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

Lisbon, Centro de História de Além-Mar, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Ponta Delgada: Universidade dos Açores, 2011.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Very large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 202 pp., (3 blank ll.), extensive footnotes and bibliography, genealogical tables and maps in text. One of 500 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.***

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".***

[Colophon] Buenos Aires, En la Real Imprenta de Niños Expósitos, 1809.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, disbound. Caption title. Faint spotting. In good to very good condition. (2 ll.) *** FIRST EDITION. In an attempt to maintain order in the Rio de la Plata, the Viceroy declares that anyone who writes about changing the form of government, or who disseminates such writings, will be exiled. Those who spread rumors about a forthcoming revolution will also be punished, because it causes commotion among the people ("principalmente en el sexo débil"). Furlong considered the decree important enough to reprint in its entirety.*** Furlong 1326. Medina, Rio de la Plata 642. Not located in CCPBE. Not located in Rebiun. Not located in Jisc.

[Colophon] Buenos Aires, En la Imprenta de Niños Expòsitos, 1809.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, unbound; loosely inserted into recent marbled wrappers. Caption title. Faint spotting. In very good condition. (4 pp.) *** FIRST and ONLY [?] EDITION. One of the first addresses by Hidalgo de Cisneros, newly appointed by the governing Junta of Spain and the Indies as viceroy and captain general of Rio de la Plata, to his subjects. In this address, delivered at Colonia del Sacramento, 15 July 1809, he thanks the people for their immensely satisfying welcome, which he interprets as a gesture of support for Ferdinand VII. He outlines his programs, calling for loyalty and obedience, denouncing Napoleon as an unjust tyrant.*** Furlong 1322. Medina, Buenos Aires 620. Not located in CCPBE. Not located in Rebiun. Not located in Jisc. NUC: RPJCB.

Lisbon, Tavares Cardoso & Irmão, 1902.. First Edition. 8°, original printed wrappers (soiled, small tears). Blank corner torn off one leaf. Overall in good condition. 51 pp., (1 l. advt.). *** FIRST EDITION. According to a note on the half title, this play, set in the seventeenth century, was performed for the first time at the Theatro D. Amelia on 31 May 1902. There is a cast list on p. [7]. The work appeared again in 1915?, 1916, 1920, 1922, 1925? and 1930. It was translated into Italian, German and Catalan. Dantas (1876-1962) is one of the best known early twentieth-century Portuguese writers. His major work, Ceia do cardeaes, went through 48 editions from 1902 to 1962, with translations into French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, English, German, Swedish, Danish and Japanese. Its influence may also be judged by the fact that Campos Ferreira Lima lists no fewer than 49 parodies. Trained as an army surgeon, Dantas later became Inspector das Bibliotecas Eruditas e Arquivos (1912) and president of… Read More

[colophon] Lisbon, Na Typ. da Sociedade Propagadora dos Conhecimentos Uteis, 1839.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, later marbled wrappers (splitting at spine). Caption title. Some soiling. Small white paper tag with serrated edges, presumed shelf mark in later ink manuscript on lower inner corner of rear wrapper. 7 pp. *** FIRST EDITION?; there is a folio edition, same year and printer, consisting of a single leaf. No priority has been established. The Bishop of Angra announces that Rev. Bernardo do Canto Machado de Faria e Maia of Ponta Delgada has been put in charge of unifying religious practices in the diocese and of instructing the clergy in the performance of their duties. This was an attempt at reconciliation after years of conflict between liberal and absolutist elements within the clergy in the Azores.Frei Estevão de Jesus Maria, O.F.M. (Mafra, 1786-Angra do Heroísmo,1871), was Bishop of Angra from 1827 to 1870. However, due to the 1828-1834 civil war, during which time he adhered to the cause of… Read More

N.p., n.pr., n.d. [Lisbon: Impressão Regia, 1808?].. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, early decorated "Dutch paper" wrappers (minor wear), text block edges sprinkled red. Caption title. In very good to fine condition. Small rectangular paper ticket, white with blue borders and serrated edges, with number "3.600" in old ink manuscript tipped on to front wrapper on top of another, similar paper ticket. 88 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of these pastoral instructions.The author (1724-1814) was an important figure in Portuguese literature and literary criticism during the Enlightenment. Son of a Lisbon blacksmith, he became a Franciscan at age 16, and studied and taught at Coimbra. He later served as Provincial of the Franciscan Order in Portugal (elected 1768), as Confessor for Principe D. José (appointed 1769), and first Bishop of Beja (appointed 1770). He was head of the Meza Censoria, and also of the Junta de Providência Litteraria, the committee appointed by Pombal to reform the universities. When… Read More

(Santiago de Chile), Imprenta Nacional, dated 3 June 1823).. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound. Caption title. In good to very good condition. 8 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION? of these regulations for keeping Santiago clean and safe, which give a vivid picture of urban life in the early nineteenth century. No obstructions are to be built in the street, including steps or extensions of buildings. Ditches are to be checked monthly by the police. Dead animals and garbage are not to be tossed into the street. Laundry may not be washed in the Mapocho. No stills or pigpens are permitted. Convents, monasteries, and houses on corners must erect street lamps. The streets are not to be used as playing fields or abattoirs. Dogs must be chained. Vendors of food and clothing must stay in their appointed places in the plazas.Ruiz Tagle (1790-1860), who served in the Chilean parliament as early as 1811, became mayor of Santiago in 1814 and provincial governor in 1817. When this decree was issued, he was… Read More

(Oxford), Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1922.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original gray printed wrappers. Text in double-ruled border. As new. viii, 98 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION in English.***

[Rome?], n.pr., 1730?.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (39.2 x 26.2 cm.), unbound. Typographical border. Overall in fine condition. Eight or nine blank spaces completed in contemporary ink manuscript. Embossed stamp at lower left. Contemporary ink manuscript endorsement to Dr. Miguel Lopes de Leão in Lisbon in otherwise blank upper half of recto. (1 l., folded in half horizontally, with embossed stamp holding the 2 parts together). Printed on bottom half of recto only. Contemporary ink ma *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION? Refers to holy relics. Enrique Lasso da la Vega (born Seville, 1689), was titular Bishop of Taumacensis (or Thaumacus; also known as Domokos, in Greece). He was appointed 15 December 1728, and ordained Bishop 13 March 1729.***

Lisbon, Na Impressão Regia, 1817.. FIRST EDITION?. 8°, recent crimson quarter morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands in five compartments. Small wood-engraved royal arms of Portugal on title page. Light dampstains. In very good condition. 106 pp. *** FIRST EDITION? Various entries in OCLC have no place of printing or printer, but the same date and collation; or no place of printing and no collation. One of these, the University of Michigan copy, has the place, printer, and date on the title page in the digitized version, so we are inclined to believe there is only one edition, erratically catalogued.Set in Lisbon, the action of the play centers on D. João I of Portugal, illegitimate son of D. Pedro I and half-brother of the recently deceased D. Fernando I. He ascended to the throne in 1385 after two years of anarchy, and with the help of the English, drove out King Juan of Castile, husband of Fernando's daughter Beatriz. Characters in this historical drama include D. Leonor (widow… Read More

Lisbon, Estampa, 1991.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 528 pp., (2 ll. advt.), tables, maps and charts in text. *** FIRST published EDITION. A reprint by the same publisher appeared in 1995 in the collection Histórias de Portugal, 13, but otherwise in identical format. The present text was based on the author's doctoral thesis, defended at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa in 1989.***

Bahia, Officinas do "Diario da Bahia", 1909.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, later blue quarter cloth over decorated boards (slight wear), original front printed wrapper bound in (mounted and crudely repaired). Overall in good condition. (1 l.), iv, 255 pp., (1 l. errata). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Deals mostly with D. João's time in Brazil.***

[Colophon] Lisbon, Na Regia Officina Typografica, 1798.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, contemporary "Dutch" paper wrappers, green, bronze and gilt (a few stains on front). Caption title. Crisp and clean. Overall in very good to fine condition. 40 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. José Antonio Pinto e Mendonça Arraes (Cêa, 1740-1823), a secular clergyman, was appointed bishop of Pinhel in 1782, and bishop of Guarda in 1797. This is the pastoral letter to those within the bishopric of Guarda after he assumed his position there. It includes an exhortation to be faithful to the true Church, obedient to the king, and disdainful of modern thinkers who place too much trust in reason and science.*** Not in Imprensa Nacional. Innocêncio IV, 245-6. See José Quelhas Bigotte, D. José António Pinto de Mendonça Arrais (bispo de Pinhel e da Guarda), grande prelado e grande patriota. Porbase locates a single copy, at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc.

[Santiago de Chile], Imprenta Araucana, dated 14 May 1836.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (27.5 x 18.5 cm.), disbound. Caption title. In good to very good condition. Early manuscript foliation in ink (trimmed). (1 l.) *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. According to the anonymous author, Riva Agüero published a document claiming that Admiral Charles Whiting Wooster, who had recently decided to retire to the United States (he was a native of New Haven, Connecticut), had been treated very badly by the government of Chile. The author, who signs himself as "Un Chileno," declares with rhetorical flourishes that Riva Agüero has no idea what he's talking about. "Quien es el que determina el premio que merecia Wooster de nosotros por sus servicios? - ¡D. José de la Riva Agüero que no sabe cuáles son esos servicios, lo que cuestan a la nacion ni lo que verdaderamente valian!"José de la Riva Agüero, who was at this time minister plenipotentiary to Chile for General Luis José de Orbegoso of North Peru,… Read More

Parede, Tribuna da História, 2011.. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 317 pp., (1 l. advt.), footnotes (to the "Apresentação"), endnotes (pp. 265-98), bibliography, analytical index. *** The author, a native of Cuba, originally wrote this work in English as a doctoral thesis at Florida State University, Tallahassee, in 1980.***

Porto, Livraria e Imprensa Civilização, 1921.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers (head of spine slightly defective; some soiling and dampstains). Unopend. Light browning. Overall in good to very good condition. 72 pp. *** FIRST EDITION. There is also an edition date 1929.*** Porbase locates two copies: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and Casa do Alentejo; there is also a copy of the 1929 edition in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. No edition located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by Porbase. Not located in NUC.

Rio de Janeiro, Typographia do Imperial Instituto Aristico, 1865.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (26.2 x 21.5 cm.), original yellow printed front wrapper (minor soiling), reinforced at top with later strip of paper. Elaborate initial on p. 1. Light browning. Wrapper and leaves split along center fold. Lithograph frontispiece, 4 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The elaborate lithograph frontispiece shows D. Pedro II being crowned with laurel by the allegorical figure of Brazil, a bare breasted female native Brazilian bedecked with feathers. The text is a poem.The author (1832-1879), a native of Rio de Janeiro, after obtaining his law degree from the São Paulo law faculty, served as a judge at Macahé and Barra de São João, later moving to Nitheroy, establishing a law practice and becoming a deputy to the provincial assembly. A member of the Instituto Histórico e Geographico Brazileiro, he authored a number of books and pamphlets.*** Sacramento Blake V, 220-2. Not in Innocêncio. Not located… Read More

Lisbon , Colibri, and Évora: Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades da Universidade de Évora, 2004.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 222 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST published EDITION of this reworking of an exceptional Master's thesis originally defennnded at the department of Estudos históricos europeus, Universidade de Évora, 2002.***

Lisbon, Typ. de J.B. de A. e Gouveia, 1841.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, stitched, stitching broken, split at fold. Top margin cropped, with partial loss of about half of page numbers. Light stains. In near-good condition. 27 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. After a summary of the major achievements of the rulers of Portugal back to D. Afonso Henriques (pp. 5-14), the author describes D. Pedro's actions during the Portuguese civil war. Brazil is mentioned on pp. 14-15.Joaquim Rafael do Vale (Cezimbra, 1778-Lisbon, 1850) was a Coimbra-trained lawyer; most of his published works deal with the law.*** Innocêncio IV, 150; see also XII, 138-9. Porbase locates five copies, all at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by Porbase. Not located in NUC.