COLAÇO, Jose Maria Delorme. - Lot 125

COLAÇO, Jose Maria Delorme. Galleria dos vice-reis, e governadores da India Portugueza... Lisboa, typographia de A. S. Coelho, 1841. In-8, 10 bifoliate, in sheets (few freckles, mostly marginal except pl. 11, 12, 16 and 17, soiling pl. 11 and 12, pl. 16 faded, wetness in upper margin of pl. 17 and 18; pl. 13-14 on different paper from others). Collection of full-length portraits consisting of 10 bi-feuillets including a title page, warning and 18 lithographed plates by M. Luiz da Costa and V. Zeigler illustrating political figures in Portuguese India in the 16th century. Notably the viceroys D. Francisco d'Almeida, Vasco da Gama, Affonso de Noronha and Garcia de Noronha, and the governors Affonso de Albuquerque, Lopo Soares de Albergaria, Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, Nuno da Cunha, João de Castro, Garcia de Sá, Jorge Cabral...