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1821. The final leaf, blank on its recto, contains on its verso a list of six earlier works by
Gomes, their dates and prices.
Gomes (1768-1823) was one of the most important figures in early Brazilian medicine.
As a naval surgeon in Brazil from 1798 to 1801, he wrote Memoria sobre a canella
do Rio de Janeiro. When finally published, at Rio de Janeiro, 1809, it became the earliest
monograph on medicine printed in Brazil. Gomes also wrote on tapeworm, quinine,
skin diseases, fevers and botany.
j Innocêncio I, 361 (without collation). Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da
colecção portuguesa I, 136. Not in Borba de Moraes; see (1983) I, 357 for the Memoria. Not
in JCB, Portuguese and Brazilian Books. Not in Rodrigues or Wellcome. OCLC: 45167621
(New York Academy of Medicine); 230954526 (Countway Library). Porbase lists this
work without giving any location, and without mention of the final leaf. Not located in
Copac. Not located in Orbis. Not located in LocatorPlus.
78. GOMES, P. João Pinto. Breve relação de huma terrivel perseguição
contra a Santa Religião Catholica, e seus operarios, succedida no Imperio da
China na Corte de Pekim, em 1805. Composta por testemunha ocular. Com
huma breve noticia das cousas mais notaveis daquelle famoso Imperio. Porto:
Typ. de Vasconcellos, 1839. 8°, mid-twentieth-century quarter sheep
over marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands in five compartments,
crimson leather lettering piece in second compartment from head, gilt
letter, decorated endleaves, text-block edges sprinkled red from an
earlier (contemporary?) binding. Three woodcut tailpiece vignettes,
including one at the end depicting an angel with trumpet and the
word “FIM.” Small repair about the size of half a thumbprint at top of
title page, affecting but not obscuring the letters “elaç” in “Relação”. A
few light waterstains. Overall a good copy. Small rectangular brownon-beige
printed paper binder’s ticket of Frederico d’Almeida, Rua
António Maria Cardoso, 31 (ao Chiado) in upper outer corner of front
free endleaf verso. 76 pp. $400.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author was a missionary in Beijing for seventeen
years and eyewitness to the persecutions of the religious in China. At the end of the
narrative is a brief description of Macau (pp. 71-5).
j Innocêncio X, 333 (the only copy seen had been in the possession of Jorge César
Figanière, who had acquired it after the completion of his Bibliographia historica portugueza).
Cordier, Sinica II, 844-5. Gomes, Bibliografia macaense 710. On the Lisbon binder/
finisher Frederico d’Almeida, see Matias Lima, Encadernadores portugueses, pp. 19–23.
Not located in NUC. OCLC: 54263785 (Yale University, Cornell University Library);
81615452 (Yale University). Porbase locates a single copy, in the Biblioteca Nacional de
Portugal. Not located in Copac. While OCLC refers twice to this work at Yale, in the
Sterling Memorial Library, Orbis refers to one copy only, at the Yale Divinity School
Library. Not located in Hollis.