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

Lisbon, Colibri, 2001.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 290 pp., (2 ll.). One of 1,000 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.***

Porto, Officina de Antonio Alvarez Ribeiro, 1791.. 8°, nineteenth-century marbled wrappers Overall in good or near-good condition. Title page has small hole at head (repaired on verso), affecting one letter of title and with loss of a small piece of the margin. Small wormhole in inner margin from quire F to the end, sometimes touching a few letters, without loss. A few tears and some soiling. Quire M (end of the second Caderno) is of 4 ll. rather than 8, but the text follows. Contemporary ink inscription "Camões" on title page. 204 pp. Apparently only part of the book; collations given for other copies are [2], 362, 23, [3] pp. or 362, 23 pp. *** This collection of silly or humorous poetry in Latin (only the prologues and the final essay, pp. 185-204, are in Portuguese) includes a poem by Antonio Duarte Ferrão (pseudonym for João da Silva Rebelo) on tobacco: Nariz enganado, e desenganado … (pp. 85-101). The title translates roughly as, "The Nose Deceived and Undeceived; Tobacco Ridiculed and… Read More

Macau, Instituto Cultural; Lisbon: Arquivos Nacionais / Torre do Tombo; Évora: Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Distrital de Évora, 1996.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers As new. 113 pp., illustrated (some illustrations in color). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.***

Macau, Instituto Cultural, 1988.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 182 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.***

Porto, Edições Afrontamento, 1998.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 638 pp., (9 ll.), illustrated [some in color], table and graphs in text. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.***

Porto, Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, 1946.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Small 4°, original printed wrappers. Good to very good condition. 88 pp., (1 l.), 10 plates. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.*** Porbase locates six copies: two each at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and the Instituto de Investigação Científica e Tropical, and one each at the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, and the Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique. Jisc repeats Victoria & Albert and Oxford University only.

Paris, Émile-Paul, 1907.. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, contemporary mottled half calf over decorated boards (some wear to joints and elsewhere), spine with raised bands in six compartments, burgundy leather lettering piece, gilt letter, top edges sprinkled blue, other edges uncut, original printed wrappers bound in. Heliogravure by Dujardin. Scattered light foxing. Bookplate of Miguel da Silveira. Frontisportrait, x, 399 pp. *** FIRST EDITION.***

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and Edinburgh: A Constable by James Ballantyne, 1805.. FIRST EDITION. Large 4° (27.8 x 22 cm.), Twentieth century (second half) full calf, spine (faded to tan) gilt with slightly raised bands in six compartments, black leather lettering pieces in second and fourth compartments from head, gilt ruled design on covers with florins at corners, marbled endleaves, text block edges marbled from an early binding. Some light browning and scattered foxing. In good to very good condition. Engraved plate, engraved title page, (1 l.), vii-xii pp., second engraved title page, 557 pp. *** FIRST EDITION of one of the future poet laureate's major, relatively early works.Madoc, also spelled Madog, ab Owain Gwynedd was, according to folklore, a Welsh prince who sailed to America in 1170, over three hundred years before Columbus's voyage in 1492. According to the story, he was a son of Owain Gwynedd, and took to the sea to flee internecine violence at home. Madoc's legend has… Read More

Lisbon, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga / Imprensa Nacional, 2017.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Very large. 4° (28.2 x 24.1 cm.), original illustrated wrappers. As new. 274 pp., (2) ll., 1 blank l., profusely illustrated in color, footnotes, side notes, bibliography. Texts in Portuguese and English. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Substantial catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga from 19 May to 10 September 2017. Alessandra Rodolfo contributed essays on the history and identity of the museums of the Vatican, and a homage to Rafael (Room VIII of the Pinacoteca Vaticana). José Alberto Seabra Carvalho writes on a Portuguese commission of Michelangelo. The catalogue is divided into two main sections: images of Mary in Italian collections from antiquity to the twentieth century, and Italian images of Mary in Portuguese collections, fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. The bibliography occupies pp. 199-215.***

Sintra, Zéfiro / Real e Venerável Irmandade do Santíssimo Sacramento da Paróquia de Santo André de Mafra, 2017.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (30 x 24 cm.), original illustrated wrappers. As new. 461 pp., 1 l. colophon, profusely illustrated in color, tables, facsimile of documents and musical scores, endnotes, bibliography. Text in red and black throughout. One of 1000 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. An impressive collection of texts and richly colored illustrations on the Real Convento de Mafra in honor of its third centenary. Historical photographs are reproduced in addition to stunning photographs of the interior of the Real Convento de Mafra. Dom Manuel Clemente, Cardinal-Patriarch of Lisbon, writes a preface to the volume. The work is then divided into four parts: I. Da Real Obra, on the construction of the Real Convento de Mafra, with entries on the history of the architecture and D. João V (o magnânimo), for example João Vaz writes on the six Baroque organs in the Basílica de… Read More

Lisbon, Typ. Rollandiana, 1824.. 8°, stitched, traces of early pink wrappers. Some light soiling and spotting. 12, [5]-19 pp. *** Third edition, later issue (?) of the Magoas amorosas, previously published Lisbon 1805 and 1821. Manoel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage (Setúbal, 1765-Lisbon, 1805), an accomplished Arcadian poet with strong romantic tendencies, wrote a great deal of occasional verse - although Bell thinks he was capable of much greater things. Beckford considered Bocage a powerful genius. Bocage's mother's father was a French naval officer in the service of Portugal. Scarred by the death of his mother when he was ten, Bocage joined an infantry regiment at age 14, then switched to the navy and departed for India in 1786, where he spent several years. At Damão he deserted and wandered for years through China, Macao and Goa. Back in Portugal by 1790, he joined the Academia de Bellas Letras or Nova Arcadia (where his name was "Amano Sadino"), but left it three years later. Although they were… Read More

Lisbon, Serviço de Pubicações Ultramarinas, Procuradoria dos Estudantes Ultramarinos, 1966.. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers (slightly soiled). Front wrapper and illustrations by José Antunes. Title-page, section titles and illustrations in text printed in green and black. In very good condition. 70 pp., (3 ll.), 8 ll. color plates. *** FIRST EDITION of a collection of traditional Angolan stories, freely retold. The author notes that he read Chatelain's Contos populares de Angola, Ennis' Umbundu Folk Tales from Angola, and other works, and "construí as histórias que aí ficam. Nelas, o folclore foi, sobretudo, sugestão" (p. 71).Mário António (Mário António Fernandes de Oliveira, Maquela do Zombo, 1934-Lisbon, 1989), poet, essayist and short-story writer, was a native of Angola. In the 1950s he was one of a new generation of poets who advocated socialism and Angolan autonomy, and published in the short-lived but important journal Mensagem. He was also published in… Read More

Lisbon, Edições Momento, 1937.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (light spotting and some chipping; head of spine somewhat defective). Uncut. Light browning. In good condition. Author's signed and dated (10 May 1937) eight-line presentation inscription to Cristiano Lima on recto of front free endleaf [p. 1]. 169 pp., (3 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION. The title story only appeared in anthologies in 1969 and 1972; a second edition was printed in 2002. The subtitle on the front cover reads "Contos Africanos". The printed dedication, on p. [3], reads "Á minha mãe que ficou em São Tomè Depois que abalei, á negra de alma meiga, resignada e dolorosa, de olhar suave como uma benção, que me amparou os primeiros passos e me formou o carácter".The journalist Viana de Almeida was born in São Tomé in 1903, and lived in Lisbon from early childhood. He was a great-grandson of the first Barão de Água-Izé. He founded and directed the newpapers A mocidade africana (1931), Humanidade… Read More

Rio de Janeiro, Ministério da Educação e Cultura, Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1961.. First separate edition. Large 8°, original printed wrappers (spine defective at head and foot). In very good condition. Signed and dated author's six-line presentation inscription in the upper and outer margins of p. 23: "para e.m. de melo e castro, // êste ensaio de tradução-criação, // do amigo em poesia // Haroldo de campos // s Paulo, // agôsto 64." A few ink corrections, possibly in the hand of Haroldo de Campos or Melo e Castro. (1 l.), pp. 23-50, (1 blank l.). *** FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT of this heavily annotated essay, with significant references to Ezra Pound, followed by the author's translation of Mayakovski's "A Sierguéi Iessiênnin" (pp. 46-50). Together with his brother Augusto de Campos and Décio Pignatari, Haroldo de Campos (São Paulo, 1929-2003) founded in 1952 the "Grupo Noigandres," Brazil's concrete poetry movement. "Plano-Piloto Para Poesia Concreta," co-authored with Augusto de… Read More

Lisbon, Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores / Imprensa Nacional, 2015.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 173 pp. One of 500 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Play about the Portuguese presidential election of 1958. In addition to this two-act play, the author supplies a "Nota previa" (pp. 7-9); "Enquadramento histórico" (p. 11); "Cronologia da campanha presidencial de 58"(p. 13); and a "Sinopse da peça" (pp. 15-18). António Torrado published twelve volumes of plays between 1981 and 2007, seven of which were aimed at children and adolescents. He has also written poetry and fiction as well as a book on education. ***

Lisbon, Typographia de J.B. de A. Gouvea, 1842?.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, contemporary plain beige wrappers (manuscript author and title on front wrapper). Light stains. In very good condition. Signed by the author on the title-page and with a note in the author's hand at foot of p. 29: "Fui [illegible] no dia 19 do Cor.te." Small oblong white paper ticket with salmon border and serrated edges with apparent inventory number, date and shelf location supplied in manuscript ("1251 // 7/v/931 b // E"), in upper inner corner of front wrapper recto. 29 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this critique of some of the faculty at the School of Medicine in Lisbon, with an account of the administration's actions concerning them. The author was apparently a student at the school.*** Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa II, 284. Not in Innocêncio; see X, 265 for another work by the author. Not in Pires de Lima, Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica… Read More

[Lisbon], Público, Comunicação Social /Corda Seca, Edições de Arte, (2004?).. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 109 pp. (1 l.). Printed on high-quality paper, with many vibrant large color illustrations in the text. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The late author, cultural promoter par excellence presents a collection of original fado song lyrics he composed due to the solicitation of the fado singer Mísia. All of the songs are in Portuguese with the exception of four, which are composed in French. There is a chapter of poems composed as lyrics to correspond with music by Carlos Paredes.Among many prizes and honors, Vasco Graça Moura (1942-2014), has been distinguished with the Prémio de Poesia do PEN Clube Português (1994), the Prémio Fernando Pessoa (2005), and the Prémio Virgílio Ferreira (2007). On the politician, author of a vast and diverse literary output, and cultural bureaucrat Vasco [Navarro de] Graça Moura (Porto, 1942-Lisbon, 2014), see… Read More

N.p., n.pr., n.d., but Lisbon: Na Officina de Francisco Borges da Silva, 1764.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound. Browned, dampstains; tears and holes on final leaf with loss of 3-4 letters; corners of leaves C1-4 missing with loss from half a dozen lines of text. Overall in poor condition. Pages 3-28, lacking A1, the title page. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION?*** Forjaz de Sampaio, Teatro de cordel 300. Calouste Gulbenkian, Literatura de Cordel 280. Barata & Pericão Catálogo da Literatura de Cordel (Colecção Jorge de Faria) 1184. Porbase apparently describes the same work as in OCLC; a single copy in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.

N.p., n.pr., n.d., but Lisbon: Na Officina de Francisco Borges da Silva, 1764.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, stitched. Browned, soiled, some stains and dampstains. Overall in near-good condition. A few early marginal notes on first leaf, in ink. Pages 3-28, lacking A1, the title page. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION?*** Forjaz de Sampaio, Teatro de cordel 300. Calouste Gulbenkian, Literatura de Cordel 280. Barata & Pericão Catálogo da Literatura de Cordel (Colecção Jorge de Faria) 1184. Porbase apparently describes the same work as in OCLC; a single copy in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.

Lisbon, Typ. de Borges, 1852.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original green printed wrappers (a bit frayed; small pieces missing from rear wrapper). Typographical vignette on title page and front wrapper. Overall in very good condition. A few penciled marginalia. 32 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. After dominating political life in Portugal from 1842 to 1846, António Bernardo da Costa Cabral, 1.º Conde de Tomar, later 1.º Marques de Tomar (Fornos de Algodres, Algodres, 1803-Porto, 1889), spent a period abroad. He then returned to Portugal and was asked by D. Maria II to form a ministry, which lasted from 18 June 1849 to 1 May 1851. He had been subject to much heated opposition, and attacks such as the present one continued after the fall of his government.João Candido Baptista de Gouvea (died 1852), had been an officer in the Intendencia geral da Policia during the 1820s. He wrote several works which, like this one, were published anonymously.*** Innocêncio III, 333-4. See also Grande… Read More