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First Portuguese Translation of Bosse’s Engraving Manual
19. BOSSE, Abraham. Tratado da Gravura a agua forte, e a
buril, e em maneira negra com o modo de construir as prensas
modernas, e de imprimir em talho doce. Nova ediçao traduzida
do francez ... por José Joaquim Viegas Menezes. Lisbon, Arco
do Cego, 1801. £1,500
Tall 8vo (208 x 152 mm), engraved title, pp. [x], ix, [1], 189, [1]
errata, with 21 engraved plates; plates printed on slightly darker stock; a
wide-margined clean copy in recent full calf, gilt.
First Portuguese translation of Bosse’s classic introduction to copperplate
etching and engraving, Traité des manières de graver en taille douce, first
published in 1645. This Portuguese translation by José Joaquim Viegas
Menezes is clearly taken from the Jombert edition (see above) and reproduces
the same plates, but newly engraved.
Innocencio IV, 415; Moraes p. 11; see Bigmore & Wyman, I, 72 and Cicognara
255 for French edition; OCLC: Harvard, Getty, John Carter Brown Library,
British Library and Victoria & Albert.
The Language of Western Australia
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue eighteen
20. BRADY, John. Vocabolario della lingua nativa dell’Australia
Occidentale compilato dall’Illmo e Revmo Monsig. Giovanni
Brady... e tradotto dall’Inglese da Nicola Caporelli. Rome,
Propaganda Fide, 1845. £1,200
24mo, pp. 49, [1] imprint; uncut in contemporary wrappers; a very
good copy.
First edition in Italian of John Brady’s Descriptive vocabulary of the native
language of Western Australia, meant for use in the Western Australian
missions, especially the Benedictine settlement at New Norcia, north of
Perth.
John Brady (1800–1871), a Roman Catholic cleric originally from
Ireland, was recruited to the Australian mission. In 1838 Brady arrived in
Sydney as part of the first wave of secular Irish clergymen. ‘His charges were
mainly Irish convicts assigned to the landholders, and he was instrumental
in establishing the convicts’ right to freedom of worship. He was in touch
with the Aboriginals and ministered to the French Canadian prisoners at
Longbottom. Convinced of the important role the church could play in
settling Australia, Brady petitioned in Rome for priests and missionaries.
He was particularly interested in evangelising the Aboriginals, and it was
to that purpose that he compiled his Descriptive Vocabulary. The Italian
translation was prepared by Nicola Caporelli, one of the Italian missionaries
at the New Norcia mission.
Ferguson 3996 (South African Public Library, Cape Town); OCLC adds only
Indiana, National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales; on
Brady see Australian Dictionary of Biography.
The Origin Of Playing Cards
21. [BULLET, Jean-Baptiste.] Recherches historiques sur les
cartes à jouer avec des notes critiques et intéressantes. Lyon, J.
Deville, 1762.
[bound with:] RIVE, Jean-Joseph. Éclaircissements historiques et
critiques sur l’invention des cartes a jouer. ‘Tirés de sa notice d’un
ms. de la Bibliotheque de M. le Duc de la Valliere, intitulé le Roman
d’Artus, comte de Bretaigne; imprimée à Paris, chez Didot l’ainé, en
1779, in–4. Paris, [Amb. Didot], 1780.
[bound with:] DREUX DU RADIER, Jean-Français et al. Essai
historique, critique, philologique, politique, moral, litteraire et
galant, sur les lanternes, leur origine, leur forme, leur utilité, &c. &c.
avec quelques notes de l’éditeur & une table très-ample des matières.
Dole, Cunophile & Co, 1755. £2,750