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Porto, Na Officina de Antonio Alvarez Ribeiro, 1787.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, contemporary decorated wrappers (hole in front wrapper, about 4.5 cm. in diameter, crudely repaired). Small woodcut vignette on title page. Woodcut headpieces and initials. Small stain to front free endleaf, carrying through slightly to half title, and even more slightly to title page. Overall in very good condition. Early [contemporary?] ink inscription on front free endleaf: "Este Arte he de Joseph de Campos // do Lugar dos Casastos [?] de Cabanas." Further ink inscriptions [in the same hand?] on verso of rear free endleaf: "Campos" [in upper outer corner]; "Cabanas" [in upper inner corner]; and "Joseph de Campos" [in lower outer corner]. Another faint early inscription on decorated wrapper, illegible. (4 ll.), 43, (1) pp., 2 engraved plates [1 of them folding]. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this instruction manual for those learning to sing, including instructions on plainsong. It is a true beginner's guide to…
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Macau na época da Restauração. (Macau Three Hundred Years Ago).
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Rezumo de todas as regras, e preceitos da Cantoria, assim da musica metrica, como do canto-chão, dividido em duas partes. Composto por … para o uso dos seus discipulos.
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Instruccion, y methodo nuevo de labrar las tierras por medio de una maquina con quatro arados, y una yunta de bueyes: construida por Don Salvador de Cardenas, natural, y vecino de la Ciudad de Sevilla.
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Madrid, En Casa de Joseph Doblado, 1775.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, contemporary mottled calf (somewhat worn, front hinge cracked, spine lightly wormed), flat spine gilt, edges of covers gilt, text-block edges decorated to a mottled design in imitation of the leather covers, marbled endleaves. Woodcut diagram on p. 43. Clean and crisp, printed on thick paper. A few small, light stains, but on the whole in very good condition. 56 pp. *** FIRST EDITION. There is a Valencia, 1993 reprint. The book promotes a new agricultural device.*** Aguilar Piñal II, 1666: locating 5 copies in Spanish libraries, including 2 in the Biblioteca Nacional. Not in Palau. Enciclopedia universal ilustrada XI, 841. No edition located in CCPBE. Rebiun locates only the 1993 edition. Jisc locates a single copy, in the National Library of Scotland. No edition located in Hollis or Orbis. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the 1993 edition. NUC: NcD.
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Mémoire sur le régime établi en Espagne dans les troupeaux de mérinos, Et sur les moyens d'amélioration convenables aux Provinces méridionales de la Russie.
by [ROUVIER, Guillaume].
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St. Petersburg, Alexandre Pluchart et Comp., 1811.. Tall 8°, contemporary calf (scuffed), smooth spine gilt, marbled endpapers (fore-edge of front free endpaper missing). Small vignette of sheep on title-page. Minor worming in blank lower margin toward end. In good condition. (2 ll.), 88 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION? The first part (pp. 5-52) provides a very detailed account of how merino sheep are raised in Spain, with additional chapters on shearing and washing merino wool. The author then compares the efforts made in other European countries to raise merino sheep (pp. 53-71). He concludes with an account of how merino sheep were first introduced into the Crimea in 1803 and offers specific proposals for ensuring that the flocks grow and thrive, thus vastly improving the quality of wool available in Russia and the Ukraine (pp. 71-88).*** NUC: MB.
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Déportation et naufrage de J.J. Aymé, ex-Législateur, suivis du tableau de vie et de mort des déportés, a son départ de la Guyane, avec quelques observations sur cette colonie et sur les nègres.
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Paris, Chez Maradan, Libraire, (1800).. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, contemporary wrappers laid into dark-brown morocco folding case with pink moiré sides, spine with gilt letter. Uncut. Light foxing in 2 quires. In fine condition. Old signature ("S. Murray"?) on half title. 269 pp., (13 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION. Following the coup d'état on 18 Fructidor 1797, Aymé and many other deputies to the French legislature were deported to French Guiana - later site of the notorious penal colony that included Devil's Island, where Alfred Dreyfus was incarcerated. In this work Aymé (1752-1818) tells of the coup and recounts in detail the horrendous conditions in French Guiana. Pages 174-88 are devoted to a description of the blacks there, including their religious beliefs, their attitude toward white men, and their behavior following the abolition of slavery in Cayenne. The unnumbered leaves at the end contain a table of those deported from France with Aymé on La Vaillante, with their professions, ages and…
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Practica, e ordem pera os visitadores dos bispados, na qual se decidem muitas questiões, assi em causas civis, como criminais, pertencentes aos Avogados, no foro ecclesiastico, & secular. Com intendimento de algumas Extravagantes dos Summos Pontifices, & concordatas deste Reino de Portugal. Vai acrescentado, a ordem de visitar os Mosteiros regulares, com exposisão de algumas causas que obrigão a se dispensar com as religiosas pera estarem fora da clausura.
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Lisbon, Impresso por Jorge Rodriguez, acusta de Estevão Lopez, mercador de livros, 1602.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, mid-eighteenth-century mottled sheep (rather worn, but sound), spine with raised bands in three compartments, decorated in blind (foot of spine defective). Title page with ruled border. Woodcut initials. Overall in good to very good condition. Old ink inscription on title page. Old ink annotations in margins. (6), 80 ll. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this thorough work dealing with canonical visitation. The last four unnumbered preliminary leaves consist of the author's dedication to Dom António Mascarenhas (died 1637, at an advanced age), Dean of the royal chapel, a member of the royal council, and deputy of the Mesa da Cosciencia. The dedication also serves as a prologue, in which the author gives his reasons for writing the book, and explaining the system adopted.Matheus Soares, a native of Braga, received a degree in canon law at Coimbra. For many years he practiced law at…
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Porto, Na Officina de Antonio Alvarez Ribeiro, 1787.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, contemporary decorated wrappers (hole in front wrapper, about 4.5 cm. in diameter, crudely repaired). Small woodcut vignette on title page. Woodcut headpieces and initials. Small stain to front free endleaf, carrying through slightly to half title, and even more slightly to title page. Overall in very good condition. Early [contemporary?] ink inscription on front free endleaf: "Este Arte he de Joseph de Campos // do Lugar dos Casastos [?] de Cabanas." Further ink inscriptions [in the same hand?] on verso of rear free endleaf: "Campos" [in upper outer corner]; "Cabanas" [in upper inner corner]; and "Joseph de Campos" [in lower outer corner]. Another faint early inscription on decorated wrapper, illegible. (4 ll.), 43, (1) pp., 2 engraved plates [1 of them folding]. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this instruction manual for those learning to sing, including instructions on plainsong. It is a true beginner's guide to…
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Instruccion, y methodo nuevo de labrar las tierras por medio de una maquina con quatro arados, y una yunta de bueyes: construida por Don Salvador de Cardenas, natural, y vecino de la Ciudad de Sevilla.
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Madrid, En Casa de Joseph Doblado, 1775.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, contemporary mottled calf (somewhat worn, front hinge cracked, spine lightly wormed), flat spine gilt, edges of covers gilt, text-block edges decorated to a mottled design in imitation of the leather covers, marbled endleaves. Woodcut diagram on p. 43. Clean and crisp, printed on thick paper. A few small, light stains, but on the whole in very good condition. 56 pp. *** FIRST EDITION. There is a Valencia, 1993 reprint. The book promotes a new agricultural device.*** Aguilar Piñal II, 1666: locating 5 copies in Spanish libraries, including 2 in the Biblioteca Nacional. Not in Palau. Enciclopedia universal ilustrada XI, 841. No edition located in CCPBE. Rebiun locates only the 1993 edition. Jisc locates a single copy, in the National Library of Scotland. No edition located in Hollis or Orbis. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the 1993 edition. NUC: NcD.
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Mémoire sur le régime établi en Espagne dans les troupeaux de mérinos, Et sur les moyens d'amélioration convenables aux Provinces méridionales de la Russie.
by [ROUVIER, Guillaume].
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St. Petersburg, Alexandre Pluchart et Comp., 1811.. Tall 8°, contemporary calf (scuffed), smooth spine gilt, marbled endpapers (fore-edge of front free endpaper missing). Small vignette of sheep on title-page. Minor worming in blank lower margin toward end. In good condition. (2 ll.), 88 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION? The first part (pp. 5-52) provides a very detailed account of how merino sheep are raised in Spain, with additional chapters on shearing and washing merino wool. The author then compares the efforts made in other European countries to raise merino sheep (pp. 53-71). He concludes with an account of how merino sheep were first introduced into the Crimea in 1803 and offers specific proposals for ensuring that the flocks grow and thrive, thus vastly improving the quality of wool available in Russia and the Ukraine (pp. 71-88).*** NUC: MB.
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Déportation et naufrage de J.J. Aymé, ex-Législateur, suivis du tableau de vie et de mort des déportés, a son départ de la Guyane, avec quelques observations sur cette colonie et sur les nègres.
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Paris, Chez Maradan, Libraire, (1800).. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, contemporary wrappers laid into dark-brown morocco folding case with pink moiré sides, spine with gilt letter. Uncut. Light foxing in 2 quires. In fine condition. Old signature ("S. Murray"?) on half title. 269 pp., (13 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION. Following the coup d'état on 18 Fructidor 1797, Aymé and many other deputies to the French legislature were deported to French Guiana - later site of the notorious penal colony that included Devil's Island, where Alfred Dreyfus was incarcerated. In this work Aymé (1752-1818) tells of the coup and recounts in detail the horrendous conditions in French Guiana. Pages 174-88 are devoted to a description of the blacks there, including their religious beliefs, their attitude toward white men, and their behavior following the abolition of slavery in Cayenne. The unnumbered leaves at the end contain a table of those deported from France with Aymé on La Vaillante, with their professions, ages and…
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Practica, e ordem pera os visitadores dos bispados, na qual se decidem muitas questiões, assi em causas civis, como criminais, pertencentes aos Avogados, no foro ecclesiastico, & secular. Com intendimento de algumas Extravagantes dos Summos Pontifices, & concordatas deste Reino de Portugal. Vai acrescentado, a ordem de visitar os Mosteiros regulares, com exposisão de algumas causas que obrigão a se dispensar com as religiosas pera estarem fora da clausura.
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Lisbon, Impresso por Jorge Rodriguez, acusta de Estevão Lopez, mercador de livros, 1602.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, mid-eighteenth-century mottled sheep (rather worn, but sound), spine with raised bands in three compartments, decorated in blind (foot of spine defective). Title page with ruled border. Woodcut initials. Overall in good to very good condition. Old ink inscription on title page. Old ink annotations in margins. (6), 80 ll. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this thorough work dealing with canonical visitation. The last four unnumbered preliminary leaves consist of the author's dedication to Dom António Mascarenhas (died 1637, at an advanced age), Dean of the royal chapel, a member of the royal council, and deputy of the Mesa da Cosciencia. The dedication also serves as a prologue, in which the author gives his reasons for writing the book, and explaining the system adopted.Matheus Soares, a native of Braga, received a degree in canon law at Coimbra. For many years he practiced law at…
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A diáspora da palavra: obras de autores portugueses impressas fora de Portugal, 1521-1550. Guia da exposição.
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Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal / Centro de Estudos Históricos, Universidade Nova, 2021.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 110 pp., (1 blank l.), profusely illustrated, indexes of authors, places of publication, printers and booksellers. One of 500 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this excellent exhibition catalogue. Alves Dias is one of Portugal's leading historians, and a distinguished bibliophile.***
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The Butterflies Fly-Past. with illus. by Mandy Shepherd.
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Special Offers Entomology . 1st. Ed. Pub. Peregrine Books. 1994. pp.xviii, 127 with 8 coloured illus. 8vo. New hdbk. in new dw. RRP £20.00. A fascinating book describing the authors experiences of studying butterflies in the UK. All native British Butterflies are mentioned at some point in the text, which is handsomely supported by 8 watercolour plates by Mandy Shepherd.
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In Search of Nature.
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Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Peregrine Books. 2000. pp.xii, 249 with illus. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. RRP. £27.00. The distinguished naturalist, Derek Ratcliffe, passed away in 2005 aged 75. Born in 1929, this book tells the tale of his life from boyhood, when his interest in birds, butterflies, moths and dragonflies started to develop, through to the period in his life before 1970. Ratcliffe took the opportunity presented by writing this book of paying tribute to some of the people who helped him along the way and became lifelong friends.
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Native Plums (Prunus) of Gloucestershire. The Gloucestershire Pomona Series.
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Special Offers Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Gloucestershire Orchard Trust. 2018. pp.vi, 50 with colour photography throughout. Large 8vo. New softback.
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A History of Whaling in Brazil. From royal fish to Japanese delicacy.
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Pequena., 2017. 1st. Ed.. pp.xxii, 234 with b/w. photos. 8vo. A new softback. This is the first book to describe comprehensively the history of whaling in Brazil, starting with traditional whaling as a Portuguese crown monopoly and culminating with the introduction of modern ships, equipped with harpoon guns in the twentieth century - an initiative led by a British company (Duder and Brother) in Brazil.
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Pears of Gloucestershire and Perry Pears of the Three Counties. The Gloucestershire Pomona Series.
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Special Offers Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Hartpury Heritage Trust. 2013. pp.xiv, 214 with colour photography throughout. Large 8vo. New softback.
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Whaling in the Falkland Islands Dependencies 1904-1931. A History of shore and bay-based whaling in the Antarctic.
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Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Pequena. 2006. pp.xvi, 363 with many illus. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. Signed by the author, Ian Hart. A fascinating account of the whaling industry in the Falkland Islands Dependencies. The sequence of events which led to the extension of British sovereignty in the Antarctic and the legislation & policing imposed by the Falkland Islands Government to control the burgeoning whaling industry are also discussed.
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Antarctic Magistrate. A life through the lens of a camera.
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Pequena., 2009. 1st. Ed.. pp.303 with many photographs. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. Signed by the author, Ian Hart. This volume is a celebration of the life of Edward Beveridge Binnie, (born on the Falkland Islands in 1884) the eighth child of immigrant Scottish parents. The book traces his rise from humble beginnings through Falkland Islands Government service to becoming the first Antarctic Magistrate.
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Austral Enterprises. A History of shore, bay-based and pelagic whaling and sealing in the Southern Ocean encompassing the Southern Whaling & Sealing Company, The Kerguelen Sealing & Whaling Company and their associated enterprises at South Georgia, the Antarctic peninsula, the South Indian Ocean and South Africa.
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Pequena., 2020. 1st. Ed.. pp.xx, 380 with b/w. photographs and illustrations throughout. 4to. New hardback in new dw. Print run of just 400 copies. Signed by author. There have been very few attempts to document British involvement in the whaling and sealing industry. This book describes, in detail, some of the major companies that undertook this trade and the profound effect this had on the whale and seal populations in the southern hemisphere.
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Teses Apresentadas ao II Congresso realizado de 4 a 11 de Setembro de 1960. 2º volume. Boletim da Sociedade de Estudos de Moçambique. Ano XXIX, N.º 125, Novembro a Dezembro.
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Lourenço Marques, [from rear cover] Composto e Impresso na Sociedade de Estudos, 1960.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, original pale blue printed wrappers (browned, short tear on spine). Illustrations, maps and tables in text. Some light dampstains. In good condition. Old faint circular stamp on front cover. (2 ll.), 11 pp., (1 l.), 9, (2) pp., (1 l.), 7 pp., (1 l.), 8 pp., (1 l.), 7 pp., (1 l.), 9 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 9 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 15 pp., errata slip, (1 l.), 4 pp., (1 l.), 6 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 23 pp., 2 folding tables, (1 l.), 6 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 11 pp., (1 l.), 10 pp., (1 ll. plates, printed on both sides, 1 blank l., 1 l.), 7 pp., (8 pp. illustrations, 1 blank p., 1 l.), 13 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 23 pp., (1 l.), 11 pp. including 3 full-page illustrations, (1 l.), 6 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 24 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 5 pp., (1 l. with bibliography, 2 ll. plates, 1 l.), 17 pp., (1 l.), 14 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The volume contains four brief…
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