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Tragic Shipwreck & March Through Africa—
One of the Greatest Epic Poems in Portuguese
195. CORTE REAL, Jeronymo. Naufragio e lastimoso sucesso da
perdiçam de Manoel de Sousa de Sepulveda, & Dona Lianor de Sá sua
mulher, e filhos, Vindo da India para este Reyno na Não chamada o Galião
grande S. João, que se perdeo no cabo de Boa-Esperança, na terra do Natal
…. (Lisbon): Na Oficina de Simão Lopez, 1594. 4°, modern green
quarter morocco over pebbled paper boards (corners worn; some
other minor binding wear), flat spine with gilt fillets and lettering,
pink endleaves. Title-page in red and black. Small repair to license
leaf, affecting a few letters of privilege on verso; minor paper flaw
touching 1 letter of catchword. Final 18 leaves with outer margins
slightly shorter, possibly supplied from another copy. Some light
browning. Overall a good to very good copy. Early monogram (?)
in lower blank margin of title page, scored. (4), 206 ll.
$19,000.00
FIRST EDITION of one of the most important books in the Portuguese language:
after the Lusiadas of Camões, it is generally acknowledged to be the greatest epic poem
in Portuguese. Contemporaries of the two poets were far from unanimous in ranking
Camões above Corte Real.
The poem’s subject is one of the most celebrated events in Portuguese history, the
shipwreck of the São João off the coast of Natal in 1552, which was followed by a trek
through the wilderness of southeast Africa. The Naufragio was and continues to be by far
the most popular of several peculiarly Portuguese contemporary accounts of maritime
disasters, later collected under the title Historia tragico-maritima. This tragic, romantic
drama is simply told, yet omits none of the more tawdry aspects of the journey. It is
also of crucial importance as a source for the ethno-history of the tribes of southeastern
Africa, giving a wealth of information concerning the Bantu and the Hottentots prior to
their extensive contacts with Europeans.
Corte Real was perhaps born in the Azores in 1533, and died sometime before May
12, 1590. He was not only a poet but a painter, and possibly also a musician; he may have
accompanied D. Sebastião to Alcacer Kebir and been captured there. The Naufragio and
his other major work, Sucesso do segundo cerco de Diu, 1574, were written after he retired
to an estate near Évora.
j Anselmo 803: locating five copies of the work in Portugal (Archivo Nacional,
Oporto, Ajuda, Mafra and the Escola de Bellas Artes de Lisboa). King Manuel 234: adding
copies in British Museum, Hispanic Society of America and at Harvard (the Palha copy).
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Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional, Catálogo dos impressos de tipografia portuguesa do século XVI,
200. Europe Informed 209: adding a copy at Indiana University. Barbosa Machado II, 497.
Innocêncio III, 262-63 and X, 128. Pinto de Matos p. 196. Brunet II, 310: citing the Heber
copy, which sold for £3. JCB, Additions, p. 17; Portuguese and Brazilian Books 594/2. Mindlin Highlights 593. Palha 787. Azevedo-Samodães 916. Not in JFB (1994). Not in Lisbon,
Academia das Ciências, Livros quinhentistas portugueses. Not in Ticknor Catalogue. NUC:
RPJCB. OCLC: 78254488 (Harvard University-Houghton Library); 78457906 (John Carter
Brown Library, University of Toronto-Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Killie Campbell
Library-South Africa); 559644650 (British Library); 799690443 (Paris-Mazarine); 828315104
(Biblioteca Nacional de España); 80817744 is a microformat EROMM. Porbase locates two
copies at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Copac repeats British Library only.
Item 195 (greatly reduced)
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*196. CORTE REAL, Jeronymo. Successo do segundo cerco de Diu. Estando
Dom Joham Mazcarenhas por Capitam da fortaleza. Anno de 1546. Fielmente
copiado da Ediçam de 1574, por Bento Jose de Sousa Farinha …. Lisbon: Na
Offic. de Simam Thaddeo Ferreira, 1784. 8°, contemporary mottled sheep
(head of spine defective; some worm damage near foot of spine; other
minor wear), spine richly gilt with raised bands in five compartments,
crimson morocco lettering piece in second compartment from head, gilt
letter, text block edges sprinkled red. Woodcut royal Portuguese arms on
title page. Typographical headpiece and small woodcut initial on p. [1].
Minor worming to rear endleaves, front pastedown endleaf, and very
small wormhole in final two leaves without any loss. Overall in good
to very good condition. Armorial bookplate of the Condes de Bomfim;
letterpress shelf location tag in upper outer corner of front pastedown
endleaf. Unidentified old ink signature in upper outer corner of front
free endleaf recto. xvi, 436 pp.
$300.00
Second edition of this major epic poem by the celebrated sixteenth-century poet,
painter and soldier Jeronimo Corte Real. “Critics of later generations have refused to
ratify the estimate formed by contemporaries, who considered him the equal, if not the
superior of Camoens.”—Prestage, Encyclopedia Britanica (11th edition), VII, 205. The poem
records the famous second siege of Diu. Bento José de Sousa Farinha, the editor, was
responsible for many re-issues of rare early Portuguese works, as well as for the Summario
da Bibliotheca Lusitana (1786-1787). The original of Corte Real’s highly esteemed work (1574)
is exceedingly rare. This second edition is scarce, and is interesting in its own right as an
illustration of the rebirth of Portuguese scholarship during the eighteenth century.
Corte Real was perhaps born in the Azores in 1533, and died sometime before May
12, 1590. He may have accompanied D. Sebastião to Alcacer Kebir and been captured
there. The Sucesso do segundo cerco de Diu, and his other major work, the epic poem
Naufragio e lastimoso sucesso da perdiçam de Manoel de Sousa de Sepulveda, & Dona Lianor
de Sá sua mulher, e filhos, Vindo da India para este Reyno na Não chamada o Galião grande S.
João, que se perdeo no cabo de Boa-Esperança, na terra do Natal, 1594, were written after he
retired to an estate near Évora.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate (“Condes do Bomfim” appears beneath the arms);
see Avelar Duarte, Ex-libris portugueses heráldicos p. 275 (nº 770). The first Conde, José
Lucio Travassos Valdez (1787-1862), served in the Peninsular Wars and was in charge of
putting down both the rebellion under the Conde de Amarante in 1823 and the Miguelist insurrection in Tras-os-Montes a few years later. He was governor of Madeira and
served with Costa Cabral and Rodrigo da Fonseca on the Conselho. When the Maria da
Fonte movement broke out he was named commander of the government forces in the
south, but having been captured in late 1846 by the Duque de Saldanha, was deported
along with his two eldest sons to Angola for the duration of the war. Travassos Valdez’s
oldest son, José Bento Travassos Valdez, succeeded to the title. The third Conde, José
Lucio Travassos Valdez (1841-1926) had been born in Luanda.
j Innocêncio 3 262. Gonçalves 701. Palau 63003. Pinto de Matos (1970) pp. 217,
591. Salvá 551. Heredia 5401. Azevedo Samodães 918. Ameal 707. For the 1574 edition,
see Barbosa Machado II, 495-7; Anselmo 5402; King Manuel 147. NUC: DLC, MH, TNJ,
MnU, OCl, NN. OCLC: 23643022 and others. Porbase locates five copies at the Biblioteca
Nacional de Portugal and one at the Biblioteca Municipal de Elvas. Copac locates a copy
at the University of Manchester.
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Brief Biographies of 20 Chilean Poets (3 of Them Women),
with Examples of Their Works
197. CORTÉS, José Domingo, ed. Parnaso chileno. Santiago de Chile:
Imprenta de la República, de Jacinto Núñez, 1871. 4°, contemporary
black quarter morocco with marbled boards (some wear), gilt spine with
raised bands in 5 compartments, title in second compartment from top.
Light foxing on first and final leaves. Leaf 37-2 loose. Internally very
good; overall good to very good. Editor’s presentation inscription on
half-title to Sr. de Andrada, dated 1872. (3 ll.), ii, 437 pp.
$300.00
Second edition, considerably augmented, of a work that first appeared with the
title Poetas chilenos, Santiago 1865. “Nuestro Parnaso chileno se puede pues considerar
en parte como una segunda edición de los Poetas chilenos, inmensamente correjida i
aumentada. Nos hemos empeñado en reunir en este tomo los mejores composiciones
poéticas de nuestros bardos; i aun hai muchas inéditas, que los autores nos han
remitido espresamente para este libro” (p. ii). Parnaso chileno gives brief biographies
of the 20 nineteenth-century poets (including 3 women) examples of whose works are
reproduced here: Domingo Arteaga Alemparte, Eduardo de la Barra Lastarria, Emilio
Bello, Manuel Blanco Cuartin, Guillermo Blest Gana, Isidoro Errazuriz, Hermójenes
de Irisarri, Martin José Lira, Eusebio Lillo, Mercedes Marin de Solar, Guillermo Matta,
Rosario Orrego de Uribe, Luis Rodriguez Velasco, Zorobabel Rodriguez, Mercedes
Ignacia Rojas, Salvador Sanfuentes, José Antonio Soffia, Enrique del Solar, Quiteria
Varas Marin, and Carlos Walker Martinez.
j Briseño II, 236: calling for 437 pp. NUC: TxU, OU, NcD, CtY; locating the Poetas
chilenos at NNE only. OCLC: 21000214 (calling for 3 p.l., 434 pp.). Copac locates a copy
at the British Library. Rebiun loates copies with the same title, by M. Tobias Vera, with
dates of 1910, 1920, 1939, 1999.
198. CORTESÃO, Jaime. Divina voluptuosidade: poemas em redondilhas. Lisbon and Paris: Livrarias Aillaud e Bertrand, 1923. 8°, original
printed wrappers (slightly spotted). Title page printed in red and black.
Uncut. In very good to fine condition. Author’s signed presentation
inscription to Júlio Fonseca on recto of initial blank leaf. (1 blank l.),
141 pp., (3, 1 blank ll.).
$150.00
FIRST EDITION. A second edition appeared in 1968.
Physician, political figure, poet, short story writer, dramatist and historian, Jaime
[Zuzarte] Cortesão (Ançã, Cantanhede 1884-Lisbon 1960), was the brother of the historian
Armando Cortesão, and son of the philologist António Augusto Cortesão. Fernando Pessoa
called him “O primeiro dos poetas da novíssima geração”. Elected parliamentary deputy
from Porto, he served as a captain in the medical corps during World War I. With Leonardo
Coimbra and other intellectuals he participated in the founding of the review Nova Silva
in 1907, with Teixeira de Pascoaes collaborated in the founding of Águia in 1910, in 1912
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began the review Renascença Portuguesa, which he abandoned in 1921 to become one of
the founders of Seara Nova. In 1919 he became director of the Biblioteca Nacional, a post
from which he was fired in 1927 for presiding over the Junta Revolucionária established
in Porto in a failed attempt to topple the military dictatorship. During his tenure there he
had been perhaps the leading light of the “Grupo da Biblioteca Nacional” which included
Raul Proença, Álvaro Pinto, Paxcoaes, António Sérgio, Aquilino Ribeiro, Raul Brandão,
Leite de Vasconcelos, and Malheiro Dias. From 1927 until 1940 Cortesão lived in exile in
France; when the Nazi’s invaded, he fled to Brazil, living in Rio de Janeiro, teaching the
history of the Portuguese discoveries on the university level. Returning to Portugal in
1957, he became involved in the presidential campaign of general Humberto Delgado,
which caused him to spend 4 days in prison in 1958, along with António Sérgio, Vieira
de Almeida and Azevedo Gomes. That year he was elected President of the Sociedade
Portuguesa de Escritores.
j Almeida Marques 735 (the present copy). See Etelvina Santos in Machado, ed.,
Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 145-6; Fernando Oliveira in Biblos, I, 1316-8; Dicionário
cronológico de autories portugueses, III, 295-7. NUC: WU. OCLC: 3182300.
199. CORTESÃO, Jaime. Poesias escolhidas. Com uma carta inédita de
Fernando Pessoa. Prefácio e selecção de David Mourão-Ferreira. Lisbon:
Editora Arcádia Limitada, 1960. 4°, original printed wrappers (slight
wear). Uncut and mostly unopened. In very good, near fine condition.
Author’s signed presentation inscription to J. Belleza de Miranda, dated
May 1960, on recto of front free endleaf. Frontisportrait, 150 pp., (1 l.).
Copy nº 2 of an unspecified number.
$150.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION thus? The letter by Fernando Pessoa to Jaime Cortesão
occupies 6 pages at the front of the book.
Physician, political figure, poet, short story writer, dramatist and historian, Jaime
[Zuzarte] Cortesão (Ançã, Cantanhede 1884-Lisbon 1960), was the brother of the historian
Armando Cortesão, and son of the philologist António Augusto Cortesão. Fernando
Pessoa called him “O primeiro dos poetas da novíssima geração” (p. [8]). Elected parliamentary deputy from Porto, he served as a captain in the medical corps during World
War I. With Leonardo Coimbra and other intellectuals he participated in the founding
of the review Nova Silva in 1907, with Teixeira de Pascoaes collaborated in the founding
of Águia in 1910, in 1912 began the review Renascença Portuguesa, which he abandoned
in 1921 to become one of the founders of Seara Nova. In 1919 he became director of the
Biblioteca Nacional, a post from which he was fired in 1927 for presiding over the Junta
Revolucionária established in Porto in a failed attempt to topple the military dictatorship. During his tenure there he had been perhaps the leading light of the “Grupo da
Biblioteca Nacional” which included Raul Proença, Álvaro Pinto, Paxcoaes, António
Sérgio, Aquilino Ribeiro, Raul Brandão, Leite de Vasconcelos, and Malheiro Dias. From
1927 until 1940 Cortesão lived in exile in France; when the Nazi’s invaded, he fled to
Brazil, living in Rio de Janeiro, teaching the history of the Portuguese discoveries on the
university level. Returning to Portugal in 1957, he became involved in the presidential
campaign of general Humberto Delgado, which caused him to spend 4 days in prison
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in 1958, along with António Sérgio, Vieira de Almeida and Azevedo Gomes. That year
he was elected President of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Escritores.
Provenance: Porbase lists 12 books written by J.[orge] Beleza de Miranda, published
between 1955 and 1974.
j See Etelvina Santos in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 145-6;
Fernando Oliveira in Biblos, I, 1316-8; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 295-7.
OCLC: 12371700 (28 locations: some appear to be online versions); 460047369. Porbase
lists four copies, two in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and one each in the Casa
Fernando Pessoa, Lisboa, and the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Copac repeats copies
at the British Library and Oxford University, adding one at the University of Liverpool.
Not located in Hollis or Orbis.
*200. COSTA, Dalila Pereira da. O novo argonauta (e a ilha firme). Lisbon: Fundação Lusíada, 1996. Colecção Lusíada, Poesia, 3. 8°, original
printed wrappers. As new. 93 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 372-9450-10-2. $20.00
FIRST EDITION. A second edition appeared in 2005.
j See Dicionário cronológico de autores portugeses, IV, 671-2.
Golden Age Spanish Poetry By a Native of Porto
201. COSTA, Francisco de França da [a.k.a Francisco de Francia y
Acosta]. Jardin de Apolo. Coimbra: Na Officina de Manoel Dias, Impressor da Universidade, 1658 [colophon: En la Officina de Manuel Dias,
Impressor de la Universidade, 1657]. 8°, twentieth century green morocco
by Brugalla, his name stamped in gilt and dated 1955 on lower front
inner dentelle, spine (a bit faded) with raised bands in six compartments, plain except for gilt letter in second compartment from head
and gilt place and date at foot, edges with gilt fillets, inner dentelles
gilt, marbled endleaves, all text block edges gilt. Woodcut initial and
tailpieces. A few running heads slightly shaved. Overall in very good
condition. (4), 51, (1) ll.
$1,800.00
Second edition, the first to be published in Portugal. The original edition of Madrid
1624 is extremely rare.
The author was one of the principle Golden Age Spanish poets of the first third of
the seventeenth century. The work contains twenty sonnets, five silvas, a poem in octava
rima titled “El Peñasco de las lágrimas,” fourteen romances and twelve epigrams, all in
Spanish. The licences, and the dedication by Manoel Dias to Francisco de Faria Severim
are in Portuguese. Lope de Vega praised Francisco de Francia in the Relación de las fiestas á S. Isidro, l. 151. According to Garcia Peres, the author, born in Porto but for many
years resident in Castile, was among the principle “Ingenios” of the first third of the
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seventeenth century “en certámenes poéticos y justas literarias. Fué de los que menos
se dejaron arrastrar de la corriente del mal gusto que vino á dominar en la literatura.”
Barbosa Machado called the author “hum dos mais suaves cisnes do Parnasso, affim
pela afluencia das vozes, como pela profundidade dos conceitos, e não menos versado
na mithologia, e lição dos melhores poetas. Soube com perfeição a lingua Castelhana na
qual metrificava com admiração dos mesmos nacionaes perecendo–lhes pela assistencia
que fizera em Madrid ser nacido nesta imperial Villa ….”
j Palau 94408. Barbosa Machado II, 153. Innocêncio VI, 363. Biblioteca da Marinha,
Impressos séc. XVII 306. Gallardo 2258. Garcia Peres pp. 334–8. HSA p. 211. Jerez p. 42 (the
HSA copy). Azevedo Samodães 1438. This edition not in Salvá or Heredia (cf. 620 and 1982,
respectively, for the Madrid 1624 first edition). Not in Arouca. Not in Sousa Viterbo.
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202. COSTA, José Daniel Rodrigues da, possible author. O Mudo de
Pernambuco, ou Gervazio em Lisboa. [Colophon] Lisbon: Na Officina que
foi de Lino da Silva Godinho, 1822. 4°, unbound. Caption title. “M” in
“Mudo” of title printed upside down. Uncut, partially unopened. In
fine condition. 8 pp.
$1,200.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION, with the caption title apparently in its first state. Two
sonnets and a 45-stanza poem directed against Gervasio Pires Ferreira, who was derisively
known in Lisbon as the “the Mute of Pernambuco.” These poems were printed while
Gervasio Pires Ferreira was being held prisoner in Lisbon after the failure of the Junta
in 1822. The nickname “the Mute of Pernambuco” originated in the loss of speech that
he experienced after he was sent to a prison in Bahia for participating in the revolution
of 1817. Gervasio Pires Ferreira was elected president of the assembly of Pernambuco
in 1821, after which he regained his power of speech.
j Borba de Moraes (1983), II, 601. JCB, Portuguese and Brazilian Books, 822/37 (giving
the title as O mundo de Pernambuco, almost surely a typo). Not in Innocêncio or Fonseca,
Pseudónimos. Not in Rodrigues. Not in Tancredo de Paiva. NUC: ICN, RPJCB. OCLC:
79082796 (Houghton Library, Newberry Library, British Library). Porbase locates two
copies, both in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, without any mention of the variant
states of the caption title. Copac repeats British Library.
203. COSTA, José Daniel Rodrigues da, possible author. O Mudo de
Pernambuco, ou Gervazio em Lisboa. [Colophon] Lisbon: Na Officina que
foi de Lino da Silva Godinho, 1822. 4°, disbound. Caption title. “M” in
“Mudo” of title printed right side up. In very good condition. Old ink
foliation, “217-224” in upper outer corners. 8 pp.
$600.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION, with the caption title apparently in its second state. Two
sonnets and a 45-stanza poem directed against Gervasio Pires Ferreira, who was derisively
known in Lisbon as the “the Mute of Pernambuco.” These poems were printed while
Gervasio Pires Ferreira was being held prisoner in Lisbon after the failure of the Junta
in 1822. The nickname “the Mute of Pernambuco” originated in the loss of speech that
he experienced after he was sent to a prison in Bahia for participating in the revolution
of 1817. Gervasio Pires Ferreira was elected president of the assembly of Pernambuco
in 1821, after which he regained his power of speech.
j Borba de Moraes (1983), II, 601. JCB, Portuguese and Brazilian Books, 822/37
(giving the title as O mundo de Pernambuco, almost surely a typo). Rodrigues 767. Not in
Innocêncio or Fonseca, Pseudónimos. Not in Tancredo de Barros Paiva. OCLC: 82634428
(John Carter Brown Library). Porbase locates two copies, both in the Biblioteca Nacional
de Portugal, without any mention of the variant states of the caption title. Copac repeats
British Library (which according to OCLC is the earlier state of the caption title.
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Early Work by a Prolific and Extremely Popular Author,
Celebrating D. Maria I’s Ascension to the Throne
204. [COSTA, José Daniel Rodrigues da]. Silva. Culto obsequiozo na
gostoza acclamação da Rainha Nossa Senhora, symbolo das virtudes, e protectora dos Luzitanos. Lisbon: Na Offic. de Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo,
1777. 4°, disbound. Woodcut vignette of flowers and palm leaves (?) on
title page. Light dampstains. In good to very good condition. Old ink
manuscript foliation in upper outer corners. 7 pp.
$200.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of these verses honoring D. Maria I’s ascension to the
throne. The Silva (pp. 5-7) is preceded by a sonnet (p. 3). The author’s name appears in
print at the end. D. Maria (b. 1734) became Portugal’s first queen regnant on February 24,
1777, after the death of her father D. José I. She reigned until her death in 1816, although
by 1792 she was suffering such severe mental illness that her son, the future D. João VI,
ruled in her stead (as regent starting in 1799).
José Daniel Rodrigues da Costa (1757-1832), a native of Leiria, held many government posts in Portugal and was a prolific writer: his works were very popular and often
reprinted during his lifetime. He was a poet of arcadismo, using the name Josino Leirense
in the Nova Arcadia. Rodrigues da Costa’s narrative poem O balão dos habitantes da lua
(1819) is considered the first Portuguese work of science fiction. This Silva is one of Rodrigues da Costa’s earliest printed works. An author search in OCLC produced 246 “hits”;
of these, the only earlier imprint was one of 1775; two other works were printed in 1777;
after that, there were two works by this author from 1780, and one from 1781.
j Not in Innocêncio; on the author, see IV, 304 and XII, 295 (the earliest work cited
is 1795). See Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário da literatura portuguesa, p. 150; José
Oliveira Barata in Biblos, I, 1335-6; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, I, 569-70;
Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa, 17th edition, pp. 501, 548, 619-21. NUC:
ICN. OCLC: 69090359 (Thomas Fischer Rare Book Library-University of Toronto, Newberry Library). Not located in Porbase. Not located in Copac.
205. [COSTA, Rodrigo Ferreira da]. A lyra ingenua, ou collecção de
canções e glozas em quadras. Toulouse: Benichet Ainé, 1814. 12°, later
bluish-gray wrappers (lower wrapper and spine chipped). Soiled
and with a small piece missing from the margin on p. 19, affecting
pagination and 2 lines; otherwise crisp and clean. Overall in fine or
near fine condition. 50 pp., (1 blank l.).
$250.00
FIRST EDITION. A second, enlarged edition was printed at Lisbon, 1818. In the
prologue (pp. 5-7), Ferreira da Costa explains that these poems are mostly the work of a
young man “o qual falleceu na flor dos annos com grande magoa de seus annos.” They
are love poems that were improvised to music of the viola, and were only preserved
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because Ferreira da Costa wrote them down. He notes that today such songs are much
less common: “as Musas instigadas mais pelas proezas de Marte, que de Cupiado.”
Ferreira da Costa (1776-1825) studied law at Coimbra with the intention of pleasing his father by succeeding him as a lawyer in Setubal. After his father died, however,
Ferreira da Costa decided to study mathematics instead. Until 1814 he accompanied the
Ajudante–General in the Peninsular War; later he taught at the Academia Real de Marinha
in Lisbon. This appears to be his earliest separately published work. He also wrote Theoria
das faculdades e operações intellectuaes e moraes, Lisbon 1816; Tratado de orthographia portugueza,
Lisbon 1818; Principios de musica, Lisbon 1820-24; Deducção philosophica da desigualdade dos
sexos, e dos seus direitos por natureza, Lisbon (1822?), and other works.
j Innocêncio VII, 169 and XVIII, 285: without collation. Fonseca, Pseudónimos p.
226. Not in Ramos, A edição de lingua portugueza em França 1800-1850. Not located in
NUC. OCLC: 28106483 (Newberry Library, University of Chicago, Harvard UniversityHoughton Library, University of Toronto-Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library). Porbase
(transliterating the title as “lira” rather than “lyra,” but with the same collation) locates a
copy at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Copac, which lists the Lisbon,
1818 edition at the British Library.
*206. COSTA, Vasco Pereira da. Sobre-ripas, sobre-rimas. Coimbra:
Minerva, 1994. Poesia Minerva, 11. 8°, original illustrated wrappers.
As new. 55 pp., illustrated. ISBN: 972-9316-70-8.
$18.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Includes 3 full–page photographs by Vital Moreira. The
author, a native of Angra do Heroísmo, was Director do Departamento de Cultura e Turismo
da Câmara Municipal de Coimbra, Director Regional da Cultura in the eighth and ninth
Governments of the Açores. He has written four volumes of fiction, five of poems, and one
memoir, and has been awarded the prémios Miguel Torga and Aquilino Ribeiro.
j OCLC: 33263118 (Yale University, Brown University, University of Arizona, British
Library). Porbase locates three copies: Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto, Biblioteca
Nacional de Portugal, Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra.
Mourning the Death of D. Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil
Who had also briefly reigned in Portugal as King D. Pedro IV
*207. [COUTO, António Maria do, and Agostinho Ignacio dos Santos
Terra]. Ao heróe do seculo IX [sic]. O mui alto, e poderoso Imperador do Brazil,
o Senhor D. Pedro de Alcantara, Bourbon, e Bragança. Elegia. [Colophon]
Lisbon: Na Tpographia de R.D. Costa, 1834. 4°, disbound, with remains
of contemporary blue-gray wrappers near spine. Caption title. All
pages within black border. Inner margins defective. Overall in good
condition. Additonal “X” supplied in contemporary ink manuscript
between “Seculo” and “IX” in title. 4 pp.
$400.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this poem in tribute to D. Pedro, who had died at
Queluz on September 24, 1834. Above the colophon is printed “Pelos Redactores da
Folhinha Constitucional. // A.M.C. & A.I.S.T.”
D. Pedro is probably unique in having abdicated from two thrones on two different continents. He was the first ruler of Brazil after it declared its independence of
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Portugal, ruling as Emperor Pedro I from October 12, 1822 until April 7, 1831, when he
resigned in favor of his son, D. Pedro II. He also reigned as King Pedro IV of Portugal
from March 10, 1826, until May 2 of the same year, when he abdicated in favor of his
daughter, D. Maria II. He died of tuberculosis in 1834, a few months after the liberals
had triumphed in Portugal.
j Not located in Innocêncio; for António Maria do Couto, see I, 197-200; VIII,
243-4; and XXII, 27; for Agostinho Ignacio dos Santos Terra, see I, 16; VIII, 14; and XXII,
27 (this last reference identifying these authors as the editors of the Folhinha ecclesiatico,
constitucional, e civil para o anno de 1827 … published in Lisbon, 1826). The present work
not mentioned in Martinho da Fonseca or Guerra Andrade, who both identify Santos
Terra as the author of another work signed with his initials. Not located in OCLC. Not
located in Porbase. Not located in Copac. Not located in KVK (44 databases searched).
*208. COUTO, José Maria Silva. Obra poética. Vila do Conde: Câmara
Municipal, 1998. Cadernos / Poesia, 1. 8°, original illustrated wrappers.
As new. 135 pp., portrait. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972–9453–36–5.
$20.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The half–title reads “Obra poética, 1954–1996”.
j Dicionário cronológico de autores portuguese, V, 726. OCLC: 71256956 (Yale University
Library). Porbase locates three copies: Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto, Biblioteca
Nacional de Portugal, Casa Fernando Pessoa-Lisboa. Not located in Copac.
209. COUTO, Ruy Ribeiro. Um homem na multidão. Poemas. Rio de
Janeiro: [colophon]: Empreza Graphica Editor de Paul, Pongetti & C.;
depostaria, Livraria Odeon, 1926. 8°, recent dark green half sheep over
buckram (some wear to joints, other extremities), spine with gilt fillets
and lettering, original printed wrappers bound in (spotted and with
short tears to front wrapper). Some browning, a few small stains. Tear
to upper margin of penultimate leaf. Overall in good condition. [3]-82
pp., (1 l.), iii pp., (1 l.).
$150.00
FIRST (and only?) EDITION of the author’s fourth collection of verse. Ribeiro Couto
(1898-1963), a native of Santos (São Paulo), began his literary career as a Symbolist poet,
then became a leading figure in the Modernist movement in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
before turning to traditional rhythms (but not traditional rhymes). Although he also published novels and short stories, it is for his poetry that he is best known. After studying
law in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Ribeiro Couto became a journalist and government
lawyer. In 1928 he entered the Foreign Service and spent much time in Europe. Many of
his later works were published there, and some were translated to French, Hungarian,
German, Italian, and Serbo-Croatian. He was a close friend of the poet Manuel Bandeira
and was elected to the Academia Brasileira das Letras in 1934.
j Carpeaux, Pequena bibliografia crítica da literatura brasileira pp. 257-8. Not in Ford,
Whittem and Raphael, Tentative Bibliography of Brazilian Belles-Lettres. See also Stern, Dictionary of Brazilian Literature p. 95. Not located in NUC. OCLC: 54136586 (Yale University
Library, Biblioteca Nacional de España); 503863891 (British Library). Porbase cites a single
copy, in the library of the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. Not located in
Hollis. Copac repeats British Library only.
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210. COUTO, Ruy Ribeiro. Noroeste e outros poemas do Brasil. São
Paulo: Ca. Editora Nacional, 1933. 8°, original illustrated wrappers
(spine torn, lower wrapper foxed). Small stain in gutter at front.
Overall good. Inscribed by Ribeiro Couto in 1934, on the flyleaf. 89
pp., (3 ll.), (1 blank l.).
$250.00
FIRST EDITION. Ribeiro Couto (1898-1963), a native of Santos (São Paulo), began
his literary career as a symbolist poet, then became a leading figure in the Modernist
movement in São Paulo and Rio before turning to traditional rhythms (but not traditional
rhymes). Although he also published novels and short stories, it is for his poetry that
he is best known. After studying law in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Ribeiro Couto
became a journalist and government lawyer. In 1928 he entered the Foreign Service and
spent much time in Europe. Many of his later works were published there, and some
were translated to French, Hungarian, German, Italian, and Serbo-Croatian. He was a
close friend of the poet Manuel Bandeira and was elected to the Academia Brasileira
das Letras in 1934.
j Carpeaux, Pequena bibliografia crítica da literatura brasileira p. 257. Not in Ford,
Whittem and Raphael. Stern, Dictionary of Brazilian Literature p. 95. W. Martins, Modernist
Idea pp. 54, 56, 64, 158, 163, 230. Menezes, Dicionário literário brasileiro pp. 218-9. Bandeira,
Brief History of Brazilian Literature p. 139. NUC: DLC, TxU, NcD, ICU.
*211. Crisol. N.º 1, all published. Coordenação geral de José Carlos
González. Coordenação de Crisol de José-Alberto Marques. Coordenação
artística de António Castilho. Administração de Jacqueline González
e Vítor Lambert. Número um. Linda-a-Velha: Publicação Sal de Terra,
Cooperativa de Produção Artística; printed Lisbon: Tip. Freitas Brito,
Lda., Setembro 1983. 4° (21.5 x 21.2 cm.), publisher’s printed wrappers. Light browning. Overall in very good to fine condition. 39 pp.,
(1 p. advt.), envelope (11 x 7.1 cm.) loosely inserted, stamped “Cromos
Crisol”, containing squares with concrete poetry texts and illustrations,
numbered 1 through 18 (5.1 x 5.1 cm.) for the purpose of being pasted
into squares in the text numbered 1 through 9 and 10 through 18, on
pp. 23 and 31 respectively.
Número um. $400.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of the FIRST and ONLY ISSUE PUBLISHED of this
concrete poetry review. On p. 3 is an editorial stating the principles of the magazine and
mentioning the establishment of the Cooperativa Sal da Terra, for the end of furthering
cultural production. It is signed (in print) by the founders: António Castilho, António
Folgado, Jaqueline González, José-Alberto Marques, José Carlos González, Manuel
Costa Leite, Paulo Sucena, Pedro Monteiro, Vasco da Costa Marques, and Vítor Eugénio
Lambert. On pp. [38]-39 appear “Estatutos da ‘Sal da Terra’—Cooperativa de Produção
Artistica Cooperativa de Responsabilidade Limitada.”
Included in the volume are poems by Luis Pignatelli (“Christalografias,” pp. 3-9),
José Carlos Gonzalez, Eufrázio Filipe, Fernando Fernandes, José-Alberto Marques
(“Festórias,” pp. [16]-19), Manuel Maria, João Rui de Sousa (“Algumas asserções sobre
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o real,” pp. [24]-25), Luís Veiga, João Vieira, and Luís Veiga Leitão. There are also essays
or prose poems by Apeles Espanca (“Buñuel, o permanente,” pp. [12]-13), Wanda
Ramos (“Nomear o insólito,” pp. [28]-[30]), and Alexandre Vargas (“Satélite / Selenita
(nos cornos de lua),” pp. [32]-33). Finally, on p. 37 appears an advertisement by JoséAlberto Marques, poeta, announcing the opening of an office on the first of September,
and offering his services at baptisms (modalidade quadra), marriages (modalidade quadra),
declarations of love (modalidade soneto), ends of terms (modalidade verso branco), silver,
golden, and diamond anniversaries (modalidade quadra), divorces (modalidade rima de pé
quadrado), epitaphs (modalidade quintilha e alexandrinos), and finally stating that he offers
concerts of poems for poets with their books in the press.
j Rocha, Revistas literárias do século XX em Portugal, p. 674. OCLC: 11155577 (Indiana
University, British Library). Copac repeats British Library.
Early Works by Saramago
*212. Cronos. Cadernos de literatura. Nos. 1-4 and 2º série, nº 1, a complete
run. 5 issues. Lisbon: Editorial Minerva, (1965-1970). Large 8° (numbers
1-4); 8º (2.ª série, number 1), contemporary red buckram, flat spine and
front cover with gilt letter (numbers 1-4), original printed wrappers
bound in; original printed wrappers (2.ª série, number 1). A very good
set. Illustrated lithograph bookplate of A.[lfredo] Ribeiro dos Santos.
ISSN: 0590-1219 5 issues. $600.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION, a COMPLETE RUN. The high points in this multifaceted literary review include, in the first issue, an essay by João Gaspar Simões on
Orpheu and one by Herberto Helder on Brecht. In the second issue appears a previously
unpublished poem by José Régio, an exposition on concrete poetry by E.M. de Melo e
Castro, “A imagem poética e a poesia actual” (pp. 11-9), and three poems by José Saramago. (Saramago’s earliest published work listed in NUC and BLC is Poemas possiveis,
Lisbon [1966]; his next two published works listed in NUC appeared in 1970 and 1971.)
In the third issue are Jacinto do Prado Coelho’s “O problema da sinceridade nos textos
em prosa de Fernando Pessoa” and an essay by Fernando Luso Soares on Camus and
Sartre. The fourth issue includes an essay by Mário Sacramento on António Sérgio, Y.K.
Centeno on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Emilia Galoti, and Afonso Cautela on the historical position of Surrealism. The final issue is devoted to the theater, with a brief theatrical
piece by Mário Cesariny titled “O processo” (pp. 25-30), critiques of works by Günter
Grass, Samuel Beckett and Eça de Queiroz, and essays on various aspects of contemporary drama. Other contributors of note include David Mourão-Ferreira, Virgilio Ferreira,
Natália Correia, Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, António Pedro, Maria Judite de Carvalho,
Alexandre O’Neill, António Ramos Rosa, João Medina, Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, Tomaz
Kim, and Alexandre Babo. Cronos was directed by Fernando Luso Soares, Mário Dias
Ramos, Eduardo Prado Coelho and Mendes de Carvalho.
j Pires, Dicionário da imprensa periódica literária portuguesa do século XX, II, i, 192–4;
Dicionário das revistas literárias portuguesas do século XX, pp. 121-2. Clara Rocha, Revistas
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literárias do século XX em Portugal, pp. 589-90; 667. Not located in Union List of Serials.
OCLC: 4577299 (New York Public Library, Brown University, Harvard University, Pennsylvania State University, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Indiana University,
University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Stanford University). Porbase
locates a single copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Copac.
*213. CRUZ, Frei Agostinho da (Ponte da Barca, 1540-Setúbal, 1619),
O.F.M. Sonetos e elegias. Estudo, estabelecimento crítico do texto e notas
de António Gil [Vaz Pereira] Rafael. Lisbon: Hiena, 1994. Colecção Ideias
e Atitudes. Sm. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 270 pp., (1 l.),
footnotes, bibliography. ISBN: none.
$40.00
This work originally appeared in 1987 as a master’s thesis in Portuguese literature
at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Known in the secular life as Agostinho Pimenta prior to entering the Capuchin Order at age twenty-one, Frei Agostinho
da Cruz was the brother of the poet Diogo Bernardes, and an important poet in his own
right. His work remained for the most part unpublished until there appeared in 1771
an edition of his Obras.
*214. CRUZ, Liberto. Itinerário. Extra-texto e capa de Manuel Baptista.
Covilhã: Livraria Nacional (printed in Fundão: Tipografia do Jornal do
Fundão), 1962. Colecção Pedras Brancas, 8. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. In very good to fine condition. 33 pp., (1 l.), 1 plate. $25.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of one of the author’s earlier works. Poet, essayist,
literary critic and translator, born in Sintra, 1935, Liberto [da Fonseca Ribeiro da] Cruz,
who also wrote under the pseudonym Álvaro Neto, was professor at French universities
from 1967 to 1988. He also served as cultural attaché at the Portuguese embassy in Paris
from 1975 to 1988. In 1961 he founded the literary review Sibila, and from 1964 to 1966
edited the series “Poesia e Ensaio” for Ulisseia. From 1965 to 1966 he was literary critic
for the Jornal de Letras e Artes. At least ten volumes of his poetry have been published,
including Jornal de campanha (1986), which was awarded the Prémio de Poesia da Cidade
de Lisboa. He has also had at least six volumes of essays published.
j See Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 157; Fernando
J.B. Martinho in Biblos, I, 1407-8; and Dicionário cronológico de authores portugueses, VI,
329-30. OCLC: 14400174 (seven locations). Porbase locates a single copy, in the Biblioteca
Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Copac.
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215. CRUZ, [Manuel] Ivo. Gôtas de tinta. Olhão: Tip. da Editora Olhanense, 1923. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (some slight chipping
at foot of spine, outer edges of wrappers). Printed in red and black
throughout. In fine condition. Author’s signed presentation inscription
on half title to Dr. Barbosa de Magalhães, dated 10 December 1923. (1
blank, 23, 2 blank ll.).
$350.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. A series of pithy statements on art, specific artists,
music, fado, and so on: e.g.,”O genio do nosso Povo encontra-se nas canções. A tara de
alguns portuguêses, no Fado.” This little volume is elegantly printed in red and black
with one statement per page. Each page has a border incorporating a cross.
Manuel Ivo Cruz (Corumbá, Brazil, 1901-Lisbon, 1985) was one of the leading composers and disseminators of Portuguese music during the twentieth century. A native
of Corumbá, Mato Grosso, he moved to Lisbon at a young age. Although he began as a
law student, after studying with António Tomás de Lima and Tomás Borba, he decided
around 1925 to pursue a career in music, and studied in Munich. He taught at the
Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa, where he later served as rector (1938-1971). In 1937
he founded the Orquestra Filarmónica de Lisboa, which made Portuguese music more
widely known in Portugal and Europe. Cruz also wrote many symphonies, concerts,
and other works. He was published widely in periodicals, and wrote an autobiography
published in 1985. His important collection of books on music was given to the Biblioteca
Nacional de Portugal.
Provenance: José Maria Vilhena Barbosa de Magalhães (Aveiro, 1878-Lisbon, 1959),
better known as Barbosa de Magalhães, lawyer, politician, and university professor,
was elected deputy to the Assembleia Nacional Constituinte which implimented the
Portuguese Republic in 1910, and was one of the authors of the Portuguese Constitution
of 1911. He was Minister of Justice, of Public Instruction, and Foreign Minister between
1913 and 1922.
Bastonário of the Ordem dos Advogados (1933), he presided over diverse commissions relating to international law, and contributed a vast array of writings for specialist
juridical publications. He took part in the Comissão Directiva do Movimento de Unidade
Democrática which during the 1940s opposed the Estado Novo, as a result suffering
intense political persecution. See Grande enciclopédica, IV, 200-1.
j Not located in NUC. OCLC: 647785931 (University of Colorado-Boulder). Porbase
locates two copies at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and one at the Universidade
Católica Portuguesa-Biblioteca João Paulo II. Not located in Copac.
*216. CRUZ, Thomaz Vieira da (1900-1960). Quissanje. Preface by Francisco Soares. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2004. Escritores dos Países de
Língua Portuguesa, 35. 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 149 pp.,
(2 ll. adv., 1 l.). One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972–27–1324-8.
$30.00
The preface occupies pp. 7-24. The author, born in Constância, Ribatejo, Portugal,
spent most of his adult life in Angola. His poetry is filled with African themes.
j See Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 58-9; also Mário António de
Oliveira, A formação da literatura angolana.
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Medieval Galician Songwriter
*217. CUNHA, Celso Ferreira da, ed. O cancioneiro de Martin Codax. Rio
de Janeiro: [Departamento de Imprensa Nacional], 1956. Large 8° (25.3
x 19.2 cm.), contemporary half mottled sheep over faux reptile paper
boards (minor wear), spine gilt with raised bands in five compartments,
crimson leather lettering piece in second compartment from head,
editor and title lettered in gilt, red silk ribbon place marker, original
illustrated wrappers bound in. Very good condition. Non-authorial
presentation inscription to A.[ntónio Augusto] Gonçalves Rodrigues.
White-on-blue paper binder’s ticket of Ismael Chuvas, Coimbra (3.5
x 2.3 cm.), in upper inner corner of front pastedown endleaf. 198 pp.,
(1 blank l.), 10 ll. plates, extensive etymological glossary, bibliography.
$80.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION thus of this collection of medieval music. The etymological glossary occupies pp. [89]-178.
Martín Codax or Martim Codax was a Galician medieval joglar, possibly from Vigo,
Galicia in present-day Spain. He may have been active during the middle of the thirteenth
century, judging from scriptological analysis. He is one of only two out of a total of 88
authors of cantigas d’amigo who uses only the archaic strophic form aaB (a rhymed distich followed by a refrain). He also employs an archaic rhyme-system whereby i~o / a~o
are used in alternating strophes. In addition Martin Codax consistently deploys a strict
parallelistic technique known as leixa-pren; the order of the third and fourth strophes
is inverted in the Pergaminho Vindel but the correct order appears in the Cancioneiro da
Biblioteca Nacional and the Cancioneiro da Vaticana. His dates, however, remain unknown
and there is no documentary biographical information concerning the poet.
The body of work attributed to him consists of seven cantigas d’amigo which appear
in the Galician-Portuguese songbooks and in the Vindel parchment. In all three manuscripts
he is listed as the author of the compositions, and in all three the number and the order
of the songs is the same. This provides important evidence to support the view that the
order of other poets’ songs in the cancioneiros (songbooks) should not automatically be
dismissed as random or attributed to later compilers. Rather, the identity of the poems
and their order in all witnesses supports the view that the seven songs of Codax reflect
an original performance set, and that the sets of poems by some other poets might also
have been organized for performance.
Provenance: The university professor, cultural and literary historian, and essayist
António Augusto Gonçalves Rodrigues (Bragança, 1906-1999), author of numerous
important works on D. Francisco Manuel de Mello, the Cavaleiro de Oliveira, and translation in Portugal (among other subjects) was the founder in 1962 and for many years
director of the Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração. See Dicionário cronológico
de autores portugueses, IV, 288-90.
j See M.P. Ferreira in Lanciani and Tavani, eds., Dicionário da Literatura medieval
galega e portuguesa, pp. 433-6. For the binder Ismael Chuvas, “reputado artista” known
for the “brilho dos seus trabalhos”, see Matias Lima, Encadernadores portugueses, p.
74 (illustrating a different ticket).
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218. CUNHA, Vicente Pedro Nolasco da. O sanctuario do Christianismo
ou as virtudes indispensaveis para a fundação do edificio moral da sociedade, poema sacro em 3 cantos. Lisbon: Typoghraphia da viuva Coelho
& Companhia, 1843. 8°, Original printed rear wrapper (remains of
upper wrapper). Woodcut vignette of a church in a rural setting on
title page. Partially unopened; in good to very good condition. 34
pp., (1 blank l.).
$100.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION.
The author (1773-1844), a native of Caldas da Rainha, studied medicine and philosophy at Coimbra. Poet and member of the Conservatório Real de Lisboa, translator
and man of enormous cultural achievement, he was a leader of one of Lisbon’s masonic
lodges. Despite liberal tendencies which had caused him to become suspect by the government of the Prince Regent D. João in the early 1800s, he displayed great courage and
patriotism, offering a toast in favor of the Prince and the House of Bragança just after
the French invasion, in June 1808. When this became known to Junot, he was forced to
flee to England. In London he collaborated with Bernardo José de Abrantes e Castro in
the founding of the Investigador português. In 1814 he accompanied the future Duke of
Palmela to represent Portugal at the Congress of Vienna.
j Innocêncio VII, 437 (on the author see 434-9; also XX, 12-3). See also Grande
enciclopédia, VIII, 272-3. OCLC: 221155295 (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library-University
of Toronto). Porbase locates a single copy, in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not
located in Copac, where an author search produced 14 “hits”.
*219. CUNHA, Xavier da. Pretidão de amor. Endechas de Camões a Barbara
escrava, seguidas da respectiva traducção em varias linguas e antecedidas de
um preambulo. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1893 (i.e., 1895). Folio (29 x
21.4 cm.), twentieth-century (ca. 1975) half sheep over marbled boards
(wear at corners), signed in gilt “fersil-porto” at lower inner edge of
front pastedown, spine gilt with raised bands in six compartments,
red leather lettering pieces in second and fourth compartments from
head, gilt letter, date of publication in gilt at foot, marbled endleaves,
top edges of text block rouged, other edges uncut, silk ribbon place
marker, original printed wrappers (repaired at edges) bound in. Title
page in red and black. Numerous decorative initials in red and black.
Many different, attractive head- and tailpieces. Very good condition.
Unsigned ink manuscript inscription (from Augusto Epiphanio?), dated
9.X.1914, to D. Carolina A.M. Felgas, on recto of initial blank leaf. (1
blank l., 3 ll.), 851 pp., (1 l., 3 blank ll.).
$600.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION—LIMITED to 300 numbered copies, all of which
were offered as gifts, of which this is number 112, one of 60 copies on “Papel-de-Linho
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Portuguez (Branco)”, given to Augusto Epiphanio da Silva Dias; his name is entered
in ink manuscript below the justification. The justification, printed on the verso of the
half title, states that there were 20 copies on “Papel-do-Japão” numbered 1 to 20, 20 on
“Papel-Whatman” numbered 21 to 40, 20 on “Papel-de-Hollanda” numbered 41 to 60,
30 on “Papel-de-Linho Portuguez (Azul)” numbered 61 to 90, 60 on “Papel-de-Linho
Portuguez (Branco)” numbered 91 to 150, and 150 on “Papel-de-Linho Portuguez (Finissimo) numbered 151 to 300. This luxurious example of fine printing was produced at the
expense of António Augusto de Carvalho Monteiro (known as “Monteiro dos Milhões”),
great capitalist, bibliomaniac and collector (Rio de Janeiro, 1850-Sintra, 1920).
The preliminary study occupies pp. [3]-285. This is followed by the text of the
original poem by Camões, then by 116 complete translations of the poem into different
languages (pp. 287-780). There is more than one version in some languages, by different
translators. For example, as well as translations into standard Italian, there are 18 translations into 16 Italian dialects. The 9 translations into English are by 6 different translators.
In addition to translations into just about every European language, including Manx,
Welsh, and various dialects of Breton, there are translations into Hebrew, Arabic, Tamil,
“Angolense”, and Guarany.
The remaining pages of this volume contain additional commentary, an elaborate
table of contents, an analytical index, and finally a detailed colophon leaf.
Provenance: Augusto Epiphanio [or Epifânio] da Silva Dias (1841-1916), teacher and
author. See Grande enciclopédia, IX, 870.
j Innocêncio XVIII, 10 (without mention of the preliminary leaves); XX, 349 (this
time omitting mention of the final unnumbered leaves). Dicionário chronológico de autores
portugueses, II, 217-9. On the physician, poet, illustrious bibliographer, and erudite writer
Xavier da Cunha (Évora 1840-Lisbon 1920), see also Innocêncio XX, 31-49, 300; Aditamentos,
pp. 350-1; and Grande enciclopédia, VIII, 273-4.
*220. CUPIDO, Manuel dos Reis, Fernando António Rodrigues, and
Alfredo Lopes Coelho. Cegadas no concelho de Cascais. Recolha, introdução
e notas de João Carlos Camacho. Preface by José Jorge Letria. Cascais:
Câmara Municipal, 1997. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 80
pp., (1 l.), illustrated. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-637-041-8. $18.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION.
j Not located in OCLC.
Texts by Fernando Pessoa, Bernardo Soares, and Álvaro de Campos
*221. Descobrimento. Revista de cultura. 7 issues, a complete run. 7
issues in 6. Lisbon: (printed by the tipografia of Seara Nova), 19311932. 8°, original printed wrappers (some soiling and foxing to
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covers; a few very minor defects to spines). Light toning (as usual).
Partially unopened. Overall a very good set. 610 pp., (1 blank l.);
343 pp., with 2 plates in number 5 and 1 plate in numbers 6/7.
7 issues in 6. $1,800.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION, a COMPLETE RUN. Directed by João de Castro Osório
and published by José Osório de Oliveira. Included are texts in Portuguese, Galician,
and French.
In the initial number was published “Oito Elegias Chinesas” by Camilo Pesanha,
omitting the original Chinese, which had appeared when the text was published in
Progresso in Macau, 1914.
Fernando Pessoa signed excerpts in the third number (I, 403-16) from his Livro do
desassossego “composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros”. Included in
an anthology of modernist poets (I, 513-24) are poems by Fernando Pessoa, Álvaro de
Campos, Luís de Montalvor (2), and Carlos Queiroz (3). There are poems by the CaboVerdian Jorge Barbosa (II, [56]-59), José Gomes Ferreira, Adolfo Casais Monteiro, António
Patrício, Armando Côrtes-Rodrigues, Augusto Casimiro, as well as a group of poems in
the dialect of Ilha Brava. There is also a letter from Fernando Pessoa to João de Castro
Osório about the poems of Paulino de Oliveira, father of the two authors responsible
for the review (II, [333]–336).
Special attention was paid to Brazilian culture, with Brazilian authors represented
in practically all the issues. Poems by Ribeiro Couto appear in the first issue (I, 89-106).
There is a section on “Novelistas e poetas jovens do Brasil (I, 291-306); a poem by
Olegário Mariano (I, 343-6); “Medalhas em pau Brasil” by Ribeiro Couto (I, 361-76); and
two poems by Manuel Bandeira (I, 465-70). An essay on Cláudio Manuel da Costa by
Caio de Mello Franco (I, 539-48) is followed by “O parnazo obsequioso”, a previously
unpublished brief dramatic piece by Costa (I, 539-48). Then comes “Revolucionarismo
Americano” by Helio Vianna (I, 565-76). At the beginning of the second volume is the
essay “O problema da aclimação aryana no Brasil” by Oliveira Vianna (II, [9]-28); toward
the end are poems by Guilherme de Almeida and Ribeiro Couto (3). Finally, Osório de
Oliveira writes “Dois capítulos sobre o Brasil” on diversity and unity in Brazil, as well
as on aspects of modern Brazilian poetry (II, [315]-329).
One of the stated goals of this review was to strengthen the bonds between Portugal and Galicia; the third number published an anthology of Galician poets, including
Augusto Maria Casas (4 poems, including one dedicated to António Ferro), Luís Vázquez
Pimentel (3 poems), Xesús Bal e Gay (3 poems), F. Bouza-Brey (3 poems) and Aquilino
Inglesia Alvarino (3 poems). Additional poems by Galician authors Álvaro Cunqueiro
Mora and R. Carballo Calero appeared in the fifth number.
The second volume has a long section devoted to Goethe, including “A metafísica
do ‘Fausto’ e a crise moral do nosso tempo” by Philéas Lebesgue (II, [191]-200), translated by Osório de Oliveira; “Goethe e o drama espiritual da sua época” by Hernani
Cidade (II, [201]-212); “Disciplina goethiana” by João de Castro Osório (II, [213]-239);
and “Prometheu, fragmento dramático de Goethe”, translated from the German by Maria
Magalhães de Castro Osório (II, [241]-268). Other contributions include “Aerogramas
imaginários” by Ramón Gómez de la Serna, translated by Osório de Oliveira (I, 53-72);
“O mar, tragédia de almas” by Manuel de Figueiredo (I, 125-38); “Da Europa Central,
Antisemitismo” by Vicente Risco (I, 257-68); “Um conselho de Sócrates . . .” by Celestino Soares (I, 333-42); “Soares dos Reis” by the sculptor Diogo de Macedo (I, 347-60);
commentary by João de Castro Osório on Kayserling’s essay about Portugal (I, 417-64);
“A espera da Morte, novela” by Ana de Castro Osório (I, 487-512); “A maquina e a sua
filosofia” by Ronald de Carvalho (I, 525-32); “Santa Iria: romance do amor arrependido”
by Manuel de Figueiredo (II, [29]-36); “O filho: drama num acto” by Osório de Oliveira
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(II, [37]-48); an anonymous translation of Salvador de Madariaga’s chapter on Portugal in
his book about Spain (II, [61]-153); and “Gulherme Meister, Cândido e Gonçalo Mendes
Ramires” by António Sérgio (II, [177]-190).
The plates depict a statue of the Infante de Sagres by Canto de Maya (facing p. 48
in number 5); the painting “Noite de São João” by Dordio Gomes (facing the blank p.
[254] in number 5); and the painting “Rapariga do Povo” by Sarah Affonso (facing p.
256 in numbers 6/7).
j Blanco PR112; PR 114; PO120. Fotobibliografia de Fernando Pessoa, 150-154 (pp.
191-5); 157 (p. 198); and p. 285. Pires, Dicionário da imprensa periódica literária portuguesa
do século XX (1900-1940), pp. 126-128. Serpa 330. Almeida Marques 774. See also Clara
Rocha, Revistas literárias do século XX em Portugal, pp. 383, 445-7, 649. OCLC: 47813099;
557983929; 761332855 is a Google Books listing, but apparently not digitized. Porbase
locates a single copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (volume 1, primavera
1931-volume 2, verão/outono 1932). Copac locates a copy at the British Library and
another at Cambridge University (each 2 volumes).
Item 221 (greatly reduced)
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Go, Ye Heroes
222. Despedida de las Chilenas al Egercito Libertador del Peru. [text
begins:] ¡Que terrible contraste, / O dulce Patria amada, / La Expedicion
deseada / Causa en el corazon! .... N.p.: n.pr., (1820). Folio (30 x 18.7 cm.),
disbound. Typographical border and line between columns. Printed
on pale blue paper. Good to very good condition. (1 l.)
$1,400.00
FIRST EDITION? A rousing send-off to the soldiers embarking for Peru. The general
tone and the oft-repeated “Silencio—amor ... marchad” recalls the fond farewells of the
General’s daughters in The Pirates of Penzance. The Chilean expedition to liberate Peru
from Spanish rule set out from Valparaiso on 20 August 1820.
j Briseño I, 101 lists a 4º edition, apparently combined with 2 other poems, with
8 pp., also without place, printer, or date. OCLC: 55257023 (John Carter Brown Library,
Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, giving the date as 1820); 760925915 and 460210271 (both
Bibliothèque Nationale de France), Not located in CCPBE. Not located in Rebiun. Not
located in Copac.
223. DEUS [de Nogueira Ramos], João de. Poesias. Com uma carta
em verso de Eugénio de Castro. Coimbra: Augusto d’Oliveira, Editor;
Livraria Moderna., 1896. Biblioteca International (Director: Eugénio
de Castro). 4°, original printed wrappers (chipped; spine defective).
Frontisportrait of João de Deus. In good condition. Contemporary
signature near top of front wrapper. Postmark of Lisbon, [illeg.] January 1896 of rear wrapper. 89 pp., (1 l.).
$60.00
First edition thus. The preface by Eugénio de Castro in the form of a poem occupies
pp. [7]–14. The pedagogue and poet João de Deus (João de Deus de Nogueira Ramos,
1830–1896), was born in São Bartolomeu de Messines, Algarve. He studied law at Coimbra,
where he was linked to the “Geração de 70”, especially Teófilo Braga. Part of the second
wave of romanticism in Portugal, he is credited with a revival of lyricism, and, along
with Antero de Quental, the rehabilitation of the sonnet.
The poet, diplomat and university professor Eugénio de Castro (Eugénio de Castro e
Almeida, 1869-1944) introduced Symbolism to Portugal; as a young diplomat in Paris he
came into contact with the great French symbolist poets, becoming a friend of Jean Moréas
and Henri de Régnier. His influence can be seen even on such established Portuguese
writers as Guerra Junqueiro, and he undoubtedly paved the way for Camilo Pessanha
and Mário Sá Carneiro. Castro’s verse (“often so perfect, always so artificial,” says Bell,
Portuguese Literature p. 337) signaled the return to poetry of careful thought and planning,
as opposed to the inspired improvisation of the Romanticists, and led to the cult of “art
for art’s sake” or “estheticism” that became prominent in Portugal ca. 1925.
j Fonseca, Aditamentos, p. 197. On João de Deus, see Saraiva & Lopes, História
da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001), pp. 730, 735, 964; Álvaro Manuel Machado in
Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 162; Ester de Lemos in Biblos, II, 70–5;
and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 148–50. Grande enciclopédia VIII, 848-9;
special list 192
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on Eugénio de Castro, see also Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed.,
2001), pp. 479, 669, 914, 975–6, 986 and 998; Grande enciclopédia VI, 235-7; Etalvina Santos
in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 119–21; Fernando Guimarães in
Biblos, I, 1074–6; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 85–7.
*224. DEUS [de Nogueira Ramos], João de. Poesia. Selecção e apresentação de Ana Maria Almeida Martins. Lisbon: Presença, 1998. 8°, original
illustrated wrappers in paper slipcase. As new. 82 pp., with CD tipped
in. ISBN: none.
$30.00
The poems are read on the CD by Natália Luiza.
The pedagogue and poet João de Deus(João de Deus de Nogueira Ramos, 1830–1896),
was born in São Bartolomeu de Messines, Algarve. He studied law at Coimbra, where
he was linked to the “Geração de 70”, especially Teófilo Braga. Part of the second wave
of romanticism in Portugal, he is credited with a revival of lyricism, and, along with
Antero de Quental, the rehabilitation of the sonnet.
j On João de Deus, see Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed.,
2001), pp. 730, 735, 964; Álvaro Manuel Machado in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura
portuguesa, p. 162; Ester de Lemos in Biblos, II, 70–5; and Dicionário cronológico de autores
portugueses, II, 148–50. Grande enciclopédia VIII, 848-9.
225. DEUS [de Nogueira Ramos], João de. Ramo de flores por …
acompanhado de varias criticas das Flores do campo. 2 works bound in 1
volume. Porto: Typ. da Livraria Nacional, 1869. 8°, contemporary dark
brown quarter sheep over marbled boards (some wear), spine with
raised bands in five compartments, gilt letter and fillets. Scattered light
soiling, mostly marginal. Overall in very good condition. Newspaper
clippings tipped to front flyleaf & blank verso of title page. 144 pp.
2 works bound in 1 volume. $900.00
FIRST EDITION. The pedagogue and poet João de Deus (João de Deus de Nogueira
Ramos, 1830–1896), was born in São Bartolomeu de Messines, Algarve. He studied law
at Coimbra, where he was linked to the “Geração de 70”, especially Teófilo Braga. Part
of the second wave of romanticism in Portugal, he is credited with a revival of lyricism,
and, along with Antero de Quental, the rehabilitation of the sonnet.
j Innocêncio X, 234-8; XI, 287: calling for only 138, (1) pp. See Saraiva & Lopes,
História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001), pp. 730, 735, 964; Álvaro Manuel Machado
in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 162; Ester de Lemos in Biblos, II,
70–5; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 148–50. Grande enciclopédia VIII,
848-9. Not located in BLC. NUC: MiU. OCLC: 23536454; 253725287. WorldCat locates copies at University of Toronto, University of Michigan, and University of Arizona. Porbase
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locates two copies, both in the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisboa. Not located in COPAC. Not
located in Hollis or Orbis.
BOUND WITH:
RABELLO, Laurindo José da Silva. Poesias do Dr. Lourindo José da Silva
Rebello, colleccionadas pelo Bacharel Eduardo de Sá Pereira de Castro e por elle
oferecidas a S.M. o Imperador. Rio de Janeiro: Typ. de Pinheiro & Comp.,
1867. 8°, scattered light browning, a few small stains, but overall a very
good copy. Lithograph frontispiece portrait, xxvii, 173 pp.
Third edition, augmented with 23 poems never previously published. First published in Bahia, 1853 with the title Trovas (101 pp.). A second edition appeared in Rio de
Janeiro, 1855.
Silva Rabello (Rio de Janeiro, 1826-Rio de Janeiro, 1864), of mixed race (variously
described as a mestiço or a mulato), was a follower of Alvares de Azevedo with his
own streak of genius, also mentioned in most literary manuals and histories along with
Gonçalves Dias, Casimiro de Abreu, Junqueira Freire and Castro Alves. He studied for
the priesthood and received minor orders, but abandoned the seminary for the military
academy, later switching to the Faculdade de Medicina in Bahia, also studying medicine at
Rio de Janeiro. For his extraordinary talent and propensity for controversy he was called
the “Bocage Brazileiro”. Despite humble origins, he managed to rise to hold a position
as army medical officer, and taught Portuguese grammar, history, and geography at the
preparatory school attached to the military academy of Rio de Janeiro.
j Sacramento Blake V, 288-91. Innocêncio V, 168-9; XIII, 281-2. Ford, Whittem and
Rafael, A Tentative Bibliography of Brazilian Belles-Lettres, p. 160 (without mention of the
portrait). Carpeaux, Pequena bibliografia crítica da literatura brasileira (2nd ed., revised and
augmented, 1955), p. 103; also p. 104 for 15 works of biography and criticism. See also
Wilson Martins, História da inteligência brasileira, II, 488, 497, 495-6, 498-9; III, 14, 164, 270,
291, 520; Nelson Werneck Sodré, História da literatura brasileira (5th ed., 1969), pp. 216, 235,
307, 314, 338, 562; Bandeira, A Brief History of Brazilian Literature, p. 75; Goldberg, Brazilian
Literature, pp. 78, 79, 85-7, 90, 134, 186; Veríssimo, História da literatura brasileira (5th ed.,
1969), pp. 196, 203, 204. Not located in NUC. Not located in OCLC (which does locate
an 1876 edition in the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, as well as 1900 and 1944 editions at
Harvard, as well as other later editions). Not located in Porbase. COPAC locates a copy
in the British Library, which also has editions of 1876 (another copy cited at Glasgow),
1944, and 1966 (a copy of the 1946 edition is cited at Liverpool, which several locations
are given for the 1963 edition). Not located in Hollis (which cites editons of 1900, 1944
and 1963) or Orbis (which cites editions of 1876, 1946, and 1963).
special list 192
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226. Diario Nacional. Com permissão da Junta do Supremo Governo Provisorio do Reino. Numbers 1-8 (of 9) issues. Nos. 1-8. [Colophon] Porto:
Na Typografia de Viuva Alvarez Ribeiro, e Filhos, (on masthead) 26
August 1820 to 4 September 1820. Folio (31 x 21.5 cm.), early speckled
paper wrappers (spine chipping and broken, lower wrapper detached).
Wood-engraved arms of Portugal above masthead. Uncut. Occasional
very minor soiling and a few small, light stains. In fine condition internally; overall very good. (2 ll.) per issue.
Numbers 1-8. $600.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Reprints royal and government decrees, letters and
appeals from officials, some editorial discussions, and a few poems by Josino Duriente.
Guerra Andrade (Dicionário de pseudónimos p. 156) identifies him as José Ferreira Borges
(1786-1838), a leading liberal economist, political and legal thinker.
j Rafael and Santos, Jornais e revistas portugueses do século XIX, 1684. Silva, O jornalismo
portuguez p. 12. Not in Universidade de Coimbra, Publicações periódicas portuguesas. Not
located in OCLC. Porbase locates five supposedly complete runs: two at the Biblioteca
Municipal do Porto, two at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and one at the Biblioteca
Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. Not located in Copac.
BOUND WITH:
Regeneração de Portugal. Com permissão do Supremo Governo Provisorio
do Reino. [Colophon] Porto: Na Typografia de á Praça de S. Thereza
Numbers 1-8 and Supplementos to numbers 3 and 8 (September
18-27, 1820). Folio (31 x 21.5 cm.). Uncut. In fine condition. (1 l.) per
issue. 8 issues plus supplements to issues 3 and 8, with a double-leaf
spread between issues 4 and 5 titled Mappa demonstrativo da receita
e despesa do cofre do Thesouro Publico Nacional, e Real, estabelecido no
Paço do Governo Supremo Provisorio de Reino, desde 26 d’Agosto até 6
de Setembro de 1820.
Numbers 1-8 + 2 supplements.
FIRST and ONLY EDITION, with much the same content as the Diario Nacional, of
which Rafael and Santos state that it was a continuation.
j See Rafael and Santos, Jornais e revistas portugueses do século XIX 1684, mentioning
it under the entry for the previous work. Not in Universidade de Coimbra, Publicações
periódicas. OCLC: 504742370 (British Library: gives dates of from 18 September of 26
September only, and does not mention any of the supplements). Porbase locates two runs:
in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and in the Biblioteca Municipal do Porto (but the
record gives dates of from 18-26 September only, and does not mention any of the supplements). Copac repeats British Library, with only the 8 numbers and no supplements.
AND BOUND WITH:
Correio do Porto. Com permissão do Supremo Governo Provisorio do Reino.
[Colophon] Porto: Na Typografia de á Praça de S. Thereza N.º 13, 27
September 1820 to 30 December 1820. Folio (31 x 21.5 cm.). Uncut.
In fine condition. (1 l.) per issue, except for numbers 41, 47, and 77
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with (2 ll.). 81 issues + 6 extraordinary issues (3, 5 October; 11, 15, 24
November; 21 December). 81 numbers + 6 estraordinary issues.
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Government decrees, official speeches, financial reports,
election results, plus poetry, notices of upcoming events in Porto, and news from England,
Spain, Venezuela, Colombia, Italy, Germany, Austria, Brazil, and Switzerland.
j Rafael and Santos, Jornais e revistas portugueses do século XIX 1363 (giving dates of
publication from 27 September 1820 to 7 May 1834). Universidade de Coimbra, Publicações
periódicas 695: with a run from 1828 (nº extr.)-1834 (nº 107). Porbase locates seven runs,
giving the same dates as Rafael & Santos, but we would be very surprised if all are really
as described: three in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, three in the Biblioteca Municipal
do Porto, and one in the Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra.
AND BOUND WITH (between numbers 37 and 38 of
the above):
Relação, do divertimento que houve no Real Theatro de S. João desta
cidade, executando pela Companhia dos Actores Italianos, em as noites de
15, 16, e 17 d’Outubro de 1820. [Colophon] Porto: Na Typografia de á
Praça de S. Thereza N.º 13, (1820). Bound after the Correio do Porto
issue of November 8. Folio (31 x 21.5 cm.). Caption title. Uncut. In
fine condition. (1 l.).
FIRST and ONLY EDITION, describing an evening of entertainment in favor of
constitutional monarchy, with illuminations, elaborate allegorical decorations by Joaquim
Rafael, and a performance of Rossini’s Cenerentola.
j Not located in OCLC. Not located in Porbase. Not located in Copac. Not
located in KVK (44 databases searched). Not located in The European Library (72
databases searched).
Parnassian Drama with Unusual Characters
227. DIAS [DE MESQUITA], Theófilo [Odorico]. A comedia dos deuses.
Poema. Precedido de uma introducção por M. Pinheiro Chagas. São Paulo:
Teixeira & Irmão, 1887. 8°, modern green quarter morocco over marbled
boards, spine with raised bands in 6 compartments, author in second,
title in third (minor wear). Title page printed in red and black. Some
browning, last few leaves soiled, 2 tissue repairs to final page, at gutter margin and touching running head. Old oval stamp on title page
of a Rio de Janeiro bookseller, Livraria do Povo. (8 ll.), [v]-viii, 170 pp.
$125.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this book of poetry inspired by Edgar Quinet’s 1833
prose poem, Ahasverus. Pinheiro Chagas devotes a considerable part of his introduction
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to Quinet and Dias’s interpretation of him. The characters for this dramatic poem include
Oceano, a Serpente, Leviathan, Vinateyna, o Peixe Macár, a chorus of Giants and Titans,
God, various earthly rulers, “Tribus Humanas reunidas no alto do Himalaya,” Babylonia,
Christ, the Three Wise Men, and many, many, more.
Teófilo Dias (1854-1889), a native of Caxias, Maranhão, was a nephew of the poet
Antonio Gonçalves Dias, and like him, published while young several books of poetry
that were very well received: Flores e amores, 1874, and Cantos tropicais, 1878. In 1878, Dias
was involved in the “Battle of Parnassus” that was taking place in the columns of the
Diário do Rio de Janeiro, in which Romantics and partisans of the “New Idea” argued the
merits of their styles. Dias’ Fanfarras, 1882, was one of the most influential early works
in the Parnassian movement, and Dias remained a leading figure in the movement
through the 1880s, along with Raymundo Correia, Alberto de Oliveira and Olavo Bilac.
Occasionally Dias’s work even anticipates the Symbolists. Carpeaux compares Dias to
Luís Guimarães Júnior for his romantic emotionalism combined with Parnassian form,
and notes that while Dias was not very successful during his lifetime, “a historiografia
literária lhe guarda tenazmente o nome.” He is the patron of the 36th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
j This work not in Carpeaux, Pequena bibliografia crítica da literatura brasileira; for
other works, cf. pp. 164-5. This work not in Ford, Whittem & Raphael, Tentative Bibliography of Brazilian Literature; for other works by the author, cf. p. 60. On Dias, see Werneck
Sodré, História da literatura brasileira (1969) pp. 339, 466 n. 25, 567; Veríssimo, História da
literatura brasileira (1969) pp. 245-7; Bandeira, Brief History of Brazilian Literature (1964)
pp. 107-8; Putnam, Marvelous Journey pp. 166-8; Wilson Martins, História da inteligência
brasileira III, 447, 486; IV, 31-33, 35, 43, 155-6, 255-7, 285, 331, 475. NUC: CU, InU, RPB,
MH. OCLC: 8707113 (calling for 170 pp. only; 13 locations, including the HathiTrust
Digital Library, most of which appear to be digital copies); 558151032 (British Library:
calling for vii, 170 pp. only); 24457721 is a microfilm copy (calling for 170 pp. only). Not
located in Porbase, which has no works by Dias (although several for which he wrote a
preface). Copac locates a copy at the British Library.
*228. DIAS, Baltasar. Autos, romances e trovas. Introdução, fixação de texto,
notas e glossário por Alberto Figueira Gomes. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional,
1985. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. 8°, original printed wrappers.
As new. 416 pp., (1 l., 2 ll. adv., 1 l.). ISBN: none.
$65.00
The blind poet Baltasar Dias, born on the island of Madeira, perhaps between 1500 and
1517, probably flourished and may have died in the reign of D. Sebastião (1557–1578).
j On Baltasar Dias see Bell, Portuguese Literature, pp. 158–9, 289, 339; Saraiva &
Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed.), pp. 212–5, 223–4; Pedro Ferré in Machado,
ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 163; Maria Idalina Resina Rodrigues in Biblos,
II, 119–22; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses I, 370.
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229. DIAS, Baltasar. Conselho para bem cazar. Obra novamente feita, a
qual he chamada Conselho para bem cazar, porque em ella se tratão as mais
das cousas, que convém a tal conselho, muito proveitosa para os homens, e
mulheres. Agora novamente emendada, e accrescentada por Balthezar Dias.
Vay seguindo o Author que hum seu amigo lho mandou pedir pela maneira
seguinte. E n fim vay accrescentada huma carta a huma Senhora, que queria
aprender a ler. Lisbon: Por Domingos Carneiro, 1680. 4°, disbound and
inserted into recent marbled wrappers. Three woodcut figures, approximately 6 cm. high, on title page. Some soiling and toning. Overall in
good condition. 16 pp. Text in two columns.
$1,200.00
This frequently reprinted popular poetry falls into the genre known as “literatura
de cordel”. All editions are rare, especially those printed prior to 1750. Arouca cites one
of 1633 without providing any location, another of 1659 in the Biblioteca Nacional de
Portugal, and three supposedly different editions or issues dated 1680, the first in the
Biblioteca da Ajuda, the other two in the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo.
The main body of the work (pp. 2-15), is in verse. On p. 16 appears in prose a “Carta
a huma Senhora, que queria aprender a ler.”
The blind poet Baltasar Dias, born on the island of Madeira, perhaps between 1500 and
1517, probably flourished and may have died in the reign of D. Sebastião (1557–1578).
j Arouca 68 (appears to be a variant: the printer’s name is spelled “Carneyro”; cf.
Arouca D66 and D67, for editions or issues with only two figures on the title page by the
same printer with the same date, the first with the printer’s name given as “Carneiro”
while the second giving the printer’s name as “Carneyro”). Palha 1037 (printer’s name
given as “Carneiro”). Azevedo Samodães 1049 (printer’s name given as “Carneyro”).
Innocêncio VIII, 358 refers to a 1680 edition printed by “Domingos Carneiro”; for more
on the author see also I, 322; XVI, 94; and VIII, 357–8. This edition not listed by Pinto de
Mattos (1970); see p. 245 for editions of 1633, 1659, and 1719. On Baltasar Dias see Bell,
Portuguese Literature, pp. 158–9, 289, 339; Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa
(17th ed.), pp. 212–5, 223–4; Pedro Ferré in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa,
p. 163; Maria Idalina Resina Rodrigues in Biblos, II, 119–22; and Dicionário cronológico de
autores portugueses I, 370. OCLC: 82020926 (Houghton Library [which owns two different
1680 versions]: gives printer’s name as “Carneyro”). This edition not located in Porbase;
the only edition located was that of 1659, present in a single copy, in the Biblioteca
Nacional de Portugal. This edition not located in Copac, which only cites a 1763 edition
in a single copy at British Library.
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230. [DIAS, Baltasar]. Malicia das mulheres. Obra novamente feita, na
qual se tratão muitas sentenças, e authoridades ácerca da Malicia, que ha em
algumas dellas; e assim trata como duas Mulheres enganárão seus Maridos
graciosamente. Lisbon: Na Typ. de Antonio Lino de Oliveira, 1827. 4°,
unbound (loose; stitching gone). Woodcut vignette of two women
musicians on title page (one singing from sheet music, the other
playing a lute). Text in 2 columns. Uncut. Two small holes in second
leaf, affecting a few letters of text. Overall in good condition. 8 pp.
$150.00
Diatribe in verse about the natural malice of some women, treating their husbands
“like negros”, and how to recognize and deal with this phenomenon. This often reprinted
popular poetry falls into the genre known as “literatura de cordel”.
An advertisement for other books and pamphlets printed by the same typographer takes up most of the last page. A number of the titles cited are of a similar
nature to this one.
The blind poet and dramatist Baltasar Dias was born on the island of Madeira, probably
between 1500 and 1517, and may have died in the reign of D. Sebastião (1557–1578).
j This edition not listed by Innocêncio; four previous editions and one later are
cited: 1640 and 1793 (I, 322), 1788, 1794 and 1830 (XVI, 94); for more on the author, see
VIII, 357–8. The printing house Pommeret e Moreau of Paris included this title in a list
of their publications dated 1852. On Baltasar Dias see Bell, Portuguese Literature, pp. 1589, 289, 339; Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed.), pp. 212-5, 223-4;
Pedro Ferré in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 163; Maria Idalina
Resina Rodrigues in Biblos, II, 119–22; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses I,
370. OCLC: 51184346 (University of California-Berkeley, Harvard University-Houghton
Library, University of Toronto-Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library); also lists editions of
1656, 1659, 1738, 1759, 1761, 1794, 1856, 1862, and [189?]. Porbase locates two copies of
the present edition, in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and in the collection of the
Visconde de Trindade at the Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. Porbase also
cites editions of 1659, 1738, 1759, 1761, 1794, 1814, 1815, 1851, and 1856.
*231. DOWNES, Leonard S. Portuguese Poems and Translations. Lisbon:
Tipografia da Liga dos Combatentes da Grande Guerra, for The Author,
1946 [colophon]; 1947 [front cover]. Large 8°, original printed wrappers
(a bit dust-soiled). Front wrapper printed in red and black. Very good
condition. 58 pp. (1 l. colophon, 2 blank ll.).
$25.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. “Many of these poems and translations have already
appeared in the Anglo-Portuguese News.”
j OCLC: 15276753 (University of Georgia, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis,
University of California-Davis, Trinity College Library-Dublin, King’s College-London).
Porbase locates five copies: three in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and one each in
the Center for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies-Universidade Nova de
Lisboa, and the Biblioteca Geral da Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Copac repeats
Trinity College Library-Dublin and King’s College-London only.
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*232. DUARTE, Manuel Florentino, José Costa Leite, José Pacheco, et
al. Literatura de cordel: antologia. 2 volumes. São Paulo: Global Editora,
[1976]. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. Good to very good condition
overall. 168 pp., illustrated; 189 pp., (1 l.), illustrated.2 volumes.$35.00
Volume I contains an introductory essay by ethnographer Mário Souto Maio,
“Literatura popular em verso, literatura popular nordestina, literatura de cordel: uma
introdução,” including bibliographical endnotes (pp. 5-16). There is a bibliography by
the same writer (pp. 17-30). The rest of the volume contains illustrated popular poems
by Duarte, Leite, Pacheco, and José Soares, illustrated with woodcuts.
Volume II contains an “Apresentação” by Roberto Goldkorn (pp. 7-8) and an
unsigned “Nota introdutiva” (pp. 9-10), followed by popular poems and woodcut
illustrations by Abraão Batista.
*233. ECHEVARRÍA, Fernando [Ferreira]. Poesia, 1987-1991. Porto:
Afrontamento, 2000. Poesia, 41. Tall 12°, original illustrated wrappers.
As new. 238 pp. ISBN: 972-36-0554-6.
$28.00
This volume consists of two previously published, prize-winning poetical works,
both out-of-print for some time: Figuras (1987), was awarded the Prémio Inasset/Poesia;
Sobre os mortos (1991), won the Grande Prémio de Poesia, APE. The author has published
at least 15 previous volumes of poetry, beginning in 1956. He also received the Prémio
de Poesia do Pen Club for Introdução à filosofia (1981).
j See Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa,
p. 174; Fernando J.B. Martinho in Biblos, II, 221-3; Dicionário cronológico de autores
portugueses, V, 661-2.
*234. EMÍDIO, Joaquim António. Uma casa rente ao chão. Santarém: O
Mirante, 1996. Colecção Alma Nova. 8°, original illustrated wrappers.
As new. 64 pp. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: none.
$18.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author, a journalist and author of six books, born in
1955, founded and directed the newspaper and publishing house O Mirante in Santarém.
He has suffered judicial punishment for criticizing a government official, something
which would be impossible in the USA under the first amendment.
j OCLC: 833110346 (Yale University, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg
Carl von Ossietzky). Porbase locates three copies: Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto,
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. Not
located in Copac.
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235. ENCARNAÇÃO, D. Pedro da. Funebres Quexas del dolor, y reparados
consuelos del discurso en el fallecimiento de la Serenissisima Reyna la Señora
Dona Mariana de Austria, Madre del Serenissimo Rey Catholico Don Carlos
II. Lisbon: En la Emprenta de Manuel Lopes Herrera [sic; i.e.Ferreira],
1696. 4°, recent period sheep, spine gilt with raised bands in six compartments, crimson leather lettering piece in second compartment from
head, text block edges rouged. Woodcut vignette of fruit basket on title
page. Woodcut headpiece and large woodcut initial on second leaf recto.
Typographical headpieces, smaller woodcut initial, and large woodcut
tailpiece at end. Browning. Minor light dampstain. In good condition.
Contemporary manuscript foliation. 32 pp.
$400.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this poem in octavo rima in memory of D. Mariana
de Austria. It is dedicated to Don Manuel de Senmanat y Lanuza, Marques de Castel de
Rios, Spanish Ambassador to Portugal. The author was an Augustinian canon at Santa
Cruz de Coimbra, about whom little else is known. Innocêncio cites a funeral oration
by him for the Portuguese Queen D. Maria Sophia Isabel de Neuburg, celebrated in the
Royal Monastery of Odivelas on 19 October 1699, published by Manuel Lopes Ferreira
in Lisbon, 1700 (XVII, 199).
Maria Ana, or Mariana of Austria (1634-1696) was queen consort of Spain as the
second wife of King Philip IV, who was also her maternal uncle. At the death of her
husband in 1665, Mariana became queen regent, and she remained an influential figure
during the reign of her son Charles II, the last Spanish Habsburg.
j Arouca E8 (stating that the printed pagination begins on p. 7; in the present copy,
it begins on p. 8). Garcia Perez p. 156. Sousa Viterbo, Literatura hespanhola em Portugal,
p. 83 (citing a copy in the Biblioteca da Ajuda). Not in Goldsmith. Not in HSA. OCLC:
60410571 (Newberry Library). Porbase locates two copies, both in the Biblioteca Nacional
de Portugal, one lacking the four leaves of gathering C and otherwise in “mau estado”,
the other with leaves “perfuradas” and otherwise in “mau estado”. Not located in Copac.
Not located in CCPBE. Not located in Rebiun.
Two Earliest Published Books, and Perhaps the Two Most Important Works
By a Son of Portuguese Jews Probably Born at Cuenca
A Significant Spanish Golden Age Author
236. ENRIQUEZ GOMEZ, António [or Henriquez Gomez, or Henriques Gomes, or Enriquez de Paz]. Academias morales de las musas ….
Bordeaux: Pedro de la Court, 1642. 4°, nineteenth century quarter calf
over marbled boards (worming to leather on upper cover), two black
leather labels, gilt letter, edges sprinkled red. Copper-engraved titlepage. Full-page copper-engraved portrait. Woodcut initials, elaborate
woodcut headpiece at beginning of dedication, repeated on pp. 1, 115,
227, and 323, other woodcut headpieces and typographical vignettes.
Ruled divisional titles on pp. 75, 181, and 275. Title backed. Minor
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worming, almost exclusively in margins, but touching a few letters
of text. Some small, fairly light waterstains, restricted to first 60 or so
pages, a bit larger and slightly heavier in first few leaves. Light browning. Overall almost in good condition. Engraved title, (12 ll.), engraved
portrait, 478 pp., (2 ll.). Leaves ii and ii2 bound after ii3 and ii4; several
leaves incorrectly signed.
2 works bound in 1 volume. $6,000.00
FIRST EDITIONS of both works.
Scholarly accounts of the author’s life differ widely, and much research remains to
be done to sort out the conflicting assertions, although the following may be reasonably
accurate. Enriquez Gomez (1600-1663), the son of Portuguese Jews, was probably born in
Cuenca (some say Segovia, others Lisbon). Entering the military at the age of 20, he rose
to the rank of captain before fleeing to France in 1636 amid growing suspicions concerning his religious beliefs. He lived in Bordeaux, Rouen, and Paris, where he secured an
appointment as secretary to Louis XIII. While in France Enriquez Gomez also pursued
a distinguished career as a novelist, poet, and playwright. There are rumors of earlier
pliegos or sueltas; his first certain published book (preceded only by a pamphlet, Triumpho
lusitano, which appeared in 1641), Academias morales (Bordeaux, 1642), contains various
poetical works and four comedias. Surely due to its rarity, some bibliographers, never
having seen a copy, repeat the erroneous and improbable date of 1612 instead of 1642 for
the first edition. Two years later he published perhaps his best-known work, the picaresque
novel El siglo pitagórico y vida de D. Gregorio Guadaña (Rouen, 1644). Enriquez Gomez’s
dramatic output numbers over two dozen comedias—most composed in the Calderonian
manner—and possibly includes several written under the pseudonym(?) Fernando de
Zárate. The Inquisition was a frequent target of Enriquez Gomez’s pen, especially in the
second part of his Política angélica (Rouen, 1647) where he called for various reforms,
particularly relaxation of its emphasis on limpieza de sangre which had perhaps prompted
his own flight a decade earlier. Despite having been burned in effigy at an auto da fé in
Seville in 1660, Enriquez Gomez returned there shortly afterward. He was arrested by
the Inquisition and died in Seville in 1663, perhaps while still imprisoned.
j Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimés en France au XVIIe siècle, XIV, 153, no.
975 (without mention of the engraved title or engraved portrait; locating 6 copies including
the BL and HSA). García Péres pp. 279-80. Goldsmith E44. HSA p. 184 (imperfect copy).
Kayserling (rev. Yerushalmi) p. 49. Ladron de Guevara & Salvador Barahona, Ensayo de
un catálogo bio-bibliográfico de escritores judeo–españoles–portugueses I, 221 (citing the ghost
edition of 1612 [nº 936] as well as this true first edition [nº 937], the collation agreeing
with our copy). Simón Díaz IX, 4533 (citing four copies, one incomplete). Salvá 1229
(copy lacking a preliminary leaf), which lists editions of Valencia 1647 and Barcelona
1704; this edition missing from Heredia, which adds an edition of Madrid 1734. Not in
Ticknor Catalogue (earliest edition owned is Barcelona 1704). Ward, Oxford Companion to
Spanish Literature p. 162. See also Barrera y Leirado, Catálogo bibliográfico y biográfico del
teatro antiguo Español, pp. 134–45. On the author, see Kamen, Inquisition and Society in
Spain pp. 97, 230 and Enciclopédia universal ilustrada XX, 78-9.
BOUND WITH:
ENRIQUEZ GOMEZ, António [or Henriquez Gomez, or Henriques
Gomes, or Enriquez de Paz]. El siglo pitagorico, y vida de D. Gregorio
Guadaña.… Rouen: En la emprenta de Laurens Maurry, 1644. 4º, woodcut
vignette on title page, woodcut headpieces, large woodcut tailpiece on
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p. [152], woodcut initials. Worming somewhat more extensive than in
the previous work, but exclusively in the margins, not affecting text.
Light browning; some waterstains. (8 ll.), 267 pp.
j Palau 79833. García Péres p. 280. Goldsmith E53. HSA p. 184. Kayserling (rev.
Yerushalmi) p. 50 (giving incorrect date of 1647). Ladron de Guevara & Salvador Barahona, Ensayo de un catálogo bio-bibliográfico de escritores judeo–españoles–portugueses I, 223,
nº 944. Simón Díaz IX, 4544. This first edition not in Salvá, which lists the third, Rouen
1682, or Heredia, which adds one of Brussels 1727. Not in Ticknor Catalogue (which cites
the Rouen 1682 edition). NUC: NNH Not located in OCLC.
*237. ESPANCA, Florbela. Sonetos: Livro de mágoas; Livro de Soror Saudade; Charneca em flor; Reliquiae. Posfácio de Joaquim Manuel Magalhães.
Lisbon: Relógio d’Água, 2012. Colecção Poesia, 144 [according to the
listing in another volume in the series]. 8°, original illustrated wrappers
with dustjacket. As new. 201 pp., (5 ll., 2 blank ll.), full-page photograph
of Florbela in text. ISBN: 978-989-641-302-6.
$30.00
The posfácio, titled “Demasiado poucas palavras sobre Florbela” occupies pp.
[187]-201. Florbela de Alma da Conceição Espanca (1894-1930) was described by Bell
as “unquestionably one of the greatest if not the greatest Portuguese poetess of all
time. Her sonnets are poignant outpourings of her emotional life, and display her
accomplished art as a sonneteer.” For Saraiva and Lopes she is “uma das mais notáveis
personalidades líricas isoladas, pela intensidade de um transcendido erotismo feminino,
sem precedentes entre nós.” She published her first book of poetry (Livro de Mágoas)
in 1919, and her second (Livro de Soror Saüdade) in 1923. By 1974 her Sonetos completos
had gone through 14 editions.
j See also Cecília Barreira in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp.
177-8; José Carlos Seabra Pereira, in Biblos, II, 378-82; and Dicionário cronológico de autores
portugueses, III, 472-5.
*238. FALCÃO, Carlos Poças. Três ritos. Guimarães: Pedra Formosa,
1993. Colecção Arco Imperfeito, 2. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As
new. 51 pp. ISBN: none.
$18.00 FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author, born in Guimarães in 1951, abandoned the
practice of law for teaching and writing. He has published at least eight books, and has
contributed to a number of literary reviews.
j OCLC: 31012735 (Harvard College Library, Library of Congress, University of
Arizona, University of California-Los Angeles, Universitätsbibliothek Passau). Porbase:
seven copies located. Not located in Copac.
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*239. FARIA, Rosa Lobato de. Memória do corpo. Lisbon: Textual,
1992. Vozes. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 94 pp., (1 l.).
ISBN: none. $20.00
The author, an actress of stage and screen (both large and small), born in Lisbon in
1932, has published at least four volumes of poetry, and six novels, including O prenúncio
das águas (1999), which was awarded the Prémio Máxima de Literatura in 2000.
j See Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses VI, 133.
240. A feliz acclamação da Augustissima e Fidelissima Rainha Nossa
Senhora, por D.A.S. Lisbon: Na Offic. da Viuva de Ignacio Nogueira
Xisto, 1777. 4°, recent plain wrappers. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms
on title page. Slight toning and soiling. Very minor worming in upper
blank margin and blank lower corner, never affecting text. Overall in
good condition. 7 pp.
$80.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of a sonnet followed by a fourteen-stanza glosa honoring
the ascension of D. Maria I to the Portuguese throne. D. Maria (b. 1734) became Portugal’s
first queen regnant on February 24, 1777, after the death of her father D. José I. She reigned
until her death in 1816, although by 1792 she was suffering such severe mental illness
that her son, the future D. João VI, ruled in her stead (as regent starting in 1799).
j Coimbra, Miscelâneas VI, 8375. Not located in Innocêncio or Fonseca, Pseudónimos. Not in Guerra Andrade. NUC: ICN. OCLC: 60750350 (Newberry Library). Porbase
locates a single copy, in the Universidade Católica Portuguesa-Biblioteca João Paulo II.
Not located in Copac.
Hails the Ascension of D. Maria I to the Throne of Portugal
241. A feliz acclamação da Augustissima Rainha Nossa Senhora D.
Maria I no throno da Monarquia Portugueza. Lisbon: Na Regia Officina
Typografica, 1777. 4°, later plain green wrappers. Woodcut Portuguese
royal arms on title page. Woodcut initial on p. [3]. Browned. Overall
in good condition. Old oval paper tag with blue-and-white printed
border and ink manuscript “6” at center in upper inner corner of front
wrapper. Old ink inscription “14” in upper outer corner of title page.
14 pp., (1 blank l.).
$80.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this essay (with two poems as well), honoring D.
Maria I’s ascension to the throne; signed at the end “J.P.D.M.” Page 3 begins with the
heading, “Elogio poetico” and continues with “Que impeto mais veloz que o voo do
Pegazo me arrebata?”
D. Maria (b. 1734) became Portugal’s first queen regnant on February 24, 1777, after
the death of her father D. José I. She reigned until her death in 1816, although by 1792
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she was suffering such severe mental illness that her son, the future D. João VI, ruled in
her stead (as regent starting in 1799).
j Not in Innocêncio. Not in Imprensa Nacional. Fonseca, Pseudónimos. Not in Guerra
Andrade. Not located in NUC. OCLC: 752424844 (Koninklijke Bibliotheek); 60750353
(Newberry Library). Porbase locates four copies, two in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and two in the Biblioteca Central da Marinha. Not located in Copac.
*242. FÉRIN, Madalena. O anjo fálico. Angra do Heroísmo: SREC /
DRAC, 1990. Colecção Gaivota, 70. 8°, original illustrated wrappers.
As new. 55 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: none.
$10.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Awarded the Prémio “Antero de Quental” (Poesia),
Concurso Literário dos Açores, 1990. Commemorating the Death of the 21-Year-Old Female
Who Was Heir to the Portuguese Throne, Twice
243. FERREIRA, Francisco Leytam [or Leitão]. Affectos Lusitanos que
na intempestiva morte da serenissima senhora D. Isabel Luisa Josefa, Infanta
de Portugal, O mesmo Reyno offerece A immortal fama, perenne duração,
& perpetua memoria de seu soberano, Real, & Augusto nome. Glosa ao
decimonono soneto Das Rimas do Grande Luis de Camoens .... Lisbon: Na
Officina de Domingos Carneyro, Impressor das tres Ordens Militares,
1691. 4°, late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century purple quarter cloth
over marbled boards (front free endleaf detached). Woodcut initial.
Typographical headpiece. Circular repair in blank portion of title page
(where a stamp was removed?). Light browning and foxing. Overall in
near good condition. (6 ll.).
$300.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The sonnet by Camões appears on the recto of the
second leaf. The author’s poetic gloss on this sonnet occupies the following five pages,
beginning of the verso of the second leaf and continuing to the verso of the fourth leaf.
The next three pages contain a neo-Latin elegy for the princess, while the final page
contains licenses.
D. Isabel Luísa Josefa, Infanta de Portugal (1669-1690), was the daughter of D.
Pedro II and D. Maria Francisco de Savoy (1646-1683). In 1666, D. Maria was wed to
the mentally unstable and physically deficient D. Afonso VI. Soon D. Maria appeared
before the Cabildo de Lisboa to petition that her marriage be annulled on grounds of
non-consummation; when the Vatican confirmed the annulment in 1668, D. Maria married D. Pedro, D. Afonso’s younger brother and the heir to the throne. In 1669 their only
child, D. Isabel Luísa Josefa, was born.
Since D. Afonso VI had no offspring, she was named Princesa de Beira in 1674, a title
she held until her father succeed to the throne in 1683 and had a son by his second wife,
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in 1688. The child died, and D. Isabel was once again heir until the birth of the future D.
João V. D. Isabel was apparently charming and well educated, but was widely known to
be in poor health. The other crowned heads of Europe repeatedly refused alliances with
her, to the point that she became known as “Sempre-Noiva” (eternally engaged).
Francisco Leitão Ferreira (1667-1735), poet and historian, was prior of the Igreja do
Loreto in Lisbon. He was a member of the Academia Real de História Portuguesa. His
poems appear in the Fénix renascida, the Eva e ave, the Memórias históricas e panegíricas of
Fr. Manuel de Sá, as well as in manuscript anthologies, some of which were published
more recently. His Nova arte de conceitos is perhaps the only theoretical work on poetry
produced during his time.
j Arouca F87 (citing a copy in the Biblioteca da Ajuda). Barbosa Machado II, 169-73.
Innocêncio II, 415-7; IX, 319. OCLC: 82740913 (Harvard University-Houghton Library).
Not located in Porbase (an author search produced 24 “hits”). Not located in Copac.
*244. FERREIRA, José dos Santos. Doci papiaçám di Macau. Macau:
Instituto Cultural, 1990. Colecção Poetas de Macau, 1. 8°, original
illustrated wrappers. As new. 205 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-35-0103-1.
$35.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author (Macau, 1919-Hong Kong, 1993), best
known as “Adé”, was a great defender of the “patuá macaense” or criole language
of the territory, in which the present poetry was written
j Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 714-5.
*245. FERREIRA, José Gomes (1900-1985). O mundo dos outros: histórias
e vagabundagens. Preface by Mário Dionísio. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1990.
Obras Completas de José Gomes Ferreira, 7. 8°, original illustrated
wrappers. As new. 217 pp. ISBN: 972-20-0786-6.
$25.00
Eighth edition. First published 1950.
j On the author, see Fernando J.B. Martinho in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura
portuguesa, pp. 187-8; also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 59-62; and Rosa
Maria Goulart, in Biblos, II, 537-9.
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*246. FERREIRA, José Gomes (1900-1985). Poeta militante: viagem do
século vinte em mim. 2 volumes. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1990-1991. Obras
Completas de José Gomes Ferreira, 1-2. 8°, original illustrated wrappers.
As new. 353 pp.; 320 pp. ISBN: 972-20-0790-4; 972-20-0065-9.
2 volumes.
$70.00
Fourth edition. First published 1977.
j On the author, see Fernando J.B. Martinho in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura
portuguesa, pp. 187-8; also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 59-62; and Rosa
Maria Goulart, in Biblos, II, 537-9.
*247. FERRO, António. Árvore de Natal. Lisbon: Portugalia Editora, 1920.
8º, original illustrated wrappers. Front wrapper with color illustration
by Jorge Barradas. Uncut. Two short tears to front wrapper. Overall in
very good condition. Signature of Maria da Graça in green ink on half
title. (4 ll.), [11]-124 pp., (2 ll., 1 blank l., 1 l. errata).
$200.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this early collection of poems. The volume begins
with the title poem (pp. [11]-13). It is followed by a section of religious verse, consisting
of eight poems, with the general title “Jerusalêm” (pp. [15]-36), on Catholic religious
themes, including the Virgin Mary, prayer, the Sermon on the Mount, Mary Magdalene,
the Resurrection, and “Imitação de Christo”. The next section, “Abdicação” (pp. [37]-66),
consists of eight poems on subjects such as Epiphany, the Cathedral, the “Portuguese nun”
Soror Mariana, and our Lady of Poente. This is followed by a section entitled “Relíquias”
with another eight poems, “Ternura” with nine poems, and finally “Aladino” with six
poems, including “Scheherezade”, “Sevilha”, “Cabinda” and “Opio”.
António [Joaquim Tavares] Ferro (1895–1956), poet, journalist, “literary man of
action” and politician, was a friend of such noted Modernists as Fernando Pessoa, Mário
de Sá-Carneiro and Almada Negreiros, and was the editor of the periodical Orpheu, which
inaugurated the Portuguese Modernist movement in 1915; he was one of the first to
“discover” Fernando Pessoa. He also contributed to the Modernist review Exílio, as well
as to the more eclectic Contemporânea. Ferro participated in the Semana da Arte Moderna
in São Paulo, and contributed a Futurist manifesto to the Brazilian Modernist review
Klaxon. A journalist of international stature whose pieces were usually controversial,
he interviewed, among others, D’Annunzio, Pius XI, Mussolini, Clémenceau, Maurras,
Alfonso XIII, Primo de Rivera, and Poincaré. In 1925 he founded an avant-garde theater,
the Teatro Novo, and in 1936 established the Teatro do Povo, intended to give dramatic
performances in the furthest reaches of Portugal. For many years (beginning in 1933) he
directed the Secretariado da Propaganda Nacional, where he helped to define the “política
de espírito.” Ferro was married to the noted poet Fernanda de Castro.
The illustrator of the front wrapper, Jorge [Nicholson Moore] Barradas (1894-1971),
important Portuguese painter, ceramist, illustrator and caricaturist, was known by the
nickname “Barradinhas”. He belonged to the first generation of Portuguese Modernist
artists. His work is represented in some of the most significant Portuguese museums,
as well as in private collections. See Pamplona, Dicionário de pintores e escultores portugueses (rev. ed.), I, 175-7.
j Serpa 417. On António Ferro, see Paula Costa in Machado, ed., Dicionário de
literatura portuguesa, p. 194; João Bigotte Chorão in Biblos, II, 555–6; Dicionário cronológico
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de autores portugueses, III, 483–4; Rebello, 100 anos de teatro português pp. 74–5; Grande
enciclopédia XI, 221–2. OCLC: 36083339 (cited as an online resource, with 10 locations,
including the HathiTrust Digital Library; Harvard College Library, Ohio State University,
and University of Wisconsin-Madison appear to hold hard copies). Porbase locates three
copies: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica
Portuguesa, Faculdade de Letras-Universidade do Porto. Not located in Copac.
*248. FIDALGO, Paulo Jorge. Síntese poética da conjuntura. Lisbon:
Hiena, 1993. Colecção Ideias e Atitudes. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 60 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: none.
$18.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author (born in 1962 in Tras-os-Montes), has
published Do coração a jeito (1994) in the same collection, and has published a total of
eight books of poems.
j See Rosa Maria Martelo, Anos noventa: breve roteiro da novíssima poesia portuguesa,
p. 228. OCLC: 28838768 (Library of Congress, University of Arizona, University of
California-Los Angeles). Porbase locates four copies: Biblioteca Pública Municipal do
Porto, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra,
and Biblioteca Municipal de Elvas. Not located in Copac.
249. FIGANIERE [e Morão], Frederico Francisco [Stuart] de la,
Visconde de Figanière. Elva. A Story of the Dark Ages. London: Trubner & co., 1878. 8°, publisher’s blue–green cloth (slight wear). In
very good condition. Presentation inscription on verso of front free
endleaf: “To His Excellency // The Counsellor Antonio // Maria
do Couto Monteiro, // With the author’s compliments.” Engraved
armorial bookplate of J.G. Mazziotti Salem Garção of Porto, noted
mid–twentieth-century collector and wolfram magnate, with his
blindstamp on the title-page. viii, 194 pp., (1 l. advertisement).
$300.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this narrative poem in five cantos, set in the years
908 (Cantos 1–3), and 918 (Cantos 4–5), dedicated to Lady Augustus Loftus. The action
takes place in the Basque country, the story being based on a tradition which attributes
the first establishment of an hereditary lordship in Biscay to a certain Prince Fron, related
to the Saxon Kings of England. In the preface, the author draws the reader’s attention to
newspaper reports of the Carlist war being fought in the same region.
The author (1827-1908), was a native of New York, son of Joaquim Cesar de Figanière
e Morão, Portuguese Minister to Washington, and his second wife, Catarina (Catherine?)
Stuart Gifillan, a United States citizen. The future Viscount Figanière was married in 1848
to Miss Josephine Hunt, daughter of General James Hunt of the United States Army and
his wife Elizabeth Innis Vail. The author had served as principal aide to the Visconde de
Lavradio when Lavradio was Minister to Great Britain. The Visconde de Lavradio was
absent for long periods, during which Figanière took charge of the Ministry. He followed
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his father in the diplomatic service, later representing Portugal as Minister to Russia and
England. The author of various works of fiction, poetry, essays and historical works, his
Catálogo dos manuscritos portugueses existentes no Museu Britanico is still considered a useful
guide. He wrote in English, French and Portuguese. The title of Visconde de Figanière
was granted by D. Luís I in 1870.
j See Innocêncio III, 99; IX, 400 (this work not listed). Not located in NUC.
OCLC: 60700062 (Trinity College Library Dublin, National Library of Scotland, British Library, Cambrige University). Porbase locates a single copy, in the Biblioteca
Nacional de Portugal. Copac repeats the locations given in OCLC.
*250. FIGUEIREDO, Jaime de, ed. Modernos poetas caboverdianos, antologia. Praia: Imprensa Nacional for Edições Henriquinas, Achamento de
Cabo Verde, 1961. Large 8°, original printed wrappers (some very light
dampstaining). Light browning and occasional minor foxing. Overall
in good to very good condition; mostly unopened. xli, 197 pp., (1 l.),
errata slip.
$50.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this anthology of poetry by Cape Verdean authors.
The substantial introduction by the painter and public functionary Jaime de Figueiredo
(Praia 1905-1974) includes a list of the poets selected by date of birth (p. xxxv), and a bibliography (pp. xxxvii-xli). The poets included are Jorge Barbosa, Manuel Lopes, Osvaldo
Alcantara, Pedro Corsino Azevedo, António Nunes, Aguinaldo Fonseca, Guilherme
Rocheteau, Nuno Miranda, Arnaldo França, Tomaz Martins, Yolanda Morazzo, Ovídio
Martins, Vergínio Nobre de Melo, Gabriel Mariano, Terêncio Anahory, Cosino Fortes,
Jorge Pedro Barbosa, Onésimo Silveira, João Vário, and António Mendes Cardozo.
j Moser & Ferreira, New Bibliography of the Lusophone Literatures of Africa 2236.
*251. [FIGUEIREDO, Manuel de]. Relação das acções com que no Real
Mosteiro de Alcobaça se rendêram a Deos as graças pelos felicissimos annos
d’El Rey Dom José Primeiro Nosso Senhor, celebrando-se a inauguração da
estatua equestre, collocada em o dia 6 de Junho do anno de 1775 na Real Praça
do Commercio. Lisbon: na Regia Officina Typografica, 1775. Folio, earlytwentieth–century mottled sheep, spine richly gilt with raised bands in
seven compartments, crimson leather label, gilt letter, edges sprinkled
red. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title-page. Woodcut initial.
Printed on excellent quality paper. Minor dampstains in lower outer
blank margins of final leaves. Otherwise in very good to fine condition.
Unidentified bookplate with initials “R.T.”. (1 l.), 159 pp. $500.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of these poems in Portuguese, Latin and (p. 96) Hebrew,
commemorating D. José I, the Marquês de Pombal, and the completion of the equestrian
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statue of D. José in the Praça do Commercio (“Black Horse Square”) in Lisbon. This
bronze statue, dedicated on D. José’s sixty-first birthday, remains one of Lisbon’s most
important monuments, dominating one of the major squares of Europe.
Figueiredo (died ca. 1794?), a Cistercian monk at Alcobaça, was chronicler for his
order in Portugal and the Algarve. He wrote a considerable amount of verse, as well
as historical and genealogical works, and probably edited the volume (see Innocêncio)
and contributed some of the essays. Authors of poems include the abbot of Alcobaça,
Bernardo Osorio, and students and teachers at the Real Collegio de Alcobaça.
j Innocêncio V, 429: calling for 159 p. only. Imprensa Nacional p. 93 and p. 295 (n.º
132). See Grande Enciclopédia, XI, 313. Azevedo-Samodães 2736: calling for only (1 l.), 150
p. Not in Palha. Not in Ameal or Avila-Perez. Not located in NUC.
252. FIGUEIROA, Diogo Ferreira de. Theatro da mayor façanha, e gloria
portugueza …. Lisbon: Officina de Domingos Lopez Rosa e a sua custa,
1642. 4°, mid-twentieth-century mottled sheep, spine gilt with raised
bands in five compartments, crimson leather lettering pieces in second and fourth compartments, gilt letter, text block edges sprinkled
red and green, pink silk ribbon place marker. Woodcut royal arms
on title-page, large woodcut tailpiece repeated three times. Light to
moderate dampstaining throughout, light soiling and abrasion to
title-page with loss of one letter, closely trimmed with bottom line
of imprint shaved, internal tear in B3 silked with loss of 2-3 letters, 2
small holes in E7 and H3 not affecting text. In somewhat less than good
condition. Two early ink manuscript signatures on A1 and H3. (4), 62
ll. ¶4 A-G8 H6, but with the third leaf signed *3 instead of ¶3. Leaf 48
wrongly numbered 15; leaf 49, in some copies wrongly numbered 53,
has its foliation neatly removed: there is a small square hole, neatly
repaired with tissue paper on the verso.
$650.00
FIRST EDITION, variant issue. This rare poem in six cantos celebrates the Restoration
of Portuguese independence. Ferreira de Figueiroa (1604-1674), a native of Villa d’Arruda
dos Vinhos (just north of Lisbon), was in the household of the Duque de Bragança D.
João, acclaimed as D. João IV of Portugal on 1 December 1640.
At least two issues are known: one has only two licenses, dated 6 and 7 Feb. 1642,
on leaf ¶2r; the other issue has two additional licenses on ¶2r, dated 16 and 18 April 1642.
The present copy has 4 licenses on ¶2r, dated as noted above.
j Arouca F119. Innocêncio II, 158 (“não pude vêr até agora algum exemplar”); IX,
124; XVIII, 191. Barbosa Machado I, 653-4. Exposição bibliográfica da Restauração I, 524.
Perição de Faria, Trindade 122: “obra rara.” Fonseca, Elementos bibliográficos para a história
das guerras chamadas da Restauração 197. Pinto de Mattos (1970) p. 288. Goldsmith F161.
HSA p. 203. Gubián 316. Monteverde 2345: an incomplete copy. Avila-Perez 6429. Bell,
Portuguese Literature p. 262. Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976)
p. 438. Not in Palha, which cites the Porto, 1878 reprint (n.º 814). Not in AzevedoSamodães, which has the Porto reprint (n.º 1210). Not in Ameal. Not located in NUC.
OCLC: 35566095 (fourteen locations, including the HathiTrust Digital Library; there
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appear to be hard copies of the 1642 edition at Houghton Library, Thomas Fisher Rare
Book Library-University of Toronto, and University of Wisconsin-Madison only);
560208430 (British Library); 248264732 (Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg
Carl von Ossietzky, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz). Porbase
locates three copies: two in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (one described as being
in “mau estado”, the other missing the first four leaves), and one in the colleciton of
the Visconde da Trindade, now at the Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra.
Copac repeats British Library only.
253. FORNER Y SAGARRA, Juan Pablo. Sátira contra los vicios
introducidos en la poesia castellana …. Madrid: Joachin Ibarra, 1782.
4°, disbound. Very minor soiling to first and last leaves. In fine
condition. (1 l.), 34 pp.
$700.00
FIRST EDITION of a work in verse that earned a prize from the Real Academia
Española in 1782. Forner y Sagarra (1756-1797), a satirist and literary critic, was notorious for such works as El asno erudito, in which he attacked Iriarte’s insensitive ear and
pedestrian imagination. His satires became so harsh that three years after the Sátira
appeared he was forbidden to publish any more works in the genre. Ward notes: “Forner
concludes that the Spanish language is not actually dead, but merely swooning from a
loss of blood” (Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature p. 216).
j Palau 93673. Aguilar Piñal III, 4271. Whitehead, “Ibarra” p. 213. Whitehead, British
Library Eighteenth-Century Spanish STC F196. Not in Ruiz Lasala. NUC: DLC, MnU, NIC,
CU, CoU, NjP, OOxM, TxLT.
*254. FRAIÃO, Mário Machado. Os barcos levam nomes de mulheres.
Ponta Delgada: Editorial Éter, 1995. Mutationes Lunae. Tall 12°, original
illustrated wrappers. As new. 53 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: 972-755-027-4.
$18.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author was born in 1952 in the city of Horta on
the island of Faial. He has published several books of poems, and is represented in
anthologies of poets from the Açores.
j OCLC: 36078515 (Yale University, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
Brown University). Porbase locates three copies: Biblioteca Pública Municipal do
Porto, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra.
Not located in Copac.
*255. FRANCISCO, José do Carmo. Mesa dos extravagantes. Santarém:
O Mirante, 1996. Colecção Alma Nova. 8°, original illustrated wrappers.
As new. 80 pp. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: none.
$12.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author was born in 1951 in Santa Catarina (Caldas
da Rainha). A journalist, he has collaborated with a number of newspapers and reviews,
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and written more than a dozen books. His first book, Iniciais, 1981, was awarded the
Prémio Revelação de Poesia by the Associação Portuguesa de Autores.
j See Ruy Ventura in Jacinto Prado Coelho, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa …
Actualização, II, 360. OCLC: 41232883 (Yale University Library, Cornell University Library,
Harvard College Library, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky).
Porbase locates five copies: Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto, Biblioteca Nacional de
Portugal, Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, Casa Fernando Pessoa-Lisboa,
Escola Superior de Gestão-Santarém. Not located in Copac.
Devotional Poem in Honor of the Madonna
256. FRANCISCO de São Carlos, Fr. A Assumpção, poema composto
em honra da Santa Virgem por … Nova edição correcta, e precedida da
biographia do auctor e d’um juizo critico ácerca do poema pelo conego Dr.
J.-C. Fernandes Pinheiro. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria de B.-L. Garnier,
1862. 8°, contemporary publisher’s green quarter morocco over green
pebbled boards (minor stains on covers, toward edges), spine with
raised bands in five compartments, gilt, with author and title in the
second compartment from the head and gilt panels in the others; green
sides with large elaborate gilt-stamped Madonna on upper cover and
gilt-stamped vase in a niche on lower cover, bookseller-publisher’s
name and address stamped in gilt at fore-edge of front dentelle, white
moiré paper endleaves, green silk ribbon place marker, all text block
edges gilt. Some foxing and spotting, mostly light. Overall in very
good condition. Ownership inscription of F.M.L. da S. dated 1862 on
penultimate endleaf (upside-down). (2 ll.), xliv, 275 pp. $800.00
Third appearance (second separate edition) of a poem in 8 cantos on the Virgin Mary
that originally appeared in Rio de Janeiro, 1819, and was reprinted as part of the Epicos
brazileiros by the Visconde de Porto Seguro in 1844. This edition includes a biography of
the author (pp. [ix]-xxi) and a critical evaluation of the poem (pp. [xxiii]-xliv).
Frei Francisco de São Carlos was one of the most famed orators of his time. This
is his only published poem; Sacramento Blake writes that it includes “os mais bellos
e variados episodios, as mais ricas e seductoras imagens, e descripções locaes, vivas
e expressivas, com que glorificando a Virgem, de quem fallas com o mais sublime
enthusiasmo, amor e dedicação, glorifica ao mesmo tempo a patria.” (Blake includes a
26-line excerpt.) The author had planned extensive revisions, but Innocêncio notes that
they did not appear in this edition. The author (secular name Francisco Carlos da Silva)
was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1768, and died there in 1829. He entered the Franciscan
order at age 13, and lived for some years at Macau.
j Sacramento Blake III, 121-3. Innocêncio II, 362-4; IX, 275. NUC: MH, NNH.
OCLC: 20100636 (Indiana University, Harvard University, University of Dayton, Brown
University, University of Texas-Austin, calling for only 275 pp.); 492647602 (Bibliothèque
Sainte-Geneviève, with xliv, 275 pp.); 55280588 (Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, calling for
xliv, 275 pp.); 794351431 (HathiTrust digitized copy, at 4 locations); 367663604 (microfiche,
2 locations). OCLC locates only one earlier edition, Rio de Janeiro, 1819 (38651081, at
Newberry Library and Stanford University). Porbase locates a single copy at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa-Biblioteca João Paulo II (xliv, 275 pp.), plus a copy of the Rio de
Janeiro, 1819 edition at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. No edition located in Copac.
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Item 258
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Manuscript Copy of a Scandalous Satire on the
Professors at Coimbra, Written by a Native of Minas Geraes
257. [FRANCO, Francisco de Mello.] ”A Estupides, poema.”
Manuscript on paper, in Portuguese, probably copied 1785 or
slightly later. 4° (21 x 15 cm.), stitched, laid into later wrappers.
Written in ink, in several legible hands. Light browning in opening
leaves, but overall very good. (2 ll.), 19, 23 pp., paginated by the
original scribe; second set of pagination begins with the third Canto.
$800.00
This satire, which was circulating as early as 1785, was aimed at the professors of
the University of Coimbra (among others) and created an enormous scandal. It did not
appear in print until it was published in Paris, 1818, with the title Reino da estupidez. Later
editions appeared in Hamburg [i.e., Paris], 1820; Paris, 1821; Lisbon, 1833; Barcellos, 1868;
and Rio de Janeiro, 1910.
This manuscript copy has, above the prologue and the beginning of the first Canto,
a quote from Boileau that does not appear in the printed text: “Rien n’est beau que le
vrai, le vrai seul est aimable.” Aside from that, there are some minor variants from the
first edition, e.g., “Eu te vatesino desde hoje uma desgrasada sorte” where the printed
version reads “Eu te vaticino desde já huma desgraçada sorte” (from the Prologue).
Although Reino da estupidez appeared anonymously, Mello Franco is generally
credited with the authorship, and the Brazilian José Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva is said
to have collaborated. Mello Franco, born in Minas Geraes in 1757, practiced medicine
in Lisbon until 1817, then returned to Brazil. For his liberal writings and associations he
spent several years in the dungeons of the Inquisition. His Tratado da educação fysica dos
meninos, Lisbon 1790, is the first work by a Brazilian on pediatrics. His Medicina theologica,
ou supplica humilde, Lisbon 1794, the first book in Portuguese on psychosomatic medicine,
led him to be called a precursor of Freud.
j On the first edition (Paris, 1818) and later editions, see Borba de Moraes (1983) I,
321 and Período colonial pp. 144-5; Blake III, 44-7; Innocêncio III, 10; and Ramos, A edição
da lingua portuguesa em França (1800-1850) 42. OCLC: For the first edition (Paris, 1818),
see 28030073, 460967887, and 42925492, a total of 7 copies.
Another Manuscript Copy of a Scandalous Satirical Poem
Aimed at Professors at Coimbra
258. [FRANCO, Francisco de Mello]. ”O Reino da Estupidez.”
Manuscript in Portuguese, porbably copies between 1785 and 1818
(the date of the first published edition). 4°, later marbled wrappers.
Written in a large, even, very legible hand. Overall in very good to
fine condition. Apparently complete, with 33 unnumbered leaves
(all catchwords match).
$850.00
At the end of the Prologue (f. 4r) is the note, “Edição correta, e consideravelmente
aumentada,” but it is not clear what version it is revised and augmented from; comparison with the first and fourth printed editions show significant differences from
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them. This satire, which was circulating as early as 1785, was aimed at the professors
of the University of Coimbra, among others. It created an enormous scandal. Not until
1818 did it appear in print, and then only in Paris. Later editions appeared in Hamburg
[i.e., Paris], 1820; Paris, 1821; Lisbon, 1833; Barcellos, 1868; and Rio de Janeiro, 1910.
It was also included in the sixth volume of the Parnaso Lusitano, Paris 1834.
Facing the first page of the first Canto, this manuscript copy has a quote from
Boileau that does not appear in the printed text: “Rien n’est bon que le vrai, Le vrai seul
est aimable.” There are some significant differences from the printed text, for example
in Canto I the manuscript reads, “Se buscão por entre a verdade, e o falço/ Manifesta
deviza, e só descanças/ Quando das couzas tens a vaa medulla …” (f. 7v), while the first
and fourth editions read, “Se por entre a verdade, e falso buscas/ Manifesta diviza, e só
descansas,/ Quando das cousas tens a san medulla!” (p. 6 of the 1818 edition).
Although Reino da estupidez appeared anonymously, Mello Franco is generally
credited with the authorship, and the Brazilian José Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva is said
to have collaborated. Mello Franco, born in Minas Geraes in 1757, practiced medicine
in Lisbon until 1817, then returned to Brazil. For his liberal writings and associations he
spent several years in the dungeons of the Inquisition. His Tratado da educação fysica dos
meninos, Lisbon 1790, is the first work by a Brazilian on pediatrics. His Medicina theologica,
ou supplica humilde, Lisbon 1794, was the first book in Portuguese on psychosomatic
medicine and caused him to be called a precursor of Freud.
j On the first edition of Paris, 1818, as well as later editions, see Borba de Moraes
(1983) I, 321 and Período colonial pp. 144-5; Blake III, 44-7; Innocêncio III, 10; and Ramos,
A edição da lingua portuguesa em França (1800-1850) 42.
Satirical Poem Aimed at the Professors of the University of Coimbra
259. [FRANCO, Francisco de Mello]. Reino da estupidez, poema. Paris:
A. Bobée, 1818. 12°, contemporary tree sheep (very slight wear), spine
gilt, text-block edges sprinkled red. Small stain at foot of last few leaves,
not affecting text. Overall in very good to fine condition. Bookplate of
the Visconde de Torrão. xi, 62 pp.
$4,500.00
FIRST EDITION of this satire aimed at the professors of the University of Coimbra, among others. It was circulating anonymously in manuscript as early as 1785, and
caused an enormous scandal, but did not appear in print until this edition of 1818. Later
editions appeared in Hamburg [i.e., Paris], 1820; Paris, 1821; Lisbon, 1833; Barcellos,
1868; and Rio de Janeiro, 1910. It was also included in the sixth volume of the Parnaso
Lusitano, Paris 1834.
Mello Franco, born in Minas Geraes in 1757, practiced medicine in Lisbon until 1817,
then returned to Brazil. For his liberal writings and associations he spent several years in
the dungeons of the Inquisition. His Tratado da educação fysica dos meninos, Lisbon 1790,
is the first work by a Brazilian on pediatrics. His Medicina theologica, ou supplica humilde,
Lisbon 1794, was the first book in Portuguese on psychosomatic medicine and led him
to be called a precursor of Freud.
Borba de Moraes mentions a leaf preceding the half-title, blank on the recto and
reading, “Printed by T.C. Hansard Peterborough-court, Fleet-Street, London” on the
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verso. In Período colonial, Borba notes that the leaf is often missing, and is not counted in
the pagination; it is apparently not part of the first quire, which is of 6. We have never
seen a copy with such a leaf present.
j Borba de Moraes (1983) I, 321: “rare”; Período colonial pp. 144-5. Blake III, 44-7.
Innocêncio III, 10: giving 1819 as the date of the first edition, and without collation.
Ramos, A edição da lingua portuguesa em França (1800-1850) 42. NUC: WU. OCLC: 28030073
(Catholic University of America, Harvard University, University of Wisconsin at Madison);
460967887 (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, University of Munich); 42925492 (University
of Colorado at Boulder).
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Satirical Poem Aimed at the Professors of the University of Coimbra
*260. [FRANCO, Francisco de Mello]. Reino da estupidez, poema. Paris:
A. Bobée, 1818. 12°, mid-twentieth-century polished calf, flat spine with
crimson sheep lettering pieces, gilt letter, covers with blind-stamped
milled borders, marbled endleaves. Repair to upper outer corner of
final leaf, affecting a few letters on p. 62. Overall in good to very good
condition. xi, 62 pp.
$1,200.00
FIRST EDITION of this satire aimed at the professors of the University of Coimbra,
among others. It was circulating anonymously in manuscript as early as 1785, and caused
an enormous scandal, but did not appear in print until this 1818 edition. José Bonifacio de
Andrada e Silva is said to have collaborated in it. Editions later appeared with imprints of
Hamburg [i.e. Paris], 1820; Paris, 1821; Lisbon, 1833; Barcellos, 1868; and Rio de Janeiro,
1910. It was also included in the sixth volume of the Parnaso Lusitano, Paris 1834.
Mello Franco, born in Minas Geraes in 1757, practiced medicine in Lisbon until 1817,
then returned to Brazil. For his liberal writings and associations he spent several years in
the dungeons of the Inquisition. His Tratado da educação fysica dos meninos, Lisbon 1790,
is the first work by a Brazilian on pediatrics. His Medicina theologica, ou supplica humilde,
Lisbon 1794, was the first book in Portuguese on psychosomatic medicine and led him
to be called a precursor of Freud.
Borba de Moraes mentions a leaf preceding the half title, blank on the recto and
reading “Printed by T.C. Hansard Peterborough-court, Fleet-Street, London” on the
verso. In Período colonial, Borba notes that the leaf is often missing, and is not counted in
the pagination; it is apparently not part of the first quire, which is of 6. We have never
seen a copy with such a leaf present.
j Borba de Moraes (1983) I, 321: “rare”; Período colonial pp. 144-5. Blake III, 44-7.
Innocêncio III, 10: giving 1819 as the date of the first edition, and without collation.
Ramos, A edição da lingua portuguesa em França (1800-1850) 42. NUC: WU. OCLC: 28030073
(Catholic University of America, Harvard University, University of Wisconsin at Madison);
460967887 (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, University of Munich); 42925492 (University
of Colorado at Boulder).
Satirical Poem Aimed at the Professors of the University of Coimbra
*261. [FRANCO, Francisco de Mello]. Reino da estupidez, poema. Nova
edição, correcta. Paris: Officina de A. Bobée, 1821. 12°, contemporary
quarter dark green sheep over marbled boards (slight wear to corners,
head of spine), flat spine gilt, text-block edges sprinkled green. Overall
in fine condition. Paper label (partially defective) pasted near head of
spine. x, 62 pp.
$800.00
Third edition of this satire aimed at the professors of the University of Coimbra,
among others. It was circulating anonymously in manuscript as early as 1785, and caused
an enormous scandal. It did not appear in print until 1818, and then in Paris. José Bonifacio
de Andrada e Silva is said to have collaborated in it. Editions later appeared with imprints
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of Hamburg [i.e. Paris], 1820; Paris, 1821; Lisbon, 1833; Barcellos, 1868; and Rio de Janeiro,
1910. It was also included in the sixth volume of the Parnaso Lusitano, Paris 1834.
Mello Franco, born in Minas Geraes in 1757, practiced medicine in Lisbon until
1817, then returned to Brazil. For his liberal writings and associations he spent several
years in the dungeons of the Inquisition. His Tratado da educação fysica dos meninos, Lisbon
1790, is the first work by a Brazilian on pediatrics. His Medicina theologica, ou supplica
humilde, Lisbon 1794, the first book in Portuguese on psychosomatic medicine, led him
to be called a precursor of Freud.
j Borba de Moraes (1983) I, 322; Período colonial p. 145. Blake III, 44-7. Innocêncio
III, 10: giving 1819 as the date of the first edition. Ramos, A edição da lingua portuguesa em
França (1800–1850) 43 (incorrectly giving the same collation as for the 1818 edition).
Satirical Poem Aimed at the Professors of the University of Coimbra
262. [FRANCO, Francisco de Mello]. Reino da estupidez, poema. Nova
edição. Lisbon: J. Nunes e Filho, 1833. 16°, nineteenth-century marbled
boards (reinforced with strip of plain paper down spine; hinges weak).
Clean and crisp. Overall fine. 60 pp.
$250.00
Fourth edition of this satire aimed at the professors of the University of Coimbra,
among others. It was circulating anonymously in manuscript as early as 1785, and caused
an enormous scandal, but the first printed edition was Paris, 1818. José Bonifacio de
Andrada e Silva is said to have collaborated in it. Editions also appeared at Hamburg [i.e.
Paris], 1820; Paris, 1821; Barcellos, 1868; and Rio de Janeiro, 1910. It was also included in
the sixth volume of the Parnaso Lusitano, Paris 1834.
Mello Franco, born in Minas Geraes in 1757, practiced medicine in Lisbon until 1817,
then returned to Brazil. For his liberal writings and associations he spent several years in
the dungeons of the Inquisition. His Tratado da educação fysica dos meninos, Lisbon, 1790,
was the first work by a Brazilian on pediatrics, and his Medicina theologica, ou supplica
humilde, Lisbon 1794, was the first book in Portuguese on psychosomatic medicine, and
led him to be called a precursor of Freud.
j Blake III, 44-7: without collation. Innocêncio III, 10: without collation, and giving
the publisher as João Nunes Esteves; describing the first edition as Paris, 1819. This edition not listed in Borba de Moraes (1983); see also I, 321-2 and Período colonial pp. 144-5;
but see (1958) I, 275. Not located in NUC.
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