Na feliz acclamação dos Fidelissimos Reis D. Maria I e D. Pedro III Nossos Senhores.

Lisbon, Na Regia Officina Typografica, 1777.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, stitched. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. Woodcut initial on p. [3]. Slightly gnawed at lower outer blank margin. Minor soiling to title page. Overall in good condition. Octagonal paper ticket, white with blue border and three horizontal doted lines, and number 6403 in manuscript on upper inner corner of title page. 10 pp., (integral blank leaf). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this ode presumably recited at the coronations of D. Maria I and her king consort, who was also her uncle, D. Pedro III.Machado de Castro (1731-1822), perhaps Portugal's foremost sculptor, wrote extensively on his works and the theory behind them, including a full-length discussion of the equestrian statue of D. José I entitled Descripção analytica da execução da estatua equestre, Lisbon 1810. He was also a highly cultured individual, with several other published works, including poems and technical writings on sculpture. In February 1814 Machado de Castro was made a corresponding member of the Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa.*** Imprensa Nacional p. 104; not in the library-archive. Innocêncio IV, 125. Biblioteca Central da Marinha, Catálogo das obras impressas no Séc. XVIII 545. See Pamplona, Dicionário de pintores e escultores portugueses III, 14-8. Porbase locates eight copies: two in the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, five in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and one in the Biblioteca Central da Marinha. Jisc repeats British Library only.