O Casamento civil. Primeira carta do … em resposta ao Snr. Visconde de Seabra.

Porto, Imprensa Popular de J.L. de Sousa, 1866.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, original self wrappers (some minor soiling).. Mostly unopened. In good to very good condition. 13, (1) pp., 2 blank pp., 1 p. advt.. *** FIRST EDITION of the first (of three) cartas on the subject of civil marriage by Vicente Ferrer. It may have been included in a subsequent work published the same year combining the three letters, O casamento civil: collecção das cartas do snr. Vicente Ferrer em resposta ao Snr. Visconde de Seabra.The author, (Freixo, Vilarinho, Lousã, 1798-Vilarinho, Lousã, 1886) was a professor at Coimbra Universitywith a doctorate in canon law from the same institution. He was a deputy to the Côrtes in various legislatures, presidente da Câmara Municipal da Lousã (1822) e Ministro da Justiça (1857), reitor da Universidade de Coimbra and a member of the Academia Real das Sciências de Lisboa. A close friend of Alexandre Herculano, he was influential in promoting the philosophies of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, Heinrich Ahrens and Karl Anton von Martini in Portugal.*** Not in Innocêncio; cf. IX, 184 for O casamento civil: collecção das cartas do snr. Vicente Ferrer em resposta ao Snr. Visconde de Seabra, 1866; for the author, see also VII, 424-5; XIX, 330-3. Not located in NUC.