VERNEY, Pe. Luís António, O.F.M. Cap.- [...] De re logica ad usum lusitanorum adolescentium libri quinque.- Romae: ...

VERNEY, Pe. Luís António, O.F.M. Cap.- [...] De re logica ad usum lusitanorum adolescentium libri quinque.- Romae: Ex Typographia Palladis apud Nicolaum, et Marcum Palearinos- M. D. CCLI. [1751].- XI, [1], 16, 388, [2] p.: 1 retrato; 20 cm.- E.
First edition of one of the most important texts of the Pombaline reform of education in Portugal. Luís António Verney (1713-1792), son of French parents, but born in Lisbon, maximum exponent of the Enlightenment in Portugal and one of the most famous Portuguese "foreigners", studied at Santo Antão College in Lisbon and at the Congregation of the Oratory, before getting a degree in Theology at the University of Évora. Ownership manuscript of the time, on the title page: Coll: Anglor: Ulyssip: — Preston. Small marginal cut in the last 10 sheets. Otherwise, in a very clean copy with large margins, preserving the rare portrait of the author with the subscription Nolly Pinx-Sc. (Ernesto Soares, História, 1368). Remarkable binding of the period, in “vieux rouge” shagreen, slightly worn and with a slightly dehydrated spine; covers with elaborate loose tooling lace (dentelle), with the coat of arms of Portugal, gold-engraved in the reserve of the central finial; the endpapers are preserved in marbled paper, probably from the 19th century. Verneian Bibliography, 38 (p. 473).