Rimas de Luis de Camões. Acrescentadas nesta Terceyra impressão. Dirigidas à inclyta Universidade de Coimbra.

Lisbon, Por Pedro Crasbeeck, a custa de Domingos Fernandez mercador de libros, 1607.. 4°, old stiff vellum, spine with citron leather lettering piece. Woodcut armillary sphere on title page. Woodcut initials. Some foxing and slight browning. Overall in very good condition. Old pencil notation "Perfect" by Quaritch on rear pastedown. Armorial bookplate of Francisco Maria Berio, Marchese di Salza (1765-1820), and on rear pastedown that of William Ward, Viscount Dudley (1750-1823). (4), 202, (5, 1 blank) ll. Numerous leaves wrongly numbered. + , A-Z , a-c (c8 blank). *** The true third edition of the Rimas, with the armillary sphere within a ruled square on the title page. There are either one or two other editions purportedly printed by Pedro Crasbeeck in 1607 which have woodcut arms of Portugal on the title page. Owing to the uncorrected typographical error "SENNETO" on p. 1, and the somewhat better typography, especially evident in the quality of the woodcut initials, as well as the opinions of multiple expert bibliographers, we are certain the present volume is the true third edition. The other is a completely different edition, in a different setting of type, copying the text for the most part page by page, with occasional orthographic variations. A major difference is that ours contains 4 preliminary leaves, while the other has 8. In the opinion of Tito de Noronha the edition with the arms of Portugal on the title page is a pirated edition printed in 1615 by Vicente Alvares at the cost of Domingos Fernandes. Pina Martins affirms that the present edition is the true 1607 third edition, while the other was fraudulently printed at a later date, using the same imprint and licenses, with additional preliminary matter added.There is an unsigned sonnet in praise of Camões on the third preliminary leaf recto, and another, by the important poet Diogo Bernardes, on the fourth preliminary leaf verso. A "Prologo ao Leitor" by the bookseller Domingos Fernandez occupies the two intervening pages.*** Arouca C65 (collation agrees with our copy). Innocêncio V; 253; XIV, 39-43, with a plate reproducing the title page between pp. 38 and 39 (does not mention the preliminary leaves). Pinto de Mattos p. 92 (confusing the editions). Palha 1618 (collation agrees with our copy). Pina Martins, Os Lusíadas, 1572-1972: Catálogo da exposição bibliográfica, iconográfica e medalhística de Camões 111 (collation agrees with our copy). José do Canto, Collecção camoneana 14 (collation agrees with our copy). See Tito de Noronha in Annaes da Sociedade Nacional Camoniana, pp. 22-4.