RESENDE, André de. Libri quatuor de antiquitatisus Lusitaniae, Evora: Martin Burgens, 1593, 2°, FIRST EDITION, title with upper and lower woodcut borders, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut illustrations of lapidary inscriptions (scored inscription to title, small wormholes to upper margin of last 3 leaves, a few very small marginal holes caused by paper faults, occasional light spotting), 17th-century mottled calf, spine decorated in gilt (scuffed, tail of spine bumped,lower front joint split). [Brunet IV, 1246; Cicognara 4078; Palau 262168]

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RESENDE, André de. Libri quatuor de antiquitatisus Lusitaniae, Evora: Martin Burgens, 1593, 2°, FIRST EDITION, title with upper and lower woodcut borders, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut illustrations of lapidary inscriptions (scored inscription to title, small wormholes to upper margin of last 3 leaves, a few very small marginal holes caused by paper faults, occasional light spotting), 17th-century mottled calf, spine decorated in gilt (scuffed, tail of spine bumped,lower front joint split). [Brunet IV, 1246; Cicognara 4078; Palau 262168]

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The earliest study of the antiquities of Portugal by the Dominican antiquary and follower of Erasmus, posthumously edited and published by Mendes Vasconcellos. Vasconcellos also complemented Resende's appendix on the antiquities of his birthplace, Evora, with his own notes and adds it to the original four books as 'Liber Quintus'. This copy bears numerous marginal annotations in a 17th-century hand.

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