De Gloria Libri V, de D. Jerónimo Osório, 1552

De Gloria Libri V, de D. Jerónimo Osório, 1552
OSÓRIO, Jerónimo.- HIERONYMI | OSORII LVSITANI | DE GLORIA | LIBRI V. | AD IOANNEM TERTIVM | LVSITANVM REGEM. | [gravura xilográfica].- Florentiae: Apud Laurentium Torrentinum, MDLII [1552].- 246 p.; 22 cm.- E.
Second edition of one of the most important texts of the great humanist (1506-1580) who would become the last bishop of Silves (1564-1577) and the first of the renewed diocese of the Algarve in Faro (1577-1580). The work, divided into five books, initially published in Coimbra (1549), discusses some of the great issues that worried humanists in the second half of the sixteenth century. The text came to achieve great success throughout Europe, having been reprinted, at least 13 times still in the author's life (recently reissued text, with critical importance, by João Nunes Torrão, Lisbon, Colibri, 2006). Slightly cropped specimen (gilt edges), but clean, particularly notable for presenting several inscriptions and possession marks. In the second free endpaper, two registrations signed by António Augusto Teixeira de Vasconcelos (1816-1878): one purchased, dated Paris, 1860; another offered to Miguel Osório de Castro Cabral; on the free endpaper the bookplate of Miguel Osório de Alarcão Albuquerque. Stamp of Quinta das Lágrimas on the title page (repeated on the outside margin of p. 17) and the heraldic white seal of the recipient of the offer; on the verse (blank), an extensive biographical annotation in French, about the author, in ancient letters, possibly from the seventeenth century. Entire sheepskin binding, probably a 17th-century school prize (Plessis-Sorbonne College in Paris?), with a semée of fleur-de-lis on covers and spine. At the centre of both covers, a large oval vegetalist tool, with central reserve filled with three fleur-de-lis. The two pastedowns on marbled paper should have been added in the 19th century, missing their free endpapers. Edition not mentioned in the bibliographies consulted, including in the Library of King D. Manuel II of Portugal.