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

N.p., n.pr., 1898.. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, original printed orange wrappers (some fading). Overall in very good condition. 62 pp., (1 blank l.) *** FIRST EDITION; another appeared in 1900. The work is a political commentary masquerading as an account of exotic Turkestan, "entre o Turkestão Turco e o Turkestão Chinez." Fonseca attributes the work to João da Costa Terenas (d. 1915).*** Martinho da Fonseca, Aditamentos p. 197. Porbase locates three copies: two at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and one at the Arquivo Nacional-Torre do Tombo. Not located in Jisc.

Lisbon, Na Offic. de José de Aquino Bulhoens, 1777.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, recent plain wrappers. Large woodcut Portuguese royal arms flanked by putti on title page. Large woodcut initial on p. 3. Light browning and dampstaining. Overall in good condition. 7 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this unsigned ode honoring D. Maria I's ascension to the throne, beginning, "Remontar-se ás Estrellas / Pertende o pensamento hoje abrazado …."D. Maria (b. 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 starting in 1799).*** Not in Innocêncio or Fonseca, Pseudónimos. Porbase locates two copies, both in the Biblioteca Central da Marinha. Not located in Jisc. NUC: ICN.

n.p. , n.pr., n.d. [most likely Lisbon, 1775].. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (30 x 21 cm.), disbound. Some marginal worming. Some soiling and creasing. Overall in good condition. Later ink inscription in upper blank margin. Broadside. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION? This sonnet was not included in the Narração dos applausos com que o Juiz do Povo e Casa dos Vinte-Quatro festeja a felicissima inauguração da Estatua Equestre … of Lisbon, 1775, with 123 pp, (1 l.). Nor is it in Collecção de poesias feitas na feliz inauguração da Estatua Equestre de ElRey Nosso Senhor Dom José I em 6 de Junho de 1775, Lisbon 1775, with 27 pp. Signed (in print) P.J.M.R. We have not been able to determine to whom these initials belong.*** Lisbon, Câmara Municipal, Catálogo da exposição bibliográfica, iconográfica e documental relativa à estátua equestre 204. Not in Martinho de Fonseca, Pseudonymos, iniciaes e obras anonymas. Not in Guerra Andrade, Dicionário de pseudónimos e iniciais de escritores… Read More

Lisbon, Na Regia Officina Typografica, 1777.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, stitched. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. Woodcut initial on p. [3]. Slightly gnawed at lower outer blank margin. Minor soiling to title page. Overall in good condition. Octagonal paper ticket, white with blue border and three horizontal doted lines, and number 6403 in manuscript on upper inner corner of title page. 10 pp., (integral blank leaf). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this ode presumably recited at the coronations of D. Maria I and her king consort, who was also her uncle, D. Pedro III.Machado de Castro (1731-1822), perhaps Portugal's foremost sculptor, wrote extensively on his works and the theory behind them, including a full-length discussion of the equestrian statue of D. José I entitled Descripção analytica da execução da estatua equestre, Lisbon 1810. He was also a highly cultured individual, with several other published works, including poems and technical writings on sculpture. In February… Read More

N.p., n.pr., (1777).. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound. Caption title. A few pin-point wormholes, touching 1 letter of text. Overall in good condition. (2 ll.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this ode on D. Maria's acclamation, signed in print at the end. D. Maria (b. 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 Prince Regent starting in 1799).Mathias José Dias Azedo (1758-1821) joined the Portuguese army in 1780 and rose through the ranks to become lieutenant-general by 1813. For many years he taught at the Academia Real de Fortificação, for whose students he wrote Compendio militar, 1796, a handbook on military tactics. It was notable for its use of the system of orthography dictated by pronunciation that had been espoused by Verney and Theodoro de Almeida (e.g.… Read More

Ponta Delgada, Editorial Éter, 1995.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Tall 12°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 63 pp., (3 ll.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author was born in Angola, 1959, her mother a native of Florence, her father from the island of São Miguel. She grew up in the Açores, emigrating to Canada. In 1995 she received the Prémio Revelação do Concurso Literário da DRAC for her book Num risco de pássaros.*** Porbase locates four copies: Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto, Biblioteca Pública Regional da Madeira, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. Not located in Jisc.

Lisbon, Na Officina dos Herdeiros de Domingos Gonçalves, 1788.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, laters green wrappers (faded). Woodcut ornament on title page. Pencil underlining on title page. Overall in good to very good condition. Old octagonal paper tag with blue border and manuscript shelfmark "57" on upper outer corner of front wrapper. 14 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this elegiac poem. As the eldest son of D. Maria I and D. Pedro III, D. José (b. 1761) was the heir to the throne of Portugal, and his death at a young age radically changed the course of the country over the following decades. In 1777, at age 15, D. José married his aunt, the thirty-year-old Infanta Benedita, youngest daughter of D. José I and D. Mariana Victoria of Spain. The marriage was favored by D. José I, but it was rumored that it was particularly desired by the powerful Marquês de Pombal, who perhaps hoped to establish Salic law so that the succession to the throne would have passed from D. José I directly to his… Read More

Lisbon, Edições do Templo, 1978.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Small 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 139 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Essays touching on, among others, Lacan, Pessoa, Freud, and Blanchot.***

N.p., n.pr., (1777).. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound. Caption Title. Some spotting. In good to very good condition. Contemporary ink inscriptions on final blank page. 7 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this ode honoring D. Maria I's ascension to the throne; begins: "Ode. /Ainda, Clio Divina, / Conservas essa lyra pendurada? …." There are references to D. Afonso I and the famous Cortês of Lamego of 1143, as well as to India and the Ganges. There are at least two other odes on the same subject, with 7 pp. and almost identical titles, one printed at the Offic. de Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo, and sold by Francisco Tavares at his shop in the Praça do Commercio, 1777, the other printed at the Offic. de José de Aquino Bulhoens. Luís Corrêa de França e Amaral (1725-1808), was magistrate with a degree from Coimbra University, and poet whose name in the Lisbon Arcadia was Melizeu Cylenio. He later joined the Academia de Bellas-Letras de Lisboa, or Nova-Arcadia, where he provoked the wrath of… Read More

Lisbon, Na Offic. de José de Aquino Bulhoens, 1777.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, recent plain wrappers. Small woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. Woodcut factotum initial on p. 3. Very small wormhole in lower outer corners, never affecting text. Light browning and spotting. Overall in good condition. 7 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this ode honoring D. Maria I's ascension to the throne. It begins on p. 3: "Ode. / Que aligera Deidade, reti- // nindo // O dourado clarim altissonante …."There are at least two other odes on the same subject, with 7 pp. and almost identical titles, one printed at the Offic. de Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo and sold by Francisco Tavares at his shop in the Praça do Commercio, 1777, the other with a caption title only and no imprint, with the name of Luís Corrêa de França e Amara as author at the end. The texts are different.D. Maria (b. 1734) became Portugal's first queen regnant on February 24, 1777, after the death of her father D. José I. She… Read More

Lisbon, Na Offic. de Antonio Rodrigues Galhardo, Impressor da Real Meza Censoria, Vendem-se na loge de Francisco Tavares na Praça do Commercio, 1777.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, later green wrappers (a bit faded). Large woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. Browned. In good condition. Old oval paper tag with blue border on upper wrapper, with manuscript shelfmark. Old ink inscription ("35") in upper outer corner of title page. 7 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this ode honoring D. Maria I's ascension to the throne; it is signed at the end, in print, by J.M.F.P. Begins on p. 3: "Ode. / O tu de Ulysses Filha, / Algrate, de flores orna a fronte …."There are at least two other odes on the same subject, with 7 pp. and almost identical titles, one printed at the Offic. de José de Aquino Bulhoens, the other with a caption title only and no imprint, with the name of Luís Corrêa de França e Amara as author at the end. The texts are different.D. Maria (b. 1734) became Portugal's first… Read More

Lisbon, Colibri, 1999.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 284 pp., (1 l.). One of 1,000 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.***

Lisbon, Na Officina de Felippe Jozé de França e Liz, 1790.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound. Woodcut ornament on title page. Woodcut initial and typographical headpiece on second leaf recto. Light browning. Overall in good to very good condition. (2 ll.) *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of a sonnet lamenting the death of D. José Thomas de Menezes.*** Not located in Innocêncio. Porbase locates a single copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copy cited by Porbase.

Lisbon, Na Of. de Felippe Jozé de França e Liz, 1790.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound. Woodcut ornament on title page and tailpiece on p. 7. Woodcut initial on p. 3. Some browning. Overall in good condition. Oval white paper book tag with blue border and manuscript shelfmark ("11") on title page, covering one letter and touching 2 more. A few pencil notations. 7 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this ode and sonnet on the death of D. José Thomas de Menezes.*** Author not listed in Innocêncio. Cited in Porbase with a slightly different title (Ode: Na sentidissima morte do Illmo. e Exmo. Senhor D. José Thomas de Menezes) but the same number of pages, author, printer and date, in a single copy at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copy cited by Porbase. NUC: ICN.

Paris, Guillard, Aillaud & Ca., 1884.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, recent crimson half morocco, spine with raised bands in 6 compartments, author in second, title in fourth, place and date at foot; original gray printed wrappers bound in (slightly browned). Overall in very good to fine condition. (3 ll.), 410 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Based on lectures on Portuguese and Brazilian nationality, language, and literature, given in Rio de Janeiro in 1880 before an audience that included the emperor of Brazil.Pereira da Silva (1817-1898), a native of Rio de Janeiro who studied in Paris, was an important historian as well as a politician, "outstanding in the fields of criticism and literary history" (Bandeira p. 99). He published numerous articles in major Brazilian periodicals, some of which (as here) were collected into books. Sacramento Blake praises him as "uma das pennas mais fecundas que o Brazil tem produzido, adquirindo para seu autor a mais alta e merecida reputação, tanto no paiz, como… Read More

Lisbon, n.pr., dated in print 9 Novembro 1934.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Broadside (34.7 x 6.3 cm.), unbound Browning (but not brittle). A few light dampstains. Folded three times. In good condition. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION [?] of this clandestine broadside condemning forthcoming elections. The Movimento Nacional-Sindicalista was a political movement that briefly flourished in Portugal in the early 1930s. Stanley G. Payne defined them as a fascist movement. Under the leadership of Francisco [Barcelos] Rolão Preto (1893-1977), the National Syndicalists emerged in 1932 from a tradition of Monarchism and Integralismo Lusitano to offer a platform leading to full corporatism of association or unionism in opposition to capitalism and communism. Calling for a totalitarian state, they placed central importance on the Catholic Church and made Catholic identity an important part of their appeal. They adopted the Order of Christ Cross as their emblem, in order to underline their Christian ethos, and set up… Read More

Lisbon, Bertrand Editora, 1986.. Lge. 4° (27.2 x 25.2 cm.), publisher's cloth with dust jacket. Jacket in very good condition (minor, light soiling). Otherwise "as new". 114 pp., (1 blank l.), profusely illus., mostly in vibrant color. Text in Portuguese, English, and French. *** Text consists of an introduction by Nadir Afonso in three languages (pp. 11-30), and an autobiographical note, in Portuguese (p. 113), and French (p. 114).***

Lisbon, Na Impressão de Alcobia, 1820.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound. Small typographical ornament on title page. Overall in good to very good condition. Old ink manuscript inscription at upper right hand corner of title page ("N.º 33"). 31 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION, only issue. This work is a detailed essay on the political theories regarding constitutional, representative government, issued shortly after the 24 August revolt in Porto which ended absolutism in Portugal and brought about the establishment of a Constitutional monarchy. The duties and limits on royal authority are spelled out. Chapter I is on the nature of a constitution; chapter II, on the duties and obligations of a sovereign. On p. 31 is the promise, "Todos os mezes se publicarão dois Números deste Jornal," but the two copies we have located consist only of this issue.*** Not located in Innocêncio or in Fonseca, Pseudónimos. Porbase locates a single copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, calling for 31… Read More

Lisbon, Na Impressão Regia, 1808.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, disbound. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. Small stain at margin. In very good condition. 12 pp. *** FIRST EDITION, translated from the Spanish according to the title page, but we have located no reference to a Spanish version in OCLC, Palau, Ayres de Magalhães Sepúlveda, the online CCPBE, or Rebiun. The author describes the perfidious, blasphemous behavior of Napoleon, including his treatment of D. Carlos and D. Fernando, and lauds the bravery of the Catalans in Manreza, Cervera, and Ampurdan (pp. 9-10) who rebelled against this "monstro que o inferno ha vomitado."*** Ayres Magalhães de Sepúlveda, Dicionário bibliográfico da Guerra Peninsular II, 358. Biblioteca Pública de Braga, Catálogo do Fundo Barca-Oliveira, p. 179. Palha 3528. Not in Gonçalves Rodrigues, A traducção em Portugal. Not in Fonseca, Pseudónimos. Porbase locates five copies, four at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and one in the Biblioteca… Read More

Lisbon, Na Officina de Miguel Manescal da Costa, 1767.. 8°, later orange wrappers. Small woodcut vignette on title page. Light browning and dampstains. Overall in good condition. (2 ll.), 11 pp. *** Second edition, according to the title page, of this satire on tobacco, in neo-Latin verse, with introduction in Portuguese. The first edition was published in Lisbon, 1756. The title translates roughly as, "The Nose Deceived and Undeceived; Tobacco Ridiculed and Defended, An Excuse for the Thrifty and a Pretext for Fops; A Work of Great Consolation for the Stingy, Mean, and Beggarly, and of Great Utility to Cheap Noses, Meddlers and Bores, and for Mouths Addicted to Chewing the Pipe and Cigars." The poem was reprinted in the third and fourth editions of Macarronea latino-portugueza, 1791 and 1816 (and perhaps in earlier editions as well), a collection of silly or humorous neo-Latin poetry. The earliest edition mentioned in Innocêncio is 1765; he adds that it was often reprinted, "por ser sempre… Read More