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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
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
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
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
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
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
