Dos Reys, Antonio & Sousa Caria, João. Imagens Conceituosas [“Esteemed Images”]

AUCTION 55 | Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Dos Reys, Antonio & Sousa Caria, João. Imagens Conceituosas [“Esteemed Images”]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Vol. I (of two). Latin and Portuguese on facing pages. Exquisite headpieces, richly historiated initials. pp. (268), 127, (1 blank). Contemporary mottled calf, spine in compartments, scuffed. 4to.

Lisbon: Officina da Musica 1731

Est: $500 - $700

This sprawling poem is a virtual encyclopedia of Portuguese poets and their literary creations. The footnotes are full of bibliographic information. In the Index of poets mentioned in the work, one notes the names of several Marrano poets: Antonio Henriques Gomes, Bernardino Ribeiro, Manuel Bocarro Frances Rosales, Manuel Tomas, Miguel de Barr[i]os, Miguel da Silveira, Violante do Ceo and Manoel de Leão. World Cat lists but a single copy, that in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library of Toronto. According to the precis in WorldCat, a second volume of this work was issued in Lisbon in 1733.