Search Results: Authors starting with J from Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books

Lisbon, Na Impressão de Alcobia, 1818.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound. In good to very good condition. 13 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. At the end is stated "Por T.J.F.". Artillery regiment n.º 4 and infantry regiment n.º 18 took part in these festivities, promoted by their respective commanders, coronel Sabastião Drago Valente Cabreira, and tenente-coronel Bernardo Correia de Castro Sepúlveda.*** Martins de Carvalho, Dicionário bibliográfico militar portugues (1979), II, 21. Not in Fonseca, Pseudónimos. Not in Guerra Andrade. Porbase locates four copies, all in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by Porbase.

Lisbon, Portuguese Pavilion, Expo'98 / Assírio & Alvim, 1997.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 144 pp., (3 ll.), 8 ll. plates, bibliography. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION in English. There are translations into Spanish and Portuguese.***

Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 1895.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original green printed wrappers (faded, especially at lower margin of front wrapper; small piece missing from lower outer corner of front wrapper). In good condition. (1 blank l.), 43 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author was Archbishop of Tyre (Tyro) and Apostolic Nuncio in Portugal.*** Porbase locates two copies, both in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by Porbase. Not located in NUC.

Paris, Imprimerie Selligue, 1833.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original yellow printed wrappers (lightly foxed), stapled. Wood-engraved ornament on title page of various devices, including a divider (artist's tools?). Light foxing. In good to very good condition. 15 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Langlois’s panoramic painting of the French siege of Algiers was among the earliest historical panoramic paintings. In 1830 King Charles X, hoping to distract his disgruntled French subjects, ordered an invasion of the notorious pirate haven of Algiers. The king was deposed by the July Revolution at almost the same times as Algiers fell, but Algeria remained under French control until 1962, and Langlois's panorama was a major influence on France's conception of its new colonial possession.Langlois participated in the Siege of Algiers in 1830, returned for further research in 1832, and began exhibiting his panoramic painting in 1833. Like most huge historical panoramas, the Panorama d’Alger… Read More

London, Rodale Books, Inc., 1954.. 8°, original quarter-leatherette with illustrated boards, title and author in gilt on flat spine. Title page and some photos in color. In fine condition. 36 pp. *** Text of King James I's book on the evils of tobacco, originally published in 1604, with a new foreword and eight illustrations.***

Porto, Manuel Berreira, (1956).. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, original illustrated wrappers. Uncut and unopened. In fine condition. 138 pp., (1 l.), 10 color illustrations tipped on to plate leaves, some with captions, reproducing prints by Hiroshige and other Japanese artists. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION in book form, LIMITED to 300 copies. Some chapters had appeared previously, in whole or in part, in the newspapers Ler, O comércio do Porto, Nippon Times, and Mainichi.*** Not in Kyoto Nipponalia, which lists many other works by this author. Porbase locates five copies: two in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and one each in the Biblioteca Central da Marinha, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Jisc repeats British Library only.

Heidelberg, Im Selbstverlage des Herausgebers, 1857.. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, original printed yellow wrappers. Light foxing. Overall in very good condition. (2 ll.), 158 pp., including a folding plan of the castle and grounds. *** FIRST EDITION. A French translation appeared the following year. Tour of the ruins of Heidelberg Castle (parts of which date to the 13th Century), before the major renovation of 1883-1890. Heidelberg was a favorite destination of Romantic artists.***

Paris, a la Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, 1838.. 12°, original tan printed wrappers with a charming wood engraving of a fountain and children playing (backed with printer's waste, soiled and chipping, stitching loosening). Numerous equations and tables in text. Uncut. Some browning. A reading copy. Authentification signature of Roret on verso of half-title. Scattered pencil notes. (2 ll.), 269 pp., 3 folding plates (third torn at gutter, without loss), 36 pp.catalogue of Roret publications dated November 1840. *** FIRST EDITION of this summary of the state of hydraulics in the 1830s. Roret issued it as volume II of a 2-volume set entitled "Mécanique appliqué à l'industrie." The first volume, by A.D. Vergnaud, was entitled Statique et hydrostatique d'apreès Moseley. This second volume is listed separately in 5 copies at OCLC; only 2 entries have the two volumes catalogued together.*** Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature, no. 30370.10. Jisc locates copies at the University… Read More

London, Printed for T.Cadell, in the Strand, 1788.. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. Large 8°, early nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards (joints weak; head and foot of volume II spine defective; other binding wear), spines gilt with raised bands in six compartments, crimson and dark green lettering pieces in second and third compartments from head, gilt lettering, marbled endleaves, all text-block edges marbled. Some very light browning and occasional mild foxing. Minor worming in blank lower margin of 74 leaves of volume I, never affecting text. In good condition. xv, 496; vii, 528 pp. *** FIRST EDITION. The work appeared again printed in Dublin, 1789. A "second, corrected" edition appeared in London, 1790, by the same publisher as the present work, with xv, 487; vii, 528 pp. There are as well editions of London, 1793 and London, 1794. The text was also translated into German and published in Leipzig, 1790.Alexander Jardine (1745-1799), army officer and author, was the illegitimate son of… Read More

Lisbon, Publicações Dom Quixote, 2008.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. Autor's signed and dated presentation inscription on p. [1]: "Para Urbano Tavares Rodrigues // com um abraço amigo de // nuno júdice // maio 2008". 132 pp., (2 blank ll.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.Poet, playwright, critic, and author of fiction, Nuno Júdice was born in Mexilhoeira Grande, Algarve, 1949. Having received a Ph.D. in medieval literature from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 1989, he has been responsible for critical editions of the Sonetos of Antero de Quental, and the Cancioneiro of D. Dinis. His poetry has received the Prize of the Pen Clube in 1985, the Prémio D. Dinis of the Fundação Casa de Mateus in 1990, and that of the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores in 1994. His novel Por todos os séculos was awarded the Prémio Bordalo by the Casa da Imprensa, while his Poesia reunida, 1967-2000 (2000), was awarded the Prémio da Crítica, 2001. His fiction and… Read More

Lisbon, Impressão Regia, 1819.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, contemporary quarter straight-grained crimson morocco over orange pebbled cloth boards (some wear at corners, slight chip near head of spine), smooth spine, gilt, gilt letter. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title-page. Finely engraved folding plate. Very minor occasional soiling. Overall in very good condition. Old ink inscription "Bastos" in lower blank margin of title-page. 292 pp., folding engraved plate. *** FIRST EDITION. In his visit to the Holy Land, Fr. João toured all the major sites in Jerusalem, as well as the Sea of Galilee, Bethlehem, Mt. Zion, and a few other places outside the city. At the end (pp. 233-71) he gives an account of the persecution suffered by the religious orders there since the mid-seventeenth century. Fr. João mentions, for example, an uprising of the people in 1756 when, in order to keep the members of several religious orders safe, the governor of the area had to lock them in the church of the Holy Sepulchre… Read More

Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional, 1993.. 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 27 pp., (8, 16, 14, 26 ll.). *** Facsimiles from various rare editions, including the first text about Japan printed in Europe.***

Ponta Delgada, Editorial Éter, 1995.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Tall 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 47 pp., (2 ll.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of these verses.*** Porbase locates three copies: Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. Not located in Jisc.

Valladolid, Junta de Castilla y Léon; Tordesillas: Sociedade V Centenário del Tratado de Tordesillas; and Lisbon: Comissão Nacional par as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1995.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 3 volumes. Very large 8°, original illustrated wrappers, boxed. As new. xviii, 629, vii pp.(1 l.); (2 ll.), pp. 635- 1349, vii pp. (1 l., 1 blank l.); (2 ll.), pp. 1355-1927, vii pp., (1 l.). Extensive footnotes, occasional illus. in text. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this massive compendium of papers delivered at Setúbal, 2 June, Salamanca, 3 and 4 June, and Tordesillas, 5, 6 and 7 June, 1994. Among the authors are Joaquim Verrísimo Serrão, Antonio Dominguez Ortiz, António Henrique Oliveira Marques, João José Alves Dias, Maria do Rosário Themudo Barata, Humberto Baquero Moreno, Pedro Dias, Artur Teodoro de Matos, Geoffrey Parker, Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva, Gaetano Sabatini, Raymond Fagel, Max Justo Guedes, Jorge Couto, António Estácio dos Reis, W.C.L. Randles, Luis… Read More

London, The Hakluyt Society, 1999.. Large 8°, publisher's boards with dust jacket. As new. xvi, 341 pp., illustrations in black and white and color, maps. *** Jobson, traveling up the River Gambia some 460 miles in an attempt to make contact with the gold trade of the West African interior, left the earliest detailed description of the area's commerce, natural history, peoples, religions, and politics.***

Providence, Rhode Island, John Carter Brown Library, 1985.. FIRST EDITION. Folio (28 x 21.7 cm.), recent navy half morocco with original printed wrappers bound in. In fine condition. (2 ll.), 34 pp. *** FIRST EDITION. Covers JCB acquisitions in this area from 1979 to 1984. Unlike the original maritime list, it includes some bibliographical citations.***

Providence, Rhode Island, John Carter Brown Library, 1979.. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes in 1. Folio (29.5 x 21 cm.), recent crimson half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands in five compartments, gilt lettering in second and fourth compartments, gilt place and date at foot of spine, original illustrated wrappers bound in. In fine condition. x, 335 pp. *** FIRST EDITION. Lists over 1,200 items organized by topic, e.g., navigation, piracy, marine architecture and the law of the sea. Most of the titles were published before 1800.*** *** BOUND WITH:  JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY. Supplement to Maritime History. Providence, R.I.: John Carter Brown Library, 1985. Original printed wrappers bound in. (2 ll.), 34 pp. ISBN: none.FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Covers JCB acquisitions in this area from 1979 to 1984. Unlike the original maritime list, it includes some bibliographical citations.

Providence, Rhode Island, The John Carter Brown Library, 2005.. Small folio (28.5 x 19.4 cm.), publisher's blue cloth with vertical short-title lettered in silver on spine, silver logo near foot, 5 x 10 cm. black label on front cover with short-title lettered in silver. As new. xvi pp., (1 l.), 275 pp., (1 blank l.). Author and title indexes. *** First published in 1979. In 1985 a supplement was published, with about 95 additional works acquired between 1979 and 1984, compiled by Everett Wilkie. In 2002 Richard Ring undertook to add over 100 items acquired from 1984 to 2002, and then to integrate the first two efforts, plus his own, into the present volume. Over 1,300 items are listed, organized by topic, such as navigation, piracy, marine architecture, and the law of the sea. The great majority of the titles were published before 1800. The 1979 publication included a "Special Section on Sir Francis Drake." That section has not been integrated into the present publication; it has been entirely… Read More

Peoria, Illinois, The Manual Arts Press, 1919.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers 64 pp., 1 unnumbered and 58 numbered illustrations in text, tables in text, analytical index. *** FIRST EDITION. A book by the same author, titled Furniture Upholstery only, published in Peoria by C. Bennett, also with 64 pp., appeared in 1946.***

Paris, Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique, ca. 1850s-1860s.. 12°, contemporary purple quarter calf over marbled boards (minor binding wear), smooth spine (faded) with gilt fillets and lettering, marbled endleaves. Light browning and dampstains. Overall in good to very good condition. 154 pp. *** On fertilizers, including soil, vegetable matter, and animal excrement and body parts, with information on which is best suited for particular crops. Other editions appeared in 1856, 1862, and 1865.*** NUC: Not located in NUC.@, which lists 4 other editions.