RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 55

February 2007
 

 

PART VIII:

Science & History of Science,

Natural History, Medicine

 
See also items 94, 109 & 117.

89. CRESPO, Jorge. A história do corpo. Lisbon: Difel, 1990. Colecção Memória e Sociedade. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 630 pp., footnotes, extensive bibliography and index. ISBN: 972-29-0022-6. $50.00

 
90. D. Carlos de Bragança [a.k.a. Dom Carlos I], King of Portugal (1863-1908). Aves de Portugal (Sedentarias, de arribação e accidentaes). Estampas: Volume III. Opening remarks by João Pedro Felícia Moreira. Preface by Pedro de Avillez, ed. Introduction by António M. Teixeira. Lisbon: Tribuna da História / Marinha Portuguesa / Banco Espirito Santo, 2006. Folio (32.4 x 24.7 cm.), publ. gilt-stamped bds. with d.j. [112 ll.], including 96 full page color ornithological illustrations, other illus. Much printing in red and black. ISBN: 972-8799-51-9. $120.00

Previously unpublished, the 96 full page color illustrations, each depicting a different bird, are numbered 213 through 308, and are reproduced in facsimile from the original work by D. Carlos in the library of the Aquário Vasco da Gama. On the facing page, printed in red and black, is information about the species, including its scientific name, as well as the vernacular name in Portuguese, French, Spanish, English, Italian, German and Russian (where known; sometimes the name is not given in all languages). Toward the end are facsimile reproductions of parts of the King's notebooks. These recently discovered manuscripts and original watercolor illustrations supplement two volumes previously published, in 1903 and 1907, respectively. See Alberto Girard, "A obra scientifica" in J. Collaço, A. Palhares, and R. Torralba, eds.,S.M. El-Rei D. Carlos I e a sua obra artistica e scientifica (1908). While the scientific text is indeed the work of King Carlos I of Portugal, it is now known that the watercolors were done by the distinguished Spanish artist Enrique Casanova (1850-1913), a native of Saragosa long resident in Portugal, teacher of D. Luís I, D. Carlos, the Infante D. Afonso, and D. Amélia, D. Luís Filipe, and D. Manuel II. He worked in this instance under the orientation of D. Carlos. See Pamplona, 2nd ed., II, 68-70.

Two volumes, with 40 plates, were published by the Imprensa Nacional in 1903 and 1907. They were reprinted in 1983. An additional 53 plates were discovered at that time in the offices of the Imprensa Nacional - these were issued as a supplement in 1985; all were published together in a single volume by the Imprensa Nacional in 1998. The editor of the present volume has designated the volumes published by the Imprensa Nacional together as "Volume I".

In 2001, additional watercolors were discovered in the archives of the Aquário Vasco da Gama. In 2003 the Marinha Portuguesa, Aquario Vasco da Gama, and Lusitania, Companhia de Seguros, published 110 full page color ornithological illustrations in a similar format to the present work, with scientific observations and commentaries written by D. Carlos to support the illustrations. That volume has been designated by the present editior as "Volume II".