Only edition of British abolitionist William George Alexander's sober yet vehement report of Portugal's perseveration in the illegal international trade in enslaved persons, written as a letter, in the first-person, addressed to the courts and to the citizens of Portugal. The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans was abolished in Britain.....
Lisbon: Lino da Silva Godinho, 1781.
First edition, second issue, of the first bibliography of Portuguese law. Though this is the true first edition recorded by Innocêncio, a prior issue, dated 1780, exists, which is distinguished by three instead of five preliminary leaves. The author chose to include, in both.....
Lisbon: 1765.
Chapbook report of the trial and sentencing of one Jacintho Yorc for the "tyrannical" murder of his young wife, Luciana Kin, in Transylvania in July of 1765. Much of the reportage centers around the sensationally grisly torture and execution of Yorc, who was burned with red-hot irons, his.....