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Lisbon, Na Officina de Miguel Deslandes, 1686.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, contemporary limp vellum, text-block edges sprinkled. Numerous woodcut headpieces. Single woodcut tailpiece at end. Very minor worming to a few leaves at inner margins. Small repair to leaf G3, slightly affecting the woodcut headpiece, but not the text. Overall clean, crisp, and in very good condition. (12 ll.), 100 pp., (2 ll.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Contains an account of the life and miracles of St. Gaetano dei Conti di Tiene told in 100 sonnets. There is also an unnumbered concluding sonnet. The preliminary leaves include an index, a sonnet in Latin by Raphael Bluteau, Latin epigrams by Carlo Cazeniga and António Luís Azevedo, a sonnet in Spanish by Juan Pereyra de Sylva, a sonnet in Italian by Carlo Cazeniga, and an octava in Portuguese dedicated to St. Gaetano Tiene. The noted lyric poet André Nunes da Silva (or Andre Nunez da Sylva, 1630-1705), author of Poesias varias (Lisbon, 1671), a member of the…
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Anecdotes anglaises et américaines. Années 1776 a 1783.
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Hecatombe sacra ou sacrificio de cem victimas, em cem sonetos, em que se conthem as principaes acções da vida do glorioso Patriarch S. Caetano Thiene, fundador da religião dos clerigos regulares Theatinos da divina providencia, escritos por Andre Nunez da Sylva, e dedicados ao mesmo Santo.
by SILVA, André Nunes da.
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Buenos-Ayres, in een gedeelte zijner Plaatselijke Betrekkingen en Omwentelings-Geschiedenis, opgehelderd door eene Reis in de Binnenlanden van Rio de la Plata, naar het Engelsch ... Met eenige andere daartoe betrekkelijke stukken.
by GILLESPIE, Alexander.
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Amsterdam, Bij de Wed. G.A. Diederichs & Zoon, 1820.. First and Only Edition in Dutch. Large 8°, contemporary speckled wrappers (front wrapper detached), printed spine label (somewhat defective). Scattered minor spotting. Uncut and mostly unopened. In good to very good condition. iv, 154 pp., (2 ll. advertisement). *** First and only edition in Dutch of Gleanings and remarks: collected during many months of residence at Buenos Ayres, and within the upper country; with a prefatory account of the expedition from England, until the surrender of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, under the joint command of Sir D. Baird and Sir Home Popham, originally published in Leeds, 1818. It contains a description of Rio de la Plata and Buenos Aires, with accounts of Montevideo, the Banda Oriental, and Chile at the end. In 1806 Sir Henry Popham (without Admiralty approval) sailed a fleet to Buenos Aires and captured it with ease, aided by General William Beresford and 1,400 soldiers. Led by a French officer (the…
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Memoria sobre a pesca do bacalhão, offerecida á Companhia de Pescarias Lisbonense, por seu author … e mandada imprimir pela direccão da mesma companhia.
by AZAMBUJA, Jacob Frederico Torlade Pereira de.
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Lisbon, Na Typographia de Desiderio Marques Leão, 1835.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound, text block edges sprinkled blue from an old binding. Very good condition. 48 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Azambuja was Portuguese charge d'affaires in the United States from 1829 to 1834. Pages 45-8 deal with whaling, including mention of New Bedford, Fairhaven, New London, Falmouth, Newport, Plymouth, Salem, Sag Harbor, New York, among other places in the United States. Fisheries in Newfoundland and Labrador are also discussed. Most of the book deals with fishing for cod, with emphasis on the United States and Canada. Herring are also mentioned. *** Innocêncio X, 113. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 29001.1. Not in Kress, Luso-Brazilian Economic Literature before 1850. Porbase locates five copies: four in the Bibliotecta Nacional de Portugal, and one in the Biblioteca Central da Marinha. Jisc locates a copy in the British Library, and several electronic copies. NUC: NN, CaOTU.
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Lettres sur l'Egypte, où l'on offre le parallèle des moeurs anciennes & modernes de ses habitans, où l'on décrit l'etat, le commerce, l'agriculture, le gouvernement du pays, & la descente de S. Louis à Damiette ….
by SAVARY, Claude Étienne.
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Paris, chez Onfroi, 1785-1786.. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes in 2. 8°, contemporary mottled calf (wear to heads and feet of spines, edges of boards, corners, some scraping to covers), flat spines richly gilt, citron leather lettering piece (missing from volume I) and dark green leather numbering pieces, gilt letters and numbers, text block edges rouged. Woodcut vignettes on title pages. Woodcut headpieces. Light dampstain in volumes I and III; minor soiling on title pages of volumes II and III. Map of Nile Delta loose. Overall in good to very good condition. x, 395, (1) pp., (1 l.), 2 large folding engraved maps and 1 large folding engraved diagram; (1 l.), 310 pp.; (1 l.), 310 pp., 1 large folding engraved map. *** FIRST EDITION; a second appeared in 1786. This is the first literary voyage in Egypt, predating by many years those of Chateaubriand, Lamartine and Flaubert. Savary, a fluent Arabic speaker, had read many little-known Arabic sources on Egypt. Here (in the form of a series of letters) he…
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Carta de un amigo a su corresponsal sobre Mayorazgos.... [text begins:] Las reflecsiones que V. me hace en su estimable son tan justas, como propias de sus luces y prudencia. Al que no conoce dice ....
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[Colophon] (Santiago de Chile), Imprenta de la Biblioteca, (1826).. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (29 x 18.5 cm.), disbound (separated at fold). Caption title. Very light foxing. Overall in good to very good condition. A few early corrections to text. Early manuscript foliation in ink. (2 ll.) *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Argues that the heated debate over mayorazgos is taking time and energy that should be directed toward more important matters. Although advocates of abolishing the institution claim that they wish to do so for the sake of agriculture and the population, Chile is so thinly populated that the effect of abolition would be negligible: "¡y se nos quiere hacer creer ahora que no pueden subsistir 17 mayorazgos en Chile sin que perazcamos de hambre!" The mayorazgo, a form of primogeniture that prevented large estates from being dispersed, became part of Castilian law in 1505 and was carried over into Latin America. After Spain suppressed the mayorazgo in 1820 by the Ley Desvinculadora,…
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Un ciudadano a sus compatriotas sobre federacion y gobiernos electivos. [text begins:] Entre los infinitos grados de estension ó limitaciones que admite la federacion, dos pueden considerarse como mas sustanciales ....
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[Colophon] (Santiago de Chile), Imprenta de la Biblioteca, (1827).. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (30.5 x 18.5 cm.), disbound. Caption title. Some soiling and stains on final leaf, without loss of text. Overall in good condition. (2 ll.) *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Part of a lengthy debate over whether Chile should have a strong central government or a looser, federalist structure. After comparing Chile's status with the United States and Argentina, the anonymous author concludes that Chile has neither the funds nor the local bureaucrats required to manage nearly sovereign provinces. *** Briseño I, 60. Not located in CCPBE. Not located in Rebiun. Not located in Jisc.
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Histoire des revolutions d'Espagne depuis la destruction de l'Empire des Goths, jusqu'à l'entiére & parfaite réünion des Royaumes de Castille & d'Aragon en une seule monarchie.
by ORLÉANS, Pierre Joseph d', S.J.
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Paris, Chez Rollin Fils, 1734.. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. 4°, contemporary French calf, spines heavily gilt with raised bands in six compartments, red leather lettering pieces in second and third compartments from head (some wear, spine heads chipped). Woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and initials. Slight browning; occasional light foxing; some minor stains and soiling. Overall in good to very good condition. xxvi, 579, (1) pp., (18 ll.), 1 folding engraved map of Spain and Portugal; xiv pp., (1 l.), 644 pp., (13 ll.), 1 folding engraved genealogical chart; vii, (1), 655, (1) pp., (12 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION of this detailed history of Spain from the Moorish invasion in 711 to the death of Ferdinand V in 1516. Divided into nine books, the Histoire takes for its theme the gradual Christian reconquest of Spain from the Moors and the unification of Castile and Aragon under Ferdinand and Isabella. Orléans finished only the first seven books, the last two being completed by Pierre Joseph Arthuys and…
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Rezumo de todas as regras, e preceitos da Cantoria, assim da musica metrica, como do canto-chão, dividido em duas partes. Composto por … para o uso dos seus discipulos.
by LEITE, Antonio da Silva.
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Porto, Na Officina de Antonio Alvarez Ribeiro, 1787.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, contemporary decorated wrappers (hole in front wrapper, about 4.5 cm. in diameter, crudely repaired). Small woodcut vignette on title page. Woodcut headpieces and initials. Small stain to front free endleaf, carrying through slightly to half title, and even more slightly to title page. Overall in very good condition. Early [contemporary?] ink inscription on front free endleaf: "Este Arte he de Joseph de Campos // do Lugar dos Casastos [?] de Cabanas." Further ink inscriptions [in the same hand?] on verso of rear free endleaf: "Campos" [in upper outer corner]; "Cabanas" [in upper inner corner]; and "Joseph de Campos" [in lower outer corner]. Another faint early inscription on decorated wrapper, illegible. (4 ll.), 43, (1) pp., 2 engraved plates [1 of them folding]. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this instruction manual for those learning to sing, including instructions on plainsong. It is a true beginner's guide to…
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Memorias authenticas para a historia do Real Archivo. Colligidas pelo primeiro Lente de Diplomatica o Desembargador João Pedro Ribeiro.
by RIBEIRO, João Pedro.
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Lisbon, na Impressão Regia, 1819.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, contemporary gilded "Dutch Paper" wrappers (a few nicks and other minor defects; gilding faded from front wrapper and spine), text block edges sprinkled blue. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title-page. In fine condition. 179, (1) pp. *** FIRST EDITION. Bio-bibliographical history of the royal archives from the time of D. Sancho I in the late twelfth century. *** Innocêncio IV, 10; see also IV, 8–15, 435–6; X, 327–8. Pinto de Mattos (1970) pp. 537–8. Not in Palha. Porbase cites a single copy in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (among 56 "hits" for the author). *** BOUND WITH: RIBEIRO, João Pedro. Additamentos e correcções á Parte I da Dissertação sobre a reforma dos Foraes. [Lisbon: na Impressão Regia, 1819?] 4º, 28 pp. Caption title. Innocêncio IV, 10 (giving slightly different transcription of title).
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Vida de Don Duarte de Meneses, tercero Conde de Viana, y sucessos notables de Portugal en su tiempo ….
by MANUEL Y VASCONCELOS, Augustin.
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Lisbon, Por Pedro Craesbeeck, 1627.. First Edition. 4°, later mottled calf (quite rubbed, head and foot of spine slightly defective), spine gilt, edges sprinkled red. Woodcut initials. Crude triangular repair on title-page, not touching text, about 4 x 5.5 cm. Minor soiling, some dampstains, some early notes. In somewhat less than good condition. Small oval stamp on title-page and two early notes at foot. (2), 167 ll., (1 l. errata). Several leaves numbered incorrectly: 18 wrongly numbered 12, 53 wrongly numbered 48, 60 wrongly numbered 59, 62 wrongly numbered 61, 74 wrongly numbered 65, 91 wrongly numbered 61, 93 wrongly numbered 63, 106 wrongly numbered 103, 108 wrongly numbered 107, and 163 wrongly numbered 193. *** FIRST EDITION. This classic biography of Dom Duarte de Meneses deals at great length with the campaigns in North Africa of D. João I, D. Duarte and D. Affonso V. After the capture of Alcácer-Ceguir in 1458, the stronghold was placed under the command of D. Duarte de Meneses, under…
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COLOMB DANS LES FERS,
by DE LANGEAC. (Égide Louis Edmé Joseph de Lespinasse, Chevalier)
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...A FERDINAND ET ISABELLE, APRÈS LA DÉCOUVERTE DE LAMÉRIQUE, Épitre qui a remporté le prix de l Académie de Marseille, Précédée dun Précis historique sur Colomb.Ici tout est merveille, et tout est vérité. Racine le fils. A Londres. M. DCC. LXXXII. [1782]. In 8º De 21x14 cm. Com IV-150 págs. Encadernação da época com lombada e cantos em pele. O corte das folhas carminado a azul. Impressão em papel muito encorpado. Ilustrado com 1 gravura junto à folha de rosto, 1 bela vinheta e 1 florão de remate gravados no texto nas páginas 111 e 124, ambos da autoria de Marillier e De Launay le jeune. Exemplar com manchas de humidade nos primeiros fólios. Obra poética em versos alexandrinos pareados, ocupa as páginas 109 a 124 sendo antecedida por um Précis historique sur Colombde página 1 a 108 com as respectivas notas nas páginas 125 a 150. O autor, que foi cavaleiro de Malta e governador de Poitiers, descreve a vida de Colombo em Portugal e compara o destino infeliz deste…
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A diáspora da palavra: obras de autores portugueses impressas fora de Portugal, 1521-1550. Guia da exposição.
by DIAS, João José Alves
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Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal / Centro de Estudos Históricos, Universidade Nova, 2021.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 110 pp., (1 blank l.), profusely illustrated, indexes of authors, places of publication, printers and booksellers. One of 500 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this excellent exhibition catalogue. Alves Dias is one of Portugal's leading historians, and a distinguished bibliophile. ***
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The Butterflies Fly-Past. with illus. by Mandy Shepherd.
by Simson, Clive
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Special Offers Entomology . 1st. Ed. Pub. Peregrine Books. 1994. pp.xviii, 127 with 8 coloured illus. 8vo. New hdbk. in new dw. RRP £20.00. A fascinating book describing the authors experiences of studying butterflies in the UK. All native British Butterflies are mentioned at some point in the text, which is handsomely supported by 8 watercolour plates by Mandy Shepherd.
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In Search of Nature.
by Ratcliffe, D.A
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Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Peregrine Books. 2000. pp.xii, 249 with illus. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. RRP. £27.00. The distinguished naturalist, Derek Ratcliffe, passed away in 2005 aged 75. Born in 1929, this book tells the tale of his life from boyhood, when his interest in birds, butterflies, moths and dragonflies started to develop, through to the period in his life before 1970. Ratcliffe took the opportunity presented by writing this book of paying tribute to some of the people who helped him along the way and became lifelong friends.
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Native Plums (Prunus) of Gloucestershire. The Gloucestershire Pomona Series.
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Special Offers Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Gloucestershire Orchard Trust. 2018. pp.vi, 50 with colour photography throughout. Large 8vo. New softback.
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A History of Whaling in Brazil. From royal fish to Japanese delicacy.
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Pequena., 2017. 1st. Ed.. pp.xxii, 234 with b/w. photos. 8vo. A new softback. This is the first book to describe comprehensively the history of whaling in Brazil, starting with traditional whaling as a Portuguese crown monopoly and culminating with the introduction of modern ships, equipped with harpoon guns in the twentieth century - an initiative led by a British company (Duder and Brother) in Brazil.
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Pears of Gloucestershire and Perry Pears of the Three Counties. The Gloucestershire Pomona Series.
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Special Offers Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Hartpury Heritage Trust. 2013. pp.xiv, 214 with colour photography throughout. Large 8vo. New softback.
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Whaling in the Falkland Islands Dependencies 1904-1931. A History of shore and bay-based whaling in the Antarctic.
by Hart, Ian
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Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Pequena. 2006. pp.xvi, 363 with many illus. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. Signed by the author, Ian Hart. A fascinating account of the whaling industry in the Falkland Islands Dependencies. The sequence of events which led to the extension of British sovereignty in the Antarctic and the legislation & policing imposed by the Falkland Islands Government to control the burgeoning whaling industry are also discussed.
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Antarctic Magistrate. A life through the lens of a camera.
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Pequena., 2009. 1st. Ed.. pp.303 with many photographs. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. Signed by the author, Ian Hart. This volume is a celebration of the life of Edward Beveridge Binnie, (born on the Falkland Islands in 1884) the eighth child of immigrant Scottish parents. The book traces his rise from humble beginnings through Falkland Islands Government service to becoming the first Antarctic Magistrate.
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Austral Enterprises. A History of shore, bay-based and pelagic whaling and sealing in the Southern Ocean encompassing the Southern Whaling & Sealing Company, The Kerguelen Sealing & Whaling Company and their associated enterprises at South Georgia, the Antarctic peninsula, the South Indian Ocean and South Africa.
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Pequena., 2020. 1st. Ed.. pp.xx, 380 with b/w. photographs and illustrations throughout. 4to. New hardback in new dw. Print run of just 400 copies. Signed by author. There have been very few attempts to document British involvement in the whaling and sealing industry. This book describes, in detail, some of the major companies that undertook this trade and the profound effect this had on the whale and seal populations in the southern hemisphere.
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Teses Apresentadas ao II Congresso realizado de 4 a 11 de Setembro de 1960. 2º volume. Boletim da Sociedade de Estudos de Moçambique. Ano XXIX, N.º 125, Novembro a Dezembro.
by [MOZAMBIQUE]
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Lourenço Marques, [from rear cover] Composto e Impresso na Sociedade de Estudos, 1960.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, original pale blue printed wrappers (browned, short tear on spine). Illustrations, maps and tables in text. Some light dampstains. In good condition. Old faint circular stamp on front cover. (2 ll.), 11 pp., (1 l.), 9, (2) pp., (1 l.), 7 pp., (1 l.), 8 pp., (1 l.), 7 pp., (1 l.), 9 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 9 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 15 pp., errata slip, (1 l.), 4 pp., (1 l.), 6 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 23 pp., 2 folding tables, (1 l.), 6 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 11 pp., (1 l.), 10 pp., (1 ll. plates, printed on both sides, 1 blank l., 1 l.), 7 pp., (8 pp. illustrations, 1 blank p., 1 l.), 13 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 23 pp., (1 l.), 11 pp. including 3 full-page illustrations, (1 l.), 6 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 24 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 5 pp., (1 l. with bibliography, 2 ll. plates, 1 l.), 17 pp., (1 l.), 14 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The volume contains four brief…
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