Dom José por graça de Deos Rei de Portugal.

AUCTION 55 | Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 334

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Dom José por graça de Deos Rei de Portugal.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Historiated initials containing royal seal. pp. 14, 12. Trace foxed. Modern marbled boards. Sm. folio.

Lisbon: Regia Officina Typografica, May 27th 1773

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $450

A Royal Edict abolishing all discrimination between Old Christians and New Christians, (i.e. Catholics of Jewish descent). The removal of the legal disabilities from the New Christians was part of the overarching scheme of Portugal’s progressivist chef d’etat, Pombal Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo (1699-1782). Pombal succeeded in breaking the hegemony of the Jesuits and bringing a backwater Portugal into the mainstream of the European Enlightenment.