1779. BOOK: (GASTRONOMY-PRICES). NEWSPAPER NEWS.... Lot 142

[1779]. BOOK: (GASTRONOMY-PRICES). NEWSPAPER NEWS. OF THE CURRENT PRICES OF THE WEEK, AND OTHER CURIOSITIES OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC BY THE VERY ILLUSTRIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS OF THE COUNTRY. SATURDAY 13TH MARCH 1779. A quadrilateral printed on both sides. With all its margins and in a very good state of conservation. First issue of the 'first newspaper' published in the Balearic Islands. Costing and as a reflection of what was normal in other cities, to receive and know news through the periodical publications, the Society of Friends of the Country of Mallorca decided to bring out a publication with the name of 'Notícia Periodica de los precios corrientes', this was the first. Contie first, as announced in the title, the weekly price of the products, follows the port movement, and an 'editorial' that occupies the final part of the first page and all the second, at the end the following line: 'whoever wishes to place in this paper some interesting news to the Public should go to the Impreta Real'. Bover, Bibliographical Dictionary of the Periodical Publications of the Balearic Islands, XCV.