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Affonso Celso
Afonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo Júnior (Ouro Preto, 1860-Rio
de Janeiro, 1938), granted by Pope Pius X the title Conde de Afonso
Celso in the Holy See, better known as Afonso Celso, was a Brazilian
teacher, poet, historian and politician. He was one of the founders of the
Brazilian Academy of Letters, where he occupied chair number 36, and
was elected president in 1925 and 1935. Son of Afonso Celso, Visconde
de Ouro Preto, the last President of the Council of Ministers of the
Brazilian Empire, he was elected for four consecutive terms as deputy
to the national parliament from Minas Gerais. With the proclamation of
the republic, in 1889, he withdrew from politics to accompany his father
in exile. Devoting himself to journalism and teaching, for more than 30
years he regularly contributed articles to the Jornal do Brasil and Correio
da Manhã. He held the chair of political economy at the Faculdade de
Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais do Rio de Janeiro. After the death of the
Barão Rio Branco, in 1912, he was elected perpetual president of the
Instituo Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, a post he held until 1938.
Afonso Celso was great grandfather of the musician Dinho Ouro Preto,
vocalist of the rock band Capital Inicial.
1. CELSO [de Assis Figueiredo Júnior, Conde de], Affonso. Giovannina.
Rio de Janeiro: Domingos de Magalhães, Livraria Moderna, 1896. 8°,
contemporary crimson quarter morocco over marbled boards (spine a bit
browned, head and foot of spine slightly defective, joints beginning to
crack, other minor binding wear), smooth spine gilt. Monogram vignette
of Domingos de Magalhães on title page. Small tear at outer margin of
half title. Upper outer corner of pp. 189-90 torn away, affecting page
numbers and touching a bit of text, but not affecting legibility. Light
foxing. Overall in good condition. Oval stamp in lower portion of half
title recto: "Da Biblioteca de Oswaldo Cabral de Mello". Rectangular
stamp of Livraria Brandão, Recife, at bottom of front free endleaf recto.
227 pp., (2 ll.). $100.00
First separate edition of this play, or novel in dialogue form. It had appeared in a
volume with two other works by the author titled Notas e Ficções, Rio de Janeiro: H.
Garnier (1893?). The present volume contains an errata on the penultimate unnumbered
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leaf recto, with a note by the author of 31 lines on the verso, dated 2 September 1896,
which is presumably new to this edition.
❊ Ford, Whittem and Raphael, Tentative Bibliography of Brazilian Belles-Lettres, p. 46
(without collation). Menezes, Dicionário literário brasileiro, p. 187. Not located in NUC.
2. CELSO, Affonso. Notas e ficções. Rio de Janeiro: Domingos de
Magalhães, - Editor, Livraria Moderna [printed at Typographia
Mont'Alverne], 1894. 8°, contemporary navy morocco over marbled
boards Some wear), smooth spine gilt (much faded, with strip of
cellophane tape at foot), with short author and title lettered gilt. In
good condition overall. Ink manuscript signature of Oswaldo Cabral
de Mello on title page. Red circular stamp of Ramiro M. Costa & Filhos
at center of front free endleaf recto; Blue rectangular stamp of Livraria
Brandão, Recife near bottom of same endleaf. [3]-296 pp., (1 l.), iv pp.
advt. Page iii of the advt. wrongly numbered ii. The collation of the
UCLA copy, digitized, agrees with ours. Pp. [1-2], probably either a
blank leaf or half title, must have been canceled.
$100.00
FIRST EDITION.
Provenance: Owaldo Cabral de Mello (Recife, 1881-Recife, 1952) was a lawyer.
❊ Ford, Whittem and Raphael, A Tentative Bibliography of Brazilian Belles-Lettres, p. 46,
cites a later edition, dated 19--; see also pp. 46-7 for 24 other titles by this author. NUC:
lists a later, undated edition at NN, MH, ICarbS. OCLC: 1318038891 (Biblioteca Nacional
de Chile); 20230609 (Universsity of California Los Angeles, University of New Mexico,
Universidade de São Paulo); 896963064 (UCLA copy digitized).
3. CELSO, Affonso. Um invejado. 2 volumes. Rio de Janeiro: Domingos
de Magalhães, 1894-1895. 8°, original beige printed wrappers (volume
II with rear wrapper detached; head & foot of spine defective) .
Internally. good to very good. Overall in just barely good condition.
Green Stamp of Livraria Economica de Francisco Nogueira, Irmão &
C, Pernambuco, on front covers, title page of volume I and half title of
volume II. Contemporary ink manuscript signature on title pages. 314
pp., (2 ll.); 270 pp., (1 l.).
2 volumes.
$65.00
FIRST EDITION. Volume I is dated 1894 on the title page and 1895 on the front wrap-
per. Volume II is dated 1895 on both.
❊ Ford, Whittem and Raphael, A Tentative Bibliography of Brazilian Belles-Lettres, p.
47, cites this title without any information about date or place of publication; see also
pp. 46-7 for 24 other titles by this author. NUC: TxU. OCLC: 557697582 (British Library).
No edition located in Porbase.
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Alcindo Guanabara
Alcindo Guanabara (1865 -1918) was a Brazilian journalist and
politician. Journalist from 1886, he was an articulate republican and
abolitionist. He participated in the Constituinte of 1891 and was a
federal deputy for Rio de Janeiro (1891–1893) and for the Distrito
Federal (1894–1899 and 1906–1911), senator for the Distrito Federal
(1912–1917) and Rio de Janeiro (1918). In 1906, he was the author of the
Lei do Sorteio, which instituted obligatory military service.
4. GUANABARA, Alcindo. A Presidencia Campos Salles. Politica e finanças
1898-1902. Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1902. 8°, navy blue half sheep
over cloth boards (wear at corners, joints), spine with raised bands in
five compartments, gilt letter, top edge tinted blue, other edges uncut,
original printed wrappers (lightly soiled) bound in. Light browning.
In good to very good condition. 517 pp.
$150.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales (Campinas, São Paulo
1841-Santos, São Paulo, 1913) served as Brazil's fourth president, from 1898 to 1902.
This work, published the year his tenure ended, discusses with approval his austere
financial reforms.
❊ Not located in NUC.
Tristão de Alencar Araripe Junior
Araripe Junior (Fortaleza, 1848-Rio de Janeiro, 1911) ranked as a
literary critic with Sílvio Roméro and José Veríssimo.
5.ARARIPE JUNIOR, Tristão de Alencar. Litteratura brazileira.
Movimento de 1893. O crepusculo dos povos. Rio de Janeiro: Empreza
Democratica Editora, 1896. 8°, late twentieth-century navy quarter
cloth over machine-marbled boards, spine with raised bands in
six compartments, rather crude gilt lettering. In good condition.
(4 ll.), 254 pp.
$120.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. In this work the author discusses Machado de Assis,
Sílvio Roméro, José de Alencar, Ibsen, and an assortment of other novelists, poets, and
short-story writers. Roméro (critiquing the critic) described Araripe Junior's work as
"psychological and impressionistic, at times paradoxical and metaphysical, at other
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times obscure and excessively refined" (quoted in Bandeira, Brief History of Brazilian
Literature p. 136).
❊ Sacramento Blake VII, 325. Ford, Whittem and Raphael, Tentative Bibliography of
Brazilian Belles-Lettres, p. 9. Not in Innocêncio; on the author, see XIX, 297. See also Luciana
Murari, "O espírito da terra: A teoria da cultura brasileira de Araripe Jr.," Luso-Brazilian
Review 44:1 (2007), pp. 20-44. NUC: CU, DCU-IA, MH.
Artur Nabantino Gonçalves de Azevedo
Artur Nabantino Gonçalves de Azevedo (1855-1900) was a Realist,
best known as a dramatist and writer of short stories. He participated
in the "Battle of Parnassus,'" waged between the Romantics and Realists
in the pages of the Diario do Rio de Janeiro, 1870. A native of São Luis,
Maranhão, he was the brother of novelist Aluísio de Azevedo.
6. AZEVEDO, Artur [Nabantino Gonçalves de]. Contos possiveis. Prosa
e verso. Rio de Janeiro: B.L. Garnier (Impressa a vapor H. Lombaerts
& Comp.), 1889. Large 12°, contemporary quarter calf over marbled
boards (worn at corners and outer edge of front cover; other minor
binding wear), spine with raised bands in five compartments, gilt
fillets and lettering, marbled endleaves. Two leaves sprung, with their
outer edges a bit frayed. Overall in good to very good condition. vii,
198 pp., (1 l.).
$300.00
FIRST EDITION.
❊ Ford, Whittem and Raphael, Tantative Bibliography of Brazilian Belles-Lettres, p.
20: citing this edition only in a note to the 1908 edition, and giving no collation. NUC:
DLC. OCLC: 35734584 (Library of Congress, British Library). This edition not located in
Porbase, which lists a single copy of the 1908 edition at the Instituto António Sérgio. Jisc
repeats the British Library as the only United Kingdom location. Hollis cites the 1908
edition only. No edition located in Orbis.
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Henrique Maximiano Coelho Netto
Henrique Macimiano Coelho Netto (1864-1934) was born in Caxias,
Maranhão, to a Portuguese father and Indian mother. From his earliest
years he was fascinated with native lore as well as the Portuguese
and Latin classics; both had profound effects on his writings. He is
difÏcult to classify, and has been called both a realist and a romanticist.
Certainly he was one of the most vocal adversaries of the Modernist
movement, and the Modernist authors responded by excluding his
works from anthologies for many years. In the Academia Brasileira de
Letras, however, he was held in such esteem that he was nominated
for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933. To Machado de Assis he was
"dos nossos primeiros romancistas, e geralmente falando, dos nossos
primeiros escritores"; to Silvio Roméro, he was one of the sixteen best
Brazilian writers, and "o mais imaginoso de todos" (both quoted in
Faria, pp. 126, 128).
Coelho Netto left an enormous oeuvre of over 120 volumes, including
novels, plays, short stories, folktales, and political and historical essays.
His works have been translated into French, English, German, Italian,
Spanish, Swiss, Russian, Japanese, Danish and Esperanto.
*7. COELHO NETTO, [Henrique Maximiano]. Balladinhas. Rio de
Janeiro: Domingos de Magalhães, 1894. 8°, recent dark green quarter sheep
over marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands in five compartments,
crimson leather lettering piece, gilt letter, decorated endleaves, top edge
tinted green, other edges uncut, original printed wrappers bound in.
Occasional light foxing and light browning. Wrappers a bit frayed.
Overall in good to very good condition. Unidentified contemporary
inscription on half-title. 286 pp., (1 l.).
$250.00
FIRST EDITION of this collection of short stories.
❊ Menezes, Dicionário literario brasileiro, pp. 196-8. Carpeaux, Pequena bibliografia
crítica da literatura brasileira, pp. 178-80. Faria, ed., Coelho Neto, Romance (Nossos Clássicos
15). Paulo, Coelho Netto, pp. 189 and throughout. Goldberg, Brazilian Literature, pp. 248-
60. Bandeira, Brief History of Brazilian Literature, pp. 119, 121. Hollis lists only the 1922
edition, as do Melvyl (copies at SRLF and CSL), British Library Integrated Catalogue,
and Library of Congress Online Catalog. Orbis lists a 1924 edition. Porbase cites editions
of 1922 and 1924.
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8. COELHO NETTO, Henrique Maximiano. Conferencias litterarias. Rio
de Janeiro: H. Garnier, 1909. 8°, contemporary red quarter morocco over
marbled boards (minor wear at extremities, joints starting), smooth spine,
gilt author, title, and ornaments, "M.S." at foot. Light browning. Some
leaves reinforced with tissue at inner margin; a few leaves loosening.
Overall in near-good to good condition. Front pastedown endleaf has
bookplate of Prof. Mario Guimarães de Souza of Recife and small tag
of Livraria Brandão Sebo, Recife and Salvador. (2 ll.), 146 pp., (1 l.), 36
pp. advertisement for books available from Livraria H. Garnier. $100.00
FIRST EDITION of this collection of lectures given from 1901 to 1906 on charity,
words, water, fire, and mirrors, plus a speech welcoming Mario de Alencar to the
Academia Brasileira.
❊ Menezes, Dicionário literario brasileiro, pp. 196-8. Carpeaux, Pequena bibliografia crítica
da literatura brasileira pp. 178-80. Faria, ed., Coelho Neto, Romance (Nossos Clássicos 15).
Paulo Coelho Netto, Coelho Netto, pp. 189 and throughout. Goldberg, Brazilian Literature,
pp. 248-60. Bandeira, Brief History of Brazilian Literature, pp. 119, 121. Not located in NUC. .
First Book of this Mixed-Race Author, Part Indigenous American
9. COELHO NETTO, Henrique Maximiano. Rhapsodias. Rio de Janeiro:
Imprensa Lombaerts, Marc Ferrez & Comp., 1891. 8°, recent quarter
mottled sheep over marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands
in six compartments, two green leather labels in second and fourth
compartments from head, top edges rouged, other edges uncut; original
lime green printed wrappers bound in (worn, remargined), red silk
ribbon place marker. Partly unopened. Minor soiling on first and final
leaves. Overall in very good condition. viii, 172 pp.
$500.00
FIRST EDITION of the author's first published book, a collection of short stories.
This work appeared again in Rio de Janeiro and Paris, 1911, and Paris, 1923.
❊ Coelho Netto, Bibliografia (1956) 2 (works are listed in chronological order; 1 is O
meio, 1889, a periodical edited by Coelho Netto, suspended by the provisional government,
and described as a great rarity). Coelho Netto Bibliografia (1972) 162. NUC: IU. OCLC:
23199553 (University of Illinois, calling for only viii, 167 pp., hence missing the final story,
"A Cegonha"). Not located in Porbase. Not located in Jisc.
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