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MAWE (John)
VIAGENS ao Interior do Brazil. Com huma exacta descrição das Ilhas dos Açores. Lisboa: Na Impressão Regia, 1819.
208 pp., 5 est.: il.; 210 mm. Missing pp. 9-16, 33-34, 39-42, 47-48, 145-146, 151-154 and 159-160; lacking plate representing canibals decouring portuguese; water stained; some leaves disbounded; full calf with losses on spine, tired.
FIRST Portuguese EDITION, one of the rarest and most curious of the many that were published in several languages of the original text by John Mawe. Born in Derbyshire, John Mawe, after being imprisoned in Montevideo in 1805 on suspicion of being an English spy, traveled to Brazil, arriving shortly before the Portuguese royal family. Received in Rio de Janeiro by D. João VI and with the support of the Count of Linhares, D. Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho, he was the first foreigner to obtain authorization to visit the mines of Minas Gerais and other regions and which led to the publication of the first edition of this work in 1812. Translated into several languages, the work is considered the first testimonial description of the gold and diamond mines in Brazil. According to Borba de Moraes, ‘the description of the Jaraguá mine is the first known evidence from the interior of São Paulo’. The Portuguese edition was made from the French translation and also contains the ‘Description of the Azores’, but the translator omitted some chapters and added others from different sources. Only the first 208 pp. were published, which were accompanied by a total of 5 engravings in no way related to the first edition or the author’s work. One of them is quite famous (which is missing from the present copy), and represents Brazilian cannibals devouring Portuguese people. Very rare.
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