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4°, original light blue printed wrappers. Numerous wood engravings of signatures. Title page within a typographical border. The front wrapper has a shorter title and a different border. Small, minor stains at fore-edge. In very good to fine condition. (5 ll.) 37 pp. (1 l.). Most leaves printed on recto only. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Catalogue of facsimiles of signatures of the Archbishop Primates of the Portuguese Estado da Índia, and their Vicars, along with short biographical notes. Filippe Nery Xavier (1804-1875), historian, archeologist, and exemplary public functionary throughout his adult life, a native of Loutulim in the concelho de Salsete, was director of the Imprensa Nacional in Goa from 1851. One of Goa's best historians, he published Bosquejo histórico das comunidades das aldeias dos concelhos das Ilhas, Salcete e Bardez, 1852, and Nobiliarchia goana, 1862-63, the enormously popular Resumo histórico da maravilhosa vida, conversões e milagres de S. Francisco Xavier, 1859, and many other works.*** Innocêncio IX, 231: ". muito raras na India, e ainda mais em Lisboa." Costa, Dicionário da literatura goesa, III, 348-56. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India KA65. Not in Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa. See Pope, India in Portuguese Literature, pp. 209-10 (does not mention the present work). Not in Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907). Seller Inventory # 91223
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