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1811WRCAM16399London 1811. 7pp. Small quarto. Modern morocco backed marbled boards fine. Important treaty between the exiled Portuguese Crown and Great Britain concerning the establishment of packet lines between the two nations. Printed in English and Portuguese. hardcover books
188634020Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional 1886. First editions. Quarter morocco over marbled boards raised bands five compartments decorated in gilt. A very good copy boards rubbed endpapers toned. 86 140 pp. 10 folding charts. 8vo. The Tribunal de Contas lasted from 1849 to 1911. Rules of the Court Auditors this is the first revision since 1869 bound with the Organization of Treasury Services. OCLC shows 1 copy of Regimento do Tribunal at LOC; also one in Biblio Universitaria Joao Paulo II and in BN Portugal which also has the only copy of Organisacao dos Servicos. Imprensa Nacional hardcover books
175819230Paris: Chez la Veuve Didot Nyon.Brocas 1758. New Edition reviewed and enlarged. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf morocco label. Some rubbing small holes and chips at head and tail of spine. New Edition reviewed and enlarged. 1 vols. 8vo. This historian is best known for his history on the knights of Malta. Chez la Veuve Didot, Nyon...Brocas unknown books
1842WRCAM16402London 1842. 414pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Fine. An important treaty between Great Britain and Portugal concerning the mutual enforcement of old laws against the importation of slaves from Africa. Printed in English and Portuguese. hardcover books
184663652Lisbon 1846. hardcover. very good. Volume I No. 1. December 16th 1846 through No. 63 July 1847. 4to. scattered foxing half brown morocco and marbled paper covered boards; front joints started but sound. Scarce. All Published.<br/><br/> A complete run of this "partisan" and patriotic newspaper printed during the upheavals involving Great Britain and Spain. Includes several of the very scarce "supplementos" either bound in or loosely laid in. Very scarce. The NUC shows only 2 complete runs of this political newspaper: one at the Library of Congress and the other at the University of Texas.<br/><br/> unknown books
1874316702London: Richard Bentley and Son 1874. First edition. xii 406 1pp. 4to. Bound in three quarters recent maroon morocco and matching cloth sides title label. Fine minor internal foxing. First edition. xii 406 1pp. 4to. With tipped in photo and a 2 page ALS from trhe Sixth Duke of Grafton. Richard Bentley and Son unknown books
176428246Lisbon: No publisher/printer 1764. Folio 29 cm; 11.5". 1 f. i.e. 2 pp. <br><br>By this Alvará 13 September 1764 the king addresses matters of jurisdiction in cases against dealers in contraband sugar. "Alvará porque V. Magestade ha por bem ordenar que as diligencias preparatorias dos processos verbaes dos Contrabandos apprehendidos na Alfandegado do assucar da cidade de Lisboa se fação per ante o Juiz Conservador geral do Commercio. . . . "<br>Â Â Â Â There are two issues: in this issue on p. 1 the catchword is "hendidos" and in the other catchword is "hendi-."<br>Â Â Â Â => WorldCat locates only the copy at the John Carter Brown Library. Removed from a bound volume. Light brown stain in lower margin and an even lighter stain in top one; old foliation number neatly inked in upper outer corner of recto. A good exemplar. No publisher/printer unknown books
1820564031820. A Profound Influence in Spain Portugal and Latin America Arguelles Augustin de 1776-1844. Discurso Preliminar a Constituicao Politica de Monarquia Hespanhola: Onde se Expoem os Fundamentos das Disposicoes da Mesma Constituicao. Lido nas Cortes Geraes E Extraordinarias Congregadas em Cadis em 1811 Nas Sessoes em Que a Commissao da Constituicao Apresentou o Projecto Desta. Traduzido do Hespanhol por R.F.C. Lisbon: Na Typografia Rollandiana 1820. 157 2 pp. Octavo 6-1/4" x 4-1/4". Original plain paper wrappers untrimmed edges signatures unopened. Some wear to spine ends internally fresh. $450. First edition in Portuguese. Influential in Spain and Portugal this essay on the Spanish constitution of 1812 was also a profound influence in Latin America. It was first delivered in 1811 before the Cortes that brought constitutional monarchy to Spain. This translation was prepared on the occasion of the revolution at Porto on August 24 1820 that overthrew the regency and paved the way for the parliamentary deliberations that resulted in the Portuguese constitution of 1822. It also helped to inspire the Latin American independence movements of the 1820s. The identity of "R.F.C." is unknown. Arguelles was a Spanish statesman and diplomat. OCLC locates 2 copies at Harvard Law School and the University of Kansas. Another copy located at the National Library of Portugal. unknown books
177528222Lisbon: Na Regia Officina Typografica. 1775. Folio 29 cm; 11.5". 7 1 blank pp. <br><br>The king has decided that reform and improvement aere needed at the Orphans' Hospital Hospital dos Expostos in Lisbon and here issues the decree specifying the changes. "Alvará por que Vossa Magestade he servido occorrer com as providencias necessarias para fazer em cessar os inconvenientes que até agora se praticavam no Hospital dos Expostos: Dando nova forma para as creações entregas e educações delles . . . ".<br>Â Â Â Â => No copies found via WorldCat or COPAC. Removed from a bound volume; now in modern wrappers. Old foliation neatly inked in upper outer corners; clean with wide margins. Na Regia Officina Typografica. unknown books
177528234Lisbon: colophon: Na Regia Officina Typografica 1775. Folio. 38 pp. <br><br>The Portuguese king decides to reform and reorganize the Hospital Real das Caldas a thermal springs treatment center that Queen Leonor established in 1484. The details of the innovations are detailed here. "Alvará de Regimento por que Vossa Magestade annullando cassando e abolindo o antigo Regimento chamado Compromisso do Hospital Real das Caldas . . . que depois delle se expediram; fazendo cessar a Inspecção que sobre elle até agora teve a Meza da Consciencia e Ordens; e separando-o da Adminstração dos Conegos Seculares de S. João Evangelista".<br>Â Â Â Â => No copy traced via WorldCat or COPAC. Removed from a bound volume and laid into modern wrappers. Light stain in outer margin of last leaf with a trace of same showing on a few more inward; old foliation neatly inked in upper outer corners; generally clean with good margins. One inked contemporary marginal note. [colophon: Na Regia Officina Typografica unknown books
177241404Lisboa: impresso na officina de Miguel Rodrigues 1772. First edition. Removed. Very good clean copies both removed from larger volumes with numerals noted on top edge of each leaf. 4 pp.; 6 pp.203-208. Approx 8 x 11 1/2 each. Two documents five years apart concerning the needed educational reform in Portugal at the Collegio de Nobres. The first document concerns rules to tighten up the procedures of the College of Nobles instituted by Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo Marquês de Pombal just a year earlier to strengthen scientific education and the second with further reforms to educate the sons of the nobility with useful and practical knowledge shortly before the school's failure. Pombal's attempt "was not a successful enterprise: among the main causes for its failures were financial difficulties the attitude of the Portuguese nobility who antagonized such an educational programme disciplinary questions and the inappropriateness of the course to students who were too young to profit from them. Scientific teaching lasted for 5 years 1766-1772 " In The Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment p. 11. It would be the reforms of the University of Coimbra to which the focus was transferred that would finally succeed. OCLC locates a copy of the first document at the BN Espana. Delgado da Silva: Collecção da legislação Portugueza II pp. 318-20 & pp. 585-7. OCLC: 740377909. impresso na officina de Miguel Rodrigues unknown books
1820564021820. A Profound Influence in Spain Portugal and Latin America Arguelles Augustin de 1776-1844. Discurso Preliminar a Constituicao Politica de Monarquia Hespanhola: Onde se Expoem os Fundamentos das Disposicoes da Mesma Constituicao. Lido nas Cortes Geraes E Extraordinarias Congregadas em Cadis em 1811 Nas Sessoes em Que a Commissao da Constituicao Apresentou o Projecto Desta. Traduzido do Hespanhol por R.F.C. Lisbon: Na Typografia Rollandiana 1820. 157 2 pp. Octavo 6-1/4" x 4-1/4". Original plain paper wrappers untrimmed edges signatures unopened. Some wear to spine ends internally fresh. $650. First edition in Portuguese. Influential in Spain and Portugal this essay on the Spanish constitution of 1812 was also a profound influence in Latin America. It was first delivered in 1811 before the Cortes that brought constitutional monarchy to Spain. This translation was prepared on the occasion of the revolution at Porto on August 24 1820 that overthrew the regency and paved the way for the parliamentary deliberations that resulted in the Portuguese constitution of 1822. It also helped to inspire the Latin American independence movements of the 1820s. The identity of "R.F.C." is unknown. Arguelles was a Spanish statesman and diplomat. OCLC locates 2 copies at Harvard Law School and the University of Kansas. Another copy located at the National Library of Portugal. unknown books
178743440London: T. Vernor 1787. First Edition. Two octavo volumes 21.25cm; 20th c. tan calf with titles stamped in gilt on spines; marbled endpapers; vi4242; iv4244pp. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Tyndall to front pastedowns with contemporary ink signature of Jeremiah Quin to preliminary leaf in both volumes; mild scattered foxing to preliminary and terminal leaves occasional light thumb-soil to margins else clean and sound; light wear to lower board edges with a few rubbed spots to covers; Near Fine. Detailed history of Portuguese social customs written by the author "late a Captain of the Irish Brigade in the service of Spain" in a series of letters to his brother in London. T. Vernor unknown books
1810WRCAM54396London 1810. 13pp. with text printed in English and Portuguese on facing pages. Small quarto. Dbd. with some loose leaves. Good. The English edition of this important defensive alliance between Great Britain and the exiled Portugese crown in Brazil. The treaty negotiated in Rio de Janeiro consists of eleven articles mostly related to naval matters between the two countries and is signed in print at the end by diplomats Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe Strangford and Rodrigo de Souza Coutinho. Rare with fewer than ten copies in OCLC. unknown books
1769629101769. Important Pre-Code Reforms to Portuguese Civil Law Portugal. Leis de 18 de Agosta de 1769 e de 3 de Agosto de 1770-E de Tabella dos Sellos de 1845 manuscript cover title. 15 14 pp. two folded manuscript leaves. Quarto 8-1/2" x 6; leaves 12" x 8-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlets and manuscript leaves sewn together and laid into paper folder manuscript title to front. Light browning manuscript in neat hand to both sides of leaves. $850. Assembled we assume in 1845 this item has three parts. The first two are offprints of two important legislative pieces one on the sources of law the other on primogeniture rights. Important reforms these laws were standard points of reference until the adoption of the Civil Code of 1867. The final item is a manuscript compilation of legislation concerning fiscal matters. OCLC locates no copies of the two offprints in North America. unknown books
1810WRCAM54393London 1810. 44pp. with text printed in English and Portuguese on facing pages. Small quarto. Dbd. with some loose signatures. Minor edge toning. Good. The English edition of this important trade agreement between Great Britain and the exiled Portugese crown in Brazil. The treaty negotiated in Rio de Janeiro established a reciprocal free commerce between the two kingdoms: "The Subjects of the Two Sovereigns respectively shall not pay in the Ports Harbours Roads Cities Towns or Places whatsoever belonging to either of them any greater Duties Taxes or Imports.than those that are paid by the Subjects of the most favoured Nation." The text also includes letters between the Chevalier de Souza Couttinho and the Marquis Wellesley regarding the status of Portuguese ships captured by the British during the war. Rare with only about five copies listed over several records in OCLC. unknown books
56370Broadside reprinting of the three-page original 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. The original signed in type by President Jose Joaquin de Herrera was issued in Mexico 4 June 1845 then reprinted and issued by governors for various states Streeter locates one for the state of Mexico. Cf. Streeter 1021 and 1021a and Streeter sale 388 for other editions. This edition apparently not recorded on OCLC. Folded short tears in fold. Some wear along left edge color pencil underlining through part of the text blue pencil "1845" at head of text owner's stamp on verso. 3738. <br/><br/> unknown books
1671WRCAM34482Madrid 1671. 16 leaves. Folio. Dbd. Upper outer corners numbered in contemporary manuscript. Minute toning at fore-edge primarily on first leaf. Overall very good. In a half morocco and cloth box. The petition of Don Pedro Nuño Colon de Portugal descendant of the explorer Christopher Columbus and sixth Duke of Veragua and Marquis of Jamaica requesting that Mariana of Austria Queen Regent of Charles II of Spain make some compensation for the loss of income the Duke had suffered since the British took Jamaica in 1655. Jamaica had been the exclusive fief of the descendants of Columbus since 1536 when it was given as a reward to the family. This document is dated 1671 by the text at the top of the second leaf where the Duke refers to Spain's cession of Jamaica to Great Britain "last year in 1670." Despite this date some scholars assert a date of 1672. Since most of the text is devoted to the life of Columbus the document is by default also one of the few early biographies of the explorer. <br> <br> In his argument the Duke puts special emphasis on the tremendous gain Spain received by virtue of his ancestor's discovery. In citing various sources he estimates that within the first 170 years after its discovery the New World had produced for Spain some one billion 190 million pesos. Despite these figures the present heir to Columbus' titles and estates was reduced to an income of sixteen thousand ducats. <br> <br> The Duke mentions no specific amount of compensation that he would like for Jamaica but points out that Puerto Rico is of approximately the same worth. The last four pages are a glowing description of Jamaica its towns people products etc. ending with an itemized accounting of just how much rent the island had produced annually for the Duke before the British occupation 40950 pesos silver. Two years after this petition was printed the Duke was made the 26th viceroy of New Spain - a fair reward for the loss of Jamaica. His term however was short. He reigned only six days before dying in Mexico City. <br> <br> "This is the final petition sent to the throne of Spain and contains a long account of the various descendants of Columbus and their claims on Spain an account of Jamaica and a list of the various dues received from Jamaica" - Maggs. The previously mentioned biographical content of the present document is important. It is possibly an assimilation of the sixteen-page folio manuscript of the life of Columbus written by Juan de Solorzano Pereira the famous Spanish jurist and fiscal of the Council of the Indies in 1628 responsible for the great work on colonial American law the POLITICA INDIANA published in 1629. In that manuscript Solorzano states that it was composed at the request of the Duke's branch of the Columbus family forty- two years before the present document was printed. The Solorzano manuscript is described in the LeClerc catalogue of 1878 item 137 along with other documents relating to the Duke's branch of the family. <br> <br> One of the earliest Columbus biographies married to an eloquent plea by his impoverished heirs. Extremely rare. Palau locates only one copy of the original at the Real Academia de la Historia. EUROPEAN AMERICANA locates two more Huntington and British Library. The petition was reprinted by the Mill Press in San Francisco in 1992. PALAU 57250. BIBLIOGRAPHIA COLOMBINA p.190. ENC. UNIV. ILL. Vol. 14 p.248 Colon de Portugal; Vol. 57 p.198 Solorzano Pereira. LeCLERC 137 ref. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 671/85. MEDINA BHA 8141. MAGGS BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA 429:322. hardcover books
1513WRCAM38334Strassburg: Matthias Hüpfüff 1513. 7 leaves including woodcut titlepage illustration 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches plus final integral blank leaf. Quarto. Dbd. leather tab on fore-edge of first leaf. Slight soiling and dampstaining in margins. A very good copy. In a half morocco and cloth box. An extremely rare German translation of a newsletter first issued in Latin and published in Rome in 1513 reporting the Portuguese conquest of Malacca in 1511 and describing its rich potential as a commercial center. No copies of this seven-leaf edition are recorded in OCLC or RLIN and only a single copy of another 1513 German translation printed in Augsburg and consisting of five leaves is located in the U.S. at the James Ford Bell Library. However the British Library holds copies of both translations and the imprint information for this edition is based on Robert Proctor's research on German books in the British Museum. <br> <br> The letter from Manuel I to Pope Leo X relates the conquest of Malacca by Portuguese military commander Afonso de Albuquerque in June 1511. In addition to providing details of this victorious battle the report includes descriptions of the wealth to be found in the region and the importance of the city as a trading nexus. In particular the text emphasizes how courteously the merchants were treated in order to ensure future commerce. Albuquerque's voyages and military exploits between 1503 and 1515 were instrumental in consolidating Portugal's expansion to India and Malaya. The present pamphlet also records his actions after he departed Malaya and returned to Goa in 1512. These include descriptions of skirmishes with the Moors and embassies to other parts of India and Asia related to the payment of tribute to the Portuguese crown. As in the descriptions of Malacca the potential wealth to be found in the region is emphasized. <br> <br> While the text of the pamphlet is entirely about the East Indies the titlepage contains one of the earliest illustrations of an American Indian. This woodcut shows a native man and native woman on either side of an armorial shield immediately below a royal crown. The naked woman with a flowering plant in her left hand holds the bottom of the crown with her other hand as the man steadies the shield with his left hand and grasps a bow with his right hand. The man with full beard wears a feather crown skirt and leg decorations. This woodcut is exactly the same as that illustrating the titlepage of an earlier German newsletter reporting Portuguese activities in the East Manuel I's GESCHICHTE KURTZLICH DURCH DIE VON PORTUGALIEN IN INDIA MORENLAND UND ANDERN ERDTRICH published in Nuremburg circa 1507. This portrayal of the man in turn appears to be derived from images of South American Indians found in an illustrated Vespucci broadside printed in Nuremberg circa 1505- 1506 see EUROPEAN AMERICANA 505/11 and illustrated on the cover of the Wolfenbüttel exhibition catalogue and broadsides based on Vespucci's third voyage printed in Augsburg circa 1505-1506 EUROPEAN AMERICANA 505/13 and 505/14. The publisher of the present work also issued an illustrated edition of Vespucci in 1505 but not this one see Church 22 for a reproduction. At this early time Europeans might well have supposed that the East Indians of Malacca and the natives Vespucci encountered in the New World were the same people. All of these broadsides and pamphlets including the present work were published within seven or eight years in three different centers of German printing. <br> <br> A remarkably rare early German newsletter reporting on Portuguese military and commercial activities in Malacca and India. No copies on OCLC or VD16; a single copy located at the British Library. PROCTOR INDEX OF GERMAN BOOKS 1501-1520 IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM p.31 no. 10035. BELL M125 variant translation 5 leaves. OCLC 35837666 variant translation 5 leaves James Ford Bell only. HOWGEGO A43 Albuquerque. PENROSE SALE 156 for woodcut illustration in the 1507 Nuremburg GESCHICHTE. ref. DEÃÂK PICTURING AMERICA 4 illustrated broadside ca. 1505 ref. GLASER ENGRAVED AMERICA p.16 illustrated Vespucci broadside 1505-6 ref. EXHIBITION OF THE DUKE AUGUST LIBRARY WOLFENBÜTTEL; THE NEW WORLD IN THE TREASURES OF AN OLD EUROPEAN LIBRARY 1976 see cover illustration and entry 3 ref. Matthias Hüpfüff hardcover books