Inventos e varios planos de melhoramento para este reino
Subtitle: escriptos nas prisões da junqueira
By: por Bento de Moura Portugal
Contributors: Saraiva, António Ribeiro, 1800-1890
Publisher: Na Imprensa da Univeridade.
Published: 1821
Place of publication: Coimbra
Language: spa
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Gold mines and mining; Economic conditions; Description and travel; Inventions
Notes: Edited by Antonio Ribeiro Saraiva, who signs p. 223.

"Dialogo sobre varias cousas da America", p. [177]-206, has divisional title page, and includes a discussion regarding the means of communication between Matto Grosso, Grão Pará and Rio de Janeiro, mentioning travel by various rivers and the journey of Antonio Rolim.

"Mode de averiguar se por baixo dos campos, que correm ao longo dos rios, ha, ou não ha ouro antes de abrir as catas", p. [207]-217, has divisional title page and concerns gold mining.

Signatures: a-c d (d6 verso blank) A-N (H6, I3,K1, L8, M1, N8 versos blank) )-P (P4 verso blank)

Errata: p. 221-222.

Engraved vignette of royal arms of Portugal on title page.

Silva, I.F. da. Bib. portuguez, I:351.

Silva, I.F. da. Bib. portuguez, VIII:375.

John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in contemporary calf with marbled boards.

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