[Jose Accurcio das Neves]: Considerações sobre a guerra actual dos Turcos com os Russianos" Lisboa 1788 First edition, in 8vo, contemporary full Portuguese leather with typical local contemporary blinded decoration on covers, slightly trimmed, text clean and bright, partly still uncut, complete 138p., overall in very good condition. Based on contemporary material and information provided mostly by French sources from the Levant, Neves, an ardent Philhellene compiled this work, one of his very first and one among the very few in Portuguese regarding the Levant.The Russian Turkish war and the rise of a potentiality of a Greek state in Constantinople,according Catherine s the Great Greek plan, attired attention all over the European continent, including distant Portugal.Neves examined in details the matter,he would later become one of Portugal’s most famous economists and historians. At the time of publication, he was a young scholar.As the title suggests, the book is a consideration or analysis of the geopolitical stakes of the conflict. Neves explores several critical points.Like many European intellectuals, Neves was concerned with how a total Russian victory would upset the balance of power in Europe and thought that a rise of a Greek state could provide advantages in smaller powers as Portugal. If Russia captured Constantinople, it would change the face of Mediterranean trade and politics forever. The book provides a contemporary look at the military strength and weaknesses of both the Ottomans and the Russians and while Portugal was geographically distant from the Black Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean, its interests in maritime trade meant that any shift in control of the Levant was of vital importance to the merchants in Lisbon. It shows that the Portuguese Republic of Letters was deeply connected to the broader European discourse regarding the fate of the Ottoman Empire. It serves as a primary source for how the late 18th-century Portuguese elite viewed the Eastern question and the potential role of Greece. Around that time the first organized Philhellene circles appeared in Portugal