Colleção de poesias feitas na feliz inauguração da estatua equestre de elrey nosso senhor Dom José I. Em 6 de junho de 1775
By: Por Domingos Caldas Barbosa
Publisher: Regia Officina Typografica
Published: 1775
Place of publication: Lisbon
Language: por
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: CPJCB; Brazilian poetry; Poetry
Notes: "Extremely rare collection of poems in honor of the dedication of D. José I's statue in Lisbon's Praça do Comercio, in 1775, written by one of the finest Brazilian poets of the colonial period. The volume includes odes by allegorical figures of Asia (p. 15-7), America (p. 18-20), Europe (p. 21-4), and Africa (p. 25-7), as well as an ode and 7 sonnets. It is probably his earliest work." (Book dealer's bibliographic notes)

Imprint from BN Portugal. Imprensa Nacional.

Signatures: *¹⁴ (*1, *14 versos blank)

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. brasiliana (1983 ed.), p. 70.

Sacramento Blake. Dic. bib. brazileiro, II, p. 198.

Silva, I.F. da. Dic. bib. portuguez, II, p. 185.

BN Portugal. Imprensa Nacional, p. 90.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the JCB Associates.

John Carter Brown Library copy is unbound, untrimmed, and cut into separate leaves and inlaid in folio sheets. This copy has some light stains.

John Carter Brown Library copy has manuscript foliation: 181-194.