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

Lisbon, Na Regia Typografia Silviana, 1826.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, disbound. Woodcut royal Portuguese arms on title page. Some light soiling to title page. Internally clean and crisp. Overall in good condition. Old octagonal tag with blue border and manuscript shelf mark ("8") in upper outer blank corner of title page. 18 pp. *** FIRST EDITION, with a sonnet, a record of the inscriptions on the hospital, an oration describing what makes this hospital unique (pp. 8-12), and a description of the dowager princess's visit to the hospital in 1794, while it was under construction (pp. 13-18).D. Maria Francisca Benedita (b. 1746) was the youngest child of D. José I (d. 1777) and the widow and aunt of D. Maria I's eldest son, D. José, Duque de Bragança and Príncipe do Brasil. In 1788 her husband D. José died of smallpox at age 27, without issue. His wife, styled the dowager princess of Brazil, lived until 1829.Rather than founding convents or churches, in the tradition of most dowagers, D. Maria… Read More

Lisbon, Moraes Editores, 1981.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition. Small ink rubric in upper inner corner of title page. 288 pp. Tables, diagrams, and an illustration in text. Footnotes. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION in Portuguese. An apparently somewhat different version appeared in English in 2014.Ana Hatherly (Porto, 1929-2015) was an important Concrete poet, author of fiction, literary historian, critic, and painter. Melo e Castro (born Covilhã, 1932), textile engineer, poet, critic and essayist, has collaborated with various newspapers and reviews in Portugal, Brazil, Spain, and France since the 1960s. He was one of the leaders of the literary vanguard in Portugal during the second half of the twentieth century, especially during the 1960s, and was awarded the Grande Prémio de Poesia INASET/INAPA in 1990. *** On Ana Hatherly (1929-2015), see Fernando J.B. Martinho in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 237; Graça… Read More

Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional, 1999.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers As new. 500 pp., (1 l.), illustrations. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this important publication. It is especially valuable for providing extremely thorough information on the various counterfeit editions of the volumes of the collected sermons. Cites over 2,250 books and manuscripts. Several useful indices.***

Lisbon, Metropolitano de Lisboa, 1995.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 4° (22.9 x 23.2 cm.), original illustrated wrappers. Much illustration, mostly in color. As new. 36 pp. Text in Portuguese and English. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Front cover: "Ocean Piece." ***

Lisbon, Metropolitano de Lisboa, (1994?).. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 4° (22.9 x 22.8 cm.), original illustrated wrappers (minor soiling to covers). Much illustration, mostly in color. In very good condition. Internally as new. 31 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.***

Rio de Janeiro, Imprensa Nacional, 1897.. 2 volumes. Large 8°, contemporary red quarter cloth over marbled boards (slight wear to corners), smooth spines short author-title lettered gilt, volumes numbered gilt. Half title of volume II foxed. In very good condition. Internally fine. (3, 1 blank ll.), 237 pp., (1 blank l.); 244 pp. *** "Segundo milheiro" of the author's second novel.Luís Cândido Furtado Coelho (1831-1900), was Portuguese actor, poet, novelist and playwright with strong links to Brazil. He held duel Portuguese-Brazilian citizenship and was married to the actress, theatrical director and teacher Lucinda Augusta da Silva Borges (stage name Lucinda Simões), and father of the Rio de Janeiro born actress, theatrical director and businesswoman Lucília Simões (Lucília Cândida Simões Furtado Coelho). His wife and daughter also held dual citizenship.*** Not in Ford, Whittem and Raphael, A Tentative Bibliography of Brazilian Belles-Lettres; see p. 48 for another work by this author.… Read More

Lisbon, Instituto Português do Património Cultural / Quetzal, 1989.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION in English. Large 4° (29 x 24 cm.), publisher's cloth with dust jacket. As new. 136 pp., profusely illustrated, some illustrations in color. *** First and only edition in English of this beautifully illustrated work describing the history of the gardens at the royal palace of Queluz in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, based on contemporary representations and documents (some of which are reproduced in this volume). Plans of the gardens and exquisite photographs of the layout and the architectural and sculptural decoration fill pp. 50-136. Out of print: we have a few copies remaining. There was also a Portuguese-language edition, published simultaneously, in identical format.***

Lisbon, Vega, 1990.. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. xv, 159 pp., 16 ll. plates printed on both sides, index of names. *** Facsimile of the original edition of 1949, with an added introduction, indexes and bibliography by Marília Abel and Carlos Consiglieri.***

Madrid, En la Oficina de Joachin Ibarra, calle de la Urosas, 1758.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, contemporary limp vellum (lower cover slightly chewed at outer and upper edges; some soiling and other minor wear; lacking rear pastedown endleaf), horizontal manuscript title on spine. Eighteen engraved plates (one folding). Occasional foxing, mostly very light, a few leaves with soiling and minor stains. Very small repairs at lower blank margin of title page and following leaf. On the whole in good, perhaps slightly better than good, sound condition. Bookplate of Luis Bardon. Armorial Bookplate of Clado Ribeiro de Lessa. (2 ll.), 160 pp., 18 engraved plates. *** FIRST EDITION. Paleografía española opens with a brief history of the languages spoken and written in Spain before the Roman occupation, then Latin, and then Castilian Spanish, focusing on orthographic changes that occurred under Moorish domination.Subsequent chapters are organized in reverse chronological order, mostly by century; each is… Read More

Lisbon, Na Officina de Francisco Borges de Sousa, 1759.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Numbers III-IV. 4°, stitched. In very good condition. 8 pp., 8 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITIONS. A total of 18 numbers were published from 1759 to 1760.Little is known about the author, whose pseudonym is an anagram for his real name, and all of whose writting appeared under this pseudonym. He is said to have been an Augustinian canon "regrante". *** Innocêncio IV, 234 (not giving the total number of issues, but with the dates 1759-1760).Andrade, Dicionário de pseudónimos, p. 154. See Grande enciclopédia, XVII, 810-1. Also Coimbra, Miscelâneas 5070-8.

Lisbon, Na Officina de Caetano Ferreira da Costa, 1771.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound, final leaf detached. Small woodcut vignette on title page. Browned. In good condition. Old manuscript foliation in ink ("161-164"). 8 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION, apparently all published, of this critique of modern manners and morals, including the habits of peraltas (dandies).*** Not located in Innocêncio or Fonseca, Pseudónimos. Porbase locates a single copy of this part only, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, in poor condition. Not located in Jisc.. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copy cited by Porbase.

Lisbon, Na Impressão de Alcobia, n.d. [ca. 1814?].. FIRST EDITION. 8°, contemporary blue-gray plain wrappers (spine defective). Uncut. In very good condition. Paper ticket, 3 x 3.85 cm., in upper outer corner of front wrapper verso of "Pedro de Azevedo // Alfarrabista // Rua Custódio Vieira, // 2-3º Dto. Tel. 683425 // 1200 Lisboa-Portugal". 47 pp. *** FIRST EDITION [?] of this poem on the use of paddles in schools to discipline students. The edition dated 1814, with 46 pp. in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal appears to be a later printing, in a different setting of type.José Pedro Soares was a teacher of Latin at Ponta Delgada. He was a native of Lisbon, and is said to have died in 1843, having attained more than 80 years. Innocêncio identifies over ten works by him, the present one only in an undated edition of 47 pages.*** Innocêncio V, 92-3. This edition not located in Porbase, which cites a single copy of another edition, dated 1814, with only 46 pp. Not located in Jisc.

Madrid, Ediciones Cultura Hispanica, 1964.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, publisher's quarter burgundy cloth over yellow cloth boards (faded), smooth spine gilt. Internally in fine condition; overall good. 329 pp., (2 ll.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Describes Panama's relations with other Central American nations and with Colombia.***

Lisbon, Pedro Craesbeeck, 1628.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, modern morocco, gilt floral ornaments, raised bands in five compartments. Gilt title and author in second compartment. Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials. Large piece torn from title and skillfully fixed back; one corner and edge of title reinforced on verso. Preliminary leaves stained. Signature of Miguel Osorio in blank portion of title, scored signature in another blank portion of title. (12), 311 [i.e. 308] ll. Errors in numbering: jumps from l. 307 to 309 and from l. 309 to 311. ¶4, ¶8, A-Z8, Aa-Pp8, Qq4. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Includes a poem by Lope de Vega in praise of the author (ninth preliminary leaf), and another by Manuel Faria e Sousa, among others. Osorio (d. 1630 or 1634) was a native of Lisbon; his style leans toward the gongoristic, but Innocêncio says "merece todavia ainda alguma estimação, e abunda em tractos elegantes e conceituosos."*** Arouca O113. Barbosa Machado I, 584. Innocêncio II, 71:… Read More

Lisbon, Por Pedro Craesbeeck, 1628.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, old (late seventeenth or early eighteenth century [?]) calf (wear to corners, upper corner of front cover defective; head of spine somewhat defective), plain and almost flat spine, with sewing bands slightly visible, covers richly tooled in gilt (some gilding rubbed, and with some tooling painted but severely rubbed), text-block edges sprinkled red. Woodcut arms of the Duque de Barcelos on title, woodcut initials. Light dampstaining, mostly very small and limited to upper margins of a few leaves. In very good to fine condition, in an unusual binding. Ink inscription in upper outer corner of front free endleaf: "Custou-me 600 reis // 20/10/[17?]78." (4), 68 ll. *** Rare FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this important genealogy of two of Portugal's wealthiest and most powerful families: the noble family of Barcelos, and its offshoot, the royal family of Bragança, which was to rule Portugal continuously from 1640 until 1910, and Brazil from… Read More

Lisbon, Antonio Gomes, 1791.. 8°, contemporary cat's-paw mottled sheep (some wear), spine gilt with raised bands in five compartments, crimson leather lettering piece, gilt letter, edges rouged. Ink stain in center of title-page (over typographical ornament, covering a monogram in ink?) has bled to verso of title and faintly to next preliminary leaf. A few pencil notes, minor stains. Overall in very good condition. v, 326 pp., (1 l.). *** Includes panegyrics on D. João III and the Infante D. Maria written by João de Barros, "o primeiro dos nossos auctores classicos em linguagem e estylo" (Innocêncio III, 323). This is the second edition of the panegyric on D. João, which first appeared in the 1740 edition of Noticias de Portugal. The panegyric on D. Maria appeared in three editions of the Noticias (1655, 1665, 1740) before being printed in this volume. This is the second edition of the other works in this volume: António de Castilho's Elogio a ElRey D. João III, an anonymous Elogio do Doutor… Read More

Porto, Typographia Commercial, 1846.. 8°, disbound, traces of early blue wrappers. Small decorative ornament on title page. Small wood-engraved bishop's mitre on second leaf recto. In good to very good condition. 19 pp. *** Second edition (?) of a work first published in Lisbon, 1819. The author's collected works appeared as Poesias de João Evangelista de Moraes Sarmento, colligidas por varios amigos seus. Porto, 1847 (according to multiple records in OCLC and in Copac; but Porbase says 1845).João Evangelista de Moraes Sarmento (1733-1826), says Innocêncio, "adquiriu fama e creditos de bom medico, e ainda mais de distincto poeta." A native of Porto, he also wrote numerous sermons, many of which were preached by others in Porto without attribution.*** Innocêncio XI, 288; on the author, see also III, 365-7 and X, 240. Not located in Porbase. Not located in Jisc. Not located in KVK (51 databases searched). Not located in NUC.

Lisbon, Ex Typographia Regia, 1802.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, stitched. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. Uncut and mostly unopened. Fore-edge margin of C2 trimmed, not affecting text. Overall in good to very good condition. Small octagonal white paper ticket with blue border and ink manuscript "6530" at center tipped on to lower inner corner of half title. xxxvi pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this eulogy, in Latin, read at the Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa for Pascoal José de Melo Freire dos Reis (1738-1798), an eminent Portuguese jurisconsult and royal advisor (see Innocêncio VI, 350-3; XVII, 142-6). It does not seem to be among the works included in Obras de Francisco de Broja Garção Stockler, Lisbon, 1805 (per Innoêncio's comments on that work). Stockler (1759-1829), a native of Lisbon, was trained at Coimbra as a mathematician, but spent most of his life involved in politics, and rose to the rank of lieutenant general in the army. He was so vocally in favor of… Read More

Lisbon, Na Offic. dos Herd. de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1746.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound, later rear plain brown wrapper, edges rouged from an earlier binding. Rather elegant woodcut vignette on title page, woodcut headpiece, initial, and tailpiece. Light soiling on title page. In good to very good condition. (2 ll.), 59 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this fulsome speech praising D. Maria Josefa da Graça de Noronha, at whose Quinta de Valverde (near Cascais) it was read. D. Maria Josefa, the only daughter of the third Marquês de Cascais, was the wife of D. Francisco Xavier Rafael de Meneses, who had succeeded as sixth Conde da Ericeira and second Marquês de Louriçal in 1742.Filippe José da Gama (1713-1779?), a native of Lisbon, was a member of the Academia Real da Historia Portugueza and published a number of orations and eulogies. His Censura, on the rules of translation, filled 38 pages in Thomas José de Aquino's Tradução portugueza da Ode IV do livro IV de Quinto Horacio… Read More

Lisbon, Na Impressão Regia, 1815.. 4°, later boards of glossy black embossed paper, narrow strip of cloth at spine (spine chipped off, joints weak); early blue wrappers bound in. Light foxing on final 2 leaves. Internally fine, overall good to very good condition. Tag (bookseller's?) removed from corner of front pastedown. 48 pp. *** Second edition (?) of a work written in 1772 and presumably published that year, although we have seen no copies of such an edition. Innocêncio noted that it had been plagiarized at least twice, and that copies were rare: "Não será facil encontrar de venda exemplares no mercado, eé de certo muito menos conhecida do que merecia sel-o." In 1772 the Marquês de Pombal (1699-1782) was the most powerful man in Portugal. Oliveira focuses on how he stimulated trade and manufactures (pp. 18-25), but also mentions his involvement in laws, education, science, and the Seven Years' War ("O demonio da guerra, que trazendo do Canadá as primeiras faiscas, havia ateado na Europa… Read More