DESCRIPTION de la Ville de Lisbonne. A Paris. 1730.

DESCRIPTION de la Ville de Lisbonne. A Paris. 1730.
DESCRIPTION de la Ville de Lisbonne. Oú l’on traite de la cour de Portugal, de la Langue Portugaise, & des Mœurs des Habitans; du Gouvernement, des Revenus du Roi, & de ses Forces par Mer & par Terre; des Colonies Portugaises; & du Commerce de cette Capitale. A Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Prault, 1730.

a13, A-Y [alternadamente de 8 e de 4 ff], Z2, Aa4; [26], 268, [8] pp.; 165 mm.

Very rare edition of this anonymous work about Lisbon and the Portuguese court. In Duarte Sousa another edition is indicated, in the same year, but from Paris by Pierre Prault, with approximately the same number of pages of text, as well as Arnaldo Henrique de Oliveira in the catalog of the Xavier da Costa Library (1944) stating that it is is the “only edition that has been made to date”. Manuel Bernardes Branco only indicates an edition from 1738. As it is true that there is the Paris edition and the one presented here from Amsterdam, it is not possible for us to establish which of the two came out first.

¶ Xavier da Costa, 986; Portugal e os Estrangeiros, 343; Duarte Sousa, 356