Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BINDING.) Azevedo Fortes, Manoel de. Logica Racional, Geometrica, e Analitica. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the dedicatee, the Infante Antonio of Portugal; text diagrams throughout. [36], 151, [1]; 270; 224 pages, including half-title. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 293x198 mm, contemporary red morocco extravagantly gilt-tooled to panel design incorporating a variety of decorative motifs, spine faded, ends restored, chipped at top, endpapers renewed; occasional dampstaining along top edges, contents otherwise clean. Bookplate of Anthony Godwin Hail. wide-margined copy. Lisbon: Jozé Antonio Plates, 1744

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first edition of a treatise on Cartesian logic by the Chief Engineer of the Kingdom of Portugal (1660-1749). Innocencio V, 369-70.