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R.L.S.: Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter. Edited by DeLancey Ferguson and Marshall Waingrow. Introduction (pp. vii-xxii) by Marshall Waingrow.
by STEVENSON, Robert Lewis.
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Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro: imagens e memórias de teatro. Coleção arte e artistas.
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Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional / Câmara Municipal de Lisboa / Museu Bordalo Pinheiro, 2013.. FIRST EDITION. Large 4° (24.3 x 28.1 cm.), original illustrated wrappers. As new. 429 pp. (1 blank l.), profusely illustrated in color, bibliography. One of 1000 copies. *** FIRST and only published EDITION. Based on the author's doctoral thesis, defended at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, in 2009. Following the conclusion of the main text, there are short biographies of often cited or mentioned individuals, with specific reference to the caricatures or images discussed by the author. What is principally explored are theatrical representation of individuals in Portugal, as well as caricatures of actors and prominent persons on the political "stage" at the time drawn by Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro. Other aspects that are developed related to the caricatures are historical considerations of caricature, and interesting accounts of what Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro may have been exploiting in different…
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Raices del Brasil. Trans. Ernestina de Champourcin.
by HOLANDA, Sérgio Buarque de.
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Mexico & Buenos Aires, Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1955.. Large 8°, original orange printed wrappers (some small nicks at top edge). Title page printed in brown and black. Internally in fine condition; overall very good. 182 pp., (2 ll.) *** ***
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Raid Portugal-Brasil.
by AMARAL, Manuel Augusto d' (1862–1942).
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Ponta Delgada, Tip. da Empreza do Correio dos Açores, 1922.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original printed self-covers, stitched. Red cross of the Order of Christ on front cover. Place of printing and publisher in red on rear cover. Illegible postal franking in lower outer corner of front cover. In very good to fine condition. Author's signature just to the right and below the final words on recto of p. [3] which reads, in print, "Aos imortais aviadores // Gago Coutinho // e // Sacadura Cabral // D. // o autor". 14 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of these five sonnets celebrating the aerial voyage of Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral. In the spring of 1922 two of Portugal's most noted aviators, Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho, made the first flight from Europe to South America, flying from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro via the Canaries and Cabo Verde. It was the first long-distance flight in which rigorous methods of aerial navigation were used.*** Afonso 1170. Not in Innocêncio, which…
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Rainhas de Portugal, estudo historico com muitos documentos.
by BENEVIDES, Francisco da Fonseca.
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Lisbon, Castro Irmão, 1878-1879.. First Edition. 2 volumes. Large 8°, contemporary red quarter sheep over marbled boards (some wear), smooth spine, short author, title, volume, and bands gilt, marbled endleaves. Title pages in red and black. Second leaf recto of volume II printed in blue. Some initials in red or blue. Minor dampstain in preliminary leaves of volume II, otherwise internally fine. Overall in good to very good condition. Armorial lithograph bookplates in color of S.P. Scott. Frontispiece, xviii, 365 pp., (3 ll.), with 4 plates not paginated and many other illustrations in text; ix, 394 pp., (1 l.), 1 portrait and 1 color plate with the arms of Portugal not paginated, many other illustrations in text. *** FIRST EDITION of this history of the queens of Portugal.*** Fonseca, Aditamentos p. 138.
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Ramalhete apollineo, que as nove musas tecem de varias flores em nove assumptos, descubertos no nascimento do Serenissimo Infante o Senhor D. Joseph, dedicado a Elrey N.S.
by ALMADA, Francisco de Sousa de.
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Lisbon, Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1714.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, disbound. Small typographical vignette on title page. Woodcut headpieces and initials. Typographical headpieces and tailpieces. Heading of preliminary leaf **ii slightly shaved on verso. All other pages with normal margins. In good to very good condition. (8 ll.), 36 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of these poems celebrating the birth of the future king D. José. In addition to the sonnets, redondilhas, romances, etc. by Sousa de Almada in the main text, all in Portuguese, the preliminary leaves contain a 4 pp. dedication and a 2 pp. introduction by him, as well as poems in praise of him, including a neo-Latin epigram by Manuel Lopes de Carvalho, a neo-Latin sonnet by Caetano Alberto de Ossuna, a brief (4-line) neo-Latin epigram by Luís de Mello Coutinho e Castro, a sonnet in Portuguese by Henrique Jansen Moller, and 2 pp. of decimas in Portuguese by Luís Nunes Tinoco.Francisco de Sousa de Almada was born in 1676 in…
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Ramo de flores por … acompanhado de varias criticas das Flores do campo.
by DEUS, João de.
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Porto, Typ. da Livraria Nacional, 1869.. FIRST EDITION. 2 works in 1 volume. 8°, contemporary quarter sheep over marbled boards (some wear), spine with raised bands in five compartments, gilt letter and fillets. Scattered light soiling, mostly marginal. Overall in very good condition. Newspaper clippings tipped to front flyleaf & blank verso of title page. 144 pp. *** FIRST EDITION. The pedagogue and poet João de Deus (João de Deus de Nogueira Ramos, 1830-1896), was born in São Bartolomeu de Messines, Algarve. He studied law at Coimbra, where he was linked to the "Geração de 70", especially Teófilo Braga. Part of the second wave of romanticism in Portugal, he is credited with a revival of lyricism, and, along with Antero de Quental, the rehabilitation of the sonnet. *** Innocêncio X, 234-8; XI, 287: calling for only 138, (1) pp. See Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001), pp. 730, 735, 964; Álvaro Manuel Machado in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura…
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Rampa. Poemas de Adolpho Rocha.
by [TORGA, Miguel, pseudonym of Adolfo Rocha].
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Coimbra, Edições "Presença", 1930.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4° (25.3 x 19.5 cm.), original printed wrappers (slight defects at head and foot of spine, slight fraying at outer edges). Printer's device in red on verso of half-title. Title page printed in red and black. Uncut. Some fraying to edges of covers; slight defects to head and foot of spine. Nevertheless, in very good condition overall. Author's signed and dated six-line presentation inscription on recto of [blank] leaf following the title-page: "Meu Caro Álvaro [Taveira], Meu Amigo: // Sem [illeg.] com um abraço // [illeg.] ofº seu // Adolpho Rocha // Coimbra 26 de Abril de // 1930." The colophon of this book is dated 24 de Abril de 1930! Extra-illustrated with a photograph of the author (4.25" x 3.125"), signed Adolpho Rocha, tipped onto verso of title-page. (1 blank l.), 76 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of Torga's second book, one of his rarest and one of the few early works published under his real name. Among the most…
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Raphael, paginas da juventude ... versão portugueza de Don Carlos Guido y Spano.
by LAMARTINE, Alphonse de Prat de.
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Rio de Janeiro, Typ. Philantropica, 1849.. 8°, contemporary pale orange quarter morocco over pink pebbled boards (some fading and minor wear), smooth spine with romantic style gilt ornaments and short title. Light browning, a few faint dampstains, a few leaves loosening. In very good condition overall. Old ink signature at foot of title page: "J. da C. Bravo." (2 ll.), xxxi, (1), 256 pp., (1 l. errata). *** First or second edition in Portuguese of Lamartine's Raphael, pages de la vingtième année, which first appeared in the same year. A Portuguese translation printed by Luis C. da Cunha also appeared in 1849.Carlos Guido y Spano (1827-1918), a native of Buenos Aires, was a poet of the romantic school. In the substantial preface to this work (pp. i-xxxi), he explains why he is writing in Portuguese and discusses Lamartine's life and the style of his works. It is signed (in print) by the translator at Rio de Janeiro, September 1, 1849.*** Not in Gonçalves Rodrigues, A tradução em Portugal,…
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Raphaelis Thori de paeto seu tabaco carminum libri duo, in paetisugorum gratiam, aeque ac praecipue colentium soteropolitanis Brasiliae in arvis, denuo typis commissi, curatne Fr. Josepho Mariano Velloso.
by THORIO, Raphaele.
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Lisbon, Typographia Domus Chalcographicae, ac Litterariae ad Arcum Caeci, 1800.. 4°, contemporary marbled wrappers (spine worn; two small holes in front wrapper). Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. A few small, light waterstains. Overall in very good condition. Small circular paper ticket with number "364" tipped on to outer upper corner of front free endleaf recto. Finely engraved title-page, (4 ll.), 1-46, 57-58 pp. [pp.47-56 skipped in numbering; collation by signatures and catchwords is correct], 4 finely engraved plates. *** Nicely printed Arco do Cego Press edition of this famous poem in praise of tobacco, first published as Hymnus tabaci, Leyden 1625. Thorius (d. 1625) was born in France and received his medical training in Holland and England, where he later practiced. The Hymnus tabaci was written prior to 1610 and circulated widely in manuscript before its first publication. This edition omits some of the prefatory and concluding matter, as well as the "Ejusdem Hyems," but adds…
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Rasgo heroyco: declaracion de la empressas, armas, y blasones con que se ilustran, y conocen los principales Reynos, Provincias, Ciudades, y Villas de España, y compendio instrumentàl de su historia, en el que se dà noticia de la Patria de S. Fernando, Rey de Castilla, y Leon ....
by MOYA, Antonio de.
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Madrid, Por Manuel de Moya, 1756.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, contemporary vellum (remains of two ties, lacks front free endleaf, front inner joint loose), horizontal manuscript title on spine, text block edges sprinkled red. Small woodcut vignette on title-page, woodcut initials, headpiece and tailpiece. Repair to lower 2.5 cm. of title page, affecting a few letters of imprint. Fairly light waterstains in lower margins, sometimes extending into text block. Lower outer corner torn away from leaf Dd4 without any loss of text. In good to very good condition. Armorial bookplate of Biblioteca Casa Lasqueti. Two small shelf marks, the first scored but still legible, in upper outer corner of title-page. Ink inscription of Manuel Fernandez [Puãl?], Administrator of the Lottery in [illeg.], dated Madrid September 21, 1795. Eighteenth-century manuscript notes in lower margin of p. 94, on p. 272, on recto of rear free endpaper, and elsewhere. (20 ll.), 382 pp., (5 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION of this important work on…
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Rasgos memoraveis do Senhor Dom Pedro I, Imperador do Brasil, Excelso Duque de Bragança, por ....
by PASCUAL, A[ntonio] D[eodoro] de.
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Rio de Janeiro, Typographia Universal de Laemmert, 1862.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, later blue quarter cloth over faux-reptile boards (light wear), smooth blank spine. The lithograph portrait of D. Pedro is signed by A.J. Rocha as artist and A. de Pinho as lithographer. Some browning, but not brittle. Pinpoint wormholes, mostly marginal but in text for first 40 or so pages, not affecting legibility. Frontis is backed and has large discolored tissue repair, touching top of D. Pedro's head. One discolored tissue repair on title page (affecting 1 letter) and one on final blank page. A working copy. Lithographed frontis portrait, [iii]-xxxiv, [35]-186 pp., (1 l.); probably lacking a half-title. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this biography of D. Pedro of Bragança, with information and details that were not generally known: "noticias e particularidades reconditas, não menos interessantes para a história do Brasil, que para a justa apreciação dos successos de Portugal nos annosde 1832 a 1834"…
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Rasgos metricos em varias poezias. Offerecidas á Senhora Sta. Anna ….
by LIMA, Alexandre Antonio de.
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Lisbon, Na Officina de Francisco da Silva, Livreiro da Academia Real, e do Senado, 1742.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, contemporary speckled sheep (minor wear; front pastedown endleaf loose), spine gilt with raised bands in five compartments, crimson leather lettering piece in second compartment from head, text-block edges sprinkled red. Woodcut vignette on title page. Woodcut headpiece and initials. Typographical headpieces. Woodcut tailpieces. Single pinpoint wormhole in lower blank margin of 31 leaves, and slightly larger in another 8 leaves, never affecting text. In very good condition. Contemporary ink rubric monogram on half title. Contemporary ink inscription on title page. (16 ll.), 246 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Despite being dedicated to Santa Anna, this volume contains poems of practically every type, on a wide variety of subjects, including some in very free style - even burlesque. The preliminaries, in addition to the dedication and licenses, contain an anthology of…
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Ratio instituti clinici Ticinensis a mense Januario usque ad finem Junii MDCCXCV.
by FRANK, Joseph.
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Vienna, Apud Camesina et Soc., 1797.. First Edition. 8°, contemporary tree sheep (some slight wear), flat spine gilt, crimson leather lettering piece, gilt letter, marbled endleaves, text block edges sprinkled blue. In very good to fine condition. Small contemporary ink notation (illegible) in lower margin of title page. cxii, (1), 299, (1) pp., (1 l., 1 blank l.), 1 large folding engraved copperplate, 4 large folding tables. *** FIRST EDITION; contains case histories of various diseases, including diabetes and diabetes insipidus, which J.P. Frank was the first to define. The plate shows the pericardium. The folding tables chart weather conditions for December 1794 through March 1795. The work was reprinted Venice, 1799.Joseph Frank (1774-1841) was a German physician who taught at Pavia, Vilnius, and Vienna. Like his father, Johann Peter Frank, he was an adherent of the Brunonian system, although he later introduced some modifications to it. An eminent figure in the Vienna school of practical…
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Razões de appellação por parte de ... no processo Villa Nova do Minho.
by RIBEIRO, Antonio de Sousa.
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Rio de Janeiro, Empreza Typ. Dous de Dezembro, Paula Brito, Impressor da Casa Imperial, 1856.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, later blue quarter cloth over faux reptilian paper boards. Woodcut vignette on title page. Small round wormhole in upper blank margin of last 9 leaves, without loss. In good condition. 58 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION? The defendant appeals a sentence of 10 years and 8 months hard labor for estellionato (a fraudulent sale) and complicity in perjury, in a widely publicized case involving a disputed inheritance.*** Not in Sacramento Blake. Not located in NUC.
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Razões do advogado Dr. Francisco Antonio d'Araujo, por parte de Francisco José de Sousa Nobre.
by ARAUJO, Francisco Antonio.
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Bahia, Typographia Constitucional de França Guerra, 1864.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original printed wrappers (small nick to bottom margin of upper cover; small hole in lower cover). Overall in very good condition. 45 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION? Argues against an appeal of a judgment on an inheritance.*** Cf. Innocêncio IX, 252, an earlier work by the author. Not in Sacramento Blake. Not located in Melvyl. Not located in NUC.
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Raízes do ouro popular do noroeste português.
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Lisbon, Instituto Português de Museus / Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, 1993.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (27.3 x 23.2 cm.), original illustrated wrappers. As new. 70 pp., (1 l.), profusely and excellently illustrated, mostly in color. One of 1,000 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this catalogue for an exhibition of gold jewelry from the provinces of Minho and Douro in the North of Portugal, held at the Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis.***
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Razon que da el Comisionado por los Evanistas de esta capital, a cerca de la solicitud elevada a nombre de ellos al Soberano Congreso. [text begins:] Por no haber querido insertar el Progreso este remitido, me veo obligado a hacerlo por medio de esta hoja suelta. Cansado por una parte de las reconvenciones que repetidas veces me han hecho mis poderdantes ....
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(Santiago de Chile), Imprenta de la Sociedad, dated 17 August 1847.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (29.5 x 18.5 cm.), disbound. Caption title. Light browning and creasing at lower edge. In good to very good condition. Early manuscript foliation in ink. (1 l.) *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The cabinetmakers of Chile (led by José del Tránsito Cárdenas, Jorje Gaskill and Valentin Pages) submitted a petition to Congress asking for protection against imported furniture. Although a committee comprised of Luis Ovalle, José Ignacio Larrain, and Manuel R. Bascuñan agreed that the artisans had a valid complaint, the petition was lost in the system. Here one of its authors complains that "siempre la Cámara está ocupada de otras cosas mas importantes, como proyectos del Supremo Gobierno, la aprobacion de rentas etc.," but warns of evil effects to come: "Si no se piensa en establecer algunos nuevas fábricas, y en protejer las que felizmente existen, los hijos de los pobres, se dedicarán sin duda al hurto,…
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A Reacção ultramontana em Portugal ou a Concordata de 21 de fevereiro.
by HERCULANO [DE CARVALHO E ARAUJO], A.[lexandre].
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Lisbon, Na Typ. de José Baptista Morando, Maio de 1857.. FIRST EDITION. Large 8°, later green blind-tooled pebbled cloth (minor wear), short author and title lettered vertically gilt on smooth spine; original green printed front wrapper (foxed) bound in. Overall in very good condition. Small orange and black oval ticket of Livraria Internacional de Ernesto Chardron, 96 Clericos 98, Porto tipped on to lower blank margin of front wrapper. Name of H D'OLIVEIRA JUNIOR stamped on title page. xi, 56 pp. *** FIRST EDITION. Herculano expresses his objections to the recently signed Concordat.By 1850 Herculano (1810-1877) was well respected as a historian. He has long been recognized as the greatest Portuguese historian of the nineteenth century, and one of the greatest that country ever produced. A complete volume of Innocêncio is devoted to a bibliography and analysis of his works, which include Historia da origem e estabelecimento da Inquisição em Portugal, Lisbon 1854-59, and Historia de Portugal,…
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A Real Biblioteca e os seus criadores: em Lisboa, 1755-1803. Estudos.
by CABRAL, Maria Luísa.
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Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, 2014.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 534 pp., folding illustrated chronological table, diagrams, illustrations, tables, footnotes, bibliography, index of names. One of 300 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Ana Isabel Buescu [pp. 15-17] and Francisco António Lourenço Vaz [pp. 19-27] provide short introductions. The basis of this fascinating and exhaustive study is the doctoral thesis of Maria Luísa Cabral, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Centro de História da Cultura. The author provides a brief discussion of libraries and schools in the 18th century, including reflections on Portuguese libraries by foreigners and the impressions of foreign libraries on Portuguese travelers. She discusses several notable libraries of the period: Biblioteca Joanina da Universidade de Coimbra, Biblioteca do Colégio do Espírito Santo (Évora), Biblioteca do Convento de Nossa Senhora e Santo António de Mafra, Biblioteca da…
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