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

Washington, D.C., , 1944.. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, original beige printed wrappers, stapled. In good to very good condition. (1 l.), 34 pp. Illustrations, including maps in text. Tables in text. *** FIRST EDITION of this early United Nations Publication, pre-dating the actual UN Charter.***

(Coimbra, Officinas da "Atlantida", 1940).. 4°, original printed wrappers. In very good condition. (2 ll.), 46 pp., (1 blank l.). *** Originally published in Lisbon, 1657 at the Officina Craesbeeckiana.*** NUC: ICN.

[Santiago de Chile], Imprenta de la Opinion, dated 5 June 1837.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (28 x 18 cm.), unbound. Woodcut ornament below caption title. Small nick at one edge. In very good to fine condition. Broadside. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. This report of June 4 by General Blanco Encalada states that a column of 400 infantry and 30 cavalrymen had approached Valparaiso. Blanco Encalada took charge of the Valdivia battalion and the local militia and drove the mutineers into retreat. Losses among the mutineers amounted to some 100 men.The soldiers in Quillota had rebelled under the leadership of Colonel José Vidaurre. The mutineers had imprisoned Diego Portales, who was there arranging for an expedition against the Peru-Bolivian Confederation. When word of the defeat at Valparaiso reached the mutineers, they shot Portales. He instantly became a martyr, and public opinion - which had been against the war with the Peru-Bolivian Confederation - abruptly veered in favor of the war.***… Read More

Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 1997.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 145, (1) pp. One of 800 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY collected EDITION, combining verses from author's first three books of poems. According to Lacerda, Luís Amorim de Sousa, a native of Angola, is one of the best living Portuguese-language poets. He lived in Lisbon, Maputo and London, where he worked for the BBC. From 1976 to 1995 he worked as the press officer at the Portuguese embassy in Washington, later transferring to Brasília. *** Porbase locates six copies: Biblioteca Pública Municipal do Porto, Biblitoteca Nacional de Portugal, Câmara Municipal de Arouca-Biblioteca, Casa Fernando Pessoa-Lisboa, Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, and Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Jisc locates a single copy, at Oxford University.

Funchal, Typ. Popular, n.d. (1884).. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers (small hole, ca. 3.5 x 2 cm., in blank rear wrapper; partial circular stamp on front wrapper). Some browning. In good to very good condition. Marginal annotations, mostly marks of emphasis rather than words. (1 blank l.), 72 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. João da Câmara Leme Homem de Vasconcellos (1829-1902), a native of Funchal, received a medical degree from Montpellier. According to the Nobreza de Portugal e do Brasil, II, 477, he was created Conde de Canavial in 1880. However, this 1884 publication refers to him as Visconde. He wrote a number of scientific and literary works, including a translation of Dumas, and founded the newspapers A Liberdade, O Distrito do Funchal and Luz. One of the founders of a sugar factory in Madeira, he also wrote on aspects of sugar production and other agricultural matters. In 1886 he was nominated Governador Civil do Distrito do Funchal.*** Vieira &… Read More

Lisbon, Tipografia Lusitania, January 17, 1924.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. Some browning. Unopened. Overall in good condition. 103 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The front wrapper is signed in print by Martins Barata.*** Porbase locates four copies: three in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (which also holds a microfilm), and one at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian-Paris. Jisc locates a single copy, at British Library. Hollis cites a "Text Resource" at Harvard. Not located in Orbis. Not located in the online catalogues of Library of Congress or Newberry Library.

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, Typographia Castro Irmão, 1885.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, original publisher's illustrated wrappers. Slightly browned. Uncut and mostly unopened. In very good condition. (2 ll.), iv, 171, (1) pp., (2 blank ll.). *** FIRST EDITION, issue with later wrappers. Includes the earliest appearance of Eça de Queiroz's short story "Outro amável milagre" (pp. [93]-100), later published in the Revista moderna for December 1898 with the title "O Suave milagre." Other contributors to this anthology (published for the benefit of a girls' foundling home) include Camilo Castelo Branco, Antero de Quental, Oliveira Martins, Guerra Junqueiro, João de Deus, Ramalho Ortigão, Theophilo Braga and Bulhão Pato.*** Innocêncio XVIII, 46: giving publication date as 1886. Guerra da Cal 797. NUC: WU.

Lisbon, Castro Irmão, 1885.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers, slight chipping and minor stains. Slightly browned. Uncut. In very good condition. Stamp in blank portion of title. (2 ll.), iv, 171, (1) pp., (2 blank ll.). *** FIRST EDITION, first issue; some copies were issued in illustrated wrappers dating much later. Includes the earliest appearance of Eça de Queiroz's short story "Outro amável milagre" (pp. 93-100), later published in the Revista moderna for December 1898 with the title "O Suave milagre." Other contributors to this anthology (published for the benefit of a girls' foundling home) include Camilo Castelo Branco, Antero de Quental, Oliveira Martins, Guerra Junqueiro, João de Deus, Ramalho Ortigão, Theophilo Braga and Bulhão Pato.*** Innocêncio XVIII, 46: giving publication date as 1886. Guerra da Cal 797. NUC: MiU, WU.

[Colophon] Lisbon, Na Imprensa Nacional, 1834.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, contemporary blue wrappers, text block edges tinted yellow. Caption title. Clean and crisp. In fine to very fine condition. 44 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this description of the outbreak of cholera in Portugal in 1833, including its spread, government actions taken to curb it, and newspaper reports. Perhaps most interesting is the detailed report of an autopsy performed in Portugal on a cholera victim (pp. 12-17). The first appendix is a report of a microscopic examination of water tainted with cholera. The second is an annotated bibliography of Portuguese works on the 1833 epidemic.Lima Leitão (1787-1856), a major figure in Portuguese medicine, was born in Lagos (Algarve) and served as a physician with the French and the Portuguese armies from 1808 to 1814, before moving to Brazil. In 1816 he was sent from Rio de Janeiro to Mozambique, where he was chief physician, and from there in 1819 to India, to act as… Read More

Lisbon, Estampa, 1973.. Small 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 185 pp., (2 ll.). *** Second edition. Preface by Almada Negreiros. Caricature portrait of Manuel Lima by Carlos Martins Pereira on verso of half–title. First published 1944. Several passages are marked for deletion in red; presumably a last–minute editorial change (at the author's direction?), and presumably all (or most?) copies appear thus—at least the few copies we have seen are identical in this respect. *** See Laurinda Bom in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 268. Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 681-2.

Lisbon, Empresa Nacional de Publicidade, 1944.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers (tear of about 1.2 cm. to upper outer joint near head of spine; some very slight soiling). Large illustration of a bearded man on front wrapper and numerous large vignettes in text, all in reddish brown, by Bernardo Marques. Title page in reddish brown and black, with smaller version of front cover illustration in black. Internally clean, crisp; uncut, mostly unopened. Overall in very good condition. Illustrated lithograph bookplate of A.[lfredo] Ribeiro dos Santos (larger version). 106 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST EDITION. The preface by Almada Negreiros occupies pp. 5-[20]. In it he states that Manuel de Lima (1918–1976) "transporta-nos admiravelmente para o mundo da ficção e de uma maneira girandolesca que é rara entre os nossos autores … servindo-se do realismo para desfazer o próprio realismo". Both the preface and the work are crucial for the study of the late arrival of surrealism in Portugal.… Read More

Rio de Janeiro, [colophon]: Empreza Graphica Editor de Paul, Pongetti & C.; depostaria, Livraria Odeon, 1926.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, recent dark green half sheep over buckram (some wear to joints, other extremities), spine with gilt fillets and lettering, original printed wrappers bound in (spotted and with short tears to front wrapper). Some browning, a few small stains. Tear to upper margin of penultimate leaf. Overall in good condition. [3]-82 pp., (1 l.), iii pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST (and only?) EDITION of the author's fourth collection of verse. Ribeiro Couto (1898-1963), a native of Santos (São Paulo), began his literary career as a Symbolist poet, then became a leading figure in the Modernist movement in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro before turning to traditional rhythms (but not traditional rhymes). Although he also published novels and short stories, it is for his poetry that he is best known. After studying law in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Ribeiro Couto became a journalist and government… Read More

Lisbon, Chaves Ferreira Publicações, S.A., 1992.. Folio (35.8 x 24.2 cm.), publisher's black silk-covered boards, stamped in gilt on front cover and spine, with 21.3 x 13 cm. color illustration tipped on to front cover, in publisher's folding case. As. new. 43 pp., (30 ll., 1 blank l.) . *** Facsimile of the original illuminated manuscript, dated 1520, in the archives of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa. In addition to the introduction, commentary and notes by Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão (pp. 13-24), there is a copy of the transcript made by Raphael Eduardo d'Azevedo Basto for the Arquivo da Torre do Tombo (pp. 27-43), as well as single-page introductory texts by Nuno Krus Abecasis, Maria Fernanda Mota Pinto, and P.e Vítor Melícias. ***

Rio de Janeiro, Domingos de Magalhães, 1894-1895.. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8°, original beige printed wrappers (volume II with rear wrapper detached; head & foot of spine defective) . Internally. good to very good. Overall in just barely good condition. Green Stamp of Livraria Economica de Francisco Nogueira, Irmão & C, Pernambuco, on front covers, title page of volume I and half title of volume II. Contemporary ink manuscript signature on title pages. 314 pp., (2 ll.); 270 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST EDITION. Volume I is dated 1894 on the title page and 1895 on the front wrapper. Volume II is date 1895 on both.Afonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo Júnior (Ouro Preto, 1860-Rio de Janeiro, 1938), granted by Pope Pius X the title Conde de Afonso Celso in the Holy See, better known as Afonso Celso, was a Brazilian teacher, poet, historian and politician. He was one of the founders of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, where he occupied chair number 36, and was elected president in 1925 and 1935. Son of… Read More

Lisbon, Cinemateca Portuguesa, 1998.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Oblong folio (22 x 32.3 cm.), publisher's printed flexible plastic. As new. 210 pp., (3 ll.), profusely illustrated, about half in color. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Films dealing with the sea, which was also the theme of Expo'98.***

Lisbon, Tipografia do Gratis, 1842.. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, early quarter calf over marbled boards (rear cover detached, worn, minor worming to leather), smooth spine heavily gilt (defective at head and foot, worn), with short title ("papeis varios"). Some foxing. Internally good; overall in somewhat less than good condition. Contemporary ink signature of J.P. Celestino Soares in blank portion of title page and above chapter titles on pp. 63 and 143 (showing through to the verso in all cases). Second front free endleaf facing title page has table of contents in ink manuscript by the same or similar early hand. iii, 205 pp.; lacking the blank final leaf of quire 10 (pp. 141-2), between the end of the second essay (p. 139, with [p. 140] blank), and the beginning of the third essay. *** FIRST EDITION. A second by the same printer appeared in 1847 (with a collation of 205 pp., so perhaps a new issue rather than a new edition); there is also a 1912 edition or issue with the same collation by the same… Read More

Torres Vedras, Câmara Municipal, and Lisbon: Colibri, 2010.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original illustrated boards. As new. [5]-88 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), illustrated in color. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Juvenile history.***

Lisbon, Portugália, for the Author, [1943].. First Edition. 8°, original printed wrappers (slight wear and minor soiling). Uncut. In very good to fine condition. Author's warm, six-line signed ("A. Sérgio") presentation inscription to "Vasco," on personal card tipped on to recto of front free endleaf. 54 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST EDITION. As a literary critic, Sérgio wrote important essays not only on Antero de Quental, but on Camóes, António Vieira, Tolentino, Herculano, Camilo, Eça de Queiroz and Oliveira Martins. This essay appeared at the same time as Sérgio's three-volume edition of Quental's sonnets, Lisbon 1941-43, and was geared to a general audience.Sérgio (Damão, India, 1883-Lisbon, 1969) was "o mais importante pensador português do seu tempo" (Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa [1976] p. 1065). In his 60-year career he wrote on history, economics, education, sociology, literary criticism, politics and philosophy. He was one of the founders of the "Renascença… Read More

Lisbon, Portugal-Brasil Limitada, Sociedade Editora; and Rio de Janeiro: Companhia Editora Americana / Livraria Francisco Alves, [1920].. 8°, contemporary tan sheep over marbled boards (some wear), spine with raised bands in five compartments, decorated in blind, crimson morocco lettering piece, gilt letter, decorated endleaves, top edge rouged, other edges uncut, original illustrated wrappers bound in. In very good condition. Author's signed six-line presentation inscription in ink on half title: "Ao meu primeiro amigo // Alberto [illeg.] //com um grande abraço [illeg.] // [illeg.], do seu admirador // amigo // Júlio Dantas". 273 pp., (1 l. advt.). *** Third edition, including the preface to the second edition. First published in 1904; a second edition appeared in 1915; a fourth, undated, may have been published in 1923, though what is apparently the same edition seems to have been catalogued as having been published as late as 1940. It was translated into Spanish, Italian and German. A note on… Read More