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Card cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition. 180mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). [10pp].

I. VI p., pages 7-239. / II. 23 pages. - Bound together in later strong halfleather-binding over 5 raised bands with red-green-white marbled panels and ornamental gilt-titled leather spinelabel (II. incl. the original printed blue papercover), inner frontpanel with older bookshop-label 'O Mundo do Livro, . . ., Lisboa'; 8vo.(ca. 20 x 13 cm). *** I. FIRST EDITION. / II. 'SEGUNDA EDICAO CORRECIA, E ACCRESCENTADA PELO AUTHOR.'; 2 BOOKS IN 1 VOLUME (the second one extremely rare due to its 'thin fragility'), describing the crisis of royal succession and the proclamation of Dom Miguel as King in February 1828 which led to the Liberal Wars (port. 'Guerras Liberais'), also known as the 'War of the Two Brothers'(Guerra dos Dois Irmaos) or 'Portuguese Civil War'(Guerra Civil Portuguesa), in which his older brother Pedro IV. (then Pedro I. of Brazil) forced Miguel to abdicate and go into exile in 1834 and placed his daughter (Miguel's niece) on the throne as Queen Maria II. of Portugal; Freire was murdered 1836 in Lisbon during the 'Belenzada', after a meeting of former devorist ministers at Belem to assist the new government . . . - I. First and last sheets with slight-, inside only minimal foxing; II. BEST CONDITION. - OVERALL A VERY GOOD SET.