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REGIMENTO dos Contos do Reyno, e Casa, nesta nova impressam acrescentado com hum alphabeto para nelle se achar com muita facilidade o que contem todos os capitulos [gravura com as armas de Portugal].- Em Lisboa: Na Officina de Valentim da Costa Deslandes, Impressor de Sua Magestade, 1708.- [16], 177, [1 br.]; 29 cm.- E. The Casa dos Contos, as the first organ for ordering and supervising State revenue and expenditure, can be considered the predecessor of the current Court of Auditors. The edition includes a large copperplate vignette on the title page, with the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Portugal and several chapters referring to the island territories, as well as Brazil, Africa and India. Slightly cropped copy (gilt edges), with some handling, covered in a remarkable contemporary binding, full “vieux rouge” shegreen, slightly worn, with multiple ornamental borders and central gold rectangle on both covers, with the coat of arms of Portugal gold engraved in the central reserve (new endpapers). Not mentioned in the consulted bibliographies.

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