Guedes Rodrigues' Private Collection
Lot 51:
SOYÉ (Luís Rafael)
NOITES JOZEPHINAS DE MIRTILO Sobre a Infausta Morte do Serenissimo Senhor D. Joze Principe do Brasil […]. Lisboa: Na Regia Officina Typographica, 1790.
A-P8, Q4, R2; 148-[2] pp., 1 front. gravado, 16 est.: il.; 175 mm. (8.º).
According to Inocêncio, it was with this work that an elegiac poem was printed for the first time. It is beautifully illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 16 allegorical prints, in addition to a vignette for each "Night", all engraved with chisels by the best Portuguese artists of the time. Highly sought after.
¶ Inocêncio, v.5, p. 316
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