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[Portuguese political economist] Borges, Jose Ferreira (1786-1838)
Collection of works
Estimate: £400 - £600
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Including: O correio interceptado. London: M. Calero, 1825. 12mo, uncut in original boards, ink inscription to title-page, housed in custom grey cloth solander box;
Instituiçoens de direito cambial Portuguez, con referencias às leis, ordenaçoens, e costumes das principaes praças da Europa acerca de letras de cambio. London: M. Calero, 1825. First edition, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, inscribed on title-page ‘au seu amigo J. Marin L. Carn[…]’, possibly by the author;
Synopsis Juridica do contracto de cambio maritimo vulgarmente denominado contracto de risco. London: Bingham, 1830. First edition, 8vo, contemporary black quarter roan (wear to spine, joints cracked), retaining half-title;
Jurisprudencia do contracto-mercantil de sociedade. London: Bingham, 1830. First edition, 8vo, modern half calf expertly to style, half-title;
Principios de syntelologia: comprehendendo em geral a theoria do tributo, e em particular observaçoens sobre administraçao, e despezas de Portulga, em grande parte applicaveis ao Brazil. London: Bingham, 1831. First edition, 8vo, contemporary red quarter morocco, half-title, ownership inscription to head of title-page;
Observaçoens sobre um opusculo intitulado: “Parecer de dous Concelheiros da Coroa Constitucional sobre os meios de restaura o governo represntativo em Portugal”. London: Bingham, 1832. 22 pp., 20th-century cloth;
Instituiçoens de economia politica. Lisbon: Imprensa nacional, 1834. First edition, 8vo, contemporary purple quarter sheep, smooth spine gilt in compartments, marbled sides, half-title, book-labels to front pastedown.
Together with 1 similar work not by Borges (Gyraeo, Economia rural e domestica, Lisbon: imprensa nacional, 1835, first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary marbled sheep) (9)
Footnote
Jose Ferreira Borges ‘was a Portuguese counsellor, economist and politician. He was, among other functions, secretary for the Company of Wine of Alto Douro, member of the Provisional Board of the Supreme Government of 1820, attorney in the city of Porto and congressman of the Cortes Constituintes of 1821. He was the main author of the first Portuguese Commercial Document of 1833’ (British Museum, online). His published works appear generally to be uncommon. Library Hub traces one copy only of O correio interceptado in British and Irish institutional libraries (at the British Library), one for Instituiçoens de direito cambial Portuguez (at Oxford), two for his Synopsis Juridica (BL and LSE), and so on.