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[SLAVE TRADE - TREATY - PORTUGAL]. - Convenção entre os muito altos, e muito poderosos senhores o Principe Regente de Portugal, e El Rei do Reino Unido da Grande Bretanha e Irlanda, para terminar as questões, e indemnizar as perdas dos vassallos portuguezes no trafico de escravos de Africa: feita em Vienna pelos plenipotenciarios de huma e outra Corte, em 21 de Janeiro de 1815, e ratificada por ambas.[Lisbon], Na Impressão Regia, [1815]. Small folio (ca. 28.5 x 18 cm). With the text printed in two columns, in Portuguese on the left and in English on the right. Modern half calf.

Title: Convenção entre os muito altos, e muito poderosos senhores o Principe Regente de Portugal, e El Rei do Reino Unido da Grande Bretanha e Irlanda, para terminar as questões, e indemnizar as perdas dos vassallos portuguezes no trafico de escravos de Africa: feita em Vienna pelos plenipotenciarios de huma e outra Corte, em 21 de Janeiro de 1815, e ratificada por ambas.[Lisbon], Na Impressão Regia, [1815]. Small folio (ca. 28.5 x 18 cm). With the text printed in two columns, in Portuguese on the left and in English on the right. Modern half calf.
Description: 4 pp. [and 27 blank modern leaves].Very rare first Portuguese edition of this treaty between Portugal and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, concerning the indemnification of Portuguese subjects for certain detained slave trade vessels as a result of British actions undertaken in pursuit of the abolition of the slave trade. "Britain agreed to pay compensation for the several Portuguese slavers detained, brought before and condemned by British courts on the ground of illegal slave-trading along the African coast prior to 1814" (J.P. van Niekerk, "British, Portuguese, and American judges in Adderley Street ...", pp. 22-23). Another edition of this same treaty (in 8 pages) was printed in the same year in Rio de Janeiro, with the complete imprint including the place of publication.The present bilateral treaty, comprising three articles printed in two columns in Portuguese and English, was drafted on 21 January 1815 during the Congress of Vienna, a series of international diplomatic meetings held in Vienna from September 1814 to June 1815, concerning the new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The signatories of the present treaty were plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna, formally this treaty was concluded between the Prince Regent of Portugal - future King John VI (1767-1826) - and the King of Great Britain and Ireland, George III (1738-1820), as mentioned in the title.A more detailed description is available upon request.With the book plate of "Biblioteca de Hariberto de Miranda Jordão Filho" mounted on the front pastedown. The text leaves with a vague horizontal and vertical fold in the centre, a manuscript annotation "21 Jan[ei]ro 1815" in brown ink in the upper outer corner of the first page, some foxing. Otherwise in good condition.l Gauz, Portuguese and Brazilian books in the JCB, 815/10; Porbase 3240734 (1 copy); WorldCat 1042407673, 12791342, 38346960 (4 copies); cf. Camargo & Moraes, Bibl. da Impressão Régia do Rio de Janeiro I, 428; Rodrigues 735 & 737 (Rio de Janeiro ed.); for more context relating to the treaty: Lesaffer, R., "Vienna and the Abolition of the Slave Trade", Oxford Public International Law, online via: https://opil.ouplaw.com/page/498; Niekerk, J.P. van, "British, Portuguese, and American judges in Adderley Street: the international legal background to and some judicial aspects of the Cape Town Mixed Commissions for the suppression of the transatlantic slave trade in the nineteenth century (Part 1)", in: The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa, Vol. 37, No. 1 (March 2004), pp. 1-39. (online via: https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA00104051_114).

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