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Rare Belém de Pará Imprint
1. ABREU, José Coelho da Gama e, later Barão de Marajó. Falla com
que o Excellentissimo Senhor Doutor José Coelho da Gama e Abreu presidente
da provincia abriu a 2ª sessão da 21ª legislatura da Assembléa Legislativa da
Provincia do Gram-Pará em 16 de Junho de 1879. [Belém de] Pará: Typ.
Liberal do Pará, 1879. Small folio, original blue printed wrappers (light
foxing, corners curling, small defects at head and foot of spine). Light
marginal foxing. In good to very good condition. 50 pp., (1 l.), xxx pp.,
2 large folding tables, many tables in text.
$400.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION, rare. This speech made at the opening of the provincial
legislature of Grão Pará provides a wide ranging picture of the state of the province,
covering education, the public library, police, militiary, public health, waterworks, public
gardens, commerce, finance, etc. There is also a section covering the various municipali
ties of the province. The final xxx pp. contain “Annexos” with an introduction by José
Luiz Coelho, followed by documents and statistical analysis.
José Coelho da Gama e Abreu, Barão de Marajó, a native of Belém de Pará (1832-1906),
was a Brazilian political figure and historian. He was President of his native province
from 1879 to 1881, and previously served as President of the province of Amazonas from
1867 to 1868. Having spent much of his childhood in Portugal, studying mathematics
and earning a degree in philosophy at Coimbra University, Abreu returned to Pará in
1855. Among his publications was a travel account: Do Amazonas ao Sena, Nilo, Bósphoro
e Danúbio … 3 volumes, Lisbon, 1874-1876, and A Amazôna. As Províncias do Pará e Ama
zonas e o governo central deo Brazil, Lisbon, 1883. He was a member of the Real Academia
das Sciencias de Lisboa.
❊ Sacramento Blake IV, 386-7 (giving a shortened title, and without collation). Not
located in OCLC. Not located in Porbase. Not located in Jisc. Not located in KVK (51
databases searched).
2. ABREU, Ludovicus Philippus de [i.e. Luís Filipe de Abreu]. Theses
ex Universo Jure Selectae, quas .... [Colophon] Coimbra: Typis Academicis,
1859. Large 8°, original printed wrappers on pale yellow embossed
paper. In very good to fine condition. 20 pp.
$75.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this Latin resumé of the Coimbra University doctoral
thesis defended by Luís Filipe de Abreu (1836-1905).
❊ Not located in OCLC. Porbase locates a single copy, in the Biblioteca Nacional
de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copy cited
by Porbase.
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3. [ACADEMICO TRANSMONTANO, Um]. Ode. [after quotes from
Claudian and Camões, text begins:] Transmontanos guerreiros! Quando trôa /
O sonóro clarim da Independencia .... N.p.: n.pr., (1809?). 8°, stitched, with
paper reinforcement at spine. Uncut. Fine. Old ink number “122” in
upper inner corner of first leaf recto, on paper reinforcement. 8 pp.
$200.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. We have been able to locate only one other copy, in the
Fundo Barca-Oliveira at the Biblioteca Pública de Braga. The work probably dates to 1809,
when Marshal Soult invaded Portugal from the north and was temporarily repulsed by
Portuguese militia at the Minho River. Page 3 includes the lines, “em Tras-os-Montes /
SEPULVEDA immortal o brado alçando, / Proclama a Liberdade!”
Porbase identifies “Academico Transmontano” as Antonio Pimentel Soares, but
since he was born in 1804, this cannot be the same author.
❊ Biblioteca Pública de Braga, Catálogo do Fundo Barca-Oliveira, p. 184. Not in Ayres
Magalhães de Sepúlveda, Dicionário bibliográfico da Guerra Peninsular. Not in Fonseca,
Pseudónimos. Not in Guerra Andrade, Dicionário de pseudónimos. Not located in OCLC.
Not located in Porbase. Not located in Jisc.
Neo-Latin Poem and Oration
4. Ad Illustrissimos, ac Excellentissimos DD. Ferdinandum de Portugal,
et Petrum de Mello Breyner, filios, alterum Excellentissimae Valentiae
Marchionissae alterum Excellentissimae Ficalii Comites, nuper ad Regiam
Supplicationis Domum, Regio Placito, ac Munere, à Portuensi, Senatu
arcessitos, brevis Oratio, quasi in itinere, seu potius maestissimo discessu
habita a eiusdem Senatus Senatore consociato, addictissimo, ac obsequentissimo
A.P.S.P. Portu [i.e., Porto]: Ex Typ. Antonii Alvarez Ribeiro, 1787. Large
8°, stitched. Small wood-engraving of a crown on title page. Printed in
elegant italic throughout, with generous margins. Title and final leaf
soiled and darkened. In good condition. 18 pp., (1 blank l.).
$100.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of a neo-Latin poem p. [3], followed by an address,
also in Latin. The poem is addressed to Antonio Procopio, a senator in Porto, possibly
“A.P.S.P.” on the title page, perhaps the oration author’s initials, which could stand for
António Procopio da Silva Pina [or Pinna], also author of Oração aos Serenissimos Principes
do Brasil o Senhor D. João, e a Senhora D. Carlota, no faustissimo dia dos annos da Serenissima
Senhora D. Maria Thereza, Princeza da Beira sua filha.… Lisbon: Na Offic. de Simão Thaddeo
Ferreira, 1794. He was corregedor da comarca de Ponte de Lima in 1780, where he favored
the founding of a Sociedade Patriotica, with the aim of furthering agriculture, industry
and commerce. The dedicatees, D. Fernando de Portugal and D. Pedro de Mello Breyner,
were sons of the Conde de Ficalho and the Marquesa de Valença.”
❊ Not in Guerra de Andrade, Dicionário de pseudónimos. Not in Fonseca, Pseudónimos.
Not located in OCLC. Not located in Porbase. Not located in Jisc. Not located in KVK
(51 databases searched).
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5. Additamento á Curtissima exposição de alguns factos. [Colophon] Lis
bon: na Imprensa Nacional, 1847. 4°, old brown wrappers with design
facing inward (clasped hands and “Enighet Stycke”). Caption title. A
few pencil marks; old faint mark (removal of a tag?) in corner of first
leaf. Overall in very good condition. 14 pp., (1 blank l.).
$100.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. An addition to the Curtissima exposição de alguns factos
published by the Diario do Governo in August 1847. It dealt mostly with the Duque de
Saldanha. Here the author (who signs in print as “Um Portuguez”) reacts to 13 accusa
tions made against the Curtissima exposição.
The Duque de Palmella responded in 1847 with Carta ao editor do Diario do
Governo em resposta á Curtissima exposição d’Alguns Factos. Júlio Gomes da Silva
Sanches responded to this work with Algumas inexactidões do Additamento á Curtis
sima exposição d’alguns factos, 1847.
❊ Not located in Innocêncio. Not located in Fonseca, Pseudónimos. Not located in
OCLC. Porbase locates 6 copies, all at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc.
Was Cleric Legitimately Chosen During War of Independence?
6. Adicion a la admonicion fraternal del parroco del Obispado de Concep
cion, dirigida al autor del impreso: Gloria á Dios y á su Santa Iglesia. Sr. D.
Juan Vidaurre. Hermano en Jesucristo, segunda vez vuelve á hablaros vuestro
compatriota, no solo animado del celo mas puro, sino tambien del afecto mas
fino con que os aprecia .... [Colophon] (Santiago de Chile): Imprenta de la
Biblioteca, (1828). 4°, disbound. Caption title. Dampstained, with pink
ish stains at the edges (from a rouged edge on the former binding?).
Overall in good condition. 8 pp.
$500.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. In 1828 D. Juan Fermin Vidaurre (1770-1829) published
a short work, Gloria a Dios y a su Santa Iglesia, that criticized the way in which the vicario
capitular was elected in the diocese of Concepción. He was criticized and responded.
This work, dated July 4, seems to be a rebuttal to Vidaurre’s second publication, which
the author calls “tan intempestivo como incendiario.” The issue was the legitimacy of a
cleric who was elected during the war of independence, after the incumbent decamped
to Lima. The supporting documents at the end are dated 1813 and 1824.
❊ Briseño I, 5. Not located in OCLC. Not located in CCPBE. Not located in Rebiun.
Not located in Jisc.
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7. [AGUIAR, Fausto Augusto de]. Programma que se deve seguir na
solemnidade do baptismo de sua alteza o principe filho de suas altezas o Senhor
Duque de Saxe e a Serenissima Princeza a Senhora D. Leopoldina. Rio de
Janeiro: Typographia Nacional, 1868. 8°, later blue quarter cloth over
decorated boards (slight wear). Nicks to upper blank margins of first
two leaves. Slight toning. In good condition. 8 pp.
$100.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION? Describes the baptism and subsequent ceremonies for
Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (December 6, 1867-October 11, 1922),
known in Brazil as Dom Augusto Leopoldo. He was a prince of the Empire of Brazil and
of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry. The second of four sons born to German
Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Princess Leopoldina of Brazil,
and the second grandson of the Emperor D. Pedro II, the prince was, for some years
the presumptive heir to the Imperial Crown of Brazil. He was an officer in the Imperial
Brazilian navy, and later in the Imperial Austro-Hungarian navy. His descendants would
form the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha branch of the Imperial House of Brazil.
The name Fausto Augusto d’Aguiar (1817-1890) appears in print at the end of the
text. A native of Rio de Janeiro, he was director geral da secretaria do imperio, president
of the provinces of Ceará and Pará, deputy to national legislatures from 1856 to 1864, 1869
to 1875, and finally senator. Councilor to the Emperor, he was a member of the Instituo
Historico e Geographico Brazileiro.
❊ Not in Sacramento Blake; for the author, see II, 320. Not located in OCLC. Not
located in KVK (51 databases searched).
8. 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).
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Economic Analysis in Verse: Why Is Agricultural Production
Declining in the Alentejo and Estremadura?
*9. [ALENTEJO]. Analyses criticas, economicas, e politicas, ou cauzas
verdadeiras das menores producções do Alem-Tejo, a maior e melhor provin
cia de Portugal, e seu armazem provizional. Assim como a da Estremadura
por muito similhante áquella notadas e publicadas a beneficio do Reino, e
do Estado. Por Aonio—ou Cidadão Camponio. 1806. Embaraçadas pelos
Censores então; agora vão apparecer por beneficio da Liberdade da Imprensa.
Lisbon: Na Typografia de João Baptista Morando, 1823. 4°, original
blue-grey printed wrappers (some wear to spine, corners). Woodcut
printer’s monogram within laurel wreath on title page and front
wrapper. Some minor, very light dampstains. Overall in very good
to fine condition. 182 pp., (2 ll., 1 l. errata).
$1,200.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this rare and unusual poem on declining agricultural
production in the Alentejo and neighboring Estremadura, set out in 10-line stanzas with
annotations at the end of each section. The anonymous author lists twenty causes of the
decline: among them are maltreatment of workers by large landowners (a problem for
centuries in the large landholdings in the Alentejo, Estremadura, Ribatejo and Andalusia),
shortage of workers and oxen, the taste for luxury goods, too many church holidays,
inefficient harvesting methods, poor transportation, roads and bridges in need of repair,
soil erosion, and lack of water conservation.
This is a relatively early example of a Portuguese book which preserves the original
printed wrappers.
❊ Not in Innocêncio or Fonseca, Pseudónimos. Not in Albino Lapa. Not in Guerra
Andrade. Not in Kress. Not in Goldsmiths’. Not in Kress, Luso-Brazilian Economic Lit
erature before 1850. NUC: DLC-P4. Not located in OCLC. Porbase lists this work but
without information about the location of any copy. Not located in Jisc. Not located in
Aladin. Not located in Catnyp. Not located in Hollis. Not located in Orbis. Not located
in Melvyl. There is a copy in the Library of Congress (whose online catalog gives a col
lation of 182 pp. only).
Maligned for Charges Long Dismissed
10. [ALIAGA, Ramón Silvestre de]. Al Publico (por ahora). [text begins:]
Cuando descansaba tranquilo en el ceno de mi familia, y cuando únicamente
ponia en accion el uso moderado de ciudadania que me concede la Constitucion,
entónces es cuando á falta de hechos verdaderos, han ocurrido mis enemigos á
la calumnia é impostura .... (Santiago de Chile): Imprenta de la Indepen
dencia, dated 21 April 1829. Folio (29 x 18.5 cm.), disbound. Caption
title. Very light foxing. Good to very good condition. Early manuscript
foliation in ink. 3 pp.
$500.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Aliaga defends his honor, asserting that he and his
brothers, José and Santiago, had been falsely accused of crimes in San Fernando and
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almost forced to flee their homes. The charges were the result, he alleges, of hatred that
remained after they were tried in 1820 as revolucionarios—a charge of which they were
completely cleared in 1827. Aliaga asks the courts to publish all relevant documents and
to clear their names yet again.
❊ Briseño I, 283. Not located in OCLC. Not located in CCPBE. Not located in Rebiun.
Not located in Jisc.
Manuel on Photography by the Premier Lisbon Department Store
11. ALMEIDA, José Maria de Liz Dionysio de. Novo tratado de photo
graphia. O mais pratico e elucidativo, o mais correcto e augmentado. Lisbon:
á venda nos Grandes Armazens do Chiado e nas suas vinte succursaes
(Impresso na Typographia “A Editora Limitada”), n.d. (early twentieth
century). 8°, original illustrated wrappers (spine a bit worn, with small
defects at head and foot; small ink inscription on front cover). Light
browning. In good conditon overall. A few small ink marginal annota
tions. 97 pp., (3 ll. advt. for photography equipment).
$150.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Manual on photography by a major Lisbon depart
ment store, with advertisements for the necessary supplies at the end, and much
technical information.
❊ Not located in NUC. Not located in OCLC. Porbase locates a single copy, in the
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc.
12. ALMEIDA, [José Ricardo] Pires de. Catalogo dos Documentos His
toricos, Autographos e Copias Fieis existentes no Archivo Da Illma Camara
Municipal da mui heroica e leal cidade de S. Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro col
ligidos e apresentados á exposição publica … no dia 2 de Dezembro de 1885,
60.º anniversario de Sua Magestade o Imperador. (Rio de Janeiro): Typ. de
Leuzinger & Filhos, (1885). Small folio (26.5 x 18.3 cm.), early quarter
sheep over patterned paper boards (some wear, remains of paper tag at
foot of spine), spine gilt with raised bands in five uneven compartments,
two crimson leather lettering pieces in second and fourth compartments,
gilt letter, decorated endleaves. Full-page wood-engraved illustration:
“Monumento projectado pelo Senado da Camara para commemorar
a chegada da Familia Real ao Brazil em 7 de Março de 1808.” Two
wood-engraved tailpieces. Light toning. Overall in good to very good
condition. Pictorial bookplates of Elysio de Carvalho and Francisco
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Marques dos Santos (signed J.W.R.) on front pastedown endleaf and
front free endleaf recto, respectively. 8, 16 pp. Text in 2 columns.
$200.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The second part begins with the caption title “D. João
VI, rei de Portugal e dos Algarves e Imperador titular do Brazil”.
❊ Sacramento Blake V, 154; for the author, see V, 152-6. Not located in OCLC. Not
located in Porbase. Not located in Jisc. Not located in KVK (51 databases searched).
Cholera’s Symptoms and Diagnosis, 1854
13. ALVAREZ, Blaz Leon. Observações sobre a monografia da cholera-morbo
pestilencial. Lisbon: José Baptista Morando, 1854. 8°, original blue printed
wrappers. Unopened. Very light browning. In fine condition. 16 pp.
$120.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this work on the symptoms and diagnosis of cholera.
❊ Not in Innocêncio. Not in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção
portuguesa. Not in Pires de Lima, Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto.
Not located in NUC. Not located in OCLC. Porbase lists this work without location or
collation. Not located in Jisc. Not located in National Library of Medicine’s LocatorPlus.
Celebrating the Ascension to the Throne of D. Maria I, Queen of Portugal
14. [AMARAL, Luís Corrêa de França e]. Na plauzivel, e festiva
acclamação da Rainha N.S., a Muito Alta, e poderoza Senhora D. Maria.
Ode. N.p.: n.pr., (1777). 4°, disbound. Caption title. Some spotting.
Contemporary ink inscriptions on final blank page. In good to very
good condition. 7 pp.
$70.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this ode honoring D. Maria I’s ascension to the
throne; begins: “Ode. /Ainda, Clio Divina, / Conservas essa lyra pendurada? ….” It
includes references to D. Afonso I and the famous Côrtes of Lamego of 1143, as well as
to India and the Ganges.
There are at least two other odes on the same subject, with 7 pp. and almost identical
titles, one printed at the Offic. de Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo, and sold by Francisco
Tavares at his shop in the Praça do Comercio, 1777, the other printed at the Offic. de
José de Aquino Bulhoens.
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).
Luís Corrêa de França e Amaral (1725-1808), a magistrate with a degree from
Coimbra University, was also a poet whose name in the Lisbon Arcadia was Melizeu
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Cylenio. He later joined the Academia de Bellas-Letras de Lisboa, or Nova-Arcadia,
where he provoked the wrath of Bocage, who skewered him with pungent satire in
several poems.
❊ Innocêncio V, 280-1 (attributing the work to Amaral); on the author, see also
XVI, 13. Coimbra, Misceláneas 6510, 7727. Not located in NUC. Not located in OCLC.
Porbase locates six copies, two in the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, and four in
the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc.
Dedication Copy [?] to Early Aviators
*15. AMARAL, Manuel Augusto d’ (1862-1942). Raid Portugal-Brasil.
Ponta Delgada: Tip. da Empreza do Correio dos Açores, 1922. 8°,
original printed self-covers, stitched. Red cross of the Order of Christ
on front cover. Place of printing and publisher in red on rear cover.
Illegible postal franking in lower outer corner of front cover. In very
good to fine condition. Author’s signature just to the right and below
the final words on recto of p. [3] which reads, in print, “Aos imortais
aviadores // Gago Coutinho // e // Sacadura Cabral // D. // o
autor”. 14 pp., (1 l.).
$200.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of these five sonnets celebrating the aerial voyage of
Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral. In the spring of 1922 two of Portugal’s most noted
aviators, Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho, made the first flight from Europe to South
America, flying from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro via the Canaries and Cabo Verde. It was
the first long-distance flight in which rigorous methods of aerial navigation were used.
❊ Afonso 1170. Not in Innocêncio, which lists several other works by the author;
see XVI, 393; XVIII, 32: and Aditamentos p. 282. Not located in OCLC. Not located in
Porbase. Not located in Jisc.
Can a Married Woman Legally Cohabit with a Clergyman?
16. La Amistad. [text begins:] Se ha prometido dar al público la causa de
D. Ramon Aliaga, y es preciso cumplirlo—Ha rendido una prueba estando
preso de 36 testigos que desmienten todo el proceso, y de consiguiente justi
fica mas de lo necesario a su favor .... (Santiago de Chile): Imprenta de la
Independencia, dated 28 January 1834. Folio (29 x 19 cm.), disbound.
Caption title. Very light foxing. Good to very good condition. Early
manuscript foliation in ink. (1 l.)
$400.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Another installment in the epic legal battles of Ramón
Aliaga. The issue in dispute is whether a married woman can legally cohabit with a
clergyman, as a manceba.
❊ Briseño I, 19. Not located in OCLC. Not located in CCPBE. Not located in Rebiun.
Not located in Jisc.
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17. ANDRADE, Jerónimo Emiliano de. Elogio d’alguns Portuguezes
celebres por suas virtudes, e talentos. E pequenos discursos sobre varios pontos
philosophicos, historicos, e oratorios, recitadados por alguns dos alumnos do
falecido proffessor [sic] o Padre Jeronimo Emiliano d’Andrade, nos exercicios
literarios que no fim dos differentes annos lectivos costumava offerecer o dito
professor. Angra do Heroísmo: Imprensa de J.J. Soares, 1852. Small 8°,
contemporary green quarter sheep over pebbled boards, smooth spine
with gilt bands and short title (minor wear), text block edges sprinkled
reddish brown. Title page browned (offset from facing endleaf) and
with 2.1 cm. trimmed from blank lower margin, causing offsetting to
affect lower blank margin of following leaf recto. In good to very good
condition overall. (2 ll.), 179 pp., (2 ll. contents and errata).
$300.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Among those eulogized are the Infante D. Fernando
(son of D. João I), Henry the Navigator (another son of the same king), Nuno Alvares
Pereira, Vasco da Gama, Affonso d’Albuquerque, D. Francisco d’Almeida, D. João de
Castro, Duarte Pacheco Pereira, Luís de Camões, Frei Bartholomeu dos Martyres and
the Marquês de Pombal. There are also “elogios” to various subjects, such as Eloquence,
Poetry, Philosophy, the Liberal Arts and Geography, as well as discourses on “vantagens
sobre animaes”, the origin of the world, “as producções dos tres Reinos da Naturaza”,
the merit of artificial logic, the excelence and utility of rhetoric, the utility of arts and
sciences, utility of history, and the most brilliant epochs of Portuguese history.
Frei Jerónimo Emiliano de Andrade (Angra, 1789-Angra do Heroísmo, 1847), was
Comissário dos estuos in Angra do Heroísmo and the first reitor of the Liceu Nacional
de Angra do Heroísmo. Abandoned as an infant, father unknown, he was taken under
the care and provided an education by Father José de Andrade, entering the Franciscan
Order aged 16. Early in his career as a teacher one of his students was Almeida Gar
rett. Influenced by the events of the Peninsular War, he became a partisan of the liberal
revolution of 1820. He wrote a number of books and pamphlets. After 1834, with the
suppression of the religious orders, he became a secular priest.
❊ Canto, Bibliotheca açoriana 1075 (without collation). Not in Innocêncio; for the
author, see III, 264-5; X, 129-30. Not in Canto, Inventário. For a brief biography see also
Augusto Gil in Almanach insulano, 1.º anno, pp. 93-103. Not located in OCLC. Porbase
locates a single copy, at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, calling for only 1 preliminary leaf.
Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copy cited by Porbase.
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Results of Reforms to a Uniquely Portuguese
Catholic Charitable Institution
18. [ANGRA. Irmandade da Santa Casa da Misericordia.] Manifesto
offerecido á Irmandade da Santa Casa da Misericordia da Cidade d’Angra e
ao publico pela Mesa Administradora, eleita no 1.º de julho de 1836. Lisbon:
Na Impressão de Galhardo e Irmãos, 1837. 4°, contemporary plain pink
wrappers (head of spine defective, a few small holes or tears to covers).
Some faint dampstains. In very good condition. Small white rectangular
paper tag with serrated edges tipped on to lower inner corner of rear
wrapper with “82-L // 19” in ink manuscript. 59 pp., 11 large folding
tables and charts.
$1,200.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Accounts, expenditures and ownership lists of the Santa
Casa da Misericordia in Angra for the years 1833 to 1836. This Manifesto was prepared
as a result of the important reforms enacted in the Azores in 1832.
The Santa Casa da Misericordia (Holy House of Mercy) is a uniquely Portuguese
Catholic charitable institution, founded in Lisbon in 1498 by Queen Leonor and still
existing today. Eventually practically every Portuguese city had its Santa Casa da Miseri
cordia, and the institution spread overseas to Goa, Macau, Bahia, etc. The Santa Casa’s
administrators (Irmãos) tackled duties that would today be the province of lawyers,
accountants, hospital administrators, prison chaplains and chaperones. One of the Casa da
Misericordia’s functions was to make certain that every Christian received a proper burial.
❊ Canto, Bibliotheca açoriana 1832. Canto, Inventario 918. Not in Innocêncio. Not
located in NUC. Not located in OCLC. Porbase locates a single copy, “Em mau estado”
at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched)
locates only the copy cited by Porbase.
19. ANNUNCIAÇAO, Fr. Joaquim de [Joaquimus ab Annunciatione].
Theses theologico-morales de conscientia, quas, praeside Fr. Emmanuele ab
Epiphania, publico certamine sustinebit ... in Olisiponensi Conventu Divo
Petro de Alcantara Sacro. Die [manuscript: 28] hujus mensis vespere. [The
preceding leaf, the dedication, reads:] Illustrissimo, ac Excellentissimo Domino
Joanni de Saldanha d’Oliveira e Sousa, comiti de Rio-Maior, supremi status
a consiliis, ordinis D. N. J. C. magno equiti cruciato, principis regentis D.
N. gentili-homini camarario, publici olisiponensis horrei inspectori-generali,
cet. cet. cet. in gratitudinis obsequium has theses D. C. Fr. Emmanuel ab
Epiphania. [Colophon] Lisbon: Typis Simonis Thaddaei Ferreira, n.d.
(late eighteenth century?). 4°, contemporary “Dutch” paper wrappers,
green, bronze and gilt (minor wear). Typographical dividers on pp. [3],
12. Typographical headpiece on p. 5. Small, light stain in one corner,
but overall in very good to fine condition. 12 pp.
$150.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Defense of a dissertation in theology that focused
particularly on the subject of conscience.
❊ Author not located in Innocêncio. Not located in OCLC. Not located in Porbase.
Not located in Jisc. Not located in KVK (51 databases searched).
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20. Anuário de antiguidades e restauro, 1996. Lisbon: Estar, 1996. Folio
(29.7 x 21.1 cm.), original illustrated wrappers. As new. 126 pp., (1 l.),
profusely illustrated in color. ISSN: 0873-4089.
$50.00
❊ Not located in OCLC.
Honoring the Conde de Vilar Mayor
21. Applauso Ossequiosissimo a Sua Eccellenza, il signor Don Ferdi
nando Teles de Sylva, Conte di Villarmayor, Intimo Cavaliere di Camera della
Real Maesta di Giovanni V Re di Portogallo, e suo Straordinario Ambasciatore
alla Imperial Corte di Vienna, per il Regio Sponsalizio tra la Maesta medesima,
e la Serenissima Arciduchessa Marianna. (Vienna?): n.pr., ca. 1707-1708.
4°, disbound. Woodcut headpiece with Austrian double-headed eagle
and woodcut initial on verso of first leaf. Tear (4 cm.) from gutter on
both leaves, without loss of text. Overall in good condition. Old ink
foliation (“250-251”). (2 ll.)
$150.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. In 1707, Fernão Telles da Silva (1662-1731) led the
embassy to the Court of Vienna that completed arrangements for the marriage of D. João
V to D. Maria Anna of Austria (daughter of Emperor Leopold I) and escorted D. Maria
Anna back to Lisbon. The embassy was described in detail in Fr. Francisco da Fonseca’s
Embayxada do Conde de Villarmayor Fernando Telles da Sylva de Lisboa a corte de Vienna,
1717. This work in Italian, with the double-headed eagle of the Empire, was perhaps
written for the Conde in Vienna. That Fernando Telles da Silva is referred to as Conde
de Villarmayor rather than Marquês de Alegrete surely means he was using this as a
courtesy title during the life of his father, Manuel Telles da Silva, who was the Marquês
de Alegrete and Conde de Villarmayor until his death in 1709.
❊ Not located in Coimbra, Miscelâneas. On the Condes de Vilar Maior, see Nobreza
de Portugal e do Brasil II, 222-5. Not located in OCLC. Porbase locates a single copy, at the
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc.
22. [ARANA Y TRAVESEDO, Marianno d’, or Mariano de Arana e
Travessedo]. Manifesto, protesto e annuncio d’um premio de 1,000$000 de reis
do preso Hespanhol, que receava se lhe exigisse silencio. [text begins:] Mariano
de Arana e Travessedo, sempre em todos os tempos inimigo irreconciliavel do
poder absoluto, e por sempre infatigavel perseguidor dos Miguelistas-Carlistas
.... [Colophon, p. 12] Lisbon: Imprensa de C.A. da S. Carvalho; [end of
final leaf, recto:] Na Officina de A.L. d’Oliveira, 1835. 4°, stitched. Cap
tion title. Uncut. In very good condition. Reference numbers for notes
in ink manuscript beginning on p. 9 (see below). (1 l. blank on recto
with “Advertencia” in Spanish on verso), 12 pp., (1 l.).
$200.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this attack on Miguelistas and Carlistas. His particular
target is one Pi de Carabaça. The Advertencia promises notes “que saldran mui luego si se
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consigne el poder publicarlas.” The indications for these notes are printed in the text through
number 19 (p. 9); after that, they are added in a contemporary hand, through 60 (p. 12).
The note on the final unnumbered leaf is signed by Marianno d’Arana y Travesedo.
The imprint on that page is different from that given on p. 12 (facing it); the first and final
leaves, unnumbered and conjugate, seem to have been added, although the date of 1835
is the same on p. [1] the name is given as Mariano de Arana e Travessedo.
❊ Not in Biblioteca Pública de Braga, Catálogo do Fundo Barca-Oliveira. Not in Canto,
Ensaio Bibliographico (1892). Not in Innocêncio under title or Marianno d’Arana y Tra
vesedo. Not in Palau. Not in Fonseca, Pseudónimos. Not in Guerra Andrade, Dicionário
de pseudónimos. Not located in NUC. Not located in OCLC. Porbase locates a single copy
at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, calling for only 12 pp. Not in Jisc. KVK (51 databases
searched) locates only the copy cited by Porbase.
23. ARAUJO, Francisco Duarte de Almeida e. Almanach do Reinado
de S.M. El-Rei o Senhor Dom Luiz I para o anno de 1863 primeiro da sua
publicação. Compilado por …. Lisbon: Livraria de Castro, (1862). 8°, early
decorated wrappers (slightly chipped). Title page and outer margin of
following leaf recto browned. Top margin of pp. 7-8 torn away, with
partial loss of first line on each page; small hole in last few leaves
affecting 2 letters. In good condition overall. Old owner’s faint violet
monogram with letters “I” and “C” stamped in blank portion of title
page. 77, (3) pp.
$100.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this almanac. Pages 23-54 constitute an “Album
Poetico” of poems almost entirely by Almeida e Araujo. Also included are short essays
on the foundation of Porto, Braga, and Alcácer do Sal, and anecdotes. At the end of the
volume are the calendar, list of feast days, etc.
Born in Lagos (Algarve) in 1816, Almeida e Araujo was a prolific journalist who
also wrote several popular histories and volumes of verse.
❊ Not in Innocêncio; for the author, see II, 371 and IX, 284-6. Not in Os sucessores de
Zacuto: o almanque na Biblioteca Nacional. Not located in NUC. Not located in OCLC. Porbase
locates a copy at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, but gives a different imprint: Livr.
deJ.V. fa [sic] Fonseca e Castro, 1863. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched)
locates only the record cited by Porbase.
24. ARAUJO, Francisco Antonio. Razões do advogado Dr. Francisco Antonio
d’Araujo, por parte de Francisco José de Sousa Nobre. Bahia: Typographia
Constitucional de França Guerra, 1864. 8°, original printed wrappers
(small nick to bottom margin of upper cover; small hole in lower cover).
Overall in very good condition. 45 pp.
$350.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION? Argues against an appeal of a judgment on an inheritance.
❊ Cf. Innocêncio IX, 252, an earlier work by the author. Not in Sacramento Blake.
Not located in NUC. Not located in OCLC. Not located in Melvyl.
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Argentine Finances in 1821
25. [ARGENTINA]. Estado general de las existencias, entradas y salidas en
el ultimo tercio de 1821. [Buenos Aires]: n.pr., 1821. Broadside (39 x 50
cm.), unbound. Foldlines, some browning, short tears and minor defects
in blank margins, short tear at center affecting vertical rules. In good
condition. (1 l.)
$800.00
Apparently the FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this summary of Argentine finances
during the last four months of 1821, including income (aduana, papel sellado, pulperías,
loterias, multas, etc.) and expenses (sueldos y pensiones, diezmos repartidos, hospitalidad, rescate
de esclavos, etc.). It bears the printed imprimatur of García and the signature in print of
Santiago Wilde. Wilde, a British subject, came to Argentina in the early nineteenth century.
He became a citizen in 1817, and by 1821 was Contador de Cálculo of the Contaduría
General de Gobierno. He published a Memoria presentada a la Comisión de Hacienda …
[Buenos Aires]: Imprenta de la Independencia, 1821 (see Zinny 1821/48). There is a copy
in the British Library. Both Zinny and the British Library online catalogue state that it is
a 4.º of 40 pp.; neither mention this table.
❊ Not in Zinny. Not located in OCLC. Not located in CCPBE. Not located in Rebiun.
Not located in Jisc. Not located in KVK (51 databases searched).
26. ARMELIM JUNIOR, M.V. Elogio historico do Dr. Antonio Maria
Ribeiro da Costa Holtreman, Vide-presidente da Associação dos Advogados de
Lisboa, lido na sessão extraordinaria da mesma Associação em 17 de dezembro
de 1890 pelo socio .... Lisbon: Typographia Universal, 1890. Large 8°, early
plain wrappers Small nicks to outer margins of final 2 leaves. Toning.
In good condition. 61 pp., frontispiece portrait.
$65.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION.
António Holtreman (1812-1890), was a lawyer large property holder, father of the
1.º Visconde de Alvalade, Alfredo Augusto das Neves Holtreman. Liberal, responsible
for the Gazeta dos Tribunais, he was one of the founders of the Partido Histórico. Vice-
presidente of the Associação dos Advogados in Lisboa, he was retained by some of the
great noble houses, such as those of Palmela and Lafões. Secretário do governo civil de
Santarém during the ministry of Passos Manuel,he was elected deputy to the Cortes
following the fall of Costa Cabral in 1851.
Manuel Veloso de Armelim Júnior (Velas, Ilha de São Jorge, 1857-Lisbon, 1935),
lawyer, author and journalist, was editor of the Lisbon newspaper O Correio Jurídico. He
left a vast literary work, for the most part published in newspapers and reviews. Mem
ber of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa and
of other learned institutions, he was founder and president of the Grémio dos Açores.
❊ Innocêncio XIX, 318; for the author, see also pp. 316-24; XX, 271-5; XXII, 418-27. Not
located in OCLC. Porbase locates a single copy, in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.
Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copy cited by Porbase.
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Hierarchies Aboard Ship
27. [ARMY VS. NAVY]. Resposta a huma carta, que certo cavalheiro escreveo
a hum official reformado dos Regimentos da Marinha, remetendo-lhe a copia
da resolução do Conselho de Guerra de 29 de Novembro do anno de 1752
sobre o requerimento que alguns capitaens de infantaria fizerão a S. Mages
tade ... a respeito da precedencia dos capitaens tenentes de mar, e guerra, aos
de infantaria embarcados nas náos da armada real. Lisbon: n.pr., 1753. 4°,
twentieth-century half mottled sheep over marbled boards, smooth
spine richly gilt with black leather lettering piece, short-title in gilt, gilt
fillets between leather and boards, silk ribbon place marker. Woodcut
vignette on title page. In very good condition. Old ink manuscript
number “160” in upper outer corner of title page. (7 ll., 1 blank l.).
$600.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author, who signed himself “Anonymo refor
mado,” discusses whose orders take precedence on a ship in the royal navy: those of
the captain or those of a commander of the infantry. Precedents are cited from royal
decrees as early as 1708.
❊ Biblioteca Central da Marinha, Catálogo das obras impressas no séc. XVIII, 2284. Not
in Innocêncio. Not in Fonseca, Pseudónimos. Not in Lapa, Dicionário de pseudónimos. Not
in Guerra Andrade Dicionário de pseudónimos. Not in Azevedo-Samodães or Ameal. Not
located in NUC. Not located in OCLC. Porbase locates a single copy, in the Biblioteca
Central da Marinha. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the
copy cited by Porbase.
28. ARRAES, José Antonio Pinto de Mendonça. D. José Antonio Pinto
de Mendonça Arraes, por mercê de Deos, e da Santa Sé Apostolica Bispo da
Guarda, do Conselho de S. Magestade, &c. A todos as Pessoas Ecclesiasticas, e
Seculares do nosso Bispado saude, e Benção em o Senhor. [text begins:] Elevados
da Magistratura ao Sacerdocio, e deste á sublime Dignidade do Episcopado ....
[Colophon] Lisbon: Na Regia Officina Typografica, 1798. 4°, contem
porary “Dutch” paper wrappers, green, bronze and gilt (a few stains
on front). Caption title. Crisp and clean. Overall in very good to fine
condition. 40 pp.
$450.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. José Antonio Pinto e Mendonça Arraes (Cêa, 1740-1823),
a secular clergyman, was appointed bishop of Pinhel in 1782, and bishop of Guarda in
1797. This is the pastoral letter to those within the bishopric of Guarda after he assumed his
position there. It includes an exhortation to be faithful to the true Church, obedient to the
king, and disdainful of modern thinkers who place too much trust in reason and science.
❊ Not in Imprensa Nacional. Innocêncio IV, 245-6. See José Quelhas Bigotte, D. José
António Pinto de Mendonça Arrais (bispo de Pinhel e da Guarda), grande prelado e grande
patriota. Not located in OCLC. Porbase locates a single copy, at Biblioteca Nacional de
Portugal. Not located in Jisc.
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29. [MACIEL, Artur]. Arraial dos Casados, ou o novo D. Sebastião das
Salas. Poema em libérrimo verso joco-rápido para morigeração dos costumes
e com intenção ciminosa. Fez-se para substituir a lápide comemorativa do
primeiro jantar á Americana, realizado no Hotel Central a 22 do Civilizador
do ano III da era do “Charleston”. N.p.: n.pr., 1920s?. 8°, original printed
wrappers, tied with twine. Uncut and partly unopened. In very good
condition. xvi pp.
$150.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Odd imposition has resulted in improper folding which
has affected the title of the poems on the third and fourth leaves recto. An arraial is an
open air popular festival, often accompanied by fireworks, dances and songs. At the foot
of the final page is stated “Visado pela comissão de censura”.
❊ Not located in NUC. Not located in OCLC. Not located in Porbase. Not located
in Jisc. Not located in KVK (51 databases searched).
30. ASSEMBLEA PORTUENSE. Relatorio e Contas do sexto anno eco
nomico da Assemblea Portuense na Reunião plena de 31 de Mayo 1840. Porto:
Typographia Commercial Portuense, 1840. Small 8°, disbound. Light
browning. In good to very good condition. Old ink manuscript pagina
tion (“645-653”) in upper outer corner of each page, and in upper outer
corner of folding table recto. (4 ll., 1 folding table).
$60.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The Assemblea Portuense was a popular social club in
Porto; as late as 1888, Appleton’s Guide noted, “Foreigners are admitted to the Assemblea
Portuense and the Feitoria Ingleze, first-class clubs.” This volume includes a list of officers
and directors, followed by a speech by Eduardo Moser, the club’s secretary, on member
ship, finances, the library, servants, social events, and the construction of a larger dance
hall. The folding table gives income and expenses for the previous year.
❊ Not located in OCLC. Porbase locates a single copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional
de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copy cited
by Porbase.
31. [ASSEMBLEA RECREATIVA, Porto]. Estatutos da Assemblea Rec
reativa. Porto: Na Typografia de Faria Guimarães, 1841. 8°, disbound,
with traces of green wrappers. Wood-engraved vignette on title page.
Clean and crisp. In very good condition. Early manuscript owner
ship signature in ink (“Bandeira”) in blank portion of title page. Early
manuscript pagination in ink (“15-30”) in upper outer corners of each
page. 16 pp.
$100.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION.
The Assemblea Recreativa of Porto was organized to sponsor dances, family reunions,
games, an orchestral group (gabinete philarmonico), and to offer members a library and
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discussions on literary and scientific matters. The statutes state when get-togethers will be
held, what printed matter will be in the library, what subjects will be open for discussion
(“A Discussão nunca poderá versar sobre materias puramente religiosas ou politicas”!),
who is eligible for membership, and the duties of members.
❊ Not located in OCLC. Not located in Porbase. Not located in Jisc. Not located in
KVK (51 databases searched).
32. ASSIS, José Bento d’Araujo. Biographia da actriz Luiza Leopoldina
Fialho, por .... Lisbon: Lallemant Frères, Typ. Lisboa, 1881. 8°, original
pale blue printed wrappers (some soiling). Wood engraved Portuguese
royal arms on front cover and title page. Original photograph of the
subject tipped on to verso of second leaf. In good condition. Authors
seven line ink manuscript presentation inscription on title page to Tito
Augusto de Carvalho, dated 31 December 1880,. (1 l.), 22 pp.
$65.00
FIRST and ONLY separate EDITION. Originally included in the author’s Serões
litterarios … (1869).
Provenance: For Tito Augusto de Carvalho (1841-1902), see Innocêncio, XIX, 287-9.
❊ This separate work not in Innocêncio; see XII, 256-7; Aditamentos, p. 226. For Luiza
Fialho, see Sousa Bastos, Dicionário de teatro português, pp. 193-4. Not located in OCLC.
Porbase locates five copies, all in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc.
KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by Porbase.
Protect Us from Free Trade!
33. ASSOCIAÇAO INDUSTRIAL DO PORTO. Representações que a
Associação Industrial do Porto dirigiu a Sua Magestade a Rainha. Porto: Typ.
de José Lourenço de Sousa, 1853. Large 8°, unbound. Foldline. In very
good condition. 16 pp.
$200.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The businessmen of Porto beg for protection against
free-trade policies re foreign goods, with an analysis of the effect of recent legislation
on the manufacture of oleados, textiles, and embroidered fabrics. The 1853 legislation is
compared to the legislation of 1837 and 1841.
❊ Not located in OCLC. Porbase locates a single copy, at the Biblioteca João Paulo
II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched)
locates only the copy cited in Porbase.