The Scarce First Edition of António Vieira's Historia do Futuro

António Vieira. HISTORIA DO FUTURO. LIVRO ANTEPRIMEYRO PROLOGOMENO A TODA A HISTORIA DO FUTURO, EM QUE SE DECLARA O FIM, & SE PROVAÕ OS FUNDAMENTOS DELLA. Lisbon: Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1718. Full speckled leather, with morocco label, gilt, and raised bands on spine. 4to; *-2*8 3*2 A-Z8 (lacks I7) 2A6. Roman type with italic; text in Portuguese. With printed marginalia, device on title page and woodcut head-pieces.
8 1/2 X 6 1/4 in.
António Vieira (Portugal, 1608-1697) was a Jesuit priest, writer, and diplomat who spent most of his life in Portugal and Brazil. Historia do Futuro, a utopian text, was completed in the 1660s, but was not published until after Vieira's death.
From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.
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Boards scuffed and chipped, with stain to upper board, edgewear, corners bumped, and several small wormholes; spine and joints rubbed, light creases, with losses mostly at head and tail, joints cracked at head; cracking at hinges, endpapers with wormholes, stains and manuscript, one free front endpaper with one full page of 19th- century writing in Italian; title page with manuscript and one stamp; pages lightly toned with scattered foxing mostly at edges, occasional tear or edge or corner loss, lacking one leaf (pages 141 and 142); somewhat fragile volume but with pages overall extremely clean and crisp, very scarce.