Oct 24 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2683 -

Sale 2683 - Lot 56

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Camões, Luís de (1524-1580)
Obras [Os Lusiadas] [and] Rimas, Primeira, Segunda, e Terceira Parte.

Lisbon: Antonio Craesbeek de Mello, 1666, 1669, 1668.

First collected edition; two works in one thick quarto volume with divisional title pages; a nicely preserved copy in original limp parchment, unrestored; fore-edge ties lost; presented to John Lord Mountstuart (1744-1814), British ambassador to Spain, in 1790 from an unnamed Portuguese nobleman with a later note to that effect dated 1880 by Mountstuart's grandson; loss to a few lines of text to bottom outside corner of one leaf in the second book of the Rimas; both original blanks present; 7 1/2 x 5 1/8 in.

Salva 1138.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.
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