Funchal). OCLC: 457578289 (Bibliothèque nationale de France, calling for
19 pp.); 457578296 (Bibliothèque nationale de France, calling for 20 pp.). Porbase locates
a single copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. This edition not located in Copac.
BOUND WITH:
Notice sur la nouvelle publication de la Lusiade, par M. De Sousa.
[Paris? n.pr., n.d. (1818?)]. 8º, 10 pp. A very good copy.
AND BOUND WITH:
A fragment: pp. 173–4 in French, ca. the same approximate date as
the above.
AND BOUND WITH:
Il saggiatore, giornale italiano. Florence, 22 May and 29 May 1819. 8º,
Nºs IV and V, pp. [49]–64; [65]–80, (1 l.). Very good condition.
AND BOUND WITH:
RAYNOUARD, M. (François-Just-Marie), 1761-1836. Notice de l’ouvrage
intitulé: Os Lusiadas, poema epico de Camoens; nova ediçao correcta, e dada à
luz, por dom Joze Maria de Souza–Botelho, &c. Paris, na officina typographica
de Firmin Didot, 1817, in-fol. Extrait du Journal des Savans, Juillet 1818.
[Colophon]: Paris: de l’Imprimerie Royale, Juillet 1818. Large 4º (each
leaf folded twice), 12 pp. Good to very good condition.
AND BOUND WITH:
BETTONI, Nicolò. Le opere tutte di Ennio Quirino Visconti in due separate
edizioni italiana e francese. Milan: Tip. Destefanis, 1818. 8º, 8 pp. Caption
title. Very good to fine condition.
AND BOUND WITH:
Indice delle opere di Ennio Quirino Visconti, divise in tre parti. Milan:
Tip. Destefanis, 1818. 8º, 16 pp., (1 l.). Very good condition.
AND BOUND WITH:
[ELÍSIO, Filinto, pseud., i.e., Francisco Manuel do Nascimento,
1734-1819, probable author]. [Caption title]: Ode, dedicada ao senhor João
Nepomuceno Bertrand. N.pl. [Paris?], n. pr., n.d. [ca. 1817-8]. 8º, 2 pp., (1
blank l.). Very good to fine condition.
AND BOUND WITH:
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[ELÍSIO, Filinto, pseud., i.e., Francisco Manuel do Nascimento,
1734-1819, probable author]. Ode ao Illmº e Exmº Marquéz de Marialva.
[Paris?], n. pr., n.d. [ca. 1817-8]. 8º, (2 pp.). Caption title. Very good to
fine condition.
j Cf. Innocêncio II, 456.
AND BOUND WITH:
ELÍSIO, Filinto, pseud., i.e., Francisco Manuel do Nascimento (17341819). Ode ao Illmº e Exmº Marquéz de Marialva. [Paris?], n. pr., n.d. [ca.
1817-8]. 8º, (2 pp.). Caption title. Very good to fine condition.
j Cf. Innocêncio II, 456.
AND BOUND WITH:
[ELÍSIO, Filinto, pseud., i.e., Francisco Manuel do Nascimento, 17341819, probable author]. Ode. [Paris?], n. pr., n.d. [ca. 1817-8]. 8º, (2 pp.).
Caption title. Very good to fine condition.
AND BOUND WITH:
[ELÍSIO, Filinto, pseud., i.e., Francisco Manuel do Nascimento, 17341819, probable author]. Ode. [Paris?], n. pr., n.d. [ca. 1817-8]. 8º, (2 pp.).
Caption title. Very good to fine condition.
AND BOUND WITH:
ELÍSIO, Filinto, pseud., i.e., Francisco Manuel do Nascimento (17341819). Elegia IV do Livro IIIº de Tibullo. 8º, 4 pp. Caption title. Very good
to fine condition.
AND BOUND WITH:
Cosmorama. Palais–Royal, Galerie Vitrée. nº 231. XIe Année — 131º
Exposition. Novembre 1818. [Paris]: Imprimerie le Normant, 1818. 8º,
pp, [259]–262. Very good to fine condition.
AND BOUND WITH:
ELÍSIO, Filinto, pseud., i.e., Francisco Manuel do Nascimento (17341819). Autograph manuscript poem. 8º, (1 l.), written on the recto only.
Fine condition.
AND BOUND WITH:
[Caption title]: Melanges. Os Lusiadas, poema, etc. Les Lusiades, poeme
épique de Louis de Camoens, nouvelle édition, corrigée et publiée par Dom
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Joze Maria de Souza–Botelho. [Paris?], n. pr., n.d. [ca. 1817-8]. 8º, (1 l.), 10
pp. Very good to fine condition.
AND BOUND WITH:
ELÍSIO, Filinto, pseud., i.e., Francisco Manuel do Nascimento (17341819). Autograph manuscript poem, signed. 8º, (1 l.), written on the
recto only. Fine condition.
AND BOUND WITH:
Cosmorama. Palais–Royal, Galerie Vitrée. nº 233. XIe Année — 131º
Exposition. Janvier 1819. [Paris]: Imprimerie le Normant, 1818. 8º, pp,
[271]–278. Very good to fine condition.
AND BOUND WITH:
NIBBY, A. Saggio di osservazioni citiche, geografiche, antiquarie sopra Pausania. Rome: nella Stamperia de Romanis, 1817. 8º, 45, (1) pp., (1 blank
l.). Woodcut vignette on title page. Fine condition.
AND BOUND WITH:
VOLTAIRE, 1694–1778. O fantismo; ode, de M. de Voltaire, dedicada pelo
raductorao Illmº e Exmº Senhor Conde de Palméla. Filinto Elísio, pseud., i.e.,
Francisco Manuel do Nascimento (1734-1819), trans. Paris: na Officina
de A. Bobée, 1818. 8º, 8 pp. Fine condition.
j Not in Ramos, A edição de língua portuguesa em França.
AND BOUND WITH:
NASCIMENTO, Francisco Manuel do, a.k.a Filinto Elísio. Odes dedicadas huma a S.M. Dom João VIº, Rei do Reino unido de Portugal, Brazil e
Algarve; e outra á sua Augusta Esposa a Rainha Dona Carlotta. Paris: na
Officina de A. Bobée, 1817. 8º, 6 pp. Fine condition.
j Ramos, A edição de língua portuguesa em França, 34 (without collation).
AND BOUND WITH:
VOLTAIRE, 1694–1778. Epîstola de M. de Voltaire, a Madama Denis,
sobrinha sua; dedicada pelo traductor ao Senhor Antonio de Souza Dias,
Consul de S.M.F. no Havre. [Filinto Elísio, pseud., i.e., Francisco Manuel
do Nascimento (1734-1819)], trans. Paris: na Officina de A. Bobée, 1818.
8º, 11 pp. Fine condition.
AND BOUND WITH:
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FERREIRA E SOUZA, Bernardo Avellino. Relação dos festejos, que a
feliz acclamação do muito alto, muito poderoso, e fidelissimo Senhor D. João
VI, Rei do Reino Unido de Portugal, Brasil, e Algarves na noite do indelevel,
e faustissimo dia 6 de Fevereiro, e nas duas subsequentes, com tanta cordialidade, como respeito votárão os habitantes do Rio de Janeiro; seguida das
poesias dedicadas ao mesmo venerando objecto, collegida por … gratuitamente
distribuida pela mesma Indendencia [Geral da Policia] a fim de perpetuar a
memoria do plauzivel successo, de que mais se glorião os fastos portuguezes.
Rio de Janeiro: Na Typographua Real. 1818. 4º, 52 pp., (1 l. errata, 1
blank l.). Printed on bluish paper. A fine copy.
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. On pp. 3-15 is the description of the illuminations of
private houses (giving names of the owners) in Rio de Janeiro and other decorations, such
as triumphal arches, designed by Grandjean de Montigny, with paintings by Debret. This
is followed by three unsigned odes and an unsigned sonnet, and (pp. 35-51) a “Canto
epico” by the Brazilian poet Estanislau Vieira Cardozo.
Ferreira e Souza, born in Lisbon (?), emigrated to Brazil and worked for the police
there. He wrote verses insulting everyone, and is said to have been assassinated by
someone he offended. Innocêncio thinks the three anonymous works in this volume
were also by Ferreira e Souza. The “Canto epico” appears to be the first published work
of Vieira Cardozo (d. 1844?), who later published a few short poems.
j Innocêncio I, 371; II, 234; VIII, 390: calling for 52 pp. Blake I, 409; II, 294. Valle Cabral
535. Almeida Camargo & Borba de Moraes, Bibliografia da Impressão Régia do Rio de Janeiro
638: collating as our copy, and with reproduction of title page. Rodrigues 997: “raro.”
AND BOUND WITH(another copy of the above):
FERREIRA E SOUZA, Bernardo Avellino. Relação dos festejos, que a
feliz acclamação do muito alto, muito poderoso, e fidelissimo Senhor D. João
VI, Rei do Reino Unido de Portugal, Brasil, e Algarves na noite do indelevel,
e faustissimo dia 6 de Fevereiro, e nas duas subsequentes, com tanta cordialidade, como respeito votárão os habitantes do Rio de Janeiro; seguida das
poesias dedicadas ao mesmo venerando objecto, collegida por … gratuitamente
distribuida pela mesma Indendencia [Geral da Policia] a fim de perpetuar a
memoria do plauzivel successo, de que mais se glorião os fastos portuguezes.
Rio de Janeiro: Na Typographua Real. 1818. 4º, 52 pp., (1 l. errata, 1
blank l.). Printed on bluish paper. A fine copy.
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Birthday Wishes for the Infanta D. Maria Francisca Benedita,
Read in the New Lisbon Opera House
496. [REAL TEATRO SÃO CARLOS, Lisbon]. No faustissimo dia dos
felices annos da Serenissima Senhora D. Maria Francisca Benedicta, Princeza
do Brasil, lhe offerecem humildemente os impresarios do Real Theatro de S.
Carlos, os seguintes versos, recitados por José Felis da Costa, primeiro actor do
Teatro Nacional. Lisbon: Na Officina de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1796.
8°, contemporary marbled wrappers. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms
on title page. In fine condition. 6 pp., (1 blank l.). $150.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this poem recited by the opera singer and actor
José Felix da Costa in celebration of the fiftieth birthday of D. Maria Francisca Benedita
(1746-1829), dowager princess of Brazil, youngest child of D. José I, widow (and aunt) of
D. Maria I’s eldest son, D. José, Duque de Bragança and Principe do Brasil (d. 1788). The
verses were recited in the Real Teatro de São Carlos, which had only opened in 1793. It
was built by a group of businessmen to replace the opera house destroyed by the Lisbon
earthquake almost four decades earlier. With its fabulous rococo and neoclassical interior
recently renovated, the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos remains Lisbon’s opera house.
j Not located in Innocêncio. Not located in OCLC. Not located in Porbase. Not
located in Copac.
497. REBELO, João da Silva, Estacio Coutinho, Antonio Serrão de
Castro, et al. Macarronea latino-portugueza, que quer dizer: apontoado de
versos macarronicos latino-portuguezes, que alguns poetas de bom humor
destilarão de alambique da cochimonia para desterro da melancolia.… Terceira
impressam accrescentada …. Porto: Officina de Antonio Alvarez Ribeiro,
1791. 8°, nineteenth-century marbled wrappers Overall in good or neargood condition. Title page has small hole at head (repaired on verso),
affecting one letter of title and with loss of a small piece of the margin.
Small wormhole in inner margin from quire F to the end, sometimes
touching a few letters, without loss. A few tears and some soiling. Quire
M (end of the second Caderno) is of 4 ll. rather than 8, but the text follows. Contemporary ink inscription “Camões” on title page. 204 pp.
Apparently only part of the book; collations given for other copies are
[2], 362, 23, [3] pp. or 362, 23 pp. $50.00
This collection of silly or humorous poetry in Latin (only the prologues and the
final essay, pp. 185-204, are in Portuguese) includes a poem by Antonio Duarte Ferrão
(pseudonym for João da Silva Rebelo) on tobacco: Nariz enganado, e desenganado …. (pp.
85-101). The title translates roughly as, “The Nose Deceived and Undeceived; Tobacco
Ridiculed and Defended, An Excuse for the Thrifty and a Pretext for Fops; A Work of
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Great Consolation for the Stingy, Mean, and Beggarly, and of Great Utility to Cheap
Noses, Meddlers and Bores, and for Mouths Addicted to Chewing the Pipe and Cigars.”
There are also poems signed by Estacio Coutinho, Antonio Serrão de Castro, J.J.C.P.,
J.S.C., and Duarte Nunes Ferrão. This edition is not listed in Innocêncio, who mentions
earlier editions of 1765, 1786 and 1787 and later ones of 1792, 1816 and 1843, noting that
the work was often reprinted, “por ser sempre procurado, e bem acceito.” We have not
had the chance to compare the different editions, but our guess is that there are poems
included in some which do not appear in others.
j Innocêncio V, 343; XVI, 90, 388. Fonseca, Aditamentos p. 281. See Guerra Andrade,
Dicionário de pseudónimos, p. 39. NUC: MH, CLU.
498. REBOLLEDO [y Villamizar], Bernardino de. Selvas Danicas d’ El
Conde Don Bernardino de Rebolledo, Señor de Yryan. Copenhagen: Pedro
Morsingio, 1655. 4°, contemporary limp vellum (recased, later endleaves),
vertical manuscript title on spine, remains of ties, fore-edge cover extensions. Extra engraved architectural title page. Full page engraved portrait
of the dedicatee. Woodcut vignette on title page. Small woodcut initials.
Typographical headpieces and vignettes. Woodcut tailpiece. Waterstains
in lower outer corners of first few leaves. Occasional browning, mostly
very light. Overall in good to very good condition. (4 ll.), 176 pp.
$1,500.00
FIRST EDITION of this poetical genealogy of the Royal House of Denmark, dedicated
to Queen Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. It is also a veiled attack on Protestantism. Two sonnets in Italian appear in the preliminary leaves.
Don Bernardino de Rebolledo, Conde de Robolledo, Señor de Trian, etc., was born
in Leon (1597; died Madrid, 1676). He had a long and distinguished military career,
serving in Italy, the Mediterranean, Flanders and Germany, becoming Governor and
Captain General of the Lower Palatine, general of artillery, Spanish Minister to the Court
of Denmark, and Minister of the Supreme Council of War, playing a prominent role on
the Hapsburg side in the Thirty Years War. He was influential in the conversion of Queen
Christina of Sweden to Catholicism. With four volumes of verse to his credit in addition
to his military and diplomatic activities, he was one of the most unusual Spanish poets
of the mid-sixteenth century in that he took no account of Gongarism.
j Palau 252065 (calling for only 3 preliminary leaves). Jerez p. 120 (the HSA copy).
HSA p. 453.Not in Gallardo. Not in Salvá or Heredia. See also Ticknor, History of Spanish
Literature, II, 548-9; Ward, Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature, p. 490. OCLC: 30610871
(Beinecke Library, Houghton Library, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Statsbiblioteket-Denmark, Danish Union Catalogue and Danish National
Bibliography, National Library of Sweden, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile); 504648927
(National Library of Scotland, British Library). Not located in CCPBE. Rebiun locates a
single copy, at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Copac repeats National Library
of Scotland and British Library only.
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Item 498 (reduced)
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Recipe for Making “Napoleons”
499. Receita especial para fabricar napoleões, traduzida de hum novo
exemplar, impresso em hespanhol, por hum amigo de ganhar vintens. He
infallivel. Lisbon: Na Impressão Regia, 1808. 4°, disbound. Woodcut
Portuguese royal arms on title page. In very good condition. (2 ll.).
$150.00
First Edition in Portuguese. This witty sonnet for making “napoleons” begins, “Toma
hum punho de terra corrompida, / Hum quintal de mentira refinada ….”
j Not in Ayres Magalhães de Sepúlveda, Dicionário bibliográfico da Guerra Peninsular;
see III, 141, for an edition of Rio de Janeiro, 1809. Not in Biblioteca Pública de Braga,
Catálogo do Fundo Barca-Oliveira. OCLC: 47856969 (Yale University, Newberry Library);
612348153 (Harvard University). Porbase locates only a single copy, at the Biblioteca
Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Copac.
*500. REDONDO, Martim Afonso de, pseud. [i.e. José Eduardo
Torres de Eckenroth Guimarães]. Antes e depois do cais de seixas. Humberto Nelson, illustrator. Porto: Modo de Ler, 2011. Large 8°, original
printed wrappers. As new. 77, (1) pp., (1 blank l., 2 ll.), illustrated.
ISBN: 978-989-8364-11-1. $30.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author was born in Matosinhos, 1949. A physician specializing in clinical hematology, he was director of the Hospital São João, Porto
from 2005-2007. At the time this volume appeared he was Professor Catedrático at the
Universidade do Porto. He has been awarded several prizes for his poetry. This appears
to be his first book of poems.
j OCLC: 811590883 (Library of Congress). Porbase locates two copies, both at the
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Copac.
*501. RÉGIO, José, pseud. [i.e. José Maria dos Reis Pereira, 19011969]. Cântico negro: antologia poética. Selecção e organização de Luís
Adriano Carlos, valter hugo mãe. Estudos introdutórios de Luís
Adriano Carlos. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2005. Biblioteca Finita
Melancolia. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 239 pp.,
(4 ll.). ISBN: 989–552-125-1. $35.00
Poet, author of short and long fiction, playwright, essayist, critic, polemicist, autobiographer, diarist, José Régio (1901-1969) was perhaps the most varied and complete as
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well as one of the greatest Portuguese literary figures of his century, and a key figure in the
second generation of modernism. A native of Vila do Conde, he was a founder and editor
of the review Presença, one of the most important Portuguese literary reviews ever.
j See Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 405-7;
Eugénio Lisboa in Biblos IV, 654-8; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 111-5.
*502. REININHO, Rui, and Rudy Romeo. Sifilis. / Bilitis. Second edition
of both works. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2006. Biblioteca Sonora.
8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 36 pp. (2 ll.); 35 pp., (2 ll.). The
two works bound together in dos-à-dos fashion. One of 1,000 copies.
ISBN: 989-552-229-0. $22.00
Originally published by &etc. in 1983 as Siflis versus Bilitis. Rui Reininho was born
in Porto in 1955. He was part of the Grupo Novo Rock with whom, beginning in 1981, he
worked over a period of 25 years, recording 13 records, and performing in over a thousand
concerts in France, Spain, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Brazil, the United States, Canada,
and Macau. He has written music for the theater and cinema. In the realm of literature,
Rui Reininho has collaborated in a number of poetical anthologies in Portugal and Galiza,
and has published with Editora Palavra a collection of poetry from the 25 years previous
to the publication of the present volume titled Liricas Come on & Anas.
j OCLC: This edition not located in OCLC. Porbase locates three copies of the
present edition: two in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and one in the Biblioteca
Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. No edition located in Copac.
*503. REIS, Armindo. Tempo continuado. Lisbon: Átrio, 1989. Colecção
Harpa, 17. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 89 pp., illustrated.
ISBN: none. $20.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. This book of poems was the first and perhaps the only
work for adult readers by an author noted for at least fifteen titles written for children.
Armindo [Fonseca dos] Reis was born in 1954 in a typical Beira hamlet belonging to the
concelho de Castelo Branco. He has taught on the primary and secondary level, and has
seriously studied piano.
j OCLC: 22454756 (Harvard College Library, University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign, British Library). Porbase locates five copies: Biblioteca Pública Municipal
do Porto, Biblioteca Pública Regional da Madeira, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal,
Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, Biblioteca Municipal de Elvas. Copac
repeats British Library only.
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*504. RESENDE, Garcia de (1470-1536). Cancioneiro geral de Garcia de
Resende. Texto estabelecido, prefaciado e anotado por Álvaro J. da Costa
Pimpão e Aida Fernanda Dias. Posfácio de Álvaro J. da Costa Pimpão.
2 volumes. Coimbra: Centro de Estudos Româncios (Instituto de Alta
Cultura), 1973-1974. Folio (30.3 x 22.5 cm.), original printed wrappers
(spines a bit faded and with two small stains and some foxing). Internally very fine; overall very good to fine. viii pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 435
pp., (3 ll., 1 blank l.), indexes; 429 pp., (3 ll.) 1 full-page illustrations
in text, extensive indexes. Text printed in red and black. ISBN: none.
2 volumes. $150.00
First Edition thus. The indexes occupy pp. 413-35 of volume I, and pp. 339-429
of volume II.
j On the courtier, poet, and chronicler Garcia de Resende, see Bell, Portuguese literature, pp. 96-8, et passim; Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th edition,
2001), pp. 144-6, 157-65, et passim; Pedro Ferré in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura
portuguesa, pp. 411-3; Evelina Verdelho in Biblos, IV, 720-4; and Dicionário cronológico de
autores portugueses, I, 180-1.
*505. RESENDE, José Augusto da Costa. A minha lyra. Ponta Delgada:
Typographia Minerva, 1894.. 8°, original blue–green printed wrappers
(some spotting). Light browning throughout (but not brittle). Unopened;
in very good condition. 187 pp. $100.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The satiric poet and journalist José Augusto da Costa
Resende [or Rezende] was born in Ponta Delgada, 1849 and died there in 1896 on a straw
bed in an overnight flophouse. He led a bohemian life, working for the Semana in 1869,
later editing the Diário dos Açores, where is 1874 he sustained a prolonged and heated
political fight. In 1875 he left this newspaper, founding the weekly Partido popular, iniciating a regionalist campaign. In 1880 he passed over to A ventosa, afterwards Ventosa
sarjada, a newspaper featuring violent political prose and verse, alienating just about
everyone who counted in the Azores. From there on it was all downhill. His state of mind
near the end of his life is reflected in the preface to the present volume: “Comquando
isto aqui em S. Miguel seja terra mais propicia á cultura de batata do que á das lettras,
não abandono a carreira que sigo por vocação.” The book is dedicated to the Visconde
da Palmeira, and begins with a brief biography of the dedicatee (pp. [7]–9). There are
poems about or dedicated to Alice Moderno, Victor Hugo, Columbus, Ernesto do Canto,
Camões, and the Conde de Jacome Corrêa. At the end of the volume (pp. [169]-183) is
an essay giving a critical literary biography of Costa Resende, “Bocage açoriano” by
F.[rancisco] M.[aria] Supico.
j See Grande enciclopédia VII, 909; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II,
324. Not located in OCLC. Not located in Porbase, which cites four other works by this
author. Not located in Copac. Not located in Hollis. Not located in Orbis.
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*506. RIBEIRO, Bernardim. Menina e moça ou saudades de Bernardim
Ribeyro.… Antonio Luiz Guadalupe, ed. Lisbon: Na Offic. de Domingos Gonsalves, 1785. 8°, contemporary mottled sheep (head of spine
slightly defective; worm trail of about 2 cm. on upper cover near lower
outer corner; very slight wear to corners), spine with raised bands in
five compartments and gilt fillets, crimson leather lettering piece, gilt
letter, text block edges rouged. Small typographical vignette on title
page. Woodcut headpiece and small initial on p. 1. Two smaller woodcut
initials on second leaf recto and verso. Minor worming in lower outer
margin of first 54 leaves and in leaves H7-8, I1. Pinpoint wormhole in
upper portion of same first 54 leaves, touching a few letters of text but
never affecting legibility, joined by another similar trace in preliminaries
and first leaf of text only. Inevitable light browning. Burn mark in leaf
C1 affecting a few words of text. Overall in good condition. Bookplates
of Luis Mallo and João G. de Sousa. (4 ll.), 358 pp. $400.00
This classic Portuguese, novella with poetry appended to the prose, probably written
between 1530 and 1540, was first published in Ferrara by Abraham Usque in 1554 under
title Hystoria de menina e moca. It is considered one of the finest examples of the genre of
pastoral romance in Renaissance literature. There are two other sixteenth-century editions,
Évora 1557-8 and Lisbon 1559, as well as one of Lisbon: Paulo Craesbeeck, 1645. It was
reprinted in Ribeiro’s Obras, Lisbon 1852, and there have been a number of twentieth- and
twenty-first century editions. In the present volume “Egloga I [-V]” occupy pp. 268-353.
The final pages contain a “Romance”.
Twelve poems by Bernardim Ribeiro were included in the Cancioneiro geral of Garcia
de Resende. Little is known for certain about his life. He was probably born in Torrão,
in the Alentejo (1482?), and died in Lisbon (1552?). The editor, a Lisbon jurist, provides
a prologue (second preliminary leaf verso to third preliminary leaf verso), and a sonnet
to Manoel da Sylva Mascarenhas.
j Innocêncio I, 358; see also pp. 356-9; VIII, 379; Fonseca, Aditamento p. 85. Pinto de
Matos (1970) pp. 536-7. See Bell, Portuguese Literature, pp. 132-9 et passim; Hugh Chishold in
Enciclopædia Britannica (11th edition), XXIII, 284; Helder Macedo in Machado, ed., Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, pp. 416-9; José Augusto Cardoso Bernardes in Biblos, IV, 781-7.
OCLC: 23643371 (University of Michigan); 433632720 (Biblioteca Nacional de España);
433632712 (also Biblioteca Nacional de España); 646247583 (Bibliothèque Nationale de
France); 165735406 (ebook, at five locations). Porbase (which calls for only 6 preliminary
pp.) locates a total of eight copies: four in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (one seriously incomplete, lacking the title page and four other leaves, another in “mau estado”),
one each in the Biblioteca Geral de Arte of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and the
Faculdade de Letras of the Universidade do Porto, and two in the Biblioteca Municipal de
Elvas. This edition not in Copac, which lists several fairly recent editions. Hollis locates
a copy in the Houghton Library. Orbis lists six editions, 1975 through 2008.
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507. RIBEIRO, Manuel Domingues. Allegorias! Epigrammas! Satyras!
Conceitos! Com diversos recursos moraes! E um preambulo do auctor! Que é
Manuel Domingues Ribeiro! Coimbra: Imprensa Literaria, n.d. [1879?].
8°, orignal blue printed wrappers, mounted on later grey plain wrappers (piece missing from upper inner corner of original rear wrapper).
Minor dampstains; light browning. Overall in good to very good
condition. 103 pp. $200.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this rare, humorous work.
j Not located in Innocêncio. OCLC: 24038155 (University of New Mexico). Porbase
cites a similar, but different title. Not located in Copac. Not located in Catnyp, Newberry
Library online catalogue, Melvyl, Hollis or Orbis.
*508. ROCHA, Luís de Miranda. A tristeza balcânica. Com um texto
de Mário Claudio e desenhos de Rui Aguiar. Santarém: O Mirante, 1996.
Colecção Alma Nova. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 58 pp.
One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: none. $18.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Poet, essayist, literary critic, and teacher, the author
was born at Mira, 1947. He has work for the Diário de Lisboa, as well as for several newspapers, magazines and reviews, having published at least eight volumes of poetry, and
two collections of essays.
j See Álvaro Manuel Machado, in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 421; Pires
Laranjeira in Biblos, IV, 885-6; Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa, (17th edition, 2001), pp. 1139, 1143. OCLC: 257967487 (Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg
Carl von Ossietzky). Porbase locates five copies: Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto,
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Cast Fernando Pessoa-Lisboa, Escola Superior de GestãoSantarém, and Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. Not located in Copac.
509. A roda do destino, novo e completo livro de sortes para entretenimento
das familias brasileiras nas noites fogueiras, composto segundo as melhores
indagações philosophicas, physiologisticas e astrologicas, feitas no horoscopo
da humanidade e debaixo das inspirações somnabulaticas, contendo cincoenta
e duas perguntas de novos e interessantissimos assumptos e mil e duzentas e
quarenta e oito respostas em quatro mil novecentos e noventa e dous versos,
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e acompanhado de um mecanismo expressamente inventado para se tirarem
as sortes com toda a certeza e infallibilidade. Rio de Janeiro: B.L. Garnier;
and Paris: Aug. Durand [printed in Paris: Typographia de Ad. Lainé e J.
Havard], 1865. Large 12°, contemporary burgundy quarter sheep over
marbled boards (spine faded, slight worming at one joint; minor wear
to corners), flat spine gilt with five compartments, gilt title in second
Light foxing. Overall in good to very good condition. 228 pp. $400.00
FIRST EDITION of this fortune-telling book; a second appeared in 1869, and another
in 1887. All editions are extremely rare. It was written as entertainment for noites fogueiras,
the eves of the feasts of Santo Antonio, S. João, S. Pedro, and Santa Anna, which were often
celebrated with a bonfire. The verses on pp. 9-15 are entitled “Noites de Fogueiras.”
Questions to be posed (pp. 19-226) range from “Se ha de ser fliz com amor?” and “Se
foi elle quem primeiro lhe amou?” to “O que lhe convem mais, a morte, o convento ou o
casamento?” and “O que ganhará com o novo ministerio?” The method of telling fortunes
is explained on pp. 5-7: one spins a wheel with 12 numbers, and in the list of possible
choices beneath the question, chooses the poem corresponding to that number.
j Not located in Innocêncio. Not located in NUC. OCLC: 504430052 (British Library);
461030264 (Bibliothèque nationale de France); 1869 and 1887 editions are 461030254 and
461030252 (both at Bibliothèque nationale de France only). Not located in Porbase. Copac
repeats British Library only.
*510. RODRIGUES, César. Sonetos. Ponta Delgada: Tip. Artes Gráficas, 1920. 8°, Original buff printed wrappers. Title-page in red and
black. Uncut. In fine condition. Penciled shelfmark of the library of
the Marqueses da Praia e Monforte in upper outer corner of halftitle. 76 pp., (2 ll.). $50.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION
j Not located in OCLC. Porbase locates two copies: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal,
and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Not located in Copac. Not in Hollis. Not in Orbis.
*511. ROSA, António Ramos. No calcanhar do vento. (Coimbra): Centelha, 1987. Poesia Nosso Tempo, 43. 8º, original printed wrappers. As
new. 80 pp., (4 ll.). ISBN: none. $18.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Born in Faro in 1924, António Ramos Rosa received the
Prémio Fernando Pessoa in 1988, among other honors and distinctions.
j See Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa,
pp. 423-4; Cristina Almeida Ribeiro in Biblos, IV, 995-9; Dicionário cronológico de autores
portugueses, V, 367-72. OCLC: 19963923 (19 locations, including HathiTrust Digital
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Library; at least some of the locations appear to be links for online copies). Porbase
locates five copies: two in the Biblioteca Pública Municipal de Vila Nova da Gaia, and
one each in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Casa Fernando Pessoa-Lisboa, and
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Copac locates copies at British Library
and Oxford University.
512. ROSA, António Ramos. A nuvem sobre a página. Lisbon: Publicações
Dom Quixote, 1978. Poesia Século XX, 17. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (slight soiling). In very good condition. Signature of João Vasco
Vilalobos on title page. Signed and dated presentation inscription by
the author on recto of first leaf: “ A Alvaro Manuel Machado // com
um abraço muito amigo // António Ramos Rosa // Lx—26-3-1978”.
80 pp., (2 ll. advt.). ISBN: none. $150.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this volume of poems. Born in Faro in 1924,
António Ramos Rosa received the Prémio Fernando Pessoa in 1988, among other
honors and distinctions.
Provenance: Álvaro Manuel Machado, a native of Porto, is one of the leading literary historians and critics active in Portugal today. The first in his trilogy of novels, Exílio
(1978), was awarded the Prémio Ricardo Malheiros by the Academia de Ciências de
Lisboa. Machado edited, organized, and contributed to the extremely useful Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa (1996).
j See Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa,
pp. 423-4; Cristina Almeida Ribeiro in Biblos, IV, 995-9; Dicionário cronológico de autores
portugueses, V, 367-72. OCLC: 4605956 (30 locations, including HathiTrust Digital Library;
at least some of the locations appear to be links for online copies). Porbase locates three
copies: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Trás-os-Montes
e Alto Douro. Not located in Copac. Not in Hollis (62 “hits” for the author).
*513. ROSA, António Ramos, Egito Gonçalves, Eugénio de Andrade,
et al. 10 Poemas para Che Guevara. Egito Gonçalves, ed., and trans. of
two letters by Che Guevara. Porto: Campo das Letras, 1997. Colecção
Apendiz de Feiticeiro, 27. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new.
27 pp., (2 ll. advt., 1 l. colophon), 4 ll. plates. ISBN: 972-610-057-7.
$20.00
Third edition. Other poets represented in this volume are Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão,
Hélia Correia, João Rui de Sousa, Jorge de Sena, Marta Cristina de Araújo, Miguel Torga
and Nuno Guimarães. The first edition, published Porto, 1972, is said to have been seized
by the P.I.D.E. The second edition was published in Porto, 1980.
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Item 515 (greatly reduced)
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*514. RUIVO, Suzana Secca. A ocidente os astros. Coimbra: Fora do
Texto, 1993. Colecção Poesia / Nosso Tempo, 55. 8°, original illustrated
wrappers. As new. 48 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: none. $18.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Suzana [Póvoas de Castro Martins] Secca Ruivo was
born in Porto, 1948. She participated in the publication Letr’Arte 86, and was one of the
founders and collaborators of the literary review Sol XXI.
j OCLC: 35109876 (New York Public Library, Harvard College Library, Library of
Congress, University of Virginia, University of Texas Libraries, University of CaliforniaLos Angeles). Porbase locates a single copy, at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian-Centro
Cultural Paris. Copac ???
Unpublished Poems and Play
With the Author’s Notes on Why and When He Wrote Them
515. SÁ, L.A.R. de. ”Obras poeticas.” Autograph manuscript on paper in
Portuguese, dated 1847 on the title page and probably copied in Lisbon,
where most of the poems were written. 1847. 4° (23.5 x 19.7 cm.), contemporary green sheep with richly gilt reddish-brown morocco smooth
spine, boards (some rubbing) with gilt-tooled borders and edges, all
text-block edges gilt. Hinges cracked. Written in ink, in a large, legible
hand. A few minor stains, but overall in fine condition. (1 l.), 264 [pp.
115-6 apparently skipped in pagination; text seems to be continuous],
17 pp. [the first of which is also paginated 265]. $800.00
Apparently unpublished group of works by an apparently unknown author, with
his notes on when and why he wrote the various pieces included here. We have been
unable to locate L.A.R. de Sá in any of the Portuguese bibliographies or in the Grande
enciclopédia. From the works included in this volume, which date from 1843 to 1847, it
is clear that he spent some time in and around Lisbon. This copy of the work was done
at the request of, and presented to, D. Maria Antonio Cardozo, about whom we have
likewise been unable to find any further information.
The volume includes many poems and a single play, “O Luto, e a guerra. Drama em
3 actos” (pp. 137-237). Characters of the play include Sr. Silva, a businessman; Thereza, a
26-year-old who is wealthy for reasons that are a mystery to all; Leonor, her cousin; Maria
and Mathilde, Silva’s daughters; Henrique de Sá, a young lawyer (“grande espirito, e
poucos meios”); his cousin Diogo; and Bernardo Henriques, a 60-year-old who wants to
form a “companhia de declamação” for the Theatro do Rio de Janeiro.
At the end of the volume are the author’s notes and a table of contents.
j No works by this author located in BMC or NUC. Author not located in Porbase,
OCLC or Copac.
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516. SÁ, Manoel Tavares de Sequeira e, editor. Jubilos da America, na
gloriosa exaltação, e promoção do Illustrissimo e Excellentissimo Senhor Gomes
Freire de Andrada … Collecção das obras da Academia dos Selectos, que na Cidade
do Rio de Janeiro se celebrou em obsequio, e applauso do dito Excellentissimo
Heroe …. Lisbon: Na Oficina do Dor. Manoel Alvares Sollano, 1754. 4°,
nineteenth-century brown levant morocco by Emile Rousselle (minor
wear at joints), gilt fillets, spine gilt, inner dentelles gilt, all text-block
edges gilt. Title page in red and black, woodcut vignette on *ii, woodcut
ornaments scattered throughout. Some browning. Small hole at foot
of text on Y1, affecting 3 letters per side. Overall very good. Armorial
bookplate of Joaquim de Sousa-Leão, made in England, signed W.P.B.
and dated 1927. (40 ll.), 363 pp. [p. 191 misnumbered 165]. $8,000.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of “a Brazilian literary classic” (Borba de Moraes II,
760). According to Wilson Martins, “Os Jubilos da America … estão literariamente na ponta
inicial de um arco cuja ponta final será O Uraguai—ambas as obras ligadas á história
do nosso estabelecimento territorial e á fisionomia geográfica do Brasil” (História da
inteligência brasileira I, 364).
This volume was mostly the work of the members of the Academia dos Selectos,
founded in Rio de Janeiro. The Academia met only once, on 30 January 1752, to offer
congratulations to the Brazilian governor, Gomes Freire de Andrada, on his appointment
as head of the Portuguese commission to establish the frontier with Spain in southern
Brazil. These pieces in Latin, Portuguese and Spanish include the work of more than 30
Brazilian authors (at least 9 of them natives of Brazil), most of whom did not publish
works elsewhere. Even the editor admitted that the quality of the works was uneven:
“Reconheço que nas obras que produzco a nossa Academia, reluz mas o affectuoso que
o Poetico.” However, they are invaluable for the study of Brazilian prose and verse of
this period, and also important as one of the few published products of the eighteenthcentury Brazilian academies.
The volume is dedicated to Gomes Freire’s brother, José Antonio Freire de Andrada,
who funded the publication of Jubilos (see preliminary leaves 2-14). Sequeira e Sá, who
wrote the dedication, also composed the prologue to the reader, in which he explains
how the Academia was formed (preliminary leaves 15-28). Eight leaves of poems dedicated to Sequeira e Sá follow (preliminary leaves 29-36), all written by natives of Brazil
who were studying or teaching at Coimbra; none of these authors had any other works
published (see Borba, Período colonial, pp. 319-20 for a list of these authors). The last four
preliminary leaves include the index of contributors and the licenses.
On pp. 1-46 of the text proper are Sequeira e Sá’s letter to the members of the
Academia and the replies he received. These replies are especially informative, because
each is preceded by a paragraph in italics that states the writer’s occupation and literary
accomplishments. Next (pp. 47-57) is the program of the Academia, listing the subjects
from which the contributors are to choose their themes. Finally, on pp. 59-336, are the
poems themselves. Aside from the signed works, this section includes unsigned poems
by groups of Jesuits (pp. 133-73), Benedictines (pp. 175-84), Franciscans (pp. 185-88) and
Carmelites (pp. 189-91). A final section, which Borba suggests was added as an afterthought (see Período colonial, p. 321), contains more poems in honor of Seqeuira e Sá and
some poems on subjects unrelated to Gomes Freire.
The contributors to the volume came from various walks of life. Antonio Nunes
de Sequeira and Francisco de Faria were both clergymen. Nunes de Sequeira was born
at S. Sebastião (Rio de Janeiro) in 1701, and entered the Church after studying law.
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Known for his composition of poetry and music, he also served as a choirmaster. His
only known surviving works are those printed in this volume: a “Romance Lyrico” (pp.
207-09), 3 sonnets (pp. 210-12), an epigram (p. 213) and a long “Romance” (pp. 339-42).
(See Blake I, 272).
Francisco de Faria, president of the Academia dos Selectos, contributed 2 letters
(pp. 7-8), an “Oração panegyrico” (pp. 59-88) and a sonnet (p. 130). Faria, born in 1708
at Goiana (Pernambuco), taught at Bahia, but in 1760 was exiled to Lisbon and Rome
(see Leite VIII, 216 and Blake II, 438-39). His only other published work is the famous
Conclusiones metaphysicas de ente reali .... Rio de Janeiro, 1747, one of the only 3 works
printed by Antonio Isidoro da Fonseca at the first printing press established in Brazil.
(See Borba I, 303).
The Jesuit Simão Pereira de Sá, a native of Rio de Janeiro (b. 1701), was Procurador
da Coroa e Fazenda for Rio de Janeiro and also a historian. His history of Colonia do
Sacramento had received the licenses for publication when Jubilos appeared (see p. 21),
but for some reason was not printed until Capistrano de Abreu published part of it in
1900 (see Borba, Período colonial p. 322). The other works by Pereira de Sá mentioned in
the Jubilos were apparently unpublished during the author’s lifetime; his only appearance in print was with the 2 sonnets, the “Romance heroico” and 2 poems to Sequeira e
Sá in Jubilos, pp. 285-90 and 343-46. (See Blake VII, 234-35).
Antonio Cordeiro da Silva, born at Rio de Janeiro early in the eighteenth century,
studied at Coimbra and pursued a military career; by 1752 he was captain of a regiment
in Rio de Janeiro (see Blake I, 139). Cordeiro da Silva contributed 9 works to this volume
(pp. 249-65), including a 29-stanza poem on the military situation of Colonia do Sacramento (pp. 253-62). One of his other poems was published separately: Maria Imaculada,
Lisbon 1760 (see Borba II, 798).
The only woman author represented in the Jubilos is Angela do Amaral Rangel,
“A Ceguinha,” born blind at S. Sebastião (Rio de Janeiro) in 1725. As Blake points out
(I, 85-86), she lived in an age when no one knew how to give a literary education to the
blind. This and the fact that her native tongue was Castilian, rather than Portuguese,
made her poetic accomplishments the more remarkable: “Sem educação litteraria, sem
cabedal algum de instrucção necessaria al cultivo da poesia, dona Angela do Amaral foi
um genio …. “ (Blake I, 85). Her only published works are the “Romance” and 2 sonnets in this volume (pp. 271-75); one of the sonnets was reprinted by Varnhagen in his
Florilegio. Angela do Amaral Rangel was not a member of the Academia, although she
wrote on the prescribed themes.
Mateus Saraiva, president of the Academia dos Felizes (founded in Rio de Janeiro,
1736) contributed a long letter and 7 sonnets (pp. 28-32, 230-35 and 305). Not mentioned
in the introduction to the letter, although it does appear in the subscription to the sonnets,
is the fact that Saraiva was Chief Physician of Rio de Janeiro. He wrote and circulated in
manuscript one of several works criticizing João Cardoso de Miranda’s Relação cirurgica
of 1741. (See Borba II, 573; not in Blake).
Manuel Tavares de Sequeira e Sá, the secretary of the Academia dos Selectos and
editor of this volume, was trained in law at Coimbra, then served as a magistrate in
Portugal and later in Paranaguá (Paraná). He wrote the dedication and prologue of the
Jubilos and the final poem in the volume (p. 363), but published no separate works. (See
Blake VI, 204; Borba II, 759-60; and Borba, Período colonial, pp. 317-19).
As Borba points out (Período colonial, p. 323), it is not only the individual contributors that make this an interesting volume. Jubilos is also the only publication
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of a Brazilian academy of this period in which we can see how the academy was
founded and how it functioned, by reading the dedication, prologue, the letters to
Sequeira e Sá and the program. The work represents, too, a group effort by intellectuals characteristic of their era.
Innocêncio believed that almost the entire edition of Jubilos had been sent to Brazil, and
Borba comments, “Today very few copies exist. Copies in good condition are rare.”
Provenance: Joaquim de Sousa-Leão, a distinguished Brazilian historian and diplomat of Portuguese ascendancy, was a significant book and art collector. He wrote
on art and historical subjects, being an expert on the Flemish painter Frans Post: see
Frans Post 1612-1680, Amsterdam: A.L. Gendt & Co., 1973, and Frans Post, São Paulo:
Civilização Brasileira, 1948.
j Borba de Moraes (1983) II, 759-60, and Período colonial 317-23. Innocêncio VI,
116. Sacramento Blake VI, 204. Mindlin, Highlights 197. Sabin 79186. JCB, Portuguese and
Brazilian Books 754/2. Rodrigues 2232: noting that copies are very difficult to find. Maggs,
Bibliotheca brasiliensis 223: the present copy. Not in Welsh or Greenlee Catalogue. AzevedoSamodães 3324. W. Martins, História da inteligência brasileira I, 364. On the bookplate of
Sousa-Leão, see Fausto Moreira Rato, “Os Mais Belos Ex-Líbris Heráldico Brasileiros,”
in Boletim da Academia Portuguesa de Ex-Líbris, Ano XXXVII (Lisboa, 1992), # 92, pp. 37-66.
NUC: NN. OCLC: 55268132 (Biblioteca Nacional de Chile); 248619326 (no location given);
15861032 (Beinecke Library, Houghton Library, Cleveland Public Library, Newberry
Library); 38641355 (New York Public Library, Stanford University Libraries). Porbase
locates four copies, all in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Copac ???
*517. SALVADO, António. O prodígio. Lisbon: Átrio, 1992. O Lugar da
Pirâmide, 19. 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 19, (1) pp. One of
550 copies. ISBN: 972-599-058-7. $25.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The poet, essayist (especially on Portuguese Baroque
literature), and translator António [Forte] Salvado was born in Castelo Branco, 1936. He
has published numerous volumes of poetry; his poems and essays are to be encountered as
well in various journals, reviews, magazines, and newspapers, including Diário de notícias,
Graal, Tempo presente, Vértice, and the cultural supplement to the Jornal de Fundão. He has
been awarded several prizes and medals for his work. Along with Herberto Helder and
others, he edited Folhas de poesia (4 numbers, 1957-1959). For a number of years he was
director of the Museu Tavares Proença Júnior in Castelo Branco.
j See Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 431-2; António
Apolinário Lourenço in Biblos, IV, 1073-5; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses,
VI, 396-9. OCLC: 26375496 (Boston University, University of Arizona Libraries, British
Library). Porbase locates four copies: Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto, Biblioteca
Pública Regional da Madeira, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and Biblioteca Geral da
Universidade de Coimbra. Copac ???
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*518. SAMPAIO, Maria Isabel. Do outro lado e aqui. Lisbon: Cosmos,
1993. 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 70 pp., 1 color plate. ISBN:
972-8081-10-3. $18.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Preface by Urbano Tavares Rodrigues. Maria Isabel [dos
Santos] Sampaio [Vieira Barbudo], a professor at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade
de Lisboa, working with the Centro de Estudos Anglísticos, is a specialist in Shakespeare,
Wilde, and Shaw, with a doctorate in English literature; she also holds an undergraduate degree in Germanic philology. She has produced a number of scientific publications
related to her academic specialization. This is her first book of poetry.
j OCLC: 761376835 (Yale University Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
Harvard College Library, Library of Congress, University of Virginia, University of
Toronto Library, University of California-Los Angeles, University of California-Berkeley).
Porbase locates four copies: Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto, Biblioteca Nacional
de Portugal, Casa Fernando Pessoa-Lisboa, and Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de
Coimbra. Copac ???
Poem on the Battle of Trafalgar
519. SANCHEZ [BARBERO], Francisco, also known as Floralbo
Corintio. Composiciones poéticas sobre el combate naval del dia 21 de octubre
de 1805. Madrid: Imprenta de la Administracion del Real Arbitrio de
Beneficiencia, 1806. Large 8°, disbound. Very good condition. 24 pp.
$500.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this poem on Nelson’s victory at the Battle of Trafalgar.
The author also wrote Principios de retorica y poetica, Madrid 1805, which went through
at least 6 editions by 1845.
j Palau 294790. NUC: NjP, WaPS, NNH. OCLC: 17067783 (Princeton University
Library, Library of Congress, Washington State University, Biblioteca Nacional de España).
CCPBE locates only a single copy, at the Seminario Diocesano–Facultad de TeologíaVitoria-Gasteiz. Not located in Rebiun. Not located in Copac.
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