Portugal And Portuguese Culture from Focloir

Ethiopia pji Alvares, Francisco. The Prester John of the Indies : a true relation of the lands of the Prester John, being the narrative of the Portuguese embassy to Ethiopia in 1520 written by Father Francisco Alvares. The translation of Lord Stanley of Alderley (1881) rev. and edited with additional material by G.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford. (Series: Works issued… Read more about this item

Portugal parn Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, João Baptista da, 1799-1854. Parnaso Lusitano; ou, Poesias selectas dos auctores portuguezes antigos e modernos, illustradas com notas. Precedido de uma historia abreviada da lingua e poesia portugueza. In six volumes. Paris: J. P. Aillaud, 1826-1834, cxxxix, 284p; 460p, index; 467p, index; 467p, index; 458p, errata; 313p. Small palm-sized books, 3" x 4",… Read more about this item

Iran/Persia ajgpf Aubin, Jean, 1927-1998 and Gregório Pereira Fidalgo. L'ambassade de Gregório Pereira Fidalgo à la cour de Châh Soltân-Hosseyn, 1696-1697. Lisbonne: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian: Comité national portugais pour la célébration du 2.500e anniversaire de la fondation de la monarchie en Iran, 1971, 134 pages, bib, index. Attractive yellow cloth cover, measures 7 ½" by 11". Very good copy. Very… Read more about this item

Scotland 15Co08 With Wellington in the Peninsula: the adventures of a Highland soldier, 1808-1814. Edited by Paul Cowan. London: Frontline Books, 2015, x, 214 pages, bib, illus, maps. Fine in dust jacket. Summary: Few men from the 71st Highland Light Infantry who sailed from Cork with Wellington to Portugal in 1808 returned to the Irish port six years later. The… Read more about this item

CL 1000 Williams, Edwin Bucher, 1891-1975. From Latin to Portuguese; historical phonology and morphology of the Portuguese language. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; Oxford, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1946 (1938), xii, 315p. bib, index, front. (facsim.) Some shelf wear, good solid copy. Reprint of 1938 edition.