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Special List 289Portuguese India

Thirty-Nine Books Printed Between 1838 & 1914 in Portuguese India

orRelating to Portuguese India

Printed Elsewhere in India

Printing with movable type first entered India through Goa. In a let-ter to St. Ignatius Loyola dated 30 April 1556, Father Gaspar Caleza mentioned a ship carrying a printing press setting sail for abyssinia from Portugal, with the purpose of furthering missionary work in Abyssinia. En route to Abyssinia the ship carrying the press landed at Goa. Circumstances prevented this press from leaving India, and consequently printing was initiated there.

Printing operations began in Goa in 1556. The first printing press was established at the Jesuit Colégio de São Paulo in Old Goa, resulting in the publication of Conclusiones Philosophicas. The earliest surviving book printed in India is the Compendio Spiritual da Vida Christã of D. Gaspar Jorge de Leão Pereira, first Portuguese Archbishop of Goa and Primate of the East. It was printed by João Quintino in 1561. This was followed by the printing of Garcia da Orta’s Colóquios dos simples e drogas he cousas medicinais da Índia on 10 April 1563 by João de Endem.

The seventeenth century saw the beginning of large-scale book printing in Goa, greatly influenced by the need to print Christian texts for the benefit of the newly converted Christians. Printing flourished in Goa for a while, but ceased in 1674. It was as late as 1821 that printing was revived in Goa with a weekly newspaper, Gazeta de Goa. this was later known as the Chronista Constitucional de Goa (1835), and still later, as the Boletim do Governo do Estado da Índia (1837).

The items in the present list are all duplicates from a personal col-lection, accumulated over the years, of some 220 titles either printed in Portuguese India or relating to Portuguese India printed elsewhere in India from 1822 to 1938. Most of the items in the collection date from the mid-nineteenth century.

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☛ Goa, 1838Archbishop-Elect Fights for the Portuguese Padroado in India

1. [CARVALHO, Fr. António Feliciano de Santa Rita, Archbishop-Elect of Goa]. Resposta ao folheto, que tem por titulo: Address of the Right Rev. Daniel O’Connor, D.D. Vicar Apostolic of Madras, to the Clergy and People of the See of Meliapor. Por hum ecclesiastico do Arcebispado de Goa. 3 works in 1 volume. Goa: Na Typographia Nacional, 1838. 4°, modern blue half sheep over buckram boards (some wear), spine richly gilt with raised bands in five compartments, gilt-lettered red labels in second and fourth, machine marbled endleaves, top edges rouged, red silk ribbon marker. Small wood-engraved arms of Portugal on title page. Browned through about p. 50, then lighter; final page browned and with small holes (paper defects?). In good condition. (1 l.), 156 pp. 3 works in 1 volume. $800.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Innocêncio notes that these three works, of which few copies appeared in Portugal, have very useful information for those interested in the question of the Portuguese padroado, the Crown’s control of clerical appointments. In this one, the Archbishop-Elect warns that the writings of Daniel O’Connor, the apostolic vicar in Meliapor, are full of “erros, e doutrinas perigosas e subversivas,” and that he has the gall to say that prelates in Portuguese India are schismatic.

this pamphlet is part of an ongoing effort by the papacy to gain control of clerical appointments in Spanish and Portuguese colonies and former colonies. In 1831, Gregory XVI offended Spain by formalizing the Church’s relations with the former Spanish colonies in Latin America, and then filling all the sees left vacant during the wars of independence. In 1834, the pope subverted the Portuguese padroado in India by establish-ing apostolic vicars there who answered directly to Rome. In 1838 he suspended four bishoprics in India that were part of the padroado, transferring control of their territories from the Archbishop of Goa to the newly established vicars. The schism between the papacy and the Portuguese crown lasted for years: after Archbishop of Goa Fr. Manuel de São Galdino died in 1831, the next archbishop of Goa who was recognized by the papacy did not take office until 1844 (José Maria da Silva Torres).

António Feliciano de Santa Rita Carvalho, a native of Alvações do Corgo in Villa Real, was a Benedictine monk who received his doctorate from Coimbra in 1814, and later taught there. He was appointed Archbishop of Goa in 1836, and died in Goa, of a fever, in 1839.

j Innocêncio I, 135; also listed in XVIII, 140-3, on a list of 47 publications on the “Questão do Real Padroado.” Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 190. Not in Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa. Not in Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India. OCLC: 35530767 (Yale University, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, with 156 pp. only); 632917323 (Universitätsbibliothek München). Porbase locates a copy with 156 pp. at Biblioteca


João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and two copies with the same title but only 39 pp. at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Copac. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by Porbase, and the one at Univer-sitätsbibliothek münchen.

BOUND WITH: [CARVALHO, Fr. António Feliciano de Santa Rita, Archbishop-Elect of Goa]. Resposta ao folhetinho, que tem por titulo: “Theological Opinion of an Eminent Catholic Divine, the Very Rev. Father Jarrige, Missionary Apostolic at Pondicherry, on the subject of the Portuguese Schism in India, to the Rigth [sic] Rev. Dr. O’Connor, Vicar Apostolic of Madras. on the 19th of July, 1838.” [Colophon] Goa: Na Tipographia Nacional, 1838. 4º. Very good condition. 6 pp., (1 l. colophon).

FIRST and ONLY EDITION. A point-by-point refutation by the Archbishop-Elect of a pamphlet by Father Jarrige addressed to Daniel O’Connor, apostolic vicar of Madras.

j Innocêncio I, 135 (calling for 6 pp.); also listed in XVIII, 140-3, on a list of 47 publications on the “Questão do Real Padroado.” Not in Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa. Not in Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India. Catalogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 190. OCLC: 702698071 (Yale University, calling for 6 pp.); 35528787 (University of Minnesota-Min-neapolis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, also with 6 pp.); 681623644 and 795797485 are digitized, 37353292 is a microfilm. Porbase locates a single copy, at the Biblioteca Central da Marinha. Not located in Copac. KVK (44 databases searched) locates only the copy cited by porbase.

AND BOUND WITH:[CARVALHO, Fr. António Feliciano de Santa Rita], Archbishop-Elect of Goa]. Pastoral do Arcebispo Eleito de Goa, Primaz do Oriente, Governador, e Vigario Capitular do mesmo Arcebispado Metropolitano, mostrando que hum denominado Breve Apostolico datado de 24 de abril de 1838 he supposto; e mandando a todos os seus subditos que o não recebão, nem executem, sem elle se aprensentar munido do beneplacito regio de Sua Magestade Fidelissima. Goa: Na Typographia Nacional, 1838. 4º. Woodcut tailpiece (a feather with “Fim” on a ribbon). Final page lightly browned and with small holes in margin (paper defects?). (1 l.), 38 pp. Lacks p. 39, and errata, the verso of which is blank.

FIRST and ONLY EDITION. In forty-eight points, argues that a Breve Apostolico dated April 24, 1838 is not authentic.

j Innocêncio I, 135 (calling for 6 pp.); also listed in XVIII, 140-3, on a list of 47 pub-lications on the “Questão do Real Padroado.” Not in Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa. Not in Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India. not in Catalogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907). OCLC: 35528782 (Yale University, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, with 39 pp.); 37353036 is a microform; 681653917 is digitized. Porbase locates a single copy, at the Biblioteca Central Da Marinha. Not located in Copac. KVK (44 databases searched) locates only the copy cited by porbase.

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☛ Pangim, 1840Decrees issued from 1763-1842 for the Novas Conquistas

2. XAVIER, Filippe Nery. Collecção de bandos, e outras differentes provi-dencias que servem de leis regulamentares para o governo economico, e judi-cial das provincias denominadas das Novas Conquistas, precedida da Noção da sua Conquista, e da divisão de cada huma dellas …. Volume I only (of 3). Pangim: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1840. 4°, contemporary limp calf, showing boards from a much earlier printed work at front pastedown; flat spine with black painted label, gilt-lettered with short title (worn). Extensive worming affecting first 18 quires, often marginal but some-times touching a few letters per page, though never affecting legibility. A less than good copy. Some early marginal notes in ink and pencil. (9 ll.), xxi, 304, (1) pp. [pp. 127-8 a folding table; pagination skips blank page after 143, which is followed by folding table numbered 144, fol-lowed by 146], (9 ll., 1 l. errata). Volume I only (of 3). $160.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Innocêncio calls for two more volumes: the second published in Nova Goa, 1850, the third in Nova Goa, 1851 (the Repertorio geral, ou indice alphabetico). All the volumes are rare; the second more so than the first, and the third is almost impossible to obtain.

This compilation of decrees issued from 1763-1842 by the king, the viceroy or governor general, and various local officials of the Novas Conquistas (including Ponda, Astragar, Embarbacem, Bally, Chrondravady, Cacora, Canacona, Bocholim, Sanquelim and Pernem) has measures covering marriage, leases, mortgages, distillers, grazing, books, coinage, religion and tobacco.

Beginning on p. [188] is an “Additamento” which, according to an “Advertencia” on the unnumered verso of p. 304, dated Pangim, 6 July 1842, was published earlier in 1842.

Filippe Nery Xavier (1804-1875), historian, archeologist, and exemplary public functionary throughout his adult life, a native of Loutulim in the concelho de Salsete, was director of the Imprensa Nacional in Goa from 1851. One of Goa’s best historians, he published Bosquejo histórico das comunidades das aldeias dos concelhos das Ilhas, Salcete e Bardez, 1852, and Nobiliarchia goana, 1862-63, the enormously popular Resumo histórico da maravil-hosa vida, conversões e milagres de S. Francisco Xavier, 1859, and many other works.

j Innocêncio II, 302-3. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 2845: calling for only 1 volume, Pangim 1840, with a collation of (16), xxi, 304, (2) pp. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India GD48: calling for only 2 volumes, and giving the imprint for both as Pangim, 1840. Costa, Dicionário da literatura goesa, III, 351 (calling for 3 volumes, giving the imprint as Pangim for all, 1840, 1850, and 1851, with collation for volume I of [12], xxi, 304, 12 pp.; for volume II of xvi, 90 pp. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 235. See also 348-56. Devi & Seabra, A literatura indo-portuguesa, pp. 153 and 161 n. 7: calling for only 1 volume, Pangim 1840, with a collation of xxii, 304, (20) pp. Grande enciclopedia XXXVII, 65. NUC: volume I only, at DLC-P4 and MH. OCLC: 962305523 (volume I only: Syracuse University); 251274534 (volume I only: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin); 83889713 (volume I only: Harvard Law School Library); 77675861 (volume I only: Harvard Law School Library); 504038051 (3 volumes, Pangim 1840: British Library); 867537728 (3 volumes: Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire-Strasbourg). Porbase locates two copies of volume I only, plus another two copies of volumes I-II, all in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Copac locates a set of all three volumes at British library.


☛ Pangim, 1842Who’s to Blame for Civil Unrest in Pangim?

3. LIMA, José Joaquim Lopes de, and Francisco Maria de Magalhães. Conta official dos successos, havidos em Pangim nos dias 26, e 27 d’abril deste anno, dada ao governo de Sua Magestade pelo Major Commandante do Batalhaõ Provisorio d’Infanteria do Exercito de Portugal, Francisco Maria de Magalhães; e precedida d’algumas reflexões documentadas sobre o manifesto, que publicou em Bombaim, a respeito dos mesmos successos, o senhor José Joaquim Lopes de Lima. Pangim: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1842. 4°, later plain beige wrappers (spine perished, lower wrapper detached); rear pink printed wrapper present. Typographical mustaches on title page. Small woodcut of a rooster on p. 12. Light soiling on title page, light browning throughout. In near-good condition. Old red-bordered paper tag on front wrapper with manuscript ink shelfmark “2899”. 38 pp. $400.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this response of Lopes de Lima to accusations made against him by Magalhães, an associate of Monteiro de Barbuda (also a Cartista) and commander of the Infantry. Lopes de Lima was the newly appointed Governador Geral Interino da India Portugueza, having reached this post after earning a poor naval reputation. He blames Magalhães and his associates for the civil unrest in pangim.

j Gonçalves, Síntese bibli-ográfica de Goa 1533. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India CD29 (calls for 28 pp. only). Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à biblioteca nacio-nal de Nova Goa (1907), p. 132. Not in Innocêncio; on Lopes de Lima, see IV, 390; XIII, 29 and 367; Fonseca, Aditamentos p. 240. NUC: DLC-P4. OCLC: 493143961 (Bibliotheque Sainte-Gene-vieve); 467363556 (University of Wisconsin-Madison); 781252724 (digitized via Google Books, HathiTrust Digital Library). Porbase locates a single copy, in the biblioteca nacional de Portugal. Not located in Copac. KVK (51 databases searched), locates only the copy cited by Porbase, the one at the Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve, and the copy at the University of Wisconsin, digitized via the European Register of microform and Digital masters.

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☛ Nova Goa, 1846 and 1848Periodical Crucial for Encouraging Historiography of Portuguese Goa

4. O Gabinete litterario das fontainhas, publicação mensal redigido pela Associação do mesmo titulo. 1.º [and 3.º] volume. 2 volumes. Nova Goa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1846 and 1848. 4°, disbound and unbound. Small woodcut of cherub with trumpet and banner on each title page. Volume I disbound with traces of wrappers, most of inner margin of title page missing, rather dog-eared and lightly foxed. In near-good condition. Volume III loose in gatherings, but in fine condition. 288 p.; 264 pp., LACKING pp. 265-286 of volume III and all of volume II. 2 volumes. $150.00

FIRST EDITION. This periodical, written almost entirely by Filippe Nery Xavier, is of great value for its statistics and for the information it gives on customs of Portuguese India. It is credited by Devi and Seabra with inspiring several historians: “O Gabinete Literário das Fontainhas desempenhou um papel importantíssimo no despartar do gosto pelos estudos históricos em Goa … Pouca ficção publicava, concentrava-se principal-mente na edição de documentos inéditos ou pouco conhecidos, de artigos sobre a história portuguesa e indiana, atingindo uma alto nível de rigor de investigação, e, acima de tudo, apresentando Goa como realidade histórica, com uma problemática própria, que a decadência ia fazendo esquecer. Esta revista, o seu redactor e Cunha Rivara foram indiscutivelmente os três mais importantes factores responsáveis pelo florescimento da historiografia em Goa” (p. 153).

Literary works were also published here, including Manuel Joaquim da Costa Campos’ Um fatal engano and a dramatic work by A.G. Meissner.

There is a good deal of bibliographic confusion about this work, because of its rarity and the changes in title. After December 1848 the Gabinete was published very irregularly, under the title Esboço de um dicionário histórico-administrativo (Gonçalves 2851 gives date as 1850; not in Porbase) and then Colecção das leis peculiares das comunidades agricolas dos Concelhos das Ilhas, Salsete e Bardes (listed in Gonçalves 2846 with the date 1852, in Porbase with the date 1878). Rafael and Santos list the work as continuing until 1852, in 5 issues.

j Innocêncio II, 302. Rafael and Santos, Jornais e revistas portugueses do séc. XIX, 2335. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa JA64: calling for an unspecified number of issues dated January 15, 1846 to December 1848; “the three volumes of the second series (Dicionário) were published from 1850 to 1855.” Gonçalves Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 2853: calling for 3 volumes, with 286 pp. in the third. Mártires Lopes, Imprensa de Goa p. 87: “de grande valor histórico”; notes that after 1848 its publication was so irregular that it was no longer a periodical, and in 1850 the Esboço appeared, followed in 1852 by the first part of the Colecção das leis peculiares das comunidades agricolas dos concelhos das Ilhas, Salsete e Bardês. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 90: giving date as 1846, and calling for 3 volumes (collation not given). Devi & Seabra, Literatura indo-portuguesa p. 142, 153. Universidade de Coimbra, Publicações periódicas portuguesas 1056. Union List of Serials: DLC (vols. I-V) and NN (vols. I-III). NUC: DLC. OCLC: 45743972 (Indiana University, giving dates as 1846-1855, but Indiana University catalogue lists vols. 1-3 plus vol. 4 with title “Esboço de hum diccionario historico-administrativo,” date not given); 310871535 (Universitatsbibliothek Tubingen, vols. 1-3); 561357899 (British Library, vols. 1-3); 880133087 (Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire-Strasbourg). Porbase describes the work as 5 volumes (Jan. 1846-1852), in 2 copies at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and 1 at Universidade de Coimbra. Copac repeats the british Library.

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☛ Nova Goa, 1848To Goa via Gibraltar, Malta, Cairo, the Suez, the Red Sea, and Aden

5. BARBUDA, Claudio LaGrange Monteiro de. Huma viagem de duas mil legoas … extraida de Revista Lisbonense … por Felipe Nery Xavier. nova Goa: Imprensa Nacional, 1848. 4°, contemporary navy quarter morocco over marbled boards (some wear, especially to corners and near head of spine), flat spine with gilt fillets and lettering, marbled endleaves. Internally fine. Overall in good to very good condition. xiii, 99, (1), 136, 104 pp. [first 2 pp. of final section are a folding leaf; includes 5-6 bis]. $750.00

First and only edition in book form; the work had previously appeared serially in the Revista universal lisbonense. In 1839 Lagrange travelled from Lisbon to Goa via Gibral-tar, the east coast of Spain, Marseilles, Malta, Alexandria, Cairo, the Suez, the Red Sea, Aden and Bombay. This account includes comments on government, notable landmarks, geography and literature. Following the main text is a 136-page dictionary of place names along the route and persons and events related thereto: e.g., Fernão Mendes Pinto (p. 38), Companhia das Indias (pp. 26-27), Rafael Bluteau (p. 12), pyramids (pp. 110-13). The final section contains geographic, demographic, commercial, and political statistics for Portuguese India, as well as tables of distances, weights and measures, duties, coinage, etc. for India as compared to Brazil and Europe.

Claudio Lagrange Monteiro de Barbuda (1803-1845), a native of Setubal, was a captain in the Corps of Engineers. In 1839 he was named secretary-general of Portuguese India.

j Innocêncio II, 78: without col-lation. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 293. Not in Scholberg, Bibliog-raphy of Goa and the Portuguese in India; cf. CD28. Not in Palha. Not in Hilmy, Literature of Egypt. Not in Kalfatovic, Nile Notes of a Howadji. For other works by the author, see Carvalho, Dicionário bibliografico militar portu-gues I, 156. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 25. NUC: DLC, CU. OCLC: 57327538 (only xiii, 104 pp.: Bibliothèque nationale de France); 249688051 (only “100 S”: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz); 493375425 (Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire-Strasbourg); 17910573 (online version: 11 locations given); 214980566 (only xiii, 99, 104 pp.: National Library of Australia); 561504794 (British Library). Por-base locates two copies: one in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, the other in the Instituto de Investigação Científica e Tropical. Copac repeats british Library only.

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☛ Nova Goa, 1853Rare With the Original Printed Wrappers

6. XAVIER, Felippe Nery. Collecção dos fac-similes das assignaturas, e rubricas dos Arcebispos Primazes do Oriente e dos Vigarios Capitulares do Arcebispado, coordenada por detfrmininação [sic] do Illm.º e Exm.º S.r Visconde d’Ourem, Governador Geral do mesmo estado …. Nova Goa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1853. 4°, original light blue printed wrappers. Numerous wood engravings of signatures. Title page within a typographical bor-der. The front wrapper has a shorter title and a different border. Small, minor stains at fore-edge. In very good to fine condition. (5 ll.) 37 pp. (1 l.). Most leaves printed on recto only. $600.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Catalogue of facsimiles of signatures of the Arch-bishop Primates of the Portuguese Estado da Índia, and their Vicars, along with short biographical notes.


j Innocêncio IX, 231: “… muito raras na India, e ainda mais em Lisboa.” Costa, Dicionário da literatura goesa, III, 348-56. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India KA65. Not in Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa. See Pope, India in Portuguese Literature, pp. 209-10 (does not mention the present work). Not in Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907).

☛ Nova Goa, 1854Sheds Light on Colonial Administration in Mozambique

7. MACHADO, João de Sousa. Correspondencia official do Tenente Coronel d’Infanteria de Moçambique João de Sousa Machado, dirigida ao Exmº Sr. Visconde de Sá da Bandeira, presidente do Conselho Ultramarino no anno de 1852, 1853, 1854 dada á luz pelo seu author anno de 1854. Nova Goa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1854. 4°, disbound. Typographical ornament on title page. Light browning. Title page larger than rest of text, folded in at upper and fore-edge to preserve the inscription. Author’s signed presentation inscription to Celestino Feliciano de Meneses. 31 pp. $600.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Collection of letters and documents attacking Joaquim Pinto de Magalhães’s poor adminstration of his office, while shedding much light on colonial administration in Moçambique. The author, who was an infantry lieutenant colonel stationed in Moçambique and later Governor, laments the confused state of affairs in that african colony.

j Fonseca, Aditamentos, pp. 205-6. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 131. Not in Gonçalves, Síntese


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bibliográfica de Goa. Not in Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India. not located in NUC. Not located in OCLC. Porbase locates a single copy, in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Copac. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copy cited by porbase.

☛ Nova Goa, 1856Prolific Portuguese Scholar Travels from Lisbon to Goa

8. RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha. De Lisboa a Goa pelo Medi-terraneo, Egypto, e Mar-Vermelho em Septembro e Outubro de 1855. Carta circular, que a seus amigos de Eurpoa dirige Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara. Nova Goa: Imprensa Nacional, 1856. 8°, contemporary quarter black straight-grained morocco over marbled boards (wear to spine, corners, outer edge of front cover), smooth spine with gilt lettering and fillets, marbled endleaves. Photo tipped to title page, partially covering the wood-engraving of a ship. moderate browning. In good condition. Small purple stamp of “Alfredo A.N. Maldonado // Alcacer do Sal” in upper outer corner of title page. 76 pp., (1 l. errata). $800.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this account of the author’s journey from Lisbon to Goa, by way of Gibraltar, Malta (pp. 11-19), Alexandria (pp. 19-28), Cairo (pp. 28-36), Suez, Aden, and Bombay (pp. 48-75).

Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara (Arrayollos, 1809-1879) arrived in India as secretary-general in 1855, having spent fifteen years as head of the Biblioteca de Évora and established himself as a writer by frequent contributions to Panorama, edited by Alexandre Herculano. During his tenure as secretary-general, which lasted until 1872, Cunha Rivara produced important philological studies of the Concani language and published many


documents of vital importance for the history of Portuguese India. Perhaps more importantly, his research stimulated others, such as Felippe Nery Xavier.

In addition to his role as pub-lic servant, Cunha Rivara was also a founding member of the Instituto Vasco da Gama. A prolific writer of many interests, he published works on linguistics, history, and politics and was a regular contributor to Panorama, Revista Litteraria, and Boletim do Governo da India, and he was editor of the monthly Chronista de Tissuary from 1866 to 1869. He also published a catalogue of the manuscripts held in the library at Évora.

j Innocêncio II, 67. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara 20. Silveira, ed., Cunha Rivara p. 24. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 2315. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India A126. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 194. NUC: ICN, DCU-IA. OCLC:

41407877 (without mention of the errata leaf: Newberry Library, King’s College London, Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg). Porbase locates four copies: three in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, one at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Copac repeats King’s College London only.

To Dissolve or Not Dissolve the Communities of Gão-cares?

9. XAVIER, Filippe Nery. Defensa dos direitos das Gão-Carias, Gão-Cares, e dos seus previlegios, contra a proposta de sua dissolução de divisão das suas terras. Offerecida ao xmº Governo Geral do Estado da India, por …. Nova Goa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1856. 4°, twentieth-century (first half) quarter faux reptile over marbled boards (inner hinges slightly cracked, minor wear), smooth spine with gilt short-title, text block edges speckled blue. Typographical mustaches on title page. In very good condition. Author’s six-line presentation inscription to Commendador Custodio Manoel Gomes on second front free endleaf recto. xvi, 112, 104 pp. $750.00FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. According to Innocêncio, at least 17 pamphlets were pub-lished on the question of whether or not the communities of Gão-cares should be dissolved, and their property distributed. Xavier’s defense of the rights of the Gão-cares was violently opposed by Joaquim Bernadino Catão da Costa and Francisco Luis Gomes. The introduction

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to this work includes a list of public offices held by the author, along with a list of his publications. The final section, beginning with the caption title “Capa—OO—” contains documents supporting the author’s conclusions.

Filippe Nery Xavier (1804-1875), historian, arche-ologist, and exemplary public functionary thoughout his adult life, a native of Loutulim in the concelho de Salsete, was director of the Imprensa Nacional in Goa from 1851. One of Goa’s best histori-ans, he published Bosquejo histórico das comunidades das aldeias dos concelhos das Ilhas, Salcete e Bardez, 1852, and Nobiliarchia goana, 1862-63, the enormously popular Resumo histórico da maravilhosa vida, conversões e milagres de S. Fran-cisco Xavier, 1859, and many other works.

j Innocêncio II, 303; IX, 231-32. Costa, Dicionário de literatura goesa, III, 353; for biographical and bibliographical information concerning Nery Xavier, see pp. 348-56. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 2849. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India, FA31. Catalogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 235. NUC: DLC, CtY. Not located in Porbase. Copac cites British Library only (two hard copies, one digital).

Colorful Biography of the Marques de Alorna

10. XAVIER, Filippe Nery, ed. Instrucção do Exmº Vice-rei Marquez de Alorna ao seu successor o Exmº Vice-rei Marquez de Tavora. Segunda edição …. Nova Goa: Imprensa Nacional, 1856. 8°, original blue printed wrappers (minor tears, chipping). Woodcut of a church on title page. In very good condition. Front wrapper has inscription to Isidoro Emilio Baptista from the author. Old blue-bordered octagonal paper tag on front wrapper with ink manuscript “1”. Red tag in blank portion of title page: “A.G. Quinta do Salgueiral, Guimarães”. xx, 129 pp., (1 l. errata), 99, (1) pp. $625.00Second edition, a corrected and amplified version of the 1836 first edition, edited by Fred-erico Leão Cabreira and enlarged with several hundred lengthy notes. The subject of this


work, Pedro Miguel de Almeida Portugal, Marquez de Alorna (1688-1756), served as viceroy of India from 1744 to 1750. Nery Xavier provides a colorful biography of the Marques, including an account of his capture of the Rajah of Bounsuló’s stronghold at Alorna, and other victories over the Maratha. The final part includes the Marques’ first speech to the Relação do Estado, in 1744, and an explanation of the ceremonial he set for the viceroys of India. Other editions appeared in 1863 and 1903..

Filippe Nery Xavier (1804-1875), historian, archeologist, and exemplary public functionary throughout his adult life, a native of Loutulim in the concelho de Salsete, was director of the Imprensa Nacional in Goa from 1851. One of Goa’s best historians, he published Bosquejo histórico das comunidades das aldeias dos concelhos das Ilhas, Salcete e Bardez, 1852, and Nobiliarchia goana, 1862-63, the enormously popular Resumo histórico da maravilhosa vida, conversões e milagres de S. Francisco Xavier, 1859, and many other works.

j Innocêncio IX, 231 (no collation); VI, 383; XVII, 176. Costa, Dicionário de literatura goesa, III, 354; for more about the author, see pp. 348-56. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 2856. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India, CC1: does not cite the first edition. On the Marques de Alorna, see Grande enciclopédia, II, 109. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 235. NUC: DLC.

☛ Nova Goa, 1857First Published Rules of the Concani Language

11. ESTEVÃO, Thomaz [i.e., Thomas Stephans]. Grammatica da lingua Concani, composta pelo Padre Thomaz Estevão, e accrescentada por outros Padres da Companhia de Jesus. Segunda impressão, correcta e annotada: a que precede como introducção A Memoria sobre a distribuição Geographica das principaes linguas da India por Sir Erskine Perry, e o Ensaio historico da lingua concani pelo editor. Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara, ed., with notes supplied by Francisco Luís Gomes. Nova Goa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1857. 4°, contemporary black quarter morocco over marbled boards (minor wear), flat spine with gilt-lettered short title and bands. Combination of typographical and wood-engraved ornament on title page. several

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wood-engraved vignettes in text. Light browning on title page. In very good to fine condition. Purple stamp on title page of the Duke of Palmela, with ducal coronet over the monogram. ccxxxvi pp., (1 l. reprinting the licenses for the first edition), 251 pp., (1 l. errata). $1,200.00

Second edition. The first edition appeared after the author’s death as Arte da lin-gua canarim (1640). This second edition was augmented by Fr. Diogo Ribeiro and other Jesuits. It is divided into three parts. The first contains the alphabet, pronunciation guide, and orthographical details; the second covers declensions, cases, conjugations, tenses; the third outlines syntactical rules. Preceding this grammar is a 236-page sec-tion by Sir Erskine Perry, Memoria sobre a distruibuição geographica das principaes linguas da India, which first appeared in the journal of the Bombay branch of the Royal Asiatic


Society, January 1853. It includes an extensive bibliography of related linguistic works, dictionaries, and grammars.

Thomas Stephens, born c.1549 in Bushton (England) and died in 1619 in Salcete, Goa, was an English Jesuit priest and missionary in Portuguese India, writer and linguist (focusing on Marathi and Konakani). Son of a London merchant, he studied at Oxford before becoming a Roman Catholic, went to Rome where he entered the Jesuit Order in 1575, settled in Portugal for a time before leaving for India in 1579. A Jesuit teacher among the Hindus, perhaps the first Englishman to set foot in India, he was the first to publish the rules of the Concani or Canarin language.

Provenance: The extensive library of the Dukes of Palmela, formed mainly in the nineteenth century, was dispersed, for the most part, during the second quarter of the twentieth century through the 1960s. The first to hold the title was D. Pedro de Sousa Holstein (1781-1850), a Portuguese diplomat who served as prime minister at various times in the 1830s and 1840s. He wrote profusely on politics and economics. (See Grande enciclopédia XX, 123-8.)

j Innocêncio VII, 344-45; for Francisco Luís Gomes see II, 432; IX, 326-8; for Cunha Rivara see IV, 83-4; also the long article in XII, 57-68 (the present work cited on XII, 64). Backer-Sommervogel II, 468-9. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara 47. Silveira, ed., Cunha Rivara, p. 42. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 958. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India, HE63; see also KE1-10, other works by and about the author. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 75. For more on Luís Francisco Gomes, see Costa, Dicionário de literatura goesa, II, 44-55. Not located in NUC.

☛ Nova Goa, 1858History of Goa

12. KLOGUEN, Diniz L. Cottineau de. Bosquejo historico de Goa escripto em inglez … vertido em Portuguez, e accrescentado com algumas notas, e rectificações por Miguel Vicente d’Abreu. Nova Goa: Imprensa Nacional, 1858. 4°, twentieth century brown three-quarter morocco by Frederico d’Almeida over marbled boards, decorated endleaves, spine richly gilt with raised bands in six compartments (bands somewhat rubbed), gilt letter, top edges rouged. In fine condition. Internally very fine. vii, [5]-202 [i.e., 203] pp., (1 p. errata). Pp. 202-203 wrongly numbered 201-202. $900.00

First Edition in Portuguese. Originally published in Madras, 1831 under the title An Historical Sketch of Goa, the work contains a history of Goa and its religious establishments, and information on population, government, religion, language, trade and industry of Goa, Salsete, Bardez and the Novas Conquistas. The translator’s notes include a list of publications on the 1821 revolution in Goa; excerpts from Dellon on autos da fé and other Inquisition activities in Goa; a description of St. Francis Xavier’s tomb; and Francisco Pirard’s 1628 description of Pangim during its golden era, along with a description of the town in more recent times.

j Innocêncio VI, 251; XVII, 69 calling for vii, 202 pp. Costa, Dicionário de literatura goesa, I, 18-9; for more about the translator, see pp. 16-20. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa. 1382. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India, C17. Gonçalves Rodrigues, A

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tradução em Portugal 8674. Catálogo dos liv-ros opúsculos e manu-scritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 116. Palha 4148. See also Devi & Seabra, A Literatura Indo-portuguesa, pp. 80, 93, 280. NUC: DLC, NcD, MH. OCLC: 793691814 (Digi-talized by HathiTrust Digital Library from the copy at Harvard College Library); 41829637 (Syracuse University, Oliveira Lima Library-Cath-olic University of America, Newberry Library, Harvard Col-lege Library, Univer-sity of Pennsylvania, Universiteit Utrecht, British Library); (Microform copy); 958963721 (Biblio-teca de Arte Calouste Gulbenkian).

On the Much-Debated Question of Portuguese Patronage in the East

13. [RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha]. Additamento as reflexões sobre o padroado portuguez no oriente. Nova Goa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1858. 4°, contemporary plain wrappers with early reinforcement at spine. Small wood-engraving of Justice with a balance on title page. Some (mostly) minor foxing. A few small, light water stains. In good to very good condition. 83 pp. $400.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION. This title is often encountered bound with the author’s Reflexões sobre o padroado portuguez no oriente, applicadas a proclamação pastoral do Rev. Fr. Angelico, Pro-Vigario em Bombaim, aos soldados catholicos romanos da mesma presidencia; por hum portuguez, published the same year. Both works deal with Portuguese patronage in the East, a much debated question after the 1838 papal bull that suppressed the dioceses of Cochim, Meliapor, Cranganor and Malacca. Cunha Rivara was impelled to write by a pastoral address of the Vicar General of Bombay, Fr. Angelicus, who announced


in 1857 that the clergy of Goa were no longer in communion with the Church, and that any Catholic attending their ser-vices would suffer eternal dam-nation. Cunha Rivara was later appointed Comissário Regio to redefine the boundaries of Indian bishoprics belonging to the real padroado. an english translation of the Reflexões was printed in Madras, 1858, and of the aditamentos in Madras, 1859.

Cunha Rivara (1809-1879), was born in Arrayollos, where he began his studies. He contin-ued his education in Evora and Coimbra, despite interruptions due to the Civil War. He later served in the Adminstração Geral de Évora, then took a chair in Philosophy at the Lyceu de Évora. A learned scholar, he was appointed bibliothecario na bib-lioteca eborense in December of 1836. He continued serving the State, and in 1855 was appointed Secretario Geral do Governo do Estado da India, a post which he held until 1872.

In addition to his role as public servant, Cunha Rivara was also a founding member of the Instituto Vasco da Gama. A prolific writer of many interests, he published works on linguistics, history, and politics and was a regular contributor to Panorama, Revista Litteraria, Boletim do Governo da India, and he was editor of the monthly Chronista de Tissuary from 1866-1869. He also published a catalogue of the manuscripts held in the library at Évora.

j Innocêncio IV, 83-84 and XII, 57-59. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Joaquim Helio-dora da Cunha Rivara 35. Silveira, ed., Cunha Rivara, p. 39. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 2290. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India KC20. On Cunha Rivara and his influence, see Devi & Seabra, A literatura Indo-portuguesa pp. 151-3. Not in Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907). OCLC: 41407876 (Columbia University, Oliveira Lima Library-Catholic Univer-sity of America, Newberry Library, University of Michigan, British Library); 43292318 (Princeton University); 834923114 (Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire-Strasbourg); 504624835 and 809607941 (British Library, bound with Reflexões). Porbase locates five copies, all at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Copac repeats British Library. KVK (51 databases searched) cites only the copies at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and Strasbourg.

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Essay on the Konkani Language, Spoken on the Southwestern Coast of India

*14. RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha. Ensaio historico da lingua concani, por …. Nova Goa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1858. 4°, early quarter green cloth over marbled boards (some wear). minor worming in lower blank margins of first seven leaves, never affecting text, and in upper and inner blank margins of final two leaves, touching two letters of text, but without affecting legibility. In good condition. xliii, 496 pp. $400.00FIRST and ONLY EDITION of a very interesting apologia by Cunha Rivara, then secretary-general of Portuguese India. On pp. [v]-xxxv is Sir Erskine Perry’s introduction, “Memo-ria sobre a distribuição geographica das principaes linguas da India” which originally appeared in January 1853 in the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, and in his A Bird’s-Eye View of India, published in London, 1855, here translated into Portuguese for the first time by Cunha Rivara. Pages [xxxvii]-xliii contain “Observações sobre a estructura grammatical das linguas vernaculas da India, pelo Reverendo Soutor Stevenson”, which had originally appeared in the January 1849 issue of the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, also (presumably), translated into Portuguese by Cunha Rivara.

Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara (Arrayollos, 1809-1879) arrived in India as secretary-general in 1855, having spent fifteen years as head of the Biblioteca de Évora and established himself as a writer by frequent contributions to Panorama, edited by Alex-andre Herculano. During his tenure as secretary-general, which lasted until 1872, Cunha Rivara produced important philological studies of the Concani language and published

many documents of vital impor-tance for the history of Portuguese India. Perhaps more importantly, his research stimulated others such as Felippe Nery Xavier to become historiographers. Cunha Rivara was a founding member of the Instituto Vasco da Gama and a prolific author whose interests included linguistics, history, and politics, and bibliog-raphy. He contributed regularly to Panorama, Revista Litteraria, and Boletim do Governo da India. From 1866 to 1869, he was editor of the monthly Chronista de Tissuary.

j Innocêncio XII, 64. Biblio-teca Nacional de Portugal, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara 50. Silveira, ed., Cunha Rivara p. 42. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 2306. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India HE51. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 194. NUC: InU, ICN, NN.



*15. [RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha]. Reflexões sobre o padroado portuguez no oriente, applicadas a proclamação pastoral do Rev. Fr. Angelico, Pro-Vigario em Bombaim, aos soldados catholicos romanos da mesma presidencia; por hum portuguez. 2 works in 1 volume. Nova Goa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1858. 4°, early plain blue-grey wrappers

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(some tears; spine defective). Some browning; occasional light fox-ing. In very good condition. 121 pp. [final page misnumbered 221 and corrected in manuscript]. 2 works in 1 volume. $950.00

FIRST EDITIONS. Both works deal with Portuguese patronage in the East, a ques-tion much debated after the 1838 papal bull that suppressed the dioceses of Cochim, Meliapor, Cranganor and Malacca. Cunha Rivara was impelled to write by a pastoral address of the Vicar General in Bombay, Fr. Angelicus, who announced in 1857 that the Goa clergy were no longer in communion with the Church and that no Catholic could attend their services without the loss of eternal salvation. Cunha Rivara was later appointed Comissãrio Regio to redefine the boundaries of Indian bishoprics belonging to the Real padroado. an english translation of the Reflexões was printed in Madras, 1858, and of the Aditamentos in Madras, 1859.

Cunha Rivara (1809-1879) was born in Arrayollos, where he began his studies. He continued his education in Evora and Coimbra, despite interruptions due to the Civil War. He later served in the Adminstração Geral de Évora, then took a chair in Philosophy at the Lyceu de Évora. A learned scholar, he was appointed Bibliothecario na Biblioteca Eborense in December of 1836. He continued serving the State, and in 1855 was appointed Secretario Geral do Governo do Estado da India, a post which he held until 1872.


j Innocêncio IV, 83-84 and XII, 57-59. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara 45. Silveira, ed., Cunha Rivara, p. 39. Gonçalves, Síntese bibli-ográfica de Goa 2290 and 2326. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India KC23 and KC20. On Cunha Rivara and his influence, see Devi & Seabra, A literatura Indo-portuguesa pp. 151-3. Not in Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907). NUC: the Reflexões only, at DLC.

BOUND WITH: [RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha]. Additamento as reflexões sobre o padroado portuguez no oriente …. Nova Goa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1858. 4º, 83, (1) pp.

FIRST and ONLY EDITION.

j Innocêncio IV, 83-84 and XII, 57-59. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Joaquim Heliodora da Cunha Rivara 35. Silveira, ed., Cunha Rivara, p. 39. Gonçalves, Síntese bib-liográfica de Goa 2290. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India KC20. not in Catalogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907). On Cunha Rivara and his influence, see Devi & Seabra, A literatura Indo-portuguesa pp. 151-3.


☛ Nova Goa, 1858-1862Oldest Account of Life in a Brazilian City

Five Years in the Maldives Much on Goa

References to Pernambuco, Diu, Ormuz, Mozambique, Ceylon, Malaca, Sonda, Sumatra, Banda, Bali, Java, Borneo, Manila, Philippines, Japan,

Cape of Good Hope, and Comoro

16. PYRARD DE LAVAL, François. Viagem de Francisco Pyrard, de Laval, contendo a noticia de sua navegação as Indias Orientais, Ilhas de Maldiva, Maluco, e ao Brazil, e os differentes casos, que lhe aconteceram na mesma viagem nos dez annos que andou nestes paizes: (1601 a 1611) com a descripção exacta dos costumes, leis, usos, policia, e governo; do trato e commercio, que nelles ha; dos animaes, arvores, fructas, e outras singularidades, que alli se eoncontram: vertida do francez em portuguez sobre a edição de 1679, correcta, e accrescentada com algumas notas, por …. Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara, translator and editor. 2 volumes in 1. Nova Goa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1858-1862. Large 8°, contemporary green quarter straight-grained morocco over pebbled paper boards (small defect to foot of spine; head of spine slightly worn, front joint splitting from head of

spine about 2/5 of the way down; other minor bind-ing wear), smooth spine gilt divided by fillets into five compartments, gilt lettered “PYRARD” in second compartment, and “VIAGEM” in fourth, decorated endleaves. In good condition. Small, neat contemporary ink inscription in outer blank margin of volume I title page (“F. Vascos.”?). (3 ll.), 385, (3) pp., (1 l. errata); (2 ll.), 410 pp., (2 ll., 1 l. errata) . 2 volumes in 1 . $350.00

First Edition in Portuguese of the account of Francois Pyrard, a French sailor who spent a decade in South Asia between 1601-1611 after being

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shipwrecked in the Maldives, including extensive accounts of peoples, flora and fauna he encountered. He was captured by the natives and interned on the island of Male. While there, Pyrard learned the Dhivehi language and the customs of the Maldives. The region was largely unknown to Europeans previously. He was able to escape in the chaos of a Bengali raid (Chittagong) in 1607 and make his way to Portuguese Goa. He returned to France through Saint Helena and Brazil, after enduring other shipwrecks and suffering imprisonment on several occasions. The first volume focuses on the Maldives. Volume two covers Goa, Portuguese India, Ceylon, the Spice Islands, St. Helena, Azores, and Brazil, including significant sections on Bahia. According to Borba de Moraes, Pyrard’s account of his two-month stay in Bahia is the earliest that is known about life in a Bra-zilian city. The primitive “elevator” connecting the lower and higher levels of the city, whaling, contraband, the high cost of living, the opulence of the sugar mill owners, and his adventures in Bahia are described. There are also references to Pernambuco, Diu, Ormuz, Mozambique, Ceylon, Malaca, Sonda, Sumatra, Banda, Bali, Java, Borneo, Manila, Philippines, Japan, Cape of Good Hope, and Comoro.

The editor and translator, Cunha Rivara (1809-1879), was born in Arrayollos, where he began his studies. He continued his education in Évora and Coimbra, despite the fact that his matriculation was interrupted by the Civil War. He served in the Adminstração Geral de Évora, but then took a chair in Philosophy at the Lyceu de Évora. A learned scholar, he was appointed Bibliothecario na Biblioteca Eborense in December of 1836. He continued serving the State, and in 1855 was appointed Secretario geral do governo do estado da India, a post he held until 1872. In addition to his role as public servant, he was also a founding member of the Instituto Vasco da Gama. A prolific writer of many interests, he published works on linguistics, history, and politics. During the course of his career Cunha Rivara was a regular contributor to Panora, Revista Litteraria, Boletim do Governo da India, and he was editor of the monthly Chronista de Tissuary from 1866-1869. He also published a catalogue of the manuscripts held in the library at Évora.

j Borba de Moraes (1983) II, 694 (giving the date of publication as 1858 only): “This edition is sought after and quite rare.” Innocêncio XII, 66. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara 12. Silveira, ed., Cunha Rivara, p. 43. Gonçalves Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 2330. Mentioned in Cordier, Japonica 280. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India CH52. Rodrigues 2009. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 174: calling for 2 volumes, and giving the date of publication as 1858 only). Not in Kyoto, Nipponalia. OCLC: 4011481 (University of California-San Diego, Library of Congress, Emory University Library, Indiana University, Harvard College Library, Johns Hopkins University); 800757735 (Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire-Strasbourg); digitized as 894658446. Porbase locates three copies, all at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Copac.

☛ Nova Goa, 1859Tracing the Roots of Hindu Law

*17. CARVALHO, José de Vasconcellos Guedes de, later 1º Visconde and 1º Barão de Riba Tamega, translator. Leis de Manu, primeiro legislador da India. Comprehendendo o officio dos juizes; deveres da classe commerciante e servil; leis civis e criminaes; vertidas em portuguez do original francez “Les Livres Sacrés de l’Orient” de Mr. G. Pauthier …. Nova Goa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1859. 8°, original green printed wrappers (spine mostly gone)


Browning and foxing, as usual. Uncut and mostly unopened. In very good condition. vi, 108 pp. $350.00

First Edition in Portuguese of an interesting work on Hindu law, tracing it back to its mythological roots: Manu is the Hindu version of the biblical Adam. The proceeds from the work were sent to aid the victims of the 1857 yellow fever epi-demic in Lisbon. Addresses on the 16-page subscribers’ list are mostly in India.

The author received his degree from the University of Coimbra. He served as juiz da relação in Goa, later in Lisbon, and finally on was on the Supremo Tri-bunal de Justiça, as well as being a royal councilor.

j Innocêncio XIII, 235: calls for 108 pages, with a list of contributors at the end. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 516. Gonçalves Rodrigues, A tradução em Por-tugal 8906 (calling for only iv preliminary pp.). Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manu-scritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de

Nova Goa (1907), p. 135. Not in Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India. not located in NUC.

☛ Nova Goa, 1860On the Much-Debated Question of Portuguese Patronage in the East

18. [RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha]. O manifesto preventivo dos propagandistas da India contra a Concordata Apostillado, pelo auctor das Reflexões sobre o Padroado Portuguez no Oriente. Nova Goa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1860. 4°, stitched, early reinforcement with strip of blue paper (chipped) on spine. Typographical mustache on title page. Uncut. Scat-tered light foxing. In very good condition. 51, (1) pp. $300.00

FIRST and ONLY separate EDITION. Deals with the Portuguese position on the padroado and the Concordata. the work had originally appeared as an article in the Boletim do Governo do Estado da Índia, n.º 13, February 14, 1860. The present version has been revised and augmented, according to a statement on the title page verso.

Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara (Arrayollos, 1809-1879) arrived in India as secretary-general in 1855, having spent fifteen years as head of the Biblioteca de Évora and established himself as a writer by frequent contributions to Panorama, edited by Alexandre Herculano. During his tenure as secretary-general, which lasted until 1872, Cunha Rivara produced important philological studies of the Concani language and published many doc-uments of vital importance for the history of Portuguese India. Perhaps more importantly, his research stimulated others such as Felippe Nery Xavier to become historiographers.

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Cunha Rivara was a founding member of the Instituto Vasco da Gama and a prolific author whose interests included linguistics, history, and politics, and bibliography. He contributed regularly to Panorama, Revista Litteraria, and Boletim do Governo da India. From 1866 to 1869, he was editor of the monthly Chronista de Tissuary.

j Innocêncio XII, 59. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara 40. Silveira, ed., Cunha Rivara, p. 40. Gonçalves, Síntese bib-liográfica de Goa 2319. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India KA87 (calls for 81 pp. [surely a typo]). not in Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca

Nacional de Nova Goa (1907).

☛ Nova Goa, 1861On the Much-Debated Question of Portuguese Patronage in the East

19. [RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha]. Litteræ sacerdotum Goa-nae dioecesis, in Salsette insula degentium, illustrissimo Clementi Bonnand, Episcopo Drusiparensi, in responsionem ipsius episcopi litteris generalibus rescriptae. Resposta dos padres da diocese de Goa, residentes na ilha de Sal-sette, á carta circular do illustrissimo Clemente Bonnand, Bispo de Drusipare. Nova Goa: Imprensa Nacional, 1861. 4°, original printed front wrapper (chipped, spotted, lacking rear wrapper). Single pinpoint wormhole touching 1-2 letters on most pages, some other minor marginal worming; slightly dog-eared and browned. Mostly unopened. In good condition. 83, (1) pp. Latin and Portuguese text on facing pages. $400.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this salvo in the extended pamphlet war concerning Portuguese patronage in the East. In the bull Multa praeclare (1838), Pope Gregory XVI


suppressed the dioceses of Malacca, Meliapor, Cochim and Cranganor, and revoked the Archbishop of Goa’s authority there and in other dioceses. The rejection of this bull by the Archbishop-elect of Goa and other Portuguese clergy led to a schism between them and Rome that endured for many years, and to a heated debate over the question of whether patronage was a right or a privilege.

Pages 4-17 contain a letter, dated at Bombay, 21 November 1860, from Clement Bonnand, Bishop of Drusipara and papal Visitor to the Indian Missions. After summarizing the history of the conflict, bonnand orders all within the archdiocese of Goa to submit to the authority of the Bishop of Tamassis, the Pope’s chosen representative. In their “Res-posta” (pp. 18-83), the clergy of Goa reiterate in considerable detail the various arguments

in support of their defiant position. Innocêncio notes that the “Resposta” was actually drafted by Cunha Rivara.

Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara (Arrayollos, 1809-1879) arrived in India as secretary-general in 1855, having spent fifteen years as head of the Biblioteca de Évora and established himself as a writer by frequent contributions to Panorama, edited by Alexandre Herculano. During his tenure as secretary-general, which lasted until 1872, Cunha Rivara produced important philological studies of the Concani language and published many documents of vital importance for the history of Portuguese India. Perhaps more importantly, his research stimulated others such as Felippe Nery Xavier. Cunha Rivara was a founding member of the Instituto Vasco da Gama and a prolific author whose interests included linguistics, history, and politics, and bibliography. He contributed regularly to Panorama, Revista Litteraria, and Boletim do Governo da India. From 1866 to 1869, he was editor of the monthly Chronista de Tissuary.

j Innocêncio XII, 60. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara 34. Silveira, ed., Cunha Rivara, p. 41. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 2318. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India KA86: locating a copy at CtY-D. Néves, Memórias biográficas de Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara p. 237. On Cunha Rivara and his influence, see Cunha Rivara (ed. Luís Silveira) and Devi & Seabra, A literatura Indo-portuguesa, pp. 151-3. Not in Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907). NUC: CtY-D.

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20. [RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha]. Perigos presentes da Igreja Catholica ponderados por um portuguez. [with:] Segunda Parte. 2 volumes. Nova Goa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1861. 4°, stitched; volume II rein-forced at spine with a strip of paper. typographical ornament on each title page. In very good condition. 15; 29 pp. 2 volumes. $400.00FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Another blast supporting the Portuguese position on the padroado and the Concordata.

Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara (Arrayollos, 1809-1879) arrived in India as secretary-general in 1855, having spent fifteen years as head of the Biblioteca de Évora and established himself as a writer by frequent contributions to Panorama, edited by Alexandre Herculano. During his tenure as secretary-general, which lasted until 1872, Cunha Rivara produced important philological studies of the Concani language and published many documents of vital importance for the history of Portuguese India. Perhaps more impor-tantly, his research stimulated others such as Felippe Nery Xavier to become historiog-raphers. Cunha Rivara was a founding member of the Instituto Vasco da Gama and a prolific author whose interests included linguistics, history, and politics, and bibliography. He contributed regularly to Panorama, Revista Litteraria, and Boletim do Governo da India. From 1866 to 1869, he was edi-tor of the monthly Chronista de Tissuary.

j Innocêncio XII, 60. Biblioteca Nacional de Portu-gal, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara 42. Silveira, ed., Cunha Rivara, p. 40. Gonçalves, Sín-tese bibliográfica de Goa 2324: only the second part. not in Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India. not in Catalogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907).


Uses and Customs of the Novas Conquistas

21. [XAVIER, Filippe Nery]. Codigo dos usos e costumes dos habitantes das Novas-Conquistas, em portuguez e maratha, acompanhado dos respec-tivos indices. Segunda edição, correcta, e accrescentada, com uma collecção de providencias relativas aos gentios das Velhas-Conquistas. 2 works bound together, as issued. Nova Goa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1861. Large 8°, contemporary quarter crimson straight-grained morocco over marbled boards (some wear to corners, small scrapes to leather side of rear cover), smooth spine gilt (slightly rubbed at head and foot), green endleaves. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. In very good condition. (1 l.), 74 pp., 1 l. errata; main text (pp. [1]-74) in two columns, Portuguese and marathi. 2 works bound together, as issued. $350.00

Second Edition. Prepared by Nery Xavier, and dated 4-10-1853. At the end of the text, on p. 58, before the índice alfabetico, on the Marathi side is stated “Traducção fiel. O Lingua do Estado, Suriagy Anadá Rau.”

The Novas Conquistas were seven administrative districts or concelhos of mainland Goa (Pernem, Bicholim, Satari, Ponda [or Antruz], Sanguem, Quepem and Canacona) that were added to Goa in the eighteenth century, a comparatively later date than the three concelhos that make up the Velhas Conquistas.

One of two works bound together, both by Xavier: Additamento, 1861; Codigo, 1861.Filippe Nery Xavier (1804-1875), historian, archeologist, and exemplary public

functionary throughout his adult life, a native of Loutulim in the concelho de Salsete, was director of the Imprensa Nacional in Goa from 1851. One of Goa’s best historians, he published Bosquejo histórico das comunidades das aldeias dos concelhos das Ilhas, Salcete e Bardez, 1852, and Nobiliarchia goana, 1862-63, the enormously popular Resumo histórico da maravil-hosa vida, conversões e milagres de S. Francisco Xavier, 1859, and many other works.

j Innocêncio IX, 231. Costa, Dicionário de literatura goesa, III, 353; for biographical and bibliographical information concerning Nery Xavier, see pp. 348-56. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 2844. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India GD45. Not in Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907).

BOUND WITH: XAVIER, Filippe Nery. Additamento ao Codigo dos usos e costumes dos habitantes das novas conquistas, contendo as providencias sobre a successão, herança, e partilhas dos gentios das velhas-conquistas, ilhas, Salcete, e Bar-dez. Nova Goa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1861. Large 8°, 96 pp. Very good condition.

FIRST and ONLY EDITION.

j Innocêncio IX, 231. Costa, Dicionário de literatura goesa, III, 353. Gonçalves, Sín-tese bibliográfica de Goa 2844. Catalogo dos Livros, Opusculos e Manuscriptos pertencentes a Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 235. Not in Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India.

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☛ Nova Goa, 1862Reaction in Portuguese India to the Liberal Revolution in Portugal

*22. ABREU, Miguel Vicente de. Relação das alterações politicas de Goa desde 16 de setembro de 1821 até 18 de outubro de 1822, ordenada por …. nova Goa: Imprensa Nacional, 1862. Large 8° in gatherings of 4 (25.8 x 17.8 cm.), twentieth-century (ca. 1975) green quarter sheep over buckram, top edges tinted green, other edges uncut, original green printed front wrapper bound in (some browning; inner and outer edges reinforced). Occasional foxing. In good to very good condition. (3 ll.), 248 pp. $600.00FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this detailed work describing the events of 1821-1822, including the reception in Portuguese India of the August 1820 revolution in Porto, the institution of representative government in Portugal, and the new Constitution; many notes and documents pertaining to the events are reprinted. The introduction is by Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara.

The author was employed by the Secretaria do Governo Geral de India Portugueza. A native of Goa (Divaz, 1827-Nova Goa, 1884), he worked as editor for the Imprensa nacional of Portuguese India from 1859 to 1864 was a cavaleiro da Ordem de Christo as well as that of Vila Viçosa, and was a corre-sponding member of the real academia das Ciências de Lisboa, the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisbon, and the Bombay branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. He belonged to the historiographical school of his contemporary, Cunha Rivara, and like Cunha Rivara, authored a great many books and articles.

j Innocêncio XVII, 69 (without mention of the preliminary leaves); for more on the author see pp. 68-70; also VI, 251. Costa, Dicionário de literatura goesa, I, 17; for more about the author, see pp. 16-20. Gon-çalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 78. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India CD3: citing copies in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and the Sociedade de Geografia, Lisbon. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 8. NUC: CtY, MiU.

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Concerns the 1857-1859 Insurrection in Portuguese India

23. [RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha]. Analyse do folheto intitu-lado “O Visconde de Torres-Novas e as eleições em Goa,” impresso em Lisboa no anno de 1861. Nova Goa: Imprensa Nacional, 1862. Large 8°, mid-twentieth-century stiff vellum (very slightly warped), smooth spine (sunned) with vertical title gilt, horizontal place and date gilt at foot, double bands gilt at head and foot. Faint foxing. In fine condition. 146 pp., (1 l. errata). $400.00

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of Cunha Rivara’s reply to Caetano Francisco Pereira Garcez’ pamphlet attacking the Visconde de Torres-Novas, Governor General of Portu-guese India from 1855 to 1864. The pamphlet contains information about the 1857-59 insurrection which the Visconde helped the British to suppress, along with a wealth of information on the conduct and reporting of elections in Portuguese India.

Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara (Arrayollos, 1809-1879) arrived in India as secretary-general in 1855, having spent fifteen years as head of the Biblioteca de Évora and established himself as a writer by frequent contributions to Panorama, edited by Alexandre Herculano. During his tenure as secretary-general, which lasted until 1872, Cunha Rivara produced important philological studies of the Concani language and published many documents of vital importance for the history of Portuguese India. Perhaps more importantly, his research stimulated others such as Felippe Nery Xavier to become historiographers. Cunha Rivara was a founding member of the Instituto Vasco

da Gama and a prolific author whose interests included linguistics, history, and politics, and bibliography. He con-tributed regularly to Panorama, Revista Litteraria, and Boletim do Governo da India. From 1866 to 1869, he was editor of the monthly Chronista de Tissuary.

j Innocêncio XII, 67. Silveira, ed., Cunha Rivara p. 44. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara 15. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 2292. Not in Scholberg, Bibliog-raphy of Goa and the Portuguese in India. On Cunha Rivara, see Devi & Seabra, Literatura Indo-Portuguesa, pp. 151-53. not in Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e man-uscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907). OCLC: 497327325 (Syracuse University, Yale University Library, British Library); 460107161 (Bibliothèque nationale de France); 65234756 (Universiteit Utrecht). Por-base locates two copies, both in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Copac repeats British Library only. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by porbase.


Nobility in Goa

24. XAVIER, Filippe Nery. Nobiliarchia Goana ou catalogo das pessoas que depois da Restauração de Portugal em 1640, até ao anno de 1860 tem sido agraciados pelos soberanos, com diversos gráos do Fóro da nobreza e fidalguia. Nova Goa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1862. 4°, contemporary quarter tan sheep over marbled boards (some wear), smooth spine (defective at head and foot) with gilt lettered author, short title, year and gilt bands. Wood-engraved arms of Portugal on title page. Scattered light browning. In good condition. yellow-and-black armorial bookplate on pastedown of Ruy Dique Travassos Valdez, designed by Antonio Lima and dated 1930. xxi, 233 pp. Divisional title page for “Parte II” on p. [175]. $900.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Innocencio describes this as “Trabalho noticioso e para muitos casos de maior utilitade.”


Provenance: Ruy Dique Travassos Valdez (Lisboa, 1892-Cascais, 1973), was a distin-guished Portuguese physician, publicist, and genealogist. Paternal grandson of the 1.º Barão and 1.º Conde do Bonfim, he was also a cousin on his father’s side of the 1.º Barão de Lodelo. While serving as a physician with the Portuguese expeditionary forces in France during the First World War he was decorated with two medals. In addition to other books and articles, he wrote in collaboration with Domingos Araujo Affonso, Livro de oiro da nobreza, 3 volumes, Braga, 1932-1934, reprinted in 1988. See Grande Enciclopédia, XXXII, 679-70. For the bookplate, see Avelar Duarte, Ex-libris portugueses heraldicos 1223.

j Innocêncio, IX, 230. Costa, Dicionário de literatura goesa, III, 354; see pp. 348-56 for more about the author. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 2858. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India D138: calls for xxii, 233 pp. Not in Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907).

☛ Nova Goa, 1863On the Forests of Portuguese India

*25. XAVIER, Felipe Nery, Christovão Sebastião Xavier, and Antonio Lopes Mendes. Apontamentos dos trabalhos da Commisão das Mattas do Estado da India. Nova Goa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1863. 4°, disbound (title page almost detached and frayed at inner margin). Wood-engraved Portuguese royal arms on title page. In good condition. Occasional num-bers, some in pencil, others in ink, in upper outer corners of rectos of a

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few leaves. (1 l.), vi pp., (1 l.), pp. 7-23 [i.e., 24; p. 24 wrongly numbered 23], (1 l.), 20 pp., (1 l.), 66 pp. $500.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The Introducção (pp. i-vi) is signed by Nery Xavier. The “Secção Official” occupies (1 l.), 7-23 pp. The “Secção Scientifica” occupies (1 l.), 20 pp. The “Secção Descriptiva das Escurcões” occupies (1 l.), 66 pp., and includes a summary of the minutes of the Commissão for March through May 1863, with “Os levantamen-tos e inquietações practicadas pelos antepassados de Dipú a que nos referimos são os seguintes” on pp. 65-66, listing events from 1746 to 1845.

Filippe Nery Xavier (1804-1875), historian, archeologist, and exemplary public func-tionary thoughout his adult life, a native of Loutulim in the concelho de Salsete, was director of the Imprensa Nacional in Goa from 1851. One of Goa’s best historians, he published Bosquejo histórico das comunidades das aldeias dos concelhos das Ilhas, Salcete e Bardez, 1852, and Nobiliarchia goana, 1862-63, the enormously popular Resumo histórico da maravilhosa vida, conversões e milagres de S. Francisco Xavier, 1859, and many other works.

j Innocêncio IX, 230 (calling this a large 8º of 20 pp.); on Felipe Nery Xavier, see II, 302-3, 475; IX, 229-32; XVIII, 263; and Aditamentos, p. 131. Costa, Dicionário de literatura goesa, III, 354 (giving collation of 86 pp.). Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 2841 (calling for only 20 pp.), and referring to Innocêncio. For Antonio Lopes Mendes, see Innocêncio VIII, 226; XX, 373-5. Not in Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India. not in Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907). Not located in OCLC. Porbase locates two copies, both in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (calling for 112 pp. in two separate records; in one of the records noting that “pag. var.”, which we think indicates that the various sections should add up to 112 pp.; by this standard, our copy has a total of 124 pp.). Not located in Copac. Not located in KVK (44 databases searched). Not located in Hollis or Orbis.

☛ Margão, 1864History of Portugal by a Native of Nova Goa

*26. GONÇALVES, Luiz Manuel Julio Frederico. Ensaio historico de Portugal. Apontamentos chronologicos, historicos e genealogicos dos reinados dos soberanos de Portugal, colligidos de diversos auctores, coordenados em tabellas com notas illustratrativas, e duas palavras sobre a historia antiga de Portugal, e sobre a sua grandeza e decadencia. Margão: Na Typographia do Ultramar, 1864. Large 8°, original pink printed wrappers (foxed; spine gone, corners frayed). Woodcut architectural border and Portuguese royal arms in front wrapper. Woodcut vignette of angel with harp on title page. Light foxing throughout. Uncut and partially unopened. In very good condition. Engraved bookplate of Victor d’Avila Perez. (2 ll.), 98 pp., (1 blank l.), 16 folding leaves with charts numbered I through XXXI. $500.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION of what appears to be the author’s first book. The title as given on the title page, above, differs from that on the front wrapper: Ensaio historico

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de Portugal. Apontamentos chronologicos da historia portuguez, antiga e moderna colligidos, coordenados e illustrados para uso das escolas.

The author, a native of Nova Goa (1846-1896), began to practice law at age 20. He was also active in municipal government of Portuguese India, and in education there, holding various administrative posts, as well as teaching philosophy, history and political economy at the Liceu de Nova Goa. From 1888 he was director of the Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa.

Provenance: The library of Victor M. d’Avila Perez was one of the dozen or so most important ever sold at auction in Portugal. The catalogue, compiled by Arnaldo Henriques de Oliveira, consisted of six volumes, the first beginning on 30 October 1939, while the sixth began on 29 April 1940. There were a total of 8962 lots, including many sixteenth and seventeenth century rarities.

j Innocêncio, XVI, 44. Costa, Dicionário de literatura goesa II, 105-8. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 97. Avila Perez 3345 (presumably the present copy, although the title page is transcribed incor-rectly, and the collation is stated as 98 pp. only). Not in Gonçalves Síntese bibliográfica de Goa. Not in Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India. see Grande enciclo-pédia XII, 560. OCLC: 4658839 (University of New Mexico, University of California-San Diego); 765757177 (internet resource). Porbase locates four copies: three in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and one in the Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Copac adds University of Liverpool. KVK (44 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by porbase.


☛ Nova Goa, 1865Inscriptions from Diu

27. RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha. Inscripções de Dio trasladadas das proprias em janeiro de 1859. Nova Goa: Imprensa Nacional, 1865. 4°, green quarter sheep over marbled boards (some wear to corners, head of spine), flat spine with gilt lettering and fillets, original blue printed wrappers bound in (some light foxing, very small hole on front wrap-per). In very good condition. Engraved armorial bookplate with blue ink, dated 1970, signed by Miguel Antonio as artist and Paes Ferreira as engraver, of D. Miguel António do Carmo de Noronha de Paiva Couceiro, 4.º Conde de Paraty. 60 pp., (1 l. errata). $600.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author, a scholar and antiquarian, here publishes a collection of inscriptions from Diu, in Portuguese Goa. There are indexes by date, site, and proper names.

Cunha Rivara (1809-1879), was born in Arrayollos, where he began his studies. He continued his education in Évora and Coimbra, despite interruptions due to the Civil War. He later served in the Adminstração Geral de Évora, then took a chair in Philosophy at the Lyceu de Évora. A learned scholar, he was appointed Bibliothecario na Biblioteca Eborense in December of 1836. He continued serving the State, and in 1855 was appointed Secretario Geral do Governo do Estado da India, a post which he held until 1872.


j Innocêncio XII, 67; on Cunha Rivara, see also IV, 83-84 and XII, 57-68. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Joaquim Heliodora da Cunha Rivara 32. Silveira, ed., Cunha Rivara, p. 44: giving the title as Inscrições de Diu trasladadas das próprias em Janeiro de 1858 [sic]. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India BB8 (without mention of the errata leaf). Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 194. Not in Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa. On the author see also Pope, India in Portuguese Literature, pp. 202-3, et passim. For the bookplate, see Avelar Duarte, Ex-libris portugueses heráldicos 1144. OCLC: 27194858 (Indiana University, University of Notre Dame, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Universiteit Utrecht, British Library); 459003254 (Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire-Strasbourg, Bibliothèque nationale de France); also digital copies. Porbase locates two copies at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, without the errata leaf. Copac locates a copy at British Library.

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☛ Nova Goa, 1867Collection of Legal Opinions from Portuguese India

28. MOURA, Thomas Nunes da Serra e. Collecção de pareceres do Procurador da Coroa e Fazenda junto da Relação de Goa …. 1.ª [and 2.ª] Parte. 2 volumes in 1. Nova Goa: Imprensa Nacional, 1867. Large 8°, contemporary navy quarter straight-grained morocco over marbled boards (worn), smooth spine with short author and title gilt, gilt ornaments and bands (worn at head, 5-cm. defect at foot, front hinge weak), decorated endleaves. Small woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title pages. Some browning in first and final quires. In good condition. viii pp., (1 l.), 340, X pp., (1 l. errata); (2 ll.), 203, (1), xi pp., (1 p. errata). 2 volumes in 1. $350.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION.The author (1824-1917), a Coimbra University law graduate, eventually became

president of the Supremo Tribunal de Justiça (1909-1910), after having held administra-tive and judicial posts in Portuguese India.

j Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 1807. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India, GB32. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 148. Not in Innocêncio. OCLC: 563162798 (Syracuse Uni-versity, British Library); 800427027 (Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire-Strasbourg); 494139859 (Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire-Strasbourg). Porbase locates a single copy, in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Copac repeats British Library only. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies at Strasbourg and Lisbon.

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☛ Nova Goa, 1868Portuguese-Konkani Dictionary

29. [SANTA ANNA, Francisco Xavier de]. Diccionario portuguez-concani, composto por um missionario italiano. Edited, with a preface by Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara. Nova Goa: Imprensa Nacional, 1868. Large 8°, late nineteenth-century or early twentieth-century sheep with elaborate, wide blind-tooled borders, spine with raised bands in six compartments, crimson morocco lettering piece with title lettered in gilt in second compartment from head, blind-tooled ornaments in oth-ers; original pink printed wrappers bound in (both with tissue repairs, not affecting text); marbled endleaves, text-block edges sprinkled red. typographical ornament on title page and front wrapper. elaborate wood-engraved initial on p. 3. Most of text in two columns. Light foxing on title page. Scattered light browning in text. In good to very good condition. Small round printed paper tag (cream letters on brown) tipped on to upper outer corner of front pastedown: “Paulino—82 R.N. da Trindade, Lisboa.” 280 pp., (1 l.). $900.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION.On the important Lisbon binder Paulino Ferreira (b. 1861), see Matias Lima, Encad-

ernadores portugueses, pp. 104-5.

j Innocêncio XII, 64-66. Silveira, ed., Cunha Rivara, p. 42. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográ-fica de Goa 2472. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India, HE15. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 66. Not in Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara.

☛ Nova Goa, 1870Defending Goa’s Collective Land Ownership

30. [RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha]. Brados a favor das com-munidades das aldeas do Estado da India. Nova Goa: Imprensa Nacional, 1870. Large 8°, original front beige printed wrapper (detached; stitching gone). First three leaves missing, half of final leaf missing with loss of approximately 20 lines. All edges chipping, marginal small worm trail and light mold stain not affecting text. A reading copy. 102 pp., LACK-ING first 3 leaves and half of last leaf. $50.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this rare pamphlet. Cunha Rivara defends the com-munidades das aldeas, an ancient form of collective land ownership that was prevalent in the state of Goa. He gives extensive excerpts (in Portuguese translation) of writers who dealt with similar situations in British India and cites Portuguese laws as early as 1526.

Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara (Arrayollos, 1809-1879) arrived in India as secretary-general in 1855, having spent fifteen years as head of the Biblioteca de Évora and established himself as a writer by frequent contributions to Panorama, edited by

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Alexandre Herculano. During his tenure as secretary-general, which lasted until 1872, Cunha Rivara produced important philological studies of the Concani language and published many documents of vital importance for the history of Portuguese India. Perhaps more importantly, his research stimulated others such as Felippe Nery Xavier to become historiographers. Cunha Rivara was a founding member of the Instituto Vasco da Gama and a prolific author whose interests included linguistics, history, and politics, and bibliography. He contributed regularly to Panorama, Revista Litteraria, and Boletim do Governo da India. From 1866 to 1869, he was editor of the monthly Chronista de Tissuary.

j Innocêncio XII, 26; on the author, see also IV, 83, 442; IX, 69; especially XII, 57-68; and XVIII, 140, 142-3. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara 28, with full-page illustration of front wrapper on p. [50]. Silveira, ed., Cunha Rivara, p. 44 cross-references to p. 24, but the work is not mentioned there. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 2097. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 194. Not in Biblioteca Boxeriana (but a handwritten note exists in Boxer’s personal annotated copy of the Biblioteca Boxeriana in the Lilly Library, on p. 23, adding this work as item 191b). Not in Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India. On Cunha Rivara and his influence, see Cunha Rivara (ed. Luís Silveira) and Devi & Seabra, A literatura Indo-portuguesa pp. 151-3. See also Álvaro Neves, Memórias biográficas de Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara. OCLC: 41283175 (British Library, Uni-versity of Aberdeen, and the C.R. Boxer copy at the Lilly Library of Indiana University); 494340501 (Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire-Strasbourg); 460397664 (Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire Strasbourg). Not located in Porbase. Copac repeats the copies at British Library and University of Aberdeen. KVK repeats Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire-Strasbourg via Sudoc (51 databases searched).

☛ Nova Goa, 1871Visit of the Visconde de São Januario to Portuguese India

31. RIBEIRO [Ferreira], Thomaz [António]. Entre palmeiras. De Pangim a Salcete e Pondá: visita do Exm.º Governador Geral do Estado da India Vis-conde de Sam Januario por Thomaz Ribeiro. Nova Goa: Imprensa Nacional, 1871. Large 8°, contemporary crimson quarter sheep over marbled boards (minor wear), smooth spine with gilt bands, author, and short title (rubbed), decorated endleaves, text-block edges sprinkled red. Minor foxing throughout, some pencil lines in margins, short (2-cm.) tear in upper margin of final 2 leaves. In good to very good condition. (3 ll.), 97, (1) pp. $400.00

This constitutes the FIRST EDITION of what was to become the second of three parts of a work titled Jornadas, published in 1874 at Coimbra. The printed dedication is to José Agostinho de Figueiredo Pacheco Telles.

Thomás António Ribeiro Ferreira (Aldêa de Parada de Gonta, Conselho de Tondella, Districto de Viseu, 1831-Lisbon, 1901), better known as Thomaz Ribeiro, Portuguese politician, journalist, poet and Ultra-Romantic writer, concluded his studies of law at Coimbra in 1855, and became a member of the Academia Real das Sciencias in December 1862. The previous year he was elected as a deputy to the Côrtes, and served in many subsequent legislatures. In 1881 he became a peer or the realm, thus entering the upper house in 1882. He was Ministro do Estado dos Negócios da Marinha e Ultramar in 1878-


1879, dos Negócios Ecclesiasticos e de Justiça in 1878, Ministro dos Negócios do reino from 1881-1883, Ministro dos Negócios das Obras Públicas, Commercio e Indústria, 1885-1886 and 1890-1891. Among other posts, he was mayor of Tondella, where he practiced law, Administrator of the Concelho do Sabugal, Secretário Geral do Governo da Índia, Governador Civil do Distrito de Bragança, and later Porto, and Portuguese ambassador to Brazil. As can be seen from the various entries in Innocêncio and the Aditamentos by Martinho da Fonseca, Tomás Ribeiro was a versatile writer and journalist, leaving a vast body of work. He was the father of the poet Branca de Gonta Colaço and grandfather of the writer Tomás Ribeiro Colaço..

j Innocêncio, XIX, 268; for the author, see also VII, 325 and 463; XVIII, 20, 91-2 and XIX, 261-9. Fonseca, Aditamentos p. 340. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Por-tuguese in India CD37. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 192. Not in Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa. OCLC: 952019396 (digitized from the University of California-Los Angeles copy); 13277469 (University of California-Los Angeles [held at Southern Regional Library Facility], Uni-versity Library Johann Christian Senckenberg-Frankfurt); 503863593 (British Library); 800713619 (Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire-Strasbourg). Porbase locates four copies, all in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Copac repeats British Library only. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by Porbase, and those at University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg-Frankfurt and Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire-Strasbourg.

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☛ Bombay, 1872Governor Justifies His Actions During the Army’s Revolt in 1870-1871

32. SÃO JANUARIO, Januario Correia de Almeida, 1º Visconde and Barão de, later 1º Conde de. Duas palavras acerca da ultima revolta do exercito do Estado da India. Pelo ex-governador geral Visconde de S. Januario. Bombay: Impresso na Typographia de “Economist Steam Press”, 1872. 4°, contemporary dark blue quarter sheep over marbled boards (worn at head and foot of spine; corners; other binding wear, but still sound), smooth spine with short title gilt lettered and gilt fillets, blue endleaves. title page with some browning. occasional light spotting. In good to very good condition. Faint stamp above title. Five line penciled note at foot of p. 62, dated 14–v–1930. (2 ll.), 62 pp., (1 blank l.). $600.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION of the former Governor of Portuguese India’s justifica-tion of his actions during the revolt of the army in 1870-1871. The supporting documents begin on p. 20.

Januário Correia de Almeida (1827-1901), Visconde, Barão and later Conde de São Januário, was governor of India from 1870-1871; he also served as governor of Cabo


Verde and of Macau and Timor, as minister plenipotentiary in China, Japan and Siam, and later to the republics of South America. He was a deputy to various sessions of the Cortes, serving as Minister of War in the government of José Luciano de Castro in 1886. In 1887 he was elevated to Conselheiro de Estado. A corresponding member of the Aca-demia Real de Ciências, he was also a founding member of the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, and its first president.

j Innocêncio X, 119. Fonseca, Aditamentos p. 189. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 2458. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India GA31. On the author, see Grande enciclopédia, XXVII, 471-2. Not in Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907). Not located in NUC.

☛ Nova Goa, 1872Collection of Documents Relating to Goa in 1601-1640

33. GARCIA, José Ignacio de Abranches. Archivo da Relação de Goa, contendo varios documentos dos seculos XVII, XVIII e XIX, até a organ-isação da nova Relação pelo decreto de 7 de dezembro de 1836. Seculo XVII, 1601-1640. Part 1 only (lacking Part 2, 1874). Nova Goa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1872. 4°, contemporary tree calf (minor wear), flat spine with black-painted label, gilt-lettered, gilt ornaments and bands. Small wood-engraved arms of Portugal on title page. Wood-engraved initial on next leaf. Some short tears, without loss. Some light browning. In good to very good condition. Old ink signature in lower margin of title page: “L. A. [?] de M. Ferrar”. v, 481 pp., (2 ll. errata, 1 blank l.). Part 1 only (lacking Part 2, 1874). $200.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The first part is subtitled 1601-1640; the second part, not present here, is subtitled 1641-1700.

José Ignacio de Abranches Garcia, a native of Oliveira do Hospital, received a law degree from Coimbra University in 1850. He served 14 years as a magistrate overseas, returning to serve in Lisbon in 1876, and in 1887 was named president of the Relação de Lisboa. In addition to the present work, he wrote Estatistica, do movimento dos processos da Relação de Nova Goa, 1875.

j Innocêncio XIII, 10 (giving an incomplete collation for part 1, and mistakenly calling for 707 pp. in part 2, when the pagination is actually continuous for the 2 parts). Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 1148 (repeating the mistake of Innocêncio regarding pagination). Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India BA17. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 91. see also Grande enciclopédia, I, 102.

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☛ Bombay, 1873Economic Study Published in Translation in Bombay

*34. FREITAS JUNIOR, J. J. Rodrigues de. Noticia ácerca de Portugal …. Tradusida em portuguez por J.F. de Gouveya. Bombay: Na Typog. E. & G. “Job Printing” Press, 1873. 8°, original pink printed wrappers (light, minor soiling; spine nicked at head, defective at foot). Small wood-engraved vignette a flower basket on front wrapper and title page. Numerous tables in text. In very good condition. 148 pp., 2 folding charts. $200.00

First and Only Edition in Portuguese, translated from the French of the 1867 Paris edition, of this study on the administration, trade and commerce of Portugal.

José Joaquim de Freitas Júnior (1840-1896), Portuguese teacher and politician, was a native of Porto. One of the leading organizers of the Republican Party in Portugal, he held democratic socialist views, and was a freemason. He wrote several other books.

The translator appears to have been João Filippe de Gouveia, an army officer serving in India. He also wrote and translated other works.

j This edition not in Innocêncio; for the French edition, see XIII, 40; for more on the author, see IV, 394; XIII, 39-40, and Fonseca, Aditamentos, p. 241; for the translator, see X, 257. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 89. Not located in NUC. OCLC: 752691753 (British Library); 959072050 (Biblioteca de Arte Calouste Gulbenkian); 504452091 (British Library). Porbase locates four copies, all in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Copac locates copies at British Library and London School of Economics. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by porbase.

☛ Nova Goa, 1874Natives of Portuguese India Who Made a Name for Themselves Abroad

*35. ABREU, Miguel Vicente de. Noção de alguns filhos distinctos da India portugueza que se illustraram fora da Patria. Nova Goa: Imprensa Nacional, 1874. 8°, contemporary plain wrappers (spine somewhat defective at head and foot). Uncut. Some light to moderate browning. In good condition. (1 l.), iv, 173, (1), iii pp. $400.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this valuable source of biographical information. It also includes bibliographical references and an index of names.

The author was employed by the Secretaria do Governo Geral de India Portugueza. A native of Goa (Divaz, 1827-Nova Goa, 1884), he worked as editor for the Imprensa Nacional of Portuguese India from 1859 to 1864 was a cavaleiro da Ordem de Christo as well as that of Vila Viçosa, and was a corresponding member of the Real Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisbon, and the Bombay branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. He belonged to the historiographical school of his contemporary, Cunha Rivara, and like Cunha Rivara, authored a great many books and articles.

j Innocêncio XVII, 70 (giving an incomplete collation); for more on the author see pp. 68-70; also VI, 251. Costa, Dicionário de literatura goesa, I, 18; for more about the author, see


pp. 16-20. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 69 (no collation). Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India, D8. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 8 (giving a short title). OCLC: 551648033 (digi-tized from the University of Michigan copy); 7430923 (Oliveira Lima Library-Catholic University of America, University of Chicago, Indiana University, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, National Library of Australia, British Library).

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☛ Nova Goa, 1875Study of the Sublevação dos Pintos in India

*36. RIVARA, J.[oaquim] H.[eliodoro] da Cunha. A Conjuração de 1787 em Goa, e varias cousas desse tempo. Memória historica. Nova Goa: Imprensa Nacional, 1875. 8°, late twentieth-century three quarter tan sheep over marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands in six compartments, crimson leather lettering pieces in second and fourth compartments from head, marbled endleaves, top edges rouged, other edges uncut, original dark blue printed wrappers bound in. Final leaf repaired in blank margins, not affecting text. Browning, mostly light. About two dozen leaves at beginning and end with dampstains in margins. In good condition. 120, 162 pp., (1 l.). $200.00

FIRST EDITION. This work was published again in Nova Goa, 1912, and New Delhi, 1990. There is also an English translation, New Delhi, 1996. It consists of a treatise examining accusations of conspiracy against the government of Portuguese India in the year 1787, an uprising sometimes called the “Sublevação dos Pintos”. The government claimed that the conspirators were aiming to form an independent government. one of the persons named in this conspiracy was the Abbé Faria, immortalized by Dumas in the Conte de Monte Christo as an Italian prisoner of the Château d’If who instructs the hero Edmond Dantès, a fellow prisoner, in a number of fields including mathematics, the sciences, and foreign languages, and eventually helps him to escape from the island prison, also disclosing to Dantès the whereabouts of a hoard of jewels at Monte Cristo, a small island near the Italian coast, before dying from a cataleptic seizure.

Pages [141]-162 deal with the genealogy of the Pinto family of Candolim.Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara (Arrayollos, 1809-1879) arrived in India as

secretary-general in 1855, having spent fifteen years as head of the Biblioteca de Évora and established himself as a writer by frequent contributions to Panorama, edited by Alexandre Herculano. During his tenure as secretary-general, which lasted until 1872, Cunha Rivara produced important philological studies of the Concani language and published many documents of vital importance for the history of Portuguese India. Perhaps more importantly, his research stimulated others such as Felippe Nery Xavier to become historiographers. Cunha Rivara was a founding member of the Instituto Vasco da Gama and a prolific author whose interests included linguistics, history, and politics, and bibliography. He contributed regularly to Panorama, Revista Litteraria, and Boletim do Governo da India. From 1866 to 1869, he was editor of the monthly Chronista de Tissuary.

j For the author, see Innocêncio XII , 57-8 and IV, 183; this title not listed. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara 29. Silveira, ed., Cunha Rivara, p. 45. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 2301. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India CC89. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 194.


☛ Orlim, 1875Genealogy and Race of a Family from Portuguese India

37. LOIOLA, José Inácio de. As petas genealogico-historicas do Sr. J.B. Catão da Costa. Refutação pelo Redactor da “India Portugueza.” Orlim: Na Typ. da India Portugueza, 1875. 4°, contemporary half sheep over marbled boards (rubbed, some worming at head and foot of spine), smooth spine with gilt fillets and vertical title in manuscript. Wood-engraved initial on p. v. Some minor worming at beginning and end, affecting a few words. One quire coming loose. Still, in good condition. xii, 146, 33, (1) pp.; some leaves bound out of order. $600.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The family of Constancio Roque da Costa, which included Joaquim Bernardino Catão da Costa and his brother Bernardo Francisco da Costa, had been accused in the periodical Chronica de Goa of having mulatto blood. Joaquim, born in Goa in 1830 and the author of numerous controversial pamphlets on Portuguese India, wrote a work defending his family against that accusation. Here, in a series of articles originally meant for publication in the periodical India portuguesa, the anonymous author calls Joaquim’s defense a complete fabrication, attacking it point by point and citing documents from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.

j Costa, Dicionário de literatura goesa, II, 210. Not in Innocêncio; for a reference to a portrait of José Inácio de Loiola, see XX, 340. Not in Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa (which cites another work by the author). Not in Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India. On Joaquim Bernardino Catão da Costa, see Innocêncio IV, 70 and XII, 24. Not in Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907). OCLC: 498643783 (British Library). Porbase locates two copies, both in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Copac repeats British Library only. KVK (51 database searched) locates only the copies cited by Porbase. Not located in Hollis or Orbis.

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☛ Bastorá, 1900History of Damão, with Epigraphical Sources

38. MONIZ JUNIOR, Antonio Francisco [Aragão]. Noticias e documentos para a historia de Damão antiga provincia do Norte … Com um prologo por J.A. Ismael Gracias. Volume I only [of 4]. Bastorá: Typ. “Rangel”, 1900. Large 8°, contemporary half sheep over marbled boards (some wear), original printed wrappers bound in (front wrapper somewhat defective at outer edge). Two chromolithograph plates. Wormholes along lower joint, original front wrapper very brown. In good condition. Author’s seven-line inscription to Annibal Fernandez Thomas on half-title, dated 7 March [1]901. (11 ll.), vii, 298 pp. (1 l. errata). Volume I only [of 4]. $100.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION of the first volume of this detailed four-volume history of Damão, the final volume of which appeared in 1917. Meant to be read with Saldanha’s Resumo da Historia de Goa and Quadros’ Diu. Important epigraphical sources are included. Damão is on the west coast of India, near Diu and the Arabian Sea.

j Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India CJ3. Not in Innocêncio. Not in Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa. not in Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907).

☛ Nova Goa, 1914Play by a Nobel Laureate

*39. TAGORE, Rabindranath. Chitra. Peça em I acto. Traduzida por José F. Ferreira Martins, autor de versão em portuguez de Shakuntalá, de Kalidassa. Nova Goa: n.pr., 1914. 8°, original stiff black printed wrappers. Half title and title page printed in red, black, and blue. Uncut. In very good condition. Author’s [i.e., translator’s?] six-line presentation inscription: “Ao Excellentissimo Senhor // Ernesto de Vilhena // Junho // 1922 // Homenagem // do Autor”. Frontispiece portrait of Rabindranath Tagore, 10 pp., (1 l.), [11]-63 pp., (1 l. advt.). $120.00

First and Only Edition in Portuguese? Translation of Tagore’s play, Chitra. Tagore, winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature, stands as the most famous of modern Bengali authors.

Provenance: Commandante Ernesto Jardim de Vilhena (Ferreira do Alentejo, 4 June 1876-Lisbon, 1967) was a naval officer, politician, colonial administrador, and important collector of art and books. In 1917 he was Minister for Colonies and then Foreign Minister in the government of Afonso Costa, deposed by the revolutionary junta headed by Sidónio Pais. Shortly thereafter he founded the Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, the basis of his immense fortune. His huge library was sold to Jorge de Brito, then dispersed partly in an auction held in Glasshütten im Taunus, Germany by Reiss & Auvermann, April 3 & 4, 1989, partly in a series of nine sales held by Leira e Nascimento, Lisbon, from March 25, 1997 to April 15, 1998, and we speculate significant other parts were sold privately.

j Gonçalves Rodrigues, A tradução em Portugal 25586. OCLC: No edition in Portuguese located. No edition in Portuguese located in Porbase. No edition in Portuguese located in Copac. No edition in Portuguese located in KVK (51 databases searched).


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