Instituiçoens de economia politica.

Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 1834.. First and Only Edition. Large 8°, contemporary mottled calf, spine with red lettering-piece and gilt bands (scuffed). Missing flyleaves, some soiling on half-title and final page; otherwise clean. xxxix, 344 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION, with sections on the production and accumulation of wealth, credit, consumption, and more. This work, dedicated to the recently victorious D. Pedro IV, is a virtual recipe for liberal economic reform. Ferreira Borges (1786-1838), a leading liberal economist and a writer on politics and law, received his law degree from Coimbra and quickly established a reputation as a barrister specializing in commercial law. In addition to being the author of the Codigo commercial portuguez, enacted in 1833 and in force until 1888, he wrote many other works on commercial law as well as poetry, essays, and even the first Portuguese work on forensic medicine. Ferreira Borges played a leading role in the 1820 revolution. He was nominated secretary of the Interior in the provisional government under Freire de Andrade, was a deputy to the constitutional Côrtes of 1821, and was a partisan of the liberal cause during the civil wars between the liberals and conservatives and their aftermath from 1828 to 1834.*** Innocêncio IV, 330: without collation. Kress S6660. Goldsmiths'-Kress 28462.8. Kress, Luso-Brazilian Economic Literature Before 1850, p. 17. On the author, see Laranjo, Economistas portugueses pp. 113-128. Porbase locates four copies at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and one at Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Jisc repeats British Library and University of London, and adds copies at Sheffield University and Warwick University. KVK (51 databases searched) repeats the copies in Porbase. NUC: MH-BA, KU, CtY, NNC.