First edition. Large 4to. Finely bound in full gilt red morocco, a.e.g., some minor rubbing. Handwritten note to upper pastedown. [xxiv], 340, 19pp. Rio de Janeiro, Paula Brito, 1856.
A poem in ten cantos by the important nineteenth-century Brazilian author Magalhães. In it, he paints the Jesuits as the heroic defenders of the native populations against the Portuguese invaders.
Sabin, 43793 (erroneously dated 1857).
