PORTUGAL ILLUSTRATED

SubTitulo: In a SERIES OF LETTERS.
Autor: KINSEY, W. M. ( REV. )
Edição: by Rev. W. M. Kinsey, B. D. fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; and Chaplain to the Right Honourable Lord Auckland. Embellished with a map, plates of coins, vignettes, and various engravings of costumes, landscape scenery, &c. London: published for the author, by Treuttel, Wurtz, and Richter, Soho Square. 1828. PRIMEIRA EDIÇÃO .

Descrição: Encadernação de lomb. em pele, restaurada, com as guardas novas; (4)+ XX+ 500 págs.+ (2) fls+ várias gravuras extratexto (sendo as gravs. dos Costumes a cores); il.; 260 mm. Pequena mancha nas págs. 12-14.

Bom exemplar Raro e importante livro em inglês sobre Portugal.

Vêr Catálogo da Livraria Duarte de Sousa, Sécs XIX e XX, Lisboa, 1972, nº 385, pág. 86. "Nota: Tem várias mús. Letra e mús. do hino português da autoria de D. Pedro." . Gravuras extratexto: 1- The University of Coimbra (dupla); 2- Map of Portugal (dupla); 3- X Modinhas and Constitutional Hymn (10 fls.); 4- View of Cintra, Castello dos Mouros, and Penha Convent; 5- Plates of the gold, silver, and copper currency of Portugal (2 fls); 6- View up the Douro looking towards Porto; 7- Estalagem or Portuguese Inn; 8- View of Porto and Villa Nova from the Serra Convent; 9- The Aloe in blossom, and Myrtle- tree with pendent vine; 10- Travellers in Portugal, Liteira, Sumpter- mule, and Attendants; 11- A road- side Altar and travellers resting; 12- View from the fortress of Valença across the Minho to Tuy in Galicia; 13- Night- scene at Ponte de Lima; 14- Peasant and family of The Minho e Douro Province; 15- View across The Douro from Pezo da Regoa; 16- View down The Douro toward the hill of Gaya; 17- The Castle of Leiria; 18- The Abbey of Batalha; 19- The plates of costumes are to be placed together at the end of the volume (9 fls, ilus. a cores).