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Proceedings of a Board of Officers Convened at Fort Sedgwick C.T. per Special Orders No. 4 manuscript title.

1869ref. 58233Fort Sedgwick Colorado Territory. January 6 1869. Army Frontier Outpost Trials the Mills Cartridge Belt A brief but enlightening manuscript military report from the short-lived Fort Sedgwick in Colorado recording the results of a series of tests undertaken to compare new designs for cartridge belts and boxes. Fort Sedgwick was built as a frontier outpost in 1864 in response to growing unrest and violent conflict with Native Americans during the Civil War and was known as a particularly challenging post due to the poor quality of its construction and its lack of access to water and wood. Parts of the 18th Infantry Regiment were stationed at Fort Sedgwick from 1866 but it became their headquarters at the beginning of 1869 making these tests some of their first actions at their new base. The report titled "Proceedings of a Board of Officers Convened at Fort Sedgwick C.T. per Special Orders No. 4" begins with a brief excerpt of those orders. They name the officers James Stewart R.P. Hughes and R.F. Bates and outline their duty "to make further trial of the relative merits of various patterns of Army Cartridge Box and Cartridge Belt." Comparing the Morris Pattern cartridge box Crispin Pattern cartridge box and a new cartridge belt through a variety of trials the board determined the following: "The Morris Pattern containing thirty six rounds 36 was emptied in thirty 30 seconds less time than Crispin's pattern Containing Thirty five 35 rounds and one minute and twenty seven 27 seconds less time than the Cartridge Belt containing forty 40 rounds. "The Boards then put all the Cartridge Boxes and the Belt in water and they remained in that way two days to test the swelling of the wood in the Morris Crispin and Hadley Cartridge Boxes and the tightening of the leather in the Cartridge Belt. When taken out it was found that the Boxes Belt work quite as well as when dry…. "The Board is of opinion that the weight is more equally divided in the Belt than in the Cartridge Box and easier on the men when marching in double time; they are further of the opinion that the Belt is in every way suitable for Campaigning purposes but for the soldier in garrison they are of opinion that the Cartridge Box Morris Pattern is more suitable the reasons are that the Belt as it is at the present time to look soldierly and neatly must contain the full number of rounds of Cartridges for which it is made while the Cartridge Box may only have a few rounds to make the weight lighter and still retain its neatness. "In the opinion of the Board the belt has many advantages one of them above named is that…it remains steadier in its place and the other is that the weight is more equally distributed; in the other hand the Cartridge Box Morris Pattern is more soldierly in appearance and the Cartridges can be handled more quickly and with less exertion than the Belt." Although his name is not mentioned in the report itself the document is docketed "Report of Officers on Belt Submitted by Lt. Anson Mills." The belt at hand then is in fact the famous Mills Cartridge Belt. While not immediately adopted following this report it became widespread throughout the United States Canada and England after Mills patented it in 1881 making Mills who remained in service until 1896 into a wealthy man. An interesting report from a frontier post following the Civil War recording the earliest tests of what would become a standard piece of military equipment for the next several decades. Slightly tanned scattered soiling very minor splitting at the edges of old folds. Very good. hardcover

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Proceedings of a Board of Officers Convened at Fort Sedgwick C.T. per Special Orders No. 4 manuscript title.

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CAREME AntoninMareMagnum

LE MAITRE D’HOTEL FRANCAIS. Traité des menus à servir à Paris, à Saint-Pétersbourg, à Londres et à Vienne. Nouvelle édition revue, corrigée et augmentée.

1842In-8 p. (mm. 228x136), 2 volumi, mz. pelle mod. con ang., dorso a cordoni con decoraz. e tit. oro, conservata la brossura orig. - Volume 1°: pp. XI (occhietto, frontesp., dedica a Messieurs Robert Frères, “notice sur Careme par M. le Marquis de Cussy”, il celebre gastronomo), 352; con bella antiporta incisa, disegnata da Carème per la prima ediz. del 1822 - 12 ‘tableaux’ di menus, più volte ripieg. - 2 tavole (più e più volte ripieg.) con la disposizione dei “coperti” per un considerevole numero di persone. - Volume 2°: pp. 4 (occhietto, frontespizio), 282; con 12 ‘tableaux’ di menus, più volte ripieg. - 3 tavole (più e più volte ripieg.) con la disposizione dei “coperti” - 2 grandi tavole con la raffigurazione del “grand buffet de la cuisine moderne”, tutte inc. in rame. "Seconda edizione" di questa importante opera, con un totale di 24 ‘tableaux’, una antiporta allegorica e 7 (su 10) tavv. più volte ripieg. Nella prefazione l’A. spiega la divisione del suo studio in 5 trattati. - I traité: Remarques et considération sur l’ordonnance des menus de l’ancienne cuisine. - II traité: Considération et développements sur l’ordonnance des menus de la cuisine moderne, selon les 4 saisons, pour le service des tables opulentes depuis le premier janvier jusqu’à la fin de décembre inclusivement. - III traité: Des menus servis à la russe par l’auteur à S. M. I. l’empereur Alexandre, pendant son séjour à Paris, en 1814 et 1815. - IV traité: Des menus servis par l’auteur à S.A.R. le prince régent d’Angleterre, depuis George IV, pendant le grand voyage de la cour au pavillon de Brighton, en 1816 et 1817. - V traité: Des menus servis à Vienne par l’auteur à S. Exc. lord Stewart, ambassadeur extraordinaire de S.M.B. près la cour d’Autriche, en 1821. Suivis de considérations et remarques curieuses sur les productions en comestibles de Londres, Vienne et Saint-Pétersbourg, comparées à celles de la capitale de France, relativement à la cuisine; enrichi de planches représentant le service des tables et buffets pour les grandes réunions de famille et les fetes civiles et militaires. Cfr. Vicaire, p. 146 - Bitting, p. 75: 8 tavv. (di cui 7 ripieg.) e 24 ‘tableaux’. Pagine ingiallite per la qualità della carta e con qualche fiorit. ma complessivam. buon esemplare. "Il grande chef francese Marie Antoine Careme (1784-1833), fu cuoco di Talleyrand e poi degli imperatori di Russia e d’Austria. Il suo nome è divenuto quasi proverbiale per indicare l’ideale del cuoco perfetto. Scrisse varie opere fra cui “Il cuoco parigino o L’arte della cucina nel secolo XIX”". Così Diz. Larousse,III, p. 405.

Libreria Antiquaria Malavasi · Italy€2,200.00

GLAUBER Johann RudolphMareMagnum

PHARMACOPOEA SPAGYRICA. Sive exacta descriptio, quam ratione ex vegetabilibus, animalibus & mineralibus, modo haud usitato faciliorique, utilia, efficacia, & penetrantia medicamenta fieri praepararique possint...

1654In-16 p. (mm. 156x95), 8 parti in 1 vol., mz. pergam. antica, titolo impresso al dorso. Questa importante opera è così suddivisa: Pars prima (1654) pp. 77 - Pars secunda: De vegetabilium, animalium & mineralium praeparatione, per solvens universale (1656) pp. 128 - Tertia pars: Vegetabilia, animalia & mineralia per salem & ignem spagyrica methodo mundandi.. (1661) pp. 48 - Quarta pars: Medicinae quatuor columnas primarias, nempe sulphur, vitriolum, antimonium & mercurium tractans.. (1661) pp. 76, 2 cc.b. - Quinta pars: De vera medicina universali, summisque illis arcanis, tam universalibus quam particularibus.. (1663) pp. 75, 1 c.b. "Mancano le 2 tavole fuori testo ripieg." - Pars sexta: Sive lumen nuperrime ortum & clavis fortis.. (1664) pp. 87 - Pars septima: In qua uberius pertractatur, qualiter ex hominis urina secretum philosophorum sal armoniacum praeparetur.. (1668) pp. 87 - Prima Appendix in Pharmacopoeiae spagyricae partem septimam (1669) pp. 48. Importante opera, tutta in "edizione originale" ad eccezione della parte III (la cui prima ed. è del 1657). Molto raro trovarla completa di tutte le sue 7 parti + il vol. di Appendice. Cfr. Sallander “Bibliotheca Walleriana”,3577 e 3578 la sola bibliografia che segnala l’opera completa dell’Appendice - Wellcome,III, p. 123 non cita l’Appendice - Krivatsy,4804 solo 5 parti - Duveen, p. 257 e Caillet,II,4586 solo 3 parti. Celebre alchimista tedesco, Johann Rudolph Glauber (1604-1668) fu soprannominato il “Paracelso della sua epoca” e, come quest’ultimo, si dimostrò partigiano delle operazioni e teorie alchemiche le più strane. “Iniziò lo studio teorico della affinità chimica, e si occupò di diversi processi tecnologici fra cui la preparazione di acidi minerali (acido cloridrico) e di sali (solfato sodico, sali d’antimonio), la distillazione del legno, ecc. Sotto il nome di "Sale di Glauber" ancora oggi si indica spesso il solfato di sodio idrato che i medici del tempo di Glauber, chiamarono anche "sale mirabile" per le sue proprietà terapeutiche". Così Diz. Treccani,V, p. 461. Con antiche postille e sottolineature a penna; fiorit., lievi aloni margin. e arross. per la qualità della carta, ma complessivam. discreto esemplare.

Libreria Antiquaria Malavasi · Italy€2,200.00

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