Macau na época da Restauração. (Macau Three Hundred Years Ago). by BOXER, C.[harles] R.[alph]

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… Read More

[Santiago de Chile], n.pr., dated 25 February 1825.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (29 x 18.5 cm.), disbound (reinforced along left edge). Caption title. In good to very good condition. Early manuscript ink notation at top of recto: "Nº 18". Broadside. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. As governor and intendant of the province of Santiago, Lastra chides his compatriots for not surrendering the goods covered by the estanco - i.e., tobacco, tea, liquor, and playing cards, for which the government of Chile had granted a monopoly to Portales, Céa in exchange for having that private company service Chile's external debt.Francisco de la Lastra (1777-1852) was an early advocate of Chilean independence and in 1814 served briefly as the country's first supreme director, before signing the Treaty of Lircay. Deported to the Juan Fernández Islands from 1814 to 1817, he returned to take up a position as intendant of Santiago. In the absence of Ramón Freire, Lastra was again the supreme director of Chile for a… Read More

[Paris], Chez Sebastien Cramoisy, 1678.. 12°, contemporary mottled calf (minor wear), gilt spine with raised bands in five compartments, title stamped in second compartment from head (worn at head and foot, joints starting). Some light browning; printing flaw on A10 with loss of 3-4 words. In very good condition. Added woodcut title, (3 ll.), 172 pp. [pagination skips 145-6, repeats pp. 161-2], 19 woodcut plates [nº 14 frayed at edge]. *** Presumably the second edition of this charmingly-illustrated pocket manual for foot soldiers, and one of the first military works to describe arms and armor in detail. The Traité is known in two Cramoisy editions of 1678: one with an added title and plates engraved by N. Guérard, and this (presumably later) edition with woodcut plates and a completely reset text. An English translation appeared in London later the same year, with a second published in 1680 as part of the anonymous English Military Discipline.In his preface, Gaya explains that, having already… Read More

Lisbon, Regia Officina Typografica, 1773.. First Edition. 4°, contemporary mottled calf (some wear, slightly defective at top of spine), gilt spine with raised bands in 6 compartments, lettering piece missing from second compartment from head of spine. Two tears on folding table, ending at border. Crisp and clean; overall in very good condition. 158 pp., (1 l. errata), 1 folding table. *** FIRST EDITION. Paz, a Franciscan who taught Hebrew at the Seminary in Beja, learned the language from the Maronite D. Paulo Hoder. A second edition of the Compendio, not substantially different from the first, appeared at Coimbra, 1826. *** Innocêncio III, 30: without mention of the errata leaf. Amzalak, Portuguese Hebrew Grammars & Grammarians pp. 22-3 and plate XIII. Imprensa Nacional pp. 84 & 279. Not in Palha. Porbase locates two copies, both in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Jisc repeats British Library only. NUC: DLC, NN.

Vienna, Na Officina de João Diogo Kürner, 1717.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, contemporary stiff vellum (small defects to spine, lower outer corner of rear cover; soiled). Typographical headpieces and page divider. Large woodcut tailpiece. Woodcut initials. A few small, very light dampstains. Overall in very good condition. Old ink inscriptions "Deus guard" on front pastedown endleaf and "Sobral // g Jose para [?]" on recto of front free endleaf. (8 ll.), 491, (1) pp. Page 140 misnumbered 149. *** FIRST EDITION. A rare example of a work in Portuguese printed in Vienna; the printer apologizes for any errors that slipped into the text, "mais de ignorancia que da incuria" (final page). An abridged version of this work was published in 1787 under the title Relação verdadeira da jornada que desde Lisboa fez a corte de Vienna d'Austria o Conde de Villar-Maior ....The author accompanied the Conde de Villar-Maior, Fernando Telles da Silva, to Vienna in 1708 to complete arrangements for the marriage of D. João… Read More

Lisbon, Na Officina de Miguel Manescal da Costa, 1754.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large folio (42.4 x 27.8 cm.), contemporary sheep (corners worn and foot of spine defective; two small holes in front cover; other minor wear to binding), spine gilt with raised bands in seven compartments (spine label missing), edges sprinkled red. Elegantly printed on paper of excellent quality. Title page printed in red and black. Two fine vignettes and an engraved initial by Debrie (see below). Each page (except the half-title) within quadruple woodcut border, and with woodcuts top and bottom (see below). Some small, light, minor mold stains, becoming more pronounced and larger in the final dozen or so leaves. Very minor worming in lower inner margins of final two leaves, not affecting the text. Overall in good condition. (4 ll.), 101 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this work dedicated to the recently crowned D. José I (r. 1750-1777), outlining the king's genealogy as far back as D. João I (1385-1433).The title… Read More

St. Petersburg, Alexandre Pluchart et Comp., 1811.. Tall 8°, contemporary calf (scuffed), smooth spine gilt, marbled endpapers (fore-edge of front free endpaper missing). Small vignette of sheep on title-page. Minor worming in blank lower margin toward end. In good condition. (2 ll.), 88 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION? The first part (pp. 5-52) provides a very detailed account of how merino sheep are raised in Spain, with additional chapters on shearing and washing merino wool. The author then compares the efforts made in other European countries to raise merino sheep (pp. 53-71). He concludes with an account of how merino sheep were first introduced into the Crimea in 1803 and offers specific proposals for ensuring that the flocks grow and thrive, thus vastly improving the quality of wool available in Russia and the Ukraine (pp. 71-88).*** NUC: MB.

[Colophon] Lisboa Occidental, Na Officina de Pedro Ferreyra, (1727).. First Edition in Portuguese. 4°, disbound. Caption title. Five-line woodcut initial. In good to very good condition. Early ink manuscript note of translator's name in margin of first page. Old ink manuscript foliation in upper outer corners of first three leaves recto (308-310; no foliation on final leaf). (4 ll.) *** First and Only Edition in Portuguese; judging from the caption title and the note on f. 2r, Mascarenhas translated Moulay Ismaïl's will from a Spanish edition, but compiled the facts of the sultan's life from other sources.Moulay Ismaïl Ibn Sharif (1643 or 1645-1727) was one of the most famous figures in Moroccan history. After becoming the second sultan in the Alaouite dynasty in 1672, he fought a series of battles to persuade the Ottoman Turks to respect Moroccan independence and captured Tangier and other important seaports from the Spanish and English, earning himself the nickname "The Warrior King."The… Read More

Lisbon, Na Offic. de Antonio Gomes, 1791.. 2 volumes. 8°, contemporary mottled calf (worn, defective for less than 1 cm. at head and foot of spine of first volume, short tear at head of spine on second volume), smooth spines with gilt bands, crimson morocco lettering pieces with short title gilt, citron label with gilt volume numbers within a wreath; first volume recased with later marbled endleaves; second volume has contemporary marbled endleaves; all text block edges marbled. Small typographical headpiece at beginning of text in each volume. A few stains. In good condition. Old ink signature ("Torres") on front flyleaf verso of first volume. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown in each volume of the Condessa dos Arcos, Dona Maria Margarida (see below). (8 ll.), 319 pp.; (4 ll.), 297 pp., 4 engraved plates of coins from ancient times to the eighteenth century. *** Third edition of the author's most important work, which first appeared in Lisbon, 1655, with a second edition of Lisbon, 1740. The… Read More

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… Read More