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CASTILHO (Alexandre Magno de). ALMANACH de Lembranças Luso-Brasileiro. Lisboa. 1850-1915. - CASTILHO (Alexandre Magno de) ALMANACH de Lembranças Luso-Brasileiro . Fundado e dirigido por Alexandre Magno de Castilho até 1861; continuado pelo sobrinho homónimo até c. 1885; depois por António Xavier de Sousa Cordeiro e seus sucessores. Lisboa: Imprensa de Lucas Evangelista; Tipografia Franco-Portuguesa; Imprensa Nacional [e outros], 1850-1915. 46 v.: il.; 145 mm. Collection of 46 volumes of the Luso-Brazilian Almanac of Souvenirs, covering the years 1851 to 1916, with the years 1854, 1872, 1881-1884, 1886-1888, 1891, 1898-1900, 1902, 1907-1908 and 1910-1913 missing. The Almanach de Lembranças (Almanac of Memories) was founded in 1851 by Alexandre Magno de Castilho (Lisbon, 1808-1861), a mathematician and writer, brother of António Feliciano de Castilho. Published annually until 1932, it is the longest-running and most successful Portuguese literary almanac, with print runs exceeding 20,000 copies and distribution throughout mainland Portugal, the islands, the colonies, and Brazil. From the fifth volume (1855) onwards, it adopted the name Luso-Brasileiro (Luso-Brazilian), reflecting the systematic openness to collaboration with Brazilian writers – a purpose declared from the inaugural volume. After the founder's death in 1861, the direction passed to his namesake nephew, a hydrographic engineer and professor at the Naval School, and later to António Xavier de Sousa Cordeiro and his successors. Its pages, sometimes exceeding 500, published poetry, prose, astronomy, meteorology, transport timetables, pastimes, and correspondence with readers. Among its numerous contributors were the most prominent Portuguese and Brazilian writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The first volumes were printed in Paris and Lisbon; from 1857 onwards, printing was mainly carried out by the National Press in Lisbon. Highly sought after. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate