Dom José por graça de Deos Rei de Portugal.

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $450

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

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(PORTUGAL).

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Regia Officina Typografica, May 27th

Place

Lisbon

Publication

1773

Description

FIRST EDITION. Historiated initials containing royal seal.

summary

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.

pp. 14, 12. Trace foxed. Modern marbled boards. Sm. folio.

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