FIGUEIREDO, Manuel de.- CHRONOGRAPHIA | REPORTO- | RIO DOS TEMPOS, NO | QVAL SE CONTEM VI. PAR- | TE

FIGUEIREDO, Manuel de.- CHRONOGRAPHIA | REPORTO- | RIO DOS TEMPOS, NO | QVAL SE CONTEM VI. PAR- | TES, S. DOS TEMPOS: ESPHERA, | Cosmographia, & arte da nauegação, Astrologia rus- | tica, & dos tempos, & pronosticação dos eclipses, co- | metas, & samenteiras. O calendario Romano, cõ | oseclypses ate 630. E no fim o uso, & fabrica | da balhestilha, & quadrante gyome- | trico, com hum tratado dos | Relogios.- Lisboa: Iorge Rodriguez, 1603.- [10], 284 [i. e. 283], [1] f.: il.; 19 cm.- E., Multidisciplinary treatise authored by an illustrious Torrejano (1568-1630) who was Master of Mathematics, Cosmography and Navigation and Chief Cosmographer of the Kingdom. The edition, apparently the only one, was printed at the expense of Pero Ramires and presents very interesting typographic aspects, namely, dozens of xilograph engravings, representing, with some crudeness, astronomical and astrological themes. It is worth noting, however, a very curious mobile scheme that in some copies appears mounted on the engraving on the verso of folio P5 (with two pieces rotating on the engraving, around an axis, representing the model of an instrument to determine the birth of signs), and which is currently to be assembled, with the engravings of the two pieces printed on the front of the last folio of the work (folio Oo8r, with blank verso). According to the author himself: «As pessoas curiosas mandarão fazer este instrumento de metal que sairá mais certo do que em papel». The edition presents some layout errors, namely: p. 24 duplicated (fólios C8 and D1); jumping from p. 101 to p. 103 (folios O2 and O3); jumping from p. 221 to p. 223 (folios Ff5 and Ff6); some changed numbers. The copy, slightly cropped (carminated and waxed edges) with the preliminary pages poorly bound, retains the rare errata sheet (before the f. ¶¶) that is missing in most known copies. Title page a little dusty, with some minor restorations on the verso (lower outer corner reconstituted, with damage to the xilograph frame); small wormhole (poorly) repaired, on the lower margin of sheets Bb4 to Ee5 (25 f.); occasional light (tidal) stains. Otherwise, a complete, solid and generally clean copy. Ex-libris by Victor d’Avila Perez (lot nº 2892 from the auction held in 1940). Binding from the 19th century, fully flecked sheepskin, with the spine profusely gold tooling (small superficial damage to the label). Inocêncio V, p. 427 (copies are rare). Nepomuceno, 712. Ávila Perez, 2892. Auvermann, 155. Arouca, F 107 (does not mention the last unnumbered sheet, with the two pieces engraved).