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1847réf. 29207AB1847. First Edition. New York Baker and Scribner 1847. Small Octavo. XV 456 pages plus 22 pages of a catalogue for the publisher Baker and Scribner in the rear. Hardcover / Original publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine and ornament to covers. Recently professionally restored. Very good condition with the usual signs of some browning and foxing to this publication. From the library of Lathrop Josiah Tracy Honesdale Pennsylvania 1825-1897. With his name to the halftitle. A very rare and important book ! Includes for example the following essays: Departure form New York / Fellow Passengers / Voyage to Dublin and Arrival at Kingston / Asylum for unmarried Ladies / Dialogues with the Poor / Journey to Tullamore / The Poorhouse / Irish Beggars / Connaught Laborers / A Man's Merit can not be judged by his Coat / Visit to the County of Wicklow / Horrors of the Journey / Arklow / Shelton Abbey / Arklow Fishermen / Rathdrum / The Vale of Avoca / Wicklow Gold Mines / The Church of Kilbride / Methodism in Ireland / American courtesy to Females not universal in Ireland / The seven Churches of Glendalough / Foolish Legends connected with this locality Glendalough / Lady Harburton's School / The Second Cabin of a Canal Boat / Arrival at Kilkenny / Ride in a Turf Kish / A Rural Physician / Departure of an Emigrant / Fair at Urlingford / An irish Wake / Costume of the Peasantry / Visit to a National School / Cabin Life / Urlingford Spa / Rebuff from a Clergyman / New Birmingham Colliery / The Police / Mr.Barker of Kilcooley / Visit to Thurles / Journey to Clonmel Dungarvan and Cappoquin / Visit to the Trappist Monastery of Mount Mellary / The Spirit of Caste Injurious in Ireland / Journey to Youghal / The Blessed Well of St.Dagan / Uncourteous Reception by Sir Richard Musgrave / Rejoicings at Lismore for O'Connell's Liberation / Dungarvan / Two Silent Quakeresses / Thoughts on Irish Hospitality / Unsuccessful Application to Bianconi / Strong National Peculiarities of the Irish / Happy Molly / Lord Rosse's Telescope / Walk from Ballinasloe to Lough Rea / Miserable Condition of the Poor / Scarcity of Female Beauty in Galway / Wicklow / The Scholar with his Iliad / Visit to Wicklow Lighthouses / Wexford / Infant School / Public Buildings in Wexford / Waterford / Clonmel / Lodgings in Cork / Temperance Tea Party / Dr.Barter's Hydropathic Establishment / Sail to Cove / City Jail of Cork / A Night in Bandon / A Peasant Family employed a rare sight in Ireland / Arrival at the miserable town of Bantry / Exploration in Bantry / Poverty Wretchedness and Filfth of the Dwellings / Grand Poorhouse standing unoccupied / Beautiful Bay of Bantry / GlengariffAccident at Kenmare / Sweet Innisfallen / Fellow Travellers on the Kerry Mountains / Protestant Whiskey-Selling Whisky / An Americanized Irishman / Island of Valentia / Kerry Dancing and Kerry Kindness / Banks of the Shannon / Clifden / Potatoes a Curse upon Ireland / A Connemara School / The Isle of Oma and the natives thereof / Change for the better in Connemara / Journey to Westport / Croagh Patrick / Return to Westport / Newport / Popery / Intemperance not banished from the County of Mayo / Westport - Castlebar - Sligo / The Mendicity Association / Mr.Nangle's Notice in the Achill Herald of the Author's visit to the Settlement / Concluding observations relative to the objects of the Writer's Tour in Ireland and the Reception she met with from various Classes of the Community / etc. etc. Asenath Hatch Nicholson February 24 1792 May 15 1855 was an American vegan social observer and philanthropist. She wrote at first hand about the Great Hunger in Ireland in the 1840s. She observed the famine as she distributed bibles food and clothing. Nicholson was born in Chelsea in Vermont in 1792. Her family were members of the Protestant Congregation Church and this was the source for her given name. She trained and became a successful teacher in her hometown before she married a man with three children and went to New York. She and her new husband Mr. Nicholson became interested in the diets recommended by Sylvester Graham. In the 1840s they opened boarding houses that offered the vegan diet proscribed by Graham. Amongst her guests were Irish immigrants and she was intrigued by their accounts of Ireland. In May 1844 she left New York for Ireland and when she arrived she walked around Ireland visiting every County but one. She noted that people lacked work and they relied almost entirely on their crops of potatoes. She left for Scotland in August having observed Ireland just before the outbreak of the Irish Famine. She returned in 1846 during the second crop failure which together with high unemployment was creating a national disaster. Nicholson was concerned that she would just have to witness the suffering but she wrote to the New York Tribune and The Emancipator in New York and assistance from their readers was organised. In the following July five barrels of corn arrived from New York although it has been noted that on the same ship there was 50 barrels for the Central Relief Committee but Nicholson preferred to go it alone. She wrote at first hand about the Great Hunger in Ireland in the 1840s. She observed the famine as she distributed bibles food and clothing. Nicholson died in Jersey City in 1855. hardcover
1869réf. 101523AB1869. Third Edition. London Privately Printed 1869. Large Octavo. Frontispiece Saint Anthony tutelar Saint of the Company of Grocers XVI 601 pages with many illustrations steel-engravings and one facsimile. Hardcover / Original publishers quarter morocco with gilt lettering on spine and Emblemata on cover. Top edge gilt. Only some faint signs of dampstain to the outer margins of the illustrations. Otherwise in splendid condition with only minor signs of external wear. Presentation copy from Master Ernest Woodhame to R. Graham Carritt on the occasion of his admission to the Livery of the Company in June 1927. With a bookplate of Grocer's Hall to the front pastedown. The Worshipful Company of Grocers is one of the 110 Livery Companies of the City of London and ranks second in order of precedence. Established in 1345 the Grocers comprise one of London's Great Twelve City Livery Companies. The company was founded in the 14th century by members of the Guild of Pepperers which dates from 1180. The Company was responsible for maintaining standards for the purity of spices and for the setting of certain weights and measures. Its members included London's pharmacists who separated forming the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 1617. The guild was known as the Company of Grossers from 1373 until 1376 when it was renamed the Company of Grocers of London. In 1428 two years after building its first hall in Old Jewry the Company was granted a Royal Charter by King Henry VI of England. One of the Great Twelve City Livery Companies it ranks second in the Companies order of precedence after the Mercers' Company. It is said that the Grocers' Company used to be first in the order until Queen Elizabeth I as Honorary Master of the Mercers' Company found herself in procession after her coronation behind the Grocers' camel which was emitting unfortunate smells; as a result the Mercers were promoted. Today the Grocers' Company exists as a charitable constitutional and ceremonial institution which plays a significant role in the election of and supporting the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs of the City of London. The Company's motto is "God Grant Grace". The Company also provides banqueting and conference facilities at Grocers' Hall situated in Prince's Street next to the Bank of England. The earliest known Grocers' Hall was in Poultry London then known as Conningshop-lane on account of the three conies or rabbits hanging over a poulterer's stall in the lane. It was built in 1428 on land once owned by Lord Fitzwalter and let out "for dinners funerals county feasts and weddings." The roof and woodwork of the hall were destroyed in the 1666 Great Fire and afterwards a new roof was erected on the old walls while Sir John Cutler 1st Baronet paid for a new parlour and dining room. The hall was again renovated in 1681 by the future Lord Mayor of London Sir John Moore. A new hall was built on the same site between 1798 and 1802 when part of the garden was sold to the Bank of England for the expansion of nearby Prince's Street. However frequent and extensive repairs were required due to defective foundations in the building which was replaced by a fourth hall completed in 1893 on Prince's Street. The hall survived the Blitz with only minor damage to its north wing but was almost completely destroyed by a fire in 1965 apparently caused by a lightbulb left on in the grand staircase beneath an oak lintel which smouldered and eventually caught fire. A fifth and final hall was constructed nearby in 1970 also on Prince's Street which remains the Grocers' home today. The present Master Grocer for 2018-19 is James Whitmore and the Company's Clerk is Brigadier Greville Bibby. The Company is responsible for the maintenance of Oundle School at Oundle Northamptonshire which uses the Grocers' crest of a camel as its school badge and of the Elms School in Colwall Herefordshire. Reed's School's Annual Foundation Appeal has been held at Grocers Hall for over fifty years. Additionally in 1876 the Company founded the Grocers' Company School in Hackney east of the City of London for the education of "sons of the middle classes". This was transferred into London County Council's control after that authority's formation in 1889 and changed its name to Hackney Downs School; it closed in 1995. The school depicted as its school badge a camel for the Lower School and a shield with cloves and the motto of the Grocers' Company for the Upper School; the Camel and Cloves are remembered to this day by old boys of the school through the Clove Club for former pupils. The Grocers' Company now maintains close links with and is the principal sponsor of Hackney's Mossbourne Academy renowned for its excellent educational standards. The Company is also affiliated to HMS Queen Elizabeth the first of the Royal Navy's new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers and with the Coldstream Guards the British Army's oldest regular regiment. Eglinton Village in County Londonderry Northern Ireland was established by the Grocers' Guild in 1619 under the name of Muff; the local Castle Credit Union adopted the use of the Company's crest as has Eglinton Primary School. The church of St Mary the Virgin at Northill in Bedfordshire shows the Grocers' coat of arms on a stained glass window by John Oliver. The company commissioned the window in 1664. Wikipedia hardcover
1884réf. 440691London ; New York : Ward Lock & Co 1884. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good copy in contemporary gilt-blocked leather over boards. Spine bands and panels somewhat rubbed and worn as by age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description: 2 v. : ill. maps ; 26 cm. London ; New York : Ward, Lock, & Co hardcover
1887réf. 439438London : Gurney & Jackson 1887. 1st edition. Hardcover. Provenance: bookplate of John Charrington Shenley. Limited edition of only 50 copies. Good copy in the original title-blocked paper-covered boards. Pages are unopened. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: lviii 588 pages 2 maps 1 folded 1 double tables 21 cm. Subjects: Botany England Hertfordshire. Flora. England Hertfordshire. London : Gurney & Jackson hardcover
1859réf. 378044Leicester : Crossley and Clarke 1859. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 54 pages; illustrations. Subjects; England Leicester. Leicester Leicestershire. Leicestershire; history. Leicester England Buildings structures etc. Leicester Castle Leicester England. Leicester : Crossley and Clarke paperback
1869réf. 292292Bologna : Stab. tip. di G. Monti 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy bound in quarter buckram over marble boards with a gilt-title to the spine. Some wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; tight bright clean and sharp-cornered. Minor library marks remain. Physical description; 173 p. : illustrations maps ; 25-33 cm. Subjects; Classical antiquities ; Periodicals. Magna Graecia Italy History ; Periodicals. Bologna : Stab. tip. di G. Monti hardcover
1859réf. 287492Wien: Wilhelm Braumuller 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Worn set bound in half leather over marble boards with gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some minor wear and tear to the spine and boards along with some dust-toning. Remains well-preserved overall; bright clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; three volumes. Contents; vol. I: Die Vorchristliche Zeit ; vol. IV: Die Neuere Zeit: I ; Vol.: Die Neuere Zeit: II. Subjects; World History. History in German. johann Baptist Weiss. Wien: Wilhelm Braumuller hardcover
1881réf. 285886Shrewsbury : printed by Woodall and Venables Oswestry; Adnitt and Naunton The Square 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy bound in full sand-grained buckram with gilt-blocked title to the spine. Remains well preserved overall; tight bright clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; vol. IV only: 424 pages. Subjects; Archaeology. Shropshire England Antiquities. Shropshire England Archaeology. Shrewsbury : printed by Woodall and Venables, Oswestry; Adnitt and Naunton, The Square hardcover
1882réf. 285887Shrewsbury : printed by Woodall and Venables Oswestry; Adnitt and Naunton The Square 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy bound in full sand-grained buckram with gilt-blocked title to the spine. Remains well preserved overall; tight bright clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; vol. V only: 433 pages. Subjects; Archaeology. Shropshire England Antiquities. Shropshire England Archaeology. Shrewsbury : printed by Woodall and Venables, Oswestry; Adnitt and Naunton, The Square hardcover
1880réf. 279260Northampton England : The Society 1880. First Edition. Softcover. Very good copies in gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 8 volumes : illustrations maps portraits ; 22 cm. Contents; vol. 1 1880-1881. vol. 2 1882-83. vol. 3 1884-85. vol. 5 1888-89. vol. 9 1896-97. vol. 13 1905-06. vol. 14 1907-08. vol. 15 1909-10. vol. 16 1911-12. vol. 17 1913-14. vol. 18 & 19 1915-18. vol. 20 & 21 1919-1922. vol. 22 & 23 1923-1926. vol. 27 1934-37. Subjects; Natural history -- Periodicals. Natural history -- England -- Periodicals. Natural history -- Societies etc. Northampton [England] : The Society paperback
1835réf. 241109London : Printed for Longman Rees Orme Brown Green & Longman Paternoster-Row; and John Taylor Upper Gower Street 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original publisher's cloth with edges very slightly toned and a paper label to the spine. Spine is slightly worn. Corners sharp with an overall tight bright and clean impression. Series; The cabinet cyclopædia. Natural history. Physical description; vii 367 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Notes; Ahead of title: The cabinet cyclopaedia. Conducted by the Rev. Dionysius Lardner LL.D. F.R.S. L. & E. M.R.I.A. F.R.A.S. F.L.S. F.Z.S. Hon.F.C.P.S. &c. &c. Assisted by eminent literary and scientific men. Natural History. Part of: The Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Second Engraved Title Page. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Zoology — Encyclopedias. Zoogeography. Animals — Classification. Zoogeography. Zoology — classification. Animals. Zoogeography. Zoology — Classification — Classification. Natural history — Classification. Zoology — Classification. Zoology — Geographical distribution. Systematics — Zoology. Genre; Illustrated. London : Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, Paternoster-Row; and John Taylor, Upper Gower Street hardcover
1871réf. 179062Bruxelles: Office de Publicite 1871. Fourth Edition. Hardback. Near fine copy in the original wallpaper simulated boards with vellum spine. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight bright and clean impression. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 120 pages; Physical desc.: 120 p. 22 cm. Notes: Edition de Luxe with autographed letters. Subjects: The imperial household. Him and her in appearance and reality. Language: French. Bruxelles: Office de Publicite hardcover
1834réf. 94336Haarlem; Bohn 1834. First Edition. Hardback. Finely and sumptuously bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with gilt cross-bands and a contrasting morocco gilt-blocked label. An exceptional copy; of presentation quality- scans and additional detail on request. ; 640 pages; Subject: Netherlands - Civilization. Impressively illustrated with a series of folding etched plates and a large folding hand-coloured map to the rear. Haarlem; Bohn hardcover
