RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 65
February
2009
PART
X:
Science & History of Science, Natural History,
Medicine, Mathematics, Nautical Science
65.
SILVA, Luís, José Pedro Granadeiro, Cláudia Franco, et
al. Atlas das
aves nidificantes em Portugal (1999-2005).
Lisbon:
Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e da Biodiversidade /
Assirio & Alvim, 2008. Very lge. 4° (30.9 x 24.6 cm.),
publ. blindstamped cloth with d.j. 590 pp., profusely
illus. in color, replete with maps and plans, ample
bibliography, index of species. ISBN: 978-972-37-1374-9.
$100.00
Excellent
scientific study of the bird population of Portugal,
including 446 species of birds. For each species there is a
half page color illustration, a half page of text giving
its scientific and common names, worldwide and European
distribution, distribution within Portugal, and an estimate
of the national population. The facing page for each entry
contains maps which show both distribution and abundance of
the species throughout continental Portugal, the Azores,
and Madeira Islands. There are many more maps and plans in
the preliminary and supplementary pages.
66.
VILLARINHO [Pereira], [Maria] Luísa [de Sousa].
De Lisboa a
Cascais: rostos, liberdade e medicina.
Preface by
António d'Orey Capucho. Lisbon: DisLivro , 2008. Lge. 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 439 pp., 1 illus. errata leaf loosely
inserted, much illus. in text, considerable annotation,
index of images, index of names, bibliography. One of 1,000
copies. ISBN: 978-989-639-072-3. $70.00
The author,
born in Lisbon, 1941, ceramic artist and painter, has been
working on a historical dictionary of Cascais. She is the
daughter of the distinguished obstetrician gynecologist
Salvador Villarinho Pereira (1879-1948).
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