O fazendeiro do Brazil
Subtitle: melhorado na economia rural dos generos já cultivados, e de outros, que se podem introduzir; e nas fabricas, que lhe são proprias, segundo o melhor, que se tem escrito a este assumpto: debaixo dos auspicios e de ordem de Sua Alteza Real o Principe do Brazil nosso senhor
By: Colligido de memorias estrangeiras por Fr. José Mariano de Conceição Velloso, ... Tom. I. Part. I. [-Tomo V. Parte I.]
Publisher: Na Regia officina typografica.
Published: 1798
Place of publication: Lisboa
Language: por
Number of pages: 10
Other titles: O fazendeiro do Brazil, cultivador.
Notes: No more published; v. 1 in 2 parts, v. 2-3 in 3 parts each, v. 4-5 in 1 part each. No volume title pages published.

Volume 1 is on sugar cane cultivation; v.2 on dyes; v. 3 on nutritious beverages; v. 4 on spices; v. 5 on textile raw materials. Each volume consists of a series of reports or articles, mostly extracted and translated from English or French sources. In addition to Velloso himself, Antonio Carlos Ribeiro d'Andreade is credited as a translator of v. 3, part 2.

Dates of publication: 1799 (v. 1, part 2; v. 2, part 1; v. 3, part 2); 1800 (v. 2, parts 2-3; v. 3, part 1); 1805 (v.3, part 2; v. 4, part 1)

Title varies: all parts from v. 1, part 2 onwards begin title with: O fazendeiro do Brazil, cultivador ..

Imprint v. 1, part 2; v. 2, parts 1-2; v.3, parts 1-2: [s.l.] Na officina de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira. Imprint v. 2, part 3: [s.l.]. Na officina de Joaõ Procopio Correa da Silva. Imprint v. 3, part 3; v. 4, part 1; v. 5, part 1: Lisboa. Na Impressam Regia.

Vignette or ornament on title pages.

Plates (87, of these 64 folded) unnumbered or more frequently numbered according to parts, but numbering inconsistent and partly erroneous. Included in this count are a portrait in v. 1, part 2 and a folding table in v. 5, part 1.

Errata (v. 2, part 2: p. [1] at end; v. 3, part 3: p. [2] at end; v. 4, part 1: p. [1] at end; v. 5, part 1: p. [6] at end)

Moraes, R.B. de  Bib. Brasiliana (new and enl. ed.), 894-895.

Rodrigues, J. C.  Bib. Brasiliense, 2485n.

Sabin 98832.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: lacks v. 3 (present in 2nd ed.). Also, the frontispiece plate described by Moraes for v. 2, part 3 is missing. Plates A-C in v. 2, part 3 are handcolored. In v. 5, part 1, pages 293-298 and p. [1-2], 3rd count (=Z2) are misbound at end of part.

John Carter Brown Library copy purchased from the Lousia D. Sharep Metcalf Fund.

For a collation by signatures and pagination see the John Carter Brown Library's bibliographical file.