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

Lisbon, Livros Horizonte, 1990.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 140 pp., (2 ll.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author has written an earlier book of poems, Ao cair do tempo (1987), as well as a volume of short stories, O homem cinzento (1993).*** Porbase locates five copies: Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, Casa Fernando Pessoa-Lisboa, and Faculade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Jisc locates a single copy, at British Library.

Lisbon, Colibri / Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1999.. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 167 pp., (1 l.), illustrations. One of 1,000 copies. *** FIRST EDITION of this compilation of previously published and unpublished essays on the relation between music and literature. The central theme is the reception of Offenbach in Eça de Queirós' writings. It includes numerous musical examples and several reproductions of musical manuscripts.***

Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 2017.. Large 8°, publisher's buckram. As new. 445 pp., (2 ll.), illustrated, chronology, bibliography, index of names. *** Third edition, revised and augmented. When first published 2009, this book received prizes from the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores, and the Associação de Críticos Literários.***

Lisbon, Monteiro & Cª, Livraria Brazileira, 1918.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, original brown printed wrappers (spine chipping). Browned. In good condition. 68 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.*** NUC: CLU, IU, MH.

Lisbon, Livros Horizonte, 1986.. 8°, original printed wrappers. In very good condition. Paper beginning to brown lightly, but not brittle. 123, (1) pp., (1 l.). *** According to the preface, which appears to be new to the present edition, this work originally appeared in 1982. However, no earlier edition is cited by OCLC, Porbase, or Jisc.***

São Paulo, Companhia Editora Nacional, 1959.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition. 367 pp., 18 plates, footnotes, bibliography. *** FIRST EDITION.***

Lisbon, Na Officina da Musica, 1731.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (30.7 x 21.2 cm.), mid-twentieth-century tan period sheep, spine gilt with raised bands in five compartments, crimson leather lettering piece in second compartment from head, gilt short title, covers with borders tooled in blind, text block edges sprinkled red (from an earlier binding). Title page in red and black, with woodcut vignette above imprint. Elaborate woodcut headpieces. Large and elegant woodcut initials. Woodcut tailpieces. Internally in very fine condition. Overall very good to fine. (4 ll.), 359, (1) pp. * A-YY . *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.The author was a lawyer, with a degree from Coimbra University. A native of Lisbon, he died in 1732.*** Innocêncio III, 75. Barbosa Machado II, 276. Porbase locates four copies: two each in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and the Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Not located in Jisc. *** BOUND WITH:  GOES, Francisco Trigueiros. Allegação de… Read More

Lisbon, Por Paulo Craesbeck Impressor de las Ordenes Militares, 1645.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, eighteeth-century speckled sheep (minor wear), spine gilt with raised bands in five compartments, crimson leather lettering piece in second compartment from head, short title lettered gilt. Frontispiece engraving of Fame signed by Lucas Vorstermans. Small triangular repair to upper outer corner of fronispiece engraving and title page, about 2.5 x 2.5 x 4 cm., touching the final letter "O" in "Polytico" on title page. Much smaller repairs to blank portion of upper inner margins of title page and two following leaves. Overall in good to very good condition. Armorial bookplate of A. Canovas del Castillo. Frontispiece, (4), 100 [i.e. 98] ll. Due to a press error, the foliation skips from 42 to 45. The collation by signatures, [ ]4, A-M8, N2, is correct. *** FIRST EDITION of this important work defending the Restoration of Portuguese independence, as well as defending the Portuguese and… Read More

Lisbon, Na Officina de Pascoal da Sylva, 1716.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound. In good to very good condition. 23 pp., 1 folding chart (reinforced at fold). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. At the Battle of Petrovaradin (or Peterwardein) on August 5, 1716, the Austrians under Prince Eugene of Savoy decisively defeated a considerably larger Ottoman force led by Grand Vizier Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha. It was one of the major engagements of the Austro-Turkish War of 1716-1718.This account, compiled from several others, gives an overview of events since the signing of the Treaty of Karlowitz, 1699, then describes the approach of Turkish forces, the first hostilities of the war, the disposition of troops, the course and aftermath of the battle, and subsequent celebrations in Vienna. At the time Petrovaradin was on the border of territory held by the Austrians; today it is in Vojvodina, Serbia.Prince Eugene of Savoy was one of the leading military figures of the day, famous for decisively defeating… Read More

Lisbon, Na Officina de Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo, 1781.. 4°, disbound. Woodcut vignette on title page. Some browning. Dampstain on final 2 leaves. Overall in near-good condition. Old ink signature (illegible) dated 1789 on blank verso of p. 21; same hand has energetically corrected errors in quire signatures on the third through sixth leaves (original signatures illegible). 21 pp., (1 blank l.). *** Second of at least 3 separate editions of this pastoral poem in 55 stanzas. The first was Lisbon: Na Officina Luisiana, 1780, and the third Lisbon: Na Offic. de Francisco Borges de Sousa, 1789.João Xavier de Mattos was quite a popular writer of poetry in his time (praised even by Bocage), although he has been mostly forgotten since. He favored the Italian style and took Camões as his model. Innocêncio, in a tone almost parental in its severe disapproval, says that Mattos gave up a decent career as a magistrate (ouvidor in Vidigueira) to devote himself to writing: his name "foi n'outro tempo tão… Read More

[Lisbon?], n.pr., (1781-1789?).. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound. Caption title. Light stains and soiling. Overall in good condition. 16 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION? A pastoral poem of the less cheerful variety, with the shepherd Frondelio and shepherdess Beliza. The seventy-second octave is followed by the epitaph (a sonnet) that Frondelio has written for himself.*** Innocêncio XII, 286: listing the work (without comment) under José da Costa Barbosa, along with 3 other eclogues. Coimbra, Miscelâneas 1172. Not in Fonseca, Pseudónimos. Not in Guerra Andrade, Dicionário de pseudónimos. Porbase locates two copies at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by Porbase. NUC: MH.

Porto, Typographia Commercial, 1861.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Tall 12º, original yellow printed wrappers (spotted and soiled, spine chipping). Title-page wood-engraving of Masonic symbols, incorporating the square and compasses, the sun, the moon and a hexagram in a circle (rather than the usual pentagram). Uncut and largely unopened. Some light soiling, mostly marginal. In very good condition. (1 blank l.), 116 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this pastoral poem featuring fishing rather than shepherding. The interlocutors are Pamphilo, Elmano, Ulijo, and Sejo.The model for this poem goes back to Jacopo Sannazaro (1458-1530). Sannazaro's Arcadia, a classic of Italian humanist literature, inspired centuries of poetry on the theme of an idyllic land inhabited by shepherd-poets. Sannazaro also published five Eclogae piscatoriae modeled on Virgil's Georgics, in which he took as subject the Bay of Naples.José Manuel Teixeira de Carvalho (about whom Innocêncio had no biographical… Read More

Lisbon, Na Officina de Antonio Gomes, n.d. (ca. 1786-1794).. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound. Small woodcut ornament on title page. Overall in good to very good condition. Old ink number in manuscript ("8") on title page in upper outer corner. 16 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this pastoral poetry: 2 sonnets and a 39-stanza poem in octaves. The Officina de Antonio Gomes printed other works in our inventory that date from 1786 to 1797. However, the work cannot have been printed after 1794, when the Real Meza da Censura, which granted the license to print the present work, was dissolved. *** Not in Innocêncio. Not in Fonseca, Pseudónimos. Not in Guerra Andrade, Dicionário de pseudónimos. Porbase locates a single copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, giving the date as [1785-1810]. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copy cited by Porbase. NUC: MH.

Lisbon, Na Offic. de Ignacio Nogueira Xisto, 1765.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, recent marbled boards, crimson leather lettering piece spine with short author-title gilt, red silk ribbon place marker. Small typographical dingbats above imprint on title page. Typographical headpiece on p. 3. Browned. Dampstains. In good condition. 15, (1) pp. *** FIRST EDITION. There are also editions dated 1770 and 1780.*** Innocêncio XIII, 236; XIX, 214. Not in Coimbra, Miscelâneas; cf. 2310 for the 1780 edition. Porbase locates three copies, all in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by Porbase.

[Colophon] Lisbon, na Offic. de Francisco Borges de Sousa, 1785.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound. Caption title. Clean and crisp. Overall in good to very good condition. 15 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION? The characters are Jozino, Jonia, Rorino, and Risseu. José Daniel Rodrigues da Costa (1757-1832), a native of Leira, was a fervent supporter of D. Miguel. He held many government posts in Portugal and was a prolific writer: his works (the earliest of which dates to 1777) were very popular and often reprinted during his lifetime. Innocêncio uncharacteristically declines to catalogue all the author's works: "Parece-me desnecessario além de difficil, apresentar aqui um catalogo geral de todas as suas producções." Rodrigues da Costa was a poet of arcadismo, using the name Josino Leirense in the Nova Arcadia. His narrative poem O balão dos habitantes da lua (1819) is considered the first Portuguese work of science fiction.*** Not in Innocêncio; on the author, see IV, 304-5; XII, 295;… Read More

Porto, Livraria Apostolado da Imprensa, 1954.. Small 8°, original beige printed wrappers (slight soiling). Title page in red and black. Browned but not brittle. In about as good a condition as possible, given the quality of the paper. 206 pp., (1 l.). *** Second edition. The original edition, Rome 1705, is extremely rare. Borba noted, "This book is very important for the history of slavery." In this collection of sermons preached in Bahia in 1700, Benci allows that African slaves are intellectually inferior to their Portuguese masters, but stresses that this does not justify the inhuman treatment that many masters mete out to them. The work is divided into four sections: obligations of masters to their slaves regarding food, clothing, and medical care; obligations to teach slaves Christianity; appropriate punishment; and appropriate work (with Sundays off for religious services).*** Borba de Moraes (1983) I, 98 (knew of only a single copy of the first edition, in the National Library of Vittorio… Read More

Madrid, Imprenta de los Sres. Andres y Diaz, 1850.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, contemporary green morocco (slight wear at some extremities), spine with raised bands in six compartments decorated with three blind-stamps and horizontal gilt fillets, gilt letter, boards richly gilt with some blind-tooling in romantic style with gilt Spanish royal crown at center, gilt-tooling to edges of covers and spine, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt, endleaves decorated with gilt floral pattern and white over light blue. Tables in text. In very fine condition. Author's signed six-line presentation inscription in ink on recto of blank leaf before title-page: "A. S.M. la Reyna Madre // D.ª M.ª Cristina de Borbon // En prueba de profundo respeto y gratidtud, // Su muy humilde servidor, // Q.B.S.R.P. // Camilo Labrador." (1 blank l.), [iii]-x, 349 pp., (1 l., 1 l. errata). Leaf containing p. 349 (verso blank) is repeated. Lacks the half-title. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this hefty work calling attention to… Read More

Lisbon, Impressão Liberal, 1822.. 8°, disbound. In good to very good condition. Contemporary manuscript ink errata on p. 108. (1 l.), v, 110 pp. *** Rare Portuguese translation. When first published in 1751, the original English text had a ready sale, passing through several issues in the year of publication. By the year 1812 the work had attained its fiftieth edition. It has also been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, and Welsh, has been paraphrased in verse, and illustrated in various styles by distinguished artists.*** Gonçalves Rodrigues 3781 (giving collation of iv, iv, 120 pp., but without locating any copy). Despite the difference in collation, our copy appears to be complete. This edition not located in Porbase, which cites 5 copies of the Porto 1777 edition (two at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; three at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa), a single copy of a Lisbon 1814 edition at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, a single copy of the Bahia 1818 edition… Read More

Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional, 2009.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 84 pp., (1 l.), illus. (some illus. in color), footnotes, index of names. One of 750 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Catalogue for an exhibition held at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. It contains an interesting and amply annotated introduction, "Poe em Portugal" (pp. 9-34), by Margarida Vale de Gato. The catalogue was compiled by Gina Guedes Rafael.***

Mexico, Imprenta de J. M. Lara, 1854.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, disbound. In good to very good condition. 21 pp., (1 blank l.) *** FIRST EDITION. Announces a Holy Jubilee for the first three months of 1855. Among the dozen rules set out for its observance in Mexico (pp. 15-21) is the requirement that no beggars be allowed at the doors of churches or inside them, "que no molesten ni turben á los que ocurran á cumplir con las visitas."D. [José] Lazaro de la Garza y Ballesteros (Ojo de Agua en Valle de Pilón, Nuevo León, 1785-Barcelona, 1862), from illustrious families of Northern Mexico, with a doctorate in canon law, Bishop of Sonora in 1837, served as Archbishop of Mexico from 1850 to 1862. He strongly opposed the "Leyes de Reforma" which constituted a part of the Mexican federal constitution of 1857, an opposition which led to the Guerra de Reforma. *** Catalogue of Mexican Pamphlets in the Sutro Collection, p. 895. Not in Palau, which lists six other works by this author. Not located in Jisc.