MAXWELL, Kenneth

Pombal, Paradox of the Enlightenment

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995/ 1995.

Quarto, xviii, 200 pages with over 50 illustrations plus a colour frontispiece and 8 pages of colour plates.

Cloth a little marked and lightly bumped; personal bookplate on the front pastedown; an excellent copy with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper with a tiny closed tear near the front hinge.

'The first major study in English for over half a century of one of Portugal's most important historical figures, Sebastiao Jose de Carvalho e Melo, marques de Pombal (1699-1782) ... the key figure in the reconstruction of Lisbon after the devastating earthquake of 1755' (dustwrapper blurb).

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