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Adágios, provérbios, rifaos e anexins da língua portuguesa

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ROLLAND (Francisco)
ADAGIOS, Proverbios, Rifãos, e Anexins da Lingua Portugueza, Tirados dos melhores Autores Nacionaes, e recopilados por ordem Alfabetica. Lisboa: Na Typographia Rollandiana, 1780.

8.º; A-X8, Y4; 344 pp.; 200 mm.

First edition. Very rare publication with a list of hundreds of Portuguese proverbs ordered alphabetically according to theme. The work, published with the initials FRILEL, meaning Francisco Rolland Printer Bookseller in Lisbon, is preceded by a prologue that Inocêncio suspects was written by António Lourenço Caminha. A second edition was published by the same printer in 1841.