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1945 · 51878 — Rio de Janeiro: Imprensa Nacional 1945. sewn stiff paper wrappers. Brazil. 8vo. sewn stiff paper wrappers. 664 pages with 6 additional pages and 48 additional leaves of plates. Approximately ninety Brazilian periodicals mostly for news and politics along with selected pamphlets in the context of Brazilian political history 1812-1869. Not a bibliography or periodical index with standard systematic entries but rather a biblio-documentary for which reason probably Besterman does not list it. Sections relating to individual publications do not follow a set scheme but offer some combination of background information biographies of publishers and/or editors publishing histories summaries of and quotations from contents and other material. The majority of periodicals follow in the order of a general political chronology but the organizing principle in a separate section for some periodicals along with the pamphlets is the publisher/ writer/editor. There is no list of pamphlets. There are sixty-four illustrations of first issues pages publishers etc. With an alphabetical index list of illustrations and an index of periodicals "studied and cited." Binding loose starting to separate between p.142 and the following plate. Covers soiled worn chipped. General browning except for plates. Imprensa Nacional unknown