{"id":263690,"date":"2013-03-28T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livrariaferreira.pt\/rare-books-and-original-customers\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:31:12","slug":"rare-books-and-original-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livrariaferreira.pt\/en\/rare-books-and-original-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare books and original customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It opened its doors in 1959 on Rua Formosa, but aficionados of old books know that today, after more than 90 catalogs of rare and out-of-print works, it&#8217;s on Dr. Alves da Veiga that we find Livraria Manuel Ferreira.<\/p>\n<p>The former bookshop is &#8220;responsible for organizing a hundred private libraries for sale at auction&#8221;, thus enriching the bibliographic panorama in Portugal, says Herculano Ferreira, today the face of one of the biggest references in the bookshop universe in Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>The family business, where he worked during his vacations as a young man, gave him a taste for books: &#8220;It&#8217;s books that allow me this constant freedom to learn and satisfy my curiosity,&#8221; he explains.<\/p>\n<p>More original than some rare books are the requests of some customers. Once, she was asked for a set of books 18 cm high and with a specific binding: they had to be red, &#8220;the color of a small wool thread that the lady had in her purse so that they could match the color of the carpet,&#8221; she says, amused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It opened its doors in 1959 on Rua Formosa, but aficionados of old books know that today, after more than 90 catalogs of rare and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livrariaferreira.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livrariaferreira.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livrariaferreira.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livrariaferreira.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livrariaferreira.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livrariaferreira.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livrariaferreira.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livrariaferreira.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livrariaferreira.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}