Recent Acquisitions - Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books

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j Innocêncio I, 124 (without mention of the final leaf). Pinto de Matos (1970) p.
235. OCLC: 558581122; 54335284; 457860156; 66100980; 249489950. Porbase locates four
copies, in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade
Católica Portuguesa, Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, and Universidade
de Minho. OCLC: 558581122 (2 copies at the British Library); 54335284 (University of
Toronto, Cambridge University); 457860156 (Bibliothèque Nationale de France); 66100980
(Universiteit Maastricht); 249489950 (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz).
Copac repeats the British Library and Cambridge University only.
174. SOARES, Manoel de Moraes. Fabulas de Phedro, escravo forro de
Augusto Cesar, traduzidas em verso dramatico; augmentadas com cinco fabulas
que não vem em outras muitas edições; e ilustradas com varias notas. Lisbon:
João Rodrigues Neves, 1805. 8°, later (second quarter nineteenth century)
tree sheep (some wear to corners; other minor wear), flat spine gilt with
black leather lettering piece, gilt letter, marbled endleaves. Full-page
woodcut frontispiece (depicting Aesop, Phaedrus and Augustus, or
Moraes Soares, Phaedrus, and Augustus?). Total of 106 approximately
half-page woodcuts in text , for the prologue to each book and each
fable. Foxing and browning, mostly light to middling, but occasionally
heavier, due to paper quality. A good to very good copy, considering
condition relative to the few other copies we have seen over the years.
Black-on-blue rectangular printed paper ticket of Livraria de João Pereira
da Silva, 117-Rua dos Retrozeiros-119, Lisboa in upper outer corner of
front pastedown endleaf. (4 ll., including woodcut frontispiece), x, 378
pp. Text on facing pages in Latin and Portuguese. $350.00
Second edition. Innocêncio had not seen a copy of the first edition, and dated it
tentatively to 1786; it is actually of Lisbon, 1785. This work contains the fables of Aesop,
translated by Phaedrus into Latin verse, with a Portuguese verse translation on the facing
page and extensive footnotes. Moraes Soares says that most of the notes were taken from
an edition of the fables done in Paris, 1776, and that he has added some notes of his own.
He also includes five fables found by Marquard Gude, a professor at Utrecht, also from
the Paris 1776 edition. The translator shows a good understanding of the original, and
his work is respected by scholars more for its accuracy than for its poetic style.
Moraes Soares (1727-ca. 1800) was physician to Queen Maria I and wrote a work
on smallpox inoculation. We also have a comprehensive work on the history of medical
education by him in manuscript, which remains unpublished.
j Innocêncio VI, 67 (without mention of the preliminary leaves). Not in Palha.
OCLC: 38129898 (Princeton University, Houghton Library, Newberry Library, Brigham
Young University, Cambridge University Library, Biblioteca Nacional de España). Porbase
locates three copies: two in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and one in the Biblioteca
João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa. This edition not located in Copac.