Calças pardas pela curiosidade de querer ouvir de perto na Serra do Pilar os gritos das almas do outro mundo!

Porto, Imprensa de Gandra Filhos, 1834.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, modern speckled calf with title and fillet in gilt on upper cover; smooth spine without markings (stitching broken between quires 3 and 4). Woodcut of two hands (signing?) on title page, below an elegant typographical rule. Some browning at edges of title page and final page, probably from the binding. In good to very good condition. Old blue-and-white bookseller's tag (Livraria Olisipo) on front pastedown. (1 l.), 38 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author purports to publish (reluctantly) a story he told a friend about Bacharel J.M.C. Valente, who was in considerable distress because the Correio do Porto had published an account of ghosts appearing at the Convento da Serra. The ghosts were those of P. José Agostinho de Macedo and other supporters of D. Miguel. This work includes a 32-line poem (pp. 23-24) and three four-line poems (pp. 37-38) praising D. Maria II and D. Pedro.The Serra do Pilar is a steep hill overlooking Porto and the Rio Douro; the famous Mosteiro da Serra do Pilar (today a hotel) is situated on it. During the Siege of Porto (1832-1833), this was the only position overlooking the south bank of the Douro that the liberals were able to keep control of.*** Canto, Catálogo ... relativas aos successos políticos de Portugal nos annos de 1828 a 1834, p. 142, nº 717. Not in Innocêncio or Fonseca, Pseudónimos. Porbase locates 2 copies, both at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. Not located in NUC.