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A SPECIMEN OF HUMAN LIFE
New York: Bergman, 1967. Rose cloth. pp 127, [5]. Distributor's sticker on front free endpaper, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Acosta was the son of a noble Portuguese family which had be forced to convert to Catholicism. He fled Portugal for Amsterdam where he could practice his ancestral religion, Judaism. Reacting against Rabbincal Judaism, he formulated his Eleven Theses, which are for the first time translated into a book in English here. He was exiled and reviled by the Jewish community, flogged in public in the great synagogue, spit upon, his books burned. and committed suicide as a result. This book is his autobiography, with new material for the first time translated into English. Uncommon book.
Book ID: 41535More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
A VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA...Containing the history, natural, civil, and ecclesiastical, of that remote and unrequited country, continued down to the beginning of the eighteenth century...
Book ID: 46094More details Price: USD $450.00 USD $405.00 -
ALBUM MICHAELENSE
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 21305More details Price: USD $750.00 USD $675.00 -
BALTHASAR AND BLIMUNDA. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero
New York: Harcourt Brace, c. 1988. 4th printing of the Harvest Books paperback. Corner crease to two leaves, a few scattered pen strokes in text margins, gold sticker on cover promoting his winning of the Nobel Prize is quite rubbed, VG otherwise. With ink ownership signature of noted Canadian novelist and short story writer Leon Rooke, and with post-it note from major Canadian poet P.K. Page stating "Returned at last, love P.K."; Octavo
Book ID: 53019More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
COUSIN BAZILIO. Translated by Roy Campbell
Edition: First of this edition
London: Max Reinhardt, 1953. Octavo, pink cloth. Tidy ink owner name at top margin of front free endpaper, with ink date on the other side, mild foxing to page edges, soft bruise to lower outer corners of covers and head of spine, VG+ otherwise. Thin jacket has small chips and tears, with one long tear on rear panel internally repaired; good, flap price intact. Author was the greatest of 19th century Portuguese novelist. The translator lived his last years in Portugal, a country he deeply loved.
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
Book ID: 34950More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
FABLED SHORE: From the Pyrennes to Portugal
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. Second printing, same year as first. Red cloth. pp (xii), 200 + plates. Endpaper maps. Spine lightly sunned, else a VG jacketless copy, no owner names. Travelogue - Mediterranean coast of Spain and Portugal.
Book ID: 36002More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
NOSTALGIA: a collection of poems. Translated from the Portuguese and introduced by Roy Campbell
Edition: First edition in English
London: Sylvan Press, 1960. Inscribed by Author.; 12mo, beige boards. pp 51. Short shallow dark stain to upper margin of pp 33 to end; ink owner name (date on other side) to front free endpaper, moderate wear to outer corners, offset yellowing to inner margins of free endpapers, else a VG clean and tight copy. Cream dust jacket has short tears; small chips at spine ends; light soiling; tape shadow at lower spine; dark spot at top of rear flap; just good, flap price intact. Inscribed by the author in Lisbon in 1961, signed in full. The Portuguese novelist's only book of poems. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.; Signed by Author.
Condition: Good in Good dust jacket
Book ID: 34531More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
THE REVOLUTIONS OF PORTUGAL. Written in French by the Abbot De Vertot, of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions. Done into English from the last French Edition.
London: Printed for W. Taylor...and C. Rivington, 1724. Octavo, contemporary calf, spine label. viii, iv, 138, [10, index] pp. Frontispiece illustration. Binding a little worn, stained; front joint broken but the cords are still holding, internally repaired neatly with cloth tape; upper outer corner of titl e page has a small light ink name at top and a large, obtrusive 1839 ink name in a different hand beneath; soil spots to fore margin of two leaves and a few small soil spots in text; else VG and unworn internally. The translation was by Gabriel Rous Sillon. First edition in English of this translation was London: Chetwood, 1721. There was previously a London, 1712, English translation by John Hughes.
Book ID: 12571More details Price: USD $150.00 USD $135.00