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4°, disbound. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. Engrave plate with portrait of Pitt. Portrait shaved at lower margin, affecting more than half of final line of text reading "Primeiro Ministro da Gram Bretanha." Overall in good to very good condition. Manuscript ink pagination: 375-390. (1 l. half title), 12 pp., (1 blank l.), folding engraved frontispiece portrait. *** Second Edition in Portuguese, but the first of the present translation of this speech by the Right Hon. William Pitt in Parliament on Thursday, January 31, 1799. The engraved portrait, dated 1809, is signed by Fontes (Constantino de Fontes, 1777-ca. 1840). In the foreground of the portrait is a fanciful map in which the words "Mar de India", "India", "Goa", "Angola", "Beng", and "Macao" can be read. An edition whose title begins Plano sabio . printed at Lisbon: Typografia Lacerdina, 1808, does not contain a portrait. Both editions are rare and sought after. It should be noted that not only are the titles of the two editions different, but that the translations of the texts are also somewhat different. Pages 8-12 of the speech discuss, with amazing foresight, the moving of the seat of the Portuguese empire to Brazil. Pitt predicts the founding of a large city, Nova Lisboa, in the interior of Brazil, with roads connecting it to Porto Bello, Cayenne, Rio de Janeiro, Olinda, Callao, Grão Pará, the Amazon, Rio de la Plata, Bahia, etc. The Portuguese and British empires would be linked by a common commercial policy. Pitt's idea of founding a Nova Lisboa in the interior of Brazil was recalled when President Kubitschek began campaigning for a new Brazilian capital. Hence Pitt foretold not only the removal of the Portuguese court to Rio de Janeiro in 1808, but the founding of Brasilia in the twentieth century. *** Borba de Moraes (1983) II, 677. Gonçalves Rodrigues, A tradução em Portugal 2890 (no collation or location; taken from Balbi). Ayres Magalhães de Sepúlveda, Dicionário bibliográfico da Guerra Peninsular III, 61. Biblioteca Pública de Braga, Catálogo do Fundo Barca-Oliveira, p. 193 (but without mention of the half title, portrait, or final blank leaf). JCB, Portuguese and Brazilian Books 809/14. Not in Rodrigues. Porbase locates four copies of the present edition, one in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and three in the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Jisc cites a single copy, at Oxford University. Not located in Hollis or Orbis. N° de réf. du vendeur 25796
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