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(HADELAND). (JEVNAKER). (VELO).Biblio.com

Taksigelse og Afsked til Hadeland især med Hensyn til Garden Welo. Januar 1822. Sent 1800-talls avskrift av originalen.

[Sail to Steam] Samuel Read (1796-1863) of Chatham Dockyard and School of Naval Architecture [Admiral Henry John Chetwynd-TalboBiblio.com

Samuel Read of Chatham Dockyard and the School of Naval Architecture. Autograph Letter Signed 'S: Read' to Viscount Ingestrie attacking in detail Sir Charles Adam's conduct regarding the construction of the wooden steam paddle frigate HMS Gorgon

14455Chatham. 12 March 1839. A substantial letter 3pp. foolscap 8vo. 100 lines of text. Bifolium. In very good condition on aged paper with one closed along crease line neatly repaired with archival tape. Addressed on reverse of second leaf with Chatham postmark frank and black wax seal to 'Viscount Ingestrie M:P. 2 Wilton Crescent Belgrave Square London'. An interesting document in which a distinguished Victorian naval architect makes detailed criticisms of an innovation in his field. HMS Gorgon was designed by Sir William Symonds and launched in 1837. Her direct-acting engines in which the engine's cylinders are placed under the crankshaft built by Seaward and Company were the first to be fitted in any vessel. She was scrapped in 1864. Read begins his letter: 'My Lord Nothing could exceed my astonishment at the reply or rather <> which Sir C. Adam gave in citing the Gorgon as a specimen of the success of the personal conductor of our Naval Construction. In a lithographic account privately circulated but which the Hampshire Telegraph published; it was stated for what purposes this bad & wretched failure was designed. - She was to be able to carry 10 long 32 Pr. between decks - 4 32 Prs. and 2 10 inch Bomb Cannon on the weather deck - She was to take or be able to take a regiment on board with all its equipage for a colonial voyage across the Atlantic.' He proceeds to describe the 'falling off' from these specifications commenting that 'her constructor had so little knowledge of what he was about that he was deficient in displacement at least 400 tons corresponding to a too great immersion of 3 feet about . When she left Plymouth for her first trip to St. Sebastian she drew 17 ft 3 in aft instead of her intended draft 15.6 and the Ports abaft the Paddle Boxes were only from 3 ft 3 in to 3 ft 6 in above the water!! Of course the Ports were still caulked in.' At the end of this criticism he describes the Gorgon as 'a failure'. He proceeds to 'shew how experiments are got up' concluding 'is this the way that an experiment involving a cost of 40000£ should be conducted - The engines alone of the Gorgon cost 20000£.' He continues 'Would Sir C. Adam produce the lithographic circulars of which the Gorgon was intended for and would he venture to place in contrast with it the actual performance of the ship' He gives more specifications before stating: 'The Constructor of the Gorgon ought to be called upon to explain if he can the early discrepancy between his intentions & performances. He ends by apologising for 'this rough document'. Chatham. 12 March 1839. unknown

Richard M. Ford Ltd · Royaume-Uni220,00 £GB≈ 251,20 €

Arzans De Orsua Y Vela, BartolomeBiblio.com

Tales of Potosi

1066Providence. 1975. Brown University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0870571443. Translated from the Spanish by Frances M. Lopez-Morillas. Edited and with an Introduction by R. C. Padden. 209 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration: detail from the first printed sketch of Potosi in Pedro de Cieza de Leon's La crnica del Peril Seville 1553. keywords: Latin America Peru History. DESCRIPTION - Spanish colonial life is shown in a new light in these robust tales available in English for the first time of the legendary era of the great South American silver center of Potosi a seventeenth-century boom town �raised' according to one of its governors �in pandemonium by greed at the foot of riches discovered by accident.' In the seventeenth century when the English settlement of North America was only beginning Potosi had reached the peak of its amazing development becoming one of the richest cities in the world and-although high above the Andean timberline-the most populous city in the Western Hemisphere. Along with the inevitable decline that ensued came tales of what had become a legendary past. In the eighteenth century Arz�ns retold many of these tales with gusto in his monumental Historia de la Villa Imperial de Potosi which except for a few fragments remained unpublished until 1965. Then appearing in three volumes in the original Spanish it was said to be �like the great silver mountain of Potosi itself but full of riches of a quite different kind' TLS. Now these riches are available in a selection of tales translated from the original. Among them are accounts of the elaborate public ceremonies that took place on such occasions as the death of Philip II and the accession to the throne of Philip III. Most of the tales however are about the private lives of the Potosinos as a sampling of the titles suggests: The Downfall of Don Francisco Chocata The Adventures of the Warrior Maidens A Virgin's Revenge The Salvation of Antonio Escorron Claudia the Witch The Brief Engagement of Francisca Mirue�a The Reformation of Don Francisco Aguirre and The Trials of Do�a Teresa. Potosi the Times Literary Supplement reviewer observed was �a microcosm of the Spanish empire in America and Arz�ns the meticulous annalist of a particular city was no less a chronicler pf Spanish society in the New World.' Tales of Potosi recreates that society-through the tales themselves and through the introduction. The latter by R. C. Padden a professor of history at Brown University is in its own right a major contribution to Latin American studies. inventory #1066 hardcover

Zeno's · États-Unis54,00 $US≈ 45,69 €