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1812 · 38511 — Lisboa: Na Typ. da Academia 1812. First edition. Modern three quarter morocco over marbled boards. Near fine small period stamp on title page. vi 178 pp. 8vo. Includes: 1. Breve relação dos escrituras dos gentios da India Oriental e dos seus costumes pp. 1-59 A short account of the gentios of India and their customs; 2. Noticia summaria do gentilismo da Asia pp. 61-126 A short account of paganism in Asia; These have been attributed by Francisco Maria Esteves Pereria to Fernão de Queiroz a 17th c. Jesuit whose translation of the Bhagavat-Gita was only first published in 1922 and may have been the first translation into a western language of that work. Esteves Pereria considered it a sequel to the two pieces contained in this volume see Ethel Pope: India in Portuguese Literature Bastorá: Tipografia Rangel 1937; pp. 166-168. 3. Joseph de Anchieta. Epistola quamplurimarum rerum naturalium quae S. Vincentii nunc S. Paulí provinciam incolunt sistens descriptionem pp. 127-178 Communication of the very many natural things which dwell in the province of St. Vincent now São Paulo systematically described. The Spanish Jesuit missionary José de Anchieta 1534 -1597 was one of the founders of São Paulo 1554 and Rio de Janeiro a decade later. Best known for his book "The Art of Grammar" on the indigenous Old Tupi language he was also an accomplished naturalist as revealed in this work. The "Collecção" would eventually run to seven volumes published over 30 years. Quite uncommon. Last partial or complete set at auction in 1948. Sabin 14362. Leclerc 126. Innocencio V.2 p.87-88: 353. Rodrigues 658. Borba de Moraes 164. Greenlee 524. Na Typ. da Academia hardcover books