Obras de Luís de Camões, princepe dos poetas portugueses, com os argumentos do Lecenceado João Franco Berreto, & por elle emendadas em esta nova impressão, que comprehende todas as Obras, que deste insigne autor se achãrão impressas, & manuscritas, com o Index dos nomes proprios ….

Lisbon, Por António Craesbeeck d'Mello, Impressor da Casa Real, 1669.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION Thus. 4 volumes bound in 3. 4°, late nineteenth-century mottled sheep (slight wear to some extremities), spines gilt with raised bands in five compartments, red lettering and numbering pieces in second and third compartments from head, covers with borders tooled in blind, marbled endleaves, text block edges sprinkled green. Typographical border on title page, woodcut initials, typographical borders surrounding the "Argumentos" to each canto, woodcut tailpieces at the end of each canto. Occasional soiling, mostly to the initial leaves of the first volume. final gathering of the final volume with dampstains. Overall in good to very good condition. Pictorial bookplate of Fernando de Abreu. His label (with shelf locations?) near feet of spines. (4 ll.), 376, 78 pp., (1 blank l.). Includes the final blank leaf missing in some copies. Page 317 incorrectly numbered 173; pp. 318-9 incorrectly numbered 314-5, p. 321 incorrectly numbered 331, p. 323 correctly numbered (incorrectly numbered 332 in some copies). []4, A-Z8, Aa4, a-k4. *** This is the first attempt to collect the works of Camões under the general title Obras. The four volumes, consisting of the Lusíadas and the three parts of the Rimas, have separate pagination and signatures. The Lusíadas was issued without any special title page. The first part of the Rimas has a title page noting the three parts, while the second and third parts have their own title pages. João Franco Barreto, editor of the Lusíadas, also edited the first two volumes of Rimas. Volume three of the Rimas, published here for the first time, was edited by António Alvares da Cunha.The volume titled Obras contains a brief biography of the poet, ending with the famous epitaph by D. Gonçalo Coutinho which originated the erroneous date of Camões' death, followed by the sonnet "Quem louvará Camões, que elle não seja?". The verso of the fourth preliminary leaf of this volume is correctly titled "Privilegio"; in some copies it is "Frivilegio."*** Arouca C63, C71, C82-3. For a thorough discussion of all four volumes, see Innocêncio XIV, 76-80; also V, 257-8. Barbosa Machado, III, 74. Pinto de Mattos (1970) pp. 106-7. Canto, Colecção camoneana 34-6; cf. also 37-8. Pina Martins, Os Lusíadas, 1572-1972: Catálogo da exposição bibliográfica, iconográfica e medalhística de Camões 92, 122. Braga, Bibliographia Camoneana, pp. 54-5. HSA, pp. 86-7. Palha 1638. Not in JCB, Portuguese and Brazilian Books [but we sold them a copy in 2018]. Porbase locates three copies of the Obras volume: two in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (one, which had belonged to T. Norton, with the first two leaves mutilated and mounted; the other lacking the title page; both "aparado"), and the third copy in the Faculdade de Letras of the Universidade do Porto (without information regarding collation or condition). Porbase locates four copies of the present edition of the Rimas, all in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal: one lacks the first title page, another is severely cut down, while another has only the first two parts. NUC: MH, PP, DCU.*** BOUND WITH:  WITH:CAMÕES, Luís [Vaz] de. Rimas de Luís de Camões, princepe dos poetas portugueses. Primeira, Segunda, e Terceira Parte, nesta nova impressam emendadas, e acrescentadas, pello lecenciado Joam Franco Barreto. Lisbon: Na Officina de António Craesbeeck de Mello, Impressor da Casa Real, 1666. 4º, (2 ll.), 368 pp. []2, A-Z8. Typographical border on title page, woodcut headpiece, tailpiece, and initial. Good condition. AND WITH:CAMÕES, Luís [Vaz] de. Rimas de Luís de Camões, princepe dos poetas portugueses. Segunda Parte. Emendadas, e acrescentadas, pello lecenceado Joam Franco Barreto. Lisbon: Por António Craesbeeck de Mello, Impressor da Casa Real, 1669. 4º, (2 ll.), 207 pp. []2, A-N8. Typographical border on title page, woodcut tailpieces and initial. Good condition. BOUND WITH:CAMÕES, Luís [Vaz] de. Terceira Parte das Rimas do princepe dos poetas portugueses Luís de Camões, tiradas de varios manuscriptos muitos da letra do mesmo Autor, por D. António Alvarez da Cunha. Offerecidas a soberana alteza do Princepe Dom Pedro. Lisbon: Na Officina de António Craesbeeck de Mello, Impressor da Casa Real, 1668. 4º, (4 ll.), 108 pp., (11 ll.). []4, A4, B-F8, G2, H4, a11. Woodcut initial and tailpieces. In very good condition.