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Scammon Margaret StebbinsABAA

WEST POINT BEER Letter to Brother re: missing Beer

18462556West Point NY 1846. Cream paper creased. Good. 25.5 x 19 cm. Margaret Stebbins Scammon writes her brother from West Point where her husband E. Parker Scammon is an officer with the United Army Corps of Topographic Engineers. Parker would later command the 23rd Ohio Regiment during the Civil War. Good Friday Morn. 1846 My Dearest brother Parker fully intended to cover this envelope to you but as he was about doing it the Quartermaster must needs send for him to come to the Library for some important briefings: and so he begs me to write for him and apologize to the best of my ability for the non-appearance of your beer. You must have thought him very neglectful and tho' it is rather an awkward task I will tell you the whole truth. If you will have patience to wait till the end of this month it shall then be forthcoming. He expected to order it on the 1st but our cook took it into his head to go back to the city to live and as we had at his own request kept back the quarter part of his wages for 18 months you must know our last month's pay went with a rush and as we are so involved on every side we wont borrow and therefore all parties ourselves included must wait till after another visit from the Paymaster for our good beer. I have thus most frankly stated to you the case and I hope you will excuse it. We remember that we are still considerably in your debt so that it is with great pleasure that P. will attend to your order just so soon as circumstances will permit. I think the value of the empty half barrels returned is $1.50 each and they quite well have them as money. They are returned at any time and credited to sender. We are looking forward to your visit in June or July with impatience. Do not disappoint us. Your very aft sister Margaret The letter is addressed to Margaret's brother - Mr. John B. Stebbins Care of Homer Foote & Co. Springfield Mass. We know the merchant her brother worked for Homer Foote had become a very wealthy retailer in Springfield and assume that John B. was successful as well. Letter has some foxing and tears in areas where there is creasing. Red West Point stamp is faint along with the number 5. unknown books

Travel Exploration 19th Century Indo China0ABAA

Travels in Indo-China and the Chinese Empire By Louis De Carne Member of the Commission of Exploration of the Mekong. With a Notice of the Author By The Count De Carne. Translated From the French

187227077London England: Chapman and Hall 1872. xxi 365 pages; with the half-title. Folding frontispiece map "Itinerary Sketch of the Exploration of Indo-China between Saigon and Sou-Tcheou-Foo by the French Commission 1866 - 1868 Drawn out by Francis Garnier Lieutenant of the Vessel" with color route-lines; also with several black and white illustrations in the text. The explorations of these areas as recorded by Louis de Carne 1843-1871 son of the politician and academician Louis-Marie de Carne count of Carne-Marcein 1804-1876 was a French explorer. Appointed by his uncle the Governor General of Cochinchina Pierre-Paul de La Grandiere Louis de Carne participated as an attachÃ© at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the French Mekong expedition from 1866 to 1868 under the command of Ernest Doudart de Lagree an expedition of which he was the youngest member. The only civilian in the mission and directly responsible to the governor he was often in conflict with the other members of the expedition because of his special position. He was tasked with the descriptive part of the trip and more particularly for commercial information. Seriously ill on his return he could not finish writing his travel notes. After his death it was his father who took charge of the preface and the publication of the book in 1872. This work was immediately translated and published in English." Writing of travels through Cambodia Angcor Bassac the Mekong Vien-Chan Kingdom of Luang-Praban; Bangkok; into the Burma territory; western China Yunan; concerns about the Mussulman insurrection in China and the Kingdom of Tali; the Blue River; the arrival at Shanghai and return to Saigon. Robson & Sons Printers London. Title page with the small and faint previous owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush; M.D. in the U.S. Navy; a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Volume approx. 6" x 8 3/4" size; bound in marbled-paper covered boards brown leather corners and spine; contrasting black leather label titles gilt; gilt floral decorations in compartments; all edges marbled to match; marbled endpapers. Some edge tips wear and rubbing to the binding; front endpaper scraped at edge; plate pages paper very darkened and with old dampstains; map clean as is the text in very good condition. First English Edition. Leather. Good. Chapman and Hall books

Certain Books, ABAA · États-Unis150,00 $US≈ 126,92 €

Americana History of Medicine Science 19th centuryABAA

The New York Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences. Edited By Samuel Forry M.D.

184327079New York N.Y.: J. & H.G. Langley 1843. 431 pages; with a frontispiece plate illustrating a "Cot for the Treatment of Fractures at Sea. by J. M. Foltz Esq. Surgeon U.S.N." - Dr. Foltz also has contributed the extensive first article within on the topic of ".The Endemic Influence of Evil Government illustrated in a view of the Climate Topography and Diseases of the Island of Minorca with an account of the Medical Faculty - of the French Military Hospital on the Isle de los Reyos - and of the Statistics of the United States Naval Hospital at Mahon." Contents of the volume on various topics: complicated menstruation; obscure and remote effects of Syphilis; a curiosity in obstetric physiology; on electro-puncture in hydrocele with cases; on epidemic influenzas 'with special reference to the now prevailing epidemic catarrhal fever'; and dozens of other pieces American and foreign on medical pathology and therapeutics material medica and pharmacy surgery obstetrics and diseases of females; toxicology and medical jurisprudence. With a few small woodcut illustrations including of a cross-section of a Lepidopterous Insect; also a lithograph of Prof. A.H. Stevens' case of Spina Bifida; and a folding view of the river area at Rondout New York approx.8 1/2" x 18" overall which accompanies an article regarding the outbreak of ".a Malignant Fever which prevailed." there in 1843. Title page with the small previous owner oval name-stamp of J. Manley; front endpaper with small collector number-ticket. Volume approx. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4" size; bound in marbled paper covered boards leather corners and spine; gilt spine titles. Both boards detached worn; contents with occasional spotting soiling or foxing; text block solidly bound and in good condition. First Edition. Leather. Good. J. & H.G. Langley books

Certain Books, ABAA · États-Unis150,00 $US≈ 126,92 €

19th Century Literature By Women AuthorsABAA

The Cadet De Colobrieres. A Tale of the Old Convents of Paris. Madame Charles Reybaud with Cleveland: A Tale of the Catholic Church By Mary Anne G. Murray-Gartshore with Life in Sweden. The President's Daughters. Part II Nina. By Frederika Bremer

184325566Philadelphia and New York: Various 1843. Three novels by these women writers individually published & separately paginated bound in one volume including: The Cadet De Colobrieres. A Tale of the Old Convents of Paris. Translated from the French of Madame Charles Reybaud. Complete in One Volume. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1847. 91 pages; with a one-page Preface by the un-named translator. Henriette Etiennette Fanny Arnaud Reybaud 1802-1871 French writer who wrote under the name of Madame Charles Reybaud and other noms-de-plume. Title page with the signature at top margin of V.E. Baudry May 1847. Cleveland: A Tale of the Catholic Church. New York: Burgess Stringer & Co. 1847. 105 pages printed double-column. Author is not noted on title page; by British writer Mary Anne Georgia Murray-Gartshore. d. 1851. Tipped on to the title page are two thin strips of paper with a clipped signature and date of V.E. Baudry Sept. 1847. Life in Sweden. The President's Daughters. Part II Nina. By Frederika Bremer translated by Mary Howitt. New York Published by Harper & Brothers 1843. 137 pages printed double column. Fredrika Bremer 1801-1865 Swedish writer feminist reformer; Mary Howitt Mary Howitt 1799-1888 prolific English author; nee Botham; published translations from Frederika Bremer and Hans Andersen and successful children's books. DNB. Previous owner small bookplate of S.M. DuPont on the front endpaper; binder's note in pencil on back free endpaper "Dupont Â½ roan" Approx. 6" x 9 1/8" size; bound in blue & black striped & marbled paper covered boards black leather spine and corners gilt spine titles and simple rule-lines gilt. Much rubbing and wear to the boards & corners; some foxing and spotting to the contents; in good condition. . First Edition. Leather. Good. Various books

Certain Books, ABAA · États-Unis250,00 $US≈ 211,52 €