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1. [1821 FOOD PAMPHLET] TRAITE SUR LA SALAISON DES VIANDES ET DU BEURRE EN IRLANDE Et Maniere De Fumer Le Boauf [[Essay on Cured Meat and Butter in Ireland, and Manner of Smoking Beef], [by] A. Hambourg; Traduit de Daois de Christian Martfelt par T. C. Bruun-Neergaard, Gentilhomme de la Chambre du roi de Danemarck, Membre de diverses Societes savantes, [published] A Paris, De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1821, pamphlet apparently disbound with pages held together at spine, 5" x 8", 76+xvi pages, circular red stamp "Lyceum Natural History, NY" on title page and one interior page; CONDITION: very good or better, narrow 3-1/4" chip from right edge of front cover (half title
page) and a couple of other small chips with edge brittle, pages lightly age-toned as normal, pages held firmly by remains of original spine, rare pamphlet, WorldCat/OCLC lists fewer than 10 at library holdings worldwide. $125.00 2. [1814 ENGLISH SHIP BUILDERS controversy East India Co. rare article period reprint] REMARKS ON THE CALUMNIES PUBLISHED IN THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, ON THE ENGLISH SHIP-BUILDERS, author unknown, published/sold by J. M Richardson, Cornhill, London, 1814, original printing on heavier old period paper, paper covers/wraps, 5-1/2 x 8, 44 text pages plus title page and half-title page, issue being dealt with concerns the desire by some to allow British ships to be built in foreign countries, notably India, The [British] Ship-builders who have establishments in the Port of London and at the Outports, with regret, but with confidence, have been obliged to submit to the legislature, and now submit to the public, a short view of the grievances under which they labour in consequence of modern construction of the law relating to shipping The removal of the building of ships for the East India Company to the continent of Asia, will not only affect these persons immediately concerned in their building and equipment, but every landholder throughout the empire [continues with adverse effects on owners of tree farms in Britain who supply timber, specifically oak, for the building of British ships including those of the East India Company in Britain]; CONDITION: pamphlet in very good-plus of better condition, well-preserved with minimal wear, half-title and title pages detached; rare pamphlet/reprint, WorldCat/OCLC records only three in library holdings worldwide, 2 in Canada, 1 in England. $125.00 3. [IRISH NATIONALISM LITERATURE; IRISH-AMERICAN] AN DHORD FHIANN by Anne [corrected in pen to Anna] Throop Craig, Book of the Irish Historical Pageant, Produced for the first time under the
auspices of the American Committee of the Gaelic League of Ireland, in the 69th Regiment Armory, New York, May 7 and 8, 1913, Copyright and all rights reserved by Anna Throop Craig, New York, 1913, printed by Francis & Loutrell, New York, NY, softcover/paper wraps, 6 x 9, 56 pages, Appendix, signed twice by Anna [correct spelling for her first name] Throop Craig, at the upper right corner of the front cover and at the upper right corner of the title page, three correction in pen are (i) cover correction of name, (ii) title page correction, and (iii) correction of word and to the by overwriting ( the sages ) in frontispiece poem Eire the Blest by Anna Throop Craig, booklet is rare with less that 10 recorded in holdings of libraries worldwide at WorldCat/OCLC (OCLC 20013311) and none found on the market; CONDITION: softcover/paper wraps in very good or better condition, some light soiling and fading to covers including front cover signature of the author, 1/2 bands of light fading to top and bottom edges of title page, small loss at top and bottom of spine, overall solid well-preserved copy of this rare publication; NOTE: An Dhord Fhiann : an Irish Historic Pageant was performed in the Sixty-Ninth Regiment Armory in New York City by a cast of five hundred, under the auspices of the Gaelic League. It depicted two epochs from Irish history; The Proclaiming of Finn and the sixth century Convention of Dromceatt. The Irish Historic Pageant was part of the new pageantry that emerged simultaneously in Britain and America at the start of the twentieth century. Pageants were dramas in which the place is the hero and its history is the plot, performed by huge casts of amateurs of all classes in the open air. The pageant s American writer, Anna Throop Craig, a passionate defender of Irish culture, together with its director John P. Campbell, an artist and a prominent member of the Celtic Revival in Belfast, visualised Irish heritage to show not only the resilience of Irish culture in the face of upheaval and oppression, but also its superiority. Thus the pageant was intended to educate and induce national pride for Ireland s heritage in its Irish-American audience. This remembering of the past stood in stark contrast with the notorious annual St. Patrick s Day parade that performed Ireland s heritage in New York.", [University of Portsmouth Research Portal]
$175.00 4. [1850 PORTUGAL LISBON GREAT FIRE; FIREFIGHTING] MEMORIA SOBRE OS DIFFERENTES MEIOS DE ATALHAR OS INCENDIOS, De Salvar As Pessoas, e Os Objectos Delles Ameacados, e De Os Prevenir Quanto Possivel, Offerecida a Academia R. Das Sciencias de Lisboa por Francisco Ignacio dos Santos Cruz, Bacharel Formado em Medicina pela Universidade de Coimbra,...[etc.], [published] Na Typographia da Mesma Academia, Lisboa, 1850, first printing, [rough translation of title to English from Portuguese: Study of the Different Causes of the Fire and Techniques to Save People and Objects, with Suggestions for Prevention and Fighting Future Fires ], softcover/paper wraps with title page front page, 6" x 8-1/2", 138 pages followed by 3-page Index with many sets of four pages uncut at top, the text is an analysis of the destructive Lisbon fire in November 1844 including techniques and equipment with references to firefighting in the United States and other European countries; CONDITION: softcover in very good-plus condition, faint age-toning, firm text block, well-preserved; keywords: firefighting, Europe fire, Portuguese text. 150.00 5. [CLASSICAL STUDIES; ANCIENT MATHEMATICS; RARE PAMPHLET] THE METHOD OF ARCHIMEDES, RECENTLY DISCOVERED BY HEIBERG; A SUPPLEMENT TO THE WORKS OF ARCHIMEDES, 1897, Cambridge University Press, 1912, softcover/paper wraps, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2, 51 pages, diagrams, formulas; CONDITION: very good or better, top 1 of front of spine separated, small chip at lower right corner of front cover, price sticker at bottom of front cover, short shallow chip at outer edge of back cover, pages lightly faded as normal, overall solid and tight. 125.00 END