Na plauzivel, e faustissima acclamação da Rainha Fidelissima D. Maria I Nossa Senhora.

Lisbon, Na Offic. de Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo, Impressor da Real Meza Censoria, Vendem-se na loge de Francisco Tavares na Praça do Commercio, 1777.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, later green wrappers (a bit faded). Large woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. Browned. In good condition. Old oval paper tag with blue border on upper wrapper, with manuscript shelfmark. Old ink inscription ("35") in upper outer corner of title page. 7 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this ode honoring D. Maria I's ascension to the throne; it is signed at the end, in print, by J.M.F.P. Begins on p. 3: "Ode. / O tu de Ulysses Filha, / Algrate, de flores orna a fronte …."There are at least two other odes on the same subject, with 7 pp. and almost identical titles, one printed at the Offic. de José de Aquino Bulhoens, the other with a caption title only and no imprint, with the name of Luís Corrêa de França e Amara as author at the end. The texts are different.D. Maria (b. 1734) became Portugal's first queen regnant on February 24, 1777, after the death of her father D. José I. She reigned until her death in 1816, although by 1792 she was suffering such severe mental illness that her son, the future D. João VI, ruled in her stead (as regent starting in 1799).*** Coimbra, Miscelâneas 405, n. 6514; Misc 458, n. 7737. Not in Innocêncio, Fonseca, Pseudónimos, or Guerra Andrade. Porbase locates a single copy, in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc.