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RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 46

June 2005

 
PART I:

Bibliography, Books about Books, Dictionaries,

General Reference

 
See also items 31, 32, 44, 56, 86, 118, 131, 204, 286, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297 & 298.

1. ANSELMO, António Joaquim. Bibliografia das obras impressas em Portugal no século XVI. (Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional), 1977. 4°, orig. prtd. wrps. (1 l.), x, 367 pp. ISBN: none. $35.00

Facsimile (printed on high quality paper), of an important work, still useful, originally published in Lisbon, 1926 (printed on poor quality acidic paper, now beginning to decay). It describes 1,312 sixteenth-century books printed in Portugal, with locations, collations and bibliographical references. The paper of the original edition is highly acidic; this facsimile edition is printed on much better quality paper, and will last much longer.

 
2. BERNARDO, António and José dos Santos Pinto. Dicionário de autores casapianos: artes, ciências, humanidades, letras, técnicas. Lisbon: Biblioteca-Museu Luz Soriano (Ateneu Casapiano), 1982. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 196 pp., (2 ll.), illus. ISBN: none. $25.00

Bio-bibliographical dictionary of authors who were once students in the Casa Pia, or were in some other way associated with it.

 
3. BRAGA DA CRUZ, Manuel, and António Costa Pinto, eds. Dicionário biográfico parlamentar, 1935-1974. Vol. I (A-L). Lisbon: Assembleia da República / Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, 2004. Colecção Parlamento, 16. Lge. 8°, publ. cloth with d.j. 864 pp. ISBN: 972-671-135-5. First volume of an important new reference work. Vol. I (A-L). $90.00

 
4. CARDOSO BERNARDES, José Augusto, Aníbal Pinto de Castro, Maria de Lourdes A. Ferraz, et al., eds. Biblos. Enciclopédia Verbo das literaturas de língua portuguesa. Vol. I (A-Cur). Lisbon: Verbo, 1995. Lge. 8°, publ. leatherette with d.j., boxed. (6 ll.), 1422 cols. [2 cols. per p.], ( 1 l.). ISBN: none. Vol. I (A-Cur). $80.00

Important and useful new reference work, particularly helpful for twentieth-century authors but with excellent coverage for all periods. Contains signed articles by nearly 100 of the best authorities in Portugal and Brazil, including Artur Anselmo, Alexandre Cabral, João Bigote Chorão, Jorge Colaço, Afrânio Coutinho, Duarte Ivo Cruz, João Dionísio, Rosa Maria Goulart, Fernando Guedes, Ana Hatherly, Nuno Júdice, Ana Mafalda Leite, J.V. de Pina Martins, Gladstone Chaves de Melo, Paula Mourão, Aires Nascimento, Maria Laura Bettencourt Pires, José Maria da Cruz Pontes, Américo Costa Ramalho, Clara Crabbé Rocha, Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, Gustavo Rubim, Miguel Tamen, and Luís Forjaz Trigueiros.
 

5. CARDOSO BERNARDES, José Augusto, Aníbal Pinto de Castro, Maria de Lourdes A. Ferraz, et al., eds. Biblos. Enciclopédia Verbo das literaturas de língua portuguesa. Vol. II (D-Le). Lisbon: Verbo, 1997. Lge. 8°, publ. leatherette with d.j., boxed. (5 ll.), 1398 cols. [2 cols. per page], ( 1 p.). ISBN: none. Vol. II (D-Le). $80.00

Second volume of an important and useful new reference work, particularly helpful for twentieth-century authors, but with excellent coverage for all periods. Contains signed articles by over 100 of the best authorities in Portugal and Brazil, including Artur Anselmo, Aníbal Pinto de Castro, João Bigote Chorão, Jorge Colaço, Duarte Ivo Cruz, João Dionísio, Rosa Maria Goulart, Ana Hatherly, Nuno Júdice, Francisco G. Cunha Leão, Ana Mafalda Leite, Gladstone Chaves de Melo, Paula Mourão, Aires Nascimento, José Maria da Cruz Pontes, Américo Costa Ramalho, Clara Crabbé Rocha, Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, Gustavo Rubim, and Miguel Tamen.

 
6. CARDOSO BERNARDES, José Augusto, Aníbal Pinto de Castro, Maria de Lourdes A. Ferraz, et al., eds. Biblos. Enciclopédia Verbo das literaturas de língua portuguesa. Vol. III (Le-Pa). Lisbon: Verbo, 1999. Lge. 8°, publ. leatherette with d.j., boxed. (5 ll.), 1454 cols. [2 cols. per page], ( 1 p.). ISBN: none. Vol. III (Le-Pa). $80.00

Third volume of an important and useful new reference work, particularly helpful for twentieth-century authors but with excellent coverage for all periods. Contains signed articles by over 100 of the best authorities in Portugal and Brazil, including Artur Anselmo, Aníbal Pinto de Castro, João Bigote Chorão, Jorge Colaço, Duarte Ivo Cruz, Américo António Lindeza Diogo, Rosa Maria Goulart, Ana Hatherly, Nuno Júdice, Eugénio Lisboa, Gladstone Chaves de Melo, Paula Mourão, Aires Nascimento, Américo Costa Ramalho, Clara Crabbé Rocha, Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, Gustavo Rubim, and Miguel Tamen.

 
7. CARDOSO BERNARDES, José Augusto, Aníbal Pinto de Castro, Maria de Lourdes A. Ferraz, et al., eds. Biblos. Enciclopédia Verbo das literaturas de língua portuguesa. Vol. IV (Pe-Sh). Lisbon: Verbo, 2001. Lge. 8°, publ. leatherette with d.j., boxed. (5 ll.), 1290 cols. [2 cols. per page], (1 blank l., 1 l.). ISBN: 972-22-2101-9. Vol. IV (Pe-Sh). $80.00

Fourth volume of an important and useful new reference work, particularly helpful for twentieth-century authors but with excellent coverage for all periods. Contains signed articles by over 100 of the best authorities in Portugal and Brazil, including Aníbal Pinto de Castro, João Bigote Chorão, Jorge Colaço, Duarte Ivo Cruz, Rosa Maria Goulart, Fernando Guimarães, Ana Hatherly, Nuno Júdice, Eugénio Lisboa, Helder Macedo, Gladstone Chaves de Melo, Dulce Mindlin, Américo Costa Ramalho, Carlos Reis, Clara Rocha, and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues.

 
8. CARDOSO BERNARDES, José Augusto, Aníbal Pinto de Castro, Maria de Lourdes A. Ferraz, et al., eds. Biblos. Enciclopédia Verbo das literaturas de língua portuguesa. Vol. V (Sh-Zu). Lisbon: Verbo, 2005. Lge. 8°, publ. leatherette with d.j., boxed. (5 ll.), 1044 cols. [2 cols. per page], (1 l., 626 cols. index [2 cols. per page], 1 p. blank, 1 l.). ISBN: 972-22-2390-9. Vol. V (Sh-Zu). $80.00

Fifth and final volume of an important and useful new reference work, particularly helpful for twentieth-century authors but with excellent coverage for all periods. Contains signed articles by over 100 of the best authorities in Portugal and Brazil, including A.M. Pires Cabral, Aníbal Pinto de Castro, João Bigote Chorão, Thomas F. Earle, Rosa Maria Goulart, Fernando Guimarães, Ana Hatherly, José Luís Pires Laranjeira, Eugénio Lisboa, Alvaro Manuel Machado, Helder Macedo, Fernando J.B. Martinho, Walter de Madeiros, Pedro Mexia, Dulce Mindlin, Aires A. Nascimento, Américo Costa Ramalho, Luiz Francisco Rebello, Clara Rocha, and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues.

 
9. Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses. Organizado pelo Instituto Português do Livro e da Leitura. Eugénio Lisboa, ed. Vol. I. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1989? Sm. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 648 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972-1-00640-8. Vol. I. $45.00

Contains entries for Portuguese authors born before 1800. Each entry gives the author's dates, name variations, a brief biography and literary assessment, and list of principal works. Contributors to this volume include Eduíno de Jesus, Eugénio Lisboa, Luís Francisco Rebello, Luís de Sousa Rebello, Manuel João Gomes, Margarida Vieira Mendes, Maria Cabral Pacheco de Miranda, Maria Teresa Arsénio Nunes, and Paulo Jorge Macedo Ferreira.
 

10. Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses. Organizado pelo Instituto Português do Livro e da Leitura. Eugénio Lisboa, ed. Vol II. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1990. Sm. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 513, (1) pp. ISBN: 972-1-03157-7.Vol. II. $35.00

Contains entries for Portuguese authors born between 1800 and 1866, in chronological order. Each entry gives the author's dates, name variations, a brief biography and literary assessment, and list of principal works. Contributors to this volume include Alberto Sampaio, Alexandre Pinheiro Torres, António Cândido Franco, Carlos Reis, Eugénio Lisboa, Fernando J.B. Martinho, Helena Carvalhão Buescu, Ilídio Rocha, Luís de Albuquerque, Luiz Francisco Rebello, Raul Rego, and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues.

 
10a. Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses. Organizado pelo Instituto Português do Livro e da Leitura. Eugénio Lisboa, ed. Vol. III. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1994. Sm. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 740 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-1-03185-2. Vol. III. $45.00

Contains entries for Portuguese authors born between 1867 and 1899, in chronological order. Each entry gives the author's dates, name variations, a brief biography and literary assessment, and list of principal works. Contributors to this volume include Alberto Sampaio, Alexandre Pinheiro Torres, António Cândido Franco, Carlos Reis, Eugénio Lisboa, Ilídio Rocha, Luiz Francisco Rebello, Raul Rego, and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues.

 
11. Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses. Organizado pelo Instituto Português do Livro e da Leitura. Ilídio Rocha, ed. Vol. IV. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1998. Sm. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 740 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-1-04378-8. Vol. IV. $45.00


Contains entries for Portuguese authors born between 1900 and 1919, in chronological order. Each entry gives the author's dates, name variations, a brief biography and literary assessment, and list of principal works. Contributors to this volume include Alberto Sampaio, Alexandre Pinheiro Torres, António Cândido Franco, Carlos Reis, Eugénio Lisboa, Fernando J.B. Martinho, Helena Carvalhão Buescu, Ilídio Rocha, Luís de Albuquerque, Luiz Francisco Rebello, Raul Rego, and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues.

 
12. Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses. Organizado pelo Instituto Português do Livro e da Leitura. Ilídio Rocha, ed. Vol. V. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 2000. Sm. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 764 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972-1-04726-0. Vol. V. $45.00

Contains entries for Portuguese authors born between 1920 and 1930, in chronological order. Each entry gives the author's dates, name variations, a brief biography and literary assessment, and list of principal works. Contributors to this volume include Albano Martins, Alberto Sampaio, Ana Cristina Neves, Carlos Reis, Eugénio Lisboa, Fernando Guimarães, Fernando J.B. Martinho, Jorge Ramos do O, Ilídio Rocha, Isabel Hub Faria, José Viale Moutinho, Luiz Francisco Rebello, Nuno Júdice and Pedro da Silveira.

 
13. Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses. Organizado pelo Instituto Português do Livro e da Leitura. Ilídio Rocha, ed. Vol. VI. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 2001. Sm. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 652 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-1-04779-1. Vol. VI. $45.00

Contains entries for Portuguese authors born between 1931 and 1940, in chronological order. Each entry gives the author's dates, name variations, a brief biography and literary assessment, and list of principal works. Contributors to this volume include Albano Martins, Alberto Sampaio, Ana Cristina Neves, Carlos Reis, Daniel Pires, Eduardo Pita, Fernando Guimarães, Ilídio Rocha, Jorge Ramos do O, José, Viale Moutinho, Júlio Conrado, Luiz Francisco Rebello, Nuno Júdice, and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues.

 
14. FERREIRA DE SOUSA, António, Ilda Soares de Abreu and Maria Emília Stone, eds. Dicionário no feminino (séculos XIX-XX). Lisbon: Horizonte, 2005. A Mulher e a Sociedade. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 904 pp., double columns. ISBN: 972-24-1368-6. $90.00

Important reference work, produced under the general editorship of Zília Osório de Castro and João Esteves. Among the more than 60 contributors are Ana Vicente, Hugo Crespo, Isabel Cluny, Ivone Leal, José de Almada Negreiros, the editors and series editors.

 
15. GUEDES, Fernando. Os livreiros em Portugal e as suas associações desde o século XV até aos nossos dias: subsédios para a sua história. 2nd ed., revised and augmented. Lisbon: Verbo, 2005. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 271 pp., (1 l.), illus. (some illus. in color). ISBN: 972-22-1585-X. $40.00

 
16. PINA MARTINS, José Vitorino de. Livros do século XVI impressos em Espanha da Biblioteca de Estudos Humanísticos de Lisboa. Paris: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro Cultural, 1999. Offprint of vol. XXXVIII of Archivos do Centro Cultural Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris. Folio (29.7 x 21.5 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 68 pp., (1 l.), illus. One of 33 copies numbered 1 through 33, with a statement of limitation tipped in, signed by the author. There is said to have been a total of 85 copies in all: another 33 copies numbered I through XXXIII, and 21 copies lettered A through X, both runs also with signed limitation statements tipped in. To our knowledge, there is no substantive difference between these three runs. ISBN: none. $30.00

Describes 25 books printed in Spain, including a Bíblia complutense (lacking 1 volume).

 
17. PORTUGAL. BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL. Manuela Rego, Silva Duarte, and Maria Isabel de Mendonça Soares. Hans Christian Andersen, 1805-1875. Mostra bibliográfica, 3 de Março-14 de Maio de 2005. Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional, 2005. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 102 pp., (1 l.). One of 750 copies. ISBN: 972-565-398-X. $20.00

 
18. PORTUGAL. BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL. Leonel Ribeiro dos Santos and Adelino Cardoso. Kant, 1724-1804: posteridade e actualidade. Mostra bibliográfica, 25 de Novembro de 2004-12 de Fevereiro de 2005. Introduction by Diogo Pires Aurélio. Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional, 2004. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 99, (1) pp., (2 ll.), illus. One of 500 copies. ISBN: 972-565-396-3. $15.00

19. SARDICA, José Miguel. Duque de Avila e Bolama: biografia. Lisbon: Assembleia da República / Dom Quixote, 2005. Colecção Parlamento, 17. Lge. 8°, publ. cloth with d.j. 864 pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-20-2742-5. $70.00

 
20. SOARES & MENDONÇA, Ld, auctioneers. Catálogo da Biblioteca do Ilustre Bibliófilo eng° António de Almeida Marques. Elaborado por Manuel Ferreira Livreiro-Alfarrabista. Lisbon: Soares & Mendonça (colophon: printed in Porto: Imprensa Portuguesa), 1996. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 305 pp., 1 l., illus. ISBN: none. $50.00

Probably the most comprehensive collection of Portuguese modernism and post-modernism to be sold at auction to date. Includes 2397 lots, sold in eight sessions from January 8 through January 19, 1996. Descriptions of the lots include collations, as well as blurbs about the importance of the particular item.

 
21. SOUSA LEITÃO, Henrique, ed. O livro científico dos séculos XV e XVI: ciências físico-matemáticas na Biblioteca Nacional. Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional, 2004. Bibliografias, BN; Colecções, BN. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. (l blank l.), [3]-533 pp., (1 l.), illus. One of 750 copies. ISBN: 972-565-384-X. $50.00

 
22. SUL MENDES, Maria Valentina C. A., ed. Tesouros da Biblioteca Nacional. Lisbon: INAPA, 1992. Colecçao Tesouros das Bibliotecas e Arquivos de Portugal. Folio, publ. cloth, d.j. (4 ll.), 394 pp., (3 ll.), profusely illus., mostly in color. ISBN: 972-9019-47-9. $185.00

Sumptuous tribute to the National Library, Lisbon. Includes the following chapters: "Biblioteca Nacional: crónica de 200 anos" by Manuel D. Domingos; "O manuscrito medieval" by Isabel Vilares Cepeda; "Nasce o livro impresso" by Maria Valentina C. A. Sul Mendes; "Cartografia e ciência naútica" by Fernando Nunes; "O livro impresso e o manuscrito coexistem," with "O surto do livro impresso" by Maria Emilia Lavoura and "O manuscrito permanece" by Teresa A. S. Duarte Ferreira; "A música também é escrita" by João Pedro d'Alvarença; "O gosto pela imagem" by Maria da Graça Garcia; and "O manuscrito subjacente ao impresso" by António Braz de Oliveira. The series is under the direcçao científica of Martim de Albuquerque.