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Dissertações philosophico-politicas sobre o trato das sedas na comarca de Moncorvo by SILK INDUSTRY, PORTUGAL — SÁ, José Antonio de

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Title: Dissertações philosophico-politicas sobre o trato das sedas na comarca de Moncorvo
Author: SILK INDUSTRY, PORTUGAL — SÁ, José Antonio de
Seller: Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Lisbon: press of the Royal Academy of Sciences, 1787. Narrow 4to (209 x 118 mm). [8], xiii, [3], 175 pages. Title-leaf (fol. [*2]) present in duplicate. Folding engraved plate of a mechanical silk loom; titles with woodcut arms of the Portuguese Royal Academy of Sciences, woodcut and typographic headpieces (occasional slight discoloration, small wormtrack in the folding plate). Contemporary cat’s-paw polished sheep, covers with gilt border, spine in six gold-tooled compartments, the second gilt lettered, edges gilt and gauffered (recased, endpapers renewed, defect in top spine compartment, a dozen small wormholes). Provenance: António Romão dos Passos (1866-1951), signature in ink (Antonio Passos / agronomo or Anto R. Passos) scrawled across both titles, the first with price note, and on six text leaves. *** Only edition of a comprehensive overview of the Portuguese silk industry, by the judicial magistrate of the Moncorvo district and author of several works on political economy and history of law. José Antonio de Sá (d. 1819), a native of Bragança, was an important proponent of modernization of the industry, and later served as director of the Royal Silk Factory (Real Fábrica das Sedas), founded in 1802 in Lisbon. He was one of the earliest members of the Academia Real das Sciencias of Lisbon. Silkworms were raised in Portugal as early as the 13th century. Sericulture and silk production were concentrated in the northeastern province of Trás-os-Montes, its largest center being the city of Bragança, which from the 15th to 17th century was known throughout Europe for its luxurious velvets. Because of the lack of government support for industry, frequent wars, and above all the persecutions of the Inquisition, which decimated an industry in all sectors of which Jews or converted Jews (cristãos-novos) played a major role, Portuguese silk production suffered from intermittent crises and was even periodically decimated. Starting in the 1770s, efforts to revive the industry began to have an effect: “By the end of the 18th century, the Trás-os-Montes silk industry had dragged itself out of the crisis that had begun in 1750-1755, coinciding with the last incursion of the Inquisition into Bragança, and embarked upon a period of great development, accompanying the industrial expansion that was then taking place, not only in that particular region, but throughout the Portuguese kingdom. After the Inquisition’s systematic persecution of businessmen, weavers and throwers had finally come to an end, the continuity and expansion of the silk industry seemed to be a viable prospect. In the last two decades of the 18th century, a remarkable process of modernization took place thanks to the efforts of the businessmen involved in this economic activity, such as António José Lopes Fernandes, who installed 200 silk looms in Bragança, magistrates such as José António de Sá and Pereira de Barros, and politicians such as Martinho de Melo e Castro and Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho, the latter being the Portuguese ambassador to Piedmont, Italy. These efforts included the adoption of Piedmontese methods and techniques (namely the organzine mill and the spinning-jenny), the most advanced ones at that time in Europe, in an operation led by experts coming to Portugal from that Italian region.” (Sousa, p. 6) Sá’s work is in three parts. The first part comprises an overview of the history of silk production, starting with Antiquity, and summaries of the industry and government policies toward it in other countries, followed by a detailed recommendation, with responses to projected objections, that the Portuguese government undertake a campaign to plant mulberry trees and promote the industry generally. Part two is a treatise on the silkworm, and part three a technical survey of “the art of silk spinning.” Explained in the text (pp. 142-148) is the letter- and number-keyed engraving of a rather fanciful machine, showing a vat for softening the cocoons heating on the left, from which a thread-unwinding mechanism feeds a loom on the right. The reason for the duplicated title-leaf in this copy is not clear. Perhaps one functioned as an upper wrapper — but as both titles are preceded by a half-title that appears unlikely. The book collector Antonio Romão dos Passos (b. February 28, 1866) was an engineer and agronomist. Other books from his library, all on practical subjects, are recorded; four are digitized by the Biblioteca Nacional Digital de Portugal. One, a treatise on hemp, has a similar indelicately scrawled signature across the title. OCLC gives six US locations. Innocencio, Diccionario bibliographico portuguez IV: 246, no. 2658; Kress, Luso-Brazilian Economic Literature Before 1850, p. 4. Cf. F. Sousa, “The Silk Industry In Trás-Os-Montes During The Ancient Regime,” E Journal of Portuguese History, Vol. 3, no. 2, Winter 2005 (digitized).

Geo. H. Schumacher, Major Q.M. Corps. Notes Covering Visit to 4th Corps Area Posts April 4, to May 1, 1937 [cover title] by [U.S. Army]. [American Southeast]

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Title: Geo. H. Schumacher, Major Q.M. Corps. Notes Covering Visit to 4th Corps Area Posts April 4, to May 1, 1937 [cover title]
Author: [U.S. Army]. [American Southeast]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
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Description: [N.p., 1937. Very good.. [3],53pp., rectos only, including fifty-nine vernacular sepia-toned photographs measuring 2.5 x 3.5 inches and a few maps and manuscript diagrams. Typed self wrappers, brad-bound. Minor creasing and dust-soiling to wrappers. Clean internally. A profusely illustrated report, with a few hand-drawn diagrams and numerous manuscript emendations, focused on various U.S. Army installations in the American Southeast. The author, Major George H. Schumacher of the U.S. Army's Quartermaster Corps, visited several Army bases and other posts in Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia in the Spring of 1937. His report includes inspection details, notes on personnel, recommended repairs, and other information for each site he visited on his 3,065-mile tour, beginning with Fort Barrancas and Key West in Florida to Fort Moultrie in South Carolina, to Fort Bragg and Raleigh Cemetery in North Carolina, Fort McClellan in Alabama, and ending with a couple of bases in Georgia. The text of the report is supplemented with almost sixty annotated photographs which are interspersed throughout. A sampling of the photographs includes the Bachelor Quarters in Key West, the CCC Camp at Fort Taylor, the St. Augustine Cemetery, a WPA road under construction at Fort Moultrie, various buildings at Fort Bragg and the Raleigh Cemetery, a road and bridge at Fort McClellan, and various features at Georgia forts Screven and Oglethorpe. A unique production, and an informative assessment of 1930s Army installation in the American South and Southeast.

SENTIMENTAL TOMMY by BARRIE, J.M.

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Title: SENTIMENTAL TOMMY
Author: BARRIE, J.M.
Seller: Boston Book Company (United States)
Description: 1896. BARRIE, J.M. SENTIMENTAL TOMMY. London: Cassell, 1896. Signed first edition, first issue. 8vo, purple cloth, darkened on spine with some wear at crown and heel. Front hinge starting, but still overall this is a very good copy. (Cutler 46).

North Woods Hunting Photo Album, Moosehead Lake Region, Maine

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Title: North Woods Hunting Photo Album, Moosehead Lake Region, Maine
Seller: James Arsenault & Company (United States)
Description: [ca 1895]. Oblong 8vo (19 cm) photo album, flexible blue-green cloth. 21 bromide print photos (4.5" x 6.5"), 3 laid-in photos ( 2.5" x 3"), 1 b&w laid-in postcard (3.5" x 5.5"). A photo album documenting a hunting trip in the North Woods of Maine, beginning with a view of Mount Kineo and the Kineo House with its attendant buildings on Moosehead Lake. Subjects captured include a group of hunters posed on a porch with a uniformed man, perhaps at a Kineo cottage; campsite scenes where hunters wash up, smoke, or play cards; hunters proudly posing with bagged deer throughout the album and and in photos laid-in, deer lying on the ground after the kill and hanging in groups from pole structures; water scenes, including one with canoeing hunters; a photo of a bird perched on a hanging deer, etc. An unrelated laid-in postcard of a farmhouse is entitled "Link View. Orono, Maine". A nice album evoking the Golden Age of sporting in Maine. CONDITION: Good, tonality of photos generally good, most photos with some spotting, one leaf detached.

Principle English Writings. Prefaced by a Sketch of His Life. by DOHERTY, Patrick John.

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Title: Principle English Writings. Prefaced by a Sketch of His Life.
Author: DOHERTY, Patrick John.
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Description: Quebec: L.H. Huot, 1873. Book. 12mo, contemp. 1/4 morocco, marbled boards, gilt morocco label. Pp. 237, (1). Frontis. port. Extremities rubbed, front hinge tender; a very good, copy. First edition. Consists mostly of Doherty's travel letters from Europe and the Holy Land..

Forty Years in a Moorland Parish Reminiscences and Researches in Danby and Cleveland by Atkinson, J C - NATURAL HISTORY - FOLKLORE

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Title: Forty Years in a Moorland Parish Reminiscences and Researches in Danby and Cleveland
Author: Atkinson, J C - NATURAL HISTORY - FOLKLORE
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: A near fine copy; unopened.
Description: London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. Second Edition.. orig. publisher's cloth.. A near fine copy; unopened.. 8vo. There are 3 plates and 2 maps (one fldg.) A wonderful book of local history, folklore, language, natural history, and geology. An example of a genre now lost.

Encyclopaedia of Cultivated Orchids: An illustrated, descriptive manual of the members of the Orchidaceae currently in cultivation. by Alex D. Hawkes.

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Title: Encyclopaedia of Cultivated Orchids: An illustrated, descriptive manual of the members of the Orchidaceae currently in cultivation.
Author: Alex D. Hawkes.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: London: Faber And Faber Limited. (1978). Royal Octavo, Black textured board (hardcover), 602 pp. Full color Photographs and Plates throughout. Fine in a Fine full color dust jacket.

Memo from David O. Selznick by Behlmer, Rudy, ed.

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Title: Memo from David O. Selznick
Author: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Grove Press, Inc.. Near Fine. 1981 (c.1972). 1st Evergreen Edition. Softcover. [minor wear only to book, but there is a small hole punched in the front cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) An endlessly fascinating read-through of the correspondence files of the legendary producer of GONE WITH THE WIND and other classics (and an occasional non-classic) -- albeit, as editor Behlmer explains in his foreword, presenting "a rather one-sided case, with no opportunity for the several victims of Selznick's unhappiness or, in some instances, wrath, to offer rebuttals or countercharges." The selection of memos -- from among two thousand file boxes of Selznick's papers -- was a monumental task, and although it was by necessity a highly selective process, at the end you feel like you've gotten a pretty comprehensive picture of DOS -- "at times pontificating and overly fussy," as the editor allows, but "also brilliant, knowledgeable, tasteful, painstaking, and possessed by what he was doing." The book itself was something of a landmark of cinema scholarship: never before had a book of film history (or biography) been presented as an assemblage of primary documents, and it's not saying too much to state that it raised the bar for future film historians' excavation of such archives. Quite fittingly included in the important bibliography "100 Books on Hollywood & the Movies." (xx) .

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