1810 · London
by [Great Britain-Portugal Treaty
London, 1810. 13pp., with text printed in English and Portuguese on facing pages. Small quarto. Dbd. with some loose leaves. Good. The English edition of this important defensive alliance between Great Britain and the exiled Portugese crown in Brazil. The treaty, negotiated in Rio de Janeiro, consists of eleven articles mostly related to naval matters between the two countries, and is signed in print at the end by diplomats Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe Strangford and Rodrigo de Souza Coutinho. Rare, with fewer than ten copies in OCLC (Inventory #: WRCAM54396)