Lisbon, Academia das Sciencias, 1794.. FIRST EDITION. 7 work s in 1 volume. 4°, mid-twentieth-century quarter mottled sheep over faux crocodile paper boards (lower third of upper outer joint somewhat defective), flat spine gilt with red lettering piece, gilt letter, contemporary plain front paper wrapper bound in. Bound with six other works. Woodcut vignette of the Academy of Sciences on title-page. Very small worm trace near center of final 10 leaves and the 2 leaves of advertisements, touching some letters of text, but never affecting legibility. Otherwise, crisp, uncut and partially unopened, in fine condition. (4 ll.), iii, 153 pp., (2 ll. advertisement). Quire R with 5 leaves, as required; text and pagination follows. Third and fourth preliminary leaves bound after the iii pp. table of contents at the beginning. *** FIRST EDITION of the Ensaio that gave Europe its first detailed information about Brazilian natural resources, especially fish and lumber, and also details on agriculture and on Indians. Azeredo Coutinho advocates increased trade between Portugal and Brazil and the building of factories there rather than in Portugal. His work is important because Portugal had allowed little to be published about her colonies until this time. According to the preface of the English translation, London 1801 (and several later reissues), this first edition went out of print almost immediately and was very difficult to find. Pages 133-53 comprise Azeredo Coutinho's Memoria sobre o preso do asucar, originally published by the Academia das Sciencias in 1791, and revised for inclusion with the Ensaio. It deals with the price of sugar from Portugal's colonies in Brazil, Africa and the East, and its relation to the world-wide sugar market. This was of special concern to Europeans, since the revolutions in the French colonies had caused reductions in supplies and sharp increases in price. This section did not appear in the English translation. Azeredo Coutinho (1742-1821), a native of Rio de Janeiro and a leading figure in the Brazilian Enlightenment, was one of the most influential Brazilian writers of the late eighteenth to early nineteenth century, and "the greatest reactionary of his time" (Borba). He served as Archdeacon of Rio de Janeiro, Bishop of Pernambuco and Inquisitor General in Portugal, and he worked with great zeal to develop the commerce and industry of his native Brazil. *** Borba de Moraes (1983) I, 228-9: "This is the best known work by Azeredo Coutinho … scarce"; calling for only (2 ll.), iii, 153 pp. See also Borba de Moraes (1958) I, 192: "The first edition figures as 'very rare' in the auction catalogue of Jaime Muniz (Lisbon 1922)." Innocêncio IV, 382; XVIII, 22. Sacramento Blake IV, 476-7; see 475-80. Palmira Morais Rocha de Almeida, Dicionário de authores no Brasil colonial (2010), pp. 190-4. Sabin 17949. Bosch 248. Goldsmiths' 16042. Kress, Luso-Brazilian Economic Literature before 1850, p. 5. JCB, Portuguese and Brazilian Books 794/1. JFB (1994) C738. Mindlin, Highlights 169. Conrad 105. Cf. Schäffer, Portuguese Exploration to the West and the Formation of Brazil 81: the English translation of London, 1801. Not in Rodrigues, who lists only the second edition. Not in Maggs, Bibliotheca brasiliensis (cf. 300, the 1828 edition). *** BOUND WITH: FRANCO, Francisco Soares. Extracto dos principios fundamentaes do sistema administrativo de França por Mr. Bonnin, e sua comparação com os de Portugal. Lisbon: Na Typographia Rollandiana, 1822. 4º, 100 pp. A fine, uncut, mostly unopened copy, with contemporary plain paper wrappers bound in. Soares Franco (1772-1844) was born in Loures, near Lisbon, and died in Lisbon; he was a professor of medicine at Coimbra, a deputy to the Cortes in 1821 and a member of the Royal Council. * Innocêncio IX, 378. AND BOUND WITH: MACEDO, Joaquim José da Costa de. Discurso lido em 15 de Maio de 1838 na sessão pública da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa. Lisbon: Na Typografia da mesma Academia, 1838. 4º, 74 pp., (1 blank l.). Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. A fine, uncut, mostly unopened copy. AND BOUND WITH: LANGSDORF, Jorge Henrique. Observações sobre o melhoramento dos hospitaes em geral …. Lisbon: Na Typografia da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1800. 4º, (4 ll.), 66 pp., (1 l.). A fine, uncut, mostly unopened copy. AND BOUND WITH: GOMES, Bernardino Antonio (the elder). Memoria sobre os meios de diminuir a elephantiase em Portugal e de aperfeiçoar o conhecimento, e cura das doenças cutaneas …. Lisbon: Na Officina de J.F.M. de Campos, 1821. 4º, 60 pp. Woodcut Portuguese-Brazilian royal arms on title page. A fine, uncut, mostly unopened copy. FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this work on elephantiasis by one of the most important figures in early Brazilian medicine. Gomes (1768-1823) was a naval surgeon in Brazil from 1798 to 1801, during which time he wrote Memoria sobre a canella do Rio de Janeiro. When finally published, at Rio de Janeiro, 1809, it became the earliest monograph on medicine printed in Brazil. Gomes also wrote on tapeworm, quinine, skin diseases, fevers and botany. * Borba de Moraes (1983) I, 357. Innocêncio I, 361. Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo I, 136. Not in JCB, Portuguese and Brazilian Books. Not in Rodrigues or Wellcome. AND BOUND WITH SOARES, Alexandre Augusto de Oliveira. Considerações fysiologico-praticas sobre a medicina cutanea. Lisbon: Na Typografia da Academia [Real das Sciencias], 1835. 4º, (2 ll.), 56 pp. Woodcut arms of the Real Academia das Sciencias on title page. A fine, uncut, mostly unopened copy. FIRST (and apparently only) EDITION. Begins with a summary of research into skin diseases, then moves on the author's own observations and studies, including some case histories. The author received his medical degree in Paris, 1834; appointed to the staff of the Royal Hospital of São José in Lisbon, he died in 1841, at the age of 30. * Innocêncio I, 29. Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da coleção portuguesa II, 386. AND BOUND WITH: ALMEIDA, Francisco José de. Tratado da educação fysica dos meninos, para uso da nação portugueza. Lisbon: Na Officina da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1791. 4º, (4 ll.), 142 pp., (2 ll. Catálogo, 1 blank l.). Woodcut device of the Academia Real das Sciencias on title page. Typographical headpieces and woodcut factotums. A fine, uncut, mostly unopened copy. FIRST EDITION. The Tratado was written in response to Mello Franco's pioneering work on pediatrics of the same title, published in 1790. The plan of Almeida's work is similar to that of Mello Franco's, and both advocate the use of smallpox innoculation. Almeida gives a summary of arguments for and against. At the end of the work, Almeida presents a series of practical rules, many of which remain useful recommendations today. * Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da coleção portuguesa I, 14. Innocêncio II, 400-1. National Library of Medicine, Eighteenth-Century STC p. 12. Not in Wellcome.
