Recent Acquisitions - Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books

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King Philip to attend the Court in Madrid, was prevented from teaching, and was sent
to the monastery of Silla near Toledo. Philip excluded him from the amnesty granted in
1581 and Pinto died in exile, some say poisoned on orders from the Spanish king.
Provenance: José António Francisco Lobo da Silveira Queresma, (1698-1773) was
1.º marquês de Alvito, 10.º barão de Alvito and 3.º conde de Oriola. If the ownership
signatures are not his, they may be by one of his relatives.
Victor Marat d’Avila Perez was a great bibliophile whose library was one of the dozen
or so most important ever sold at auction in Portugal. The catalogue contains 8,962 lots,
sold in six parts by Arnaldo Henriques de Oliveira, probably with a total of 30 sessions,
the first part beginning 30 October 1939, with the final part beginning 29 April 1940.
j Innocêncio III, 175-6 (without collation). Barbosa Machado II, 427-30. Pinto
de Matos (1970), pp. 503-5 (mentioning editions of 1580 and 1585, which we think are
questionable). Anselmo 994 (recording two copies in the Biblioteca Nacional, one in the
Biblioteca Municipal do Porto, and one in the Biblioteca da Ajuda). King Manuel 218.
Biblioteca Nacional, Tipografia portuguesa do século XVI 602 (two copies, one with “Rosto
e folhas dilaceradas”). Palha 106. Avila Perez 5904 (presumably the present copy). This
edition not in British Museum, Pre-1601 Portuguese STC, which lists Lisbon 1572 editions
of both parts, and the Lisbon 1575 edition of the second part. OCLC: 504079372 (British
Library). Porbase locates the two copies in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal only, one
with “Rosto e folhas dilaceradas.” Copac repeats the British Library only.
French Attack Salé and Larache
117. [PIRATES]. Relação dos grandes progressos que a armada franceza tem
feito nas costas de Barbaria, commandada por D. Luiz Duchafault, chefe da
dita esquadra, e a tomada de dous navios dinamarquezes, que hião em socorro
dos Mouros; e outras noticias mais. Lisbon: Na Offic. de Ignacio Nogueira
Xisto, 1765. 4°, disbound. Large woodcut of ship in a rough sea on
title page. Typographical headpiece on p. 2. A very good copy. 8 pp.
$500.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this Portuguese newsletter about an ill-fated French
expedition against Barbary pirates in northern Morocco in 1765. The French fleet under
Louis-Charles de Besné, comte du Chaffault, bombarded Salé and were then scattered
by a storm. Regrouped and reinforced, they sailed to Larache, formerly a Portuguese
possession, which they fired on, causing the city to be evacuated. Over the course of the
expedition Chaffault lost about 300 men, of whom 30 or 40 were officers.
j Not located in Innocêncio. OCLC: 560629198 (National Maritime Museum).
Porbase locates a single copy, in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Copac repeats the
Nacional Maritime Museum only. Not located in Hollis or Orbis.