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4°, later brown paste wrappers. Light browning and dampstaining. Overall in good to very good condition. 20 pp. A-B4, C2. *** FIRST EDITION, very rare; it appeared again in Coimbra, 1692 and Rio de Janeiro, 1924. The preface mentions the author in Brazil.The Jesuit P. António de Sáa (1627-1678), a native of Rio de Janeiro, is acknowledged to have been one of the best orators of his time and the most worthy successor to his mentor, P. António Vieira. Innocêncio comments, "Todos os criticos são concordes em consideral-o como orador de linguagem mui pura, de estylo correcto e elegante, e finalmente como um dos que mais se approximaram de Vieira, ou antes como seu melhor discipulo." He worked primarily in Bahia and Recife, although after spending a few years in Portugal, he became so popular there that he was almost forbidden permission to return to Brazil. His sermons were often collected and reprinted, but the separate editions are of considerable rarity: none are listed in the Bosch catalogue, Azevedo-Samodães, or Ameal. Palha, Monteverde and Avila-Perez list only one each, and BMC lists only three sermons in a total of five editions. *** Arouca S6. Borba de Moraes (1983) II, 757; Período colonial, 314. Sacramento Blake I, 306: without collation. Innocêncio I, 263: without collation. Barbosa Machado I, 380. Leite, História da Companhia de Jesus no Brasil, IX, 109. Backer-Sommervogel, VII, 356. Morais Rocha de Almeida, Dictionário de autores no Brasil colonial, p. 454. Palau 283203. Landis, European Americana, 675/145. JCB, Additions 1471-1700, p. 50. JCB, Portuguese and Brazilian Books, 675/8 (JCB's copy with title page crudely repaired). J.C. Rodrigues 2166. Not in Bosch. NUC: RPJCB, CSt; 1692 edition is cited at RPJCB and CSt. Seller Inventory # 23604
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