Collecção de bandos, e outras differentes providencias que servem de leis regulamentares para o governo economico, e judicial das provincias denominadas das Novas Conquistas, precedida da Noção da sua Conquista, e da divisão de cada huma dellas ....

Pangim, Na Imprensa Nacional, 1840.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Volume I only (of 3). 4°, contemporary limp calf, showing boards from a much earlier printed work at front pastedown; flat spine with black-painted label, gilt-lettered with short title (worn). Extensive worming affecting first 18 quires, often marginal but sometimes touching a few letters per page, though never affecting legibility. A less than good copy. Some early marginal notes in ink and pencil. (9 ll.), xxi, 304, (1) pp. [pp. 127-8 a folding table; pagination skips blank page after 143, which is followed by folding table numbered 144, followed by 146], (9 ll., 1 l. errata). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Innocêncio calls for two more volumes: the second published in Nova Goa, 1850, the third in Nova Goa, 1851 (the Repertorio geral, ou indice alphabetico). All the volumes are rare; the second more so than the first, and the third is almost impossible to obtain.This compilation of decrees issued from 1763-1842 by the king, the viceroy or governor general, and various local officials of the Novas Conquistas (including Ponda, Astragar, Embarbacem, Bally, Chrondravady, Cacora, Canacona, Bocholim, Sanquelim and Pernem) has measures covering marriage, leases, mortgages, distillers, grazing, books, coinage, religion and tobacco.Beginning on p. [188] is an "Additamento" which, according to an "Advertencia" on the unnumered verso of p. 304, dated Pangim, 6 July 1842, was published earlier in 1842.Filippe Nery Xavier (1804-1875), historian, archeologist, and exemplary public functionary throughout his adult life, a native of Loutulim in the concelho de Salsete, was director of the Imprensa Nacional in Goa from 1851. One of Goa's best historians, he published Bosquejo histórico das comunidades das aldeias dos concelhos das Ilhas, Salcete e Bardez, 1852, and Nobiliarchia goana, 1862-63, the enormously popular Resumo histórico da maravilhosa vida, conversões e milagres de S. Francisco Xavier, 1859, and many other works.*** Innocêncio II, 302-3. Gonçalves, Síntese bibliográfica de Goa 2845: calling for only 1 volume, Pangim 1840, with a collation of (16), xxi, 304, (2) pp. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India GD48: calling for only 2 volumes, and giving the imprint for both as Pangim, 1840. Costa, Dicionário da literatura goesa, III, 351 (calling for 3 volumes, giving the imprint as Pangim for all, 1840, 1850, and 1851, with collation for volume I of [12], xxi, 304, 12 pp.; for volume II of xvi, 90 pp. Catálogo dos livros opúsculos e manuscritos pertencentes à Biblioteca Nacional de Nova Goa (1907), p. 235. See also 348-56. Devi & Seabra, A literatura indo-portuguesa, pp. 153 and 161 n. 7: calling for only 1 volume, Pangim 1840, with a collation of xxii, 304, (20) pp. Grande enciclopedia XXXVII, 65. Not in Kress, Luso-Brazilian Economic Literature before 1850. Porbase locates two copies of volume I only, plus another two copies of volumes I-II, all in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Jisc locates a set of all three volumes at British Library. KVK (51 databases searched) repeats the volume in Berlin and those cited by Porbase. NUC: volume I only, at DLC-P4 and MH.