Raid Portugal-Brasil.

Ponta Delgada, Tip. da Empreza do Correio dos Açores, 1922.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original printed self-covers, stitched. Red cross of the Order of Christ on front cover. Place of printing and publisher in red on rear cover. Illegible postal franking in lower outer corner of front cover. In very good to fine condition. Author's signature just to the right and below the final words on recto of p. [3] which reads, in print, "Aos imortais aviadores // Gago Coutinho // e // Sacadura Cabral // D. // o autor". 14 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of these five sonnets celebrating the aerial voyage of Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral. In the spring of 1922 two of Portugal's most noted aviators, Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho, made the first flight from Europe to South America, flying from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro via the Canaries and Cabo Verde. It was the first long-distance flight in which rigorous methods of aerial navigation were used.*** Afonso 1170. Not in Innocêncio, which lists several other works by the author; see XVI, 393; XVIII, 32: and Aditamentos p. 282. Not located in Porbase. Not located in Jisc.