Special List 158:
Science and History of Science, Natural History,
Medicine, Navigation,
Technology
Relatively Recent Imprints
May 2011
1. ALBUQUERQUE, Luís de. Estudos de história da ciência naútica: homenagem do Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical. Organização Maria Emília Madeira Santos. Volume II. Lisbon: Ministério da Ciência e do Ensino Superior / Secretaria de Estado da Ciência e Tecnologia / Instituto de Investigação Ciêntifica Tropical / Centro de Estudos de História e Cartografia Antiga, 2002. Folio (30.6 x 22 cm.), publ. cloth with d.j. 730 pp., (1 l.), 1 folding plate, 1 folding table, illus. ISBN: 972-672-907-6.
Volume II. $95.00
2. ALBUQUERQUE, Luís de. Navegação astronómica. Lisbon: Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1988. Folio (30.2 x 21.6), orig. prtd. wrps. 151 pp., illus. ISBN: none.
$25.00
Out of print.
3. ALMEIDA, A.A. Marques de. Aritmética como descrição do real (1519-1679): contributos para a formação da mentalidade moderna em Portugal. 2 volumes. Lisbon: Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses / IN, 1994. Mare Liberum. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 325 pp., (1 l.); 451 pp., (1 l.). One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-27-0523-7.
2 volumes. $75.00
An authoritative work, with an extensive bibliography, indexes of authors, places, and subjects, and a preface by Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão.
4. BANDEIRA, João de Sousa. Tratado de apparelho do navio, com indicações praticas sobre córte e fabrico das vélas, manobras de mastaréus e vergas, embarcações de pequeno lote e miudas, manobra das ancoras e amarras, avarias, reboques, etc. Lisbon: Arquimedes Livros, 2007. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. xxviii, 211 pp., 183 illus. in text, tables in text. One of 80 copies. ISBN: 972-8917-32-6.
$40.00
Limited edition facsimile reprint of the scarce original edition, published Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1896.
5. BARROSO, Eduardo. Coragem, Eduardo! Crónicas publicadas no suplemento DNA do Diário de Notícias entre setembro de 1998 e outubro de 1999. 3rd ed. Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2000. Crónicas. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 227 pp. ISBN: 972–46–1084–5.
$27.00
Fifty-seven essays on medical subjects directed at the general public, such as the pride of being a doctor, surgery in hospitals, good sense, Christmas in the hospital, the author's experience in England (he had studied at Cambridge), euthanasia, etc. The author (b. Lisbon, 1949), a physician, was Director of Surgery II at the Hospital Fernando Fonseca when this book appeared. Originally published in book form late 1999.
6. BORGES, Ana Eleonora. Plantas medicinais e condimentares. Lisbon: Apenas, 2003. Res Rustica, 2. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. with "cordel." 63 pp., illus. One of 100 copies. ISBN: 972-8777-36-1.
$12.00
7. BORGES, Ana Eleonora. Remédios naturais: etnobotânica das plantas medicinais. Lisbon: Apenas, 2003. Res Rustica, 4. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. with "cordel." 40 pp. One of 100 copies. ISBN: 972-8777-41-8.
$10.00
8. CALADO, Ricardo, and Luís [Filipe Castanheira] Narciso. Camarões e lagostas da costa continental portuguesa. Cascais: Câmara Municipal, 2002. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 222 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-637-093-0.
$25.00
Awarded the Prémio do Mar Rei D. Carlos, 2000.
9. Códice Bastião Lopes (de autor anónimo). Introduction by Luís de Albuquerque. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1987. 8°, publ. black silk with color illus. tipped on to front cover. xxii, 30 pp., (1 l.). One of 500 deluxe hardcover copies, numbered 001 to 500. Another 500 copies were printed, numbered 001 to 500 FM, for the Banco de Comércio e Indústria. There were also 2000 copies printed of an edição normal, in softcover. ISBN: none.
$60.00
Color facsimile of this important sixteenth-century navigational manuscript in the library of the Centro de Estudos de História e de Cartografia Antiga, Coimbra.
10. COELHO, Helder. Sonho e razão. Lisbon: Relógio d'Água, 1996. Ciências Cognitivas. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 240 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972–708–518–0.
$28.00
Theoretical essays concerning artificial intelligence.
11. COELHO, Helder, ed. Progresso em inteligência artificial. Actas do 6º Congresso Iberoamericano. / Progress in Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the 6th Iberoamerican Conference. IBERAMIA '98: Lisboa, Portugal, 6 a 9 de Outubro, 1998. Lisbon: Colibri, 1998. Colecção Actas & Colóquios, 15. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. xiv, 542 pp., (1 l.). One of 500 copies. ISBN: 972–772–033–1.
$50.00
Articles in English (23), Portuguese (4), and Spanish (4), followed by 6 dissertation abstracts (5 in Portuguese, 1 in Spanish), by participants from Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Great Britain, the U.S.A., Germany, Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, The Netherlands, France, and Argentina.
12. CORREIA, Clara Pinto. O homem, o seu cão, e o seu relógio: teorias de reprodução. Lisbon: Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, n.d. (1995?). Folio (19.8 x 21 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 28 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.). ISBN: none.
$15.00
Text of a paper given at the Palácio de Santa Helena, 5 June 1995. Born in Lisbon (1960), the author has published over 30 titles since 1983, including fiction, poetry, essays, juvenile literature, and scientific works addressed to the more intelligent sectors of the general public.
13. CORREIA, Clara Pinto. O mistério dos mistérios: uma história breve das teorias de reprodução animal. Lisbon: Relógio d'Água, 1999. Ciência. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 205 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: 972–708–353–0.
$25.00
14. CORREIA, Clara Pinto. Portugal animal. Photographs by António José Cidadão. Lisbon: Relógio d'Água, 2000. Folio (27.2 x 20 cm.), publ. bds. with d.j. 260 pp., (1 l.), profusely illus. with excellent color photographs. ISBN: 972-708-601-2.
$85.00
Organized according to habitats, each animal is described according to its classification, biometric data, external morphology, alimentation, habitat, geographical distribution within the country, reproduction, life style, perspectives for future survival, and stories in which the animal appears.
15. CORREIA, Luís Miguel. Paquetes portugueses. Photographs by Gilberto Andrade. Lisbon: INAPA, 1992. Folio (32 x 23 cm.), publ. cloth with d.j. (4 ll.), 225 pp., (1 l.), profusely illus. with excellent photographs, about one-third in color. ISBN: 972-9019-51-7.
$100.00
History of Portuguese passenger ships from 1820 to recent days. Out of print: we have one copy in stock.
16. CORTESÃO, Armando. The mystery of Vasco da Gama. Coimbra: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1973. Agrupamento de Estudos de Cartografia Antiga, 12. Lge. 8°, publ. leatherette. 195 pp., (2 ll.), with 15 illus. & tables. ISBN: none.
$35.00
17. COSTA, Helder. Onde observar aves no sul de Portugal. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2003. Rosa-dos-Ventos, [4]. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 269 pp., (1 l.), maps, nicely illus., bird illus. in color. ISBN: 972-37-0776-4.
$35.00
18. COSTA, Leonor Freire. Naus e galeões na ribeira de Lisboa: a construção naval no século XVI para a Rota do Cabo. Cascais: Patrimonia, 1997. Patrimonia Histórica. Série Dissertações. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 451 pp., maps, tables and graphs in text. ISBN: 972–744–017–7.
$50.00
19. D. CARLOS DE BRAGANÇA [a.k.a. Dom Carlos I], King of Portugal (1863-1908). Aves de Portugal (sedentarias, de arribação e accidentaes). Estampas: Volume III. Opening remarks by João Pedro Felícia Moreira. Preface by Pedro de Avillez, ed. Introduction by António M. Teixeira. Lisbon: Tribuna da História / Marinha Portuguesa / Banco Espírito Santo, 2006. Folio (32.4 x 24.7 cm.), publ. gilt-stamped bds. with d.j. [112 ll.], including 96 full page color ornithological illustrations, other illus. Much printing in red and black. ISBN: 972-8799-51-9.
Volume III. $180.00
Previously unpublished, the 96 full page color illustrations, each depicting a different bird, are numbered 213 through 308, and are reproduced in facsimile from the original work by D. Carlos in the library of the Aquário Vasco da Gama. On the facing page, printed in red and black, is information about the species, including its scientific name, as well as the vernacular name in Portuguese, French, Spanish, English, Italian, German and Russian (where known; sometimes the name is not given in all languages). Toward the end are facsimile reproductions of parts of the King's notebooks. These recently discovered manuscripts and original watercolor illustrations supplement two volumes previously published, in 1903 and 1907, respectively. See Alberto Girard, "A obra scientifica" in J. Collaço, A. Palhares, and R. Torralba, eds., S.M. El-Rei D. Carlos I e a sua obra artistica e scientifica (1908). While the scientific text is indeed the work of King Carlos I of Portugal, it is now known that the watercolors were done by the distinguished Spanish artist Enrique Casanova (1850-1913), a native of Saragosa long resident in Portugal, teacher of D. Luís I, D. Carlos, the Infante D. Afonso, and D. Amélia, D. Luís Filipe, and D. Manuel II. He worked in this instance under the orientation of D. Carlos. See Pamplona, 2nd ed., II, 68-70.
Two volumes, with 40 plates, were published by the Imprensa Nacional in 1903 and 1907. They were reprinted in 1983. An additional 53 plates were discovered at that time in the offices of the Imprensa Nacional—these were issued as a supplement in 1985; all were published together in a single volume by the Imprensa Nacional in 1998. The editor of the present volume has designated the volumes published together by the Imprensa Nacional in 1998 as "Volume I".
In 2001, additional watercolors were discovered in the archives of the Aquário Vasco da Gama. In 2003 the Marinha Portuguesa, Aquário Vasco da Gama, and Lusitania Companhia de Seguros, published 110 full-page color ornithological illustrations in a similar format to the present work, with scientific observations and commentaries written by D. Carlos to support the illustrations. That volume has been designated by the present editor as "Volume II".
20. DAMÁSIO, António R. O erro de Descartes: emoção, razão e cérebro humano. 5th ed. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1995. Forum da Ciência, 29. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 309, (1) pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-1-03944-6.
$30.00
The author is Chairman of the Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, and a professor at the Salk Institute. The book originally appeared in English as Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain. The Portuguese edition went through fifteen editions from May through December, 1995.
21. DINIZ, Maria Adélia, Eurico S. Martins, Ilídio Moreira, et al., eds. Flora infestante das culturas de bolanha da Guiné-Bissau. Lisbon: Ministério da Ciência e do Ensino Superior / Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical / Centro de Botânica, and Bissau, Ministério de Agricultura, Florestas, Caça e Pecuária / Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa Agrária, 2002. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 144 pp., profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 972-672-905-X.
$20.00
22. DINIZ, Maria Adélia, Eurico S. Martins, Ilídio Moreira, et al., eds. Flora infestante das culturas de planalto da Guiné-Bissau. Lisbon: Ministério da Ciência e do Ensino Superior / Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical / Centro de Botânica, and Bissau, Ministério de Agricultura, Floriestas, Caça e Pecuária / Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa Agrária, 2002. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 200 pp., profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 972-672-914-9.
$25.00
23. EIRÓ, Ana Maria, and Carlos Matos Ferreira, eds. À luz de Einstein, 1905-2005. Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Serviço de Ciência, 2005. Lge. 4° (26 x 20.2 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 119, (1) pp., profusely and nicely illus., about half in color. ISBN: 972-99098-2-2.
$45.00
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 3 October 2005 to 15 January 2006, organized by the editors. Texts by Ana Maria Eiró, Ana Simões, Carlos Matos Ferreira, Gonçalo Figueira, João Mendanha Dias, Luis Oliveira e Silva, Luis Viseu Melo, Paulo Crawford, Pedro Brogueira, Rui Agostinho, and Teresa Peña.
24. ERÉDIA, Manuel Godinho de. Suma de árvores e plantas da Índia Intra Ganges. J.G. Everaert, J.E. Mendes Ferrão, and M. Cândida Liberato, eds. Preface by Luís Filipe F.R. Thomaz. Lisbon: CNCDP, 2001. Colecção Outras Margens. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 169 pp., maps and tables in text, 76, (1) ll. with 75 full page facsimiles of the original manuscript color botanical illus., with text on versos (the third leaf with text on both recto and verso). ISBN: 972-787-067-8.
$40.00
The interesting preface occupies pp. 9-22. The text consists of three main parts: "Manuel Godinho de Erédia. Humaniste ou aventurier?" by J.G. Everaert (pp. 23-88); "As plantas de Manuel Godinho de Erédia" by J.E. Mendes Ferrão and M. Cândida Liberato (pp. 89-160); and "A Suma de Árvores e Plantas da Índia Intra Ganges," (pp. 161-2) including "Présentation du Codex" (pp. 163-5) and "La terminologie de l'époque utilisée par Erédia (pp. 166-8) by J.G. Everaert. The facsimile of the Codex appears after p. 168 and before the table of contents (p. 169). The original Codex is at the Abbey of Tongerlo, Belgium.
25. FERNANDES, João Paulo. A política e o ambiente: a dimensão do indivíduo. Sustenabilidade: o desafio de romper com os velhos paradigmas. Lisbon: Instituto Piaget, 2002. Perspectivas Ecológicas, 37. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 184 pp. ISBN: 972-771-562-1.
$22.00
26. FERNANDES, Joaquim. Heterodoxias para o século XXI: novas fronteiras de ciência. Prefácio de Peter A. Sturrock. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2001. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 255 pp. ISBN: 972-610-348-7.
$35.00
Essays on the study of the paranormal, parapsychology, extraterrestrials, unorthodox medical therapies, etc. in universities and government programs.
27. FERNANDES, Manuel. Livro de traças de carpintaria com todos os modelos e medidas para se fazerem toda a navegação assi d'alto bordo como de remo traçado por . . . Lisbon: Academia de Marinha, 1989. Folio (36.5 x 46.8 cm.), publ. buckram. (1 blank, 3, 3), 140 (10 folding, 2 blank, 1, 1 blank) ll. ISBN: none.
$500.00
Magnificent full-color facsimile reproduction of a profusely illustrated, unique manuscript written in 1616, now in the Biblioteca da Ajuda. Manuel Fernandes, the author of the Livro de traças de carpintaria, calls himself "an official of the same art." This shipbuilding ordinance, describing more than 2 dozen ships of various kinds, is the equivalent of a treatise on shipbuilding of the time. According to the introduction by Rogério S.G. d'Oliveira, President of the Academia de Marinha, it is "of greater archaeological value than the best contemporary foreign works."
28. FERNANDES, Manuel. Livro de traças de carpintaria com todos os modelos e medidas para se fazerem toda a navegação assi d'alto bordo como de remo traçado por . . . Lisbon: Academia de Marinha, 1989. Folio (36.5 x 46.8 cm.), special publisher's binding of full calf. (1 blank, 3, 3), 140 (10 folding, 2 blank, 1, 1 blank) ll. ISBN: none.
$900.00
The same, in a publisher's binding of full calf.
29. FERRÃO, José E. Mendes. A aventura das plantas e os descobrimentos portugueses. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical / Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses / Fundação Berardo, 1993. Folio (30 x 23.4 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 241 pp., (3 ll.), profusely illus., including many gorgeous photographs, the great majority of them in color, and maps. ISBN: 912-672-584-4 [sic: i.e. 972-672-584-4].
$45.00
First published 1992. Deals with the interchange of plants between America, Africa, Asia and Europe. The opening chapters stress the importance of the cereal trade and cultivation of sugar as economic supports to the discoveries, and the role of the Atlantic islands as staging grounds.
30. FERREIRA, F.A. Gonçalves. Nutrição humana. Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1983. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 1,291 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: none.
$60.00
31. FERREIRA, Maria Alzira Almoster, and José Francisco Rodrigues, eds. Museums of Science and Technology. Lisbon: Fundação Oriente, 1998. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 192 pp., 46 (mostly color) illus. on 16 unn. ll., printed on both sides. ISBN: 972–9440–88–3.
$38.00
Other contributors include Fernando Bragança Gil, Dominique Ferriot, Gillian Thomas, W.P. Fehlhammer, Bernard Finn, Jorge Wagensberg, Cui Shizhu, J. Providência e Costa, Natália Bebiano, Luiz Alte da Veiga, Vasco Rivotti Silva, Raquel Gonçalves, J.M. Araújo, Melanie Quin, Albrecht Beutelspacher, Arala Chaves, Victor Gil, Maria da Conceição Abreu, and Walter Staveloz.
32. FIDALGO, Manuel. Barco da Xávega [tecnologia da sua construção]. Lisbon: Colibri / INATEL, 2000. Obras em Colaboração com o INATEL, 3. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 76 pp., (1 l.), many illus., most in color. ISBN: 972-772-164-8.
$18.00
33. FREITAS, João Sande de, and Raul Constâncio. Trees of Monserrate. Lisbon: INAPA, 1997. Folio (29 x 22 cm.), publ. illus. bds. with d.j. (4 ll.), 129 pp., (1 l.), profusely illus. with exquisite color photographs. One of 500 hard–cover copies in English. ISBN: 972–8387–23–7.
$100.00
The English translation by Peter Ingham is first rate. There were 1,000 copies printed in soft cover, which are no longer available. Of the total edition of 1,500 copies in English, 1,250 were for the Associação Amigos de Monserrate; only 250 were for sale by the publisher, INAPA.
34. GODINHO, Vitorino Magalhães. Mito e mercadoria, utopia e prática de navegar: séculos XIII-XVIII. Lisbon: Difel, 1990. Colecção Memória e Sociedade, Série Especial. Lge. 8°, publ. buckram with d.j. 629 pp., (1 l.), including over 20 full-page color illus., others in black & white. ISBN: 972–29–0043–9.
$85.00
Many of the illustrations are of maps and portolan charts. An important work by a noted historian.
35. GUERREIRO, Inácio, ed. A epopeia das especiarias. Lisbon: IICT / INAPA, 1999. Colecção Oceanos. Folio (31.9 x 25.2 cm.), publ. cloth with d.j. 181, (1) pp., (1 l.), profusely and very nicely illus., mostly in color. ISBN: 972–8387–52–0.
$95.00
Texts by the editor, Luís Filipe Thomaz, J.E. Mendes Ferrão, Maria Adélia, Maria Cândida Liberato, Eurico S. Martins, José Pedro Sousa Dias, Manuel Lobato, Maria de Jesus dos Mártires Lopes, and Maria Augusta Lima Cruz, on every conceivable aspect of spices. Included are articles on the names of spices, the principal tropical spices, spices from a botanical standpoint, from a pharmacological standpoint, the relationship between cloves, the Moluccas, and the Portuguese, spices in Goan cooking, the relationship between the production and trade in spices and the history of cartography, and finally the relationship between the routes of the spice trade and sixteenth-century Portuguese literature. A lovely book.
36. GUERREIRO, Inácio, Maria Emília Madeira Santos, Max Justo Guedes, et al. Limites do mar e da terra: Actas da VIII Reunião Internacional de História da Náutica e Hidrografia. / Limits of the Land and Sea: Proceedings of the VIII International Reunion for the History of Nautical Science and Hydrography. Cascais: Patrimonia, 1998. Ars Nautica. Sm. folio (28 x 18.9 cm.), orig. prtd. wrps. 350 pp., (1 ll.), maps, illus., and tables in text. ISBN: 972-744-028-2.
$50.00
Proceedings of conferences held at Viana do Castelo, 19–24 September 1994. Includes papers in Portuguese (14), English (7), Spanish (7). Among the contributors are Richard Baker, Luciana Stegagno Picchio, Juan Gil, Gunther Shilder, Fernando Lourenço Fernandes, Carmen Radulet, Wilcomb E. Washburn, and Carlos Francisco Moura.
37. HENRIQUES, Pedro Castro, and Renato Neves. Routes to the landscapes & habitats of Portugal. João Carlos Farinha, ed. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2001. Rosa-dos-Ventos, 4. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 408 pp., profusely and nicely illus. in color, maps. ISBN: 972-37-0642-3.
$50.00
38. HUGO DE FOLIETO (1096-1172). Livro das aves. Edição do texto latino a partir dos manuscritos portugueses, tradução do Latim e introdução por Maria Isabel Rebelo Gonçalves. Lisbon: Colibri, 1999. Obras Clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa, Literatura Medieval, 61. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 195 pp., (1 l.), illus. One of 1,000 copies. Text in Latin and Portuguese. ISBN: 972-772-123-0.
$20.00
39. JANEIRA, Ana Luísa. Fazer-ver para fazer-saber: os museus das ciências. Lisbon: Salamandra, 1995. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 157 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-689-080-2.
$20.00
40. MACHADO, Maria Cândida Consolado. Rei Dom Carlos, campanhas oceanográficas: estudo das colecções malacológicas. Lisbon: INAPA / Comissão Cultural da Marinha / Shell Portuguesa, 1996. Folio (31.8 x 25.2 cm.), publ. cloth with d.j. (6 ll.), 188 pp., (3 ll.), well illus., mostly in color. ISBN: 972-9019-60-6.
$100.00
41. Manual do fogueteiro, ou arte dos fogos de artifício. Lisbon: Arquimedes Livros, 2005. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 79 pp., (1 l.), illus. One of 80 copies. ISBN: 972-8917-06-6.
$20.00
Facsimile reprint of the Lisbon, 1908 edition, said to be the first.
42. MARQUES, Viriato Soromenho, ed. QUERCUS: Documentos e informações fundamentais sobre a QUERCUS - Associação Nacional de Conservação da Natureza. Lisbon: Colibri, and Porto: QUERCUS, 1993. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 49 pp., (1 l. advt., 1 l. colophon). ISBN: 972-8047-60-6.
$25.00
Introduction by the editor.
43. MASSADA, Jorge. Vale a pena ser cientista? Preface by José Mariano Gago. 2nd ed. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2003. Campo das Ciências, 9. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 151 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-610-588-9.
$18.00
First published October 2002. Extensive interviews with four Portuguese scientists: Alexandre Quintanilha, António Coutinho, Arsélio Pato de Carvalho, and Sobrinho Simões (winner of the Prémio Pessoa, 2002).
44. MATHIAS, Maria da Luz, Margarida Santos–Reis, Jorge Palmeirim and Maria da Graça Ramalhinho. Mamíferos de Portugal. Lisbon: INAPA, 1998. Lge. 4° (27.8 x 27.6 cm.), publ. cloth with d.j. (6 ll.), 145 pp., (1 l.), profusely illustrated with high–quality color photographs. ISBN: 972–8387–18–0.
$80.00
45. MATOS, Milena, and António Luís. Atlas da aves nidificantes do Campus da Universidade de Aveiro. Preface by Maria Helena Nazaré and Amadeu Soares. Porto: Afrontamento, and Aveiro: Departamento de Biologia, Universidade de Aveiro, 2007. Colecção Biologicando, 1. Lge. 4° (24 x 21.3 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 123 pp., (2 ll.), maps and numerous plans in text, many illus., mostly in color, many full-page, bibliography. ISBN: 972-36-0886-1.
$25.00
46. Memória das armadas que de Portugal passaram à Índia. Esta primeira e a com que Vasco Da Gama partiu ao descobrimento dela por mandado de El Rei Dom Manuel no segundo ano de seu reinado e no de nascimento de Cristo de 1497. Lisbon: Academia das Ciências, 1979. Folio (42 x 27.8 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 25 pp. [pp. 1–2 blank], (1), 44 [i.e. 40 ll.—leaves 1–5 numbered as pp. 1–10, followed by leaves numbered 11–44; some pp. and leaves misnumbered), (1 l. blank), profusely illus. in color. ISBN: none.
$375.00
Excellent facsimile edition of this valuable manuscript of the Portuguese discoveries. The facsimile of the manuscript is preceded by an introduction by Luís de Albuquerque, in which he provides a most useful list of all related manuscripts, followed by a comparison of the information provided about each fleet in this manuscript and in the Livro de Lisuarte de Abreu. Pages 15–25 contain a transcription of all text in the manuscript, organized, as is the manuscript itself, chronologically by the years of the fleets.
47. MIGUÉNS, Maria Isabel N. O tombo do Hospital e Gafaria do Santo Espírito de Sintra. Cascais: Patrimonia, 1997. Patrimonia Histórica. Série Dissertações. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 219 pp., illus., tables in text. ISBN: 972–744–022–3.
$33.00
48. Modus curandi cum balsamo. Edição fac-similada. Prefácio de José V. de Pina Martins. Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional, 1988. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 32 pp., (5 ll.). ISBN: none.
$15.00
49. MORGADO, Fernando, Juliana Gadelha, Marta Pimpão, and Amadeu Soares. Mergulho e fauna subaquática das Ilhas Berlengas. Porto: Afrontamento, and Aveiro: Universidade de Aveiro, 2008. Colecção Biologicando, 3. Lge. 4° (24 x 21.2 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 144 pp., (1 l.), profusely illus. in color, maps and tables in text, bibliography, glossary. ISBN: 978-972-36-0864-6.
$40.00
50. NARCISO, Luís Filipe Castanheira. Biologia e cultivo de Artemia sp. (crustacea, branchiopoda): sua utilização em aquacultura. Cascais: Câmara Municipal, 2000. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 94 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-637-076-0.
$20.00
Awarded the Prémio do Mar Rei D. Carlos, 1998, for Descobrimentos e Expansão Portuguesa.
51. OLIVEIRA, Fernando. O livro da fábrica das naus. Lisbon: Academia da Marinha, 1991. Folio (30.5 x 21.5 cm.), publ. leatherette. 211 pp., (1, 1 facs.), 164 pp. facs. [with 8 ll. fldg. facs. tipped in], (1, 12 facs., 1 l.). Text in Portuguese and English. ISBN: none.
$150.00
FIRST EDITION, with facsimile. The original manuscript of this important sixteenth-century work on shipbuilding is in the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, and has never before been published. Included here are an introductory note by Rogerio S.G. d'Oliveira, a study of the author and his work by F. Contente Domingues and R.A. Baker, notes and bibliography, followed by a transcription of the manuscript, all in both Portuguese and (decent, readable) English; this is followed by the facsimile of the original manuscript.
The author of this work was probably born in 1507, in Aveiro. He led an adventurous life, fleeing to Spain at age 18, returning to Lisbon, then back to Spain, where he embarked at Barcelona for Genoa. Imprisoned on the French galleys, he almost immediately was made pilot, without doubt due to his prior knowledge of navigation. He returned to Lisbon in 1543, but in 1545 reembarked as pilot of a French galley. When the galley was captured by the English, he became a prisoner for the second time. On trial before the Inquisition in 1547, he refused to denounce the English monarch Henry VIII, claiming to have been his servant and to have partaken of his bread; the Inquisition responded by imprisoning him until 1550, and not allowing him full freedom until the following year. In 1552 he embarked on an expedition to aid the King of Velez, in North Africa. All the participants in this expedition were captured, and Oliveira was sent to Lisbon to negotiate the ransoms.
We next encounter him living in the house of D. António da Cunha, where he was once again denounced to the Inquisition—by his host. Despite this, in 1554 D. João III appointed him reviewer of the press of the University of Coimbra. After another spell in prison, 1555-1557, facts about him become scarce. It appears that he was still alive in 1585, and that he got into trouble once again, this time for opposing the rule of Philip II.
Oliveira is perhaps best known for his Gramatica da lingoagem portuguesa (Lisbon, 1536) and Arte da guerra do mar (Lisbon, 1555). His manuscript "Viagem de Fernão de Magalhães . . . ," the original of which is in the Leiden University Library, has gone through four different twentieth-century editions.
52. OLIVEIRA, Paulo de, and Humberto Vasconcelos. Vida selvagem de Portugal. / Wildlife. Lisbon: INAPA, 1998. Folio (31.8 x 25 cm.), publ. cloth with d.j. 191 pp., profusely illustrated with high–quality color photographs. ISBN: 972–8387–39–6.
$90.00
Text by Vasconcelos, photographs by Oliveira. Text in English and Portuguese.
53. ORTA, Garcia d'. Colóquios dos simples e drogas e cousas medicinais da India. Reprodução fac-similada da edição impressa em Goa em 10 de Abril de 1563, comemorando o quarto centenário da edição original . . . Lisbon: Ramos, Afonso & Moita, Lda. for the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 1963. 4°, recent half red morocco, spine gilt, orig. prtd. wrps. bound in. (1 blank l.), (15), 217 [i.e. 248], (1, 1 blank) ll. ISBN: none.
$150.00
Facsimile reprint of the "first account of Indian matéria médica and the first text-book on tropical medicine written by a European . . . It is the third book printed in India . . ." (Garrison-Morton 1815). Orta's observations are of great importance from a scientific point of view, as he was the first to provide a description of Asian cholera, and his method of treatment, which contained bezoar-stone and opium, was the earliest recorded attempt to treat the disease. His many descriptions of previously unknown plants, and comments on their medicinal uses, have earned him lasting fame.
Orta was born in 1501 or 1502 at Elvas, the son of Jews forced to flee Spain. Like his contemporary Monardes he studied medicine at the University of Salamanca and at Alcalá de Henares for 10 years, but did not receive a degree. In 1534 he sailed as king's physician to India, where he remained until his death in 1568.
54. RÉ, Pedro Miguel Alfaia Barcia. Ictioplâncton estuarino da Península Ibérica (guia de identificação dos ovos e estados larvares planctónicos). Cascais: Câmara Municipal, 1999. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 163 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-637-065-5.
$25.00
Awarded the Prémio do Mar, 1996.
55. REMOALDO, Paula Cristina Almeida. Desigualdades territoriais e sociais subjacents à mortalidade infantil em Portugal. Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian / Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia / Ministério da Ciência e do Ensino Superior, 2002. Textos Universitários de Ciências Sociais e Humanas. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 586 pp., numerous maps, tables and graphs in text, footnotes, bibliography. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-31-0955-7.
$50.00
56. RUIVO, Beatriz. As políticas de ciência e tecnologia e o sistema de investigação: teoria e análise do caso português. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1998. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 322 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972–27–0883–X.
$40.00
57. SAGAN, Carl. Um mundo infestado de demónios. Ana Falcão Bastos and Luís Leitão Bastos, trans. Lisbon: Gradiva, 1998. Ciência Aberta, 90. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 450 pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-662-562-9.
$40.00
Second Portuguese edition of The Demon-Haunted World.
58. SANTOS, José Alberto Loureiro dos. Reflexões sobre estratégia: temas de segurança e defesa. Preface by José Madeiros Ferreira. Mem Martins: Europa-América / Instituto de Altos Estudos Militares, 2000. Estudos e Documentos, 302. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 280 pp., (1 l., 3 ll. adv.). ISBN: 972-1-04718-X.
$32.00
59. SERRA, J.A. Matter, Life, Mind and Culture in Existential Theory. Lisbon: Instituto Nacional de Investigacao Cientifica, 1990. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 107 pp. ISBN: 972-667-138-8. $20.00
60. SERRA, José [Francisco] Correia da (1751-1823). Itinerários histórico-naturais. Introdução e coordenação editorial: Ana Simões, Ana Carneiro, and Maria Paula Diogo. Preface by José V. de Pina Martins. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003. Colecção Ciência e Iluminismo. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. viii, 104 pp., annotations. ISBN: 972-0-34262-5.
$35.00
The Abade Correia da Serra was a major figure in Luso-American relations, as a house guest at Monticello and friend of Thomas Jefferson and other luminaries of the early American republic, as a member of American learned societies, and as the first Minister Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom of Portugal and Brazil to the United States (1816-1820).
61. SIMON, William Joel. Scientific Expeditions in the Portuguese Overseas Territories (1783-1808) and the Role of Lisbon in the Intellectual-Scientific Community of the Late Eighteenth Century. Lisbon: Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Centro de Estudos de Cartografia Antiga, 1983. Estudos de Cartografia Antiga, 22. Folio (28.7 x 21.3 cm.), publ. bds. with d.j. xvi, 193, (1) pp., with 21 illus. & maps. ISBN: none.
$50.00
Important, well–written and interesting work.
62. SOARES, Maria Luísa Couto, ed. Hipócrates e a arte da medicina. Lisbon: Colibri, 1999. Forum de Ideias, 8. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 154 pp., (1 l.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972–772–089–7.
$18.00
Essays by Paulo Tunhas, Manuel Silvério Marques, António Caeiro, Maria José Vaz Pinto, António Martins da Silva, and the editor on the philosophy of medicine, the Hippocratic oath, and the thought of Hippocrates.
63. SOARES, Mário, Edmond Leach, José Mariano Gago, et al. A ciência como cultura: colóquio promovido pelo Presidente da República. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1992. Estudos Gerais, Série Universitária. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 205 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-27-0509-1.
$20.00
64. SOUSA, Maria de, Alexandre Castro Caldas, João Lavinha, et al. As ciências: balanço e perspectivas. Cascais: Câmara Municipal, 1997. Actas dos 3ºs Cursos Internacionais de Verão de Cascais, 2. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 194 pp., maps, tables, graphs and illus. in text. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-637-037-X.
$25.00
65. SOUSA, Isabel Maria Romero, and Magalhães Fernandes. Percursos geológicos no sulco carbonífero Dúrico-Beirão [Valongo-Gondomar-Castelo de Paiva]. Porto: Afrontamento, 2007. Colecção Ciência e Natureza, 2. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 141 pp., illus. (many in color), maps, diagrams and graphs in text, bibliography, glossary, 3 large folding color plates tipped in to a rear pocket. ISBN: 978-972-36-0868-7.
$30.00
66. TEIXEIRA, Francisco Gomes (1851-1933). História das matemáticas em Portugal. Preface by Aníbal Scipião de Carvalho. Lisbon: Arquimedes Livros, 2006. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. vi, 300 pp. One of 90 copies. ISBN: 972-8917-12-0.
$30.00
Facsimile reprint of the first (and only previous?) edition published in Lisbon by the Academia das Ciências, 1934.