[RODRIGUES DE EVORA, André (attributed to).] Primera parte de las sentencias que hasta nuestros tiempos, para edificacion de buenos costumbres. Coimbra: Juan Alvarez, 1555. 8° (187x130mm). Title within figurative woodcut border. (Without final blank, some leaves browned, some spotting, some dampstaining.) 20th-century red morocco, the sides gilt à la fanfare and centred with the shield of Aragon, red silk doublures, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: purchased from José Porter, 1957.

[RODRIGUES DE EVORA, André (attributed to).] Primera parte de las sentencias que hasta nuestros tiempos, para edificacion de buenos costumbres. Coimbra: Juan Alvarez, 1555. 8° (187x130mm). Title within figurative woodcut border. (Without final blank, some leaves browned, some spotting, some dampstaining.) 20th-century red morocco, the sides gilt à la fanfare and centred with the shield of Aragon, red silk doublures, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: purchased from José Porter, 1957.

A collection of aphorisms from the classical authors, published in Portugal in Spanish, in a striking fanfare-style binding. This first Coimbra edition was published just four months, slightly enlarged, after the Lisbon first edition of 1554. Sometimes also attributed to André de Resende.