Brazil.- [Pedro I & IV] Cartas e mais documentos dirigidos a sua Magestade o Senhor D. Joa?o VI. pelo principe real o Senhor D. Pedro de Alcantara com as datas de 19 e 22. de Junho deste anno, title with small woodcut royal arms, contemporary ink inscription to title and occasional marginalia and underlining, title frayed and repaired at inner margin and mounted on stub, inner margin of final f. with some loss, a little worming at foot, mostly marginal, but occasional affecting the odd letter, some spotting and staining / water-staining, lightly browned, disbound, housed in a modern cloth drop-back box, spine gilt, [Borba de Moraes (1983) I,161; Innocêncio XVII, 162], Lisbon, National Printers, 1822; and 4 others, Brazil, v.s. (5)
⁂ The first mentioned is the first letter from Pedro as regent of Brazil, when independence from Portugal appeared inevitable. It contains his blunt assertion that Portugal is a needy fourth class state and that Brazil is first class and independent.
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