RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 46
June
2005
PART
III:
Genealogy
31.
PERREIRA BORREGO, Nuno Gonçalo. Cartas de
Brasão de Armas colectânea. Preface by
Manuel Artur Norton. Lisbon: Guarda-Mór, 2003. Folio (29.8
x 21.1 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 530 pp., illus. ISBN:
972-98868-1-4. $100.00
Important
reference work.
32.
PERREIRA BORREGO, Nuno Gonçalo. Cartas de
Brasão de Armas, II. Preface by
Segismundo Pinto. Lisbon: DisLivro Histórica, (2004). Folio
(30.4 x 21.5 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 527 pp., illus.,
including 72 pp. full page color illus. One of 500 copies.
ISBN: 972-8876-16-5. $135.00
Important
reference work, nicely printed. There is a significant
difference in the price as opposed to that of the first
volume (which was sold in 2003 and early 2004 for $80.00).
While the prices are set by the publishers, and any attempt
at an explanation is merely an educated guess, it should be
noted that the first volume was in soft cover and the
second volume is in hard cover, and that they were issued
by different publishers. Volume II has much more color
illustration. Also, the dollar dropped sharply in value
between early 2003, when volume I appeared, and late 2004,
when the second volume was issued. Finally, the second
volume was issued in a limited edition of only 500 copies;
there was no justification for the number of copies of
volume I, which leads us to believe that there were more
than 1,000 copies printed.
33.
SOARES MACHADO, José Carlos L. Os
Bragançãos: história genealógica de uma Linhagem Medieval
(Séculos XI a XIII). Lisbon: the
Author (assisted by the Associação Portuguesa de
Genealogia), 2004. Sm. folio (25.5 x 19.4 cm.), orig.
illus. wrps. 343 pp., 12 ll. color plates and maps,
genealogical tables in text. One of 500 copies. ISBN:
97296566-1-4. $75.00