HISTORIAS PORTUGUESAS de Faria y Sousa - 1943

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New.

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London: W. Rogers and Abel Roper et al, 1698. First English Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in a modern quarter leather binding lettered in gilt on a maroon title-piece. New end-papers. Lacks half-title. Pp.[22],1-200, 209-572 + 20pp Index. (The work is complete despite the jump in pagination). Some browning and a little foxing but a decent copy.

Westmead, Farnborough, Hants, Eng.: Gregg Publishers, Ltd, 1971. Two volumes of three: 4.5" x 7.75", light blue hardcovers with gilt lettered spines - light wear only, gilt is bright - near fine overall; texts are fine (personal book plate inside covers). Volume I: Dedication to Catharine, Queen Dowager of England, Translator to the Reader, Preface, Contents Page, pages 1-526; Volume II: Dedication, Preface, pages 1 -448; the books were printed in Germany from the original 1695 edition (f 2lbs 4 oz)

Brussels: Francisco Foppens, 1730. Hardcover. Acceptable. . Bound in full leather with 5 raised bands on the spine, boards are bowed with moderate rubbing, loss to the corners, soiling. Pages are shaken, binding is splite. Title page in red and black, engraved frontispiece and 25 plates, some minor staining and tears, repairs.

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London: W. Rogers and Abel Roper, 1698. First English language edition. Hardcover. g+. Octavo. [24], 1-200, 209-572, [20]pp (Table of contents). Contemporary blind-stamped spotted calf neatly rebacked, with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. Monumental history of Portugal written by renown Portuguese historian and poet, Emanuel de Faria y Sousa (1590-1649) and continued by John Stevens (1662-1726), English captain, Hispanist and translator, better known for his translation of Don Quixote in 1700. This work is complete despite the jump in pagination between page 200 and page 209. Some rubbing along edges of covers. Minor and sporadic offsetting and foxing throughout. Binding in overall good, interior in good+ condition.