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 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 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 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, Joam da Costa, a custa de Miguel Manescal, 1674.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4º, contemporary limp vellum (small nick at lower outer edge of front cover), 3 (of 4) ties, vertical manuscript short-title on spine, text block edges lightly sprinkled red. Woodcut rose on title page. Full-page engraved portrait on final preliminary leaf verso. Typographical headpieces and woodcut initials on second leaf recto and p. 1. Typographical headpiece on fourth leaf recto. Numerous side notes. A clean, crisp, fresh copy, in very good to fine condition. Small oval stamp of Vieira Pinto in outer blank margin of second leaf. (8 ll.), 198 pp. [i.e. 200, with 143-44 bis]. Pages 15, 106, 142, 195, and 197 wrongly numbered 17, 108, 141, 165, and 198, respectively. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The first Marquês de Marialva, one of those who acclaimed D. João IV in December 1640, was Governador das Armas in the Alentejo and, as such, played an important role in several major battles between the Spanish and the… Read More

Lisbon, na Regia Officina Sylviana, e da Academia Real, 1751.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, early nineteenth-century marbled wrappers (slight wear at extremities). Nicely printed on heavy paper, with generous margins. Woodcut ornament on title page, woodcut headpiece, tailpiece, and initial. In fine condition. Old rectangular paper tag with printed red border, serrated edges and shelfmark in ink manuscript ("702 E"), on upper inner corner of front wrapper; 5.5 x 5.5 cm. paper label with ink manuscript autor, short title and date near center. (3 ll.), xiii pp. *** FIRST EDITION. The author of this birthday panegyric on Pedro da Mota e Sylva was a subordinate of Mota e Sylva at the Secretaria dos Negocios do Reyno. The praise is effusive, for example: "Vossa Excellencia he hum tal Ministro, que o desejão para seu Secretario todos os Principes da Europa" (p. iii). A second edition appeared in the same year.Filippe José da Gama (1713-1779?), a native of Lisbon, was a member of the Academia Real da Historia… Read More

Lisbon, na Officina de Joseph da Costa Coimbra, 1754.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound. Woodcut vignette (2 cornucopias) on title page. Two woodcut headpieces. Two large historiated initials. Large woodcut tailpiece with an allegorical figure (?). Light browning, large brownish stain in one corner throughout (not affecting legibility). Overall in near-good condition. 19 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this essay celebrating the nomination of the second Cardinal-Patriarch of Lisbon. The first patriarch of Lisbon, named in 1716, was Tomás de Almeida (1670-1754); he was raised to the cardinalate in 1737. His successor was José Manoel da Câmara (1754–1758), a member of the family of the Conde de Atalaya (Marquês de Tancos).Antonio Wever (b. Lisbon, 1711) became an Oratorian novice, switched to the Domincans in 1727, then returned to the Oratorians. Innocêncio states that he went mad in 1745, apparently from a fright caused by a thunderclap, and had a monomaniacal belief henceforth that… Read More

Lisbon, na Officina de Lino da Silva Godinho, 1779.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, later wrappers with author, title, and date in manuscript on front cover. Small woodcut royal arms of Portugal on title page. Generous margins. Some dampstains. Overall good condition. Old rectangular paper tag with red border, serrated edges and manuscript shelfmark in ink. 15 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Includes an ode, a sonnet and an oration in honor of D. Mariana Victoria's birthday.D. Mariana Victoria (1718-1781), eldest daughter of Philip V of Spain, was married in 1729 to D. José, Principe do Brasil, who ascended to the throne in 1750 as D. José I. She bore D. José four daughters and ruled as regent for her husband from 1776-1777, after he suffered a series of strokes. D. José was succeeded in 1777 by his eldest daughter, D. Maria I, to whom D. Mariana Victoria acted as an advisor.As queen mother, D. Mariana Victoria bent her formidable energies to improving relations with Spain, which had… 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