Cadeia do Amor Perfeito, poesia. Dedicada aos excellentissimos senhores a Joven Condessa do Farrobo e Conde do Farrobo Joaquim por ....

Lisbon, Typographia de José Baptista Morando, 1855.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (27.5 x 18.5 cm), original pink illustrated wrappers (1.3 cm. split at fold). Large wood-engraving of a youth with lyre and laurel crown on front cover. Wood-engraving of a lyre and wreath on title page. Small wood-engraving of a putto with a garland on second leaf, recto. Small wood-engraving of a basket of flowers on third leaf, verso. Horizontal fold lines across center. In good to very good condition. (4 ll.) *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this poem on marriage. The fourth leaf has notes on the meaning. D. Joaquim Pedro Quintela, 1.º Conde de Farrobo (1801-1869) was a Portuguese aristocrat and businessman, the heir and successor of the great capitalist and landowner of the same name, D. Joaquim Pedro Quintela, 1.º Barão de Quintela. Farrobo was a noted philanthropist and patron of the arts. He amassed great wealth and influence owing to his intense activity in the world of industry and business. Even though the Conde de Farrobo had an unquestionable role in the political, social, and cultural life of Portugal, he is perhaps best remembered today for his legendary parties of great opulence and excess. Some claim that the Portuguese word farrobodó (meaning a big, raucous party or event) derives from Farrobo. In later life most of Farrobo's fortune was lost.Augusto Joaquim Henriques Ribeiro de Paiva studied medicine at Coimbra and was awarded the Ordem de Christo for his services during the 1857 cholera outbreak, about which he published Relatorio da cholera-morbus asiatica no concelho de Villa-franca de Xira no anno de 1855 para 1856. Innocêncio states that he was born late in the eighteenth century in Castello Branco, and was still alive in 1858; according to Guerra Andrade, Dicionário de pseudónimos e iniciaes, p. 412, he died in 1864..*** Innocêncio VIII, 342 (calling for 9 unnumbered pages); on the author, see also I, 311. Porbase cites this work without giving any location. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) refer only to the record in Porbase.