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RETRATOS, e Elogios dos Varões, e Donas. Lisboa. 1817. - RETRATOS, e Elogios dos Varões, e Donas . Que Illustraram a Nação Portugueza em Virtudes, Letras, Armas, e Artes, Assim Nacionaes , como estranhos, tanto antigos, como modernos. Offerecidos aos Generosos Portuguezes. Lisboa: Na Officina de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1817. Portada alegórica, [24] pp., 76 est. acompanhadas do texto respectivo.: il.; 220 mm. An extraordinary nineteenth-century publication in booklets or, by modern terminology, fascicles, each containing four portraits accompanied by their respective biographies. According to Inocêncio (v.7, 140), its publication began in July 1806, ending the first volume with booklet 12, which contained the source text, prologue, list of subscribers, and a biography of Mateus Fernandes intended to replace the originally published one due to gross errors. The work was interrupted from 1807 until 1817, when booklets 10, 11, and 12 were published. Very rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate ¶ Inocêncio, v.7, p. 140