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Lot 1416

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Doutrinas praticas que costuma explicar nas suas missoens [...] Mandadas traduzir por ordem do Serenissimo Senhor D. Jospeh, arcebispo, e Senhor de Braga, Primaz das Hespanhas, e impressas a expensas suas para beneficio dos seus subditos.

CALATAYUD Pedro, Antonio de

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Coimbra; Lisbon, Real Collegio das Artes da Companhia de Jesu [- Regia Officina Sylviana], 1747-1752

4 vol., 4to: Vol. I-III : [20]-447, [8]-544, [8]-474 pp. (foxing, some ff./quires browned, 2 stamps erased on titles, one stamp cut out and underlaid, marg. sl. dampstaining, tears without lack to p. 263 of vol. I and p. 9 of vol. III, sm. marg. tears to vol. III). Vol. IV: [12]-540 pp. (some sl. foxing, light marg. dampstaining, one larger in second half of the vol.).

Vol. I-III: contemp. red morocco, covers fully gilt decorated with roll-stamps, angular flower tools "à l'éventail", different central ornament on the three volumes, central coat of arms on vol. I and II, gilt orn. spines with raised bands, gilt chiselled edges (sl. rubbed, black staining on covers, one wormhole on front cover of vol. II and vol. III). Vol. IV: contemp. dark red morocco, covers finely gilt decorated with frames of fillets, tiny roll-stamps and identical floral roll-stamps, covers orn. also with small central coat of arms ruled within a frame of volutes and with flower tools in the angles, spine with raised bands fully gilt ornamented, gilt chiselled edges (sl. rubbed).

First Portuguese translation from Spanish of the theological work of the Jesuit missionary P. de Calatayud (1689-1773). The first edition was published in 2 vol. in Valencia 1737-1739. The 4th volume was published later in 1752 which probably explains why it is bound in an another binding than the first three. Nice gilt stamped bindings.
Ref. Cp. DBS II:528 (Coimbra, 1753).
Prov. José de Braganza (1703-1756), natural son of King Peter II, Archbishop of Braga (supralibros on vol. I and II). - Kingdom of Portugal (supralibros on vol. IV). - Ms. notes in Portuguese. - Ms. shelfmark on title of vol. III. - Mod. bookpl.

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Doutrinas praticas que costuma explicar nas suas missoens [...] Mandadas traduzir por ordem do Serenissimo Senhor D. Jospeh, arcebispo, e Senhor de Braga, Primaz das Hespanhas, e impressas a expensas suas para beneficio dos seus subditos.

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