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

Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional, 1985.. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 34 pp. *** The present text is a revised version of the author's preface to his Jaime Cortesão in the series A Obra e o Homem, 9, published Lisbon: Ed. Arcadia, 1962.***

Lisbon, Quetzal, 1994.. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 225 pp., (1 l.). *** The diaries are from the year 1993. Essays deal with such diverse subjects as Tintim, Mozart, Erasmus and Montaigne as evoked by Stefan Zweig, Bulgakov and Stalin, Ezra Pound, Sidónio Pais, Américo Tomás, and Nelson Rodrigues.***

Porto, Edições Afrontamento / Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar "Cultura, Espaço e Memória", Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2011.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 236 pp., (2 blank ll.), substantial footnotes, bibliography, index of names. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.***

Lisbon, Perspectivas e Realidades, (1988).. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 12°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 11 pp., (39 ll. color photographs), (3 ll.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.***

The Plains, Va., Vinifera Wine Growers Association, Inc., 1989.. Large 8°, publisher's cloth with dust jacket (some wear to dust jacket). Internally fine, overall in good to very good condition. (6 ll.), 386 pp., (1 l.), illustrated with line drawings and black-and-white photos. *** ***

Lisbon, Na Typ. de José Baptista Morando, 1834.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, early blue front wrapper (rear wrapper missing). Foldlines. Light dampstains. In good to very good condition. 48 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author dedicates this poem lamenting the condition of Portugal to D. Maria II, in which, he claims, "faço ver em todo tempo, que os desastres procedidos da Ignorancia, só podem reparar-se pela cultura efficaz do saber, que tem por base o amor da Verdade." D. Maria's father, D. Pedro IV of Portugal, died on September 24, 1834.Vicente Pedro Nolasco [da Cunha] (1773-1844), a native of Caldas da Rainha, studied medicine and philosophy at Coimbra. Poet and member of the Conservatório Real de Lisboa, translator and man of enormous cultural achievement, he was a leader of one of Lisbon's masonic lodges. Despite liberal tendencies which had caused him to become suspect by the government of the Prince Regent D. João in the early 1800s, he displayed great courage and patriotism,… Read More

Rio de Janeiro, B.L. Garnier, 1865.. Large 12°, contemporary quarter sheep over marbled boards (some wear at corners), spine with raised bands in 5 compartments, gilt- and blind-stamped, author and title in second compartment from head; marbled endleaves, edges sprinkled blue. In very good, almost fine condition. (2 ll.), 240 pp. *** The first edition appeared in Rio de Janeiro, 1840 in the Jornal do Commercio; this is, according to the author's preface, the first separate edition, revised and corrected. Jerónimo Corte-Real (1533-1588) was an epic poet highly regarded in his own time; among his works are O Segundo cerco de Diu, 1574, and Naufráfio de Sepulveda, 1594.Pereira da Silva (1817-1898), a native of Rio de Janeiro who studied in Paris, was an important historian as well as a politician, and Bandeira points out that he was "outstanding in the fields of criticism and literary history" (p. 99).*** Sacramento Blake III, 480 (mentioning only editions of 1840 and 1865); on the author, III,… Read More

London, The Hakluyt Society, 1988.. Large 8°, publisher's boards with dust jacket. As new. xi, 372 pp., maps and plans. *** Translations of seventeen western accounts of pilgrimages to Jerusalem (1099-1185) plus two eastern accounts.***

Coimbra, Universidade, 1782.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, recent antique calf, double gilt fillet border on each cover, spine with raised bands in 5 compartments, crimson morocco lettering piece in second compartment from head, other compartments gilt. Woodcut initials and headpieces. Light spotting to first few leaves, very minor marginal worming to first and last few leaves, otherwise crisp and clean. Uncut and partly unopened. Overall in fine condition. xvi, 445, (1) pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION, rare, of Pinto's only published poetical work. Written in 10 cantos, this ambitious epic poem is a Christian allegory in the style of Voltaire's Henriade. The Joanneida chronicles Portuguese history from the earliest times to the acclamation of D. João I in 1385, concluding with the Portuguese victory over Castilian forces at Aljubarrota which secured the Portuguese throne for D. João and ushered in a new royal dynasty.Pinto was born into a noble family in Coimbra, educated at its university and,… Read More

Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional, 2009.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 74 pp., (1 l.), illustrations, extensive footnotes and bibliography. One of 1,000 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Texts by Luís Farinha Franco and Everton V. Machado.***

Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 2014.. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 556 pp., (1 l., 1 blank l.), extensive annotations, occasional illus. in text, ample bibliography, index of names. One of 1,000 copies. *** Awarded the Prémio Grémio Literário, 2014.***

New York, The Typophiles, 1988.. 8°, publisher's cloth with dust jacket. As new. 154 pp., (1 blank, 1 l.). One of 1,100 copies. *** This is the original edition, which went out of print soon after publication. The only work in English to survey Gutenberg scholarship from the fifteenth century to the mid-1980s; also includes a detailed discussion of the 42-line Bible of 1455. Designed by Abe Lerner, and set and printed in Monotype Van Dijck by Michael & Winifred Bixler.***

Porto, Livraria Internacional de Ernesto Chardron, Casa Editora Lugan & Genelioux, Successores, 1887.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, early brown quarter calf over marbled boards (slight wear), spine with raised bands in five compartments, last name of author gilt on crimson lettering piece in second, short title gilt on brown lettering piece in fourth, pale green endleaves. Publisher's monogram on title page. A few leaves browned, but not brittle. Occasional light dampstains. In good condition. xxxii, 269 pp., (1 l. colophon). *** FIRST EDITION of this critical account of British customs and society. A second edition is recorded, with the same imprint and collation, but without mention of the final leaf.Ramalho Ortigão (1836-1915), originally a member of the Romantic school, was a literary critic with a sharp eye for manners and morals and a gift for describing them. He began his career as a journalist in 1859, publishing his first book in 1866. His style was influenced by Teófilo Braga and Eça de… Read More

Lisbon, Ministério da Educação / Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, 1989.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original printed wrappers. Very good to fine condition. 240 pp., (1 l.), 2 maps, 2 facsimiles. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. In the author's own words: "I have divided the present work into two parts - "The Life of John of Empoli", which includes a chapter on the part played by Italians in the development of Portuguese trade and overseas expansion, and "The Letters of John of Empoli", in which the original texts of the two major letters as they appear in the Magliabecchiana collection are reproduced for the first time, together with English translations, annotations and comparisons with the main Portuguese chroniclers of the period. It concludes with an evaluation of the historical importance of the letters, especially in regard to Empoli's account of Albuquerque's actions."***

Lisbon, Presidência do Conselho de Ministros / Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro, 1993.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 271 pp., many illustrations in text of manuscripts and title pages, 2 portraits in color. One of 1,000 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.***

Luanda, Editorial Nzila, 2004.. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 249 pp., (2 ll. adv.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The author of this novel was born in the village of Tomessa, Uige, Angola, 1961. He has published at least two other novels and a collection of essays.***

Lisbon, Typographia Universal, 1874.. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, original printed wrappers (front detached but present, spine chipped, some foxing and soiling). Light foxing on flyleaves. Overall in good to very good condition. 52 pp. *** First Edition thus. Pages 8-22 originally appeared in Archiovo Pittoresco, 1868. Added here are biographical notes and supplementary "provas justificativas" on Sanches de Baena's genealogy (pp. 23-52). Innocêncio describes the role of João Sanches de Baena (Vila Viçosa, 1581-Lisbon, 1643) in the Portuguese Restauração. In reponse to this and Visconde de Sanches de Baena's Notas e documentos ineditos para a biographia de J. Pinto Ribeiro, Antonio Maria de Freitas published Pleito historico entre J. Sanches de Baêna e J. Pinto Ribeiro, Lisbon, 1891.Innocêncio Francisco da Silva (1810-1876), wrote the first seven volumes of the great bio-bibliographical dictionary Dicionario bibliográfico português, still a standard reference work and often cited as… Read More

Lisbon, Academia International da Cultua Portuguesa [back cover: printed by Bertrand (Irmãos), Lda.], 1966.. First separate edition. Large 8°, original printed wrappers. Caption title. In very good condition. Author's signed three-line ink presentation inscription to Américo [Cortez Pinto] in upper blank margin of caption title. Pp. [33]-48. *** FIRST and only separate EDITION.Hernâni [António] Cidade (Redondo 1887-Évora 1975) is best known as an author of literary and cultural history and of literary biography. For a half century, he was a major force in the cultural life of Portugal. Cidade taught school in Coimbra, Leiria, Porto and Lisbon before moving on to an illustrious career in higher education at the Universities of Porto and Lisbon. In his youth Cidade was linked to the modernist movement, having been involved with the reviews Águia and Seara Nova, among others. He also collaborated in reviews such as those of the Faculdades de Letras of both Lisbon and Porto, newspapers… Read More

Coimbra, F. França Amado; sold for the benefit of the Jardim-Escola João de Deus, 1911.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, unbound. Printed in red and black. Halftone reproduction of a self-portrait by João de Deus on p. [2]. Slight spotting. (2 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION, and the only separate one, of a sonnet composed for the inauguration of the Jardim-Escola João de Deus in Coimbra, and sold for its benefit. Deus (1830-1896), "the most natural Portuguese poet of the nineteenth century" (Bell, Portuguese Literature p. 329), also devised a special method for teaching children to read. This method was perfected and popularized by Deus's son, João de Deus Ramos, who founded the first of many highly-regarded jardins-escolas at Coimbra in 1911.Afonso Lopes Vieira (1878-1946) was Portugal's best traditional poet of the twentieth century. In 1916 he resigned his post as Redactor da Câmara dos Deputados in Lisbon in order to dedicate himself to reading and to poetry. His home, São Pedro de Moel, became a haven… Read More

Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional, 2004.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. (l blank l.), [3]-233 pp., (2 ll.), illustrations. One of 750 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION.***