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Meiji 7-nen Seiban tōbatsu kaikoroku 明治七年生蕃討伐囘顧錄 [Memoirs Concerning the 1874 Campaign Against the Southern Barbarians] by OCHIAI, Taizō 落合泰藏

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Title: Meiji 7-nen Seiban tōbatsu kaikoroku 明治七年生蕃討伐囘顧錄 [Memoirs Concerning the 1874 Campaign Against the Southern Barbarians]
Author: OCHIAI, Taizō 落合泰藏
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Three photographic plates (incl. a port. of the author) & two maps, all on glossy paper. 211 pp. 8vo, rebound in modern cloth. [Tokyo: Privately Printed by the Author], 1920. First edition, and very rare, of the memoirs of the Japanese campaign in Taiwan by the military doctor Ochiai (b. 1850); this book and his diary remain the best first-hand accounts of the medical aspects of this disastrous incursion. Using the pretense of avenging the murder of Okinawan fishermen by Taiwanese aborigines in 1871, the Meiji government decided to enlarge its sphere of influence - the first of many attempts - by sending an expeditionary force of more than 3000 soldiers and laborers to Taiwan in 1874. "Militarily, the expedition was a stunning success, as the heavily armed Japanese Army easily routed the brave but poorly-equipped aborigines...However, Japanese attempts to establish a permanent base in the area were soon thwarted by a series of epidemics, particularly typhus, dysentery and malaria. These events are graphically recounted in both the diary and memoirs of the army surgeon Ochiai Taizo, who later became superintendent of the Bureau of Military Medicine (gun-i ryo)... "The Taiwan Expedition of 1874 provides a classic example of the impact epidemics could have on military campaigns, as deaths from epidemics among the nearly 6,000 men who served were over 20 times higher than battlefield deaths. Even though the Japanese army's superior firepower ensured its tactical success against Taiwan's aboriginal tribes, the inability to adjust to a new environment and poor camp sanitation doomed to failure any attempt to establish a base in Taiwan, just as alien diseases and unclean army camps had doomed military campaigns throughout world history."-Paul R. Katz, "Germs of Disaster. The Impact of Epidemics on Japanese Military Campaigns in Taiwan, 1874 and 1895" in Annales de Démographie Historique (1996)-see the entirety of this wonderful article. Fine condition.

Abstract of an Act of Parliament...making more effectual the Laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly Persons and to Houses of Correction by [Criminalizing Poverty]

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Title: Abstract of an Act of Parliament...making more effectual the Laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly Persons and to Houses of Correction
Author: [Criminalizing Poverty]
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: [London]: [N.P.], 1791. First edition. Broadside measuring 15 x 12.25 inches and printed to recto. Some light chipping and toning to edges, particularly to lower quarter of sheet; short closed tear with amateur tape repair to verso along upper right foldline. Pencil notation "1791" to lower verso. In all, a well preserved piece which is unrecorded by ESTC, OCLC, or the British Library. English Poor Laws went through several important shifts between the sixteenth century's decline in more traditional forms of church-based charitable assistance and the present revision of the late eighteenth century. "The dissolution of the monasteries in 1536-40, followed by the dissolution of religious guilds, fraternities, almshouses, and hospitals in 1545-49 destroyed much of the institutional fabric which had provided charity for the poor in the past" (Boyer). In the absence of these systems, local governments struggled to establish their own infrastructure for social welfare. "A compulsory system of poor relief was instituted during the reign of Elizabeth I" which provided some relief for "the elderly, widows, children, the sick, the disabled, the unemployed, or the underemployed" (Blaug); funded by a property tax called the "poor rare" parishes were to maintain three different groups at different rates ("able-bodied adults, children, and the elderly or non-able-bodied" (Boyer). By the late eighteenth century, social welfare saw a decline in popularity among the wider citizenry; and a number of mechanisms were put into place to deter individuals and families from seeking or obtaining aid. In addition to the 1723 Workhouse Test Act, which "empowered parishes to deny relief to any applicant who refused to enter a workhouse," several acts were passed between 1791-1795 with work or residency requirements designed to "selectively keep out economically undesirable migrants such as single women, older workers, and men with large families" (Boyer). The Act of Parliament clarified in this abstract is such an example. By defining as "Rogue or Vagabond" any "poor Person [who] shall not use proper Means to get Work," any person who excessively spent funds "in Alehouses or Places of Bad Repute," or anyone "wandering abroad and begging," the Act criminalized a wide swath of the community. Those labeled Rogue or Vagabond would be subject to corporal punishment, fines, imprisonment, or removal from the parish (a notable exception to the corporal punishment was "any Female" who "in no Case whatsoever shall such undergo the Punishment of Whipping"). Thus, by policing the financial and physical lives of the impoverished, the 1791 Act gave the government the ability either to control impoverished peoples or deny them aid if they resisted and asserted autonomy. It further trapped a wide number of people within a cycle generational poverty.

A Woman Of No Importance by Wilde, Oscar

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Title: A Woman Of No Importance
Author: Wilde, Oscar
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Publisher's full mauve cloth stamped in gilt, spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Very good
Description: London: John Lane, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Publisher's full mauve cloth stamped in gilt, spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Very good. 154 pages. 27.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition, one of 500 with 16 pages of advertisements at end (dated March 1894), Cover gilt design florets by Charles Shannon considerably influenced by his lifetime partner Charles Ricketts, both of whom produced work for the Doves Press. MASON 364. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre, satirizing English upper-class society. Spine dulled, spine extremities creased, binding tight; a sound copy.

City Scenes or a Peep into London by Taylor, Jane, and Ann Taylor Gilbert

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Title: City Scenes or a Peep into London
Author: Taylor, Jane, and Ann Taylor Gilbert
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Description: 1828. London: Darton Harvey and Darton Gracechurch Street, 1828. Small 8vo, 79 pp., with an engraved title-page and 87 numbered engraved plates three to a page. Original dark green cloth,gilt stamp on upper cover, backstrip titled in gilt,, a little worn, some foxing and spotting in the margins of the plates and text, generally a good copy of a very scarce book. Early ink and pencil signatures of Amelia Nutter, Wellington Road, 1842. § First written in 1801 by William Darton, the text was revised by the Taylor sisters in 1806 with illustrations drawn and engraved by Isaac Taylor, reprinted in 1814. Blake's poem "Holy Thursday" appears for the first time on pp. 67-68 in the 1818 printing (with the first two lines changed and without any attribution to Blake), which was enlarged and reissued in 1828 retaining Blake's poem at p.69. Although Ann Taylor is best remembered for her hugely popular poem "My Mother," she and her sister Jane were not above printing other poets' poems as their own, often slightly changed. Bentley, Blake Books, 260 B. See Osborne I, p. 191. See Darton G913(12).

SIGNED. Introduction to the History of Science by Sarton, George

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Title: SIGNED. Introduction to the History of Science
Author: Sarton, George
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Description: Washington: Williams & Wilkins Co., 1927, 1931, 1947, 1948. First edition, first printings. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY OF GEORGE SARTON'S LANDMARK HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD. Five 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover volumes, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spines. Vol. I, From Homer to Omar Khayyam. Inscribed top of front free endpaper, "To my friends Duncan Black MacDonald & Marion Vallat Emrich with every good wish/ George Sarton." i-xi, 839 pp; Vol. II Part I, From Rabbi Ben Ezra to Roger Bacon. xxxv, [2], 480 pp; Vol. II Part II, From Rabbi Ben Ezra to Roger Bacon. i-xvi, [4], pp 485-1251; Vol. III Part I, Science and Learning in the Fourteenth Century, i-xxxv, 1018 pp; Vol. III Part II, Science and Learning in the Fourteenth Century, i-xi, [2], pp 1019-2155. Corners rubbed, light wear to covers, 2 white lines back cover of Vol. III Part II, spines of Vol. II Parts I & II slightly faded, light browning to page edges. An excellent presentation copy of this landmark history of ancient science. GEORGE SARTON (1884-1956) was a Belgian chemist and historian who is considered the founder of the discipline of history of science. Sarton's ultimate goal was to achieve an integrated philosophy of science that provided a connection between the sciences and the humanities, which he referred to as "the new humanism". Sarton intended to complete an exhaustive nine-volume history of science; By the time of his death, he had completed only the first three volumes (offered here). Sarton had been inspired for his project by his study of Leonardo da Vinci, but he had not reached this period in history before dying. PROVENANCE: DUNCAN BLACK MACDONALD (1863-1943) was an American Orientalist, who was a "pioneer of Arabic and Islamic studies in the United States". His main scholarly interest was Muslim theology, which led him to the study of the One Thousand and One Nights, as he believed that the Nights stories reflected the Muslim popular piety. MacDonald planned to prepare a critical edition of the only extensively surviving medieval manuscript of the Nights, but never published it. The Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Hartford Theological Seminary is named after him. MARION VALLAT EMRICH (1909 – 2006) was an American writer, administrator for the Library of Congress, and research analyst for the United Nations.

The Law of the Vultures by ALTMAN, Phyllis

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Title: The Law of the Vultures
Author: ALTMAN, Phyllis
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: very good(-)
Description: London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. hardcover. very good(-). 206pp., 12mo, cloth, d.w. (cloth lightly worn at top and bottom of spine, d.w. chipped and worn). London: Jonathan Cape, (1954). Fourth impression. A very good(-) copy.

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