MANUSCRITOS.- TABACO, Contrato do.- Diario para escripturação do Contrato Geral do Tabaco.- Seculo XIX (1833-1836).- 1 vol. (2, 510 p.); 63 cm.- E. A large volume, entirely handwritten and calligraphed, certainly intended to be written upright on its own stand, with the following instructions on the title page: Diario para escripturação do Contrato Geral do Tabaco. N’este Reyno, Ilhas adjacentes e Macau, sublocado ao Conde do Farrobo pelos sócios abaixo mencionados, perante o Tribunal do Thesouro Publico em 27 de Agosto de 1834, pelo tempo de três annos, que deviam começar no primeiro de Janeiro de 1833 e acabar no último de Dezembro de 1836...”. The original contract was signed by José Ferreira Pinto Basto (on his own behalf and as attorney for the other partners) at the aforementioned Court on September 30, 1833. In the lower third of the title page is the list of the 16 partners who agreed to the sublease: José Ferreira Pinto Basto, José Ferreira Pinto Junior, Duarte Ferreira Pinto, Teodoro Ferreira Pinto, José Teixeira Pinto, Jerónimo José de Faria, Custódio Teixeira Pinto, António Ferreira Pinto Basto, João Ferreira Pinto, Lino Silveira, Luís Ferreira de Sampaio, Diogo Carlos Duff, Gerardo Gould, Guilherme Newman Roope, Guilherme de Roure e Manuel Joaquim Pimenta. The volume includes 1210 articles, the first dated September 30, 1833, and the last [illegible: after 21] April 1836. At the end, the indication: Article No. 1211 follows in the B Journal on p. 511, implying that there was at least one more volume with the continuation of this one. The 510 pages were entirely written on lined paper, with 50 lines and several columns manually ruled. The volume has a growing stain in the upper third of the last 30 pages, worsening towards the end and hindering readability in the header and first lines of the last 20 pages. A document of great importance for the economic and social history of the first half of the 19th century, not referenced in the bibliography and academic documentation consulted. Half-binding of natural sheepskin, from the 20th century.