Search Results: Titles starting with A from Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books

Lisbon, Typographia de Silva, 1844-1845.. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes in 1. Large 8°, contemporary navy quarter morocco over marbled boards(very worn, joints weakening, boards rubbed), smooth spine (defective at head and foot) with short title lettered gilt and gilt ornaments. Slight browning to portrait and outer edge of title page of volume I, otherwise fine internally. Overall in good condition. Lithograph portrait, 275 pp., (1 l. errata); 714 pp., (1 l. errata, 2 blank ll.). *** FIRST EDITION, and the only one in Portuguese. A French translation was published in Paris, 1846, as A.B. da Costa Cabral: notes historiques sur sa carrière politique et son ministère. Volume I is a biography of Antonio Bernardo da Costa Cabral (1803-1889), later Conde de Thomar; when this work was published, he had reintroduced the conservative Constitutional Charter and was the Minister and Secretary for Royal State Affairs, an office he held until 1846. Volume II consists of extensive notes and transcripts of relevant… Read More

Rio de Janeiro, Typographia Perseverança, 1870.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original orange printed wrappers (some stains and soiling). Internally fine, overall in very good condition. Half-title ink inscription (6 lines) from Luiz Guimarães to José Silvestre Ribeiro, dated at Rio de Janeiro, 1871. 71 pp., lithograph portrait frontispiece. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Anecdotes and a brief biography of Antonio Carlos Gomes by someone who knew him well. Gomes, born in Campinas, Brazil (1836-1896) was the first New World composer to have works widely accepted in Europe, and the first non-European to be successful as an opera composer in Italy. His third opera, Il Guarany, was based on José de Alencar's romantic novel; at its 1870 premier at La Scala, it was wildly successful. Critics compared Gomes to Verdi and Rossini. The opera was performed in all major European capitals, and Gomes himself oversaw the equally successful premiere in Rio de Janeiro. This short biography was presumably… Read More

Folio (31.1 x 21.5 cm.), Folded twice. In good to very good condition. (2 ll.), the final 3 pp. blank. *** Writing to Basilio Teixeira Cardoso de Sa Vedra Freire, Ombudsman of the Sabará District, Capitania of Minas Gerais, Castro is responding to warnings or precautions regarding what will be presented in a Requerimento [petition] by the residents of Villa de Caeté. It seems that much maintenance was made in the area to achieve the desired effect, but the residents have made a Requerimento anyway. Castro says he had brought these issues to the attention of the Prince Regent many times.Manuel [Francisco Zacarias] de Portugal e Castro (1787-1854), colonial administrator and government minister, was Governor-General of the Capitania de Minas Gerais from 1814 to 1821. He was the son of D. Afonso Miguel de Portugal e Castro, 4.º Marquês de Valença and D. Maria Teresa Teles da Silva, daughter of the 6.º Conde de Vilar Maior and of the 2.ª Marquesa de Penalva, as well as being the brother of… Read More

Paris, Librairie Delagrave, 1925.. FIRST EDITION. Large 16°, original green illustrated wrappers (faded to brown, worn). Illustrated with line drawings throughout the text. Uncut. Light browning. Internally very good, overall good. Pencilled ownership inscription (illegible) on half title, dated 1944. (2 ll.), 151, (1) pp. *** FIRST EDITION (a second appeared in 1930) of this brief but thorough introduction to photography, including choice of equipment, principles of photography, composition, developing film, correcting negatives, printing, and artistic effects.The title on the front wrapper reads, Collection des ABC. La photographie, premiers éléments a la portée de tout amateur." Pitois, a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and an aeronautical engineer, wrote a number of works on photography and on science.*** Not located in Jisc. NUC: DLC.

Lisbon, Na Officina de Francisco Sabino dos Santos, 1777.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound. Woodcut royal arms of Portugal on title page. Woodcut headpiece with sun, and woodcut factotum initial on p. 3. Some browning. Overall in good condition. Small oval paper tag with blue border with manuscript shelfmark ("12") in ink manuscript near upper outer corner of title page, touching 3 letters. 13 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Six-line poems beginning with 21 different letters of the alphabet, honoring D. Maria I's ascension to the throne. The work is signed in print at the end.D. Maria (born 1734) became Portugal's first queen regnant on February 24, 1777, after the death of her father D. José I. She reigned until her death in 1816, although by 1792 she was suffering such severe mental illness that her son, the future D. João VI, ruled in her stead (as regent from 1799).Innocêncio gives the author's name as Francisco da Silva Cardoso Leitão and states that he was born in Pero-negro,… Read More

Lisbon, Colibri / Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, 2000.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 135 pp., (1 l.), illustrations, some in color. One of 500 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Four essays: by Claus Clüver on the "Liaisons incestueuses: The Sister Arts in Contemporary Culture," Ana Gabriela Macedo on "A retórica da imagem fotográfica e a pós-modernidade: liminaridade, complicidade e crítica," Mário Jorge Torres on "Não vi o livro, mas li o filme—Algumas considerações sobre a relação entre cinema e literatura," and Dionision Marínez Soler on "A tradição da literatura espanhola em Portugal (1940-1990)".***

Lisbon, Colibri / Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, 2001.. 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 112 pp., (1 l.). One of 500 copies. *** Four essays: by Bernard Vouilloux, "Les relations entre les arts et la question des 'styles d'époque'"; Robert Singer, "Modern Magic: The Pre-War Silent Faust Film"; Rui Vieira Nery, "Estratégias do sentido na música vocal"; and Kelly Basílio, "Zola et la photo (II): 'Tout voir et tout prendre'". The coordinators of the series are Helena Carvalhão Buescu and João Ferreira Duarte.***

Lisbon, Fundação Luso-Americana por e Desenvolvimento, 1997.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. Illustrations in text, including photographs and facsimiles of manuscripts. As new. 99, (1) pp., (2 ll.). Printed in brown ink throughout. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author's introduction occupies pp. 7-67. Teague was a cultured art historian, author of books on Portuguese themes, and a world-class photographer whose work was exhibited at the National Gallery in Washington. A few of the photographs in this book are by him.***

Lisbon, Publicacoes Culturais Engrenagem, 1983.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, original illustrated wrappers with dust jacket. Very good to fine condition. 78 pp., (1 l.)., 'hors-texte' illustration tipped on to verso of initial blank leaf. One of 800 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.***

Lisbon, Livraria Bertrand , [1955].. FIRST EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers (minor foxing). Good to very good condition overall; internally very good to fine. Author's signed and dated ("Ls. 1955") eight-line presentation inscription to Acúrcio Pereira in purple ink on half title. Author's "sinete" (an eagle) of authentication stamped on verso of title page. Marginal annotations and a few minor corrections to the text, both in pencil and pen, in the hand of Acúrcio Pereira. 359 pp. *** FIRST EDITION of these essays containing literary criticism, memoirs, religious opinions, historical observations, and much more. The dedication-preface to Jaime Cortesão occupies pp. 7-12.Aquilino Ribeiro (Carregal da Tabosa, Beira Alta, 1885-Lisboa, 1963) is considered one of the best twentieth-century Portuguese novelists: in 1960, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize. Ribeiro was politically active in the Republican cause from 1907 until the fall of the monarchy in 1910. He was imprisoned in November… Read More

Lisbon, Colibri, 2000.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 556 pp., (1 l.), tables in text, 4 ll. color plates, printed on both sides. One of 1,000 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY published EDITION, reworded from a doctoral thesis originally submitted to the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa in 1997.***

Lisbon, n.pr., 1981.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 122 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.***

Lisbon, Edições Colibri, 2002.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 706 pp., (1 l. advt., 1 l.), maps, illus., tables in text. One of 1,000 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Solid, heavily annotated study.***

Bordeaux, Pedro de la Court, 1642.. First Edition. 2 works bound together. 4°, nineteenth century quarter calf over marbled boards (worming to leather on upper cover), two black leather labels, gilt letter, edges sprinkled red. Copper-engraved title-page. Full-page copper-engraved portrait. Woodcut initials, elaborate woodcut headpiece at beginning of dedication, repeated on pp. 1, 115, 227, and 323, other woodcut headpieces and typographical vignettes. Ruled divisional titles on pp. 75, 181, and 275. Title backed. Minor worming, almost exclusively in margins, but touching a few letters of text. Some small, fairly light waterstains, restricted to first 60 or so pages, a bit larger and slightly heavier in first few leaves. Light browning. Overall in near good condition. Engraved title, (12 ll.), engraved portrait, 478 pp., (2 ll.). Leaves ii and ii2 bound after ii3 and ii4; several leaves incorrectly signed. *** FIRST EDITION, extremely rare. An edition of Valencia, 1647, is equally rare. There… Read More

(Lisbon, Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa [?] / Impressão Régia [?], 1797).. First polygot Edition. 4°, early plain wrappers. Woodcut arms of the Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa at top of first leaf recto. Woodcut royal Portuguese arms at top of third leaf recto. Light foxing. Good to very good. (6 ll.). *** First polyglot edition of these brief directions for the cure and prevention of the plague, in the form of abstracts in English, Arabic (fols. 3-4), French and Portuguese of the Descrizione del nuovo rimedio … contro la peste, Vienna 1797, by the Count von Berchthold (1759-1809). Berchthold advocated George Baldwin's proposal that the application of olive oil to the skin might prove beneficial in the treatment of the plague. The Royal Academy of Sciences in Lisbon charged Fr. João de Sousa, John Theodore Koster, Timotheo Lécussan Verdier and Alexandre Antonio das Neves with translating the extracts that appear here. It was stated that the English version was intended for the… Read More

Lisbon, Na officina de Henrique Valente de Oliveira and na Officina de Manoel Lopes Ferreyra, 1665-1698.. FIRST EDITION of volume I; second edition of volume II.. 2 volumes. 4°, mid to later nineteenth-century tree sheep (slight wear at extremities), smooth spines with gilt bands and two crimson leather lettering pieces, gilt titles and volume numbers, marbled endleaves, text-block edges rouged. Large copper engraving on title page of volume I; large woodcut on title page of volume II; woodcut initials headpieces and tailpieces, some fairly large. Title page of volume I slightly shaved at bottom, affecting a few letters of imprint. Very minor wormholes at lower and upper inner margins of about 60 leaves in volume I, in a few cases touching a letter of text. Volume II internally fine. Overall in good to very good condition. Ink inscriptions of "E. Gama // Porto, 20 de Setembro de 1861" and "De Ernesto [?] Vieira // 4345–3002" on rectos of second front free endleaves. (8 ll.), 356 pp. [p. 139… Read More

[Colophon] Lisbon, Na Officina de Domingos Carneiro, 1677.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, late twentieth-century antique sheep, spine gilt with raised bands in six compartments, crimson morocco lettering piece in second compartment from the head with gilt author and short title, text block edges rouged. Caption title. Woodcut initial on first page. Very good to fine condition. 24 pp. A-C4. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.Father Craveiro (1622-1687), born at Lapa, "termo" of the Villa of Torres Novas, near Lisbon, a secular priest who became a Jesuit at age 41, set out for Brazil two days later, where he eventually served as rector of the colleges of Recife, Santos and São Paulo. He died at Bahia, leaving only three published sermons. A collection of sermons that he prepared for the press just before his death was disparaged by one censor as in "estilo vulgar e antiquado" compared with the sermons of fellow Jesuit P. Antonio Vieira.*** Arouca C722. Borba de Moraes (1983) I, 235. Barbosa Machado III,… Read More

London, By Routledge for The Hakluyt Society, 2022.. FIRST EDITION thus.. Large 8°, publisher's navy cloth, gilt, with light blue dust jacket. Small nick to dust jacket. Otherwise as new. lxxxvii, 464 pp., illustrations, extensive footnotes, bibliography, analytical index. *** FIRST EDITION thus. First published as Account of the Natives of the Tonga Island in the South Pacific Ocean, London: John Murray, 1817. There was a second edition, "with additions" also published by John Murray, and a third, substantially revised, Edinburgh: Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Chance and Co., 1827. There was a French translation of 1819, reprinted in 1822, an American edition of Boston, 1820, a German translation of Weimar, 1819, an abbreviated Swedish version which appeared in a collection of travels in 1828, and several subsequent edition. The present edition is based mainly on that of 1827, with substantial reference to segments of the text of the second which were omitted from the third.John Martin… Read More

Rio de Janeiro, Companhia Typographica do Brasil, 1898.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original beige printed wrappers (minor stains and soiling). Light foxing. Overall in very good condition. (3 ll.), 35 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Colonel Gentil José de Castro, owner of two monarchist newspapers, was shot to death on a railway platform in March 1897. In this speech to the jurors who were to pass judgment on those who assassinated Castro, Mesquita attempts to discount all the reasons that might incline them toward leniency, e.g., that the murder was the result of the madness of a crowd rather than individuals, or that the political situation at the time excused the action. In a substantial section (pp. 25-32), he discusses the relationship between the assassination and the Canudos rebellion. In the course of the speech, Mesquita cites Darwin's Descent of Man (p. 11), Italian criminologist Scipio Sighele (p. 17), and Conde Afonso Celso's account of the assassination (p. 26). Brazil's republican… Read More

Coimbra, Centelha, 1979.. First Edition in Portuguese. Small 8°, original printed wrappers (very minor soiling to covers). Overall in very good to fine condition. Internally as new. Author's signed and dated presentation inscription on otherwise blank p. [2]: "Para Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, // Companheiro da luta pela libertação // social e cultural de um povo, // na qual se acompanha todos os // dias, de corpo inteiro, // com um abraço de muita estima // e afecção pelo escritor militante, // Vasco Gonçalves // 12 Novembro 1979". 76 pp., (1 l.). *** First and only Edition in Portuguese. A Spanish translation was published in La Paz, Bolivia, 1980.General Vasco [dos Santos] Gonçalves (Sintra, 1921-Lisbon, 2005) was a Portuguese army officer in the Engineering Corps who took part in the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974 and later served as Prime Minister from 18 July 1974 to 19 September 1975. As an officer, Gonçalves served in Portuguese Goa, and spent part of his military career in… Read More