Bidspirit auctions | Ecléctica Leilões Auction Oct 2

Ecléctica Leilões, Oct 2. 80 lots, estimates 6 - 150 €.


Ecléctica Leilões - The Colecção Particular auction brings together eighty lots of antique books, manuscripts and documents from a single private collection, spanning more than four centuries of Portuguese book and cultural history. Notable are legal and chronicle pieces tied to the 1580 dynastic crisis and the rise of the House of Braganza, including an exceptionally rare set of allegations on the succession of the Duchess of Braganza and seventeenth-century royal chronicles. Portuguese maritime expansion is represented by a remarkable sequence of navigation manuals from the Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, together with travel accounts to the East and the African coast. The collection also includes reference works on Portuguese gilt woodwork, azulejo tilework and goldsmithing, alongside a group of twentieth-century poetry and prose by authors such as Eça de Queirós, Adolfo Casais Monteiro and José Saramago. Many lots stand out for their bibliographic rarity, limited print runs or authors' autograph dedications.

Lots in this catalog (80)