Vida do Serenissimo Principe Eleitor D. Felippe Wilhelmo, Conde Palatino do Rheno, Archithesoureiro do Imperio Romano, Duque de Baviera, de Julia, de Clavia & dos Montes: Conde de Veldencia, de Spanhemio, de Marquia, de Ravenspurgo, & de Mersia: Senhor de Ravenstein, &c. Pay da Rainha N. Senhora D. Maria Sofia Isabella, a quem a dedica por seus Religiosos a Provincia de Portugal da Companhia de Jesus.

Lisbon, Na Officina de Miguel Deslandes, 1692.. First Edition in Portuguese. 4°, loose in contemporary vellum binding (one corner chewed, contemporary manuscript on both covers [illegible]). Engraved allegorical frontisportrait by C. Duarte. Typographical ornaments on title page. Woodcut and typographical headpieces. Woodcut initials and tailpieces. Mostly clean and crisp, with minor defects: dampstained on final 4 ll. of prelims and in last quire; small wormhole at lower edge of E2-F1. Overall in good to very good condition. Old ownership note (scored) below engraving. Small blindstamp of J.[osé] C.[aetano] Mazziotti Salema Garção in blank margin of title page. Owner's signature on title page. Small release ticket of the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon on blank verso of title page. Portrait, (12 ll.), 303 pp.; pp. 272 and 276 are blank, followed by double leaves with genealogical tables, printed on one side only, numbered 272 and 276; p. 282 is blank, followed by 4 double leaves with genealogical tables, printed on one side only, the first of which is numbered 282. *** First (and only?) Edition in Portuguese. This biography was translated by the Jesuit Francisco de Mattos from the Jesuit Johann Bodler's (1620-1698) Lebens- und Sterbens-Lauff in einer Summa Weiland dess durchleuchtigisten Furstens Philip Wilhelm, Pfaltz-Grafen bey Rhein, Dillingen, 1690. After the biography is a discussion of the genealogy of the Graf's daughter Maria Sofia, who in 1687 married D. Pedro II of Portugal (see pp. 249-84). The translator, a native of Lisbon, traveled to Brazil as a novice, aged 16, in 1652. A noted pulpit orator and teacher of theology and philosophy, he spent a good part of his life in Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, dying at Bahia in 1720. Provenance: J.[osé] C.[aetano] Mazziotti Salema Garção (1886-1961) of Porto was a noted collector and wolfram magnate.*** Arouca B126. Cruz, Tipografia portuguesa do séc. XVII: A colecção da Biblioteca Nacional, I (all published) 469. Barbosa Machado II, 180. Innocêncio III, 7-8. Leite VIII, 362. Backer-Sommervogel I, 1564-6. Fonseca, Subsidios, 281. Gonçalves Rodrigues, A tradução em Portugal 384. Biblioteca da Marinha Imprensa do século XVII, 102. Soares, História da gravura artística em Portugal 751. Soares & Campos Ferreira Lima, Dicionário, II, 130. Monteverde 3429. Sabugosa 262. Not in Goldsmith, Short Title Catalogue of Spanish and Portuguese Books 1601-1700 in the Library of the British Museum. Not in Palha. Not in Azevedo-Samodães or Ameal. For the bookplate, see Avelar Duarte, Ex-libris portugueses heráldicos 750. Porbase locates a copy at the Biblioteca Central da Marinha and nine copies in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (one defective, all the others "aparado" or "perfurado"). Not located in Jisc. NUC: DCU-IA.