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Definitive (and Only) Edition of a Cartographical Manuscript
Crucial to the Study of the Portuguese in Asia
*1. BOCARRO, António. O livro das plantas de todas as fortalezas, cidades e
povoações do estado da Índia Oriental. 3 volumes. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacio-
nal, 1992. Folio (28 x 21 cm.), publisher’s green leatherette, spines gilt,
boxed. As new. 170 pp., (10 ll.), illustrated, including 11 full-page and
2 double-page color illustrations (2 are portraits, 1 genealogical tree, 6
plans of fortalezas, and 4 maps, 2 of them double-page), other illustrations
in black and white, including facsimiles, maps, etc.; 277 pp., (4 ll.); (2 ll.),
48 ll. charming color plans. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-27-0444-3.
3 volumes. $300.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION; a valuable, definitive study. Volume I consists of an
“Estudo histórico, codicológico, paleográfico e índices” by Isabel Cid. Volume II contains
her transcription of the text of the original manuscript, dated 1635, in the Biblioteca
Pública e Arquivo Distrital de Évora. Volume III contains the 48 separate color plates, of
a very good quality, depicting plans of fortalezas. Among those represented are Sofala,
Mozambique, Mombaça, Mascate, Diu, Damão, Trapor, Baçaim, Bombaim e Caranja,
Morro de Chaul, Chaul, Cananor, Cranganor, Cochim, Meliapor, Malacca, Macau, and
Solor. Now out of print, and “searched for”.
Definitive Bibliography of Early Rio de Janeiro Printing
*2. CAMARGO, Ana Maria de Almeida, and Rubens Borba de Moraes.
Bibliografia da Impressão Régia do Rio de Janeiro (1808-1822). São Paulo:
Editora da Universidade de São Paulo / Livraria Kosmos, 1993. Folio
(27 x 20.5 cm.), publisher’s illustrated boards with dust jackets. Slight
wear to dust jackets. Overall in very good condition; very fine internally.
xxxii pp., (1 l.)., 430 pp.; xvii pp., (1 l.), 248 pp., many facsimiles of title
pages in text. ISBN: 85-314-0181-X.
$200.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this important bibliography, a thorough revision
and expansion of Alfredo do Valle Cabral’s classic Annaes da Imprensa Nacional do Rio
de Janeiro de 1808 a 1822 (Rio de Janeiro, 1881). Valle Cabral listed 1,251 items published
in Rio de Janeiro at the Impressão Régia prior to 1823. Almeida Camargo and Borba de
Moraes have newly described no fewer than 897 additional publications, bringing the
total to 2,148 items. Since virtually no printing was done in Brazil prior to 1808, and the
Impressão Régia had few rivals prior to 1823, this new bibliography describes the great
majority of early Brazilian imprints.
The Bibliografia is divided into two volumes: volume I describes 1,428 books, pamphlets
and periodicals, and volume II covers 720 royal decrees, laws, and other government
documents. Each item is fully described, with transcriptions of title-page and imprint
or colophon, collation, contents, helpful annotations, references, and locations of copies
examined in important Brazilian and Portuguese collections.
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Valuable Revised Edition of this Influencial Exhibition Catalogue
*3. CARTER, John, and P.H. Muir. Printing and the Mind of Man. Second
Edition, Revised and Enlarged. With a New Introduction by Percy H. Muir,
Additional Bibliographies by Peter Amelung, and a Revised Index. Munich:
Karl Pressler, 1983. Folio (32 x 22.5 cm), publisher’s cloth with dust
jacket, in publisher’s plain slipcase. Very slight wear to dust jacket. Ink
squiggle to cover of slipcase. In very good condition overall; internally
very fine. xxv, v-xxxiv pp., (1 l.), 280 pp., (1 blank l.). Considerable
illustration in text. Main text in 2 columns.
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Previously Owned by Kings Carlos I and Manuel II of Portugal
Much Important Information on Brazil, Ceylon, as well as the
Voyages of Cadamosto, Cabral, Vespucci and Magalhães
*4. Collecção de noticias para a história e geografia das nações ultra-
marinhas que vivem nos dominios portuguezes, ou lhes são visinhas, pub-
licada pela Academia Real das Sciencias. 7 volumes. Lisbon: Typografia
da Academia, 1812-1856. 4°, nineteenth-century quarter dark blue calf
over marbled boards (some minor wear, skillfull repairs to spines of
volumes III & VII), flat spines gilt in romantic style, gilt letter, marbled
endleaves (first five volumes only), text block edges of first five volumes
sprinkled blue-green. Preliminary leaves of volume I and preliminary
leaves of volume I, part 4 printed on bluish “papel sellado”; all of
volume II printed on “papel sellado”, some on bluish paper; pp. [181
216 of volume IV on white “papel sellado”. A fine set. Bookplates of D.
Manuel II. Royal monogram of D. Carlos I stamped on title pages. viii
pp., (2 ll.), 178 pp., (errata l.), viii, 118 pp., (1 l. advt.); xvi, 394 pp., (1 l.);
(4 ll.), 432 pp.; (4 ll.), 216 pp., (1 blank l., divisional title, 2 ll.), 120 pp.;
(4 ll.), x, 274 pp., (3 ll. index, 3 ll. advt.), folding map of Ceylon (foxed);
(2 ll.), 312 pp., 6 folding tables; (2 ll.), 33 pp., (1l. errata), 553 pp.
7 volumes. $5,000.00
FIRST EDITIONS. Borba had never seen a copy of the first edition of the second
volume. This set has the first issue of volume IV, with the original third leaf rather than
the cancel leaf usually encountered.
This collection has many fascinating and important works on Brazil, including a letter
by José de Anchieta, S.J., on São Paulo; Jeronymo de Albuquerque’s notes on Maranhão;
descriptions of the Madeira, Amazon and Negro rivers, and of Bahia and Grão Pará. There
are also accounts of voyages by Cadamosto, Cabral, Vespucci and Magalhães, as well as
a work on Ceylon. Many of the texts are published here for the first time.
The six folding tables in volume VI are numbered IV, IV-A, V, VI, VII and VIII.
Borba calls for six folding tables, unnumbered. They are not mentioned in any of the
other references consulted, except for Azevedo Samodães, which refers to “algumas ff.
desdobraveis”. We have been informed that the two copies of volume VI of this work
at the Harvard University Library both contain six folding tables numbered as in the
present copy. One of the sets at Harvard conforms exactly to the collation of the present
one. The other has volume II in the second edition, and volume IV in the second issue.
❊ Borba de Moraes (1983) I, 189-190: giving the date of the second edition of vol.
II, but not the first; giving the date of vol. V, part 1 as 1839 rather than 1836: describes
the collection as “becoming scarce”; with a complete list of the contents; cf. the minor
differences in the collation given by Borba and that given for our set, above. Innocêncio
II, 87-88. Leclerc, Biblioteca Americana (1878) 126. Rodrigues 658 (lacking volume V, and
with volume II in the second edition). Monteverde 1653. Azevedo-Samodães 800. Avila
Perez 1842. Palacio de Correio-Velho, Biblioteca de Suas Majestades El-Rei D. Carlos I e El-
Rei D. Manuel II (1989), 3 (the present collection). NUC: DLC (1812-1814 [sic?], 7 vols.).
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*5. DIAS, João José Alves, and Pedro Pinto, eds. Cortes portuguesas:
Reinado de D. Afonso IV (1325-1357). Suplemento. Lisbon: Centro de Estu-
dos Históricos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2023. Large 8°, original
illustrated wrappers. As new. 335 pp., extensive annotation, analytical
index. One of 150 copies. ISBN: 974-989-54304-4-4.
$65.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Important work, limited to 150 copies, with useful ana-
lytical index and other critical apparatus. Transcriptions by Alves Dias and Pedro Pinto.
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