CAMOËNS, (Luís Vaz de Camões dit) and DUPERRON DE CASTERA, L - Lot 141

CAMOËNS, (Luís Vaz de Camões dit) and DUPERRON DE CASTERA, Louis-Adrien (trans.). The Lusiad. Second edition of the French translation of this masterpiece of Portuguese literature. Paris, Nion, 1768. 3 volumes in-8 (163 x 90 mm), full brown speckled calf, smooth spines with horizontal gilt fillets and carmine and havana morocco title and tomes, decorated with small acorn irons, cold fillet on covers, guilloché headpieces, gilt fillet on edges, red edges. 2 ff.n.ch., LXIX, 319 pages ; 2 ff.n.ch., 424 pages ; 2 ff.n.ch., 334 pages. Headcap of first volume worn, corners dulled, slight lack of leather on covers of volume III, some foxing in first volume. Second edition of Louis-Adrien Duperron de Castera's translation of the Lusiades by Luís Camões (1525-1580). A masterpiece of Portuguese literature, so much so that the poet's birthday serves as the country's national holiday, the Lusiades sing the glory of the Portuguese empire and Vasco de Gama. Good, fresh copies, handsomely bound in contemporary style.