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Memorias economicas da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, para o adiantamento da Agricultura, das Artes, e da Industria em Portugal, e suas Conquistas ... Tomo I [-V].
Lisbon, Officina da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1789 1815.
5 vols, small 4to, pp. ix, [1], 421, [1], [2] index, [2] errata, [2] advertisements; [iv], 436, [4] index, [4] advertisements; 399, [2] index, [3] advertisements; vii, [1], 423, [2] table, [3] index; [iv], 418; with 13 plates (most folding: 6 tables, 2 maps, and 5 engraved illustration plates); contemporary ownership inscriptions on the versos of the title-pages of vols. I-III; early ink-stamps of the Portuguese royal library in several margins in vols. IV and V; a very good set in early 19th-century sheep-backed marbled boards, spines decoratively gilt- and blind-stamped, leather labels lettered and numbered in gilt, minor surface wear.
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Memorias economicas da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, para o adiantamento da Agricultura, das Artes, e da Industria em Portugal, e suas Conquistas ... Tomo I [-V].
First edition. The long period of publication accounts for the rarity of complete sets of this important periodical, containing articles on industry, agriculture, political economy, statistics and general social and geographical matters. They exhibit the continued influence of Physiocratic ideas after the spread of classical, Smithian ideas in western Europe. Among the contributors were most of the founding fathers of independent Brazil: Manuel Ferreira da Camara, Joachim de Amonim Castro, Jose Bonifacio de Andrade e Silva, and Vicente C. de Seabra da Silva Teleo. Other significant contributors include Domingo Vandelli, Sebastio Mendes Trigoso, Antonio Henriques da Silveira, and Antonio de Vila Nova Portugal.
Goldsmiths’ 37537 (vols. I-IV only); Innocencio VI, M 1634; Kress S.5203.
