A hostia de oiro : poema heroi-comico.

Elvas [Portugal] : M. d’Araujo e Silva, Typ. da Democracia Pacifica, 1869. Series: Obras de J. Simões Dias, 3. Octavo (190 x 120 mm), in a handsome later binding of half calf over textured leather boards, spine decorated in gilt and with contrasting title-pieces lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; original printed yellow wrappers bound in (upper wrapper with expertly restored top corner, lower wrapper with closed edge tear); pp. 205, [1 l., errata]; text in Portuguese; ex libris labels of Franco Ramos and Fernando de Mello Mendes to front pastedown (a second Ramos ex libris also on inside of upper wrapper); internally clean and crisp, an excellent copy.

A work in the late-Romantic tradition by the Portuguese poet, short-story writer, literary critic, teacher and politician José Simões Dias (1844-1899).