Cultura, e opulencia do Brasil por suas drogas, e minas, : com varias noticias curiosas do modo de fazer o assucar; plantar, & beneficiar o tabaco; tirar ouro das minas; & descubrir as da prata; e dos grandes emolumentos, que esta conquista da America Meridional dá ao Reyno de Portugal com estes, & outros generos, & contratos reaes

By

Antonil, André João, 1650-1716

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Lisboa, Na Officina Real Deslandesiana, Anno de 1711

Notes

André João Antonil is the pseudonym of João Antonio Andreoni, an Italian Jesuit priest born in Tuscany, who was attracted to Brazil in 1681 by Father Antonio Vieira.

This first and rare edition of Antonil's book was seized and destroyed by the Portuguese government for the information it revealed about Brazil's lucrative sugar industry and gold mines. To publish news about the riches of that colony would arouse envy and lead to aggression by other nations. It's an important book on eighteenth century Brazil's economic and social history.

Title vignette.

Signed on p. [11], 1st count: O Anonymo Toscano.

Signatures: * A-N (*1, *2, *8, G5, H8, M3, N7 versos blank; N8 blank) (C2 missigned C3)

JCB Rare Americana, | 68.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), | p. 39.

Sacramento Blake. Dic. bib. brazileiro, | I, p. 80.

Rodrigues, J.C. Bib. Brasiliense, | 199.

Sabin | 1715.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, | 711/6.

Silva, I.F. da. Dic. bib. portuguez, | I, p. 63.

Leite, S. Hist. da Companhia de Jesus no Brasil, | VIII, p. 45.

Backer-Sommervogel, | I, col. 340.

Subjects

Brazil , CPJCB , Economic conditions , Gold mines and mining , Imprint 1711 , Sugar growing , Tobacco

Language

Portugese

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.50257