Colleçam das antiguidades de Evora ….

Lisbon, Filippe da Silva e Azev[edo], 1785.. First Edition. 2 works in 1 volume. 8°, contemporary mottled calf (some rubbing on spine, other extremities), spine gilt with raised bands in five compartments, tan lettering piece (chipped), gilt letter, edges sprinkled red. Small woodcut initial. Several pinpoint wormholes and one slightly larger wormhole in blank portions of title, not affecting text. Three early signatures in blank portions of title-page crossed out. Small rubber stamp (illegible) in upper margin of p. 11. 180 pp. *** Third edition of Resende's "brief but learned" Historia, based on the second edition of 1576, which had been corrected by the author from the 1553 first edition. It includes transcriptions of Roman inscriptions. Resende (ca. 1500-1573), a renowned Portuguese humanist and antiquarian, also wrote De antiquitatibus Lusitaniae, 1593, the first Portuguese book on archeology.First edition of Sousa Farinha's Colleçam; it includes selections from important authors who dealt with the history of Évora: Resende; Diogo Mendes de Vasconcellos, who edited Resende's De antiquitatibus; Gaspar Estação, author of Varias antiguidades de Portugal, 1625; Bernardo de Brito, author of the Monarchia lusitana, 1597; and Manoel Severim de Faria (1583-1655), Resende's successor in archeology. Sousa Farinha (d. 1820), a professor at Évora and later librarian of the Bibliotheca Real d'Ajuda, was responsible for popularizing many classic Portuguese authors, and was fanatically devoted to those of the sixteenth century.*** Innocêncio I, 346-9: noting that these two works usually appear together. Bell, Portuguese Literature p. 215 (on Resende). NUC: DLC, MiU, CtY, PP.*** BOUND WITH:  RESENDE, André de. Historia da antiguidade da cidade de Evora . . . Lisbon: Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1783. (56 ll.) [i.e. a-g8, final leaf blank).