Recent Acquisitions - Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books

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scripts of Miguel de Unamuno (Volume I, nos. 1/2), Silva Pinto and Teixeira de Queiros
(Volume II, no. 3) were published, as were unpublished correspondence of Domingos
António Sequeira (Volume II, no. 5), Augusto Gil (Volume II, no. 6), Fialho de Almeida and
Joaquim de Araújo (Volume II, nos. 3/4), Silva Pinto (Volume II, no. 2), Stefan Zweig and
Fernando de Araújo Lima (Volume II, nos. 5/6), and Tagore (Volume II, no. 1). Included
was violent criticism of Miguel Torga and João Gaspar Simões. Reproductions appeared
of the art of Abel Salazar, Agostinho Salgado, Almada Negreiros, Anjos Teixeira, António
Carneiro, Attila Mendly, Cruz Caldas, Domingos Sequeira, Joaquim Lopes, Juan Avalos,
Melo Júnior, Moreno Carbonero and Soares dos Reis.
j Pires, Dicionário da imprensa periódica literária portuguesa do século XX (1941–1974),
II, i, 384-6. Rocha, Revistas literárias do século XX p. 658. ULS: CU, NN; partial runs at IU
(volume II) and OkU (volume I and part of volume II). NUC: adding NcU, InU, MH.
White Slavery in Pernambuco
132. [PROSTITUTION]. Ao Publico. As asseverações inexactas, as
calumnias mesmo mais inacreditaveis, que, em menoscabo dos Portuguezes
que desta Cidade requererão medidas para fazer punir os traficantes de
escravatura branca …. [colophon:] Pernambuco: Typ. Nacional, 1855.
8°, early plain pink wrappers, upper detached, tattered. Uncut and
partially unopened. Minor soiling at edges of first leaf. Overall good
to very good. (1 l.), 26 pp. $250.00
FIRST and ONLY (?) EDITION. Urges the government to deal quickly and decisively
with the problem of white slavery. Several government officials in Pernambuco had been
accused of being involved in the traffic.
Another issue exists with the same setting of type, but bearing the printed signature
of Antonio Bernardo Coutinho at the end.
j Not in Fonseca, Pseudónimos, Tancredo de Paiva or Lapa. Not located in Sacramento
Blake or Innocêncio.
133. RASTEIRO, Joaquim. Inicios da Renascença em Portugal. Quinta
e Palacio da Bacalhoa em Azeitão. Monographia historico-artistica. 2 volumes.
Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1895-1898. Folio, original printed
wrappers for text volume (some foxing; diagonal crease to front wrapper)
and original illustrated wrappers (minor soiling and foxing) for
atlas volume. A good set. 97 pp. [quire 5 erroneously signed as 4]; 6
tinted lithographs and 48 chromolithographs, including 1 folding.
2 volumes. $200.00
FIRST EDITION of this study of the Quinta da Bacalhoa, near Setúbal, particularly
of its azuleijos, which are illustrated in 48 of the 54 plates in the atlas volume. The Quinta