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

Lisbon, Imprensa de Lucas Evangelista Torres, 1894.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original pink printed wrappers (a bit frayed; some soiling and a few stains, particularly to lower blank margin of front wrapper). In good to very good condition. 36 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY Separate EDITION of these articles which had previously appeared in the Nova Goa newspaper Correio da India. "Um Magoado Portuguez" provides a preface of 2 pages.Augusto Vidal de Castilho Barreto e Noronha (Lisbon, 1841-Lisbon, 1912), to whom this work is dedicated, was a Portuguese naval officer, son of António Feliciano de Castilho and brother of Júlio de Castilho. Governor-General of Moçambique from 1885 to 1889, later Civil Governor of the district of Porto, and Minister of Marinha e Ultramar from 4 February to 25 December 1908, he collaborated in the press and directed the Review Brasil-Portugal. He ended his career with the implantation of the Republic, having attained the rank of Major-general da Armada. As… Read More

Madrid, Biblioteca Renacimiento, 1911.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, recent burgundy half morocco, spine lettered in gilt; original illustrated wrappers bound in. Browned; half-title detached but present; a few short marginal tears (without loss); final leaves detached but present. Uncut and partly unopened. In good condition. 296 pp., (1 l. advertisement). *** FIRST EDITION of this "philosophical travelogue" which stands as one of Unamuno's "most influential books" (Ward). A second edition appeared in Madrid, 1930, and a third in Buenos Aires, 1941. In a series of interconnected essays written from 1906 to 1909, based on his journeys through the Iberian Peninsula, Unamuno reflects on literature, history, politics and thought. Chapter headings include contemporary Portuguese literature and specific writers (e.g., Eugénio de Castro, Teixeira de Pascoaes, Guerra Junqueiro and Eça de Queirós), plus specific towns (Aveiro, Braga, Guarda, and Alcobaça). In Spain, he comments on Barcelona, Guadalupe, Yuste,… Read More

Lima, En la Casa Real de Niños Expósitos, 1790.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (28.3 x 20.3 cm.), disbound, text-block edges sprinkled red. Woodcut headpiece and vignettes. Scattered light soiling and spotting, mostly marginal. In good to very good condition. Number "2" in red pencil at center of upper blank margin of title page. (40 ll.). Text in 2 columns. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this legal brief submitted to the Audiencia in Lima, in which the author accuses his tutor of having squandered his inheritance. Included were 6,000 pounds of Vicuna wool said to have been in Panama and a house in the Calle de Valladolid (in Lima?).*** Medina, Lima 1732. Not in Palau. Not located in CCPBE. Not located in Rebiun. Not located in Jisc. Not located in Hollis, Orbis (which cites a related work), or Melvyl. NUC: locates a microfilm of the Medina copy in the Biblioteca Nacional de Santiago de Chile at RPB, DLC.

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1905.. Large 8°, original beige printed wrappers (spine and a few edges slightly defective). Light browning. Overall in good condition. 183 pp., 4 photographic plates; some photographs and tables in text. *** ***

A Philadelphie, et se trouve à Paris [Printed for Benjamin Franklin by], Chez Ph.-D. Pierres … Pissot, pere & fils, 1783.. First collected edition in French. 8°, contmporary quarter calf over decorated boards (joints cracked and weak, worn at extremities), spine richly gilt with raised bands in six compartments, crimson morocco lettering piece in second compartment from head, gilt letter, marbled endleaves, text block edges sprinkled red and blue-green. Woodcut seal of the United States of America on title-page. Internally clean. Overall in good to very good condition. (2 ll.), 540 pp. *** First collected edition in French, translated by the Duc de la Rochefoucauld. Six hundred copies were printed (of which there were 100 on large paper). The Seal of the United States, eagle, stars and stripes, designed by Franklin, is used in the imprint on the title-page. This is the first use of the Seal in a book. In addition to the Constitution of each of the thirteen states, the text includes the… Read More

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Library, 2004.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 4° (25.3 x 19.1 cm.), original illustrated wrappers. Much illustration in color. As new. viii, 90 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Describes Princeton's Scheide Library—an extraordinary collection, one of only six libraries to contain copies of the first four Bibles ever printed—the only such library outside Europe. Texts by Shirley M. Tilghman, Karin A. Trainer, Louise Scheide Marshall, Roland Folter, Felix de Marez Oyens, Bernard M. Rosenthal, William P. Stoneman, Christoph Wolff, and Paul Needham. The checklist of acquisitions occupies pp. [35]-90.***

New York, American Printing History Association, (1992).. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, publisher's cloth with dust jacket. Title page in blue, black, and white. As new. One of 500 copies. vi, 181, (1) pp., illustrations in text, many in color. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Printed at the Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont. Title on front wrapper differs slightly from that on the title page: "D. B. U. and R. R.: Selected Extracts from Correspondence that passed Between Daniel Berkeley Updike and Rudolph Ruzicka from 1908 to 1941".***

Caracas, Imprenta de Antero Hermanos, 1877.. 8°, remains of early wrappers. Title page has some soiling; title page and opening leaves nicked at fore-edge. In near-good condition. 80 pp., (1 blank l.). *** Second edition, augmented; the first edition also appeared in 1877. Concerns a railroad from Guairá to Caracas.*** Palau 345104. Jisc cites the British Library copy, without collation. KVK (51 databases searched) locates a copy at Paris-Institut de France.