special list 163 1 RICHARD C.RAMER ❆ ❆ ❆ ❆ ❆ ❆ ❆ Special List 163 One Hundred Sixty-Three Rare and Unusual Books, Pamphlets, Broadsides and Manuscripts Dealing with the Wars of the French Revolution, Napoleon, Napoleonic Wars, and particularly the Peninsular War RICHARD C.RAMER 2 richardOld and Rare c. Booksramer 225 east 70th street . suite 12f . new york, n.y. 10021-5217 Email
[email protected] . Website www.livroraro.com Telephones (212) 737 0222 and 737 0223 Fax (212) 288 4169 January 2012 SPECIAL LIST 163 One Hundred Sixty-Three Rare and Unusual Books, Pamphlets, Broadsides and Manuscripts Dealing with the Wars of the French Revolution, Napoleon, Napoleonic Wars, and particularly the Peninsular War PROVENANCE INDEX ON PAGE 115 TITLE INDEX ON PAGES 117-124 CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX ON PAGES 125-134 SUBJECT INDEX ON PAGES 135-141 VISITORS BY APPOINTMENT SPECIALspecial list LIST 163 163 3 One Hundred Sixty-Three Rare and Unusual Books, Pamphlets, Broadsides and Manuscripts Dealing with the Wars of the French Revolution, Napoleon, Napoleonic Wars, and particularly the Peninsular War 1. [ACADEMICO TRANSMONTANO, Um]. Ode. [after quotes from Claudian and Camões, text begins:] Transmontanos guerreiros! Quando trôa / O sonóro clarim da Independencia …. N.p.: n.pr., (1809?). 8°, stitched, with paper reinforcement at spine. Uncut. Fine. Old ink number “122” in upper inner corner of first leaf recto, on paper reinforcement. 8 pp. $200.00 FIRST and ONLY EDITION. We have been able to locate only one other copy, in the Fundo Barca-Oliveira at the Biblioteca Pública de Braga. The work probably dates to 1809, when Marshal Soult invaded Portugal from the north and was temporarily repulsed by Portuguese militia at the Minho River.