Portuguese Fine Bindings, Four Volumes, 18th and 19th Century.

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Portuguese Fine Bindings, Four Volumes, 18th and 19th Century.
Including: Cultos de Devocao, e Obsequios, Que se dedicao ao Thamaturgo Portuguez Sto. Antonio de Lisboa, Lisbon: Miguel Manescal da Costa, 1767, 12mo, in full contemporary red morocco, gilt-tooled on boards and spine, gilding to edges worn, 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.; Horas de Semana Santa, Lisbon: Regia Officina Typografica, 1776, 12mo, dark green morocco, gilt-tooled, gilt and gauffered edges, 5 1/4 x 3 in.; O Christao Devoto as Principaes Devocoes, Lisbon: Rollandiana, 1820, 12mo, red morocco, tooled in gilt, gilt and gauffered edges; and a late 17th or early 18th century devotional book in Portuguese lacking the title page, octavo, in elaborately gilt-tooled red morocco, gilt and gauffered edges, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (4)
Estimate $600-800


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