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Featured Presses, Selected Publications, Auctions
(The PSR / Baywolf Press have zero stake in and derive nothing -- not a single fraction of a cent, or a single click (which are not monitored on our domain), or any collateral derivative -- from any announcements featured below. The announcements are occasional, purely voluntary, and simply reflect our warm and pleased appreciation. These are not to be considered 'advertisements'. Internet 'mythology' says 'endorsements' (or even better -- 'fake news') are astronomically profitable. The hard truth? Circa 1,000,000 'hits' typically yields under $500.00, maybe, perhaps, if you believe 'click-puffers'. And we do not need $500.00. Not interested.That is all. End of so-called 'conversation'.)
Feira de Livros do Sesc Amazonas, Outubro 2023, Manaus
A Feira de Livros do Sesc Amazonas reúne as principais editoras e livrarias da região e promove encontro de leitores com autores regionais e nacionais. Também conta com uma extensa programação multicultural, além de palestras, oficinas, mesas temáticas. O autor homenageado: Jorge Tufic (faleceu em 2018), considerado um dos poetas mais expressivos da moderna literatura amazonense, teve sua estreia literária em 1956, com a publicação de ‘Varanda de Pássaros’. Após isso, escreveu mais de 30 obras, envolvendo crônicas, romances, poesia, conto, entre outras produções literárias..
XVI Bienal do Livro do Rio, 1 Setembro 2023 - 10 Setembro 2023
Esta edição de 2023 comemora 30 anos, e faz uma homenagem a Alemanha. Promove um salão de negócios e recebe o maior número de autores internacionais de todas as edições. A expectativa é que esta edição da Bienal do Livro RJ receba cerca de 600 mil expositores. O evento começa dia 1 de setembro 2023. Abre a partir das 9h e às 10h no final de semana. A programação se estende até às 22h durante a semana e no sábado e domingo até às 23h. Mais informações: https://www.bienaldolivro.com.br
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Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa
& CIEBA –
Centro de Investigação e de
Estudos em Belas-Artes – Grupo de
Investigação em Ciências da Arte e
do Património – Francisco De Holanda. Ed. by Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, Fernando António Baptista, Maria João Gamito, O retrato ~ On Portraiture: teoria, prática e ficção. De Francisco de Holanda a Susan Sontag (2022) (ISBN 978-989-8944-78-8). Free PDF. To read or download register for free on academia.edu
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Jaime Eguiguren Art & Antiques
Hugo Miguel Crespo & Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, The “Pangolin Fan”: An Imperial Ivory Fan from Ceylon. Artistic Confluence and Global Gift Exchange between Sri Lanka and Renaissance Portugal (Buenos Aires: Jaime Eguiguren Art & Antiques, 2022). ISBN: 978-84-09-41680-6. This richly illustrated book presents a definitive study of nine imperial ivory fans from Renaissance Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), carved between 1542 and 1551, in the royal workshops of the lost Sinhalese kingdom of Kōttē (කෝට්ටේ රාජධානිය). These rare ivories, which display a mix of Hindu and Buddhist iconography, are today dispersed amongst public and private collections in Europe. They were commissioned by King Bhuvanekabāhu VII (1521-1551), at the height of his reign, as political gifts for high-ranking members of the Portuguese royal family. Five intricately carved Kōttē fans were earmarked for the Portuguese Queen, Catarina of Austria (r. 1525-1578), a Habsburg infanta and youngest sister of Emperor Charles V.
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GloboLivros
Note the release, on 03 June 2022, of the commemorative edition of Laurentino Gomes,1822 - Edição comemorativa (ampliada e comemorativa pelo bicentenário da Independência), ISBN: 9786559870516; eISBN: 9786559870738. On 15 June 2022, GloboLivros announced the launch of the expected 3rd volume of Laurentino Gomes, Escravidão (592 pp.; ISBN: 9786559870523; eISBN: 9786559870776). Note also, among other, Rodrigo Alvarez, Redentor (a história do Cristo Redentor, o monumento mais conhecido do Brasil, que completa 90 anos em 2021) (released 28 September 2021) (ISBN: 9786586047486; eISBN: 9786559870073).
Berghahn Books
Note this year's release of a brand-new volume by Patrícia Ferraz de Matos, Anthropology, Nationalism and Colonialism: Mendes Correia and the Porto School of Anthropology (New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2023). The book is a result of several years of research and fieldwork in archives, institutions and interviews. The cover illustration results from the artwork "Halte de Trie-Château" by the exceptional artist Adam Adach. The item is available in e-book format and in hardcover, which has a 50% discount, with the code FERR8751, until April 30, 2023. The complete Introduction can also be viewed and downloaded, at Berghahn.
Betrand Livreiros
As always, we are more than glad to promote the Bertrand booksellers' system. Their meme -- "Passionate for Books" fully matches our own. Whoever, on their team, coined the other meme -- "Fazemos História, estando no presente" -- possessed clear insight. We agree entirely. Watch their current Manifesto Bertrand -- Somos Livros on YouTube, at https://www.bertrand.pt/online/somos-livros . Note that we are not part of the Programa de Afiliados da Bertrand. We do not promote any thing in exchange for any rewards -- on principle. We are not a Globalist mannequin in a 'social network' of 'perks' -- it would undermine our Critical Independence. We merely express warm appreciation.
Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group
The PSR is pleased to recommend, on behalf of Routledge a classic volume (2021) edited by Jeremy Roe and Jean Andrews: Representing Women’s Political Identity in the Early Modern Iberian World (ISBN 9781138541863, 358 pp.). The volume includes studies by Joana Serrado, Lisa Voigt, Diane H. Bodart, Carla Alferes Pinto, Jean Andrews, Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, Vanessa de Cruz Medina, Trevor J. Dadson, Jeremy Roe, Gema Rivas Gómez Calcerrada, Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues, Inmaculada Rodríguez Moya, Laura Oliván Santaliestra, and Susana Varela Flor. The volume's co-editor, Jeremy Roe, also presented an intricate study of the political iconography of D. João IV (Vila Viçosa, 19 March 1604 - Lisbon, 6 November 1656) in PSR 27_2. Please visit Routledge and order Representing Women’s Political Identity in the Early Modern Iberian World for your library. While you are on the Routledge site, check out their other recent and forthcoming volumes. Jeremy Roe is a translator and independent researcher affiliated with the Centro de Humanidades, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Jean Andrews is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Nottingham. She co-edited Writing Royal Entries in Early Modern Europe (2014) and Art and Painting, Vicente Carducho and Baroque Spain (2016). Her monograph Painting and Devotion in Golden Age Iberia: Luis de Morales was published in 2020.
Alfarrabista : José Lopes Gomes Soares Lda.
Are you looking for rare research-relevant titles difficult or even impossible to obtain -- especially in financially strapped North American libraries? Consider checking José Lopes Gomes Soares - Comércio de livros Lda. / Rua do Bonjardim, 398 / 4000-116 / Porto (Portugal) / Tel.: 222 024 405 / e-mail: geral@alfarrabista.eu . One of their recent available titles is for instance: Luís Bernardo Leite de Ataíde, Etnografia, arte e vida antiga dos Açores, 4 vols. (Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 1973). Give the link a try. Note, very recently, the often quite unobtainable Augusto Soares de Azevedo Barbosa de Pinho Leal, Portugal Antigo e Moderno, 12 vols. (Typ. Editora de Mattos Moreira & Comp.ª); Eduardo de Campos de Castro de Azevedo Soares, Bibliographia Nobiliarchica Portugueza, 5 Vols.; plus Alberto Pimentel, A Côrte de D. Pedro IV (Imprensa Portugueza); Alberto Pimentel, A Guerrilha de Frei Simão (Livraria de António Maria Pereira); and many other items. Browse, find, like or dislike as your will. Collect books. Love books.
DROUOT.COM (depuis 1852) -- Hôtel Drouot, Paris
Composé de plusieurs filiales, le Groupe Drouot est un acteur incontournable du marché de l’art. L’Hôtel Drouot, situé au cœur de Paris, est la plus grande place de ventes aux enchères publiques au monde, depuis 1852. 15 salles de ventes sont proposées à plus de 60 maisons de vente. Rare objects, curios, unique items, books, unsuspected manuscripts of great historical value not available in any archival system. Includes, as service, online-only auctions (dematerialised auctions) and 'Buy Now' sales (sales of lots at fixed prices). Nearly 2 million items offered annually by c. 600 auction houses. Auction news reported every week in La Gazette Drouot, the leading weekly magazine for the art market and culture published by Auctionspress. Give the link a try. HÔTEL DROUOT, 9 rue Drouot, 75009 Paris, France, +33 (0)1 48 00 20 00, contact@drouot.com . For General Terms and Conditions of Use set by Drouot, see https://uk.drouot.com/general-terms
Librairie Frédéric Douin : Used, Rare, and Special Item Books
Note the most recent additional news, 2 April 2023, and all previous catalogues available. The recent 'silent' gems, all around, not just in 'Portuguese Studies', were: 20 issues of the unfortunately defunct magazine BIBLIOphile; François Coillard & Edouard Favre, Sur Le Haut Zambèze, voyage et
travaux de mission - La vie d'un missionnaire français, 1834-1904, 2 vols. (Berger Levrault - Société des Missions Evangéliques,1898-1922); Marcel Proust : du temps perdu au temps retrouvé ~ collection de lettres et manuscrits (Paris: Artophil éd., 2010); Augustin Bernard, Le Maroc, 7e édition entièrement refondue et mise à jour (Paris: Félix Alcan, 1931); and much more -- Jean-Charles de Folard, Nouvelles découvertes sur la guerre dans une dissertation sur Polybe (1726); Sieur de Veneroni, Le Maître italien dans sa dernière perfection, revu, corrigé et augmenté (1770); Michel Du Perray, Traité des moyens canoniques pour acquérir et conserver les bénéfices et biens ecclésiastiques (1726) [useful for Church and monastic administration historians]; Nicolas Lenglet Du Fresnoy, Tablettes chronologiques de l'histoire universelle... jusqu'à l'an 1762. Nouvelle édition (1763); H. D. R. Henry de Rohan, Le parfait capitaine ou abrégé des guerres des commentaires de César. Nouvelle édition augmentée (1757); Pauline de Grignan Simian, Lettres nouvelles ou nouvellement recouvrées de la Marquise de Sévigné et de la Marquise de Simia (1774); Voyage de messieurs Bachaumont [François Le Coigneux de Bachaumon] et La Chapelle, auquel on a joint les poësies du chevalier de Cailly ou d'Aceilly (1741 [orig. voyage 1656, edited 1697, of interest to historians of Provence and Languedoc and of 'indolent' seventeenth-century travel literature and hedonist poetry). We cannot resist here, of course: the universally topical offer from Douin is out -- personalized 'kit mariage' (which you can have duly and properly customized with the names of yourself and spouse and date of marriage) featuring a nicely packed set of 'help-tools' and a re-edition of Honoré de Balzac, Petites misères de la vie conjugale (1843 [a mash-up of the journalistic installments from 1830 to 1843/6]) [The Little Miseries of Married Life] with its absolutely iconic period illustrations. Clever, humorous, and priceless! Shop at Douin -- rescue and cherish books. So that you could one day show your grandchildren: "This is actually what a 300-year-old book looked like"! As Douin posted: 'even books, not only stones, are part and parcel of Our Heritage'. "Be Curious: and Life Shall Only be More Beautiful !" Some people burn, banish, defame, 'cancel', and censor books (frequently without knowing anything at all about the actual content [in multiple languages they neither read nor speak, thus feeling free to 'cancel' or 'dismiss' on a whim]). Other people save and preserve priceless books, even at the cost of their own life. Reference is to the iconic (in this respect) Ian Caldwell, The Rule of Four (2004), which is much more than an "ultimate puzzle book." It is a 'forgotten' work of utter Humanist defiance against zealotry, ignorant censorship, the decline of a free & genuine Academia, and/or Savonarola-style book-'cancelling'-burning. You know very well which side we -- the PSR -- stand on. Yet, we would never refuse to publish a diversity of 'sides'. You draw your own conclusions from that ... . Just do NOT impose those conclusions on others, and especially NOT using the Police, the Courts, Internet 'Disinformation' [so-called] Commissioners, the DSA, so-called 'Authorities' and so-called 'Trusted Sources' or paid-for 'Fact Checkers'). You know what the old song says, "Sweet dreams are made of this / Who am I to disagree?" (Eurythmics, the absolutely haunting Track 6 of 'Sweet Dreams [Are Made of This], 1983, originally recorded on dirt cheap basement and second-hand studio equipment). It all indeed is -- and has been for entire millennia -- a question of fundamental 'values'.
Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki
Note, among other, some recent volumes of use to art historians and comparativists, with regard to tracing convergences of Italian and Iberian artistic scenes: Riccardo Gandolfi, Le Vite degli artisti di Gaspare Celio («Compendio delle Vite di Vasari con alcune altre aggiunte»), Biblioteca dell'«Archivum Romanicum». Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia, vol. 504, ISBN: 9788822267023; Giorgio Vasari e la «Vita di Marcantonio Bolognese, e d'altri intagliatori di stampe», Edizioni e fortuna critica (1568-1760), Testi e fonti per la storia del disegno e della grafica, vol. 1, ISBN: 9788822268068.
Paul Holberton Publishing
The Global City: On the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon, edited by Annemarie Jordan Gschwend and K. J. P. Lowe (Paul Holberton Publishing: London, 2015; ISBN 9781907372889; 240 pp.) draws us into the past sensory universe of a Lisbon pre-dating the sudden seismic shock and tsunami of 1755. It does so from the starting point of two large-scale sixteenth-century vistas by an anonymous Flemish master that depict the Rua Nova dos Mercadores commercial and financial thoroughfare. Acquired in 1866 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the vistas contribute a unique spatio-temporal window into the past, at street level, bustling with the stark contradictions and contrasts of a global metropolis. The volume conjoins the two works of art with a wealth of data from newly found or suitably valorized archival documents, accompanied by a carefully selected display of little known or unpublished images of contemporary trade staples, curiosities, luxury and prestige items, naturalia, exotica, and other objects. A physical expression of the worldwide tangle of commerce, the Rua Nova as an architectural construct symbolically echoed the estuary of the river Tagus as a natural feature opening out to the Atlantic and to the oceans far beyond. The book Iets readers glimpse Lisbon and its material culture in all the vibrant cosmopolitanism characterizing this major trading hub of the Renaissance world, a hub whose essence and texture were to be forever altered by one of the planet's iconic natural cataclysms – an earthquake and a tsunami – on Saturday, 1 November 1755, the holiday of All Saints' Day. Please visit the PHP website for other recently published books.
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