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Apologos
by Joao Vicente Pimentel Maldonado
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Lisboa: Na Impressao Regia, 1820. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards in quarter green, pebbled cloth with marbled paper sides. Gilt lettering and rules on spine. Number written in upper corner of title page, else pages clean. Includes errata page. pp. 252, [1]. 8vo. 147 x 105mm. Rare. Three copies noted on OCLC (Harvard, British Library, Institut catholique de Paris). A collection of poems by Joao Vicente Pimentel Maldonado (1773-1838), a Portuguese magistrate, writer, journalist, and participant in the gatherings of Nova Arcadia. He was also a liberal and a prominent Freemason and spent several years in prison and political exile. His Apologos received praise from the poets Almeida Garrett and Antonio Feliciano de Castilho.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015144
- Title
- Apologos
- Author
- Joao Vicente Pimentel Maldonado
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Na Impressao Regia
- Place of Publication
- Lisboa
- Date Published
- 1820
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Nova Arcadia, Portuguese, poetry, Lisbon, poesia, Portuguesa, poets,
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- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- Cloth
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- Errata
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- Marbled Paper
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Title Page
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