António Vieira. HISTORIA DO FUTURO. LIVRO ANTEPRIMEYRO PROLOGOMENO A TODA A HISTORIA DO FUTURO, EM QUE SE DECLARA O FIM, & SE PROVAÕ OS FUNDAMENTOS DELLA. Lisbon: Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1718. Full speckled leather, with morocco label, gilt, and raised bands on spine. 4to; *-2*8 3*2 A-Z8 (lacks I7) 2A6. Roman type with italic; text in Portuguese. With printed marginalia, device on title page and woodcut head-pieces.

8 1/2 X 6 1/4 in.

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.

António Vieira (Portugal, 1608-1697) was a Jesuit priest, writer, and diplomat who spent most of his life in Portugal and Brazil. Historia do Futuro, a utopian text, was completed in the 1660s, but was not published until after Vieira's death.

Boards scuffed and chipped, with stain to upper board, edgewear, corners bumped, and several small wormholes; spine and joints rubbed, light creases, with losses mostly at head and tail, joints cracked at head; cracking at hinges, endpapers with wormholes, stains and manuscript, one free front endpaper with one full page of 19th- century writing in Italian; title page with manuscript and one stamp; pages lightly toned with scattered foxing mostly at edges, occasional tear or edge or corner loss, lacking one leaf (pages 141 and 142); somewhat fragile volume but with pages overall extremely clean and crisp, very scarce.