RESENDE, André de.- Libri Quatuor | DE ANTIQVITATIBVS LVSITANIÆ | à Lucio Andrea Resendio olim ...

RESENDE, André de.- Libri Quatuor | DE ANTIQVITATIBVS LVSITANIÆ | à Lucio Andrea Resendio olim inchoati, & | à Iacobo Menœtio Mascancello | recogniti, atqœ absoluti. | Accessit liber quintus de antiquitate minicipij Eborensis, ab codem | Vasconcello conscriptus, quo etiam autore, secundus | tomus quique atios libros continens, cito, | deo opt max. fauente, | in lucem prodibit. | Permittente regia maiestate, & supremo sacro sanctæ | inquisitionis senatu, cum privilegio | ad decennium.- Eboræ: Excudebat Martinus Burgensis, 1593.- [35], 259 (aliás 261), [1 br.], 46 (aliás 45), [21] p.: il.; 29 cm.- E.
One of the most sought after works by the author, a pioneer in the field of archeology in Portugal. Includes numerous illustrations depicting epigraphic inscriptions. Since the pagination is a little confusing, strict copy collation follows: first section (from the title page) with four folios (signature +); second section (signature A) with eight folios (begins with a dedication by Diogo Mendes de Vasconcelos to Philip II); third section with eight folios (signature B), in which the text of the work begins (folio B6 v.), curiously on the left page (Fol. 1 to Fol. 259, with the verso in white); 15 sections with 8 folios follow: signatures C to R (verso of R8 in white); 4 sections with two folios signed +, ++, +++ and ++++ (verso of ++++2 blank); three sections (signatures A, B and C) with eight folios, paged from 1 to 46 (in fact 45, due to an error in the last numbered page), erratum (C7 v.) and two more blank pages; finally, the section that integrates the index (signature §) and is composed of 9 folios with the last page blank. Exceptionally clean copy with good margins. Ex-libris of António Cupertino de Miranda. Nineteenth-century binding, made fully from painted sheepskin, with a smooth spine, decorated in gold. BN (16th century), 791. Samodães, 2761. Library of King Manuel II, 469.