1824 The Lusiad de Camoes Portuguese VOYAGES & Os Lusiadas Comoens ENGLISH

1824 The Lusiad de Camoes Portuguese VOYAGES & Os Lusiadas Comoens ENGLISH

Luis de Camões was a 16^th-century Portuguese poet best known for his work ‘Os Lusiadas’. This poem focuses on Portuguese voyages and discoveries of the 15^th– and 16^th-centuries. Later editions, particularly English editions, were known to feature critical attacks on Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and many of the economical patterns of Renaissance trade.

This 1824 English edition of Camoes other poems, sonnets, canzons, and excerpts from Lusiad was collected and translated by Percy Strangford.

Item number: #25332

Price: $499

CAMOES, Luis de

Poems : from the Portug. of Luis Camoens

London: Printed for James Carpenter and Son, 1824.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • 157, [1]
  • Engraved portrait frontispiece
• Provenance:
  • Bookplate – [Freeman]
  • Armorial bookplate – William Caulfeild
    • While this particular individual is unidentified, the arms on this bookplate are consistent with those of the Viscount Charlemont, a title in the Peerage of Ireland, implying this William Caulfeild’s relation to the peerage, if not being an inheriting member himself. Motto: DEO DUCE FERRO COMITANTE
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight and secure
  • Size: ~6.5in X 4in (16.5cm x 10.5cm)

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