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8°, twentieth-century (third quarter) half green sheep over marbled boards, flat spine gilt, gilt letter, decorated endleaves, top edge rouged, other edges uncut, original front printed wrapper bound in (front wrapper with small stain, minor defect, and slightly spotted). In very good condition. Author's signed presentation inscription on half-title: "Ao Exmº Sr. Luiz Quintino d'Aguiar // Offe. // Ernesto do Canto". (2 ll.), iv, 195 pp. *** FIRST EDITION, LIMITED to 130 copies, of this fundamental bibliography on the ideological, constitutional and dynastic struggles between the liberals and absolutists during the period 1828 to 1834. A second edition, of 152 copies, corrected and augmented, appeared in 1892. Ernesto do Canto (1831-1900), historian, bibliographer and public functionary, a native of the Island of São Miguel in the Azores, was a member of the Academia Real das Sciências. Among his other publications is Bibliotheca açoriana in two volumes, 1890-1900. He also founded and contributed to the 12-volume Archivo dos Açores, 1878-1894. There exists a catalogue of his library, Inventario dos livros, jornaes, manuscriptos e mappas . Évora 1905, which was left to the Biblioteca Pública of Ponta Delgada. *** Martinha da Fonseca, Aditamentos, p. 120. See also Grande enciclopédia, V, 770. Porbase locates one copy, at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not in Jisc, which lists the 1892 edition (British Library). KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copy cited by Porbase. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 35353
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