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block edges sprinkled. A very good copy. 236 pp., profusely illustrated
with pen-and-ink caricatures. $300.00
FIRST EDITION. Gives biographical information and anecdotes about the actors who
performed at the São Carlos, D. Maria II, and Trindade theaters in Lisbon; accompanied
by numerous sketches of the actors by Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro, perhaps the greatest
of all Portuguese caricaturists.
j Innocêncio XIII, 257. On Júlio César [da Costa] Machado (1835-1890), see Álvaro
Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 291-2; also Dicionário cronológico
de autores portugueses, II, 180-1; Ernesto Rodrigues in Biblos, III, 339-41; Saraiva & Lopes,
História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed.), pp. 777, 789, 801-3, 809-10. OCLC: This edition
not located. Porbase locates eight copies: two in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, two
in the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, two in the Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade
Católica Portuguesa, and one each in the Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa Luís de
Camões, and the Biblioteca Tomás Ribeiro-Câmara Municipal de Tondela. This edition
not located in Copac.
94. MAGALHÃES, Felix Pereira de. Discursos do Senhor Felix Pereira de
Magalhães, deputado ás Cortes pela provincia de Traz-os-Montes sobre o commercio
e agricultura dos vinhos do Douro pronunciado na sessões da Camara
dos Deputados de 2, 3, e 5 de Setembro de 1842 publicados e offerecidos á nação
Portugueza e especialmente aos lavradores do Douro por alguns amigos dos
intereses materiaes do paiz. Lisbon: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1842. 8°, original
violet printed wrappers (detached; short tear at inner margin of front
wrapper). Lithograph border with grape motif and large vignette of
grapes on a vine on front wrapper. A good copy. Old circular armorial
stamp in lower margin of p. 56 of Henrique Cezar. 56 pp. $180.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this collection of three speeches defending the history,
actions and rights of the Companhia Geral da Agricultura das Vinhas do Alto Douro,
also known as the Real Companhia Velha, which exercised a virtual monopoly of the
Port wine trade for over 100 years. The company had been founded in 1756 in an effort
by the Marquês de Pombal to limit the British influence on the Port wine trade. It gained
something of a monopoly until its exclusive privileges were extinguished in 1865.
Felix Pereira de Magalhães (1794-1878), a native of Chaves, fought in the Peninsular
War and afterwards received a degree in law at Coimbra University. A liberal, he defended
the 1820 revolution and the right to trial by jury. Active in the Socieadade Patriótica Portuense,
he opposed the absolutist movement of the Conde de Amarante. Serving in the
constitutionalist army from 1828, upon the return of the liberals to Porto he became an
administrator of the Companhia do Alto Douro. In 1834 he wrote a pamphlet upholding
the rights of D. Maria II. After the restoration of the Carta Constitutional in 1842, he was
elected deputy for Trás-os-Montes. In 1846 he became president of the Board of Directors
of the Banco de Portugal. Elevated to peer of the realm in 1845, he became Minister of
Justice in the government of the Conde de Tomar.
j Innocêncio II, 267. Goldsmiths’-Kress 32730.15. Kress, Luso-Brazilian Economic
Literature Before 1850, p. 22. Simon, Vinaria, p. 115. Unzelman p. 97. On the author, see