SOYÉ, Luis Rafael. - Noites Jozephinas de mirtilo sobre a infausta morte do serenissimo Senhor D. Joze Principe do Brazil dedicadas ao consterna do povo luzitano.

Lisboa: Regia Officina Typographica, 1790. 8vo. "148" [i.e. 248], [2]p. (the final leaf is a printer's advert of Soyé's works). 17 engraved plates i.e. engraved portrait of Jozé, Principe do Brazil, engraved title-page, engraved portrait of Luis Rafael Soyé, engraved frontispiece, 12 engraved allegorical plates introducing each of the 12 Noites, plus an additional engraved plate at the end. Together with a half-page vignette, at the beginning of each of the twelve cantos. Among the engravers are Gregorio Francisco de Queiroz and José Lucio da Costa. In this copy the plate following page 84 and preceding Noite V is in its second state i.e. containing two inscriptions not found in the first state: "D. Joze" on the end of the sarcophagus and "Principe do Brazil" on the pedestal. Slight damp-stain in the upper margin of Noite 2. Contemporary mottled calf, marbled endpapers. Unidentified Portuguese armorial bookplate on verso of free front endpaper; name "Botelho" on blank recto of frontispiece portrait. References: Sabin 88837; V. Gauz, Portuguese and Brazilian books in the John Carter Brown Library, 1537-1839, no. 790/5.

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