Regimento dos contos do Reyno, e Casa, nesta nova impressam acrescentado com hum Alphabeto para nelle se achar com muita facilidade o que contem todos os capitulos.

Lisbon, Na Officina de Valentim da Costa Deslandes, 1708.. FIRST EDITION. Folio (29 x 20.7 cm.), remarkable contemporary crimson morocco binding (some wear; later endleaves), spine richly gilt with raised bands in six compartments, short title lettered gilt in second compartment from head, multiple ornamental borders, large gilt Portuguese royal arms within central gilt rectangle on both covers, all text block edges gilt. Large engraved copperplate Portuguese royal arms on title page. Woodcut initials, several rather large. Typographical headpieces. Woodcut headpiece. Several large woodcut tailpieces and smaller vignettes. Clean and crisp, in very good condition. Fine internally. (8 ll.), 177 pp. Pages 83-4 misnumbered 81-2. *** FIRST EDITION thus; significantly different from the published Regimentos dos Contos of 1628 and 1669. The Casa dos Contos was the primary organ for regulation and fiscalization of state receipts and expenses. This document, with 127 chapters, provides insights into trading patterns, such as the importation of wheat to continental Portugal from the Azores, Madeira, Flanders and Brittany. Much attention is also paid to Portugal's overseas affairs, including considerable information concerning Africa, India and Brazil. Chapter 18 (p. 24) deals with Brazil. Chapters 39 (pp. 48-9), 40 (pp. 49-50), and 67 (pp. 81-2) deal with Africa. Chapter 8 (pp. 8-9) refers to the Azores, Madeira, and Africa. Chapter 94 (pp. 110-1) is about Cartas Geraes da India. Chapter 22 (pp. 28-9) contains references to the Casa da India and the Casa de Ceuta, while Chapter 46 (pp. 57-8) refers to the Casa da India. Chapter 41 (pp. 50-1) deals with the importation of wheat to Lisbon from the Azores and Madeira; Angra on the island of Terceira is mentioned specifically, as are the islands of Madeira and Porto Santo. Chapter 14 (pp. 19-20), "Do tempo em que os Officiaes de recebimento ham de vir dar conta aos Contos depois de terem acabado o porque foram providos," includes references to the Azores, Madeira, Porto Santo, Angola, Mina, Cabo Verde, and São Thomé.*** Cunha, Impressões Deslandesianas, I, 626-7. JFB (1994) P385. Monteverde 4398 lists a Regimento das Contas of 1708 which in all other respects appears to be the same as the present work and the one listed by Porbase for that year; probably a mistaken transcription of the title. Not in Alden & Landis. No Regimento dos contos in Innocêncio. No Regimento dos contos in Borba de Moraes. No Regimentos dos contos in JCB Portuguese and Brazilian Books [but we sold another copy of the present edition to JCB in 2016]. No Regimento dos contos in Azevedo Samodães, Ameal, Nepomuceno, Fernandes Tomaz, Ávila Perez or Afonso Lucas. See Virgínia Rau, A Casa dos Contos. Porbase locates two copies, both in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. No Regimento dos contos located in Hollis, Orbis or Melvyl.