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SANTA TERESA, João José de (b. 1658). Istoria delle guerre del Regno del Brasilie accadute tra la corona di Portogallo, e la republica di Olanda. Rome: heirs of Corbelletti, 1698.
Text volume, small 2o (305 x 214 mm), oblong atlas plate volume (containing the removed mounted plates). 2 parts in one, separately titled and paginated, one-leaf index of the maps and plates with errata on verso at end of part II, woodcut floral and grotesque initials, head- and tail-pieces. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved portrait in each volume of Pedro II and João IV, title and portraits by Benedictus Frajat after Antonio Horatio Andreas, 22 (of 23) engraved maps and plates by Hubert Vincent and Giovanni Girolamo Frezza (one plate) after Andreas, THE ENGRAVED TITLE, PORTRAITS AND PLATES FINELY HANDCOLORED by a modern hand. The general map separately matted in fold-out linen mat, the remaining maps and plates mounted with archival tape. (Lacking the view of Loanda, most of the engravings with very minor small repairs or reinforcements at former folds, one or two with affected areas touched up in facsimile, light traces of purple ink markings to plates [4] and [18], dampstaining along old fold of plate [14], a few plates with stains from old mounting tape at outer margins, text volume with some mostly faint dampstaining to gutters, minor worming to gutter margins at end, fol. Aa4 in vol. I torn and repaired, V2 in vol. II rehinged.) Modern tan half calf gilt and linen boards, blue and green calf lettering-pieces on spines. Provenance: Bolsena, Bibliotheca S. Marie Lilii (18th-century inscription and later inkstamp on title).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of an important work on Brazil. The author, a Portugueuse Carmelite, spent most of his life in Italy. The Guerre "is one of the most sumptuous works published in the seventeenth century on a Brazilian subject. It received a five thousand cruzados subsidy from Pedros II and the most famous engravers of the period executed the engravings" (Borba de Moraes). The work was reissued in 1700 with a new title-page. Alden 698/112; Borba de Moraes, 770-771; JCB(4) 368; Sabin 76793, 55498.
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Text volume, small 2o (305 x 214 mm), oblong atlas plate volume (containing the removed mounted plates). 2 parts in one, separately titled and paginated, one-leaf index of the maps and plates with errata on verso at end of part II, woodcut floral and grotesque initials, head- and tail-pieces. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved portrait in each volume of Pedro II and João IV, title and portraits by Benedictus Frajat after Antonio Horatio Andreas, 22 (of 23) engraved maps and plates by Hubert Vincent and Giovanni Girolamo Frezza (one plate) after Andreas, THE ENGRAVED TITLE, PORTRAITS AND PLATES FINELY HANDCOLORED by a modern hand. The general map separately matted in fold-out linen mat, the remaining maps and plates mounted with archival tape. (Lacking the view of Loanda, most of the engravings with very minor small repairs or reinforcements at former folds, one or two with affected areas touched up in facsimile, light traces of purple ink markings to plates [4] and [18], dampstaining along old fold of plate [14], a few plates with stains from old mounting tape at outer margins, text volume with some mostly faint dampstaining to gutters, minor worming to gutter margins at end, fol. Aa4 in vol. I torn and repaired, V2 in vol. II rehinged.) Modern tan half calf gilt and linen boards, blue and green calf lettering-pieces on spines. Provenance: Bolsena, Bibliotheca S. Marie Lilii (18th-century inscription and later inkstamp on title).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of an important work on Brazil. The author, a Portugueuse Carmelite, spent most of his life in Italy. The Guerre "is one of the most sumptuous works published in the seventeenth century on a Brazilian subject. It received a five thousand cruzados subsidy from Pedros II and the most famous engravers of the period executed the engravings" (Borba de Moraes). The work was reissued in 1700 with a new title-page. Alden 698/112; Borba de Moraes, 770-771; JCB(4) 368; Sabin 76793, 55498.
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