Biblioteca Particular
Friday, March 15, 2024 at 9:00 PM UTC
Lot 9:
REGIMENTO dos Verdes, e Montados do Campo de Ourique. Lisboa: Na Officina de Miguel Deslandes, 1699.
A-D4, E6 [ult. br.]; 42 pp.; 305 mm.
First edition of an important Regulation for the history of the economy, agriculture and society of Alentejo. Published in 1699, the Regulation regulated the use and administration of the Montado system in Portugal. It should also be noted that the document defines the procedures for the traditional use of fire, in order to protect productive forests and assigns powers to “Chamber Officials” who determine the days on which fire can be used and how it should be used. be done, this being the first time that a restriction on the traditional use of fire has appeared in legislation. Rare.
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