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WELSH (Doris Varner). A CATALOG of The William B. Greenlee Collection of Portuguese History and Literature and the Portuguese Materials in the Newberry Library. Chicago. 1953. - WELSH (Doris Varner) A CATALOG of The William B. Greenlee Collection of Portuguese History and Literature and the Portuguese Materials in the Newberry Library . Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1953. viii, 342 pp.260 mm. First edition. Catalogue of the collection of Portuguese history and literature assembled by William B. Greenlee, Chicago industrialist and collector, scholar of Luso-Brazilian history and member of the board of directors of the Newberry Library, where he transferred his Portuguese library in 1937 and where he continued to enrich it. The catalogue also covers the other Portuguese holdings of that institution. With approximately six thousand entries, it holds one of the most important collections of Portuguese books outside of Portugal, with particular emphasis on the history of expansion, chronicles, travel literature, and old Portuguese printed materials. The collection would later be the subject of a more extensive catalog, A Catalogue of the Greenlee Collection , published in 1970. A reference work for bibliographers, booksellers, and collectors of Portuguese books. Highly regarded. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate