‎"VENTURA DA SILVA, JOAQUIM JOSE.‎
‎Regras methodicas para se aprender a escreuer o caracter da letra ingleza offerecidas ao augustissimo senhor Dom Pedro, Principe da Beira.‎

‎Lisboa, Officina de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1803. Folio-oblong (365 x 255 mm). In contemporary half calf. Wear to extremies, upper part of spine with loss of leather. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. With, primarily marginal, brownspotting throughout. Dampstain to inner margin and upper outer margin of last 10 ff. 32 ff.‎

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‎Rare first edition of the most celebrated Portuguese treatise on calligraphy. Joaquim José Ventura da Silva (1777–1849), regarded as one of Portugal’s finest calligraphers and teachers of writing, composed this methodological guide to handwriting in which he combines a historical survey of scripts used in Portugal with practical instruction for teaching and learning penmanship.Ventura da Silva is reffered to by Innocencio (Diccionario Bibliographico) as ""one of the best Portuguese Calligraphers"". A second edition was published in 1819, a third in 1841, and a facsimile was published in Porto in 1899. ‎