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Large 4° (24.2 x 18.8 cm.), original illustrated wrappers In very good condition. Five-line author's signed ink presentation inscription on half title: "A Manuel Romano, // prova de amizade // e com [illeg.] do // seu explicator // Duarte de Montalegre". Signature of Manuel Romano below. On verso of title page is stated "Todos os exemplares serão numerados e rubricados pelo autor"-signed in ink manuscript "Duarte de Montalegre" followed by printed N.º with ink manuscript "95" added. 108 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION, written under a pseudonym by Pina Martins (Penalva de Alva, 1920-Lisbon, 2010), who was for many years a leading figure in Portuguese culture, education, and intellectual life. He was president of the Academy of Sciences in Lisbon, head of the Education Department at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, chief of Gulbenkian's Portuguese Cultural Center in Paris, and professor jubilado at the University of Lisbon. The academic writings of Pina Martins constitute a huge and impressive mass: he was Portugal's leading authority on humanism.Provenance: Probably Manuel Pedro Romano, author of A agua na electrificação de Lourenço Marques, Lourenço Marques: Associação dos Naturais de Moçambique, [1959 or 1960?]; and Geografia física de Moçambique: esboço, Lourenço Marques: Centro de Informação e Turismo, 1975.*** Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses V, 90-92. Not in Cadafaz de Matos, 129 Trabalhos científicos de um grande investigador. See also Anibal Pinto de Castro in Biblos, III, 509-13; Ernesto Rodrigues in Jacinto de Prado Coelho, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, brasileira, galega, africana, estilística literária, Actualização, II, 516.
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