Epigrammata sacra per singulos anni dies juxta ordinem Breviarij Romani incipientia a Nativitate Domini nostri Jesu Christi, cui opusculum consecratur. Accesserunt epigrammata ad sanctos lusitanos, ad Passionem Domini, & una pia etiam Elegia &c. Canebat ….

Lisbon, ex typographia João Galrão, 1685.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, contemporary sheep (worn), spine gilt with raised bands in five compartments, gilt-lettered title, gilt bands and ornaments. Small woodcut vignette of floral basket on title page. Typographical and woodcut headpieces, numerous woodcut tailpieces and vignettes. Bottom quarter of leaf A6 torn away, causing loss of a few letters of text on recto and small part of a woodcut vignette on verso. Smaller piece torn away at lower margin of leaf A3, causing loss of most of letter "A" in signature on recto and a catchword on verso. Minor worming in lower blank margins of a few leaves, never affecting text. In good condition. Old signature of José Lopes de Carvalho on title page, verso of fifth preliminary leaf (otherwise blank), front pastedown, and in several places on both recto and verso of front free endleaf. Other notes in same hand on front free endleaf. A [copy of a?] letter, in the same hand, partially scored but without obscuring the text, beginning of verso of leaf P7, continuing on P8 recto and verso. Additional notes and doodles in the same hand on recto and verso of rear free endleaf. (8 ll.), 237 pp., (3 pp. blank). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author, who died in 1717 at Santarem, was a native of the villa of Manteigas. He taught Portuguese, poetry, and Latin at Lisbon, and served as canon at the College of Santarem.*** Arouca A8. Cruz, Tipografia portuguesa do séc. XVII: A colecção da Biblioteca Nacional, I (all published) 5. Barbosa Machado III, 165. Innocêncio XVI, 103 (without collation). Not in Goldsmith, Short Title Catalogue of Spanish and Portuguese Books 1601-1700 in the Library of the British Museum. Porbase locates two copies, one with worming and cut down, the other described as being the "Mau estado", both in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in NUC.