RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 46

June 2005

 
PART XXIII:

Food & Wine, Agriculture, Gardening

 

See also item 61.

282. MATA, João da. Arte de Cozinha. . . . Prefaciada por Alberto Pimentel. 5 edição [sic]. Lisbon: Vega, 1993. Lge. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 384 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-699-376-8. $45.00

Melo Lapa wrote a preface for this edition, in reality apparently the 7th - (or is it the 8th? There is considerable confusion on this. See Biblioteca Nacional, Livros portugueses de Cozinha 202-205.) The first edition appeared in 1876. The Biblioteca Nacional catalogue cites a 6th edition, dated 1924, and says a 7th edition was announced in the Journal das Damas, Lisboa 4 April 1867 [sic - i.e. 1967?]. Melo Lapa says the most recent edition was the 6th, published in 1947. How this can be the 5th edition is a mystery to us, unless it is the 5th Vega edition, which also seems unlikely, as the copyright to Melo Lapa's preface, in which he justifies Vega's re-publication of the work, supposedly last published in 1947, is dated 1993.

 
283. SAMPAIO, Gonçalo and António da Silva Ferreira. Iconografia selecta da flora portuguesa. Lisbon: INIC, 1988. Folio (40 x 29.8 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. (1 blank, 9 ll.), 150 ll. of plates, (5, 1 blank, 2, 1 blank, 1 ll.). ISBN: none. $80.00

Facsimile reprint of the scarce original edition of Lisbon, 1949.