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Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade, 1866.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original pink printed wrappers (very minor nicks to outer edge of front cover; parts of spine gone; crude tape repairs to secure covers). Uncut. In fine condition internally. Overall good to very good. 167 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY Separate EDITION, consisting of a reunion of articles which had appeared in the Jornal do Commercio, with significant new material added. Part of the debate raging over civil marriage in Portugal that erupted when the first Codigo Civil was being written from 1850 to 1865. Innocêncio lists 32 works on civil marriage published in 1865 and 1866 (IX, 182-185).The author earned a degree from Coimbra University. He was a corresponding member of the Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, and later served in Parliament.*** Innocêncio VIII, 346; IX, 184. Porbase locates four copies: one each at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and the Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and two at the Biblioteca de Arte Calouste Gulbenkian). Jisc locates only a link to an online copy at the HathiTrust Digital Library. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the hard copies cited by Porbase.