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

Lisbon, Edições Saber, 1952.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers (foxing to covers). Occasional minor foxing; rectangular marks similar to the foxing where apparently some tape was removed from first and final leaves. Overall in good to very good condition. Author's signed five-line presentation inscription on half title: "A João Villaret, // Grande Amigo da Poesia // com o abraço de sempre // do // Alberto". Illustrated lithograph bookplate of A.[lfredo] Ribeiro dos Santos on verso of initial leaf. 60 pp., (1 l., 1 blank l.). *** FIRST EDITION. A second edition appeared in 2002. Alberto de Serpa Esteves de Oliveira (1906-1992), poet, dramatist, essayist and book collector, attended the University of Coimbra for three years but was more interested in collaborating with the writers of Presença than in studying. He published his first novel, Saudade do mar, at age 17, and two collections of poetry (Quadras and Evoé) soon after, but it was his later collections Varanda, 1934, and… Read More

(Lisbon), Camara Municipal, 1973.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8º, original illustrated wrappers. As new. Color frontis., 181 p., (1 l.), 185 pp. illustrations [some in color], (lx l.), additional illustrations. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Catalogue of an iconographical and bibliographical exhibition held at the Palácio Pimenta.***

Lisbon, Na Impressão Regia, 1815.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, contemporary calf (label missing, some slight wear), spine gilt with raised bands in five compartments. Occasional slight marginal dampstaining and soiling, mainly to first and last few leaves. In fine condition. Early two-line ink ownership inscription on flyleaf: "Hé de Luiz da Costa Calheiros // da Villa da Povoa de Varzim." (3 ll.), 354, xix, 50 pp. *** FIRST EDITION. A textbook on symptoms, prognosis, surgical operations, medicines, and so on, with an etymological dictionary of medical terms and an appendix on surgery and the law. It appeared again in Ouro Preto (Minas Geraes, Brazil) in 1839. The three preliminary leaves (not mentioned in the collation of actual copies in OCLC) contain the title page, dedication (to José Antonio da Costa Ferreira, among whose many titles is Physico Mór da Bahia), and prologue.The text covers all organs and systems of the body: chapter headings mention inflammation, abscesses, mortification, wounds,… Read More

(Valparaiso?), n.pr., dated 30 September 1858.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (32 x 20.5 cm.), disbound. First paragraph in a charming cursive font. Small piece cut from blank margin at lower left, by binder. Overall in good to very good condition. Early manuscript foliation in ink. Signed in print by Pedro Monroi, with his rubric below. A few early manuscript corrections. Broadside. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. A list of donations by 60 members of the Sociedad Tipográfica in 1856, 1857, and 1858, followed by a summary of expenditures and a list of 8 members to whom funds have been given. The opening paragraph is in a particularly nice cursive font.*** Not located in Briseño. Not located in CCPBE. Not located in Rebiun. Not located in Jisc.

Coimbra, Edições "Presença", 1934.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers (covers foxed; split of 6.5 cm. between front cover and spine neatly repaired). Floral vignette on title page. Lithograph portrait of author by António Carneiro tipped on the second leaf recto. In good to very good condition. Author's signed and dated six-line presentation inscription in green ink on first leaf recto: "Ao Antonio Salgado Jr., // com um grande abraço de esti- // ma e admiração, // em lembrança de velhos tempos // do // Alberto de Serpa // Porto Out.º 1934". Oblong black-on-silver printed ticket with rounded corners of "Esquina, L.da" in upper outer corner of front wrapper verso. (33 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION and ONLY separate EDITION. These poems appeared again in 1944 together with the poems from several other books of verse by the author. The book is dedicated to the poets António Botto and José Régio, and to the painter Carlos Carneiro.Alberto de Serpa Esteves de Oliveira (1906–1992),… Read More

Lisbon, Livros Horizonte / Assembleia da República / Ministério da Cultura / Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, 2010.. Folio (35.9 x 27 cm.), publisher's decorated cloth, with 10 x 7 cm. color illustration on paper tipped on to front cover. As new. 56 ll., vibrant color facsimile reproductions, table of contents of persons caricatures. *** Facsimile edition of this album by the famous illustrator Francisco de Paula Valença (Lisbon, 1882-1963), @Varões Assinalados (1909-1911). It contains 48 caricatures with biographies of important figures of the early twentieth century in Portugal including Miguel Bombarda, Guerra Junqueiro, Colombano Bordal Pinheiro, Ferreira do Amaral, Teófilo Braga, Afonso Costa, João Chagas, Manuel de Arriaga, Brito Camacho, José Relvas, Anselmo Braamcamp Freire, José Malhôa, and Viana da Mota. The humorous biographical pieces which accompany each caricature were written by André Brun (2), Gomes Leal, Carlos Simões (20), Alfredo de Mesquita (4), Albino Forjaz de… Read More

Lisbon, Typ. de Alexandrina Amelia de Salles, 1850.. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, later brown wrappers (small pieces missing, spine partly defective, rubber-stamped "3" in red on rear cover). Uncut. Light browning. Title page backed. In good condition. 116 pp., with 2 unpaginated folding plates [Documentos 6 and 7] following p. 40, (1 l. errata, 1 blank l.). *** FIRST EDITION of the author's protest against his dismissal from the post of Director of the Real Collegio Militar. It includes documents related to Cunha Fidié's service against Brazilian independence fighters in Piauí in 1823 (pp. 5-6 and Documentos 3-5 and 40-42, pp. 35-39 and 113-6). He defeated the Brazilian troops at the Battle of Genipapo. According to Borba de Moraes, some regional historians in Brazil refer to the struggle for independence in Piauí and Maranhão as "a guerra do Fidié."A second edition of Varia fortuna was published in 1942 at Piauí, "Edição comemorativa do 120º aniversário da Guerra da Independência no… Read More

Lisbon, Associação Portuguesa de Linguística / Colibri, 1994.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 315 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Eighteen papers: two in Spanish, two in French, two in Gallego, and twelve in Portuguese. In additon to the authors mentioned above, there are communications by Michel Contini, Maria Antónia Coutinho, Luísa Alice Santos Pereira & Margarida Garcia, José Enrique Gargallo Gil, Maria João Marçalo, Cristina Martins, Maria Antónia Coelho da Mota, José Bettencourt Gonçalves & Maria Fernanda Bacelar do Nascimento, Maria Victoria Navas Sánchez-Élez, Luís Prista, Francisco Fernández Rei, Antón Santamarina, Helena Trigo, Gaston Tuaillon, Luís Segura da Cruz, João Saramago & Gabriela Vitorino, and Brian F. Head.***

Madrid, En la Imprenta de Antonio Roman, 1692.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, contemporary yellow-stained vellum over thin pasteboard, tawed leather braided fasteners and remains of ties, spine lettered in ink (rubbed, some soiling). Title within typographic border, woodcut initials and tailpieces. Some light staining to first and last few leaves, scattered slight browning. Small piece torn from lower margin of Aa3, without loss. Overall in fine, crisp condition. Contemporary signature of D. Luis A[ntonio?] Mosquera y Sotomayor on title-page. From the library of the celebrated book collector Richard Heber, with the Bibliotheca Heberiana stamp on recto of front free endleaf. (22 ll.), 328 pp. *** FIRST EDITION of the author's poetry: sonnets, elegies, satires, epigrams, romances, letrillas, etc. On pp. 156-254 are 18 short dramatic works, some of which list the actors who played the roles; ten of these are loas, meant to be performed together with the author's full-length dramas. Solís y Rivadeneyra… Read More

Santiago de Chile, Imprenta del Progreso, 1850.. FIRST EDITION in this form?. Large 8°, traces of early wrappers. Small woodcut vignette on title page of a paddlewheel steamboat. Very good condition. Early manuscript foliation in ink. (1 l.), ii, 131 pp. (including a second quire signed 6). *** FIRST EDITION in this form? In 1835, Chile, Bolivia, and Ecuador granted William Wheelwright a ten-year privilege to run steamboat service from Valparaiso to Panama. With funding from London, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company sent its first two steamers into operation in 1840. Unfortunately the PSNC began to show a profit only in 1848, the year the California Gold Rush began. Before its monopoly could be renewed, half a dozen Chilean companies were formed to take advantage of the enormous demand for transportation. This collection of letters on the steamship monopoly offers extensive quotations from contemporary periodicals, that include many comments on Wheelwright, the United States, and ships trading… Read More

Paris, Au Magasin de Musique de Pacini, n.d. (late 1820s-1830s?).. 5 works bound together. Folio (33.8 x 26 cm.), contemporary (Brazilian?) green sheep, smooth spine gilt (defective at head and foot, a bit faded), covers with Greek key design gilt within ruled gilt border, Imperial arms of Brazil at center with gilt initials "P.I.D.J.", additional gilt-tooled vignette below the arms on the front cover (significant scraping and some other wear, mostly to extremities), edges of covers milled (but much faded), green endleaves, all text block edges gilt. Engraved title page. Engraved musical notation throughout. On thick paper of excellent quality. Minor dampstaining at outer margin of first 4 leaves. Overall in good to very good condition. (1 l.), 17, (1) pp. *** Another edition of this piece was published in Vienna by Diabelli, also without date; the Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek record for it gives the year [1828]. Rossini's La Donna del Lago premiered in 1819.Henri Herz (1803-1888) was one… Read More

Lisbon, Officina de Antonio Gomes, 1791.. 8°, contemporary speckled calf (minor wear), spine with raised bands in five compartments, gilt fillets and crimson morocco lettering piece in second compartment from head. Small woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. Some minor marginal worming, not affecting text, on leaves L5-P2 and last 2 leaves before the "Indice". Overall in very good condition. Armorial bookplate of the Condes de Bomfim; letterpress shelf location tag completed in ink manuscript in upper outer corner of front pastedown endleaf. Older ticket above bookplate with printed name in italic script of José de Cupertino d'Aguiar Ottolini. Twentieth-century (final quarter) printed ticket of Manuel Ferreira, Alfarabista, Porto to right of shelf location tag. (3 ll.), 362 pp., (1 l.). *** Second edition of a work originally published in Évora, 1624. It includes biographies of three of the greatest literary figures of sixteenth-century Portugal - Luis de Camões, João de Barros and Diogo… Read More

Paris, Rey et Gravier, Libraires, 1822.. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, contemporary tree calf (minor wear), smooth spine richly gilt with crimson morocco lettering piece, gilt-lettered author and short title; marbled endleaves, all text block edges marbled, edges of covers ruled in gilt. Title page has small wood engraving of a dock with bales and a barrel, an anchor, a caduceus, and a ship in the distance. A few minor spots. In very good to fine condition. xv, 232 pp., (1 l.), 7 folding sheets with 13 tables. *** FIRST EDITION. Contains much information about Portuguese trade with Brazil, Africa, Asia, the Azores, Madeira, the United States, Morocco and various European nations. There are also sections on Mozambique and on Portuguese coinage since Roman times. A second edition appeared in 1900.Adrien (i.e., Adriano) Balbi (Venice, 1782-Pádua, 1848) was an Italian Geographer and statistician. In 1820 he visited Portugal, collecting materials for this and other publications..*** Borba de Moraes… Read More

Lisbon, Edição do Autor, 1946.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (32.5 x 25 cm.), publisher's boards with illustrated dust jacket (jacket with 2 short tears, 3 tiny pieces missing, small dampstain at foot of spine, light soiling). Title page printed in red and black. Light browning. Overall in good to very good condition. (1 l.), color frontispiece with tissue guard, 84 pp., (1 l.), LXXVIII pages with black-and-white illustrations. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.The historian, author and art critic Luís Santos Reis (1898-1967), a native of Turcifal (Torres Vedras), studied scientific processes for examining works of art in 1934 at the Institute Carlo Mainini in Paris, continuing these studies in Porto from 1934 to 1936. He held various administrative posts and university level teaching positions in Portugal, and wrote a number of books dealing with the history of art and architecture.*** See Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 534-5. On the paintor Vasco Fernandes, also known as… Read More

Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade, 1924.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, later quarter calf over decorated boards (head of spine slightly rubbed), black spine label (nicked), decorated endleaves, top edge rouged, other edges uncut, original printed wrappers bound in. In very good condition. Number 35 of 120 copies on papel de linho, signed by Joaquim Carvalho. xii, 154 pp., 7 plates, facsimile signatures in text. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.*** Not in Welsh.

Porto, Livraria Esquina, 1994.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. One of 250 copies (supposedly signed by the author and numbered; this copy unsigned and unnumbered). 87 pp., (1 l.), 5 large folding genealogical tables, 5 full-page portraits, 1 full-page coat-of-arms in color. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.***

Lisbon, AN / TT, 1994.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 24 pp., errata notice slipped in between pp. 2 and 3. *** Introduction to Portuguese-Venezuelan relations, pp. [5]-8, by Jorge Borges de Macedo (Director of the Instituto de Arquivos Nacionais / Torre do Tombo, 1990-1996).*** Porbase locates three copies: Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto, Biblioteca Nacional and Universidade de Coimbra. Jisc locates British Library only.

[Colophon] London, R. Clay, n.d. [1856].. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, stitched. Minor soiling and foxing on title page. In good to very good condition. 26 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Concerns repayment of Venezuela's foreign debt to British bondholders. Pages 3-21 are a summary of the current situation and supporting documents. The Opinion (pp. 23-26) is signed in print at the end by Phillimore.Sir Robert Joseph Phillimore, Baronet (1810-1885), was an English judge and politician, and the author of Ecclesiastical Law of the Church of England, Commentaries on International Law, and other works. In the 1850s, he was a member of Parliament. *** Not located in Jisc. Not located in KVK (51 databases searched).

N.p., n.pr., 1797?.. Folio (30 x 21 cm.), disbound. First leaf title page ("Ventas de posesiones"); second a worksheet. Light discoloration at edges, but overall in good to very good condition. Old manuscript annotations in ink at top of first leaf ("N. [scored: 23] N. 10. 1797"). (2 ll.) *** Apparently a printed worksheet for evaluating the worth of goods, possibly for taxes on inheritance. *** Not located in Palau. Not located in Jisc. Not located in Rebiun. Not located in CCPBE.

Almada, Câmara Municipal, Departamento de Acção Sócio-Cultural, 1991.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (29.7 x 21 cm.), original illustrated wrappers. Fine condition. 133, (14, 1 blank) pp., profusely illus., mostly in color, bibliography. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.***