ROCHA PITTA, SEBASTIAO DA (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint. Facsimile Reprint of the 1880 edition. No publication date, circa 2018. From the library of ABAA bookseller, Tom Nicely. Text in Portuguese. Bound in leather looking boards with gold spine titles; minimal wear; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; no jacket. Interior is clean and unmarked; 404 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint. Facsimile Reprint of the 1880 edition. No publication date, circa 2018. From the library of ABAA bookseller, Tom Nicely. Text in Portuguese. Bound in leather looking boards with gold spine titles; minimal wear; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; no jacket. Interior is clean and unmarked; 404 pages.

Hardcover/Pappeinband. xxvii, 404 S. Good condition. Ex-Library. New library binding. With 6 plates and 1 map. pt Gewicht in Gramm: 945 Segunda edicao revista e annotada por J.G. Goes.

Large 8°, contemporary red half sheep over dark green pebbled cloth (minor wear), spine gilt in five compartments, raised bands, marbled endleaves, original green on yellow printed wrappers bound in (small repair at outer margin of front wrapper; tiny repair at outer margin of rear wrapper), edges sprinkled. Title in red and black with publisher's monogram. Six lithograph plates. Double-page engraved map of Brazil. Overall in fine condition. xxviii, 404 pp., 6 plates and 1 double-page map. *** Third edition but First Illustrated Edition of the first general history of Brazil, which was originally published in Lisbon, 1730, and again at Bahia, 1878. This edition is described in error on the front wrapper and the title-page as the second. It was revised and annotated by J.G. Goes. The illustrations depict landfall in 1500, the city of Salvador, Bahia, the death of Padre Ignacio d'Azevedo, João Fernandes Vieira, panning for gold, and Rio de Janeiro. There is also a double-page map of Brazil.Burns describes Rocha Pitta as "one of the foremost eighteenth-century historians" (Perspectives on Brazilian History p. 16), although Rocha Pitta is often condemned for his florid and ornate language, and for not using primary sources. Southey's harsh assessment has been widely quoted: "The only general history of Brazil is . a meagre and inaccurate work, which has been accounted valuable merely because there was no other" (Preface to the History of Brazil, London 1810-19). On the other hand, Southey testified to the importance of Rocha Pitta's Historia by numerous citations of it throughout his own work. And while Southey rejected Rocha Pitta's methodology, the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico (established 1839) respected and sometimes adhered to it. The Historia is an important source on the history of Minas Geraes (where gold, diamonds and emeralds were all discovered during his lifetime), on the "Guerra dos Emboabas," 1708-1711, between Paulistas and recent immigrants from Portugal and coastal Brazil, and on the "Guerra dos Macates," 1709-1711, between the sugar-planters in Olinda and the new bourgeoisie in Recife.Rocha Pitta (1660-1738), a native of Bahia, traveled to Coimbra to take his degree, then spent most of the rest of his life on his family's plantation in Brazil.*** Borba de Moraes (1983) II, 678. Blake VII, 214-5. Rodrigues 2113.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Desde o anno de Mil e Quinhentos do seu Descobrimento até o de Mil e Setecentos e Vinte e Quatro. Offerecida Á Magestade Augusta Del-Rei D. João V, Nosso Senhor. Composta por Sebastião da Rocha Pitta. Fidalgo da Casa de Sua Magestade, Cavalleiro professo da Ordem de Christo, Coronel do Regimento de Infanteria da Ordenança da Cidade da Bahia e dos Privilegios d'ella e Academico supranumerario da Academia Real da Historia Portugueza. Segunda Edição Revista e annotada por J. G. Goes Official da Bibliotheca Nacional de Lisboa. Ornada com seis Bellas Gravuras e um Mapa. Francisco Arthur da Silva Editor. Lisboa. M. DCCC. LXXX. [1880]. De 26,2x17,5 cm. Com xxviii, 404 págs. Encadernação da época com a lombada em pele com ferros a ouro. Ilustrada, em extratexto, com 6 gravuras desenhadas por A. Januário Correia e gravadas por D. José Severini e um mapa do Brasil heliogravado por J. Leipold (director da officina da gravura das notas do Banco de Portugal) e editado por F. A. da Silva. Exemplar com etiqueta da Oficina de Encadernação Santos & Alves de Lisboa, na pasta anterior. Apresenta restauro grosseiro na margem direita da folha de rosto, sem atingir a mancha gráfica e leve acidez própria da qualidade do papel ao longo do texto. Nas páginas preliminares contém: A quem ler e Notícia biográfica, escritas para esta 2ª edição pelo revisor e anotador e a transcrição das peças preliminares da 1ª edição publicada em 1730, ou seja, a dedicatória a D. João V, o Prólogo, Advertências e as licenças. A partir de página 331 até ao fim inclui todas as peças da 1ª edição, ou seja, a protestação, relações dos governadores das províncias e praças-fortes, das pessoas naturais do Brasil que exerceram dignidades e governos eclesiásticos e seculares, índice das cousas notáveis (constituído com as cotas marginais da 1ª edição), notas da 2ª edição e índice geral. Bela e esmerada edição cuidadosamente impressa sobre papel de linho, ornamentada com cabeções, com motivos florais, iniciais decoradas e florões de remate. 2ª Edição muito rara da primeira história do Brasil, fonte histórica muito importante e notável obra literária do período barroco da Literatura Portuguesa. O escritor brasileiro Pereira da Silva, biógrafo do autor, considera: «obra muito preciosa e muito necessaria para todos os Brasileiros que quiserem saber a história do seu país. Rocha Pitta é considerado um historiador muito imparcial, que descreve os acontecimentos de forma fundamentada em pormenorizadas investigações e informações seguras. Sebastião da Rocha Pitta (Baía 1660 - 1738) Bacharel em Cânones pela Universidade de Coimbra, foi poeta e historiador. A sua obra mais notável é a História do Brasil que lhe valeu a aprovação da Academia Portuguesa de História e a admissão como sócio supranumerário nessa instituição, assim como a mercê de fidalgo da Casa Real Language: Português / Portuguese Location/localizacao: M-4-C-40.

Lisboa Occidental, na Officina de Joseph Antonio da Sylva, 1730. Folio (29 x 195 mm). In recent green half calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Title-page mounted and with repair to outer margin, no loss of text. Last leaf with repair to lower outer corner, also with no loss of text. First and least few leaves with brownspotting. Very light browning in margins throughout. Title printed in red and black, woodcut initials and head-pieces. A fine and clean copy. (14), 716 pp. (Here with the often missing half title, but wanting the final blank). Rare first edition, here with the often missing half title, of the first general history of Brazil ? ?This work is extremely copious in the details of its foundation as a colony, its successive governors, its churches, its monasteries and convents? (Sabin). "This first edition is becoming rare, and is much sought after by Brazilians [.] since it is the first history of Brazil to have been printed, and since it was written by a Brazilian" (Borba de Moraes). The author's purpose was to narrate the events that had taken place in Brazil with the help of "truthful reports", these largely from Jesuit sources, and "modern information" given by those who had traveled in the vast Brazilian territory. This was the only history of Brazil available to Pitta?s contemporaries, since most of the others composed in the first two centuries of colonization remained in manuscript form until the nineteenth century. Rocha Pitta was born in Bahia in 1660 and died in the year 1738. At the age of 22 he left the University of Coimbra, where he took his degree, to return to Bahia, where he got married. He made up his mind to write a history of Brazil, and he spent years in collecting documents in the Monasteries of Brazil and Portugal, where he went in order to study French, Dutch and Italian for the purposes of his history. ?In 1728, after 40 years of study, he began to print his history, which appeared in 1730. It was universally well received, and King John V. appointed him a member of the household in consequence, yet in a few years the Portuguese government publicly prohibited its being read under the severest penalties.? (Sabin).Sabin 72300 Borba de Moraes (1983), p. 748.