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special list 291 1 RICHARD C.RAMER Special List 291 Education 2 RICHARDrichard c. C.RAMER ramer Old and Rare Books 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 February 5, 2018 Special List 291 Education Items marked with an asterisk (*) will be shipped from Lisbon. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED: All items are understood to be on approval, and may be returned within a reasonable time for any reason whatsoever. Visitors BY APPOINTMENT special list 291 3 Special List 291 Education How Shall We Teach Our Physicians? 1. ABREU, Antonio Joaquim Ribeiro Gomes de. A organização dos estudos medicos de Portugal. Discurso proferido na Sociedade de Sciencias Medicas de Lisboa. Lisbon: Typ. de Antonio Henriques de Pontes, 1852 [on wrappers: 1853]. 16°, original green printed wrappers (slight chip- ping to lower wrapper). Light browning. In very good condition. 142 pp., (1 blank l.). $100.00 FIRST and ONLY EDITION, part of an ongoing debate over medical education in Portugal. Gomes de Abreu (1809-1867) took his medical degree at the University of Coimbra in 1853 and taught there until 1856, when he refused to swear a loyalty oath to the current regime. D. Miguel invited him to join him in exile in Brombach (Austria), where he became preceptor to D. Miguel’s children. j Innocêncio VIII, 192: “Pequeno em volume, mas grande em doutrina.” Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa II, 3. Not in Pires de Lima, Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto. Grande enciclopédia I, 117. Not located in NUC. OCLC: 29345742 (Wellcome Library, giving date as 1853). Porbase locates a single copy, at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Copac repeats Wellcome Library. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copy cited by Porbase. On Education in Colombia 2. [ACOSTA, Cecilio]. Cosas sabidas y cosas por saberse, ó Federacion Colom- biana - tolerancia política - universidades e instruccion elemental - y cuestion holandesa. Caracas: Imprenta de Jesus Maria Soriano y Compañia, 1856. 8°, contemporary plain blue-green wrappers. Wood-engraved vignette on title page. In very good to fine condition. 31 pp. $300.00 FIRST EDITION. A sequel of 12 pp. was published in 1858. There appears to be a 1951 reprint, as well as a 1958 reprint of the sequel. j Sabin 16990. NUC: MH. OCLC: 79174490 (no location given); 46340522 (Harvard College Library, Houghton Library, Harvard University-Wadsworth House, British Library, Oxford University); 04521964 (British Library). Not located in CCPBE, which cites a single copy of the 1858 sequel in the Biblioteca Central de Cantabria. Not located in Rebiun, which cites a single copy of the 1951 edition at the Bibliotecas Hispánica e Islámica-Ciudad Universitária-Madrid, as well as several locations for a 1958 edition 4 richard c. ramer Item 8 special list 291 5 of the sequel. Porbase locates a single copy of the 1958 edition. Copac repeats Oxford University and British Library. KVK (51 databases searched) cites a microfilm of the copy at Harvard (EROMM) and several copies of the 1958 edition. 3. [AESOP]. Conselhos, e fabulas moraes para a educação dos meninos, e uso das escolas da nação portugueza dividida em lições. Lisbon: Na Typogr. de Desiderio Marques Leão, 1823. 8°, disbound, text-block edges sprinkled blue-green. Minor worming to lower outer corner of last 4 leaves, without loss; old inked pagination in upper corners. In good to very good condition. Old ink foliation (“275-336”) in upper outer corners. 62 pp. $175.00 Didactic children’s literature: twenty-one fables, each followed by its moral. j Not in Innocêncio. Not in Gonçalves Rodrigues, A tradução em Portugal. Not located in NUC. Not located in OCLC. Not located in Porbase. Not located in Copac. Not located in KVK (44 databases searched). Popular Work that Aimed to Combine “The Gall of Instruction with the Honey of Entertainment” (Bell) 4. ALMEIDA, Theodoro de. O feliz independente do mundo e da fortuna, ou arte de viver contente em quaesquer trabalhos da vida, dedicado a Jesu Crucificado .... 3 volumes. Lisbon: Na Regia Officina Typografica, 1779. Tall 12º, nineteenth-century green half sheep over marbled boards (some wear), flat spine with gilt bands, title, ornament, and volume number, green endleaves, text-block edges sprinkled green. Engraved headpieces at beginnings of Books I, IX and XVII; other books have decorative woodcut ornaments. Woodcut initials, typographical tailpieces. Some light soiling; scatted stains and marginal repairs. In good condition. Later ink inscriptions on verso of engraved frontispiece of volume I and on half titles of volumes II and III: “Pertenece a // Fernando Cruz”. Engraved frontispiece, xxviii, 347 pp.; (1 l.), 306 pp.; (2 ll.), 345 pp. 3 volumes. $500.00 FIRST EDITION. There are a number of later editions and translations of this edu- cational work that uses Fénelon’s Télemaque for a model. Bell notes that Almeida - one of the original members of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon - sought to combine “the gall of instruction with the honey of entertainment. He wrote it first in rhyme, then turned to blank verse, but, still dissatisfied, finally adopted prose, taking care, however, he says, that it should not degenerate into a novel. The book had a wide vogue, but is quite unreadable.” Almeida (1722-1804), an Oratorian, studied experimental science under P. João Baptista, the first to teach it in Portugal. Having been exiled under the Marques de 6 richard c. ramer Pombal, he spent many years teaching in France. His Recreação filosofica is the outstand- ing Portuguese survey of eighteenth-century science and philosophy; it appeared in ten volumes, beginning in 1751. j Imprensa Nacional 227. Innocêncio VII, 301-8: without collation. Pinto de Mattos (1970) p. 13. Palha 1306. Cf. Azevedo-Samodães 89, the second edition. Bell, Portuguese Literature p. 285. NUC: MH. OCLC: 857067931 (British Library). Porbase locates four copies at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and three at Universidade do Minho. Copac locates only the British Library copy of this edition. KVK (51 databases searched) locates the copies listed in Porbase and adds a copy at Biblioteca d’arte e di storia di San Giorgio in Poggiale, Bologna. Reaction to Verney’s Theory of Education *5. [BARBOSA, João Mendes Saccheti, supposed author]. Cartas em que se dá noticia da origem, e progresso das sciencias, escritas ao Doutor José da Costa Leitão por hum seu amigo, e dadas à luz pelo mesmo para utilidade dos curiosos. Lisbon: Na Officina de Miguel Manescal da Costa, 1753. 4°, contemporary sheep (some wear, especially at head of spine), spine richly gilt with raised bands in five compartments, crimson leather lettering piece in second compartment from top, gilt letter. Woodcut monogram on title page. Internally fine; overall in very good condi- tion. Contemporary or near contemporary paper plain paper label with manuscript ink shelfmark in top spine compartment. Nineteenth-century blue-and-white shield-shaped paper label in bottom spine compartment, with manuscript writing illegible. 189 pp. $600.00 FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this scarce and interesting anonymous contribution to the polemical literature generated by Luís António Verney’s publication in 1746 of the Verdadeiro metodo de estudar, which had proposed sweeping improvements in the teaching of Portuguese grammar, Latin grammar and literature, the Greek and Hebrew languages, rhetoric, poetry and philosophy, metaphysics, physics, ethics, medicine, jurisprudence, theology, and canon law. Verney’s work ends with a summary of educational policy, including the education of women. Innocêncio lists over twenty works attacking or defending Verney’s ideas. There exist several works by Verney answering his critics. Innocêncio, followed by the cataloguers of the Biblioteca Nacional in Lisbon, attributes authorship to João Mendes Sccheti Barbosa (1714-177?), a native of Estremoz. Barbosa Machado, probably in error, had attributed authorship to the Benedictine monk Fr. José de São Miguel (b. 1714), known in the secular life as José Manuel de Amorim, a native of São Miguel de Reriz, termo da Villa do Prado in the Archbishopric of Braga. Barbosa also gives an incorrect date of publication for the present work of 1751. j Innocêncio III, 421. Cf. Barbosa Machado IV, 218. Not located in OCLC. Porbase cites three copies, all in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, giving the same collation as our copy, and Barbosa as the author. Not located in Copac. Not located in Hollis or Orbis. The Library of Congress Online Catalog cites a copy with the same collation as ours. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by Porbase. special list 291 7 Item 20 8 richard c. ramer Bowdlerized Excerpts for Teaching Morals to Children 6. BARKER, Antonio Maria, ed. Parnaso Juvenil, ou Poesias moraes, col- leccionadas, adaptadas, e offerecidas á mocidade .... 2 volumes. Porto: Na Typ. Com. Portuense, 1836. 8°, early plain blue-gray wrappers (some ink stains on Volume II front cover). Small woodcut vignette on title pages. Small woodcut tailpiece at the end of volume I. Uncut. Light browning. In very good condition. 93, (3) pp.; 153, iv pp., (1 l. errata). 2 volumes. $300.00 Second edition of this anthology? First edition, later issue? First edition? Innocêncio lists an edition of Porto, 1835 (a ghost?), with nearly identical collation of 95, 153, iv pp. Other editions were published in Rio de Janeiro, 1860 (described by Sacramento Blake as the fifth edition) and Rio de Janeiro, 1884. Barker observed that his students learned and retained moral lessons much more willingly if the the lessons were in verse, but felt that much of serious Portuguese litera- ture contained material inappropriate for young ears.