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The Azores
Proposed Port at Villa Franca do Campo
1. ABRANCHES, João Antonio Garcia d’. Senhores representantes da
nação portugueza. [Begins]: A Camara Municipal de Villa Franca do Campo
da Ilha de S. Miguel …. [Colophon] Lisbon: Offic. a St.ª Cathari.ª n. 12,
1834. 4°, later plain green wrappers. Caption title. In very good condi-
tion. Bibliographical note tipped inside front wrapper, paper tag shelf
mark on back wrapper. Small white paper tag with serrated edges,
presumed shelf mark in later ink manuscript on lower inner corner of
rear wrapper. 8 pp.
$350.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION? Concerns the construction of a dock at Villa Franca
do Campo, São Miguel, a favorite project of the author, who never saw it to completion.
Garcia d’Abranches (1769-1845), whom Innocêncio believed to be a native of S. Miguel,
but was probably born at Ceia, district of Guarda, later became a naturalized Brazilian.
He did spend several years on the Island of São Miguel in the Azores from 1830. In 1789
he had emigrated to Brazil, settling at São Luís de Maranhão. Between 1825 and 1830 he
published and edited there the Censor Maranhense, defending the Emperor D. Pedro I in
opposition to the newspapers of Odorico Mendes.
❊ Innocêncio III, 290; X, 154-5. Sacramento Blake III, 325-6. Canto, Bibliotheca aço-
riana 1090 (giving a slightly different transcription of the caption title). Perhaps Canto,
Inventario 8. Cf. Afonso, Bibliografia geral dos Açores 13: Representação em nome da Câmara
Municipal de Vila Franca do Campo, with 8 pp., Lisbon 1834. Not located in NUC. OCLC:
503793337 (British Library); 989056774 (computer file). Not located in Porbase, which
cites a similar work of 16 pp. in two copies, both at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.
Not located in Jisc. Not located in KVK (51 databases searched)
With 35 Lithograph Views of Towns, Buildings and Costumes and a
Large Folding Panorama of the Waterfront at Ponta Delgada
2. ABRANCHES, Joaquim Candido. Album Michaelense. Introduction
by Francisco Maria Supico. Ponta Delgada: Manoel Correa Botelho, 1869.
Large 8°, contemporary tan quarter calf over red textured boards (some
minor wear), smooth spine with gilt fillets, author and title. Some soil-
ing to title page, preliminary leaves nicked at fore-edges and browned.
The rest of the text and all plates are very good to fine. Overall in good
condition. Small old rectangular white paper ticket with red border,
serrated edges and manuscript presumed shelf location tipped on to
upper outer corner of front pastedown endleaf. xiv, 138 pp., 1 litho-
graph map, 1 double page folding lithograph view, 35 lithographs (on
34 leaves).
$1,200.00
FIRST EDITION. This detailed description of the island of S. Miguel in the Azores,
by a long-time resident, includes a variety of historical, ecclesiastical, economic and
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political information. At the end are tables on exports, expenses at local hospitals, school
attendance, the height above sea level of various locations on the island, etc. The map
shows geographical features and towns; the 35 lithographs (signed “Serrano” or “S”) are
views of towns, of government and religious buildings and of costumes. There is a large
folding lithograph panorama of the waterfront of Ponta Delgada, as viewed from the sea.
❊ Innocêncio XII, 30. Canto, Biblioteca Açoriana 1178. Canto, Inventario 10. NUC: DLC.
Comprehensive Analysis
3. AÇORES. Junta Geral da Provincia Oriental. Exposição chronologica
dos trabalhos da Junta Geral da Provincia Oriental dos Açores do anno de 1833.
Publicada pelos individuos, que composerão a mesma. Lisbon: Na Imprensa
da Rua dos Fanqueiros N.º 129 B, 1834. 4°, disbound, text block edges
sprinkled blue-green from an early binding. Woodcut tailpieces. In
Good to very good condition. 56 pp., 2 large folding tables.
$500.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Includes detailed information regarding education,
trade, commerce, imports and exports for the Eastern islands of the Azores.
❊ Canto, Biblioteca açoriana 717. Canto, Inventario 648. Not in Innocencio or Fonseca,
Aditamentos. Not in Kress, Luso-Brazilian Economic Literature Before 1850. Not located in
OCLC. Not located in Porbase. Not located in Jisc. Not located in KVK (51 databases
searched). Not located in Holis or Orbis. Not located in the online catalogues of Library
of Congress or Newberry Library.
*4. AFONSO, João. Bibliografia geral dos Açores: sequencia do Dicionário
bibliográfico portugues. Volumes I and II: A-BR and BR-CU. 2 volumes.
Angra do Heroísmo: Secretaria Regional da Educação e Cultura, 1985.
Large 8°, publisher’s cloth with dust jacket. As new. 462 pp., (1 l.); 462
pp., (1 l.). ISBN: none.
2 volumes.
$85.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Volume I covers the letters A-BR; volume II covers BR-CU.
*5. AFONSO, João. Bibliografia geral dos Açores: sequencia açoriana do
Dicionário bibliográfico portugues. Volume III: CUN-FUT [last published to
date]. Angra do Heroísmo: Secretaria Regional da Educação e Cultura,
1997. Large 8°, publisher’s cloth with dust jacket. As new. 682 pp., (1
l.). ISBN: 972-647-128-1.
$85.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION.
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6. AGUIAR, João Jose d’. Memoria descriptiva da inauguração do retrato
do fallecido par do reino Conde da Praia da Victoria no Salão Nobre do Palacio
da Camara Municipal de Angra do Heroismo no dia 1.º de Janeiro de 1874.
Ponta Delgada: Empreza Typographica dos Açores, 1874. 8°, original
green printed wrappers (small nick to blank portion of front wrapper;
slight fraying; minor soiling; rear wrapper almost detached). Title page
and front wrapper within woodcut chain link. Small woodcut vignette
tailpiece on p. 33. In good to very good condition. 33 pp.
$250.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION.
❊ Innocêncio, X, 284. Canto, Biblioteca açoriana 1126. Canto, Inventario 44. Not in
Afonso, Bibliografia geral dos Açores. Not located in OCLC. Not located in Porbase. Not
located in Jisc. Not located in KVK (51 databases searched).
*7. AIRES, Fernando. Histórias do entardecer. Angra do Heroísmo: SREC
/ DRAC, 1988. Colecção Gaivota, 62. 8°, original illustrated wrappers.
As new. 49 pp., (5 ll.). ISBN: none.
$20.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. This book of short fiction was awarded the Prémio
“Nunes da Rosa”—Concurso Literário Açores/88.
Survey of the the Island of São Miguel in the Azores
With Suggestions for Commercial Improvements
8. ALBUQUERQUE, Luiz da Silva Mousinho de, and Ignacio Pitta
de Castro Menezes. Observações sobre a ilha de S. Miguel recolhidas pela
Commissão enviada a mesma ilha em Agosto de 1825, e regressada em Outubro
do mesmo anno. Lisbon: Na Impressão Regia, 1826. 4°, contemporary
half tan calf over green boards (stained), smooth spine with crimson
morocco lettering piece, gilt letter and fillets. Woodcut Portuguese royal
arms on title page. Printed on thick paper of excellent quality. For the
most part clean and crisp. In very good condition overall. 43 pp., 3 large
lithograph folding maps (2 with short tears).
$800.00
FIRST EDITION. There exists a facsimile edition of 1989 published by the Câmara
Municipal de Povoação, which appears to be of even greater rarity than the original.
Observações includes a history of São Miguel since its discovery by the Portuguese in
1427, a survey of its secular and ecclesiastical divisions, and statistics on military, agri-
culture, education, trade, and property ownership. The list of necessary improvements
(pp. 34-36) includes a larger bay and better roads. Valle das Furnas and its waters are
considered on pp. 37-43.
The large folding lithographs include a military and hydrographic map of the Island
of São Miguel (38.6 x 61 cm.); a plan of the Valle das Furnas on the same island (36 x 47.5
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cm.); and a plan of the hot springs in the Valle das Furnas (36.7 x 45.8 cm.). The first was
prepared by Lieutenant Colonel José Carlos de Figueiredo in 1824, while the two plans
were prepared by the authors in 1825.
Mousinho de Albuquerque (1792-1846), became a colonel in the army engineer-
ing corps, Provador da Casa da Moeda (where he lectured on physics and chemistry),
Governor of Madeira, Inspector of Public Works, deputy in various legislatures, and
minister in several constitutional governments. An active proponent of the liberal cause,
he died at Torres Vedras of a bullet wound in the Lutas da Patuleia. A member of the
Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, his textbook Curso elementar de física e química
(5 volumes, Lisbon 1824) is said to be the first such complete work in Portuguese, while
Ideas sobre o estabelecimento da instrucção publica (Paris 1823) was a comprehensive plan
for university reform.
❊ Innocêncio V, 323. Canto, Biblioteca açoriana 1811. Canto, Inventario 72. NUC:
ICN, DLC, MoSU. OCLC: 27968704 (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Harvard
Business School, Newberry Library, Washington University in St. Louis, Bibliothèque
central du Museum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque interuniversitaire Sainte-
Geneviève, Universitätsbibliothek Kassel); 458858015 (Bibliothèque nationale de France);
504308498 (British Library); 1062277713 (Internet resource digitized from British Library
copy). Porbase locates seven copies: two in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, three
in the Instituto de Investigação Científica e Tropical, and one each in the Biblioteca João
Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and the Biblioteca Central da Marinha. Jisc
repeats British Library only.
Survey of the the Island of São Miguel in the Azores
With Suggestions for Commercial Improvements
9. ALBUQUERQUE, Luís da Silva Mouzinho de, and Ignacio Pitta de
Castro Menezes. Observações sobre a Ilha de S. Miguel recolhidas pela com-
missão enviada á mesma ilha em Agosto de 1825, e regressada em Outubro do
mesmo anno. Lisbon: Na Impressão Regia, 1826. Large 4° (27 x 20.5 cm.),
twentieth-century tan sheep (third quarter? very slight wear), smooth
spine gilt, covers with double-ruled borders in blind, front cover with
authors, title, and date in gilt, machine-marbled endleaves, top edges
rouged, other edges uncut. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title
page. Internally fresh, clean, and crisp. Overall in very good to fine
condition. 43 pp., three large lithographic folding maps.
$600.00
FIRST EDITION. There exists a facsimile edition of 1989 published by the Câmara
Municipal de Povoação, which appears to be of even greater rarity than the original.
Observações includes a history of São Miguel since its discovery by the Portuguese in
1427, a survey of its secular and ecclesiastical divisions, and statistics on military, agri-
culture, education, trade, and property ownership. The list of necessary improvements
(pp. 34-36) includes a larger bay and better roads. Valle das Furnas and its waters are
considered on pp. 37-43.
The large folding lithographs include a military and hydrographic map of the Island
of São Miguel (38.6 x 61 cm.); a plan of the Valle das Furnas on the same island (36 x 47.5
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