Moroccan princesses' unexpected arrival in Portugal.- Sousa (João de ) Narração da arribada das princezas Africanas ao porto desta capital de Lisboa, seu desembarque para terra, alojamento no palacio das necessidades, hida para Quéluz, seu embarque, e volta para Tanger, first edition, dedication in Portuguese and Arabic, text in Portuguese, occasional light spotting or staining, antique style speckled calf-backed sage boards, vellum corners, spine gilt and with red morocco label, a very good copy, [Innocêncio IV, 42], small 4to, Lisbon, Printers of the Academy of Sciences, 1793.

⁂ Rare, with only a handful of copies recorded by WorldCat. A first-hand account of the arrival in April, 1793 and subsequent stay in Portugal of the wives, concubines, and children of Moulay Abdessalm, and their entourage (a total of 221 people). Following dynastic struggles in Morocco he had sent them by ship to Salé, but bad weather and other factors brought about their arrival at the bay of Cascais. The Portuguese court dispatched de Sousa to meet them. He was Professor of Arabic at the University of Lisbon. The work describes tours they made and courtly entertainments given before their departure for Tangiers in the August. The final leaf lists the principal members of the party.