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Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 9:00 PM UTC
Lot 45:
CARDOSO (Luis)
DICCIONARIO Geografico. Ou Noticia Historica de todas as Cidades, Villas, Lugares, e Aldeas, Rios, Ribeiras, e Serras dos Reynos de Portugal, e Algarve, com todas as cousas raras, que nelles se encontrão, assim antigas, como modernas. Lisboa: Na Regia Officina Sylviana, 1747.
1 [of 2] v.; 4.º; [44], 754 pp.; 305 mm.
FIRST and only edition of this work that did not complete its publication. According to Inocêncio, it was “an important work, which contains detailed news […], generally interesting, and the result of long investigations in the localities, many of them provided by the respective parish priests and magistrates”. Rare Innocent, v. 5, p. 279
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