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LISBON
Celebrates the Peace
(Jubilance). Jubilos festivos da corte de Pariz, pella publicaçaõ da paz general que nella celebrou a 20 de Junho de 1763.... Lisboa: Na Offic. de Ignacio Nogueira Xisto, 1763. 4to (20 cm, 7.875"). 15, [1 (blank)] pp. 
Rare. No copies were traced in the U.S. via NUC Pre-1956, OCLC, or RLIN.
• Plain brown wrappers, shallowly chipped; small paper label on front with rubber-stamped numeral thereon. Small hole in title-page without loss of print. Paper repairs in top margins of pp. 10 and 11. Light soiling. Pencilled notations on title-page and front wrapper.
The
Virtues of theBritish
Constitution(Portuguese Admiration). Sobre a constituição de Inglaterra...com algumas observações sobre a antiga constituição de França.... Lisboa: Na imprensa da Rua dos Fanqueiros, 1827. 4to (19.5 cm, 7.75"). 72 pp. 
Rare: No copies traced via NUC Pre-1956, OCLC, and RLIN.
• Recent wrappers. Some light waterstaining in upper margins and on inner edge of title-leaf. Shallow tears and chipping, not affecting impression.
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SLAVES
A
Brazilian Monopoly Is Created
(Portuguese Colonialism). Companhia Geral de Pernambuco e Paraíba. Instituiçaõ da Companhia Geral de Pernambuco, e Paraíba. Lisboa: Miguel Rodrigues, 1759. Folio. 30 pp., [1] f.
The image below left is a composite — the bottom of one page, the top of the next — showing the slavery clause.
Single-click images where the hand appears onSeveral sources, including Rodrigues, call this a "rare" publication.
• Borba de Moraes (2nd ed.), Bibliographia brasiliana, I, 419; Maggs Bros., Bibliotheca brasiliensis, 231 (misstating the contents and failing to find it in Rodrigues); Rodrigues 698 "rare." On the Pombaline reforms, see: James Lockhart and Stuart Schwartz, Early Latin America: A history of colonial Spanish America and Brazil. Recent quarter red morocco with raised bands: Gilt beading on, and gilt ruling above and below, each band; gilt center-devices. Marbled paper sides and matching marbled endpapers. Contemporary numbering of the leaves in ink; some contemporary marginalia in ink. 
Nice.
The Boy’s Book of
GoldRoquette, José. Livro d'ouro dos meninos para servir d’introducção ao thesouro da adolescencia e da juventude. Pariz: [Typ. A. Parent] Va. J.-P. Aillaud, Guillard & Ca., [1867]. 18mo (15.3 cm, 6"). 288 pp.; 4 plts. 
four chromolithographed plates showing (1) the Livro d’ouro being read by a father to his family, (2) Abraham’s sacrifice, (3) Moses being found among the bulrushes, and (4) “The Turtledove” with Inez and her parents on the walls of their castle.
José-Ignacio Roquette (1801–70), a Franciscan friar and professor at the patriarchal seminary in Lisbon, also wrote a History of the Discovery of America and works on natural history and philology. First published in 1844, this is the fifth edition of this rare work: We were unable to trace any copies via NUC Pre-1956, OCLC, or RLIN.
Single-click the chromo, for an enlargement. • Contemporary mottled calf, spine handsomely gilt with floral devices and with a gilt-lettered red leather label; scratched and abraded with some loss on edges and corners. Marbled endpapers, a little rubbed. Light foxing and some spots of light soiling; a few tears in margins of pages and plates. A book apparently used by members of its intended audience, though not put through truly gruesome maltreatment.
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