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Large 4° (26.5 x 22 cm.), contemporary marbled wrappers (spine almost gone, other small tears). LARGE-PAPER COPY. Title and text printed within typographic border. Minor marginal worming, without loss; lightly browned. Uncut. Overall good to very good condition. 47 pp. *** Second edition [?], a large-paper copy with typographical borders on every page. We have seen a regular-size quarto edition in possibly the same setting of type, but which has no borders, and includes only the first eight pages. Porto's businessmen celebrate the installation of the Junta Provisional do Supremo Governo in Lisbon. Pages [9]-33 contain a "Sermão em acção de graças pela desdjada e muito feliz união da Junta Provisoria do Governo Supremo do Reino com o Governo Interino de Lisboa, verificada no 1º de Outubro de 1820, que na Igreja dos Monges Benedictinos da Cidade do Porto, e no dia 22 do mesmo mez, quando o Corpo do Commercio deu o mairo testemunho da sua gratidão ao Deos dos Exercitos por tão momorando Beneficio, recitou Fr. Antonio de Santa Barbara, Da Congragação dos Agostinhos Reformados, Bacharel em Filosofia e Mathematica pela Universidade de Coimbra, e Professor Regio de Filosofia." The sermon is a closely reasoned political argument in favor of the liberal, constitutional monarchy. Pages 35-47 contain "Esclarecimentos", i.e., endnotes. There are references to Cabo Verde, Brazil, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, the war in Montevideo, etc. This sermon does not appear in the regular quarto edition.*** Innocêncio VIII, 98. Not in JCB Portuguese and Brazilian Books. Porbase locates three copies, all at Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa; of the 8-page edition, five copies at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (one in "mau estado"); another at Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa, with the same title and collation but the date 1820. Not located in Jisc. NUC: CU.
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