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R I C H A R D C. R A M E R

Special List 497

The Azores

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Special List 497

The Azores

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Special List 497

The Azores

Proposed Port at Villa Franca do Campo

1. ABRANCHES, João Antonio Garcia d’. Senhores representantes da

nação portugueza. [Begins]: A Camara Municipal de Villa Franca do Campo

da Ilha de S. Miguel …. [Colophon] Lisbon: Offic. a St.ª Cathari.ª n. 12,

1834. 4°, later plain green wrappers. Caption title. In very good condi-

tion. Bibliographical note tipped inside front wrapper, paper tag shelf

mark on back wrapper. Small white paper tag with serrated edges,

presumed shelf mark in later ink manuscript on lower inner corner of

rear wrapper. 8 pp.

$350.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION? Concerns the construction of a dock at Villa Franca

do Campo, São Miguel, a favorite project of the author, who never saw it to completion.

Garcia d’Abranches (1769-1845), whom Innocêncio believed to be a native of S. Miguel,

but was probably born at Ceia, district of Guarda, later became a naturalized Brazilian.

He did spend several years on the Island of São Miguel in the Azores from 1830. In 1789

he had emigrated to Brazil, settling at São Luís de Maranhão. Between 1825 and 1830 he

published and edited there the Censor Maranhense, defending the Emperor D. Pedro I in

opposition to the newspapers of Odorico Mendes.

❊ Innocêncio III, 290; X, 154-5. Sacramento Blake III, 325-6. Canto, Bibliotheca aço-

riana 1090 (giving a slightly different transcription of the caption title). Perhaps Canto,

Inventario 8. Cf. Afonso, Bibliografia geral dos Açores 13: Representação em nome da Câmara

Municipal de Vila Franca do Campo, with 8 pp., Lisbon 1834. Not located in NUC. OCLC:

503793337 (British Library); 989056774 (computer file). Not located in Porbase, which

cites a similar work of 16 pp. in two copies, both at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.

Not located in Jisc. Not located in KVK (51 databases searched)

With 35 Lithograph Views of Towns, Buildings and Costumes and a

Large Folding Panorama of the Waterfront at Ponta Delgada

2. ABRANCHES, Joaquim Candido. Album Michaelense. Introduction

by Francisco Maria Supico. Ponta Delgada: Manoel Correa Botelho, 1869.

Large 8°, contemporary tan quarter calf over red textured boards (some

minor wear), smooth spine with gilt fillets, author and title. Some soil-

ing to title page, preliminary leaves nicked at fore-edges and browned.

The rest of the text and all plates are very good to fine. Overall in good

condition. Small old rectangular white paper ticket with red border,

serrated edges and manuscript presumed shelf location tipped on to

upper outer corner of front pastedown endleaf. xiv, 138 pp., 1 litho-

graph map, 1 double page folding lithograph view, 35 lithographs (on

34 leaves).

$1,200.00

FIRST EDITION. This detailed description of the island of S. Miguel in the Azores,

by a long-time resident, includes a variety of historical, ecclesiastical, economic and

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political information. At the end are tables on exports, expenses at local hospitals, school

attendance, the height above sea level of various locations on the island, etc. The map

shows geographical features and towns; the 35 lithographs (signed “Serrano” or “S”) are

views of towns, of government and religious buildings and of costumes. There is a large

folding lithograph panorama of the waterfront of Ponta Delgada, as viewed from the sea.

❊ Innocêncio XII, 30. Canto, Biblioteca Açoriana 1178. Canto, Inventario 10. NUC: DLC.

Comprehensive Analysis

3. AÇORES. Junta Geral da Provincia Oriental. Exposição chronologica

dos trabalhos da Junta Geral da Provincia Oriental dos Açores do anno de 1833.

Publicada pelos individuos, que composerão a mesma. Lisbon: Na Imprensa

da Rua dos Fanqueiros N.º 129 B, 1834. 4°, disbound, text block edges

sprinkled blue-green from an early binding. Woodcut tailpieces. In

Good to very good condition. 56 pp., 2 large folding tables.

$500.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Includes detailed information regarding education,

trade, commerce, imports and exports for the Eastern islands of the Azores.

❊ Canto, Biblioteca açoriana 717. Canto, Inventario 648. Not in Innocencio or Fonseca,

Aditamentos. Not in Kress, Luso-Brazilian Economic Literature Before 1850. Not located in

OCLC. Not located in Porbase. Not located in Jisc. Not located in KVK (51 databases

searched). Not located in Holis or Orbis. Not located in the online catalogues of Library

of Congress or Newberry Library.

*4. AFONSO, João. Bibliografia geral dos Açores: sequencia do Dicionário

bibliográfico portugues. Volumes I and II: A-BR and BR-CU. 2 volumes.

Angra do Heroísmo: Secretaria Regional da Educação e Cultura, 1985.

Large 8°, publisher’s cloth with dust jacket. As new. 462 pp., (1 l.); 462

pp., (1 l.). ISBN: none.

2 volumes.

$85.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Volume I covers the letters A-BR; volume II covers BR-CU.

*5. AFONSO, João. Bibliografia geral dos Açores: sequencia açoriana do

Dicionário bibliográfico portugues. Volume III: CUN-FUT [last published to

date]. Angra do Heroísmo: Secretaria Regional da Educação e Cultura,

1997. Large 8°, publisher’s cloth with dust jacket. As new. 682 pp., (1

l.). ISBN: 972-647-128-1.

$85.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION.

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6. AGUIAR, João Jose d’. Memoria descriptiva da inauguração do retrato

do fallecido par do reino Conde da Praia da Victoria no Salão Nobre do Palacio

da Camara Municipal de Angra do Heroismo no dia 1.º de Janeiro de 1874.

Ponta Delgada: Empreza Typographica dos Açores, 1874. 8°, original

green printed wrappers (small nick to blank portion of front wrapper;

slight fraying; minor soiling; rear wrapper almost detached). Title page

and front wrapper within woodcut chain link. Small woodcut vignette

tailpiece on p. 33. In good to very good condition. 33 pp.

$250.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION.

❊ Innocêncio, X, 284. Canto, Biblioteca açoriana 1126. Canto, Inventario 44. Not in

Afonso, Bibliografia geral dos Açores. Not located in OCLC. Not located in Porbase. Not

located in Jisc. Not located in KVK (51 databases searched).

*7. AIRES, Fernando. Histórias do entardecer. Angra do Heroísmo: SREC

/ DRAC, 1988. Colecção Gaivota, 62. 8°, original illustrated wrappers.

As new. 49 pp., (5 ll.). ISBN: none.

$20.00

FIRST and ONLY EDITION. This book of short fiction was awarded the Prémio

“Nunes da Rosa”—Concurso Literário Açores/88.

Survey of the the Island of São Miguel in the Azores

With Suggestions for Commercial Improvements

8. ALBUQUERQUE, Luiz da Silva Mousinho de, and Ignacio Pitta

de Castro Menezes. Observações sobre a ilha de S. Miguel recolhidas pela

Commissão enviada a mesma ilha em Agosto de 1825, e regressada em Outubro

do mesmo anno. Lisbon: Na Impressão Regia, 1826. 4°, contemporary

half tan calf over green boards (stained), smooth spine with crimson

morocco lettering piece, gilt letter and fillets. Woodcut Portuguese royal

arms on title page. Printed on thick paper of excellent quality. For the

most part clean and crisp. In very good condition overall. 43 pp., 3 large

lithograph folding maps (2 with short tears).

$800.00

FIRST EDITION. There exists a facsimile edition of 1989 published by the Câmara

Municipal de Povoação, which appears to be of even greater rarity than the original.

Observações includes a history of São Miguel since its discovery by the Portuguese in

1427, a survey of its secular and ecclesiastical divisions, and statistics on military, agri-

culture, education, trade, and property ownership. The list of necessary improvements

(pp. 34-36) includes a larger bay and better roads. Valle das Furnas and its waters are

considered on pp. 37-43.

The large folding lithographs include a military and hydrographic map of the Island

of São Miguel (38.6 x 61 cm.); a plan of the Valle das Furnas on the same island (36 x 47.5

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cm.); and a plan of the hot springs in the Valle das Furnas (36.7 x 45.8 cm.). The first was

prepared by Lieutenant Colonel José Carlos de Figueiredo in 1824, while the two plans

were prepared by the authors in 1825.

Mousinho de Albuquerque (1792-1846), became a colonel in the army engineer-

ing corps, Provador da Casa da Moeda (where he lectured on physics and chemistry),

Governor of Madeira, Inspector of Public Works, deputy in various legislatures, and

minister in several constitutional governments. An active proponent of the liberal cause,

he died at Torres Vedras of a bullet wound in the Lutas da Patuleia. A member of the

Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, his textbook Curso elementar de física e química

(5 volumes, Lisbon 1824) is said to be the first such complete work in Portuguese, while

Ideas sobre o estabelecimento da instrucção publica (Paris 1823) was a comprehensive plan

for university reform.

❊ Innocêncio V, 323. Canto, Biblioteca açoriana 1811. Canto, Inventario 72. NUC:

ICN, DLC, MoSU. OCLC: 27968704 (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Harvard

Business School, Newberry Library, Washington University in St. Louis, Bibliothèque

central du Museum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque interuniversitaire Sainte-

Geneviève, Universitätsbibliothek Kassel); 458858015 (Bibliothèque nationale de France);

504308498 (British Library); 1062277713 (Internet resource digitized from British Library

copy). Porbase locates seven copies: two in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, three

in the Instituto de Investigação Científica e Tropical, and one each in the Biblioteca João

Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and the Biblioteca Central da Marinha. Jisc

repeats British Library only.

Survey of the the Island of São Miguel in the Azores

With Suggestions for Commercial Improvements

9. ALBUQUERQUE, Luís da Silva Mouzinho de, and Ignacio Pitta de

Castro Menezes. Observações sobre a Ilha de S. Miguel recolhidas pela com-

missão enviada á mesma ilha em Agosto de 1825, e regressada em Outubro do

mesmo anno. Lisbon: Na Impressão Regia, 1826. Large 4° (27 x 20.5 cm.),

twentieth-century tan sheep (third quarter? very slight wear), smooth

spine gilt, covers with double-ruled borders in blind, front cover with

authors, title, and date in gilt, machine-marbled endleaves, top edges

rouged, other edges uncut. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title

page. Internally fresh, clean, and crisp. Overall in very good to fine

condition. 43 pp., three large lithographic folding maps.

$600.00

FIRST EDITION. There exists a facsimile edition of 1989 published by the Câmara

Municipal de Povoação, which appears to be of even greater rarity than the original.

Observações includes a history of São Miguel since its discovery by the Portuguese in

1427, a survey of its secular and ecclesiastical divisions, and statistics on military, agri-

culture, education, trade, and property ownership. The list of necessary improvements

(pp. 34-36) includes a larger bay and better roads. Valle das Furnas and its waters are

considered on pp. 37-43.

The large folding lithographs include a military and hydrographic map of the Island

of São Miguel (38.6 x 61 cm.); a plan of the Valle das Furnas on the same island (36 x 47.5

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