Narração das marchas e feitos do Corpo Militar Academico desde 31 de março, em que sahio de Coimbra, ate de 12 de maio, sua entrada no Porto.
by SILVA, Ovidio Saraiva de Carvalho e
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Coimbra, Na Real Imprensa da Universidade, 1809.. First Edition. 4°, recent quarter sheep over marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands in six compartments, black and red leather lettering pieces in second and third compartments from head, gilt letter, decorated endleaves, brown silk ribbon place marker, contemporary marbled wrappers bound in (repair to upper outer corner of rear wrapper). Woodcut royal Portuguese arms on title page. In very good condition. 25 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST EDITION. Saraiva de Carvalho e Silva, a native of Parnahyba, Piauí, was studying law at Coimbra when French troops invaded Portugal. He enlisted with the Corpo Militar Acadêmico and fought during the whole campaign; this work is an account of that campaign. He praises José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, who was a major and later a lieutenant colonel. After revising and expanding this work, Saraiva de Carvalho Silva published it in Rio de Janeiro in 1812 with the title O patriotismo academico. Saraiva de Carvalho e Silva later served in several government posts in Brazil. He died in Pirahy in 1852.*** Borba de Moraes (1983) II, 811; Período colonial p. 371. Sacramento Blake VI, 348-9. Innocêncio VI, 331. Ayres Magalhães de Sepúlveda, Dicionário bibliográfico da Guerra Peninsular III, 254. Biblioteca Pública de Braga, Catálogo do Fundo Barca-Oliveira, p. 220. JCB, Portuguese and Brazilian Books 809/21. Not in Palha, Welsh or Greenlee Catalogue. Porbase locates four copies, three in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and one in the Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Jisc repeats the British Library only. NUC: RPJCB.
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- Title
- Narração das marchas e feitos do Corpo Militar Academico desde 31 de março, em que sahio de Coimbra, ate de 12 de maio, sua entrada no Porto.
- Author
- SILVA, Ovidio Saraiva de Carvalho e
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
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- Coimbra, Na Real Imprensa da Universidade, 1809.
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- Keywords
- Brazilian literature, authors, Peninsular War, military, Parnahyba, Piauí, José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, Napoleonic Wars, France, Portugal, Coimbra University
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