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1979S7087Cambridge:: MIT Press 1979. 1979. 8vo. xiii 384 pp. Photos figs. tables index. Boards dust jacket; jacket extremities very slightly rubbed. Fine. Fourth printing. Detailed and readable illustrated history of DNA and its significance. ISBN: 0262160676 MIT Press, (1979). hardcover books
1979S4034Cambridge MA & London:: MIT Press 1979. 1979. Fourth printing. 234 x 160 mm. 8vo. xiii 384 pp. Figs. index. Black cloth dust-jacket; jacket a bit rubbed else fine. MIT Press, (1979). hardcover books
19771334799Cambridge MA: The MIT Press 1977. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 384; VG-/G; light gray spine with white text; dust jacket shows sunned spine; slight rubbing wear to front and rear; stamped date to front; cloth has slightly sunned tail edge; clean front and rear; strong boards; text block has light wear to exterior edges; stamped date to ffep; illustrated; good binding; interior clean. 1334799. FP New Rockville Stock. The MIT Press hardcover books
19792266437MIT Press 1979. 4th Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Fourth printing. Spine lightly toned wrapper edges lightly rubbed. 1979 Trade Paperback. xiii 383 pp. "Why did it take more than a century of research before scientists properly understood what DNA was and what it did within the cell A Century of DNA aims to answer this question tracing the history of DNA research across interrelated subjects including embryology biophysics organic chemistry histology physiological chemistry and genetics. The chapters follow a chronological sequence in the development of ideas on DNA and incorporate biographical material on researchers involved in these discoveries. Comprehensible to the general scientific reader and to the specialist this book is a unique look at the foundations of molecular biology. MIT Press paperback books
1513WRCAM38334Strassburg: Matthias Hüpfüff 1513. 7 leaves including woodcut titlepage illustration 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches plus final integral blank leaf. Quarto. Dbd. leather tab on fore-edge of first leaf. Slight soiling and dampstaining in margins. A very good copy. In a half morocco and cloth box. An extremely rare German translation of a newsletter first issued in Latin and published in Rome in 1513 reporting the Portuguese conquest of Malacca in 1511 and describing its rich potential as a commercial center. No copies of this seven-leaf edition are recorded in OCLC or RLIN and only a single copy of another 1513 German translation printed in Augsburg and consisting of five leaves is located in the U.S. at the James Ford Bell Library. However the British Library holds copies of both translations and the imprint information for this edition is based on Robert Proctor's research on German books in the British Museum. <br> <br> The letter from Manuel I to Pope Leo X relates the conquest of Malacca by Portuguese military commander Afonso de Albuquerque in June 1511. In addition to providing details of this victorious battle the report includes descriptions of the wealth to be found in the region and the importance of the city as a trading nexus. In particular the text emphasizes how courteously the merchants were treated in order to ensure future commerce. Albuquerque's voyages and military exploits between 1503 and 1515 were instrumental in consolidating Portugal's expansion to India and Malaya. The present pamphlet also records his actions after he departed Malaya and returned to Goa in 1512. These include descriptions of skirmishes with the Moors and embassies to other parts of India and Asia related to the payment of tribute to the Portuguese crown. As in the descriptions of Malacca the potential wealth to be found in the region is emphasized. <br> <br> While the text of the pamphlet is entirely about the East Indies the titlepage contains one of the earliest illustrations of an American Indian. This woodcut shows a native man and native woman on either side of an armorial shield immediately below a royal crown. The naked woman with a flowering plant in her left hand holds the bottom of the crown with her other hand as the man steadies the shield with his left hand and grasps a bow with his right hand. The man with full beard wears a feather crown skirt and leg decorations. This woodcut is exactly the same as that illustrating the titlepage of an earlier German newsletter reporting Portuguese activities in the East Manuel I's GESCHICHTE KURTZLICH DURCH DIE VON PORTUGALIEN IN INDIA MORENLAND UND ANDERN ERDTRICH published in Nuremburg circa 1507. This portrayal of the man in turn appears to be derived from images of South American Indians found in an illustrated Vespucci broadside printed in Nuremberg circa 1505- 1506 see EUROPEAN AMERICANA 505/11 and illustrated on the cover of the Wolfenbüttel exhibition catalogue and broadsides based on Vespucci's third voyage printed in Augsburg circa 1505-1506 EUROPEAN AMERICANA 505/13 and 505/14. The publisher of the present work also issued an illustrated edition of Vespucci in 1505 but not this one see Church 22 for a reproduction. At this early time Europeans might well have supposed that the East Indians of Malacca and the natives Vespucci encountered in the New World were the same people. All of these broadsides and pamphlets including the present work were published within seven or eight years in three different centers of German printing. <br> <br> A remarkably rare early German newsletter reporting on Portuguese military and commercial activities in Malacca and India. No copies on OCLC or VD16; a single copy located at the British Library. PROCTOR INDEX OF GERMAN BOOKS 1501-1520 IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM p.31 no. 10035. BELL M125 variant translation 5 leaves. OCLC 35837666 variant translation 5 leaves James Ford Bell only. HOWGEGO A43 Albuquerque. PENROSE SALE 156 for woodcut illustration in the 1507 Nuremburg GESCHICHTE. ref. DEÃÂK PICTURING AMERICA 4 illustrated broadside ca. 1505 ref. GLASER ENGRAVED AMERICA p.16 illustrated Vespucci broadside 1505-6 ref. EXHIBITION OF THE DUKE AUGUST LIBRARY WOLFENBÜTTEL; THE NEW WORLD IN THE TREASURES OF AN OLD EUROPEAN LIBRARY 1976 see cover illustration and entry 3 ref. Matthias Hüpfüff hardcover books
199482671Viseu: Centro de Estudos Pre-Historicos de Beira Alta 1994. Paperback. Near Fine. This volume only of 2. illustrations plans and maps 8 folding 432p. Wrapper. 30cm. Portuguese text. Estudos Pre-Historicos Vol. II. <br/><br/> Centro de Estudos Pre-Historicos de Beira Alta paperback books
191310212416mo 4 1/4" x 6 1/2" red cloth gilt title on top cover and spine illustrated with maps 594 pp. Slight extremity wear hinges a little cracked corners bumped large map with small tape repair some aging and browning; otherwise about very good. Karl Baedeker 1801-1959 was born in Essen and attended Heidelberg University. His family was involved in the publishing and bookselling business and around 1828 he entered the travel guide business. Baedeker created a different kind of travel book that opened up tourism for a new class of travelers by guiding the tourist to the principal attractions in a country or area. This information was often edited by Baedeker himself and sons would take over and expand the business after his death. This edition provides considerable information on Spain and Portugal and contains many folding maps. ODB. Karl Baedeker, books
177528222Lisbon: Na Regia Officina Typografica. 1775. Folio 29 cm; 11.5". 7 1 blank pp. <br><br>The king has decided that reform and improvement aere needed at the Orphans' Hospital Hospital dos Expostos in Lisbon and here issues the decree specifying the changes. "Alvará por que Vossa Magestade he servido occorrer com as providencias necessarias para fazer em cessar os inconvenientes que até agora se praticavam no Hospital dos Expostos: Dando nova forma para as creações entregas e educações delles . . . ".<br>Â Â Â Â => No copies found via WorldCat or COPAC. Removed from a bound volume; now in modern wrappers. Old foliation neatly inked in upper outer corners; clean with wide margins. Na Regia Officina Typografica. unknown books
177528234Lisbon: colophon: Na Regia Officina Typografica 1775. Folio. 38 pp. <br><br>The Portuguese king decides to reform and reorganize the Hospital Real das Caldas a thermal springs treatment center that Queen Leonor established in 1484. The details of the innovations are detailed here. "Alvará de Regimento por que Vossa Magestade annullando cassando e abolindo o antigo Regimento chamado Compromisso do Hospital Real das Caldas . . . que depois delle se expediram; fazendo cessar a Inspecção que sobre elle até agora teve a Meza da Consciencia e Ordens; e separando-o da Adminstração dos Conegos Seculares de S. João Evangelista".<br>Â Â Â Â => No copy traced via WorldCat or COPAC. Removed from a bound volume and laid into modern wrappers. Light stain in outer margin of last leaf with a trace of same showing on a few more inward; old foliation neatly inked in upper outer corners; generally clean with good margins. One inked contemporary marginal note. [colophon: Na Regia Officina Typografica unknown books
198255497Lisboa: Oficinas Graficas de Biblioteca Nacional 1982. Reprinted edition pp. 47 1; text in double column; original wrappers bound in; fine in attractive brown calf-backed marbled boards gilt lettering direct on spine. Bullfighting bookplate of James J. Nieto. <br/><br/> Oficinas Graficas de Biblioteca Nacional hardcover books
1838609821838. Portugal Election Law. Carta De Lei De Nove De Abril De 1838 Para E Eleicao de Senadores E Deputados Half-title. Porto: Imprensa Constitucional 1838. 33 pp. Folding table. Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Light toning foxing to a few leaves early hand-lettered page numbers to upper corners of leaves. $75. The Portuguese law of 1838 governing national elections containing 92 articles with numerous statistical tables relating to district representation. unknown books
197831646Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 0801820421 . First edition. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper else near fine in a near fine light shelf wear dust jacket. . Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover books
1866289907Coimbra.: Imprensa da Universidade. 1866 . Contemporary full marbled calf gilt spine decorations marbled endpapers. . Very good light wear to covers. 8vo. 21x13.5 cm. . Portuguese text. Commercial law. weight: 1.6 lb. Imprensa da Universidade. unknown books
1811WRCAM16399London 1811. 7pp. Small quarto. Modern morocco backed marbled boards fine. Important treaty between the exiled Portuguese Crown and Great Britain concerning the establishment of packet lines between the two nations. Printed in English and Portuguese. hardcover books
1972047780Hildesheim New York: Georg Olms Verlag 1972. Zum ersten Mal vollständig herausgegeben und mit Einleitung Anmerkungen und Glossar versehen von Henry Roseman Lang. cxlviii 174p. original red cloth. Reprint of the 1894 Halle edition. Georg Olms Verlag unknown books
200427748Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0801442265 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Cornell University Press hardcover books
1820564031820. A Profound Influence in Spain Portugal and Latin America Arguelles Augustin de 1776-1844. Discurso Preliminar a Constituicao Politica de Monarquia Hespanhola: Onde se Expoem os Fundamentos das Disposicoes da Mesma Constituicao. Lido nas Cortes Geraes E Extraordinarias Congregadas em Cadis em 1811 Nas Sessoes em Que a Commissao da Constituicao Apresentou o Projecto Desta. Traduzido do Hespanhol por R.F.C. Lisbon: Na Typografia Rollandiana 1820. 157 2 pp. Octavo 6-1/4" x 4-1/4". Original plain paper wrappers untrimmed edges signatures unopened. Some wear to spine ends internally fresh. $450. First edition in Portuguese. Influential in Spain and Portugal this essay on the Spanish constitution of 1812 was also a profound influence in Latin America. It was first delivered in 1811 before the Cortes that brought constitutional monarchy to Spain. This translation was prepared on the occasion of the revolution at Porto on August 24 1820 that overthrew the regency and paved the way for the parliamentary deliberations that resulted in the Portuguese constitution of 1822. It also helped to inspire the Latin American independence movements of the 1820s. The identity of "R.F.C." is unknown. Arguelles was a Spanish statesman and diplomat. OCLC locates 2 copies at Harvard Law School and the University of Kansas. Another copy located at the National Library of Portugal. unknown books
1820564021820. A Profound Influence in Spain Portugal and Latin America Arguelles Augustin de 1776-1844. Discurso Preliminar a Constituicao Politica de Monarquia Hespanhola: Onde se Expoem os Fundamentos das Disposicoes da Mesma Constituicao. Lido nas Cortes Geraes E Extraordinarias Congregadas em Cadis em 1811 Nas Sessoes em Que a Commissao da Constituicao Apresentou o Projecto Desta. Traduzido do Hespanhol por R.F.C. Lisbon: Na Typografia Rollandiana 1820. 157 2 pp. Octavo 6-1/4" x 4-1/4". Original plain paper wrappers untrimmed edges signatures unopened. Some wear to spine ends internally fresh. $650. First edition in Portuguese. Influential in Spain and Portugal this essay on the Spanish constitution of 1812 was also a profound influence in Latin America. It was first delivered in 1811 before the Cortes that brought constitutional monarchy to Spain. This translation was prepared on the occasion of the revolution at Porto on August 24 1820 that overthrew the regency and paved the way for the parliamentary deliberations that resulted in the Portuguese constitution of 1822. It also helped to inspire the Latin American independence movements of the 1820s. The identity of "R.F.C." is unknown. Arguelles was a Spanish statesman and diplomat. OCLC locates 2 copies at Harvard Law School and the University of Kansas. Another copy located at the National Library of Portugal. unknown books
176428246Lisbon: No publisher/printer 1764. Folio 29 cm; 11.5". 1 f. i.e. 2 pp. <br><br>By this Alvará 13 September 1764 the king addresses matters of jurisdiction in cases against dealers in contraband sugar. "Alvará porque V. Magestade ha por bem ordenar que as diligencias preparatorias dos processos verbaes dos Contrabandos apprehendidos na Alfandegado do assucar da cidade de Lisboa se fação per ante o Juiz Conservador geral do Commercio. . . . "<br>Â Â Â Â There are two issues: in this issue on p. 1 the catchword is "hendidos" and in the other catchword is "hendi-."<br>Â Â Â Â => WorldCat locates only the copy at the John Carter Brown Library. Removed from a bound volume. Light brown stain in lower margin and an even lighter stain in top one; old foliation number neatly inked in upper outer corner of recto. A good exemplar. No publisher/printer unknown books
181743919Rio de Janeiro: Na Impressão Regia 1817. Marbled paper wrappers manuscript title. Very good closed tears along head and tail of spine edge worn and dampstained contents lightly foxed with a few tiny wormholes. 2 pp. 4to. Grants to Universidade de Coimbra "cultivating and promoting the studies of sciences for the sake of the prosperity of the state . Dated and signed in type "Dado no Palacio do Rio de Janeiro em dezesete de marco de mil oitocentos e dezesete." OCLC locates a single copy at JCB: OCLC: 81134706. Cf. Camargo & Moraes. Bib. da Impressão Régia do Rio de Janeiro II 331. (Na Impressão Regia) unknown books
177241404Lisboa: impresso na officina de Miguel Rodrigues 1772. First edition. Removed. Very good clean copies both removed from larger volumes with numerals noted on top edge of each leaf. 4 pp.; 6 pp.203-208. Approx 8 x 11 1/2 each. Two documents five years apart concerning the needed educational reform in Portugal at the Collegio de Nobres. The first document concerns rules to tighten up the procedures of the College of Nobles instituted by Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo Marquês de Pombal just a year earlier to strengthen scientific education and the second with further reforms to educate the sons of the nobility with useful and practical knowledge shortly before the school's failure. Pombal's attempt "was not a successful enterprise: among the main causes for its failures were financial difficulties the attitude of the Portuguese nobility who antagonized such an educational programme disciplinary questions and the inappropriateness of the course to students who were too young to profit from them. Scientific teaching lasted for 5 years 1766-1772 " In The Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment p. 11. It would be the reforms of the University of Coimbra to which the focus was transferred that would finally succeed. OCLC locates a copy of the first document at the BN Espana. Delgado da Silva: Collecção da legislação Portugueza II pp. 318-20 & pp. 585-7. OCLC: 740377909. impresso na officina de Miguel Rodrigues unknown books
181043920Rio de Janeiro: Na Impressão Regia 1810. Marbled paper-covered boards gilt titles marbled endpapers with numerous blanks bound in. Very good boards lightly nicked scattered foxing penciled notations in margins and last blank. 31 pp. 4to. Concerning the lack of Administration of Justice in the Villas and Courts of the District of Pernambuco Brazil. The six part solution entails the breaking of the state into two sections to be more easily administered. Signed and dated in type "Dado no Palacio do Rio de Janeiro em quinze de janeiro de mil oitocentos e dez." OCLC locates a single copy at JCB: OCLC: 82824116. Cf. Camargo-Moraes. Bibl. do Impressão Régia II 112. (Na Impressão Regia) hardcover books
1874316702London: Richard Bentley and Son 1874. First edition. xii 406 1pp. 4to. Bound in three quarters recent maroon morocco and matching cloth sides title label. Fine minor internal foxing. First edition. xii 406 1pp. 4to. With tipped in photo and a 2 page ALS from trhe Sixth Duke of Grafton. Richard Bentley and Son unknown books
196110503616mo 6 1/1" x 4 1/4" blue cloth gilt lettering on front cover and spine illustrated 1034 pp. Joints are a little cracked but still reasonably firm normal aging and browning; otherwise very good. Nice little guidebook with numerous folding maps including a large map of Spain and Portugal in the rear of the book. <br /> Hachette, books
19883165Lisboa / Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional 1988. First Edition. Fine. 8vo. 442 pp. errata tipped in at end. With 16 plates of which two are printed in color. Original publisher's leatherette binding. NOT ex-library! Impressive catalogue of 1359 incunabula preserved in the Biblioteca Nacional which includes not only a copy of the 42-line "Gutenberg" Bible no. 198 but many unique editions such as the 1496 "Missale ad usum Sarum" printed in Speyer by Peter Drach no. 624 with useful collations and copy specific information. The incunabula are mostly from "extinct" Portuguese convents especially S. Francisco de Xabregas and from private individuals such as that of D. Francisco de Melo Manuel Cabrinha. The catalogue features excellent indexes of printers and places of printing provenance and concordances. Edition limited to 1000 copies.<br/><br/>¶ From the famed Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana sale at Christies NY 2005 lot 1255. Biblioteca Nacional unknown books
