(Hollanda) De Castro e Souza, A.D.
Vida de Francisco de Ollanda, illuminador, e architecto Portuguez, que floresceo no decimo sexto seculo, extrahida de seus escriptos.
Lisboa, “Typ.da Viuva Coelho e Comp.” 1844.
Reference: 15263
Price: £110 [convert currency]
Full Description
8vo. 18pp. Sewn as issued, in decorative paper folder. Old ownership stamp on title leaf. No ownership inscription but John Bury’s copy.
A rare pamphlet by the Portuguese scholar and art historian Antonio Damaso de Castro e Souza (1804-1876), offering a brief but properly documented account of the life of Francisco de Hollanda, based on his surviving writings. The author dedicated it to Count Raczynski, at that time Prussian Ambassador to Portugal.