Camoes, Luis de.

24mo (106 x 50mm.), woodcut initials and tailpieces, eighteenth-century calf, gilt single-fillet border, spine gilt in compartments, later red morocco lettering-pieces, inner dentelles gilt, later flyleaves, lacking A3, A1 and 2 remargined, upper hinge cracking, later headbands

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Camoes (c. 1525-1579) composed his great epic poem, which tells of the glorious deeds of Portugal's great explorers during the golden age of the reign of Manuel the Fortunate, while he was in exile in Macao. It was first published in Lisbon in 1572.