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

Lisbon, Casa Fernando Pessoa (all issues) / Contexto Editora (numbers Zero-10 only), 1996-2004.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 15 issues, numbered Zero to 14. Folio (28.6 x 21.4 cm.—numbers 0-10); (30 x 24.1 cm.—numbers 11-14), original illustrated wrappers. Considerable illustration, mostly in color. As new. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION—A COMPLETE RUN. The first eight issues (as well as issue Zero) were directed by Nuno Júdice, the editorial board consisted of Fernando Pinto de Amaral, Manuel António Pina, Alexandre Pomar and Joana Morais Varela. Beginning with number 9, the review was directed by Maria Calado, Vereadora da Cultura of the Câmara Municipal de Lisboa. The editorial board consisted of Anick Bilreiro and Rita Rodrigues. With number 11, the editorial board was expanded to consist of Ana Maria Santos, Anick Bilreiro, Maria José Gonçalves, Rita Rodrigues, and Susana Sena.Issue Zero contains a text by Fernando J.B. Martinho about Selette Tavares, several texts about Fernando Pessoa… Read More

Lisbon, Universidade Lusíada / Livraria Bizantina, 2002.. Nº 1, ano MMII. 4° (21.6 x 22 cm.), original illustrated wrappers. As new. 163 pp., illus. in text, 4 color plates, printed on both sides. *** The first issue of this genealogical periodical is devoted exclusively to heraldry.***

N.p., n.pr., dated at Paço de Queluz, 7 March 1801.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (29.8 x 20.3 cm.), disbound. Caption title. In very good condition. Broadside. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Lists the prizes to be awarded in a lottery established to help raise payment for 12 million cruzados recently borrowed by the government. Printed signature of D. Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho.*** Porbase locates a single copy, at Biblioteca Municipal de Elvas. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) repeats Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and the copy cited by Porbase. Not located in Melvyl.

Zaragoza, En el Hospital Real, y General de Nuestra Señora de Gracia, 1637.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, contemporary limp vellum (hinges gone, text block loose in binding), title vertically in manuscript on spine. Typographical border on title page. Typographical headpiece and woodcut initial on p. 1. Dampstaining to upper and lower margins, with slight loss to typographical border around title page, and some damage to lower blank margins of final 16 leaves, touching a few letters of text, but without any loss. Still, overall in good condition. Old manuscript signature ("Chaves") in ink on verso of title page. Some old ink marginalia. (3 ll.), 145 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this timeline of the rulers of Spain and important ecclesiastical figures, with biographical and historical annotations. The entries range from 5 to 20 lines.The author was a pastry cook in Zaragoza. Several other works appeared under his name.*** Palau 140203 (cites Biblioteca Nacional de España, without mention… Read More

Paris, Lemoine, 24 Place Vendôme; and Meulan, Imprimerie de A. Hiard, 1830s-1840s.. Large folding plate (56 x 76 cm.), folded to large 8° size, publisher's [?] green diced boards (spine defective at head and foot), title in gilt on center of front cover (detached). Tears at folds, without loss. Overall in near-good condition. Old purple stamp facing front pastedown and in margin of plate of the Duque de Palmela (ducal coronet over the monogram). Small rectangular old bookseller's tag (upper outer corner of front pastedown): "Devarenne Libraire, Faub. S. Honoré, 12." Large illustrated table printed on heavyweight paper, with face cards printed in blue, orange, and yellow. *** The printer A. Hiard seems to have been active at Meulan in the 1830s and 1840s.Provenance: The extensive library of the Dukes of Palmela, formed mainly in the nineteenth century, was dispersed, for the most part, during the second quarter of the twentieth century through the 1960s. The first to hold the title was D. Pedro… Read More

Orléans, Imprimerie Alexandre Jacob, 1829.. First edition in French. 8°, modern stiff vellum, spine blank, red label on front cover with short author-title lettered gilt. Small woodcut ornaments on title page and final page. Scattered light foxing. In very good condition. 56 pp. *** First edition in French of Noticia dos manuscriptos pertencentes ao direito publico externo diplomatico de Portugal (Lisbon, 1827). A second edition in French appeared in Paris, 1836. Santarem provides comments, sometimes lengthy, on the content, context and importance of manuscripts in the Bibliothèque Royale, the Archives Nationales, the Bibliothèque de Ste. Genevieve, the Arsenal, the Mazarine and the Invalides that relate to Portugal and her overseas possessions.The second Visconde de Santarem (1791-1856) has been called "the greatest figure in the history of Portuguese cartography" (Cortesão, History of Cartography I, 23); in fact, it was Santarem who coined the term "cartographia." He traveled to Brazil with… Read More

Lisbon, Na Typographia da Academia R. das Sciencias, 1800.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, contemporary tree sheep (worming on front cover, some wear to corners and other extremities, head of spine defective) smooth spine gilt with bands and ornaments, crimson morocco lettering piece, gilt letter. Small woodcut arms of Portugal on title-page. Text mostly tables. Some soiling on title-page; pinpoint wormhole, without loss of text. Internally very good, overall in good condition. Early ownership inscription on title-page of Joze Joaquim Teixeira, Pro Tenente de Marinha; attempts to erase have caused light soiling and stains. (4 ll.), 190 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The text is mostly tables, with explanations of their use on pp. 171-190.Provenance: Innocêncio IV, 415 lists José Joaquim Teixeira, a physician who studied at Rio de Janeiro and wrote Considerações geraes sobre as aphtas dos meninos, Rio de Janeiro, 1841.*** Innocêncio XIX, 245. Biblioteca Central da Marinha, Catálogo… Read More

Lisbon, Officina de Joaquim Rodrigues d'Andrade, 1813.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Oblong folio, later quarter cloth. Internally very fine. Rubber stamp of Henrique Cezar in lower margin of final page. (4 ll.), 24 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION [?]. Gives tables allowing conversion from English to Portuguese measures, for solids and liquids. The author notes in the introduction that one could not perform such conversions directly using Samuel Ricard's Traité. Ferreira Cangalhas was an officer in the army engineering corps who entered civilian life to teach mathematics privately. *** Innocêncio IV, 7; X, 326. Fonseca, Pseudónimos p. 136. Not located in Porbase. Not located in WorldCat. Not located in Jisc. Not located in NUC.

Lisbon, [Comissão Executiva das Comemorações do V Centenario da Morte do Infante D. Henrique], 1960.. Large folio (61 x 47 cm.), original crimson quarter cloth, gilt, in cardboard slipcase (some wear to slipcase). Book in fine condition; slipcase good; overall very good. Author's signed and dated four-line presentation inscription in upper outer corner of recto of front free endleaf: "Ao caro Michael Teague, com o // testemunho do melhor amicade // A. Teixeira da Mota // Lisboa, Outubro de 1962". 65 pp., (1 l.), 39 color plates [1 double page]. *** Specimen of a magnificent publication, the Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographica. The present volume was produced in the same monumental format. Cortesão (1891-1977) has written extensively on the Portuguese discoveries. Provenance: Michael Teague, distinguished photographer and art historian, author of In the Wake of the Portuguese Navigators. *** On Avelino Teixeira da Mota, see Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses V, 93-95. Porbase… Read More

Lisbon, Impressão Regia, 1828.. 8°, later wrappers. Dampstained, with some discoloration to a few leaves; light soiling. Uncut and unopened. 38 pp., (1 blank l.), 1 folding engraved plate. *** Second and best edition of one of the earliest works on shorthand to be published in Portuguese; the first edition appeared in Lisbon in 1822. It is based on the system developed and popularized in Spain by Martí's father, Francisco de Paula Martí, in Stenografía (Madrid, 1799) and later works. Martí was chief stenographer for the Spanish Cortes before being appointed tachygrafo-mor to the Portuguese Côrtes Constituintes in 1821. *** Innocêncio VIII, 65-66 and IV, 124. Pery de Linde Bibliografia taquigráfica luso-brasileira pp. 15-7: "raro." Grande enciclopédia XVI, 438. Not in Brown & Hasskell, The Shorthand Collection in the New York Public Library. Not located in NUC.

Rio de Janeiro, Centenario da Restauração, 1940.. First Edition. Large 8°, recent green half morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands in six compartments, top edge tinted dark green, other edges uncut, dark green endleaves, original printed wrappers bound in (upper wrapper repaired at top edge). In very good to fine condition. xxx, 292 pp., with 2 facsimiles of leaves from the manuscript. *** FIRST EDITION. Tacito portuguez, an incomplete biography of D. João IV, was written in 1650, but the earliest known manuscript dates to 1718, and this is the first time it appeared in print.*** Exposição bibliografica da Restauração 842. See also Innocêncio II, 446 (describing a manuscript); Prestage, D. Francisco Manuel de Mello, pp. 593-4 for a discussion of various known manuscript copies, and Saraiva & Lopes, Historia da literatura portuguesa (1976) p. 506. Gonçalves Rodrigues, A tradução em Portugal 471. NUC: GU, TNJ, DPU.

Madrid, Por Luis Sanchez a su costa, y de Juan Hasrey, 1614.. FIRST EDITION. Folio (29.4 x 21 cm.), contemporary limp vellum (one thong fore-edge clasp preserved), horizontal manuscript short title and "Ilustrada // por // Baltasar Alamos" near head of spine, and eary manuscript decorative flourish near foot, text-block edges sprinkled red. Engraved title within historiated border made up of 8 panels. Engraved arms of the dedicatee on fifth preliminary leaf. Woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Text in roman and italic, with a smaller size for the commentary running on 2 or 3 sides of the text. A few leaves with slight toning; a few other leaves in index with minor foxing. Overall in fine condition. Armorial stamp "Beardsley" at center of front pastedown endleaf. (14 ll.), 1003, (1) pp., (76 ll.). Pagination skips from 554 to 604, but text and signatures indicate that there is nothing missing. †4, †10, A-Z8, 2A-2B8, 2C-2P6, 2Q-2Z8, 3A-3Q8, 3R6, ¶-¶8, a-g8, h4. Leaf Qq3 missigned A3; Aaa4… Read More

Lisbon, Na Officina Real Deslandesiana, 1715.. First Edition in Portuguese. 4°, contemporary speckled calf (minor wear), edges sprinkled, leather lettering piece, gilt letter, spine gilt, 2 original cord page markers preserved. Woodcut initials and headpieces. Top margin dusty. Overall in fine condition. Early ownership inscription above imprint on title. (26 ll.), 313 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST EDITION of this translation of Annals books I-III. One of the licenses, by the respected scholar Raphael Bluteau (author of the Vocabulario portuguez) states that no Portuguese translation of any part of Tacitus had been published before this one.Couto Felix (1642-1713) was fluent in Latin by age 9 and had received the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Évora by age 11, after which he went on to study law at Coimbra. Known for his vast erudition and his knowledge of languages, he was appointed head of the Torre do Tombo archive in 1703. This work was published posthumously by his son, who… Read More

Lisbon, Na Officina Real Deslandesiana, 1715.. First Edition in Portuguese. 4°, contemporary speckled calf (sides and spine severely scuffed, lacking free endleaves), spine with raised bands in five compartments (piece missing in upper compartment; label gone from second compartment), text block edges sprinkled red and blue. Binding ugly but sound. Woodcut initials and headpieces. Typographical headpieces. Large woodcut tailpieces. Light soiling in one corner of title and next few leaves, a few minor stains elsewhere. Single small round wormhole in blank outer margin of first 20 leaves. Overall in good condition. (26 ll.), 313 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST EDITION of this translation of Annals books I-III. One of the licenses, by the respected scholar Raphael Bluteau (author of the Vocabulario portuguez) states that no Portuguese translation of any part of Tacitus had been published before this one.Couto Felix (1642-1713) was fluent in Latin by age 9 and had received the degree of Master of Arts… Read More

Macau, Instituto Cultural, 1995.. 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 435 pp., illustrations (including 5 pp. illustrations in color). *** ***

Rio de Janeiro, Typographia Nacional, 1874.. FIRST EDITION. Folio (29.3 x 22.1 cm.), contemporary green quarter morocco over marbled boards (some wear, especially at head and foot of spine, joints, inner joints cracked), flat spine gilt, marbled endleaves. In very good condition. Blue on white rectangular printed paper ticket "Ao Livro Commercial // Moreira, Maximino & Cia. // Successores de Castro Silva & Moreira //Rua da Quianda Nº 135 e 49 // Loja de Papel, Livros, // e Objectos para Escriptioria // Rio de Janeiro" in upper outer corner of front pastedown endleaf. Contemporary ownership inscription on verso of front free endleaf: "Pertenente a A.J.C.P." 17, 124, 43 pp. *** FIRST EDITION of this tariff list. The introduction is by José Maria da Silva Paranhos, Visconde do Rio Branco (1819–1880), who was the… Read More

(Valparaiso, n.pr., dated 4 June 1825).. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (31 x 21 cm.), unbound. Caption title. Uncut. Tiny hole and several tears, all marginal, without loss of text. Overall in good to very good condition. (1 l.) *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION? Sets specific rates for workers in the port of Valparaiso, e.g., "cueros de ganado bacuno, conducidos á la lancha, á cinco por medio, y si se pesaren se añadirán seis reales por cada ciento, y siendo medios la mitad." The document is signed at Valparaiso by what seems to be a group of merchants: José Santiago Vizcaya, José Luis Aycinena, José Manuel Cea, Josue Wadington, Andres Blest, José María Hernandez, Tomás Patrison.Valparaiso was the home port of the navy for newly independent Chile and an important stopover for ships passing from the Atlantic to the Pacific via the Strait of Magellan.*** Briseño III, 412, no. 2588. Not located in CCPBE. Not located in Rebiun. Not located in Jisc.

Salamanca, Por Andrea de Portonaris, 1552.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (30 x 19.6 cm.), later wrappers of laid paper (eighteenth-century?). Large woodcut arms of Spain on title page. Two five-line criblé initials. Roman type, 41 lines. Very small paper defects in lower margin of 3 leaves and very light dampstains in the margins of the final 3 leaves, but nearly pristine. In fine condition. (10 ll.) *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this fascinating glimpse into the nitty-gritty details of the manufacture and sale of leather goods, one of Spain’s leading industries, during an economic crisis under D. Carlos I (Emperor Charles V). In a decree of 9 October 1552 (reprinted on ll. A2r-A3v), D. Carlos ordered prices to be fixed for shoes and other leather goods. The decree was published as La prematica para el remedio de la grand carestia que havia en el calçado, variations of which were printed in October and November of that year at Madrid and Alcalá de Henares.Recognizing that prices varied widely… Read More

Parma, Stamperia Carmignani, 1819.. First Edition. Folio (30.1 x 22.9 cm.), contemporary crimson quarter morocco, somewhat worn at extremities, flat spine with short title gilt and gilt fillets. In fine condition. vii, (1), 189, (3) pp.; 109-128 [transcription of the tablets] are foliated rather than paginated. *** FIRST EDITION. Study of an inscription dated A.D. 109, containing the record of loans made in the area of Veleia (northern Italy, near Parma) under the "alimentary institutions" established by Trajan. In this system the imperial treasury lent money to farm owners, and the interest on the loans was paid into a municipal fund that was then used for the support of poor children in the area. The study contains a physical description of the bronze tablet, a discussion of earlier works about it and the author's own opinion, a list of abbreviations used in the inscription and a full transcription.The volume was printed in Parma soon after the death of Giambattista Bodoni (on whom see Updike,… Read More

Lisbon, Horizonte, 2002.. First and Only Published Edition. 4° (22.1 x 23.6 cm.), original illustrated wrappers. As new. 430 pp., numerous illustrations (some in color), tables and graphs in text. *** First and Only Published Edition. Important, extremely thorough and well written treatise on the literature of stone and brick work in architecture. Originally appeared as a doctoral dissertation in civil engineering defended at the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 2000, with the title Princípios e técnicas tradicionais de construção de alvenarias ….***