Fabulas satiricas, politicas y morales sobre el actual estado de la Europa.

[Seville?], n.pr., 1811.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 12°, contemporary tree sheep (some wear to head and foot of spine, corners; outer front joint splitting near head and foot of spine, outer rear joint near head), flat spine with gilt fillets, crimson leather lettering piece, gilt letter, text block edges tinted yellow and sprinkled green. Internally in very good to fine condition. Overall good to very good. Old (contemporary?) printed paper tag (1.4 x 4.2 cm.) of "Luiz Thomaz de Amaral" on upper outer corner of front pastedown endleaf. (5 ll.), xxii, 279, (1) pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this volume of satirical verse directed against Napoleon.The dedication to D. Carlota Joaquina de Borbón, Infanta de España and Princesa del Brasil, future Queen of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves, takes up the 4 unnumbered leaves following the title page. The xxii preliminary pages are a "Razon de esta obra" in prose. Most of the rest of the volume, to p. 220, is in humorous verse lampooning the French Emperor. There is an "Advertencia" on p. 221, and notes in prose from pp. 222-279; the final page contains errata.The Jeronimite Fr. Ramón Valvidares y Longo (1769-1826) professed at the monastery of Santa María del Rosario in 1788. His other writings include an epic poem on the siege of Zaragoza during the Peninsular War, one on a flood in Seville in 1796, several sermons, and several works on tithing.*** Palau 349436 (incorrect collation; giving Rio de Janeiro as place of publication, then stating that Méndez Bejarano gives Seville as the place). Not in Ayres Magalhães de Sepúlveda, Dicionário bibliográfico da Guerra Peninsular. Not in Biblioteca Pública de Braga, Catálogo do Fundo Barca-Oliveira. CCPBE locates six copies: Real Academia Española-Madrid, Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas-Madrid, Biblioteca del Senado-Madrid, Biblioteca Pública del Estado-Malaga, Biblioteca Pública del Estado-Ávila, and an unnamed private library in Castilla y León. Rebiun adds copies at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Universidad de Sevilla. KVK (51 databases searched) repeats Halle-Universitäts-und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt and adds two additional copies at the Biblioteca Nacional de España. Jisc repeats British Library, adding University of Southampton and Oxford University.