FERNANDES, Manuel

Plano (47 x 37 cm), [12], 140 pp. Illustrated with numerous facsimiles of hand-colored plates by the author, many folding. Original decorative calf leather, gilt lettered spine. No. 70 of ? copies. Facsimile Edition. Wonderful full-color facsimile reproduction of a profusely illustrated, unique manuscript written in 1616, now in the Biblioteca da Ajuda. This shipbuilding ordinance, describing more than 2 dozen ships of various kinds, is the equivalent of a treatise on shipbuilding of the time.