Almanak administrativo, mercantil e industrial da provincia de Parnambuco para anno de 1861 ... 2.- anno.
Pernambuco, [Brazil]: typ. de Geraldo Henrique de Mira & C., 1861. 16mo, pp. [2], ii, 543; bound with: Supplemento do almanak ou colleccões de documentos officiaes e informacoes uteis, Pernambuco: typographia de Geraldo Henrique de Mira, 1860, pp. 87, [1], 14 (index), [20] ads printed on blue and yellow paper (and each within a different elaborate woodcut border); the second title with a sectional title-p. for Roteiro telegraphico da cidade do Recife en Pernambuco, Recife, 1860, which occupies pp. [73]-87 of the Supplemento, and includes a hand-colored plate of 5 numbered signal flags, followed by a leaf of explanation, and a 5-p. code list based on the 5 flags; contemporary and native quarter red morocco, 5 rather elaborate gilt fillets on spine, gilt-lettered direct; a worn copy, with occasional mild dampstains, but sound. Early ownership signature dated January, 1861; the preface is dated Jan. 20, 1861. The text includes woodcut ornaments, dingbats, tables, solar and lunar calendars, information on local businesses, civic institutions, churches, hospitals, banks, government offices and officials, tradesmen and professionals, including printers, librarians, professors, lawyers, doctors and dentists, police, the military in all its branches, harbormasters, etc., with virtually every conceivable bit of information needed to negotiate the port, including port regulations, election regulations, local ordinances, commercial and agricultural regulations, etc., for both Pernambuco and Recife (now collectively Recife), the easternmost port in all of South America, originally settled by the Portuguese in 1530, and an agricultural and commercial center for sugar and cotton from the 17th to the early 20th century. OCLC records another book by the same author, Datas celebres e factos notaveis da historia do Brazil desde a sua descoberta ate 1870, Pernambuco, 1872. Not in OCLC, NUC, or Palau. Item #28124
Price: $4,500.00
