Rasgos memoraveis do Senhor Dom Pedro I, Imperador do Brasil, Excelso Duque de Bragança, por ....

Rio de Janeiro, Typographia Universal de Laemmert, 1862.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, later blue quarter cloth over faux-reptile boards (light wear), smooth blank spine. The lithograph portrait of D. Pedro is signed by A.J. Rocha as artist and A. de Pinho as lithographer. Some browning, but not brittle. Pinpoint wormholes, mostly marginal but in text for first 40 or so pages, not affecting legibility. Frontis is backed and has large discolored tissue repair, touching top of D. Pedro's head. One discolored tissue repair on title page (affecting 1 letter) and one on final blank page. A working copy. Lithographed frontis portrait, [iii]-xxxiv, [35]-186 pp., (1 l.); probably lacking a half-title. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this biography of D. Pedro of Bragança, with information and details that were not generally known: "noticias e particularidades reconditas, não menos interessantes para a história do Brasil, que para a justa apreciação dos successos de Portugal nos annosde 1832 a 1834" (Innocêncio).D. Pedro is probably unique in having abdicated two thrones on two different continents. He was the first ruler of Brazil after it declared its independence of Portugal, ruling as Emperor D. Pedro I from October 12, 1822 until April 7, 1831, when he resigned in favor of his son, D. Pedro II. He also reigned as King D. Pedro IV of Portugal from March 10, 1826, until May 2 of the same year, when he abdicated in favor of his daughter, D. Maria II. He died of tuberculosis in 1834, a few months after the liberals had triumphed in Portugal. A native of New Castile, Antonio Deodoro de Pascual studied in Spain, Italy, France and Germany before settling in Rio de Janeiro in 1852, where he became a naturalized citizen. His four-volume Apuntes para la historia de la república oriental del Uruguay appeared in Paris, 1863. He also wrote a critique (published 1861-1862) of Charles Mansfield's Paraguay, Brazil and the Plate. Letters Written in 1852-53.*** Sacramento Blake I, 149: "contém noticias e particularidades muito reservadas, que interessam não só a nossa historia, como a de Portugal." Innocêncio VIII, 130; on the author, see also XX, 198. Porbase locates a single copy, at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the copy cited by Porbase, as well as a microfilm copy.