May 11, 2010 - Sale 2214
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Sale 2214 - Lot 109

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
AVELAR [or AVELLAR], ANDRÉ DO. Reportorio dos Tempos. Title within border of small woodcuts of the sun, moon, and zodiac signs; numerous woodcuts in text, including crude world map (showing Europe, Africa, Asia, small portion of the New World, and unidentified southern continent), diagrams of winds and heliocentric solar system, allegorical depictions of the planets, zodiac signs, and large illustration of Anatomical Man. 148 pages. 4to, later 19th-/early 20th-century brown morocco by Victorio Arias with unidentified gilt arms on covers; contents washed with residual toning at beginning and end, minor restoration in blank lower margin of B7, scattered early marginalia. Coimbra: Antonio de Barreira, 1593
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Exceedingly scarce third edition of a Portuguese astrological almanac originally published in 1585, including sections on history, geography, and medical astrology. The New World is described on pages 29-30. Alden 593/2; King Manuel 228. No edition has ever been recorded in American Book Prices Current.