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The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information (32 volumes in 16 books)

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Title: The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information (32 volumes in 16 books)
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc, 1922. Eleventh Edition; Twelfth Edition (New Volumes, Volumes 30-32). Hardcover. Good. Quarto [22 cm] Green cloth over boards. Gilt stamped title on the spine. Title and ornamental borders in pale green ink on the front board. Bindings rubbed. First 4 books with dampstaining to the lower extremities of the boards and light dampstaining to the fore-edge corners of the pages. Rear board of volume 6 with dampstaining. Occasional tears to cloth of the spine, primarily at the ends. A handful of weak hinges. ***Will require extra postage due to the number of volumes and weight. Shipping outside of the United States is strongly discouraged. The 11th edition brought a change in both plan and method of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Previous editions had consistently planned to provide comprehensive treatises on major subjects as well as detailed information on particulars and had inevitably lacked coherence because of the method of printing, whereby they appeared in parts over a considerable period of time. The 11th edition, while not seeking to treat major subjects superficially, abandoned the single-treatise plan not only as "cumbrous in a work of reference" but also as liable to omit "specific issues which consequently received no proper treatment." Instead, "the dictionary plan, by automatically providing headings throughout the work, under which, where appropriate, articles of more or less length may be put, enables every subject to be treated, comprehensively or in detail, yet as part of an organic whole, by means of careful articulation adapted to the requirements of an intelligent reader." The splitting up of what would have been treatises in former editions meant that the 11th edition had more than double the number of articles in the ninth-40,000 instead of 17,000-although the text was not much longer.

1827 - Letter requesting replacement parts for an early rope-making machine by Wolcott & Graves

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Title: 1827 - Letter requesting replacement parts for an early rope-making machine
Author: Wolcott & Graves
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
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Description: Southbridge, Massachusetts, 1827. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This one-page stampless letter, measuring 16" x 9.75" unfolded and dateline "Southbridge Decr. 11. 1827," was sent by Wolcott & Graves to John R. Matkinson of Middleton, Connecticut. It bears an uncommon circular Southbridge, Massachusetts postmark with no outer rim and a "10" rate mark. In nice shape. In this letter, Wolcott & Graves request replacement parts for a rope-making machine. It reads in part: "Please send BY Stage to Southbridge 2 Aprons for the roping machines as those first put on are about given out; So much that all the ends cannot be run. When [we] set it in operation [we] found the leathers cut, and since the aprons were bad, and that you would furnish others if they did not answer. The machine operates well, and we are making interest for you in their favour. Some of our roping was sent to Boston and . . . they were excellingly pleased with it. "We are satisfied that it is the best roping machine in use. You will please send me a line by return of mail and give me your opinion about the Tariff, and President, office seeker, and Political Jugglers with which or Country at the present day greatly abounds. . .." . Before 1827, rope was twisted by hand in labor-intensive "ropewalks" that stretched for hundreds of feet. However, inventors began examining mechanical methods that had only recently been introduced for winding yarn and thread in the textile mills to see if the process could be used in the cordage industry. It would appear that Matkinson was one of these inventors working in conjunction with Wolcott & Graves, partners who owned the famous Wolcott Woolen Manufacturing Company in Southbridge, Massachusetts, which at the time was the largest cotton mill in the world. Their company never became major rope producers, so perhaps Matkinson's rope-making machine was not "the best roping machine in use. Although Middletown was a bustling community by 1827, overland trips between it and Massachusetts were not direct. The replacement aprons would have been sent by stage to Hartford and transferred to another coach for delivery to Wolcott and Groves. (For more information see "James Wolcott (pioneer)" and "Hamilton Woolen Company Historic District" at Wikipedia, and "Mechanized Rope Making" at the Historic Dockyard Chatham website.) At the time of listing, there are no other original source material related to mechanized rope-making is for sale in the trade. The Rare Book Hub records that several items related to Robert Fulton's attempt to make a profitable rope-making machine have been sold at auction. OCLC identifies one collection of business papers from a Connecticut ropemaker in the 1820s and 1830s, however, it makes no mention whether the work was done by hand or machine. A fine letter from the earliest years of mechanized rope-making in the United States. .

Portugal 1715-1808. Joanine, Pombaline and Rococo Purtugal as seen by British diplomats and traders by Francis, David

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Title: Portugal 1715-1808. Joanine, Pombaline and Rococo Purtugal as seen by British diplomats and traders
Author: Francis, David
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: London: Tamesis Books Limited, 1985. 8vo, pp. [8], 291, [1]; full black cloth; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation bookplate on half title with complimentary card, else fine in about fine dust jacket.

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