Memoria analitico-demonstrativa da maquina de dilataçaõ, e de contracçaõ, offerecida ao serenissimo senhor D. Joaõ, Principe do Brazil
By: por Luiz Antonio de Oliveira Mendes, bacharel formado em leis pela universidade de Coimbra, e advogado da Casa da Supplicaçaõ, ...
Publisher: Na Officina de Joaquim Jozé Florencio Gonçalves
Published: 1792
Place of publication: Lisboa
Language: por
Number of pages: 27
Notes: "The machine referred to by the author as a maquina de dilatação e contracção is a ladder for fireman... According to the etching before the title page the invention is based on good mechanical principles..." (Moraes)

Portuguese coat of arms on title page.

Signatures: A-D⁴ chi2 (-chi2) (A1, A3, chi1 versos blank)

Moraes, R.B. de.  Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), p. 558.

Sacramento Blake. Dic. bib. brazileiro, t. V, p. 354.

Silva, Innocencio da.  Diccionario bib. portuguez, V, p. 218.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Metcalf Fund.