Cultura, e opulencia do Brasil por suas drogas, e minas, : com varias noticias curiosas do modo de fazer o assucar; plantar, & beneficiar o tabaco; tirar ouro das minas; & descubrir as da prata; e dos grandes emolumentos, que esta conquista da America Meridional dá ao Reyno de Portugal com estes, & outros generos, & contratos reaes.

[16], 205, [3] p., ill. ; 20 cm. (4to in 8s) André João Antonil is the pseudonym of João Antonio Andreoni, an Italian Jesuit priest born in Tuscany, who was attracted to Brazil in 1681 by Father Antonio Vieira This first and rare edition of Antonil's book was seized and destroyed by the Portuguese government for the information it revealed about Brazil's lucrative sugar industry and gold mines. To publish news about the riches of that colony would arouse envy and lead to aggression by other nations. It's an important book on eighteenth century Brazil's economic and social history Title vignette Signed on p. [11], 1st count: O Anonymo Toscano Signatures: * A-N (*1, *2, *8, G5, H8, M3, N7 versos blank; N8 blank) (C2 missigned C3) JCB Rare Americana Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.) Sacramento Blake. Dic. bib. brazileiro Rodrigues, J.C. Bib. Brasiliense Sabin Alden, J.E. European Americana Silva, I.F. da. Dic. bib. portuguez Leite, S. Hist. da Companhia de Jesus no Brasil Backer-Sommervogel John Carter Brown Library copy has an early manuscript note on half title about the rarity of the book: Libro divenuto rariss°. a ragione che il Rè D. Giovanni V mandò raccogliere tutti gli Esemplari, che fù possible per timore di dar gusto ai Straniere dell' opulencia del Brasile