Search Results: Authors starting with S from Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books

Lisbon, Typographia das Horas Romanticas, 1879.. 8°, mid-twentieth-century tan quarter pebbled cloth over marbled boards (minor wear). Light foxing in a few quires, but overall in good to very good condition. 315, (1) pp. [duplicates of pp. 225-6 and 239-40 bound in between pp. 310-1]. *** Second edition (or issue?) of this novel set in the mid-fifteenth century; the first edition (or issue?) appeared in Lisbon, 1877. The author also translated Verne's Around the World in 80 Days.*** Not located in Innocêncio. Porbase lists a a single copy of Lisbon: Typographia das Horas Românticas, 1877, imprint with the same collation as ours, at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal—a typo? Earlier issue? Jisc cites British Library copy only, dated 1879. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the record cited by Porbase, but should have cited British Library. Not located in NUC.

Angra do Heroísmo, SREC / DRAC, 1990.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 61 pp., (2 ll.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Winner of the Prémio Nunes da Rosa (conto), Concurso Literário dos Açores, 1990.Daniel [Augusto Raposo] de Sá (Maia, Ribeira Grande, São Miguel, Açores, 1944-2013), was a Portuguese author with a vast published output. He was awarded a number of other literary prizes, including the Prémio Gaspar Frutuoso, which he received twice. ***

Lisbon, na Officina de Domingos Rodrigues, 1753.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound. Large woodcut initial on second leaf recto. Browned. Overall in good to very good condition. 24 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this poem in 36 octaves, the first 20 addressed to the Rio Tejo, the rest to D. Maria. In the June 1753, at age 19, the heiress to the Portuguese throne fell suddenly ill of a fever; her near-escape from death was cause for rejoicing among Portuguese and made Maria's own religious inclination even stronger. D. José I (r. 1750-1777) had four surviving children, all daughters. On the day his eldest child was born, D. João V named Maria Francisca Isabel Josefa Antónia Gertrudes Rita Joana de Bragança (1734-1816) Princess of Beira (i.e., heir to the heir of the Portuguese throne). When D. José took the throne in 1750, Maria became Princess of Brazil and Duchess of Braganza, indicating that she was now heir apparent to the thone. Her illness in 1753 was therefore a matter of national… Read More

Lisbon, Na Regia Officina Typografica, 1773-1774.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 2 volumes. Folio (30.5 x 20.4 cm.), contemporary mottled sheep (some wear to corners; a few small scrapes to covers; front free endleaf of volume I becoming loose), spines richly gilt with raised bands in seven compartments, crimson leather lettering pieces in second compartments from heads with gilt short titles (that of volume I with small defect), black leather lettering pieces with volume numbers and A-L, M-Z in gilt in third compartments from heads, text block edges rouged. Small woodcut arms of the Marquês de Pombal (as Conde de Oeiras), the dedicatee, on the title pages. Woodcut initial and woodcut factotum initial in volume I. Woodcut headpiece and woodcut factotum initial in volume II. Woodcut tailpiece at the end of volume I. Small worm trace in front endleaves, blank portion of half title, and title page, touching one letter of text on title page. Overall very good condition. Contemporary ink rubric on half… Read More

Lisbon, Na Officina de Domingos Rodrigues, 1750.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound, text block edges tinted green. Woodcut ornament on title page. Overall in good to very good condition. 24 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. A lengthy eclogue with Fauno, Silvio, and the god Pan as interlocutors, followed by a romance heroico and 2 sonnets. If this is the author identified by Innocêncio as João Chrysostomo de Faria e Sousa de Vasconcellos e Sá, he was an official in the Secretaria de Estado dos Negocios do Reino. He died in 1803.*** Coimbra, Miscelâneas 28. Innocêncio X, 224: listing a work with a slightly different title (Epicedo á morte de el-rei D. João V), mentioning no collation, and giving what is presumably a variant of the author's name (João Chrysostomo de Faria e Sousa de Vasconcelos e Sá). Porbase locates three copies in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and two in the Arquivo Nacional do Torre do Tombo. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the… Read More

Lisbon, Na Impressão Regia, 1810.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, contemporary tree sheep (some worming to covers, mostly near upper joints; head of spine slightly defective; upper joint cracked and weak), flat spine with gilt bands, crimson leather lettering piece, gilt letter, marbled endleaves, text block edges sprinkled blue-green. Engraved portrait of the Prince Regent, D. João (later king João VI). Two engraved leaves (the second with a small paper flaw in lower blank margin). Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. Overall in very good condition. Internally fine. Engraved portrait, 2 engraved leaves, (1 l. half title), xxxx, 312 pp., (6 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION, rare, of this carefully argued juridical defense of the independence of Portugal from Napoleonic domination. The portrait of D. João is signed by F. Barolozzi as engraver and dated 1809, indicating that it is after a painting by D. Pellegrini. It depicts the future king in three-quarter bust, looking to the reader's left, within an… Read More

[Colophon] Lisbon, na Officina de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1793.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, contemporary marbled wrappers. Typographical headpiece. Very fine condition. Faint old rubber stamp in blank corner of title page. (1 blank, 3 ll.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this poem in honor of the birth of the first child of D. João, heir to the throne of Portugal, and D. Carlota Joaquina. D. Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira (Maria Teresa Francisca de Assis Antónia Carlota Joana Josefa Xavier de Paula Micaela Rafaela Isabel Gonzaga) was born April 29, 1793, at the Ajuda palace. She was the first child of D. João, who was at the time unofficially ruling as prince regent for his mother D. Maria I, who had been declared incompetent the previous year. D. Maria Teresa was heir to heir to the throne (with the title Princess of Beira) until 1795, when D. João and D. Carlota Joaquina had their first son, D. Francisco António.In her political sympathies D. Maria Teresa sided with her mother. She allied… Read More

Lisbon, Na Impressão Regia, 1810.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 5 works in 1 volume. 8°, later binding covered with piece of calf from a folio-size binding of the seventeenth century, some blind-tooled fillets and stamps (slight wear at extremities), text-block edges sprinkled blue-green. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. In very good to fine condition. Stamp and stamped accession number of Dr. José Bayolo Pacheco de Amorim, as well as the blue oval stamp of the Biblioteca of the Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa, Rua de Santa Marta, 56, on recto of front free endleaf. 48 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. This is the second blast by this author in an extended polemical war begun by José Agostinho de Macedo on the theme of Sebastianism and Sebastianists. Earlier the same year Sá published at the same press, with the same collation, a work in which the author's name does not appear on the title page and instead is given as "hum Amador de Verdade", and in which the words "em que se continûa a… Read More

, , 1847.. 4° (23.5 x 19.7 cm.), contemporary green sheep with richly gilt reddish-brown morocco smooth spine, boards (some rubbing) with gilt-tooled borders and edges, all text-block edges gilt. Hinges cracked. Written in ink, in a large, legible hand. A few minor stains, but overall in fine condition. (1 l.), 264 [pp. 115-6 apparently skipped in pagination; text seems to be continuous], 17 pp. [the first of which is also paginated 265]. *** Apparently unpublished group of works by an apparently unknown author, with his notes on when and why he wrote the various pieces included here. We have been unable to locate L.A.R. de Sá in any of the Portuguese bibliographies or in the Grande enciclopédia. From the works included in this volume, which date from 1843 to 1847, it is clear that he spent some time in and around Lisbon. This copy of the work was done at the request of, and presented to, D. Maria Antonio Cardozo, about whom we have likewise been unable to find any further information.The volume… Read More

Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional, 2011.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 316 pp., (2 blank ll.), 4 ll. color plates, printed on both sides, much illustration in text, index of names, chronological index, geographical index. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. This excellent bibliography of republican journals, magazines, reviews, etc., was compiled with the collaboration of Maria Fernanda Casaca Ferreira, Fátima Lopes, and Graça Garcia.***

Lisbon, Na Oficina do Dor. Manoel Alvares Sollano, 1754.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, late twentieth-century or early twenty-first-century antique sheep, unsigned but certainly by Império da Conceição Graça, spine richly gilt with raised bands in five compartments, crimson leather lettering piece in second compartment from head with short editor-title lettered gilt, covers with triple gilt ruled borders, text block edges rouged. Title page in red and black, woodcut vignette on *ii, woodcut ornaments scattered throughout. Some browning and foxing, as usual. Overall in very good condition. Long penciled note by the late Portuguese antiquarian bookseller and collector António Tavares de Carvalho on front pastedown. (40 ll.), 363 pp. [p. 191 misnumbered 165]. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of "a Brazilian literary classic" (Borba de Moraes II, 760). According to Wilson Martins, "Os Jubilos da America … estão literariamente na ponta inicial de um arco cuja ponta final será O Uraguai - ambas as… Read More

Lisbon, Lucas, 1930.. First Edition. 8°, original printed wrappers (some browning, slightly chipped). Light browning. In good to very good condition. Author's signed and dated (1930) six-line presentation inscription on the half-title to the Portuguese writer Carlos Queirós. 40 pp. *** FIRST EDITION. Mário Sá (1894-1971), both a modernist and an archaist, is most widely known for his virulent anti-Semitism and sensationalistic presentations of erudite theories. This essay is a vehement rejection of the idea that the Portuguese are merely rebellious Spaniards: "Ser português é não ser inglês, não ser francês, não ser alemão, mas acima de tudo não ser hespanhol" (p. 40).Provenance: The poet and sometime literary and art critic [José] Carlos Queiroz [Nunes Ribeiro (1907–1949)] received the Prémio Antero de Quental in 1935. He directed the reviews Panorama (1941) and Litoral (1944). Poet from an early age, his work is dispersed in various literary reviews, the most notable of which was… Read More

Lisbon, Lucas, 1930.. First Edition. 8°, original printed wrappers (some browning and minor foxing). Light browning. In good to very good condition. 40 pp. *** FIRST EDITION. Mário Sá (1894-1971), both a modernist and an archaist, is most widely known for his virulent anti-Semitism and sensationalistic presentations of erudite theories. This essay is a vehement rejection of the idea that the Portuguese are merely rebellious Spaniards: "Ser português é não ser inglês, não ser francês, não ser alemão, mas acima de tudo não ser hespanhol" (p. 40).*** Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (1976) p. 1080. Porbase locates two copies, both at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Jisc locates a copy at British Library. KVK (51 databases searched) repeats Porbase. NUC: WU.

Lisbon, Instituto de Cultura e Língua Portuguesa, 1979.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers. Almost "as new". 109, (1) pp., (1 l. advt.). *** FIRST EDITION.***

Coimbra, Na Officina de Joseph Ferreyra, Impressor da Universidade, Acusta de João Antunes mercador de livros, 1689.. 4°, twentieth century (final quarter) antique sheep; spine gilt with raised bands in six compartments, crimson morocco lettering piece in second compartment from head with gilt author and short title, text block edges rouged. Woodcut emblem on title page of a rose with monogram "IHS" inset, with typographical divider below. Typographical headpiece and woodcut initial on p. 3. Woodcut floral vase tailpiece on final page. Repair to tear in leaf B2. In very good condition. 16 pp. A-B4. *** Second edition. First published Lisbon: Joam da Costa, 1675. There is also an undated edition, Coimbra: Joam Antunes, perhaps 1692.The Jesuit P. António de Sáa (1627-1678), a native of Rio de Janeiro, is acknowledged to have been one of the best orators of his time and the most worthy successor to his mentor, P. António Vieira. Innocêncio comments, "Todos os criticos são concordes em… Read More

Coimbra, Na Officina de Joam Antunes, 1692.. 4°, disbound. Minor dampstaining. In good to very good condition. 20 pp. A-B4, C2. *** Second edition [?] of a sermon first printed at Coimbra, 1675. The preface mentions the author in Brazil. The present copy is a variant edition, in a different setting of type from that in the John Carter Brown Library as well as from the edition digitized by the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. We were not able to establish priority. One follows closely from the other, for the most part with only slight differences; the most glaring is the use of a different woodcut initial on p. [3]. The two editions are not distinguished in any of the sources. The first edition was printed in 1675 with the same pagination by Joseph Ferreyra in Coimbra. The dedication to Alexandre do Valle, signed in print by Joseph Ferreira, occupies pp. [3-4].The Jesuit P. António de Sáa (1627-1678), a native of Rio de Janeiro, is acknowledged to have been one of the best orators of his time… Read More

Coimbra, Na Impressão da Viuva de Manoel de Carvalho, Impressora da Universidade, a custa de Joam Antunes, 1672.. 4°, later marbled wrappers. Large and elegant woodcut initial on p. 1. Very large attractive woodcut tailpiece of a floral basket on p. 21. Minor worm trail throughout, touching some letters of text on each leaf, but never affecting legibility. Overall in near-good condition. Old ink manuscript foliation ("450-461") in upper outer corner of the recto of each leaf. (1 l.), 21 pp. A-C4. *** Second edition of Father António de Sáa's most famous sermon, preached at the Cathedral in Bahia, and first published in Lisbon, 1658. There is a third edition, Coimbra, 1686.The Jesuit P. António de Sáa (1627-1678), a native of Rio de Janeiro, is acknowledged to have been one of the best orators of his time and the most worthy successor to his mentor, P. António Vieira. Innocêncio comments, "Todos os criticos são concordes em consideral-o como orador de linguagem mui pura, de estylo… Read More

Lisbon, Na Officina de Joam da Costa, a custa de Manoel Craveiro da Sylva, Mercador de livros ao Remolares, 1674.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, modern tan cardstock, spine with author typed in red vertical on white paper label; author and title page transcription typewritten in red and black on paper label tipped on to front cover. Woodcut rose with Society of Jesus emblem on title page. Typographical headpiece and woodcut initial on page 3. In very good condition. Old ink manuscript foliation ("221-228") in upper outer corner of each leaf recto. 14 pp., (1 blank l.). A-B4. *** FIRST EDITION of this Lenten sermon preached in the backlands of Brazil. There is also a 1690 edition printed in Coimbra, "Na Officina de Manoel Rodrigues de Almeyda, a custa de Joam Antunes, Mercador de livros" with the same pagination. The Jesuit P. António de Sáa (1627-1678), a native of Rio de Janeiro, is acknowledged to have been one of the best orators of his time and the most worthy successor to his mentor, P. António… Read More

Coimbra, Na Officina de Ioseph Ferreyra, 1675.. First Edition. 4°, modern tan cardstock, spine with author typed in red vertical on white paper label; author and title page transcription typewritten in red and black on paper label tipped on to front cover. Woodcut emblem of the Society of Jesus on title, woodcut initial and tailpiece. Light browning. In good to very good condition. Bookplate of Victor Avila-Perez 19 pp. A-B4, C2. *** FIRST EDITION [?], variant "A"; most sources do not distinguish the variant editions. The Jesuit P. António de Sáa (1627-1678), a native of Rio de Janeiro, is acknowledged to have been one of the best orators of his time and the most worthy successor to his mentor, P. António Vieira. Innocêncio comments, "Todos os criticos são concordes em consideral-o como orador de linguagem mui pura, de estylo correcto e elegante, e finalmente como um dos que mais se approximaram de Vieira, ou antes como seu melhor discipulo." He worked primarily in Bahia and Recife,… Read More

Coimbra, Na Officina de Ioseph Ferreyra, 1675.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, twentieth-century plain tan wrappers. Woodcut emblem of the Society of Jesus within a rose on title page. Typographical headpiece and woodcut initial on p. 3. Woodcut tailpiece of a rose on final page. Light browning. Shaved at lower margin, affecting signatures and occasionally touching final lines of text. In near good condition. Old ink manuscript foliation ("36-45") in upper outer corner of each leaf recto. 19 pp. A-B4, C2. *** FIRST EDITION [?], variant "C"; most sources do not distinguish the variant editions. The Jesuit P. António de Sáa (1627-1678), a native of Rio de Janeiro, is acknowledged to have been one of the best orators of his time and the most worthy successor to his mentor, P. António Vieira. Innocêncio comments, "Todos os criticos são concordes em consideral-o como orador de linguagem mui pura, de estylo correcto e elegante, e finalmente como um dos que mais se approximaram de Vieira, ou antes como seu… Read More