Vende-se na loja de Desiderio Marques Leão, livreiro, ao Calhariz, n. 12" at bottom of title page of v. 2-8.

"Vende-se na mesma officina no Largo do Calhariz N. 12" at bottom of title page, v. 9-12.

Bookseller's advertisement in v. 6.

Vols. 1-6 originally published: Paris, 1815.

Portuguese coat of arms on title pages of vols. 9-12.

Errata statements on p. [1] at end, v. 2; on p. [298], v. 5; on p. [1] at end, v. 7.

Pagination of v. 2: 332, [4] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 3: 311, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 4: [2], 301, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 5: 308 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 6: [6], 3-289, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 7: XIX, [1], 313, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 8: IV, 330 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 9: XXIV, 324 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 10: 316 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 11: [2], 342 p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 12: [2], 332 p., [1] leaf of plates.

Imprints of v. 4: Lisboa: Na Officina de J. F. M. de Campos, 1818; Imprint of v. 5-6: Lisboa, Na Impr. de J. B. Morando..., 1818; Imprint of v. 7: Lisboa, Na Impressão de J. B. Morando, 1819; Imprint of v. 8: Lisboa, Na Impressão de J. B. Morando, 1820; Imprint of v. 9: Lisboa, Na Typ. de Desiderio Marques Leão, 1823; Imprint of v. 10: Lisboa, Na Typ. de Desiderio Marques Leão, 1824; Imprint of v. 11: Lisboa, Na Typ. de Desiderio Marques Leão, 1826; Imprint of v. 12: Lisboa, Na Typ. de Desiderio Marques Leão, 1834.

Signatures of v. 2: A-X⁸ (A1, X7 versos blank; X8 blank); v. 3: A-T⁸ U⁴ (A1, U4 versos blank); v. 4: pi1 A-T⁸ (-T8)(pi1, T7 versos blank); v. 5: A-S⁸ T¹° (T5 missigned T3; A1 verso blank); v. 7: pi⁸ chi² A-T⁸ V⁶(-V6)(pi1 verso blank); v. 8: pi⁴ (-pi4) A-V⁸ X⁶(-X6)(pi1, X1 versos blank); v. 9: *⁸ 2⁴ A⁴ B-V⁸ X⁶ (1 verso blank); v. 10: A² B-N⁸(-N8) O-V⁸ X⁴ chi1) (A1 verso blank); v. 11: pi1 A-V⁸ X⁸(-X8) Y⁴ (pi1 verso blank); v. 12: pi1 A-V⁸ chi⁶ (pi1 verso blank)

John Carter Brown Library copy, v. 7, has numerous errors in pagination.

Vols. 1-6 are a translation of Beauchamp's Histoire du Brésil, translated by Pedro José de Figueiredo.

Vols. 7-12 have title: Historia do Brazil desde 1807 até ao presente; originalmente composta em portuguez para servir de continuação à que se publicou vertida do francez. According to Silva, vols. XI and XII only were possibly written by Pedro Cyriaco da Silva; the other vols. also had Eusebio (sic) Candido Cordeiro Pinheiro Furtado as collaborator.

Cf. Rodrigues, J.C. Bib. Brasiliense, 365.

Silva, I.F. da. Dic. bib. portuguez, t. VI, p. 401.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), p. 409.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: v. 1 of this edition wanting; instead, the Library's copy of v. 1 is from the "Segunda edicção mais correcta" and has imprint: Lisboa: Na Typ. de Desiderio Marques Leão, 1822.

John Carter Brown Library copy, v. 9, has introductory leaves misbound with first leaves of gathering A. Vol. 8, 15 incomplete: pages 1-2 missing.

John Carter Brown Library copy is untrimmed and has some foxing.