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Novel Set in Porto, with Author’s Signed and Dated Inscription To an Author from Porto

1. ALBUQUERQUE [do Alardo de Amaral Cardoso e Barba de Men-eses e Lencastre], António de. O solar das Fontainhas: scenas do Porto, romance. porto: typographia “artes e Letras”, 1910. 8°, original beige printed wrappers (some minor soiling and foxing; slight defects to spine), white-on-blue printed sticker on front cover of “Depositarios Cernadas & C.a, Livraria editor, rua aurea, 190-192 Lisboa”. Floral vignette on title page. In good to very good condition. author’s signed and dated four-line presentation inscription on half title: “ao meu querido amigo e distincto // escriptor severo portella offr. // antonio d’albuquerque // Lisboa 12 Dezembro 910”. (1 l.), 289 pp. $400.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this novel set in porto. the Dicionário cronológico devotes considerable space to this work, in which the author returns to “narrativa de costumes epigonal; mas transfere para a atmosfera portuense abundantes tiques da intriga de O Marquês da Bacalhoa, em torno do conluio do alto clero e nobreza locais para o esbulho de uma fortuna familiar em favor da propaganda ultramontana.”

the works of antonio albuquerque (alardo de amaral Cardoso e barba de meneses e Lencastre, Viseu, 1866-Sintra, 1923) show the influence of both naturalismo and deca-dentismo, and blur the line between fiction and history. O Marquês de Bacalhoa, 1908, was a thinly veiled roman à clef whose characters included D. Carlos I (who was assassinated in 1908), his wife D. amélia, and João Franco.

Provenance: severo portela (porto, 1875-1945), author of more than a dozen books and teacher, a republican from school days, was a career employee at the ministry of Finances fired for political reasons. See Grande encyclopedia, XXII, 580.

j on the author, see Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 502-4. oCLC: 1321262 (Library of Congress, University of north Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Georgia, british Library). porbase lists a single hard copy at the Universidade Católica João Paulo II, and a microfilm copy at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Copac repeats british Library. not in Hollis or orbis. not in melvyl.

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Author’s Signed and Dated Inscription To the Staff of a Major Portuguese Newspaper

2. ALBUQUERQUE, [Manuel] Soriano d’. Volatas. Ceará: typ. moderna a Vapor ateliers-Louis, 1904. 8°, original printed wrappers (spine with vertical crack chipped at head and foot, 2 cm. tear to front wrapper near foot of spine, some soiling and spotting, minor fraying). numer-ous typographical headpieces. Uncut. Light browning and a few small stains. In good condition. author’s signed and dated (28 april 1904) six-line presentation inscription to the staff of O Diario on p. [5]. occa-sional (author’s?) ink corrections in text. 110 pp., (1 blank l.). $150.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this collection of 25 short dialogues between a man and his querida.

j not in sacramento blake. not in Carpeaux or Ford, Whittem and raphael, Tentative Bibliography of Brazilian Belles-Lettres. see Wilson martins, História da inteligência brasileira, V, 348-9 for a reference to manuel soriano de albuquerque (1877-1914) in connection with the influence of Herbert Spenser. Not located in NUC. oCLC: 4821388 (University of texas, british Library). not located in porbase. Copac cites british Library only.

By a Native of São Tomé

3. ALMEIDA, [João Maria da Fonseca] Viana de. Maiá póçon: contos. Lisbon: edições momento, 1937. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (light spotting and some chipping; head of spine somewhat defective). Uncut. Light browning. In good condition. author’s signed and dated (10 may 1937) eight-line presentation inscription to Cristiano Lima on recto of front free endleaf [p. 1]. 169 pp., (3 ll.). $150.00

FIrst eDItIon. the title story only appeared in anthologies in 1969 and 1972; a second edition was printed in 2002. the subtitle on the front cover reads “Contos afri-canos”. The printed dedication, on p. [3], reads “Á minha mãe que ficou em São Tomè Depois que abalei, á negra de alma meiga, resignada e dolorosa, de olhar suave como uma benção, que me amparou os primeiros passos e me formou o carácter”.

the journalist Viana de almeida was born in são tomé in 1903, and lived in Lis-bon from early childhood. He was a great-grandson of the first Barão de Água-Izé. He founded and directed the newpapers A mocidade africana (1931), Humanidade (1935), and co-edited the Africa Magazine (Lisbon 1932). a reporter for O século, he also contributed to the Diário de Lisboa, Notícias, and Brado africano. according to the Cape Verdean writer manuel Lopes, these stories were actually written by antónio aurélio Gonçalves based on notes furnished by Viana de almeida.

j moser & Ferreira, New Bibliography of the Lusophone Literatures of Africa 3105. see also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 161. NUC: Cty. porbase locates two copies at the biblioteca nacional de portugal and one each at Casa do alentejo, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Instituto Investigação Científica e Tropical, and Universidade do porto.


Early Anthropological / Autobiographical Work

*4. ARCHER, Maria. África selvagem: folclore dos negros do grupo “Bantu”. Lisbon: Livraria editora Guimarães & C.ª, [1935]. 8°, original printed wrappers (some soiling and minor foxing). Very light browning. In very good condition. author’s signed and dated (“23/11/35”) six-line presentation inscription to acúrsio pereira on half title. 253 pp., (1 l.). $150.00

FIrst (and only?) eDItIon of this anthropological work with autobiographical overtones, one of the author’s earliest books. While various dates of publication are given, our guess is that all refer to the same edition. maria archer spent her childhood and young adult years in moçambique (1910-1913 and 1921-1926), Guiné (1916-1918), and angola (1930-1934). Her writing is marked by the courage with which she depicts women at a time when to do so was not politically correct. She was a fierce opponent of the salazar regime, spending 1954-1974 in forced exile in brazil, returning to portugal in 1977 to die five years later, ignored and in misery.

Provenance: acúrcio pereira (1891-1977) was considered the dean of portuguese journalists; he wrote for practically every daily newspaper published in Lisbon and porto during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, as well as for literary reviews and magazines. In 1911 he joined the Diário de notícias, then headed by alfredo da Cunha, rising rapidly from reporter to important editorial positions, serving 27 years as editor-in-chief. In addition to several books on diverse subjects, he collaborated on a number of theatrical pieces. see Grande enciclopédia XXI, 110; Actualização IX, 187; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 431.

j on the writer and journalist maria [emília] archer [eyrolles baltasar moreira, (Lisbon 1899-Lisbon 1982)], see Carlos mendes de sousa in Biblos, I, 377-9; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 209-10. porbase locates a copy at the arquivo regional da madeira and 3 copies at the biblioteca nacional de portugal. Copac locates a copy each at british Library and King’s College London.

Novel of Adventure

*5. ARCHER, Maria. Viagem à roda da África. Romance de aventuras infantis. Lisbon: editorial “o século”, [1937]. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (some foxing and browning to spine). Uncut and partially unopened. Overall in very good condition; internally very fine. Author’s signed five-line presentation inscription to Acúrcio Pereira on half title. 247 pp. six full-page illustrations in text [pp. 40, 70, 143, 165, 196 and 244]. $200.00

FIrst eDItIon of this adventure novel aimed at juvenile readers, which was awarded the prémio maria amália Vaz de Carvalho. oCLC lists another edition by the same printer of 1940.

maria archer spent her childhood and young adult years in moçambique (1910-1913 and 1921-1926), Guiné (1916-1918), and angola (1930-1934). Her writing is marked by the

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courage with which she depicts women at a time when to do so was not politically correct. She was a fierce opponent of the Salazar regime, spending 1954-1974 in forced exile in Brazil, returning to Portugal in 1977 to die five years later, ignored and in misery.


j on the writer and journalist maria [emília] archer [eyrolles baltasar moreira, (Lis-bon 1899?-Lisbon 1982)], see Álvaro manuel machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 41; Carlos mendes de sousa in Biblos, I, 377-9; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 209-10. oCLC: 253149027 (Ibero-amerikanisches Institut); 40743214 (northwestern University, University of mississippi). porbase locates only a single copy, in the biblioteca nacional de portugal. Copac lists only a copy in the british Library, with a date of (1940), but probably the same as ours. not located in Hollis. not located in orbis.

Defense Arguments in the Alves Reis Trial

6. ARMELIM JUNIOR, M[anoel]. V[elloso]. d’. Relação de Lisboa Apela-ção crime no. 3137, Livro 13, Fls. 115 v. Relator Ex.mo Sr. Desembargador Alfredo Anibal Moraes Campilho, Adjunctos Ex.mos Srs. Desembargores Acacio Alfredo Jaime Ferreira e José Pinheiro Mourisca Junior Escrivão Senhor Brito Figueirôa Apelante Jostino de Moura Coutinho Apelados O Ministério Público e o Banco de Portugal Minuta d’Apelação Adenda extra-processual Discurso da defensa no plenário da acusação. Lisbon: tip. da Gazeta dos Caminhos de Ferro, 1930. 8°, original gray printed wrappers (spine somewhat defective; corners frayed). In good to very good condition. author’s signed (“De armelim”) and dated (1930) six-line presentation inscription to friend “antonio [illeg.] Lopes” in upper margin of title page. Ink notation at top of front wrapper indicating pages (18 in total)on which one can find the author’s manuscript corrections. 43 pp. $100.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon [?]. arguments by one of the defense lawyers in the affair of artur Virgilio alves reis, perpetrator of one of the most sensational crimes in all history. alves reis did not produce counterfeit bank notes; rather, he forged docu-ments purportedly from the bank of portugal authorizing him during 1925 to have 300 million escudos (then equal to over $15,000,000) worth of 500$00 escudo notes (the largest then in circulation) printed by the firm in London, Waterlow and Sons, which produced portugal’s paper currency, and to take delivery of same. the documents also called for secrecy. The funds were used to finance Alves Reis’ failing Banco de Angola e Metró-pole. no one could fault these notes, as they were printed from the same plates and on the same paper as were used for the Bank of Portugal orders. Except for a telltale flaw in their numbering they might never have been identified. Before this flaw caused the


scheme to be discovered, alves reis was attempting to purchase the bank of portugal; had he succeeded, the crime might never have come to light.

reis’s fraud had enormous repercussions on the economy and politics of portugal. by the end of 1925 reis had managed to introduce into the portuguese economy escudo bank notes worth £1,007,963 at 1925 exchange rates, a figure which in perspective is equivalent to 0.88% of portugal’s nominal GDp at the time. the portuguese currency was severely compromised and existing 500$00 escudo bank notes had to be withdrawn.

When reis’s fraud became public knowledge in December 1925 it brought about a crisis of confidence in the Portuguese government. This crisis had a strong effect on the 28 may 1926 nationalist military coup against the Primeira República government of president bernardino machado which brought the República Autoritária to power, herald-ing the dictatorship of prime minister antónio de oliveira salazar from 1932 to 1968. (Salazar was briefly Finance Minister in 1926, but resigned; in 1928 he accepted the post again, but on condition that he be given a free hand. Given the full financial control that he demanded by General António de Fragoso Carmona, he put Portuguese finances on a stable footing for the first time in the twentieth century.)

the bank of portugal sued Waterlow & sons in the High Court in London. In one of the most complex trials in English legal history, the case was finally settled in the House of Lords on 28 april 1932 in favour of the banco de portugal, which was awarded £610,392 in damages. Waterlow & sons’ business never completely recovered; it was finally acquired by another firm in 1961.

j see murray teigh bloom, The Man Who Stole Portugal; andrew bull, “alves reis and the portuguese bank note scandal of 1925” in The British Historical Society, no. 24: pp. 22-57 (1997); C. Kisch, The Portuguese Bank Note Case. oCLC: not located, but does list this author’s Criminoso fantastico na rialidade inocente : minuta de petição d’agravo de injusta pronuncia do Arguido-Agravante Justino de Moura Coutinho pelo seu advogado Dr. M.V. d’Armelim Junior, Lisbon, 1927 (at Hoover Institute and Harvard Law school). not located in porbase. not located in Copac. not in KVK (44 databases searched). not located Hollis or orbis. not located in melvyl.

One of the Author’s Most Important Works

*7. BARROS, João de. Rytmo de exaltação. paris and Lisbon: aillaud e Bertrand (printed at Tipografia do Anuário Comercial, Lisbon), 1922. Large 4° (23.8 x 18.2 cm.), mid-twentieth-century half tan sheep over cloth boards, spine gilt with raised bands in five compartments, crimson leather lettering pieces in second and fourth compartments, decorated endleaves, original printed wrappers bound in. title page in red and black. Uncut. In very good to fine condition. Author’s signed and dated (1923) five-line presentation inscription on half title: “a José Bragança [?] // Lembrança [two squiggles, scored?] // affectuoso do // velho amigo [illeg.] // 4 23. vii João de barros”. 145 pp., (1 blank l.). $300.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon. number 989 of 1,000 copies on “papel nacional” signed by the author on the verso of the title page. another 15 copies were printed on “papel Inglês spalding”. this book of poems, one of the author’s more important, is dedicated “a Columbano [bordalo pinheiro] á sua arte e ao seu genio.”

João de barros (1881-1960), a native of Figueira da Foz with a law degree from Coimbra University, was a neo-romantic poet, pedagogue, and republican political

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activist from youth. Under the First republic he was secretary-general of the ministério da Instrução, director-general of secondary schooling, and Foreign minister. elected a member of the academia das Ciências de Lisboa in 1913, and the academia brasileira de Letras in 1920, he played a large part in Luso-brazilian cultural relations of his day. He directed the reviews Arte e vida (with manuel de sousa pinto, 1904-1906), and Atlân-tida (with the brazilian João do rio, 1915-1920). His poetry was marked by a certain republican and humanistic rhetoric, especially influenced by Guerra Junqueiro, with a satirical verve typical of Junqueiro. He also admired antero de Quental, Gomes Leal, and above all Cesário Verde.

j see Álvaro manuel machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 54; J.C. seabra pereira in Biblos, I, 598-601; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 226-7 (giving date of birth as 1880). also Grande enciclopédia IV, 303-4. porbase locates a single copy, at the Faculdade de Letras-Universidade do porto. Copac cites british Library only.

By a Prominent Early Modernist, with His Signed and Dated Inscription

8. BOTTO, António. O meu amor pequenino. porto: Livraria Lello, Limi-tada; and Lisbon: aillaud & Lellos, Limitada, 1934. 8°, recent maroon quarter sheep over burgundy buckram boards, smooth spine with hori-zontal gilt fillets and gilt letter for author and title, top edges rouged, other edges uncut, original illustrated wrappers bound in. Illustrations on the front wrapper (in color) and in the text by Fred Kradolfer. some inevitable foxing, mostly at beginning and end. In very good condition. Author’s signed and dated five-line presentation inscription on recto of initial blank leaf: “ao exmo. amigo e senhor // Dr. Fernando de Lacerda, // à sua elegancia [?] d’alma // antonio botto // Fevereiro de 1936.” (1 blank l., 111 ll.). $350.00

FIrst and onLy [?] eDItIon of this collection of stories for children. the colophon states “Este livro foi composto e impresso nas oficinas gráficas da Emprêsa do Anuário Comercial, em Lisboa, durante os mezes de novembro a Dezembro de mil novecentos e trinta e tres”. most of the stories are dedicated to individuals; among them are João Villaret, a. teixeira Gomes, Guilherme de almeida, marianinha rey Colaço, João de barros, antónio Carlos, José régio, and Fred Kradolfer.

António [Tomás] Botto (1897-1959) was a member of the first group of Modernists in portugal. His poetry has been described as some of the most original in the portuguese language (Casais monteiro, Poesía portuguesa contemporânea, p. 177), and botto himself as “uma das realidades definitivas e de primeira fila na intelectualidade portuguesa” (Grande enciclopedia IV, 988). Although his works caused consternation when first published—Botto was the first openly homosexual Portuguese writer—he was soon accepted in the avant-garde literary magazines and later in mainstream publications.

Provenance: the lawyer Fernando [Jaime Finger de] Lacerda [Castelo branco], born in Lisbon, 1903; died paris, 1958. see Grande enciclopédia XIV, 504-5; XXXIX, 906-7. or the ophthalmologist Fernando [Vaz de araújo] Lacerda (Figueiró dos Vinhos, 1909-Lisbon, 1959). see Grande enciclopédia XXXIX, 907.

j serpa 144. almeida marques 179. biblioteca nacional, António Botto, p. 83. on botto see Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 503-6; Fernando Cabral martins

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in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 71; Carlos mendes de sousa in Biblos, I, 728-35; and saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (16th ed.) pp. 1040, 1160, 1162. on the swiss painter Fred Kradolfer (1903-1968), see pamplona, Dicionário de pintores e escultores portugueses (2nd ed.), III, 169-70. porbase lists three copies: two at the biblioteca nacional de portugal (one with a presentation inscriptions), and one at the Universidade Católica biblioteca João paulo II. not located in Hollis.

Author’s Signed Inscription to an Eminent English Scholar

9. BRANDÃO, Júlio. Galeria das sombras: memórias e outras páginas. porto: Livraria Civilização editora, [1935]. 8°, mid-twentieth-century half sheep with tan spine and crimson corners over machine-marbled boards, smooth spine gilt, author and short-title gilt, decorated endleaves, original illustrated wrappers bound in. In very good condition. author’s signed nine-line presentation inscription, in ink, on half title: “ao sen-hor Aubrey // F.G. Bell—ao // seu alto e cultís- // simo espírito // com a homenagem // do seu muito de- // votado e Caloríssimo [?] // admirador // Júlio brandão”. 285 pp., (1 l.). $200.00

FIrst eDItIon of these essays covering diverse topics, mostly of literary history and criticism, including Herculano, Camilo, augusto soromenho, monte de Caparica, Leça da palmeira, Fialho, Guilherme de azevedo, Henrique das neves, Visconde de menezes, Gaia, rocha peixoto, silva pinto, antónio Carneiro, m. teixeira Gomes, João penha, anatole France, eça de Queiroz, and Guerra Junqueiro.

Júlio [de sousa] brandão (1861-1947), a native of Famalicão, moved to porto with his family in 1874, and lived there the remainder of his life. teacher, museum director, poet, author of fiction, archeologist, and publicist, he collaborated in numerous newspapers, magazines, and reviews, including Branco e Negro (1896-1898), A Águia (1910,1932), Arte e vida (1904-1906), Serões (1901-1911), Brasil-Portugal (1899-1914), and Atlantida (1915-1920). From 1929 to 1933, he directed the review Soneto Neo-Latino. Júlio brandão was a great friend of raúl brandão and his companion in the “nefelibata” movement of the late nineteenth century, the two directing the Revista de hoje (1894-95). He also participated in the symbolist movement.

Provenance: aubrey Fitzgerald bell (1881-1950), eminent english scholar of spanish and portuguese literature, author of the still indispensable manual Portuguese Literature (1922), The Oxford Book of Portuguese Verse (1925), and much more.

j saraiva & Lopes, Historia da literatura portuguesa (1976) pp. 1058, 1077, 1078. Grande enciclopédía V, 33-34. see also João Carlos seabra pereira in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 78-9 and Biblos, I, 758-9; Dicionário cronológico de autores portu-gueses, III, 84-5. oCLC: 557507677 (british Library, staatsbibliothek zu berlin-preußischer Kulturbesitz-Haus potsdamer straße). porbase locates two copies: at the biblioteca nacional de portugal, and the biblioteca João paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa. Copac repeats british Library. KVK (44 databases searched) locates only the staatsbibliothek zu berlin copy, and the copies cited by porbase.


Comments on Almeida Garrett’s Cartas de Amor

10. BRANDÃO, Júlio. Garrett e as Cartas de Amor. porto: Livraria Chardron de Lelo & Irmão, 1913. 8°, original beige printed wrappers (minor foxing to rear blank wrapper). In very good condition. author’s signed five-line presentation inscription on half title: “Ao grande artista Fer- // reira da Silva,—com um abraço // so seu admira- // dor [illeg.], // Julio brandão”. portrait of almeida Garrett, 65 pp., (2 ll. with facsimile, 1 l.). $200.00

FIrst eDItIon; a second edition appeared in porto, 1926. brandão discourses on almeida Garrett’s Cartas de amor, which he sees as partly filling the gap caused by that author’s failure to write an autobiography.

brandão (1869-1947) was a great friend of raúl brandão and his companion in the “nefelibata” movement of the late nineteenth century, the two directing the Revista de hoje (1894-95). He was also a poet, journalist, archaeologist and professor, and published several volumes of literary and artistic criticism. the Grande enciclopedia hails him as “um dos artistas da linguagem escrita do séc. XX português.”

Provenance: inscribed by the author “ao grande artista Ferreira da silva,” i.e., to the great portuguese actor alfredo Ferreira da silva (1859-1923). see Grande enciclopédia XI, 187.

j Fonseca, Aditamentos p. 259: calling for only 65, 1 p. saraiva & Lopes, Historia da literatura portuguesa (1976) pp. 1058, 1077, 1078. Grande enciclopedía V, 33-34. see also rebello, 100 anos de teatro português p. 52; João Carlos seabra pereira in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 78-9 and Biblos, I, 758-9; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 84-5. NUC: DLC. oCLC: Cites only the second edition. porbase locates six copies: three in the biblioteca nacional de portugal, one in the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and two in the biblioteca João paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa. no edition located in Copac. Hollis cites only the second edition. no edi-tion located in orbis.

Literary Memoirs of an Important Portuguese Romantic Writer

*11. BULHÃO PATO, Raimundo Antonio de. Memorias. 3 volumes. Lisbon: academia real das sciencias, 1894-1907. 8°, contemporary crimson quarter morocco over decorated boards (some slight wear to extremities), smooth spines with gilt fillets, lettering and numbers. Some very light browning. Overall a fine set. Author’s signed (“Bulhão Pato”) and dated presentation copy to his friend José Cunha, with five-line inscription on the half-title of volume I and four-line inscription on the preliminary blank leaf recto of volume II, dated 28 June and 9 august 1894, respectively. small round binder’s ticket of paulino, rua nova da trindade, 82, Lisboa in volume III. (3 ll.), 338, (1) pp.; (3 ll.), 370 pp.; (4 ll.), 434, (1) pp. 3 volumes. $800.00

FIrst eDItIon of the literary memoirs of one of the most important portuguese authors of the romantic school. bulhão pato (1829-1912), a native of bilbao whose parents were portuguese, was the author of Poesias (1850), Paquita (1856), and Versos (1862). He

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was one of the most important portuguese authors of the romantic school. He published his first volume of poetry at age 17, astounding the literati by his individuality of style and unaffected simplicity of form. He was a friend and protégé of the historian, poet and historical novelist alexandre Herculano, and also a friend of almeida Garrett. Later he was friends with ramalho ortigão, Colombano bordalo pinheiro, and eça de Queiroz (whose caricature of bulhão pato in Os Maias, in the form of the poet tomás de alencar, provoked a violent polemic). His name has been given to a classic of portuguese cookery, Ameijoas ao Bulhão Pato (clams in a sauce of garlic, butter and parsley).

j Innocêncio VII, 50 and XVIII, 157; Fonseca, Aditamentos p. 330: listing only the first 2 volumes, all that had been published at the time. saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) pp. 818-9. bell, Portuguese Literature pp. 302-3. prado Coelho, Dicionário de literatura (4th ed.), III, 800-1. NUC: WU, mb.

Os Lusíadas in Chinese, Printed in Macau

*12. CAMÕES, Luís [Vaz] de. Sumário dos Luzíadas. macau: Imprensa nacional, 1937. tall 8°, bound in Chinese manner in decorated paper wrappers with printed labels, sewn with red silk (wrappers slightly frayed; small stain to rear wrapper). text within single rule border printed in red or green. some occasional light stains. In good to very good condition. editor’s signed and dated presentation inscription from the editor on half title: “Á sua exmª amiga, D. Laura // Lobato majer, // Com prova de minha // simpatia e maior consi- // deração, // ofce // antonio m. da silva //macau, 16-VII-37”. (36 double leaves), 1 half-tone portrait of Camões in text. $200.00

FIrst appearanCe In CHInese of any part of the universally acclaimed epic poem Os Lusíadas. the initial 20 leaves are printed in portuguese and include a preface, a lecture and a short biography of Camões by antónio maria da silva. Fol-lowing this is the Chinese translation of a portion of Os Lusíadas, prepared with the assistance of Chu-pui-Chi.

j pina martins, Catálogo da exhibição bibliográfica 1425. NUC: DLC. not located in porbase. Copac locates a single copy, at british Library.

Author’s First Book of Poetry

13. CARVALHO, Fernando Tavares de. O graal do meu encanto. Lisbon: tyographia do annuario Commercial de portugal, 1922. Large 4° (25.8 x 19.6 cm.), original printed wrappers (some foxing; head and foot of spine slightly defective). printed in red and black throughout. Uncut. occasional minor spotting. In very good condition. author’s signed


presentation five-line inscription to [João] Aragão Barros on blank p. [1]. 133 pp., (1 l.), errata slip tipped in. $80.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION of the author’s first book of poems.Fernando tavares de Carvalho (1900-1970), distinguished publicist and notary, was

the son of antónio tavares de Carvalho, notary of King manuel II. both father and son wrote a number of works pertaining to their profession.

j see Grande enciclopédia XXX, 823: no mention of his poems. not located in NUC. oCLC: 8844858 (University of north Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of minnesota, Fundação Getulio Vargas). porbase locates four copies: three in the biblioteca nacional de portugal, and one in the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. not located in Copac.

By the Son of King Manuel II’s Notary

14. CARVALHO, Fernando Tavares de. Heidelberg. Lisbon: [colophon leaf:] na typographia de emilio braga, Ldª, 1922. Large 8°, original beige printed wrappers (some spotting, spine somewhat frayed). slightly spot-ted. overall in very good condition. author’s signed four-line presentation inscription in ink to [João] aragão barros on title page. (8 ll.). $80.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this poem set in Heidelberg.the author (1900-1970), distinguished publicist and notary, was the son of antónio

tavares de Carvalho, notary of King manuel II. both father and son wrote a number of works pertaining to their profession.

j see Grande enciclopédia XXX, 823: no mention of his poems. not located in NUC. not located in oCLC. not located in porbase. not located in Copac. not located in KVK (44 databases searched).

Poems by a Distinguished Notary

15. CARVALHO, Fernando Tavares de. O mercador de perfumes (poemas). Lisbon: edição da “seara nova”, 1925. Large 8°, original beige printed wrappers. Uncut. Light browning. In fine condition. Author’s signed three-line presentation inscription to João [aragão barros?] on half title. 81 pp., (3 ll.), errata slip tipped in. Publisher’s flier advertising the author’s earlier book, O graal do meu encanto (1922), laid in. $50.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this book of poetry.the author (1900-1970), distinguished publicist and notary, was the son of antónio

tavares de Carvalho, notary of King manuel II. both father and son wrote a number of works pertaining to their profession.

j see Grande enciclopédia XXX, 823: no mention of his poems. not located in NUC. not located in oCLC. porbase locates three copies: biblioteca nacional de portugal, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and Faculdade de Letras-Universidade do porto. not located in Copac. KVK (44 databases searched) repeats porbase.

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Privately Printed Work on the Peninsular War

*16. CARVALHO, Francisco Augusto Martins de. Guerra Peninsular: notas, episodios e extractos curiosos. Coimbra: typographia auxiliar D’escriptorio, 1910. 8°, somewhat later burgundy half sheep over deco-rated paper boards (some minor wear), spine gilt with raised bands in five compartments, gilt author-short title in second compartment from head, initials “e.r.” in gilt at foot of spine, decorated endleaves, top edges rouged, other edges uncut, original printed wrappers bound in. In very good condition. Author’s signed and dated five-line presentation inscription in ink in upper portion of half title: “Á redacção do Journal de // noticias // off. // F.a. martins de Carvalho // Coimbra 12 de março 1910”. pictorial bookplate of J.[osé] pinto Ferreira. 97 pp., (1 l.), thin errata slip bound in at the end. $200.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this work on the peninsular War. privately printed: on the title page is printed “(este livro não se expõe á venda)”.

martins de Carvalho (1844-1921) was an infantry brigadier general in the portu-guese army, serving in moçambique (1894-1895), and India (1895-1897). He was editor and owner of the periodical Conimbricense from 1898 to 1907, and wrote the important Dicionário bibliographico militar portuguez (1891; second edition in 2 volumes only up to the letter “m”, 1976-1979), along with some 20 or so other books and articles on military subjects as well as the history of Coimbra.

Provenance: J. Pinto Ferreira, Portuguese army officer, was a distinguished book collector who had significant Camoneana and much on the Restauração, as well as a trove of other books on portuguese military history.

j Innocêncio, Aditamentos, p. 135. oCLC: 225448112 (University of toronto Institute of technology, University of toronto-robarts Library, University of Victoria Libraries, King’s College London); 500154906 (british Library). porbase locates seven copies: three in the biblioteca nacional de portugal, two in the biblioteca João paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa, and one each at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and biblioteca municipal de elvas. Copac adds two more at oxford University.

Anthology of Galician Poetry, with Editor’s Signed Inscription

*17. CASAS, Alvaro [Maria] de las. Antología de la lírica gallega. Prólogo de Basilio Alvarez. madrid: Compañia Ibero-americana de publica-ciones, 1928. biblioteca de estudios Gallegos, Dirigida por D. alvaro de las Casas. Volumen I. 8°, contemporary crimson half morocco over marbled boards (spine slightly faded), spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt, dark green morocco lettering piece, gilt let-ter, marbled endleaves, top edge rouged, original printed wrappers bound in. In very good to fine condition. Editor’s signed four-line presentation inscription on title-page: “al [illeg.] Dr. nóvoa santos

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// maestro de muchas [?] glorias, // devotamente // Las Casas”. 247 pp., (3 ll. advertisement). $300.00

FIrst eDItIon of this anthology of Galician poetry.Provenance: Roberto Nóvoa Santos (La Coruña, 1885—Santiago de Compostela,

1933) was a prominent physician from Galicia, one of those credited with modernizing the practice of medicine in spain in the early twentieth century.

j palau 29442 (without collation; gives the date of publication as 1928-29).

First Book Printed in Timor

18. CASTRO, Alberto Osorio de. Flores de Coral. Poemetos e impressões da Oceania Portugueza. Dili (timor): Imprensa nacional, 1908 [colophon bears the date 31 December 1909; wrappers bear the date 1910]. tall 8º, original pink printed wrappers (upper cover dampstained and brittle, defective and reinforced at edges and spine; lower wrapper is later replacement). Uncut. slightly browned. sheets with woodcut stamp in red (12 x 16.5 cm) laid in. overall in good condition, if just barely. number 245 of 257 copies on “tço-tzu” or “papel pagode.” author’s dated (July 1910) twelve-line presentation inscription on the half title to the literary critic of the Mercure de France, dated timor, 1910. author’s authentication signature (with “245” in his hand) on verso of title page. 272 pp. $2,800.00

FIrst eDItIon of this collection of poems by a noted portuguese symbolist. It was the first book printed in Timor. Densely printed ethnographical and philological notes comprise the second half of the book (pp. 132-271).

osorio de Castro (1868-1946) studied at the University of Coimbra, and while there co-founded the literary review Boémia nova with antónio nobre, alberto de oliveira and others. He was a friend of Camilo pessanha and corresponded with rubén Darío, who devoted a chapter to him in one of his books. among his works are Exiladas, Coimbra (1895), and A Cinza dos Mirtos, nova Goa 1906. osório de Castro held government posts in India, moçâmedes and Luanda as well as timor, and was a distinguished jurist. He was minister of Justice in the Government of sidónio pais.

j Innocêncio XX, 320-22. saraiva & Lopes, Historia da literatura portuguesa (1976) p. 1058. Grande enciclopedia XIX, 724. see also Álvaro manuel machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa; aníbal de Castro in Biblos, I,1057-8; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 64-5. NUC: DLC, CU, Cty. porbase locates three copies at bib-lioteca nacional de portugal and one at biblioteca João paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa. Copac locates a copy each at british Library, manchester University, and oxford University.


Author’s Signed Inscription to a Well-Known Novelist

19. CASTRO, Eugénio de. Belkiss, Rainha de Sabá, d’Axum e do Hymiar. Poema dramatico em prosa por … Segunda edição. Coimbra: Francisco França amado, 1909. 8°, original illustrated wrappers, wrapped in glassine. title page printed in red and black. Finely printed on high-quality paper. Uncut. Occasional very light spotting. In fine condition. author’s signed presentation four-line inscription to João José Grave on front flyleaf. 186 pp., (3 ll.). $150.00

Second edition; the first edition was published at Coimbra, also by Amado, in 1894; several Italian and spanish translations also appeared.

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.

Provenance: João José Grave (Vagos, 1872-porto, 1934), novelist, poet, and journal-ist, was director of the biblioteca municipal do porto. He collaborated on Brasil-Portugal 1899-1914), Revista Nova (1901-1902), and Serões (1901-1911). His novels, published from 1903 to 1919, began in the naturalistic style of Zola, shifted to costume dramas, then to a vaguely Nietzschean paganism, and finally to neo-romantic and nationalist themes. See machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa p. 231.

j Fonseca, Aditamentos p. 124: calling for 191 pp. and publication date of 1910. 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 enciclopedia 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. NUC: nn, mH. porbase locates two copies, both at biblioteca nacional de portugal.

Author’s Signed Inscription to a Writer and Politician

20. CASTRO, Eugénio de. Cravos de papel. Lisbon, porto and Coimbra: “Lvmen”, empresa International editora, 1922. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (some light soiling and wear). title page and following leaf printed in red and black. Finely printed on high quality paper. Uncut. In very good condition. author’s signed seven-line presentation inscription on recto of initial blank leaf: “ao // Luis de magalhães // ofr. // o seu admirador e amigo // o // eugénio de Castro”. signature of Luís de magalhães on front cover and title page. 154 pp., (1 l.). $180.00

FIrst eDItIon. the poet, diplomat and university professor eugénio de Castro (eugénio de Castro e almeida, 1869-1944) introduced symbolism to portugal; as a young

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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.

Provenance: Luís de magalhães (Luís Cipriano de Coelho de magalhães, 1859-1935), writer and politician, received his law degree from Coimbra University in 1882. His first works were published while he was a student, and he became involved in politics shortly thereafter, becoming an important figure in the Vida Nova movement, the Liga Liberal and the partido Franquista. His novel O Brasileiro Soares (1886; several later editions) included a preface by his good friend eça de Queiroz, for whom he organized a num-ber of posthumously published works. see Grande enciclopedia XV, 904; Álvaro manuel machado in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 293-4; Clara rocha in Biblos, III, 379-81; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 425.

j Fonseca, Aditamentos p. 124. 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 enciclopedia 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.

Author’s Signed Inscription to Modernist Poet Alberto de Serpa

21. CASTRO, Eugénio de. Silva. Segunda edição. porto: magalhães & moniz, 1911. 8°, original dark-green printed wrappers with glassine cover (minor wear to glassine). Partially unopened. In very good to fine condition. author’s signed three-line presentation inscription on half title to the modernist poet alberto de serpa. 114 pp., (2 ll.). $100.00

Second edition; the first appeared in 1894. The poet, diplomat and university profes-sor 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 improvisa-tion of the romanticists, and led to the cult of “art for art’s sake” or “estheticism” that became prominent in portugal ca. 1925.

Provenance: alberto de serpa esteves de oliveira (1906-1992), poet, dramatist, essayist and book collector, attended the University of Coimbra for 3 years but was more interested in collaborating with the writers of Presença than in studying. He published his first novel, Saudade do mar, at age 17, and 2 collections of poetry (Quadras and Evoé), but it was 2 later collections, Varanda, 1934 and Vinte poemas da noite, 1935, that led to his unanimous recognition by critics as an important modern poet. Casais monteiro says that serpa, along with branquinho da Fonseca, Carlos Queirós and Francisco bugalho, give us “um novo aspecto do abandono egoísta a um eu inadaptado à acção … [serpa]


tem, na poesia, não uma via de contacto com a realidade, mas, por assim dizer, um instrumento a cuja musica embala a sua dolorosa impressão de diferença e de incom-patibilidade” (p. 239). after his years in Coimbra, serpa returned to his native porto and became an insurance broker. He was imprisoned for political reasons in 1936, and at the same period became once again a fervent Catholic. throughout his life he contributed to portuguese literary reviews, including A Aguia, Aventura, Cadernos de poesia, Cavalo de todas as cores (co-editor), Diálogo, Momento, Presença (editor of the second series, 1939-40), Quatro ventos and Tríptico.

on serpa, see Casais monteiro, Poesia portuguesa contemporânea pp. 239-45; saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (16th ed.) pp. 1063, 1067; Grande enciclopédia XXVIII, 456-7; Fernando Guimarães in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 449; eugénio Lisboa in Biblos, IV, 1276-7; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portu-gueses, IV, 291-2.

j Fonseca, Aditamentos p. 124. 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 enciclopedia 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. NUC: nn, miU, mH. porbase locates three copies at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and one each at biblioteca nacional de portugal, biblioteca pública Municipal Penafiel, Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and Universidade de Coimbra.

Political Commentaries on the Early Years of the Republic

22. COELHO, Henrique Trindade. Ferro em braza. Lisbon: Livraria Fer-reira, 1913. Large 8°, original printed wrappers (some wear). In very good condition. author’s signed (“Henrique”) three-line presentation inscription to maria Christina (?). 237 pp., (1 l.). $150.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this collection of bitter political commentaries on the early years of the republic.

j Grande enciclopedia XXXII, 876-77. not located in NUC. oCLC: 40342327 (University of new mexico, University of Wisconsin-madison); 246077103 (Ibero-amerikanisches Institut, staats- and Universitatsbibliothek Hamburg); 491351435 (paris3-bUFr portugais); 766245587 (digitized from the University of Wisconsin copy). porbase locates six copies: four in the biblioteca nacional de portugal, and one each in the biblioteca João paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa, and the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do porto. not located in Copac.

With the Rare Third Volume

23. COELHO, José Ramos. Historia do Infante D. Duarte de El-Rey D. João IV. 3 volumes. Lisbon: academia real das sciencias, 1889-1890, and Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade 1920. Large 8°, volumes I and II in contemporary navy quarter sheep over marbled boards,

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smooth spines with gilt letter and some gilt decoration, volume III bound circa 1980 to match, with original printed wrappers bound in. Illustrated reproducing photographs by Carlos relvas. some foxing, occasional light browning. A very good to fine set. Author’s five-line presentation inscription to João Carlos de almeida Carvalho on half-title of volume I. old signature across title-page of volume I. xxi, 740 pp., (1 l. errata), 6 plates; (2 ll.), 898 pp., (1 l. errata, 1 l.), 6 plates; 126 pp., (1 l. errata, 1 l.). 3 volumes. $600.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon. the third volume is rare.Provenance: João Carlos de almeida Carvalho (1817-1897) was a lawyer, historian,

journalist, and stenographer for the portuguese House of Lords (Câmara dos pares). see Grande enciclopédia VI, 77.

j Welsh 1312. porbase locates all three volumes in ten copies at biblioteca nacional de Portugal and three at Instituto de Investigação Científica e Tropical, and two volumes only (1920) at biblioteca nacional. Copac locates volumes 1-2 at british Library, Cam-bridge University, Liverpool University, oxford University; volume 1 only at trinity College Dublin.

Portuguese Criminals

24. CORRÊA, Antonio Augusto Mendes. Os criminosos portuguêses. Estudos de anthropologia criminal. porto: Imprensa portuguesa, 1913. 4°, contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, smooth spine (leather missing). moderately browned. In good condition. author’s dated (29 July 1913) five-line presentation inscription to Dr. Inácio Calixto on half-title. viii, 309 pp., many maps, tables, charts and illustrations in text. $75.00

FIrst eDItIon of this thorough study; a second appeared the following year.

j Innocêncio XXII, 187-9: calling for 309 pp. NUC: nn, mH. oCLC: 37861384 (new york public Library, Harvard College Library); 637919794 (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne); 958974637 (biblioteca de arte Calouste Gulbenkian); 690737322 (paris Mediathèque du musée du quai Branly). Porbase locates one copy each at Biblioteca nacional de portugal, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and Universidade de Coimbra. not located in Copac.

Poet Praised by Fernando Pessoa

25. CORTESÃO, Jaime. Divina voluptuosidade: poemas em redondilhas. Lisbon and paris: Livrarias aillaud e bertrand, 1923. 8°, original beige printed wrappers (slightly spotted). title page printed in red and black. Uncut. In very good to fine condition. Author’s signed five-line

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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 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 autores portugueses, III, 295-7. NUC: WU. oCLC: 3182300. por-base locates four copies at biblioteca nacional de portugal, one at biblioteca João paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa, and two at Faculdade de Letras-Universidade de Lisboa. not in orbis.

One of the Author’s Earliest Works, with Signed and Dated Inscription to a Well-Known Novelist

26. COSTA, Alberto Mario de Sousa. Excentricos (contos). Coimbra: F. França amado, 1907. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (spine chipping). In very good condition. author’s signed and dated seven-line presenta-tion inscription on half title: “ao [illeg.] abel botelho, emi- // nente romancista, com // os protestos da minha admi- // ração. // alberto de Sousa Costa // Coimbra—19-2-1907 // R. do Barralho—27”. 182 pp., (2, 1 blank ll.). $250.00

FIrst eDItIon of one of the author’s earliest works, a collection of short stories. It was preceded by Triumpho do oiro, a novel whose preface was written by abel botelho, to whom this copy is inscribed.

sousa Costa (1879-1961) published numerous very successful novels and short stories, many of them set in the region of the Douro. oscar Lopes (quoted in rebello)


says the author “não conseguiu nunca libertar-se por completo de um certo epigonismo variamente camiliano, queiroziano ou outro.”

Provenance: botelho (1856-1917) was a well-known novelist in the naturalistic tradi-tion of Zola (see saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa [1976] pp. 987-9).

j Innocêncio XX, 117 and XXII, 513: calling for only 182 pp., 1 l. errata. saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) p. 1104. rebello, 100 anos de teatro português p. 65. Grande enciclopédia XXIX, 848-49: incorrectly calling this the third edition (the third edition, undated, appeared in the 1920s). not located in NUC. oCLC: 959154023 (biblioteca de arte Calouste Gulbenkian). porbase locates one copy each at biblioteca nacional de portugal, biblioteca João paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa, and Universidade do porto. not located in Copac. KVK (44 databases searched) repeats porbase, and adds one copy of the third edition.

Inscription by a Leading Composer to a Prominent Politician

27. 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 and dated (10 December 1923) seven-line presentation inscription on half title to Dr. barbosa de magalhães. (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 com-posers 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 see teresa sancha pereira, Ivo Cruz: maestro: 1901-1985, Lisbon, 1995. 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.

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By the Author of Ceia dos Cardeaes

28. DANTAS, Julio. Um serão nas laranjeiras. Comédia em tres actos. Lis-bon: portugal-brasil Limitada, sociedade editora; and rio de Janeiro: Companhia editora americana / Livraria Francisco alves, [1920]. 8°, contemporary tan sheep over marbled boards (some wear), spine with raised bands in five compartments, decorated in blind, crimson morocco lettering piece, gilt letter, decorated endleaves, top edge rouged, other edges uncut, original illustrated wrappers bound in. In very good con-dition. author’s signed six-line presentation inscription in ink on half title: “ao meu primeiro amigo // alberto [illeg.] //com um grande abraço [illeg.] // [illeg.], do seu admirador // amigo // Júlio Dantas”. 273 pp., (1 l. advt.). $100.00

third edition. First published in 1904; a second edition appeared in 1915; a fourth was published in 1923. It was translated into spanish, Italian and German. Dantas (1876-1962) is one of the best known modern portuguese writers. His major work, Ceia dos cardeaes, went through 48 editions from 1902 to 1962, with translations into French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, English, German, Swedish, Danish and Japanese. Its influence may also be judged by the fact that Campos Ferreira Lima lists no fewer than 49 parodies. trained as an army surgeon, Dantas later became Inspector das bibliotecas eruditas e arquivos (1912), and president of the academia das Ciências (1921).

j Fonseca, Aditamentos p. 260-1. saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) pp. 1045-46. bell, Portuguese Literature p. 313: “the most conspicuous among slightly younger dramatists … gifted with wit, lightness of touch, an excellent style, and a sense of atmosphere.” oCLC: 362401044 (University of California-santa barbara). porbase locates other editions, but not this one. Copac lists the first and fourth editions. KVK (44 databases searched) locates a copy at the staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg.

Comprehensive Study of Sardines

29. DIAS [Pereira e Almada], [Alberto da] Cunha. Conservas de peixe. Subsidios para o estudo de um problema nacional. Lisbon: Delta, 1932. 8°, original printed wrappers (front detached but present). In good con-dition. author’s signed (“Da Cunha Dias”) and dated (1932) four-line presentation inscription on the half title to mário Costa [?]. 250 pp., (1 l.), errata slip. $75.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon. Comprehensive study about the sardine canning industry. Illustrated with charming woodcuts of sardine cans from around the world. the work is dedicated to professor [antónio de] oliveira salazar.

j on the lawyer, jornalist, and polemical writer alberto da Cunha Dias pereira e almada(sintra, 1886-died 1947), who usually wrote under the name Cunha Dias or Da Cunha Dias, see Grande enciclopédia, VIII, 341-2. not located in NUC. not located in oCLC. porbase locates a single copy, at the biblioteca João paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa. not located in Copac. KVK (44 databases searched) repeats porbase and adds bibliothek ruhrgebiet.


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Collection of Essays

*30. FERRO, António. Batalha de flores. rio de Janeiro: H. antunes & C.ª, 1923. 8°, later dark blue buckram, imitating leather, smooth spine richly gilt with author, title, and date in gilt, single ruled gilt border on covers, original illustrated wrappers bound in. outer and lower edges uncut. In good to very good condition. author’s signed and dated (1924) eleven-line presentation inscription on half title: “a D. José [illeg.] //—ao grande inter- // prete de Sevilha //of á, // muito grato pela // oferta dos seus // livros admiraveis, // o // antonio Ferro // madrid. // 24-6-924.” 162 pp., (3 ll.). $400.00

FIrst eDItIon of this collection of “cronicas” on varied subjects, from the praça da Figueira in Lisbon to “Charlot”, from women in literature to the Louvre, to Vigo, and more. a facsimile reprint, with an introduction by the author’s son, the philosopher, poet, author of fiction, essayist, literary critic, literary historian, university professor and translator antónio Quadros, appeared in 1988 or 1989, depending on which source is to be believed.

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.

j 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 de autores portugueses, III, 483-4; rebello, 100 anos de teatro português pp. 74-5; Grande enciclopedia. XI, 221-2. por-base locates six copies of the present edition (none with presentation inscriptions): two in the biblioteca nacional de portugal, two in the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and one each at the Faculdade de Letras-Universidade do porto, and the biblioteca municipal de elvas. Copac cites a single copy of the reprint edition only, at british Library.

Interviews and Observations in Mussolini’s Italy, Primo de Rivera’s Spain, and Kemal Atatürk’s Turkey

*31. FERRO, António. Viagem à volta das ditaduras. Prefácio do Comandante Filomeno da Camara. Preface by Filomeno da Camara. Lisbon: emprêsa “Diario de Noticias” [on front cover]; Tipografia da Emprésa do Anuário Comercial [on verso of half title], 1927. 8°, recent dark-blue buckram,


flat spine richly gilt, original illustrated wrappers bound in. Top edge cut but not tinted; other edges uncut. Minor worming to 8 final leaves, touching a few letters of text in 4 leaves. In good condition. author’s signed and dated nine-line presentation inscription on half title: “ao João de Lebre // e Lima, // Com uma sincera // saudade do seu // Grande // espirito, // ofce // o amigo certo e // dedicado // antonio Ferro // 2-11-927”. 365 pp., (2 ll., 1 blank l.). $250.00

FIrst and onLy [?] eDItIon. travel, observations, and interviews in mussolini’s Italy, primo de rivera’s spain, and Kemal atatürk’s turkey.

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.

Provenance: João [maria da silva] de Lebre e Lima, diplomat and poet, was born in porto, 1889, and died in 1959. In 1912 he co-directed with aarão de Lacerda the review Dionysos, and published O claro riso medieval (1915), Da pena de morte (1920), and O livro do silencio seguido dos poêmas do coração e da terra (1913). For many years he was secretary of the portuguese embassy to the Court of st. James. In 1935 he was president of the portuguese delegation to negotiate with belgium on the demarcation of the Zaire river. From 1938 to 1945 he was portuguese minister to China. see Grande enciclopédia XIV, 795.

j on antónio Ferro, see paula Costa in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura por-tuguesa, p. 194; João bigotte Chorão in Biblos, II, 555-6; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 483-4; rebello, 100 anos de teatro português pp. 74-5; Grande enciclopedia XI, 221-2. oCLC: 65491905 (Utrecht University Library); 535484632 (Istituto Universitario europeo-san Domenico di Fiesole); 253066102 (Ibero-amerikanisches Institut preußis-cher Kulturbesitz); 431553402 (biblioteca nacional de españa, Université rennes 2-bU centrale, european register of microform and Digital masters [book not held], United nations Geneva). porbase lists copies at the biblioteca nacional de portugal and the Faculdade de Letras of the Universidade do porto. not located in Copac. not located in Hollis, orbis or melvyl.

Essay on the Fado, with Author’s Signed and Dated Inscription to a Noted Music Critic

32. FORTES, José Maciel Ribeiro. O Fado. Ensaios sôbre um problema etnográfico-folclórico. porto: Companhia portuguesa editora, [1926?]. 8°, recent crimson half morocco, spine with raised bands in five

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compartments, gilt letter, original printed wrappers (spotted) bound in. some browning. In very good condition. author’s signed and dated(1926) five-line presentation inscription to António Arroio on title page. 203 pp., (1 l.). $250.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon? the full title appears only on the printed wrapper; the title page reads, “Ensaios sôbre um problema etnográfico-folclórico.” Discusses the origins of the fado, its elements, influences on it, and its value for the study of ethnog-raphy and folklore.

Provenance: antónio José arroio (porto, 1856-1934), educated as an engineer, became inspector do ensino elementar comercial e industrial in 1890, a position he held until 1926, when he became a member of the Conselho de obras públicas. He published extensively on sculpture, painting, literature, and music. the escola secundária artística antónio arroio is named after him. see Grande enciclopédia III, 372-3.

j oCLC: 9440095 (University of Illinois, Indiana University, Harvard College Library, University of Virginia, Universidade de são paulo, Universiteit Utrecht); 492491374 (paris3-BUFR Portugais); 78780222 (microfilm at Columbia University); 20141002 (digitized, not available online). porbase locates two copies, both at biblioteca nacional de portugal. not located in Copac. KVK (44 databases searched) adds romanistik Universität-bonn.

With Author’s Signed Inscription to His Sister

33. GIRAO, Julio Ferreira. A Estada no Japão. porto: typographia a Vapor século XX de silva & silva, 1901. Large 8°, recent tan oasis morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands in five compartments, gilt letter, brown endleaves, original printed wrappers bound in (mounted). occasional small, light staining; some minor foxing; repairs to front wrapper and initial blank leaf at inner margins. overall in good to very good condition. author’s signed three-line presentation inscription in ink on title page: “a sua irmã maria // off // Julio.” (2 blank ll., 1 l. half title), 183 pp., (2 blank ll.). $300.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this work treating portuguese-Japanese relations, mostly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Júlio [Vítor] Ferreira [Carneiro de Vasconcelos teixeira] Girão (1854-1904), second son of the second Visconde de Vilarinho de são romão, is said to have been cultured and a hard worker, albeit a bit of a difficult personality. In addition to the present work, he wrote a number of other books of historical interest.

j not in Kyoto, Nipponalia. see Grande enciclopédia, XII, 407. oCLC: 43935513 (University of Wisconsin-madison, naitonal Diet Library, Waseda University). porbase locates a single copy, in the biblioteca nacional de portugal. not located in Copac. not located in Hollis. not located in orbis. not located in newberry Library online catalog. not located in melvyl.


Preface by Fernando Pessoa

*34. GOMES, Augusto Ferreira. Quinto império. Preface by Fernando Pes-soa. Lisbon: parceria antonio maria pereira, [1934]. Large 8°, original green-and-white printed wrappers, with original publisher’s “belt”; very minor wear. Uncut and unopened. small tear at top of rear wrapper. In very good to fine condition. Author’s signed and dated eight-line presentation on recto of front free endleaf: “para o Ildefonso Lopes, // tambem poëta nas // Artes Graficas, e // Artista que estimo, com // um abraço do // seu amigo // augusto Ferreira Gomes // 1946”. xxix pp., (16 ll.). $200.00

FIrst eDItIon. In the preface to this work (p. xv-xxi), Fernando pessoa expounds his “concepções ocultistas aplicadas à História em geral e de portugal em particular” (F. Guimarães, “a poesia da Presença e o aparecimento do neo-realismo,” quoted in serpa catalogue, item 407). Quinto Império, which was also dedicated to pessoa, is an important work for the transition from modernism to neo-realism, and in it “os versos atingem grande beleza formal a par de uma estranha profundidade de conceitos, por vezes roçando pelo mistério” (Grande enciclopédia).

augusto Ferreira [de oliveira bugalho] Gomes (1892-1953) was a poet, novelist and journalist. a longtime close and dedicated friend of pessoa, he collaborated in the periodicals Athena, Ilustração portuguesa, Civilização, Acção and many others, some of which he also helped edit or direct. His taste and his technical knowledge made him a leader in the renaissance of graphic arts in portugal.

j blanco pr122. Fotobibliografia de Fernando Pessoa, p. 290. Grande enciclopédia XI, 200. on Ferreira Gomes also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 441; and Fernando J.b. martinho in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 188-9. NUC: txU, InU, miU.

With Author’s Signed and Dated Inscription to a Noted Portuguese Painter

35. GUIMARÃES, Luis de Oliveira. Caixa de amendoas. Versos que dançam o fox-trot, o tango e a maxixe. Lisbon: empresa “alma nova”, 1926. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (slightly soiled and worn). Uncut. Light browning. In good to very good condition. author’s signed and dated seven-line presentation inscription on the second (half title) leaf recto: “ao martins barata // ao seu belo talento // e sua boa amizade // off. // Luiz d’oliveira Guimarães // [illeg.] // 1926”. 104 pp., (1 l.). $300.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this collection of poems. Luis de abreu alarcão de oliveira Guimarães (b. espinhal, penela, 1901), a lawyer and journalist, also wrote many pieces for the theater. His first literary work, a book of poems entitled Bonecas que amam, appeared in 1921.

Provenance: inscribed to the painter Jaime martins barata (1899-1970), noted for his important work in watercolors. (see pamplona Dicionário de pintores e escultores portu-gueses [1988] IV, 85-86).

j on the author, see Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 97-8; Grande enciclopédia XIX, 405; and rebello, 100 anos de teatro português p. 82-83. not located in

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NUC. oCLC: 42919431 (Indiana University). porbase locates two complete copies, in the biblioteca nacional de portugal, and the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do porto, and a copy lacking the title page “autografado pelo autor” in the biblioteca nacional de portugal. not located in Hollis, which cites 20 works by this author, the earliest being published in 1932, 1940 and 1942. not located in orbis, which cites one work by this author. not located in Copac.

Foxtrot, Charleston, Feminine Psychology, Mona Lisa’s Hands and More

36. GUIMARÃES, Luis de Oliveira. O Diabo, mestre de dança. Lisbon: edição da Coop. ressurgimento, [1928?]. 8°, original printed wrappers (slight wear). small vignette on title page. original publisher’s “belt” laid in (defective; no longer viable as as belt, but with text intact) , stating “este livro foi escrito para as mulheres solteiras e para as outras que, sendo casadas, imaginam que o não são . . .” In very good condition. author’s signed four-line presentation inscription on the half title: “ao belo espirito de Luis Chaves // com o maior admiração // e a melhor simpatia // Luis d’oliveira Guimarães”. 113 pp., (1 l.). $250.00

FIrst eDItIon of a collection of essays whose subjects include modern dancing (the foxtrot and charleston), the english, feminine psychology, the hands of the mona Lisa, rafael bordalo pinheiro and “o Vaticano, as mulheres e a moda.” Luis [de abreu alarcão] de oliveira Guimarães (b. espinhal, penela, 1901) also wrote many pieces for the theater, and was a lawyer, journalist and poet. His first literary work, a book of poems entitled Bonecas que amam, appeared in 1921.

Provenance: probably inscribed to Luis Rufino Chaves Lopes (b. 1889), archaeolo-gist and professor.

j on the author, see Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 97-8; Grande enciclopédia XIX, 405; and rebello, 100 anos de teatro português p. 82-83. not located in NUC. oCLC: 432730906 (biblioteca nacional de españa); 7686674 (Cleveland public Library); 959155588 and 959155655 (both biblioteca de arte Calouste Gulbenkian). porbase locates a copy with the date [192-] at biblioteca nacional de portugal and another with the date 1924 at biblioteca João paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa, with 116 pp. not located in Copac. KVK (44 databases searched) repeats porbase. not in Hollis, which cites 20 works by this author, the earliest being published in 1932, 1940 and 1942. not in orbis, which cites one work by this author.

Speeches on Santo Antonio, Gil Vicente, Women in Politics and More, With Author’s Signed Inscription to Author Maria Archer

37. GUIMARÃES, Luis de Oliveira. Entre nós, que ninguem nos ouve. Lisbon: portugália, 1938. 8°, original beige printed wrappers (spine darkened, minor wear). Light browning. overall in very good condition.


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Author’s signed five-line presentation inscription to Maria Archer as well as a booktag (“ex libris ainda”) on half-title. 102 pp., (1 l.). $125.00

FIrst eDItIon of a collection of speeches whose subjects include santo antónio, Gil Vicente and women in politics. Luis de abreu alarcão de oliveira Guimarães (1900-1998) also wrote many pieces for the theater, and was a lawyer and poet. His first literary work, a book of poems entitled Bonecas que amam, appeared in 1921. between 1937 and 1940 he abandoned his juridical career to devote himself entirely to letters.

Provenance: maria archer (1899-1982), spent her childhood and young adult years in moçambique (1910-1913 and 1921-1926), Guiné (1916-1918), and angola (1930-1934). Journalist, author of fiction, and playwright, she lectured in Portugal on Portuguese africa. Her writing is marked by the courage with which she depicts women at a time when to do so was not politically correct. She was a fierce opponent of the Salazar regime, spending 1954-1974 in forced exile in Brazil, returning to Portugal in 1977 to die five years later, ignored and in misery.

j on the author, see Grande enciclopedia XIX, 405 and rebello, 100 anos de teatro português pp. 82-83. not located in NUC. oCLC: 563894599 (british Library). porbase locates three copies: biblioteca nacional de portugal, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and biblioteca pedro Veiga-Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do porto. Copac repeats british Library only.

Volume of Poetry with Introduction by Fernando Pessoa Author’s Signed and Dated Inscription to a

Leading Figure of the Geração de 70

38. KAMENEZKY, Eliezer. Alma errante, poemas. Lisbon: Composto e impresso nas oficinas gráficas da Emprêsa do Anuário Comercial, 1932. 8°, original printed wrappers (minor wear and soiling). plate with portrait of the author. In good to very good condition. author’s signed and dated six-line presentation inscription on half title: “ao prezado // amigo e senhor // batalha reis // com simpatia // 9-2-19140 [sic] // Lisboa eliezer Kamenezky”. Illustrated lithograph bookplate of a.[lfredo] ribeiro dos santos (smaller version). (1 blank l.), 112 pp., (1 blank l.), 1 plate. $200.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon. the preface (pp. 5-21) is by Fernando pessoa. sousa points out that here, as often elsewhere, pessoa speaks more about his own ideas and obsessions than about those in the work he is supposed to introduce. “o facto de eliezer Kamenezky ser um judeu russo exilado em Lisboa e, sobretudo, o facto de ele estar imbuído de ‘um misticismo de judeu russo’, leva-o desta vez à elaboração de um texto, aliás de grande riqueza especulativa e com largo leque referencial, onde, entre outros tópicos, se focalizam religião e mística, política e ideologias, cristianismo e judaismo, maçonaria e rosa-Cruz, tradição alquímica e Cabala”.

Provenance: Jaime batalha reis (Lisbon 1847-Lisbon 1935) agronomist, diplomat, geographer and publicist, was a leading figure of the Geração de 70. He was the clos-est companion to antero de Quental during the period 1868-1871. along with antero,


augusto soromenho, eça de Queiroz and adolfo Coelho, he was instrumental in orga-nizing the “Conferências do Casino”. He was also a member of the Vencidos da Vida, which included, among others, José Duarte ramalho ortigão, Joaquim pedro de oliveira martins, antónio Cândido ribeiro da Costa, Guerra Junqueiro, Luís de soveral, Francisco manuel de melo breyner (3.° conde de Ficalho), Carlos de Lima mayer, Carlos Lobo de Ávila, antónio maria Vasco de mello silva César e menezes (9.º conde de sabugosa), and eça de Queiroz.

j blanco pr 117. sousa, ed., Fernando Pessoa: Fotobibliografia p. 203. NUC: WU, mH. porbase locates four copies, all in the biblioteca nacional de portugal. Copac repeats british Library and adds University College London.

On the Centenary of Charles Darwin’s Birth, With Author’s Signed Inscription

39. LACERDA, Aarão Ferreira de. A commemoração darwineana celebrada pela Universidade de Cambridge (22-24 de Junho de 1909). Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 1910. Large 8°, original printed wrappers (frayed at bottom, some fading and staining; small blank white circular paper tag in blank portion of front wrapper near inner margin). Uncut and partially unopened. In good to very good condition. author’s signed five-line presentation inscription in upper outer corner of front wrap-per: “ao exmº sr. // Dr. maximiano de Lemos // Homenagem // de // aFLacerda”. Frontisportrait of Darwin, 28 pp. $100.00

FIrst eDItIon thus of this offprint from tomo V (1910) of the Annaes da Academia Polytechnica do Porto, published under the direction of F. Gomes teixeira. a celebration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin (1809-1882). the author, physcian and professor of zoology and geology, was born in Coimbra, 1863, and died at porto, 1921.

Provenance: on the physician, professor and historian of medicine maximiano [augusto de oliveira] Lemos [Júnior], see Grande enciclopedia XIV, 916-7 and Ferreira de mira, Historia da medicina portuguesa, pp. 462, 486, 492-3, 513 and 515. born in são Faustino (régua) in 1860, he died at Vila nova de Gaia in 1923. He left an extensive bibliography.

j on the author, see Grande enciclopedia, XIV, 500. oCLC: 718267476 (musées et jardins botaniques cantonaux). not located in porbase. not located in Copac. not located in KVK (44 databases searched).

Biography of a New Christian Physician, Inscribed to a Noted Brazilian Neurosurgeon

40. LEMOS JÚNIOR, Maximiano Augusto Oliveira. Zacuto Lusitano: a sua vida e a sua obra. porto: eduardo tavares martins, 1909. 4°, recent mottled green leatherette, smooth spine, original pink printed wrap-pers bound in. Light marginal dampstaining to lower outer corner, not affecting text. In good to very good condition. author’s six-line

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presentation inscription to augusto brandão on the half-title. Fron-tispiece, 398 pp., (1 l.), illustrated. $160.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this biography of the new Christian Zacuto Lus-itano (1575-1649), whom Ferreira de mira called “o mais notável médico português do séc. XVII.” born in Lisbon, Zacuto studied medicine at Coimbra and siguença and then practiced in Lisbon until the Inquisition drove him to seek refuge in amsterdam. there he distinguished himself as a medical historian, publishing De medicorum principum historia in 1629.

Oliveira Lemos (1860-1923) was the first professor of legal medicine at the School of medicine and surgery in porto. In 1890 he opened a clinic for mental and nervous diseases, and in 1921 was named vice-rector of the University of Coimbra. He wrote many works on portuguese medical history and founded the arquivos de História da medicina portuguesa.

Provenance: augusto de souza brandão Filho (Cantagalo, 1881-rio de Janeiro, 1957) was a famous brazilian neurosurgeon, called “príncipe dos cirurgiões”. In 1922 he was elected to the academia nacional de medicina, where he served as vice president from 1937-1938.

j Fonseca, Aditamentos p. 317. pires de Lima, Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Médico-Cirurgica do Porto 2389. Lisbon, Faculdade de medicina, Catálogo da Colecção Portuguesa II, 235-6. on Zacuto Lusitano, see Ferreira de mira, História da medicina portuguesa pp. 165-9; Harry Friedenwald, The Jews and Medicine, I, 309-321; and Grande enciclopédia XV, 639-40. porbase locates two copies at biblioteca nacional de portugal and one at biblioteca João paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa.

First Edition of Lima’s First Novel, Inscribed to One of Its Dedicatees

41. LIMA, Jorge [Mateus] de. Salomão e as mulheres. rio de Janeiro: empreza Graphica editora-paulo, pongetti & Cia., 1927. 8°, early half beige buckram (some rubbing and soiling), original printed wrappers bound in. some browning and foxing; not a good quality paper to begin with, as is bluntly stated in a printed note on the third leaf at the end: “toda a edição foi tirada neste papel ruim.” overall in good condition. author’s signed (“JL”) and dated (1927) two-line presentation inscrip-tion on the half-title, “Ao Auryno Maciel—meu irmão pequeno.” 248 pp., (3, 1 blank ll.). $800.00

FIRST EDITION of Jorge de Lima’s first novel, published while he was still a gov-ernment employee in alagoas. this copy is inscribed to his good friend auryno maciel, who is also one of the dedicatees and is mentioned twice in the lengthy Latin note on the first unnumbered leaf following the text.

Jorge mateus de Lima (1895-1953), a native of União dos palmares (alagoas), was a prominent modernist poet and co-founder of the northeastern school. He is “acclaimed as one of the most spontaneous natural poetic geniuses of brazilian literature, [but] he is considered by some to be a perpetually dissatisfied poet in search of new worlds to conquer and never content with his own brilliant performance” (stern pp. 176-77). In 1931 Lima moved to rio de Janeiro and began teaching brazilian literature. His earlier works included, in verse, the precocious XIV Alexandrinos, 1914; O mundo do menino imposível,


1925; Poemas, 1927; and A comédia dos erros, 1923. although known primarily as a poet, he also wrote novels, children’s literature and art criticism. The influences on his work range from parnassianism to symbolism, modernism and surrealism. as a young man Lima was torn between becoming a physician or a priest, and although he studied to be the former, many of his writings reflect a religious temperament that seems to have become stronger toward the end of his life, for example, in Tempo e eternidade, 1935, and A túnica inconsutil, 1938. Lima is closely linked with José Lins do rego in the founding of the northeastern school.

j menezes, Dicionário literário brasileiro (1976) p. 367. on the author, see Carpeaux, Pequena bibliografia crítica da literatura brasileira pp. 276-8; Werneck Sodré, História da literatura brasileira pp. 529, 537, 551, 575; bandeira, brief History of brazilian Litera-ture pp. 147, 148, 149-50, 153; Wilson martins, História da inteligência brasileira VII, 1, 28, and elsewhere (34 references). not located in NUC. porbase locates a single copy, at biblioteca nacional de portugal.

First Edition of One of Lima’s Best Works, Inscribed to the Modernist Poet Alberto de Serpa

42. LIMA, Jorge [Mateus] de. A tunica inconsutil. Poesia. Guanabara: Cooperativa Cultural, 1938. 8°, original printed wrappers (spine browned, chipping at foot; front cover weakly attached). minor foxing. In good condition. author’s signed and dated six-line presentation inscription to the portuguese poet alberto de serpa: “ao irmão distante // — Alberto de Serpa, // sempre lembrada e // admirado off: // Jorge de Lima // 1.9.38”. portrait, (1 l.), 320 pp., (2 ll.), with errata slip pasted to first leaf. $500.00

FIrst eDItIon of the work that won the Grand prize for poetry from the brazilian academy of Letters in 1940, and which mário de andrade called “one of the best [works] he has yet produced…. full of the richest and the most surprising imagination.”

Jorge mateus de Lima (1895-1953), a native of União dos palmares (alagoas), was a prominent modernist poet and co-founder of the northeastern school. He is “acclaimed as one of the most spontaneous natural poetic geniuses of brazilian literature, [but] he is considered by some to be a perpetually dissatisfied poet in search of new worlds to conquer and never content with his own brilliant performance” (stern pp. 176-77). In 1931 Lima moved to rio de Janeiro and began teaching brazilian literature. His earlier works included, in verse, the precocious XIV Alexandrinos, 1914; O mundo do menino impossível, 1925; Poemas, 1927; and A comédia dos erros, 1923. although known primarily as a poet, he also wrote novels, children’s literature and art criticism. The influences on his work range from parnassianism to symbolism, modernism and surrealism. Lima is closely linked with José Lins do rego in the founding of the northeastern school.

as a young man Lima was torn between becoming a physician or a priest, and although he studied to be the former, many of his writings reflect a religious tempera-ment that seems to have become stronger toward the end of his life, for example in Tempo e eternidade, 1935, and in this work of 1938. the “seamless garment” of the title refers to John 19:23-24, when the soldiers who had crucified Christ decided not to tear his tunic into pieces.

Provenance: alberto de serpa esteves de oliveira (1906-1992), poet, dramatist, essayist and book collector, attended Coimbra University for 3 years but was more interested in

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collaborating with the writers of Presença than in studying. He published his first novel at age 17 (Saudade do mar, 1923) and 2 collections of poetry a year later (Quadras and Evoé). but it was 2 later collections, Varanda, 1934 and Vinte poemas da noite, 1935, that led to his unanimous recognition by critics as an important modern poet. Casais monteiro says that serpa, along with branquinho da Fonseca, Carlos Queirós and Francisco bugalho, give us “um novo aspecto do abandono egoísta a um eu inadaptado à acção …[serpa] tem, na poesia, não uma via de contacto com a realidade, mas, por assim dizer, um instrumento a cuja música embala a sua dolorosa impressão de diferença e de incompatibilidade” (p. 239). after his years in Coimbra, serpa returned to his native porto and became an insurance broker. He was imprisoned for political reasons in 1936, and at the same period became once again a fervent Catholic. throughout his life he contributed to portuguese literary reviews, including A Águia, Aventura, Cadernos de poesia, Cavalo de todas as cores (co-editor), Diálogo, Momento, Presença (editor of the second series, 1939-40), Quatro ventos and Tríptico. For alberto de serpa, see the following: Casais monteiro, Poesia portuguesa contemporânea pp. 239-45; saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (16th ed.) pp. 1063, 1067; Grande enciclopédia XXVIII, 456-7. see also Fernando Guimarães in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 449; eugénio Lisboa in Biblos, IV, 1276-7; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 291-2.

j Carpeaux, Pequena bibliografia crítica da literatura brasileira p. 276. marie F. sover-eign, “the Double Itinerary of Jorge de Lima’s poetry,” Luso-Brazilian Review 11:1 (sum-mer 1974), pp. 105-113. For alberto de serpa, see the following: Casais monteiro, Poesia portuguesa contemporânea pp. 239-45; saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (16th ed.) pp. 1063, 1067; Grande enciclopédia XXVIII, 456-7. see also Fernando Guimarães in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 449; eugénio Lisboa in Biblos, IV, 1276-7; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 291-2. NUC: DLC, ICU, InU, CU, DpU. porbase located two copies: biblioteca nacional de portugal, and Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do porto.

Comprehensive Bibliography of Portuguese and Brazilian Shorthand Manuals

*43. LINDE, Joaquin Luis de Sousa Fraga Pery de. Bibliografia taquigra-fica luso-brasileira anotada (1803-1915). Lisbon: tip. Universal, 1915. 8°, recent half burgundy morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands in five compartments, gilt letter, top edge rouged, other edges uncut, original printed wrappers bound in. Front cover printed in red and black. Some light toning. In very good to fine condition. one of 500 copies. author’s stamped signature in upper portion of recto of front wrapper. author’s signed and dated (5/12/15) ink presentation inscription on title page to Joaquim Francisco nobre sobrinho. vii, 101 pp., (1 l.). $250.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon, rare, of this comprehensive bibliography of stenogra-phy manuals published in portugal and brazil, and of manuals by portuguese authors published elsewhere, prior to 1915. With full collations, lengthy biographical and contents notes, descriptions of some unpublished manuscript manuals, and a lengthy bibliography of periodical articles relating to the history of shorthand in portugal and brazil.

pery de Linde (1865-1919) was born in Lisbon and developed outstanding steno-graphic skills in his work as a parliamentary reporter and newspaper editor. From 1903

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to 1905 he traveled abroad on an official mission to study various commercial applica-tions of stenography. a noted teacher, pery de Linde also published several shorthand manuals, all fully described in the Bibliografia.

j not in Innocêncio or Fonseca, Aditamentos. on the author, see Aditamentos p. 213 and Grande enciclopédia XXI, 433. NUC: mH, nn. oCLC: 45001517 (new york public Library, british Library); 431691633 (biblioteca nacional de españa). porbase locates five copies: four in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and one in the Escola Superior da educação-Coimbra. Copac repeats british Library only.

Author’s Dated Inscription to the Conde da Praia e Monforte, To Whom One of the Poems Is Dedicated

*44. MELLO, Candido de. Volitos. preface by mendo bem. angra do Heroismo: Minerva—Manuel de Sousa Ribeiro, 1901. Tall 12º, original buff printed wrappers, illustrated with small images of a bird and a bat; griffin within typographical ornaments on back cover. Nicely printed, with typographical headpieces and other ornaments throughout. Litho-graph frontisportrait of the author. In fine condition. Author’s dated seven-line presentation inscription on half-title: “ao Illmº exmº sr. // marquez da praia de [sic] monforte // um documento de respeito // off.ª // angra do Heroismo // 18-2-902 // o autor”. penciled shelf-mark of the library of the marqueses da praia e monforte in upper outer corner of recto of initial front free endleaf. 2 blank ll., frontisportrait, 97, (1) pp., (2 ll., 1 blank l.). $200.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon? the book is dedicated to Queen D. maria amélia de orleans, wife of D. Carlos I of portugal, daughter of the Count of paris and mother of D. manuel II; a sonnet is addressed to her. there are also sonnets on the death of D. Luiz I, Combate da praia da Victoria, the Jardim publico d’angra, D. sebastião, and Caida da Praia da Victoria. The sonnet “Ante um Crucifico” is dedicated to the Marques da Praia de [sic] monforte, to whom this copy is inscribed; the upper outer corner of the leaf with the dedication is turned down.

Provenance: antónio borges de medeiros Dias da Câmara e sousa (ponta Delgada, são José, 1829-Lisbon, 1913), 2.º Visconde da praia, 1.º Conde da praia e monforte e 1.º marquês da praia e monforte, was a great landed agricultural magnate and political figure. A typical enlightened, liberal aristocrat, he and his family formed a significant library, supported cultural projects, and patronized a number of authors, especially in the açores.

j not located in oCLC. porbase locates a single copy, in the biblioteca tomás ribeiro-Câmara municipal de tondela. not located in Copac. KVK (44 databases searched) locates on the copy cited by porbase. not located in Hollis. not located in orbis.


With Signed Inscription by Edgar Prestage, Who Edited and Annotated This Classic Work

45. MELLO, D. Francisco Manuel de. Carta de Guia de casados, com um estudo critico, notas e glossario por Edgar Prestage. porto: renascença portuguesa, 1916. 8°, contemporary half sheep over decorated boards (minor wear; eight small round wormholes in spine), spine gilt with raised bands in six compartments, gilt letter, marbled endleaves, top edge rouged. Illustration in text of “torre Velha” after J. de Castilho. Browned. In good condition. Editor’s signed five-line presentation inscription on recto of first leaf: “Ao seu prezado Amigo // Exmº Sr. Conselheiro antónio Cândido // ribeiro da Costa // offr // edgar prestage”. 225 pp., (1 l.). $300.00

one of the classics of portuguese literature, in an edition prepared by the eminent scholar edgar prestage. First edition thus. a critical study by prestage occupies pp. 9-33. He has also provided endnotes (pp. [185]-216), a glossary (pp. [217]-20), a “Lista de rifões citados” (p. [221]), and an index to themes (pp. [223]-225).

renascença portuguesa was a cultural and civic group founded in 1911 by teixeira de pascoaes, Jaime Cortesão, raúl proença, antónio sérgio, Leonardo Coimbra, Álvaro pinto, augusto Casimiro, and others. the group’s literary review, Á Aguia, continued publication until 1932. pascoaes, proença, and sérgio soon disagreed on the long-term goals of renascença portuguesa, and the movement became the mouthpiece of sau-dosismo. The educational influence of the Renascença Portuguesa continued to be felt through its Universidades populares and hundreds of publications under the renascença portuguesa imprint on history, law, economy, literature, etc. on renascença portuguesa, see mário Garcia in Biblos IV, 694.

Provenance: antónio Cândido ribeiro da Costa, better known as antónio Cândido (porto, 1852-Candemil, 1922), author, minister, president of the Cámara dos Pares, and, after the proclamation of the republic, procurador geral da coroa, was one of the most elequent and cultured figures of his age. Vice President of the Academia Real das Ciências (when the King was ex-oficio President), he was a noted orator. See Grande enciclopédia, V, 713-4.

j NUC: DLC, CU, mH, CabVaU. porbase locates two copies each at biblioteca nacional de portugal and Faculdade de Letras-Universidade de Lisboa.

Author’s First Book, with His Signed Inscription To a Portuguese Playwright

46. MONSARAZ, Alberto, later 2º Conde de Monsaraz. Romper d’alva, 1906-1908. Lisbon: a.m. teixeira, 1909. 8°, original beige printed wrap-pers (some soiling, blue-edged paper label at head of spine). title page printed in red and black. Uncut. Very lightly browned, a few small stains. In very good condition. author’s signed (“alberto monsaraz”) six-line presentation inscription to portuguese playwright Henrique Lopes de mendonça on half-title. 206 pp., (1 blank l.). $400.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this prolific author’s FIRST BOOK, published while he was a student at Coimbra University. alberto monsaraz (1889-1959), like his father

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the first Conde de Monsaraz (Antonio de Macedo Papança), was a poet of the traditional school. He was also a founder of the political and philosophical movement known as Integralismo Lusitano. three times under the republican government he went into exile, and during the 1919 monarchist uprising he was nearly killed by a grenade.

Provenance: Henrique Lopes de mendonça (1856-1931), dramatist, novelist, historian, biographer, poet, naval officer and history teacher at the Escola Naval, also taught at the escola de belas artes in Lisbon, served as president of the academia das Ciências, and founded in 1925 the sociedade portuguesa de autores. He also wrote the lyrics for the portuguese national anthem. see Álvaro manuel machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 313; aníbal pinto de Castro in Biblos, III, 667-9; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 390-1; and Luciana stegagno picchio, História do teatro português, pp.278-9, 281, 284, 315, 412-3, 415, 416, 418, 443.

j Innocêncio XX, 319-20: without imprint or collation. saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) pp. 1032, 1050. Grande enciclopédia XVII, 674-5. NUC: WU. oCLC: 36845838 (University of Wisconsin-madison, Universidade de são paulo); 806347859 (biblioteca de Catalunya); 959156319 (biblioteca de arte Calouste Gulbenkian); 697135124 (digitized from the University of Wisconsin copy). porbase lists only a single copy, in the biblioteca João paulo II of the Universidade Católica, Lisboa. not located in Copac. not located in Hollis or orbis.

Author’s Second Book With His Signed Inscription to a Portuguese Playwright

47. MONSARAZ, Alberto, later 2º Conde de Monsaraz. Sol creador, 1909-1910. Lisbon: a.m. teixeira, 1911. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (lightly spotted, label on spine, foot of spine slightly defective). title-page and initials printed in red & black; section titles and some other text printed in red. Wood-engraved headpiece & initials. Uncut. overall in very good condition. author’s signed (“alberto monsaraz”) six-line presentation inscription to portuguese playwright Henrique Lopes de mendonça on half-title. 190 pp., (1 blank l.). $300.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this prolific author’s second published book; his first, Romper d’alva, appeared two years earlier. alberto monsaraz (1889-1959), like his father the first Conde de Monsaraz (Antonio de Macedo Papança), was a poet of the traditional school. He was also a founder of the political and philosophical movement known as Integralismo Lusitano. three times under the republican government he went into exile, and in the 1919 monarchist uprising he was nearly killed by a grenade.

Provenance: Henrique Lopes de mendonça (1856-1931), dramatist, novelist, historian, biographer, poet, naval officer and history teacher at the Escola Naval, also taught at the escola de belas artes in Lisbon, served as president of the academia das Ciências, and in 1925 founded the sociedade portuguesa de autores. He also wrote the lyrics for the portuguese national anthem.

j Innocêncio XX, 319-20. saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) pp. 1032, 1050. Grande enciclopédia XVII, 674-5. NUC: DLC, mH. porbase lists two copies, in the biblioteca João paulo II of the Universidade Católica, Lisboa, and in the biblioteca nacional de portugal. not located in Copac. not located in Hollis or orbis.


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Author’s First Book, with His Signed Inscription

*48. MONTEIRO, Adolfo Casais. Confusão. Poemas de …. Coimbra: edições “presença”, 1929. 8°, original printed wrappers (worn; stamp scored in upper outer corner of front cover). Uncut. Internally in very good to fine condition. Overall (because of the wrappers) in somewhat less than good condition. nº 208 of 300 copies. author’s signed eight-line presentation inscription to maria Helena Leal on half title. 70 pp., (1, 1 blank ll.). $300.00

FIRST and ONLY separate EDITION of the author’s first book of poems, indeed, his first book, greatly influenced by the first generation of modernism in Portugal. The edition consisted of a total of 318 copies, of which there were 3 on “papel ar, nominais, fora do mercado”, 15 on “papel Vergé” numbered I to XV, also “fora do mercado”, and 300 on “Papel Almaço Tojal” numbered 1 to 300, the first 50 of which were “fora do mercado” as well. the text was included in the his Versos 1928-1936, published in 1944.

one of the leading voices of the second generation of portuguese modernism, adolfo Casais monteiro (porto 1908-são paulo 1972), poet, literary critic and educator, with Leonardo Coimbra and sant’ana Dionísio, was part of the editorial board of Águia in the late 1920s. He was an early and frequent contributor to the review Presença, and beginning with number 33, he joined José régio and João Gaspar simões in it’s direction. active in the opposition to the salazar regime to the detriment of his teaching career, he was forced into exile in 1954, spending the rest of his life in brazil. one of the very few who appreciated Fernando pessoa during pessoa’s lifetime, along with Luís de montalvor and João Gaspar Simões, Casais Monteiro was influential in promoting the reputation of pessoa after pessoa’s death.

j on Casais monteiro see Fernando J.b. martinho in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 322-3; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 360-3; eugénio Lisboa in Biblos, III, 891-4; and saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (16th ed.), p. 1043, et passim. not located in NUC. porbase locates nine copies, all in the biblioteca nacional de portugal (only one with a presentation inscription). Copac locates the present edition at british Library only.

Details on the Indigenous Population of Quelimane and Tete, In Mozambique, with the Author’s Signed Inscription

49. [MOZAMBIQUE. Castello Branco, Francisco Xavier Ferrão de]. Relatorio das investigações sobre emigração dos indigenas e outros assumptos mencionados na Portaria Provincial no. 268, de 13 de maio de 1908, a que procedeu o Secretario dos Negocios Indigenas nos Districtos de Quelimane e Tete. Lourenço marques: Imprensa nacional, 1909. Large 8°, original printed wrappers, stapled (slight foxing, spine chipped). In very good condition. Author’s signed (“Francisco Ferrão”) five-line presentation inscription on title page to alfredo s. mamede. With its own title page, but paginated [209]-274, (1 l.); pp. 241-256 bound after 272. some tables and diagrams. $85.00

First separate edition, very rare. Ferrão was asked to find out why so many of the indigenous population were emigrating from Quelimane and tete, and to investigate


the state of the islands in the Zambezi. He discusses the prazos in the area at length and by name (pp. 221-63). The work is dated March 11, 1909 on the final page.

the Relatório provoked those who controlled the prazos to respond with the Protesto de arrendatarios de Quelimane e Tete, Lourenço marques, 1909. according to that work, the Relatório first appeared in the Boletim official of mozambique. Given the pagination, this seems to be an offprint.

Ferrão was appointed first secretary of Indigenous Affairs in Mozambique in 1907. His duties included organizing a justice system for the indigenous population, regulating the duties of chiefs, codifying african law, organizing a civil register, controlling migration, and organizing labor and recruitment for the government and for private employers.

Provenance: alfredo de são mamede is probably the third Conde de são mamede (b. porto, 1881), an engineer and agronomist. see Grande enciclopédia XXVII, 543.

j not located in oCLC. not located in porbase. not located in Copac. not located in KVK (44 databases searched).

With the Author’s Signed Inscription to a Portuguese Playwright

50. PAPANÇA, Antonio de Macedo, 1º Conde de Monsaraz. Bemvinda: poema em 5 cantos. Lisbon: Livraria editora tavares Cardoso & Irmão, 1903. 8°, original printed wrappers (lightly spotted, paper label on spine). Wood-engraved headpieces. Uncut. Lightly browned. In fine condition. author’s signed (“Conde de monsaraz”) six-line presenta-tion inscription on half-title, to portuguese playwright Henrique Lopes de mendonça. 53 pp., (1 blank l.). $200.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this dramatic poem.macedo papança (1852-1913) was born at reguengos de monsarás (Évora) and

received his law degree from the University of Coimbra in 1874. With the publication of Crepusculares (1876) and Catarina de Ataída (1880), he established a reputation as one of the best lyric poets of his day. In the 1880s he became involved with the progressive party and was elected deputy for the alentejo. a fervent monarchist, he went into voluntary exile after the republic was proclaimed, only returning to Lisbon shortly before his death.

Provenance: Henrique Lopes de mendonça (1856-1931), dramatist, novelist, historian, biographer, poet, naval officer and history teacher at the Escola Naval, also taught at the escola de belas artes in Lisbon, served as president of the academia das Ciências, and founded in 1925 of the sociedade portuguesa de autores. He also wrote the lyrics for the portuguese national anthem.

j not in Innocêncio or Fonseca, Aditamentos; on the author, cf. XX, 249, XXII, 314 and Aditamentos p. 44. see also saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001), pp. 925, 927, 932; Álvario manuel machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 320-1; Fernando Guimarães in Biblos, III, 883-4; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 354-5 (listing this among the author’s principal works). NUC: DLC. oCLC: 9952160 (Harvard College Library, Library of Congress, University of north Carolina-Chapel Hill, Indiana University, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Universidade de São Paulo). porbase locates four copies: three in the biblioteca nacional de portugal, and one at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (only one of the biblioteca nacional copies with an author’s presentation inscription). Copac locates a single copy, at newcastle University.

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The Author’s Best-Known Work With His Signed Inscription to a Portuguese Playwright

51. PAPANÇA, Antonio de Macedo, 1º Conde de Monsaraz. Musa Alemtejana. Lisbon: Livr. Classica editora de a.m. teixeira, 1908. 8°, original printed wrappers (blue-and-white paper label with manuscript “1399” at head of spine; short tear to lower joint at foot of spine). title page in red and black. Half title in red. Uncut. Light toning. In fine condition. author’s warm, signed, six-line presentation inscription to portuguese playwright Henrique Lopes de mendonça on half-title: “a Henrique Lopes de Mendonça //—ao illustre dramaturgo—// off.e cordialmente, pe- // lo muito que lhe quer e o admi- // ra. // Conde de monsaraz”. 252 pp., (2 ll.). $500.00

FIrst eDItIon of the author’s best-known work: “notável colectânea de inspiradas poesias, notáveis pela elegância da forma e do pensamento” (Grande enciclopédia XVII, 674). The first Conde de Monsaraz (1852-1913), noted poet and distinguished writer born at Reguengos de Monsaraz, published his first work in 1876 (Crepusculares) and established his reputation with the appearance of Telas históricas, 1882. a fervent mon-archist, he went into voluntary exile after the republic was proclaimed, only returning to portugal shortly before his death.

Provenance: Henrique Lopes de mendonça (1856-1931), dramatist, novelist, historian, biographer, poet, naval officer and history teacher at the Escola Naval, also taught at the escola de belas artes in Lisbon, served as president of the academia das Ciências, and founded in 1925 of the sociedade portuguesa de autores. He also wrote the lyrics for the portuguese national anthem. see Álvaro manuel machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 313; aníbal pinto de Castro in Biblos, III, 667-9; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 390-1; and Luciana stegagno picchio, História do teatro português, pp.278-9, 281, 284, 315, 412-3, 415, 416, 418, 443.

j on the author, see Innocêncio XX, 249, XXII, 314 and Aditamentos p. 44. saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001), p. 925: “euforica e patriarcal”; see as well pp. 927, 932. bell, Portuguese Literature pp. 335-36: “pleasant regional verse.” see also Álvaro manuel machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 320-1; Fernando Guimarães in Biblos, III, 883-4; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 354-5. NUC: DLC, miU, CabVaU, DCU. porbase locates a single copy, in the biblioteca tomás ribeiro-Câmara municipal de tondela. not located in Copac.

Defense of Modern Art With the Author’s Signed Inscription to João do Ameal

52. PEDRO, António. Grandeza e virtudes da arte moderna. Resposta à agressão do Sr. Ressano Garcia. Lisbon: Sociedade Industrial de Tipografia, april 1939. 8°, original printed wrappers with single staple at center of spine (minor soiling and foxing to wrappers; split at foot of spine). In good to very good condition. author’s signed three-line presentation


inscription on half title: “ao ex. sr. João do ameal // com a admiração // do pedro”. (1 l.), 25 pp. $300.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this reply to ressano Garcia, who in a conference had “insultado, com uma violência que só a maldade demoníaca das suas caricaturas podia deixar antever, a arte e os artistas modernos”.

antónio pedro (1909-1966) was born at praia, Cabo Verde and had a long and varied career as a poet, journalist, painter, dramatist, novelist and radio commentator for the BBC. His early work was influenced most by António Botto and Guilherme de Faria. returning to Cabo Verde (1928-1929), pedro mixed with some of the young artists and writers of the islands, such as João Lopes; he influenced Pedro Corsino de Azevedo and Jorge barbosa, as well as a number of other authors associated later with Claridade. He studied at the Universities of Coimbra and Lisbon, as well as in paris at the sorbonne while serving as a correspondent for the Diario de Lisboa. In 1935 he published in paris 15 Poèmes au Hasard. at about the same time he signed, with Kandinsky, Delaunay, picabia and Duchamp the Dimensionist manifesto. earlier he had served on the editorial board of Presença, and later worked on such periodicals as Variante, which he founded, as well as a number of others. In 1944-1945 he worked in London for the bbC in its portuguese section, and collaborated in theatrical programs of the London transcription service, even-tually becoming a member of the surrealist Group of London, exhibiting his paintings at the arcade Gallery, along with those of arp, Chirico, max ernst, miró, Klee, Giacometti, picasso and others. embracing the surrealist movement, he helped to found the Grupo surrealista de Lisboa, experimenting with surrealism in his writings and paintings. In 1949 he became director of the teatro apolo in Lisbon, where he did much to promote the dramatic arts in portugal.

Provenance: João ameal was the literary name for the historian, journalist, politician and author João Francisco de barbosa azevedo de sande ayres de Campos, 3º Conde de Ameal (1902-1982). He is renowned chiefly for his História de Portugal, a multi-volume work first published in 1941 and awarded the Alexandre Herculano Prize in 1943. A grandson of the renowned humanist and art collector João maria Correia ayres de Campos, 1º Conde de ameal, he published over twenty books in various genres. a corporatist and monarchist, during the 1930s he was active politically in collaboration with the estado novo. In the 1940s, profoundly disillusioned with the salazar regime, he devoted himself mainly to teaching and research.

j serpa 891. almeida marques 1552. on pedro, see Fernando Guimarães in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 369-70; Guimarães in Biblos, IV, 14-6; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 402-4; Grande enciclopedia XX, 824 and pamplona, Dicionário de pintores e escultores portugueses (2nd ed.), I, 123-4. oCLC: 11096158 (yale University [oCLC says sterling memorial Library, but orbis says the work is at beine-cke; moreover, we sold a copy to beinecke in 2003], Getty research Institute, University of California-Santa Barbara). Porbase locates five copies: two in the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian-biblioteca Geral arte, and one each in the biblioteca nacional de portugal, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian-Centro Cultural paris, and biblioteca João paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa. not located in Copac. KVK (44 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by porbase.

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With Author’s Inscription to a Prominent Portuguese Journalist

*53. PIMENTEL, Alberto. O Arco de Vandôma, romance. Lisbon: Guimarães & Cª, 1916. 8°, recent quarter crimson sheep over machine marbled boards (very slight wear at corners), spine with raised bands in five compartments, gilt letter, decorated endleaves, top edge rouged, other edges uncut, silk place marker (wrappers gone). Light browning and occasional very minor dampstaining, becoming more pronounced in the last few leaves, with a bit of red dye in the lower and inner mar-gins. Still, overall in good condition. Author’s five-line presentation inscription on half title [to acúrcio pereira]: “ao distinto redactor da // secção bibliografica do // Diário de Notícias // of // o autor”. 344 pp., (1 l.). $150.00

FIrst eDItIon; this novel, displaying the author’s affection for his native porto, a recurring theme in his work, was published again in 1945 and 1972. alberto [augusto de almeida] pimentel (porto 1849-Queluz, 1925), journalist, biographer, essayist, dra-matist, poet and novelist, was a great admirer as well as an intimate friend of Camilo Castelo branco.

Provenance: acúrcio pereira was considered the dean of portuguese journalists; he wrote for practically every daily newspaper published in Lisbon and porto during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, as well as for literary reviews and magazines. In 1911 he joined the Diário de notícias, then headed by alfredo da Cunha, rising rapidly from reporter to important editorial positions, serving 27 years as editor-in-chief. In addition to several books on diverse subjects, he collaborated on a number of theatrical pieces.

j marques, Bibliographia pimenteliana 176, calling this the author’s best and most beloved novel. martinho da Fonseca, Aditamentos, [to Innocêncio] p. 7. see Grande enciclopédia XXI, 664-5; Álvaro manuel machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 380-1; maria eduarda borges dos santos in Biblos, IV, 152-5; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 322-3, and saraiva and Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (16th ed.), p. 775. For the noted journalist and author acúrcio pereira (1891-1977), see Grande enciclopédia XXI, 110; Actualização IX, 187. also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 431. oCLC: 10101716 (Library of Congress, University of Illinois, Harvard College Library, University of toronto-robarts Library, british Library); 889175426 is digitized from the University of Illinois copy. porbase lists a single copy only, at the Universidade Católica, Lisboa. Copac repeats british Library. KVK (44 databases searched) repeats porbase and locates a copy at bibliothek standort

With the Author’s Signed and Dated Inscription To Fellow Author João da Silva Tavares

54. QUEIROZ, Carlos. Desaparecido, poemas. Lisbon: [colophon leaf] Oficinas Gráfica do Anuário Comercial, [title page verso:] Edição do autor, 1935. 8°, slightly later burgundy half morocco over marbled boards by Frederico d’almeida, spine richly gilt with raised bands in three compartments, gilt letter, top edge rouged, other edges uncut,


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decorated endleaves, original printed wrappers bound in. title page and text printed in black and brown. In very fine condition. No. 37 of 500 copies on “mellotex” paper, numbered and signed by the author on the final (colophon) leaf. Author’s signed and dated (11 January 1935) twelve-line presentation inscription to silva tavares on the recto of the first blank leaf: “Este exemplar // foi adquirido // pelo // Silva tavares //poeta que eu muito admiro // e // amigo que muito estimo. // Com um grande abraço // do // Carlos // 1-11-935”. amorial bookplate of silva tavares. small oblong printed paper book ticket of the binder Frederico d’almeida in upper outer corner of verso of front free endleaf. (2 blank ll.), 102 pp., (3 ll.), 1 plate. $500.00

FIrst eDItIon of a book which has had a number of later editions. the poet and sometime literary and art critic [José] Carlos Queiroz [nunes ribeiro (1907-1949)] received the prémio antero de Quental in 1935. He directed the reviews Panorama (1941) and Litoral (1944). poet from an early age, his work is dispersed in various liter-ary reviews, the most notable of which was Presença, to which he was one of the most frequent contributors; he served as a bridge between the modernist generation of Orpheu and that of Presença in general, and in particular between Fernando pessoa and Presença. In the July 1936 issue (nº 48) he wrote a “Carta à memória de Fernando pessoa”. other reviews in which the work of Carlos Queiroz appeared were Contemporânea, Cancioneiro (do Primeiro Salão dos Independentes), Momento, Sudoeste, Revista de Portugal, Cadernos de poesia, Aventura, and Variante.

among the illustrious clients of the binder Frederico d’almeida were the Count of barcelona and the exiled former King Umberto of Italy.

Provenance: One of the most popular and prolific writers of the first half of the twentieth century, the poet, writer, and playwright João da silva tavares (estremoz, 1893-Lisbon, 1964), wrote some 90 pieces for the theater, mostly in collaboration with others. He wrote the libretto for the opera D. João IV, performed at the teatro são Carlos in 1940 as part of the celebrations to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of portuguese independence. see Grande enciclopédia, XXVIII, 897; also a. Leitão in Biblos, V, 297-8; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 463.

j see maria amélia Gomes in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 395; João bigotte Chorão in Biblos, IV, 502-3; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 325-6. On the Lisbon binder / finisher Frederico d’Almeida, see Lima, Encadernadores portugueses, pp. 19-23. on the bookplate of silva tavares see avelar Duarte, Ex-libris portugueses heráldicos 664 (cf. 665). NUC: CU, mH. oCLC: no mention of special limited edition copies; 26349290 (brown University Library, Harvard College Library, Washington University in st. Louis, Getty research Institute, University of California-berkeley, University of California-santa barbara, oxford University, Université michel de montaigne-bordeaux 3, Université de nantes, Université de poitiers, Université de la sorbonne nouvelle, Ibero-amerikanisches Institut preußischer Kulturbesitz-bibliothek, Zentralbibliothek Zürich). porbase locates two copies [searching under “Queiros”] both in the biblioteca nacional de portugal (one has the author’s presentation inscription, but neither appears to be a special paper limited copy). Copac repeats oxford University only (apparently the trade edition).


Drama, Beauty, Freedom, Linguistics, and Lope de Vega

55. RAPOSO, Hipólito. Aula régia. porto: Livr. Civilização, 1936. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (light spotting). Uncut and mostly unopened. In fine condition. Author’s signed and dated (November 1936) four-line presentation inscription to tenente Col. Costa Veiga on half-title. xxxiv, 459 pp., (2 ll.). $250.00

FIrst eDItIon of this collection of essays. among the essays are “santo antónio no teatro português,” “a reconquista das liberdades,” “Força e beleza” and “a beira baixa ao serviço da nação,” which had appeared as separate works in 1931, 1930, 1934 and 1935, respectively. also included are “tatuagens da nossa lingua,” “o sentimento português em Lope de Vega,” and “Portugal falsificado.”

José Hipólito Vaz raposo (san Vicente da beira, 1885-1953) was a founder of the philosophical and political movement known as Integralismo Lusitano. He studied at the University of Coimbra, where he wrote for provincial weeklies and published his first two books, Coimbra doutora (1910) and Boa gente (1911). raposo was a co-founder of Nação portuguesa, established in 1913-1914 as the magazine of Integralismo Lusitano. In 1919 he took part in the pronunciamento de monsanto, and was arrested and condemned for actions against the republic. after serving as a lawyer in Loanda for several years, raposo returned to portugal and was professor at the Conservatorio from 1926 to 1940. In that year, with the publication of Amar e servir, he was dismissed from his post, not to be reinstated until 1951. In his non-political works, raposo was known as a regionalist who wrote on his native beira.

Provenance: augusto botelho da Costa Veiga (b. Dois portos, 1881) was an army officer and a well-known writer on military history. For many years he was director of the biblioteca nacional in portugal. He was elected tot he academia das Ciências de Lisboa in 1943. see Grande enciclopédia XXXIV, 426.

j saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) p. 1050. Grande enciclopédia XXIV, 400. NUC: miU. oCLC: 23559931 (University of michigan, british Library, London Library); 253501950 (bibliothek der Humboldt-Universitat berlin, Ibero-amerikanisches Institut); 492507745 (paris3-bUFr portugais); 959011495 (biblioteca de arte Calouste Gulbenkian); 551252448 (digitized by not available online). Copac locates copies at brit-ish Library, London Library, and manchester University. KVK (44 databases searched) adds no other copies.

Essays on Lorvão, Santa Comba, Alexandre Herculano and More

56. RAPOSO, Hipólito. Livro de horas (1908-1911). Coimbra: F. França amado, 1913. 8°, original brown printed wrappers. Uncut and partly unopened. In fine condition. Author’s signed four-line presentation inscription to portuguese author, poet, and educator augusto Forjaz on half-title. xii, 262 pp., (1 l.). $300.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this collection of essays, the author’s fourth book. Divided into sections named after the four seasons, it includes brief works on the mon-astery of Lorvão, the legend of sta. Comba, maria do nascimento, maria marrafa, and a letter to alexandre Herculano.

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of Coimbra, where he wrote for provincial weeklies and published his first two books, Coimbra doutora (1910) and Boa gente (1911). raposo was a co-founder of Nação portuguesa, established in 1913-1914 as the magazine of Integralismo Lusitano. In 1919 he took part in the pronunciamento de monsanto, and was arrested and condemned for actions against the republic. after serving as a lawyer in Loanda for several years, raposo returned to portugal and was professor at the Conservatorio from 1926 to 1940. In that year, with the publication of Amar e servir, he was dismissed from his post; he was not reinstated until 1951. In his non-political works, raposo was known as a regionalist who wrote on his native beira.

Provenance: augusto Forjaz (augusto eugénio Duarte pereira de sampaio Forjaz pimentel, oeiras, 1865-braga, 1922) published a dozen works of poetry, political science and sociology, and contributed to numerous periodicals. He served in various govern-ment positions, including secretary of the Conselho superior de Instrução pública and head of the secção pedagógica of the repartição do ensino secundário, in which posi-tion his outline for the reform of women’s education was approved in 1915. see Grande enciclopédia XI, 627.

j saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) p. 1050. Grande enciclopédia XXIV, 400. NUC: DLC-p4, ncU, WU, miU, DLC. porbase locates a single copy, at biblioteca tomás ribeiro-Câmara municipal de tondela.

Reminscences of Beira

57. RAPOSO, Hipólito. Outro mundo. [from printed wrapper:] Lembran-ças da terra & dos homens. Coimbra: F. França amado, 1917. 8°, original beige printed wrappers (some spotting and stains, spine chipping). Uncut. Lightly browned. In fine condition. Author’s signed four-line presentation inscription to noted portuguese doctor Ladislau patrício on half-title. (4 ll.), 195 pp., (2 ll.). $285.00

FIrst eDItIon of this collection of reminiscences and legends about the author’s native beira. José Hipólito Vaz raposo, born in 1885 at san Vicente, was a founder of the philosophical and political movement known as Integralismo Lusitano. He studied at the University of Coimbra, where he wrote for provincial weeklies and published his first two books, Coimbra doutora (1910) and Boa gente (1911). raposo was a co-founder of Nação portuguesa, established in 1913-1914 as the magazine of Integralismo Lusitano. In 1919 he took part in the pronunciamento de monsanto, and was arrested and condemned for actions against the republic. after serving as a lawyer in Loanda for several years, raposo returned to portugal and was professor at the Conservatorio from 1926 to 1940. In that year, with the publication of Amar e servir, he was dismissed from his post, not to be reinstated until 1951. In his nonpolitical works, raposo was known as a regionalist who wrote on his native beira.

Provenance: Ladislau patrício (Guarda, 1883-1967) was a writer, professor, and physi-cian. He was an authority on tuberculosis, and served as director of the sousa martins sanatorium in Guarda. see Grande enciclopédia XXX, 629-30.

j saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) p. 1050. Grande enciclopé-dia XXIV, 400. NUC: WU, ncU, miU, mH. porbase locates two copies each at biblioteca nacional de portugal and biblioteca João paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa, and one at Universidade do porto.


Relatively Early Work by Aquilino Ribeiro: His First Book of Non-Fiction

58. RIBEIRO, Aquilino. Anatole France: conferência, precedida do discurso de S.Exª o Sr. Dr. Cardoso de Oliveira, Embaixador do Brasil. Lisbon [and paris]: Livrarias aillaud e bertrand; porto: Livraria Chardron; and Rio de Janeiro, Livraria Francisco Alves (printed at the Tipografia do anuário Comercial, Lisbon), 1923. 8°, original printed wrappers (sunning and very slight wear to spine). publisher’s mark on front wrapper and title page. Full-page portrait of antatole France on p. [22]. Uncut. somewhat browned. In very good condition. author’s signed and dated five-line presentation inscription in upper portion of half title: “a João de barros, // of. este palestra // breve e meu admiração [?] // a. ribeiro // 1923.” 77 pp. $350.00

FIrst eDItIon? this relatively early work (sometimes catalogued as Anatole France) appears to be the first published book of nonfiction by this fairly prolific author. ribeiro had previously published two novels, two collections of short stories, and a collection of novellas.

there is an introduction by the editors on pp. [7]-8. pp. ambassador Cardoso de oliveira’s opening discourse occupies [11]-19. the lecture by ribeiro begins on p. [23] and continues to the end of the book.

aquilino ribeiro (Carregal da tabosa, beira alta, 1885-Lisboa, 1963) is considered one of the best twentieth-century portuguese novelists, and was nominated for the nobel prize in 1960. He founded with others the important review Seara nova (1921). Librarian and conservator of the biblioteca nacional de Lisboa from 1919 until 1927, associating with raul proença and Jaime Cortesão of the “Grupo da biblioteca”, he founded and became the first president of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Escritores in 1956. Politically active in the republican cause from 1907 until the fall of the monarchy in 1910, he was imprisoned in november 1907, escaped in January 1908, living clandestinely in Lisbon, then going into exile in paris, entering the Faculty of Letters at the sorbonne in 1910. From 1927 to 1932 he participated in several revolts, was imprisoned, escaped, went into exile in paris, the French basque country and Galiza, and lived in portugal clandestinely. aquilino ribeiro was involved in the opposition to antónio de oliveira salazar and the estado novo. several of his books were censored.

Provenance: João de barros (Figueira da Foz, 1881-Lisbon, 1960), poet, pedagogue and republican political activist, with a law degree from Coimbra University, was secretary-general of the ministério da Instrução, director-general of seconday instruction, and finally Foreign Minister under the First Republic. Elected a member of the Academy of sciences in 1913, and of the academia brasileira de Letras in 1920, he directed the reviews Arte e vida (with manuel de sousa pinto), and Atlântida (with the brazilian João do rio), contributing as well to a number of other significant literary magazines and reviews. He played an important role in Luso-brazilian cultural relations. His poetry, best placed within the neo-romantic school, was influenced by Guerra Junqueiro, Antero de Quental, Gomes Leal and especially Cesário Verde. see Álvaro manuel machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 54; J.C. seabra pereira in Biblos, I, 598-601; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 226-7 (giving barros’ date of birth as 1880; other sources say 1881). see also rogério Fernandes, João de Barros, educador republicano.

j biblioteca nacional, Aquilino Ribeiro (1885-1963): catálogo da exposição comemo-rativa 150. on aquilino ribeiro, see oscar Lopes in machado, ed., Dicionário de Litera-tura Portuguesa, pp. 415-16; Urbano tavares rodrigues in Biblos, IV, 776-81; Dicionário

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cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 320-24; João pedro de andrade in Jacinto de prado Coelho, ed. Dicionário de Literatura (4th ed.), III, 933-34. porbase locates nine copies: four in the biblioteca nacional de portugal, four in the biblioteca João paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa, and one in the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. not located in Copac.

Early Novel by Aquilino Ribeiro, with His Signed and Dated Presentation Inscription to an Important Portuguese Journalist

*59. RIBEIRO, Aquilino. Maria Benigna: Romance. Lisbon: Livraria bertrand , 1933. 8°, original printed wrappers (some foxing; nicked at foot of spine). Uncut. overall in good to very good condition; internally fine. Author’s signed and dated (“Ls. dz. 1932”) six-line presentation inscription to acúrcio pereira on initial (blank) page. author’s “sinete” (an eagle) of authentication stamped on verso of title page. 285 pp., (1 blank l.). $200.00

FIrst eDItIon this relatively early novel.aquilino ribeiro (Carregal da tabosa, beira alta, 1885-Lisboa, 1963) is considered

one of the best twentieth-century portuguese novelists, and was nominated for the nobel prize in 1960. He founded with others the important review Seara nova (1921). Librarian and conservator of the biblioteca nacional de Lisboa from 1919 until 1927, associating with raul proença and Jaime Cortesão of the “Grupo da biblioteca”, he founded and became the first president of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Escritores in 1956. Politically active in the republican cause from 1907 until the fall of the monarchy in 1910, he was imprisoned in november 1907, escaped in January 1908, living clandestinely in Lisbon, then going into exile in paris, entering the Faculty of Letters at the sorbonne in 1910. From 1927 to 1932 he participated in several revolts, was imprisoned, escaped, went into exile in paris, the French basque country and Galiza, and lived in portugal clandestinely. aquilino ribeiro was involved in the opposition to antónio de oliveira salazar and the estado novo. several of his books were censored.


j biblioteca nacional, Aquilino Ribeiro (1885-1963): catálogo da exposição comemorativa 230. on aquilino ribeiro, see oscar Lopes in machado, ed., Dicionário de Literatura Por-tuguesa, pp. 415-16; Urbano tavares rodrigues in Biblos, IV, 776-81; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 320-24; João pedro de andrade in Jacinto de prado Coelho, ed. Dicionário de Literatura (4th ed.), III, 933-34. Porbase locates four copies of this first edi-tion, in the biblioteca nacional de portugal, biblioteca Central da marinha, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa.


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Essays on Anatole France, Santo Antonio, and Painter Manuel Jardim

*60. RIBEIRO, Aquilino. Por obra e graça, estudos. Lisbon: Livraria bertrand, [1940]. 8°, original printed wrappers (some soiling and water-stains). Overall in good to very good condition; internally fine. Author’s signed and dated (“Ls. aug. 1940”) eight-line presentation inscription to acúrcio pereira on half-title. author’s “sinete” (an eagle) of authentica-tion stamped on verso of title page. 315 pp., (1 l.). $150.00

FIRST EDITION of these three studies. The first, on the painter Manuel Jardim, occupies pp. 9-124. the second, on anatole France, occupies pp. 125-186. the third and final study, titled “Santo António e o seu tempo”, occupies pp. 187-315.



j This first edition not in Biblioteca Nacional, Aquilino Ribeiro (1885-1963): catálogo da exposição comemorativa; cf. 256 for the second edition. on aquilino ribeiro, see oscar Lopes in machado, ed., Dicionário de Literatura Portuguesa, pp. 415-16; Urbano tavares rodrigues in Biblos, IV, 776-81; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 320-24; João pedro de andrade in Jacinto de prado Coelho, ed. Dicionário de Literatura (4th ed.), III, 933-34. oCLC: 503861532 (british Library). porbase locates (apparently) six copies of the first edition: three in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and three in the Biblioteca João paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa. Copac repeats british Library only. Hollis cites the 3rd edition only. not located in orbis.

Two Early Novellas by Aquilino Ribeiro, with His Signed and Dated Presentation Inscription to an Important Portuguese Journalist

*61. RIBEIRO, Aquilino. As três mulheres de Sansâo, novelas. Lisbon: Livraria bertrand , 1932. 8°, original printed wrappers (some foxing).


Uncut, partially unopened. Internally in fine condition, overall good to very good. author’s signed and dated (“Ls. dz. 1932”) six-line presentation inscription to acúrcio pereira on initial (blank) page. author’s “sinete” (an eagle) of authentication stamped on verso of title page. 267 pp. $200.00

FIrst eDItIon of these relatively early novellas. “as três mulhers de sansão” occupies pp. 11-148; “aninhas” occupies pp. 151-265.



j This first edition not in Biblioteca Nacional, Aquilino Ribeiro (1885-1963): catálogo da exposição comemorativa; cf. 304 and 305 for the second and fifth editions. On Aquilino ribeiro, see oscar Lopes in machado, ed., Dicionário de Literatura Portuguesa, pp. 415-16; Urbano tavares rodrigues in Biblos, IV, 776-81; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 320-24; João pedro de andrade in Jacinto de prado Coelho, ed. Dicionário de Literatura (4th ed.), III, 933-34. Porbase cites two copies of this first edition, in the Biblioteca Nacio-nal de portugal and the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Copac lists copies at the british Library and University of manchester Library, as well as several later editions.

Compares Cervantes to Camões

62. RODRIGUES, José Maria. Pontos de contacto entre a linguagem do “D. Quixote” e a de “Os Lusiadas.” Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 1930 [per title page; 1931 on front wrapper]. offprint from O Terceiro Jubileu da Academia das Sciências de Lisboa. Large 8°, original printed wrappers (slightly faded; some spotting). Insignia of the Universidade de Coimbra on front wrapper and title page. somewhat browned, but

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not brittle. In good condition. author’s signed four-line presentation inscription (recipient illegible) in ink in upper blank portion of title page. 56 pp., (1 blank l.). $100.00

First and only separate edition.

j NUC: nn. oCLC: 18716838 (new york public Library, Queens College, University of Manchester Library, British Library, Université Michel de Montaigne—Bordeaux 3, staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von ossietzky). porbase locates seven copies: five in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and one each at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and the biblioteca João paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa. Copac repeats british Library and University of manchester, adding University of Liverpool.

Portuguese are Not Spaniards: With Author’s Signed and Dated Inscription

To a Noted Poet and Literary Critic

63. SÁ [or Saa], Mário. Nos, os Hespanhões …. Lisbon: Lucas, 1930. 8°, original printed wrappers (some browning, slightly chipped). Light browning. In good to very good condition. author’s signed and dated (1930) six-line presentation inscription on the half-title to the portuguese writer Carlos Queirós. 40 pp. $300.00

FIrst eDItIon. mário sá (1894-1971), both a modernist and an archaist, is most widely known for his virulent anti-semitism and sensationalistic presentations of erudite theories. this essay is a vehement rejection of the idea that the portuguese are merely rebellious spaniards: “ser português é não ser inglês, não ser francês, não ser alemão, mas acima de tudo não ser hespanhol” (p. 40).

Provenance: the poet and sometime literary and art critic [José] Carlos Queiroz [nunes ribeiro (1907-1949)] received the prémio antero de Quental in 1935. He directed the reviews Panorama (1941) and Litoral (1944). poet from an early age, his work is dis-persed in various literary reviews, the most notable of which was Presença, to which he was one of the most frequent contributors; he served as a bridge between the modernist generation of Orpheu and that of Presença in general, and in particular between Fer-nando pessoa and Presença. In the July 1936 issue (nº 48) he wrote a “Carta à memória de Fernando pessoa”. other reviews in which the work of Carlos Queiroz appeared were Contemporânea, Cancioneiro (do Primeiro Salão dos Independentes), Momento, Sudoeste, Revista de Portugal, Cadernos de poesia, Aventura, and Variante. see maria amélia Gomes in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 395; João bigotte Chorão in Biblos, IV, 502-3; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 325-6.

j saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) p. 1080. NUC: WU. oCLC: 40294656 (University of Wisconsin-madison, Universiteit Utrecht, british Library); 959090570 (biblioteca de arte Calouste Gulbenkian). porbase locates two copies, both at biblioteca nacional de portugal. Copac locates a copy at british Library. KVK (44 databases searched) repeats porbase.


Fighting with Swords, Pistols, and Revolvers Plus Rules for Affairs of Honor

64. SANCHEZ M.[ELGAR] NAVARRO, Francisco. En la sala de armas y en el terreno. Tratado de esgrima de espada, de sable, á pie y á caballo, en su aplicación al combate individual; instrucción para el tiro de pistola y revólver; reglas de frecuente uso en la solución de los lances de honor …. Tercera edición, aumentada. madrid: Imprenta del patronato de Huérfanos de adminis-tración militar, 1907. Large thick 8°, original brown printed wrappers, spine repaired with black cloth tape. numerous tailpiece vignettes in text. Uncut. Internally very good to fine; overall in good to very good condition. author’s signed and dated (madrid, 11-3-907) four-line inscription to the L.C. Costamagna, Director of the Gazetta dello Sport, facing title page. above and below it are bookplates of G. Garibaldi Geraci and Jack Gorlin. xxiv, 836 pp., (2 ll.), 18 plates [last 3 folding], illustrated with photographs and wood engravings. $400.00

Third edition, augmented from the first of Madrid, 1902 and the second of Madrid, 1904. Covers sword-fighting and fencing on foot and on horseback, fighting with pistols and revolvers, plus rules that apply to “affairs of honor” (lances de honor). the numer-ous plates (some photographic, some line drawings) include positions for fencing or for dueling with pistols, construction of a wooden horse, and many cross-sections of revolvers and pistols.

j palau 295756. Cf. Leguina 185: the editions of 1902 and 1904. not located in NUC. oCLC: 228299795 (new york public Library); 433193367 (biblioteca nacional de españa). not located in Copac, which lists the 1902 edition at british Library. KVK (44 databases searched) locates only this edition, in a single copy at biblioteca sportiva nazionale-roma.

Futurist Poem

65. SANTA RITA, [Guilherme] Augusto de. A rosa de papel: mysterio n’um cantico. Poêma dramatico em prosa e verso original de …. porto: edição da “renascença portuguesa”, 1917. theatro Lyrico. 8°, original dark-gray illustrated wrappers with gilt lettering (small nick to lower outer corner of rear wrapper). title page printed in red and black, with author’s signature printed in facsimile. Uncut. In very good to fine condition. author’s signed and dated (26 august 1918) eight-line presentation inscription to Francisco mendes Lopes on p. 7. 61 pp., (1 l.). $400.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this dramatic poem.the author (1888-1956) was the son of the poet Guilherme de santa rita (1859-1905),

and brother of santa-rita pintor. He began his literary career as a post-symbolist, but soon became a futurist of the generation of Orpheu. His first four books, published between 1912 and 1917, of which the present work is the fourth, fall into this phase. santa rita’s Praias do mysterio, published the previous year, was mentioned by Fernando pessoa as one of the best books of its time. afterwards santa rita became a sentimental practitioner

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of Saudosismo, and produced much literature for children, as well as nationalist propa-ganda in dramatic form.

renascença portuguesa was a cultural and civic group founded in 1911 by teixeira de pascoaes, Jaime Cortesão, raúl proença, antónio sérgio, Leonardo Coimbra, Álvaro pinto, augusto Casimiro, and others. the group’s literary review, Á Aguia, continued publication until 1932. pascoaes, proença, and sérgio soon disagreed on the long-term goals of renascença portuguesa, and the movement became the mouthpiece of sau-dosismo. The educational influence of the Renascença Portuguesa continued to be felt through its Universidades populares and hundreds of publications under the renascença portuguesa imprint on history, law, economy, literature, etc. on renascença portuguesa, see mário Garcia in Biblos IV, 694.

j serpa 1100. almeida marques 1971. see Celina silva in Biblos, IV, 1111-2; also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 379. NUC: InU (misidentifying the author as Guilherme augusto de santa rita). oCLC: 504733107 (british Library); 2468405 (Indiana University); 958983539 (biblioteca de arte Calouste Gulbenkian); 682017483 (digitized from the Indiana University copy). Porbase locates five copies, two in the biblioteca nacional de portugal, and one each in the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, the Universidade Católica João paulo II, and the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do porto. Copac repeats british Library. KVK (44 databases searched) repeats porbase. not located in Hollis or orbis.

Introduction to the author Oliveira Martins

66. SÉRGIO, António. Oliveira Martins: Impressões sôbre o significado politico da sua obra. Lisbon: oficinas Gráficas da biblioteca nacio-nal, 1923. 8°, original printed wrappers (very slight wear). Uncut. In very good to fine condition. author’s presentation inscription “ao Vasco // com um bom abraço do” above the author’s name on his personal card, which is tipped to front flyleaf. (1, 1 blank ll.), lxxxviii pp., (2 blank ll.). $200.00

First separate edition? as best we can determine from an online search in oCLC 681057870, the text in this volume is not included in the preliminary matter to sérgio’s edition of Oliveira Martins—Dispersos, 2 volumes, Lisbon 1923-24. oCLC 732483687 has the same title as our work, but the title is followed by “Introduction à oliveira martins, Dispersos,” the collation is given as 4 pages, and the publication date as 1924.

as a literary critic, sérgio wrote important essays not only on oliveira martins, but on Camóes, antónio Vieira, tolentino, Herculano, Camilo, eça de Queiroz and anthero de Quental.

sérgio (1893-1968) was “o mais importante pensador português do seu tempo” (saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa [1976] p. 1065). In his 60-year career he wrote on history, economics, education, sociology, literary criticism, politics and phi-losophy. He was one of the founders of the “renascença portuguesa” (along with Jaime Cortesão, raúl proença, pascoais and others) and a member of the “Grupo da biblioteca nacional,” which included Cortesão, proença, aquilino ribeiro, Lopes Vieira and raúl brandão. His portrait appeared on both sides of the 5.000$00 escudo note prior to the introduction of the euro.

j Cf. Campos matos, Bibliografia de António Sérgio p. 10. saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) p. 1065. not located in NUC. oCLC: 720676670 (brown University). porbase locates two copies, both at biblioteca nacional de portugal. not located in Copac. KVK (44 databases searched) repeats porbase.

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First Published Book by This Prominent Writer and Thinker

67. SÉRGIO, António. Rimas. Lisbon: typographia do annuario Com-mercial, 1908. 8°, contemporary or slightly later brownish-red embossed cloth, spine gilt (slight wear), decorated endleaves. Lightly browned. In very good condition. author’s signed three-line presentation inscription “ao Vasco // o seu muito amigo” on half title. 160 pp. $500.00

FIRST EDITION of the author’s first published book, and his first verse collection.sérgio (1893-1968) was “o mais importante pensador português do seu tempo”

(saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa [1976] p. 1065). In his 60-year career he wrote on history, economics, education, sociology, literary criticism, politics and phi-losophy. He was one of the founders of the “renascença portuguesa” (along with Jaime Cortesão, raúl proença, pascoais and others) and a member of the “Grupo da biblioteca nacional,” which included Cortesão, proença, aquilino ribeiro, Lopes Vieira and raúl brandão. His portrait appeared on both sides of the 5.000$00 escudo note prior to the introduction of the euro.

j Campos matos, Bibliografia de António Sérgio p. 9. saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) p. 1065. NUC: DLC. oCLC: 29673769 (Houghton Library, Library of Congress). porbase locates seven copies: three in the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, two in the biblioteca nacional de portugal, and one each in the biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Évora, and the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do porto (none of the seven have presentation inscriptions). not located in Copac.

Anti-Sebastianist

68. SÉRGIO, António. Tréplica a Carlos Malheiro Dias sôbre a questão de o desejado. Lisbon: seara nova, [1925]. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (slight wear). Uncut. In very good to fine condition. Author’s warm, signed [“a. sérgio”] four-line presentation inscription to “Vasco” on front flyleaf. Publisher’s 4-pp. advt. leaflet, dated June 1925 and listing this work, laid in. 94 pp., (1 l.). $300.00

FIrst eDItIon of this essay vehemently opposing sebastianism, which helped form modern opinion on the subject. the date appears only on the illustrated wrappers.

sérgio (1893-1968) was “o mais importante pensador português do seu tempo” (saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa [1976] p. 1065). In his 60-year career he wrote on history, economics, education, sociology, literary criticism, politics and phi-losophy. He was one of the founders of the “renascença portuguesa” (along with Jaime Cortesão, raúl proença, pascoais and others) and a member of the “Grupo da biblioteca nacional,” which included Cortesão, proença, aquilino ribeiro, Lopes Vieira and raúl brandão. His portrait appeared on both sides of the 5.000$00 escudo note prior to the introduction of the euro.

j Campos matos, Bibliografia de António Sérgio p. 11. saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) p. 1065. NUC: miU, ICU, InU, CLU, CU.


By an Important Modernist Poet and Book Collector

69. SERPA, Alberto de. 20 Poemas da noite. Coimbra: edições “presença”, 1935. 8°, original printed wrappers (slightly browned). In very good condition. Author’s signed five-line presentation inscription on first leaf recto: “Ao Senhor Dr. Ladislau Patricio—// com a muita consideração e // estima // de // alberto de serpa”. 26 pp., (1 l. colophon). $300.00

FIrst eDItIon and onLy separate eDItIon. these poems appeared again in 1944 together with the poems from several other books of verse by the author. the book is dedicated to Leonardo Coimbra and adolfo Casais monteiro.

alberto de serpa esteves de oliveira (1906-1992), poet, dramatist, essayist and book collector, attended the University of Coimbra for 3 years but was more interested in collaborating with the writers of Presença than in studying. He published his first novel, Saudade do mar, at age 17, and 2 collections of poetry (Quadras and Evoé), but it was 2 later collections, Varanda, 1934 and Vinte poemas da noite, 1935, that led to his unanimous recognition by critics as an important modern poet. Casais monteiro says that serpa, along with branquinho da Fonseca, Carlos Queirós and Francisco bugalho, give us “um novo aspecto do abandono egoísta a um eu inadaptado à acção …[serpa] tem, na poesia, não uma via de contacto com a realidade, mas, por assim dizer, um instrumento a cuja musica embala a sua dolorosa impressão de diferença e de incompatibilidade” (p. 239).

after his years in Coimbra, serpa returned to his native porto and became an insur-ance broker. He was imprisoned for political reasons in 1936, and at the same period became once again a fervent Catholic. throughout his life he contributed to portuguese literary reviews, including A Aguia, Aventura, Cadernos de poesia, Cavalo de todas as cores (co-editor), Diálogo, Momento, Presença (editor of the second series, 1939-40), Quatro ventos and Tríptico.

Provenance: Dr. Ladislau patrício (Guarda, 1883-Lisbon, 1967), physician specializing in the treatment of tuberculosis, director of the sanatório sousa martins in Guarda, and teacher. He wrote a number of works on tuberculosis as well as short fiction, poetry, literary history, criticism, and plays. see Grande enciclopédia, XX, 629-30 and Actualização, IX, 127; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 282-3.

j Casais monteiro, Poesia portuguesa contemporânea pp. 239-45. saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) pp. 1096-7. Grande enciclopédia XXVIII, 456-7. see also Fernando Guimarães in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 449; eugenio Lisboa in Biblos, IV, 1276-7; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 291-2. oCLC: 503747908 (british Library); 24445554 (Houghton Library-Harvard Uni-versity, Universidade de são paulo); 753182301 (british Library). porbase locates nine copies: four at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, three in the biblioteca nacional de Portugal, and one each in the Biblioteca Municipal de Penafiel and Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa. Copac repeat british Library only (in a single copy). KVK (44 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by porbase.

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With Inscription to a Pioneer in Anesthesiology

*70. SERPA, Alberto de. Drama: poemas da paz e da guerra. Coimbra: edições “presença”, 1940. 4° (22.4 x 18.25 cm.), original printed wrap-pers (minor foxing and very light soiling to wrappers). Uncut, partially unopened. tear of ca. 1.7 cm. to lower edge of front free endleaf. Very occasional, very minor foxing. In very good condition. author’s signed five-line presentation inscription on front free endleaf recto: “Ao Dr. ribeiro dos santos, // lembrança muito amiga e // grata // do // al. de serpa.” Illustrated lithograph bookplate of a.[lfredo] ribeiro dos santos. 29 pp., (1 l.). $200.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon. alberto de serpa esteves de oliveira (1906-1992), poet, dramatist, essayist and book collector, attended the University of Coimbra for three years but was more interested in collaborating with the writers of Presença than in studying. He published his first novel, Saudade do mar, at age 17, and 2 collections of poetry (Quadras and Evoé), but it was 2 later collections, Varanda, 1934 and Vinte poemas da noite, 1935, that led to his unanimous recognition by critics as an important modern poet. Casais monteiro says that serpa, along with branquinho da Fonseca, Carlos Queirós and Fran-cisco bugalho, give us “um novo aspecto do abandono egotista a um eu inadaptado à acção …[serpa] tem, na poesia, não uma via de contacto com a realidade, mas, por assim dizer, um instrumento a cuja musica embala a sua dolorosa impressão de diferença e de incompatibilidade” (p. 239).


Provenance: alfredo ribeiro dos santos (porto, 1917-porto, 2012) was a pioneer of modern anesthesiology in portugal. as an essayist, contributing to numerous periodicals and newspapers, he was strongly influenced by Leonardo Coimbra, Agostinho da Silva, sant’anna Dionísio, abel salazar, Jaime Cortesão, Veiga pires, and José augusto seabra. He was one of the cofounders of Nova Renascença, of which he werved as director from 1980 to 1999. He was actively opposed to Salazar. Ribeiro dos Santos’s library—one of the best in Porto—included thousands of literary periodicals and reviews. In 2009 he published História Literária do Porto através das suas publicações periódicas.

j Casais monteiro, Poesia portuguesa contemporânea pp. 239-45. saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) pp. 1096-7. Grande enciclopédia XXVIII, 456-7. see also Fernando Guimarães in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 449; eugenio Lisboa in Biblos, IV, 1276-7; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 291-2. oCLC: 17125280 (yale University, Library of Congress, University of Wisconsin-madison, University of new mexico, Universidade de são paulo); 493910924 (paris3-bUFr portugais); 959014741 (biblioteca de arte Calouste Gulbenkian). porbase locates four copies in the biblioteca nacional de portugal (one with a presentation inscription) and two in the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. not located in Copac. not located in KVK (44 databases searched). not located in Hollis.


Inscribed to a Literary Historian and Critic Who Wrote for Renascena Portuguesa

71. SERPA, Alberto de. Varanda, poemas. Coimbra: edições “presença”, 1934. 8°, original printed wrappers (covers foxed; split of 6.5 cm. between front cover and spine neatly repaired). Floral vignette on title page. Lithograph portrait of author by antónio Carneiro tipped on the second leaf recto. In good to very good condition. author’s signed and dated six-line presentation inscription in green ink on first leaf recto: “ao antonio salgado Jr., // com um grande abraço de esti- // ma e admiração, // em lembrança de velhos tempos // do // alberto de serpa // porto out.º 1934”. oblong black-on-silver printed ticket with rounded corners of “esquina, L.da” in upper outer corner of front wrapper verso. (33 ll.). $300.00

FIrst eDItIon and onLy separate eDItIon. these poems appeared again in 1944 together with the poems from several other books of verse by the author. the book is dedicated to the poets antónio botto and José régio, and to the painter Carlos Carneiro.

alberto de serpa esteves de oliveira (1906-1992), poet, dramatist, essayist and book collector, attended the University of Coimbra for 3 years but was more interested in collaborating with the writers of Presença than in studying. He published his first novel, Saudade do mar, at age 17, and 2 collections of poetry (Quadras and Evoé), but it was 2 later collections, Varanda, 1934 and Vinte poemas da noite, 1935, that led to his unanimous recognition by critics as an important modern poet. Casais monteiro says that serpa, along with branquinho da Fonseca, Carlos Queirós and Francisco bugalho, give us “um novo aspecto do abandono egoísta a um eu inadaptado à acção …[serpa] tem, na poesia, não uma via de contacto com a realidade, mas, por assim dizer, um instrumento a cuja musica embala a sua dolorosa impressão de diferença e de incompatibilidade” (p. 239).


Provenance: antónio salgado Júnior (porto, 1904-porto, 1989), literary histo-rian and critic, wrote for Renascença portuguesa. see Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 202-4.

j Casais monteiro, Poesia portuguesa contemporânea pp. 239-45. saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) pp. 1096-7. Grande enciclopédia XXVIII, 456-7. see also Fernando Guimarães in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 449; eugenio Lisboa in Biblos, IV, 1276-7; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 291-2. For the painter, watercolorist, and designer Carlos Carneiro (1909-1971), see pam-plona, Dicionário de pintores e escultores portugueses (revised ed.), II, 55-6. oCLC: 707923336 (brown University). porbase locates six copies: four in the biblioteca nacional de portugal, and at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. this edition not located in Copac. KVK (44 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by porbase.

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With Caricatures by Francisco Valença on the Front and Rear Wrappers, As Well As 50 More in the Text—

Author’s Signed and Dated Presentation Inscription To the Bibliophile Jayme Moura

*72. SIMÕES, Carlos. Saldo … de contos (Prosa humoristica). Lisbon: Imprensa Libanio da silva for portugalia editora, 1924. 8°, twentieth century (second quarter?) quarter morocco over decorated boards (some wear to corners; minor worm damage to lower board), flat spine with gilt fillets and both horizontal and vertical gilt lettering, decorated endleaves, top edges rouged, other edges uncut, original illustrated wrappers bound in. Front and rear wrappers with illus-trations by Francisco Valença, who contributed 50 illustrations to the text. tear of about 1.7 cm. to outer edge of rear wrapper. In very good condition. author’s signed and dated seven-line presentation inscrip-tion on half title: “Ao amigo e colega … bibliofilo // Jayme Moura, com mt.ª estima // e admiração … pela sua paciencia // ese—librista // oferece // Carlos simões // 27/III/1924”. Lithograph illustrated bookplate of Jayme a. de moura. 251, (1) pp. $500.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this series of humorous accounts. the author, (Lisbon 1878-Lisbon 1939), publicist and public functionary, was conservationist and librarian of the library of the Instituto superior de agronomia from 1911 until less than a month prior to his death. He wrote for the theater in collaboration with andré brun, contributed humorous pieces to a number of newspapers and reviews, and published quite a few works of a bibliographical and scientific nature.

Francisco Valença (1882-1963), was perhaps the most important twentieth-century portuguese caricaturist. the article on Valença in the Grande enciclopédia portuguesa e brasileira states: “Durante toda a sua vida tem constantemente enriquecido com os seus desenhos não só inúmeras páginas da grande maioria dos jornais e revistas de portugal, com também de França, de espanha e do brasil. É, tanto pela extensão da sua obra, como pela sua intenção artística e social, um dos maiores caricaturistas portugueses depois de Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, com o qual tem grandes afinidades.…” [on Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, suffice it to say he was a genius of caricature art]. Valença founded O Chinelo (1900); Salão cómico (1902); Varões assinalados (1909-1911—winner of the “Grand Prix” in the rio de Janeiro exposition of 1922-1923); O Moscardo (1913), and the Catálogos cómicos of the exposições de belas artes of 1914-1919, 1923 and 1924, with the collaboration of Carlos simões. His work appeared in the following newspapers, journals, and reviews: A Comédia portuguesa (1902); Brasil-Portugal (1902-1909); Suplemento humorístico do Século (1904-1908); Novidades (1907); Ilustração portuguesa (1906-1920); Tiro e sport (1906-1911); Arte musical (1907-1908); Alma nacional (1910); A Sátira (1911); Eco artístico (1914-1915); O teatro (1922-1923); Diário de notícias (the new york Times of portugal; 1919-1924, 1930); O Mundo (1918-1924); Eco Artístico (1914-1915); De Teatro (1922-1923); República (1918); Ilustração (1926); Sempre fixe (from 1926); Alma nova (1922-1925); Portucale (porto, 1930). He was artistic director of the weekly O Espectro (1925). Valença also published illustrations in numerous special Christmas issues of the Diário de Notícias as well as Comércio do Porto. He illustrated many books, including some for emília de sousa Costa, Julieta Ferrão, alfredo França, armando Ferreira, augusto Cunha, Cruz magalhães, Henrique marques Junior, Luís Chaves, magalhães Lima, tomás de eça Leal, etc. His work also appeared

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in Rire (paris); Boletin Fermé (barcelona); as well as many newspapers and reviews of rio de Janeiro. original examples of his work can be encountered in the museu de arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, museu de bragança, the museu municipal, porto, the museu soares dos reis in the same city, and the Getty Center.

Provenance: Jaime [augusto] moura (b. Lisbon, 1903), accountant, bank employee, bibliophile and publicist, author of a number of books and articles. see Grande enciclopédia, XVIII, 16.

j on Carlos [rodrigues] simões, see Grande enciclopédia XXIX, 53. on Francisco Valença, see Grande enciclopédia XXXIII, 880; Actualização, X, 474; also pamplona, Dicionário de pintores e escultores portugueses, V, 310. oCLC: 7545890 (University of north Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Georgia). not located in porbase. not located in Copac. not located in Library of Congress online Catalog. not located in Catnyp. not located in Hollis. not located in orbis. not located in melvyl.

On Understanding Poetry By One of the Most Influential Portuguese Literary Figures of the

Second and Third Quartes of the Twentieth Century

*73. SIMÕES, João Gaspar. O mistério da poesia: ensaios de interpretação da génese poética. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 1931. 8°, original printed wrappers (a bit soiled; head of spine defective; slight defect of about 1.5 cm. at front outer joint; spine darkened). In good condition. author’s signed four-line presentation inscription on the half-title to the editors of Diário de Coimbra. xi, 290 pp., (1 l. table of contents, 1 l. errata, 1 blank l.). $100.00

FIrst eDItIon of this essay on understanding poetry and where it came from. a second edition appeared in 1971. One of the most influential Portuguese literary figures of the second and third quarters of the twentieth century, simões (1903-1987) enjoyed a distinguished career as an author of fiction, poet, dramatist, novelist, literary critic, director of literary magazines and publishing houses, and librarian. He was a co-founder of the influential literary review Presença (1927), literary critic for the Diario de Lisboa, and co-editor of the complete works of Fernando pessoa.

j see Luís Forjaz trigueiros in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 457-9; eugenio Lisboa in Biblos, V, 93-6; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 177-9; saraiva & Lopes (16th ed.), pp. 418, 420, 489, 537, 734-5, 781-2, 812, 850, 852, 874, 876, 949, 974-5, 999-1000, 1023, 1029-31, 1033-4, 1038, 1043, 1050-1, 1053, 1057-8, 1062, 1064, 1066-7, 1088, 1091, 1105, and 1160. also Grande enciclopédia XXIX, 55-56. oCLC: 81095090 (Harvard College Library, University of California-berkeley, University of California-santa Cruz, Université de la sorbonne nouvelle, Universitätsbibliothek marburg). porbase locates thirteen copies: six in the biblioteca nacional de portugal (one signed by the author, another with the author’s presentation inscription), three in the biblioteca João paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa, and one each in the Casa Fernando pessoa-Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Faculdade de Ciências sociais e Humanas da Universidade nova de Lisboa, and Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do porto. Copac adds Liverpool University, oxford University, and Cambridge University.


By an Argentinian Playwright

74. SOLAR, Alberto del. El Doctor Morris. Comedia en un prólogo y tres actos. buenos aires: J. peuser, 1903. 8°, twentieth-century half calf over marbled boards (minor bInDInG Wear), spine with raised bands in six compartments, gilt letter, edges sprinkled blue-green, marbled endpapers. Light browning. Head of first few leaves bumped. In good to very good condition. author’s signed and dated (“20 de Junio 1919”) six-line presentation inscription to Señora Wells on flyleaf. 175 pp.; misbound second quire 15-16, 21-24, 17-20, 29-32, 25-28. $300.00

FIrst eDItIon of this play, translated into French in the same year. this copy is inscribed to a mrs. Wells, and dated 20th June, 1919, the same year that solar published his Pananá la vieja, con motivo del IV Centenario de su fundación. the comedy has some political overtones, and takes place in Germany and France, although the protagonist is an american. solar was an argentinian playwright and politcal essayist who had lived in paris.

j palau 317110. oCLC: 432823229 (biblioteca nacional de españa); 23155604 (Indi-ana University); 253262021 (Ibero-amerikanisches Institut); 682062627 (digitized from the Indiana University copy). no separate edition located in Copac. KVK (44 databases searched) repeats Ibero-amerikanisches Institut.

One of Torga’s Earliest and Rarest Books, With His Signed and Dated Presentation Inscription to a Close Friend

75. TORGA, Miguel [pseudonym of Adolfo Rocha]. Rampa. Poemas de Adolpho Rocha. Coimbra: edições “presença”, 1930. 4° (25.3 x 19.5 cm.), original printed wrappers (slight defects at head and foot of spine, slight fraying at outer edges). printer’s device in red on verso of half-title. title page printed in red and black. Uncut. some fraying to edges of covers; slight defects to head and foot of spine. nevertheless, in very good condition overall. author’s signed and dated six-line presenta-tion inscription on recto of [blank] leaf following the title-page: “meu Caro Álvaro [taveira], meu amigo: // sem [illeg.] com um abraço // [illeg.] ofº seu // adolpho rocha // Coimbra 26 de abril de // 1930.” the colophon of this book is dated 24 de abril de 1930! extra-illustrated with a photograph of the author (4.25” x 3.125”), signed adolpho rocha, tipped onto verso of title-page. (1 blank l.), 76 pp., (1 l.). $8,000.00

FIrst anD onLy eDItIon of torga’s second book, one of his rarest, one of the few early works published under his real name. among the most important portuguese authors of the twentieth century (“figura cimeira das Letras portuguesas”—Grande enci-clopédia, Actualização, X, 397), the physician adolfo rocha (1907-1995), was at the center of the “Grupo Presença”. “em 1930 dá luz Rampa, padrão de arrojo literário seguido de Tributo (1931), Abismo (1932) e O outro livro de Job (1936; 3ª ed. 1951), todos de grande audácia formal e revelando um pensamento agreste e inconformista que chamou sobre si

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a atenção dos críticos e do público, uns e outros divididos quanto à adesão aos cânones literários impostos pelo autor, mas todos, unânimemente, reconhecendo o valor ímpar que se revelava na sua obra dentro da moderna literatura portuguesa.”—Grande enciclopédia. His poetry is said to reflect “ainda as apreensões, esperanças e angústias do seu tempo, dentro de um ângulo individualista e, no fundo, religioso de visão, e a sua pureza e originalidade rítmicas, a coerência orgânica das suas imagens impõem-se …”—Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura Portuguesa (17th ed., 2001), p. 1015.

Provenance: Álvaro taveira was one of torga’s closest friends. He was publisher of the important review Manifesto, which appeared in Coimbra in five issues, from January 1936 to July 1938, edited by torga and albano nogueira.

j almeida marques 2271. serpa 1266. on torga, see also magalhães Gonçalves, Ser e ler Torga; Casais Monteiro, “Miguel Torga—O outro Livro de Job,” in Poesia portuguesa contemporânea, p. 235-38; Fernando Guimarães in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 476-7; eloísa Álvarez in Biblos, V, 461-7; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 335-42; saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001), pp. 1012, 1014-5, 1020, 1038, 1116, 1125, and 1146; and Grande enciclopédia XXXII, 105. NUC: IU, moU, WU. oCLC: 36445702 (beinecke Library, Houghton Library, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, University of Wisconsin-madison, University of missouri-Columbia, University of arizona, Getty research Institute, University of California-berkeley, british Library). porbase locates three copies at biblioteca nacional de portugal and one each at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and Universidade de Coimbra. not located in Copac. KVK (44 databases searched) repeats porbase.

Another of Torga’s Earliest Books, Also with His Signed and Dated Presentation Inscription to a Close Friend

76. [TORGA, Miguel, pseudonym of Adolfo Rocha]. Tributo: Poemas de Adolpho Rocha. [Colophon]: Êste livro acabou de se imprimir nas oficinas da “Atlantida”, á Rua Ferreira Borges, Coimbra, aos 24 de Abril de 1931. 8°, original printed wrappers (back somewhat defective, small tear at outer edge; light spotting on covers). spine somewhat defective, so that most of the front cover is detached. tear of 2 cm. at outer margin of front cover. In good condition. Author’s signed five-line presentation inscription on recto of first [blank] leaf: “Ao Álvaro Taveira, // o meu verdadeiro amigo // adolpho rocha // Coimbra // 1931”. (1 blank l.), pp. [3]-43, (1 p. blank, 1 l. colophon [verso blank], 1 blank l.). $5,000.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of one of torga’s earliest (his fourth) and rarest books, one of the few early works published under his real name. Among the most important Portuguese authors of the twentieth century (“figura cimeira das Letras portuguesas”—Grande enciclopédia, Actualização, X, 397), the physician adolfo rocha was at the center of the “Grupo Presença”. “em 1930 dá luz Rampa, padrão de arrojo literário seguido de Tributo (1931), Abismo (1932) e O outro livro de Job (1936, 3.ª ed. 1951), todos de grande audácia formal e revelando um pensamento agreste e inconformista que chamou sobre si a atenção dos críticos e do público, uns e outro divididos quanto à adesão aos cânones literários impostos pelo autor, mas todos, unânimemente, reconhecendo o valor ímpar que


se revelava na sua obra dentro da moderna literatura portuguesa.”—Grande enciclopedia. His poetry is said to reflect “ainda as apreensões, esperanças e angústias do seu tempo, dentro de um ângulo individualista e, no fundo, religioso de visão, e a sua pureza e originalidade rítmicas, a coerência orgânica das suas imagens impõem-se (Tributo, 1931; O outro livro de Job, 1936); Libertação, 1944; Odes, 1946 …)”—Saraiva & Lopes, p. 1061.

Provenance: Álvaro taveira was one of torga’s closest friends. He was publisher of the important review Manifesto, which appeared in Coimbra in five issues, from January 1936 to July 1938, edited by torga and albano nogueira.

j almeida marques 2279 (copy in foxed wrappers, without a presentation inscrip-tion, purchased by us at this sale on behalf of a client for the equivalent of $1,400 plus commissions in January 1996). serpa 1270. on torga see Fernando Guimarães in machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 476-7; saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (16th ed.), pp. 1057, 1060-1, 1065-6, 1086, 1097, 1160, 1169, and 1189; and Grande enciclopédia XXXII, 105. not located in NUC. oCLC: 35244874 (Getty research Institute, yale University, Houghton Library-Harvard University); 959014472 (biblioteca de arte Calouste Gulbenkian); 32318065 (new york University, british Library). porbase locates one copy each at biblioteca nacional de portugal, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and Universidade de Coimbra. not located in Copac. KVK (44 databases searched) repeats porbase.

Menu for Dinner Honoring a Famous Bullfighter, With Cover Sketch by a Famous Caricaturist and with a

Signed and Dated Inscription from the Bullfighter to the Caricaturist

77. [VALENÇA, Francisco]. [Menu]. Cena en honor de D. Juan Belmonte, regalito de la aficion portuguesa. [Lisbon]: n.pr., 1937. Large 8°, folded. Printed in red throughout. Full-page caricature of Belmonte fighting a bull on cover. In fine condition. Belmonte’s signed (“Juan Belmonte”) and dated (1937) three-line presentation inscription to Francisco Valença on cover. 2 leaves, printed on the rectos only. $600.00

signed presentation copy of a menu designed by Francisco Valença for a dinner at a Severa, Lisbon, 17 July 1937 in honor of the Spanish bullfighter Juan Belmonte, inscribed by belmonte to Valença. some of the dishes include “sopa belmontina,” “pescado a la média Veronica,” and “ternera andaluza con salsa torera.” Juan belmonte y García (1892-1962) was considered by many the greatest bullfighter of all time. He revolution-ized the art of bullfighting. A close friend of Ernest Hemingway, he is the prototype for one of the characters in Heminway’s novel, The Sun Also Rises, as well as being featured in Hemingway’s nonfiction book on bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon.

Francisco Valença (1882-1962) was perhaps the most important twentieth-century portuguese caricaturist. the article on him in the Grande enciclopédia portuguesa e brasileira notes that Valença was renowned in portugal and abroad, comparing him to bordalo pinheiro, one of the geniuses of the art of caricature: “Durante toda a sua vida tem constantemente enriquecido com os seus desenhos não só inúmeras páginas da grande maioria dos jornais e revistas de portugal, como também de França, de espanha e do brasil. É, tanto pela extensão da sua obra, como pela sua intenção artística e social, um dos maiores caricaturistas portugueses depois de Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, com o qual tem grandes afinidades....”

Valença began his career in 1900, as director of O Chinelo, which he founded with andré brun and writer Carlos simões. Valença also founded Salão cómico (1902); Varões

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assinalados (1909-1911—winner of the “Grand Prix” in the Rio de Janeiro exposition of 1922-1923); and O Moscardo (1913). His work appeared in the following newspapers, journals, and reviews: A Comédia portuguesa (1902); Brasil-Portugal (1902-1909); Suplemento humorístico do Século (1904-1908); Novidades (1907); Ilustração portuguesa (1906-1920); Tiro e sport (1906-1911); Arte musical (1907-1908); Alma nacional (1910); A Sátira (1911); Eco artís-tico (1914-1915); O teatro (1922-1923); Diário de notícias (the New York Times of portugal; 1919-1924, 1930); O Mundo (1918-1924); Eco Artístico (1914-1915); De Teatro (1922-1923); República (1918); Ilustração (1926); Sempre fixe (for 30 years, starting in 1926); Alma nova (1922-1925); Portucale (porto, 1930). He was artistic director of the weekly O Espectro (1925). abroad, his work appeared in Rire (paris); Boletin Fermé (barcelona); and many newspapers and reviews in rio de Janeiro.

together with Carlos simões, Valença produced the Catálogo cómico, with send-ups of works by portugal’s serious artists shown in the exposição de belas artes in 1914-1919, 1923 and 1924.

Valença’s illustrations appeared in numerous special Christmas issues of the Diário de Notícias and the Comércio do Porto. He illustrated books for emília de sousa Costa, Julieta Ferrão, alfredo França, armando Ferreira, augusto Cunha, Cruz magalhães, Henrique marques Junior, Luís Chaves, magalhães Lima, tomás de eça Leal, and others.

original examples of Valença’s work are in the collections of the museu de arte Contemporânea, Lisbon; the museu de bragança; the museu municipal, porto; the museu soares dos reis, porto; and the Getty research Institute.

j see Grande enciclopedia XXXIII, 880 and pamplona, Dicionário de pintores e escultores portugueses V, 310. not located in oCLC. not located in porbase. not located in Copac. not located in KVK (44 databases searched).

Important Modernist Author’s Only Published Book

*78. VAZ, Gil [pseudonym of Manuel de Sousa Mendes Pinheiro]. Altar. Illustrations by antonio de brederode amorim. Lisbon: na Imprensa Libanio da silva, edição do autor, 1923. Large 4° (27 x 20.2 cm.), original printed wrappers (a bit soiled; paper flaw of about 4 cm. on rear wrapper). printed in red and black throughout. Inverted trian-gular vignette in red on title page. same vignette in black, with title in red, on front wrapper. Overall in very good condition; internally fine. author’s signed and dated three-line presentation inscription in upper portion of half title: “ao armando mattos com // muita amizade. // F Foz 6/9/1923 Gil Vaz”. Lithograph pictorial bookplate of armando de mattos on front wrapper verso. Illustrated lithograph bookplate of a.[lfredo] ribeiro dos santos (larger version) on verso of title page. (31 ll.), including 3 full-page illustrations. $500.00

these poems are the FIrst and onLy eDItIon of the modernist author’s only book. While there is no limitation statement, we think this nicely printed work must have had a very small edition; it is certainly rare. although he only published one book, manuel de sousa mendes pinheiro (1898-1977) has a vast output dispersed in various magazines, newspapers and literary reviews, such as Ilustração portuguesa, Athena, Con-temporânea (of whose third series he was the editor), A revista da Solução Editora, Presença,

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and the “suplemento literário” of Diário de Lisboa. He was a friend of Fernando pessoa. the soneto-epicédio that appeared in the July 1936 issue of Presença is considered by a number of critics to be the best of its kind in the portuguese language.

The illustrations appear to have been influenced by Aubrey Beardsley, the Aesthetic and art nouveau movements.

Provenance: armando [manuel de Lemos] de matos (1889-1953), author and educator. From 1934 to 1945 he was director of the biblioteca and museus municipais de Gaia, a post he resigned to accept that of professor of the History of art and artistic archeology at the escola de belas-artes do porto. see Grande enciclopédia XVI, 594-5. the physician alfredo ribeiro dos santos was a distinguished book collector, author of A Renescença Portuguesa: um movimento cultural portuense (1990), and História literária do Porto através das suas publicações periódicas (2009). born in porto, 1917, from an early age he mixed with artists and intellectuals such as sant’ana Dionísio, José marinho, and agostinho da silva. He also took part in clandestine and semi-clandestine movements against the salazar regime such as the movimento de Unidade anti-Fascista (1942-1949) and the movimento de Unidade Democrática (mUD), supporting norton de matos and Humberto Delgado. He participated in a number of significant demonstrations such as the one that took place at the funeral of abel salazar.

j Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 538. see also Guerra andrade, Dicionário de pseudónimos e iniciais de escritores portugueses, p. 115. oCLC: 959059460 (biblioteca de arte Calouste Gulbenkian); 36826706 (University of Wisconsin-madison, mistakenly attributing it to Guerra Junqueiro); 697126562 (digitized by Hathitrust but not available online). not located in porbase. not located in Copac. not located in Hol-lis or orbis.

Essays on Inês de Castro, Camoes, João de Deus, Eça de Queiroz and More, With Author’s Inscription to a Distinguished Fellow Author

79. VIEIRA, Afonso Lopes. Em demanda do Graal. Lisbon: portugal brasil Lda., sociedade editora, 1922. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (some spotting; very slight fraying near foot of spine). title-page printed in red and black. minor stains, a few pencil marks. overall in very good condition. author’s signed nine-line presentation inscription to the distinguished portuguese writer Henrique Lopes de mendonça on front flyleaf. (1 blank l.), 386 pp., (3, 1 blank ll.). $300.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this volume consisting of papers read in public and essays, with a few poems. subjects of the papers and essays are Inês de Castro, the panels of são Vicente, Camões, portuguese art, João de Deus, eça de Queiroz, and much more.

afonso Lopes Vieira (1878-1946) was portugal’s best traditional poet of the twentieth century. In 1916 he resigned his post as redactor da Câmara dos Deput8570371ados in Lisbon in order to dedicate himself to reading and to poetry. His home, são pedro de moel, became a haven for artists, musicians and writers. He also travelled extensively in europe and north africa, and reminiscences of these travels often appear in his works.

Lopes Vieira’s earliest published works were written as a student at Coimbra, 1897-1900, e.g. Para quê?, 1897, and Náufrago, 1898. From this melancholy phase he passed into a nationalistic one, in which he publicized early portuguese literature, aiming to “reaportuguesar portugal tornando-o europeau.” During this period he helped prepare


an edition of Camões (1928) and edited montemayor’s Diana, the Amadis, and rodrigues Lobo. His portuguese translation of the Poema do Cid was published in the periodical Lusitânia, of which Lopes Vieira served as secretary. He also wrote essays and fiction, as well as works for children, e.g. Animais nossos amigos, 1911 and Canto infantil, 1912.


j santos, Exposição bibliográfica de Afonso Lopes Vieira, p. 14. see saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001), p. 961; bell, Portuguese Literature, p. 337: “there is a certain strength as well as a subtle music about his verse which is of good promise for the future.” also maria amélia Gomes in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 501-2; Fernando Guimarães in Biblos, V, 844-6; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 214-6. porbase locates twelve copies. Copac locates two copies: british Library and Liverpool University.

With Author’s Signed Inscription to a Distinguished Fellow Author

80. VIEIRA, Afonso Lopes. Ilhas de bruma. Coimbra: Francisco França amado, 1917. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (small stains at spine ends; very minor wear). title-page in red and black within wood-engraved border, wood-engraved vignettes. nicely printed on high-quality paper. Uncut and partially unopened. Minor stains. In very good, near fine condition. author’s signed three-line presentation inscription to the distinguished portuguese writer Henrique Lopes de mendonça on recto of front flyleaf: “Ao eminente escritor // Henrique Lopes de Mendonça //afonso Lopes Vieira”. (1 blank l.), 133 pp., (2, 1 blank ll.). $400.00

FIrst eDItIon of this book of poems. a reprint appeared in 2002.afonso Lopes Vieira (1878-1946) was portugal’s best traditional poet of the twentieth

century. In 1916 he resigned his post as redactor da Câmara dos Deputados in Lisbon in order to dedicate himself to reading and to poetry. His home, são pedro de moel, became a haven for artists, musicians and writers. He also travelled extensively in europe and north africa, and reminiscences of these travels often appear in his works.

Lopes Vieira’s earliest published works were written as a student at Coimbra, 1897-1900, e.g. Para quê?, 1897, and Náufrago, 1898. From this melancholy phase he passed into a nationalistic one, in which he publicized early portuguese literature, aiming to “reaportuguesar portugal tornando-o europeau.” During this period he helped prepare an edition of Camões (1928) and edited montemayor’s Diana, the Amadis, and rodrigues Lobo. His portuguese translation of the Poema do Cid was published in the periodical Lusitânia, of which Lopes Vieira served as secretary. He also wrote essays and fiction, as well as works for children, e.g. Animais nossos amigos, 1911 and Canto infantil, 1912.

Provenance: Henrique Lopes de mendonça (1856-1931), dramatist, novelist, historian, biographer, poet, naval officer and history teacher at the Escola Naval, also taught at the

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escola de belas artes in Lisbon, served as president of the academia das Ciências, and founded in 1925 of the sociedade portuguesa de autores. He also wrote the lyrics for the portuguese national anthem. see Álvaro manuel machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 313; aníbal pinto de Castro in Biblos, III, 667-9; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 390-1; and Luciana stegagno picchio, História do teatro português, pp.278-9, 281, 284, 315, 412-3, 415, 416, 418, 443.

j santos, Exposição bibliográfica de Afonso Lopes Vieira, p. 10. see saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001), p. 961; bell, Portuguese Literature, p. 337: “there is a certain strength as well as a subtle music about his verse which is of good promise for the future.” also maria amélia Gomes in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 501-2; Fernando Guimarães in Biblos, V, 844-6; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 214-6. NUC: DLC, CU, nn, DCU, ncU, CabVa. porbase locates four copies: two in the biblioteca nacional de portugal, and one each in the biblioteca João paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa, and biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. Copac locates a single copy, at british Library.

The Dedication Copy

81. VIEIRA, Afonso Lopes. O pão e as rosas. Lisbon: Livr. Ferreira, 1908. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (slightly chipped and stained, separated from textblock, paper label at spine head). title page printed in green and black. Uncut. some spotting. In good condition. author’s dated (7 may 1908) ten-line presentation inscription to the dedicatee, Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, on recto of front flyleaf. 169 pp., (1 blank l.). $600.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this book of poems.afonso Lopes Vieira (1878-1946) was portugal’s best traditional poet of the twentieth

century. In 1916 he resigned his post as redactor da Câmara dos Deputados in Lisbon in order to dedicate himself to reading and to poetry. His home, são pedro de moel, became a haven for artists, musicians and writers. He also travelled extensively in europe and north africa, and reminiscences of these travels often appear in his works.



j Innocêncio XXII, 23. santos, Exposição bibliográfica de Afonso Lopes Vieira, p. 9. see saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001), p. 961; bell, Portuguese


Literature, p. 337: “there is a certain strength as well as a subtle music about his verse which is of good promise for the future.” also maria amélia Gomes in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 501-2; Fernando Guimarães in Biblos, V, 844-6; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 214-6. NUC: DLC, CU, tnJ, miU, nn, ncU. porbase locates six copies (one with an author’s presentation inscription): four in the biblioteca nacional de portugal, and one each at the biblioteca João paulo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa, and biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. Copac locates a single copy, at british Library.

By Portugal’s Best Traditional Poet of the Twentieth Century

82. VIEIRA, Afonso Lopes. O poeta saudade. Coimbra: F. França amado, 1901. 8°, recent red half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands in five compartments, gilt letter. Title page printed in black and violet. publisher’s vignette on title page. section title decorations, head-pieces, and some initial letters printed in violet. some light browning. author’s three-line presentation inscription to nuno de Queriol on half-title. 132 pp. $250.00

FIRST EDITION, and the only separate one, of these poems, the author’s fifth published book.

afonso Lopes Vieira (1878-1946) was portugal’s best traditional poet of the twentieth century. In 1916 he resigned his post as redactor da Câmara dos Deputados in Lisbon in order to dedicate himself to reading and to poetry. His home, são pedro de moel, became a haven for artists, musicians and writers. He also travelled extensively in europe and north africa, and reminiscences of these travels often appear in his works.


Provenance: Nuno de Freitas Queriol (1855-1924), a naval officer, was involved early in his career with the mapping of portuguese africa. He served as governor of manica e sofala, the Congo, Lourenço marques, and angola. He fought in Lourenço marques in the campaign of 1894-1895. He was a commendador of the ordem militar de nosso senhor Jesus Cristo and the ordem militar de são bento de avis. see Grande enciclopédia XXIV, 10.

j Innocêncio XXII, 22: without collation, and giving the publication date as 1900. santos, Exposição bibliográfica de Afonso Lopes Vieira, p. 9. see saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001), p. 961; bell, Portuguese Literature, p. 337: “there is a certain strength as well as a subtle music about his verse which is of good prom-ise for the future.” also maria amélia Gomes in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 501-2; Fernando Guimarães in Biblos, V, 844-6; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 214-6. NUC: miU. oCLC: 23280413 (University of michigan, University of arizona, University of new mexico, staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von ossietzky, University of toronto-Downsview, University of Haifa); 958985473 (Biblioteca de Arte Calouste Gulbenkian); 44117339 (microfilm at New York

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public Library); 644973016 (digitized from the University of michigan copy). porbase locates five copies: two at the Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, and one each at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do porto, the Casa do alentejo, and the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian biblioteca Geral da arte. not located in Copac. not located in Hollis or orbis. not located in melvyl.

Important Poet Discusses Portuguese Poetry Author’s Inscription to the Conde de Monsaraz, Another Prominent Poet

*83. VIEIRA, Afonso Lopes. O povo e os poetas portugueses: conferência lida pelo autor no Teatro D. Maria II em 12 de Janeiro de 1910. Lisbon: typ. “a editora”, 1910. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. title printed in red and black. Wood engraved vignettes printed in red. Foxing on the wrappers. Overall in good condition; internally fine. Author’s signed six-line presentation inscription to the Conde de monsaraz on front free endleaf recto. (1 blank l.), 62 pp., (1, 1 blank l.). $350.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this brief overview of the history of portuguese poetry and its sources of inspiration. Lopes Vieira discusses the connection between portuguese fado and poetry, urging poets to seek inspiration from within portuguese culture, not from outside influences.

afonso Lopes Vieira (Leiria, 1878-Lisbon, 1946) was portugal’s best traditional poet of the twentieth century. In 1916 he resigned his post as redactor da Câmara dos Deputados in Lisbon in order to dedicate himself to reading and to poetry. His home, s. pedro de moel, became a haven for artists, musicians and writers. He also travelled extensively in europe and north africa, and reminiscences of these travels often appear in his works.

the author’s earliest published works were written as a student at Coimbra, 1897-1900, e.g. Para quê?, 1897, and Náufrago, 1898. From this melancholy phase he passed into a nationalistic one, in which he publicized early portuguese literature, aiming to “reaportuguesar portugal tornando-o europeau.” During this period he helped prepare an edition of Camões (1928) and edited montemayor’s Diana, the Amadis, and rodri-gues Lobo. His portuguese translation of the Poema do Cid was published in the review Lusitânia, of which Lopes Vieira served as secretary. He also wrote works for children, e.g. Animais nossos amigos, 1911 and Canto infantil, 1912.

Provenance: antónio de macedo papança, 1º Conde de monsaraz (reguengos de monsaras, 1852-Lisbon, 1913), neo-romantic poet from a wealthy landowning family in the alentejo. parliamentary deputy with a law degree from Coimbra University, diplomat, member of the real academia das sciencias de Lisboa, the Instituto de Coimbra and the Sociedade Geografica de Lisboa, he contributed to various periodicals, including A ilus-tração portuguesa from its initial number in July 1884. His principal books of poems were Crepusculares (1876), Catarina de Ataíde (1880), Telas históricas (1882), and Musa Alentejana (1908). A definitive edition of his Obras was published in three volumes by the Instituto de alta Cultura, Lisbon, 1957-1958. see Grande enciclopédia XVII, 673-4; Álvaro manuel machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 320-1; Fernando Guimarães in Biblos, III, 883-4; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 354-5.

j Innocêncio XX, 311. Exposição bibliográfica de Afonso Lopes Vieira, p. 13. see also Grande enciclopédia XV, 453-5; maria amélia Gomes in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura


portuguesa, pp. 501-2; Fernando Guimarães in Biblos, V, 844-6; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 214-6; saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001) p. 961; bell, Portuguese Literature p. 337: “there is a certain strength as well as a subtle music about his verse which is of good promise for the future.” NUC: DLC, ICU. porbase locates four copies, in the biblioteca João paulo II da Universidade Católica portuguesa, the biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, the Faculadade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, and the Faculade de Letras da Universidade do porto. Copac locates copies at british Library and manchester University.

Play About a Franciscan Friar, Set in Fourteenth-Century Italy Author’s Signed and Dated Inscription to Colombano Bordalo Pinheiro

84. VIEIRA, Afonso Lopes. Rosas bravas: acto em verso. Lisbon: “a edi-tora”, [1911]. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (slight wear), in folding case of marbled paper with gilt leather label on front of case. one large wood-engraved headpiece, one page printed in ochre and black. In good to very good condition. author’s signed and dated (may 1911) presentation inscription “a Columbano, // querido amigo e // mestre, oferece” on recto of front free endleaf. (1 blank l.), 45 pp., (1, 1 blank ll.), 1 color halftone illustration tipped onto bifolium of blue paper inserted between pp. 22-3. $600.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this play about a Franciscan friar set in fourteenth-century Italy, performed for the first time on April 5, 1911, at the Teatro da Republica, Lisbon. the color illustration by thomás bordallo pinheiro is of the original stage design by augusto pina. Included is a one-page musical theme for oboe specially composed for the performance by the portuguese composer thomás borba.

afonso Lopes Vieira (1878-1946) was portugal’s best traditional poet of the twentieth century. In 1916 he resigned his post as redactor da Câmara dos Deputados in Lisbon in order to dedicate himself to reading and to poetry. His home, s. pedro de moel, became a haven for artists, musicians and writers. He also travelled extensively in europe and north africa, and reminiscences of these travels often appear in his works.

the author’s earliest published works were written as a student at Coimbra, 1897-1900, e.g., Para quê?, 1897, and Náufrago, 1898. From this melancholy phase he passed into a nationalistic one, in which he publicized early portuguese literature, aiming to “reaportuguesar portugal tornando-o europeau.” During this period he helped prepare an edition of Camões (1928) and edited montemayor’s Diana, the Amadis, and rodrigues Lobo. His portuguese translation of the Poema do Cid was published in the periodical Lusitânia, of which Lopes Vieira served as secretary. He also wrote works for children, e.g, Animais nossos amigos, 1911, and Canto infantil, 1912.

Provenance: Colombano bordalo pinheiro (1857-1929), one of the greatest and most original portuguese painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. see pamplona Dicionário de pintores e esculptores portugueses (revised ed.), II, 111-22. He was a member of the “Grupo do Leão”, which included a number of the most illustrious artists, writers, and intellectuals of the day, and his famous painting of some of the artists of the group is now in the museu de arte Contemporânea in the Chiado, Lisbon.

j Innocêncio XXII, 23. santos, Exposição bibliográfica de Afonso Lopes Vieira, p. 9. see saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001), p. 961; bell, Portuguese

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Literature, p. 337: “there is a certain strength as well as a subtle music about his verse which is of good promise for the future.” also maria amélia Gomes in machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 501-2; Fernando Guimarães in Biblos, V, 844-6; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 214-6. NUC: tnJ, nCU, mH. porbase locates eight copies: three each at the biblioteca nacional de portugal and biblioteca João paolo II-Universidade Católica portuguesa- and one each at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do porto and biblioteca tomás ribeiro-Câmara municipal de tondela. Copac repeats british Library only.

One of World’s First Arms-Control Pacts: Text and Debates

85. ZEGERS SAMANIEGO, Júlio, principal author. La paz chileno-arjentina. Sumario: los pactos de Mayo; minuta parlamentaria; obstruccion parlamentaria; el manifiesto al pais; los artículos del Señor Júlio Zegers. santiago de Chile: Imprenta Cervantes, 1902. 8°, publisher’s pebbled cloth (some wear), smooth spine with vertical gilt lettering, decorated endleaves, text-block edges sprinkled. In good to very good condition. author’s signed three-line presentation inscription in ink on p. 3 to a friend, pedro a. Funes. 86 pp. $250.00

FIrst and onLy eDItIon of this discussion of an early arms-control pact. the pactos de mayo were signed in may 1902 in an attempt to resolve the disputes between Chile and argentina over the border of patagonia. the dispute had been going on since the early 1880s and led to an arms race by the 1890s.

this volume includes the text of two of the 1902 agreements: the tratado Jeneral de arbitraje, intended to provide a framework for resolving disputes, and the Convencion sobre Armamentos Navales, according to which Chile was assigned the Pacific as a sphere of influence, and Argentina the Atlantic. The two countries also agreed to significantly decrease their navies—making this one of the world’s first arms-control pacts.

the agreements were not joyously accepted by all. Included in the volume are notes exchanged between the ministers of Chile and argentina, parliamentary minutes of discussions on these agreements (June to August 1902), and a “Manifiesto al Pais” of August 1902 expressing dissent (pp. 31-47). The final and longest essay (pp. 49-82), “La paz Chileno-arjentina,” dated august 1902, is by Julio Zegers samaniego (santiago, 1830-1918). Zegers samaniego was director of the Imprensa nacional in 1856 and later vice-rector of the Instituto nacional. In 1876 he was elected deputy, and was Chile’s minister of Finance from august 1878 to april 1879, at the beginning of the War of the Pacific. He was one of the leaders of the movement that resulted in the Chilean Civil War of 1891. after 1894 he withdrew from politics and devoted himself to writing on politics, economics, and biography.

j author not in palau. NUC: txU, nnC. not located in CCpbe. not located in rebiun. not located in Copac.


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