CABALLERO, Fermin.

Fomento de la poblacion rural de España. Memoria premiada por la Academia de Ciencias morales y politicas, en el concurso de 1863. Segunda edicion adicionada.

Madrid, Imprenta y Librería de D.E. Aguado, 1863. 223, (1) pp., 1 folding plan, tables in text. 8º, contemporary quarter calf, some wear. Very fine. Inscribed on the half-title by the author (see below). Second edition, augmented, of a work that was first printed in the same year by the Imprenta Nacional of Madrid. Two later editions are listed in Palau, as well as a Portuguese translation by Dr. Venancio Deslandes (38407). Caballero discusses the problems of the rural population in Spain, including insufficient water, poor roads, communal property, scarcity of capital, lack of schools and churches and the fact that the land has been divided into parcels too small for subsistence; then he sets forth his solutions, including (pp. 209-21) a law that he believes would alleviate the situation.This is the copy presented by the author to the translator of the Portuguese edition, bearing the author's inscription to him on the half-title: "Al Illm. Sr. Doctor V. Deslandes como señal de gratitud y correspondencia. El Autor." Venancio Augusto Deslandes (1829-1909) took his medical degree at Coimbra. A descendant of the noted seventeenth-century Deslandes family of printers, he was appointed @administrador geral of the Imprensa Nacional in 1878 and published several works on Portuguese printing. Deslandes also translated a similar work, @Ensaio sobre a economia rural de Inglaterra, Escocia e Irlanda by Leonce de Lavergne, published in Lisbon in 1867.Not in Palau; cf. 38404-7. Cf. Innocêncio XIX, 324-26 for the Portuguese translation. NUC: MH.

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