1880, ISBN: 6764f15f725602078ec71d0eecae0a0a

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[SC: 42.79], [PU: Leipzig, Typographia Giesecke & Devrient (published Porto: Emílio Biel), 1880.], PORTUGUESE LITERATURE, CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS, CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY, PRINTING ON VELLUM, LIMITED… mais…

[SC: 42.79], [PU: Leipzig, Typographia Giesecke & Devrient (published Porto: Emílio Biel), 1880.], PORTUGUESE LITERATURE, CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS, CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY, PRINTING ON VELLUM, LIMITED EDITION, POEM, EPIC POETRY, POEMS, VERSE, GOLDEN AGE, ILLUSTRATED BOOK, BOOKS, BOOK ILLUSTRATION, ENGRAVING, PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING, EDITION, Very large 4° (42 x 31.8 x 12.3 cm.), weighing approximately 15 kilograms, half speckled sheep over marbled boards (slight wear), stamped in gilt on front cover, spine richly gilt with raised bands in six compartments, gilt letter, marbled endleaves. Printed on vellum, with engraved portraits of the dedicatee, the Emperor D. Pedro II of Brazil, and Camões, an engraved dedication statement, and fine photo engraved as well as steel-engraved and chromolithographic plates, all on thick paper. Captioned tissue guards. Text pages with triple ruled red borders. Very elaborate, fine wood engraved headpieces and initials at the beginning of each Canto, and elaborate fine wood engraved tailpieces at the end of each Canto. Fine condition. António Augusto de Carvalho Monteiro's copy. Small blue stamp of "Casa de S. Sebastião // Castelo Branco" on verso of title page. Typed letter signed by José Pires of Mundo do Livro dated June 1949 enclosed, offering the book to José Maria de Almeida Garrett of Castelo Branco. Bookplate of J.[osé] Pinto Ferreira. Small round yellow and gold binder's ticker of Jaime M. Alves, Rua da Misericordia, 114, Lisbon, in upper outer corner of front free endleaf verso. (3 ll.), lvi, 375, xxxii, xcii pp., 34 plates (the 2 engraved portraits mentioned above, 1 leaf with engraved dedication statement, 11 photographic reproductions of plates from the the Paris 1817 edition of the Morgado de Mateus, 10 steel engravings after original oil paintings, and 10 chromolithographs). *** NUMBER 6 of 12 COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM. This is a truly monumental edition. The oil paintings which served as models for the steel engravings are by Begas and Kostka, of Berlin, and Liezen-Mayer of Stuttgart. The steel engravings themselves were executed by Deininger, Goldberg, Krausse, Lindner, Martin, Nüsser, Pickel, Schultheiss, and Wagenmann. The initials, headpieces and the final vignettes by Ludwig Berger, were designed for wood engravings by Martin Laemmel and P. Grotjohann, and engraved by R. Brend'Amour, Kaeseberg and Oertel. The colors of the chromolithographs are striking.José Gomes Monteiro provides an introduction, notes, tables of variants, and a revision of the text, based on the second edition of 1572 and that of Hamburg 1834. There is also a commemorative poem on Camões and the Lusíadas, by José da Silva Mendes Leal.The 12 copies printed on vellum were for:1. D. Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil;2. D. Fernando II, King of Portugal; 3. D. Luiz I, King of Portugal;4. Fernando Pereira Palha;5. Câmara Municipal de Lisboa;6. António Augusto de Carvalho Monteiro;7. Ernesto Chardron;8. Livraria Ferin, Lisbon;9. Visconde da Silva Monteiro;10. Visconde da Ermida;11. Cámara Municipal do Porto;12. Emílio Biel.The publisher, Emílio Biel [i.e. Karl Emil Biel], was born in Armaberg, Germany, in 1838, and died at Porto, 1915. After a short stay in Lisbon, he arrived in Porto in 1860. Royal photographer to King Fernando of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, he is said to have introduced photography to Portugal. In addition to this magnificent edition of the Lusíadas, Biel also published Arte e natureza em Portugal (1902-1908), traveling extensively throughout Portugal to take the photographs for that eight volume collection. He was one of the early proponents of electric lighting, as well as the telephone, and other technological innovations in the country. Biel's interest in technological innovation manifests itself in the present volume, which employs several "cutting edge" processes, such as his own method of photographic reproduction, and the chromolithographs.Provenance: António Augusto de Carvalho Monteiro (known as "Monteiro dos Milhões"), great capitalist, bibliomaniac and collector (Rio de Janeiro, 1850-Sintra, 1920). Sold by Mundo do Livro in 1949, at the time the leading Lisbon "carriage trade" bookshop to José Maria de Almeida Garrett for the then astronomical sum of "25 contos" (PTE 25.000$00). José Pinto Ferreira, Portuguese army officer and for many years a distinguished book collector, specializing in Camões, and the Restauração. *** Pina Martins, Catálogo da exposição bibliograáfica, iconográfica e medalhística de Camões 53: "Pelo seu esplendor iconográfico, pela magnificência da veste tipográfica e até pela excelência de algumas ils., esta ed., assinala, como a do Morgado de Mateus, uma data importante na história tipo-iconográfica de Os Lusíadas." Colecção Camoneana de Jose do Canto 117. Braga, Bibliographia Camoneana, pp. 86-7. Innocêncio XIV, 179-83. Palha 1711. On Emílio Biel, see Grande enciclopédia, IV, 700. On António Augusto de Carvalho Monteiro, see Grande enciclopédia, XVII, 719-20.<

1928, ISBN: 6764f15f725602078ec71d0eecae0a0a

Leipzig, Schmidt & Günther, n.d. [1928?].. Miniature (5.7 x 4.3 x 1.4 cm.), publisher's leatherette, smooth spine with title in gilt and two gilt fillets, covers with single gilt-ruled b… mais…

Leipzig, Schmidt & Günther, n.d. [1928?].. Miniature (5.7 x 4.3 x 1.4 cm.), publisher's leatherette, smooth spine with title in gilt and two gilt fillets, covers with single gilt-ruled border, front cover with portrait of author in gilt within a gilt oval at center and title in gilt below (all gilding faded). In very good condition. Miniature bookplate of António Cupertino de Miranda. 650 pp., (1 blank l.). *** Miniature edition of Portugal's great national epic poem. An index of names occupies pp. 557-650.Provenance: António Cupertino de Miranda (Vila Nova de Famalicão, 1886-1974), teacher, journalist and banker with interests in Portugal and Brazil. In 1915 he emigrated to Brazil for political reasons. Upon his return to Portugal in 1948 he began to organize the foundation which bears his name, which was formally instituted in 1964.*** Welsh 1616., Leipzig, Schmidt & Günther, n.d. [1928?]., 0<