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186447074Philadelphia: Printed for the U.S. Sanitary Commission by King & Baird Prs 1864. Very Good. Philadelphia: Printed for the U.S. Sanitary Commission by King & Baird Prs. 1864. First Edition. Octavo; purple cloth stamped in gilt; 283pp. Four plates map. Ex-library though with no external institutional markings. Boards worn at extremities with chipping to spine ends and brief exposure to joints and corners; spine faded. Binding sound; ca. 1900 library plate to front pastedown; stamp to title; top portion of the title page torn away not affecting text; else unmarked; still a Very Good copy; includes the four plates of starved soldiers; images available upon request. <br /> <br /> Sabin 51791. Printed for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, by King & Baird, Prs unknown
1804200092AG1804. no place. c.1804. Original engraving. Plate Size: 10 cm x 19 cm. Sheet Size: 13. 3 cm x 21 cm. In very good condition. Minor inkstain visible. A handsome engraving based an earlier portrait of Neild by Samuel De Wilde. Beneath the portrait is an allegorical scene related to Neild's work as a penal reformer. The full title is as follows: "James Neild Esqr. High Sheriff of the County of Bucks. 1804 At 60. One of his Majesty's acting Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Buckingham Kent and Middlesex and the City of Liberty of Westminster. Treasurer of the Society for the Relief of persons imprisoned for small debts." James Neild 4 June 1744 16 February 1814 was an English jeweller and prison reformer. While he was supported by two particular friends Weeden Butler and John Coakley Lettsom his efforts were distinct from those of John Howard and the Quaker group including Elizabeth Fry. Wikipedia unknown
41852996-nnew. unknown
BN316490Le Laurier. Softcover. L'histoire d'un oui : Vie de Saint Josémaria Escriva racontée aux enfants <br/><br/>L'histoire d'un oui : Vie de Saint Josémaria Escriva racontée aux enfants Miguel-A. CARCELES et Isabel TORRA Le Laurier paperback
1855097202London: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1855. Book measures 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. 399pp. Bound in modern quarter calf marble boards red leather title label. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally pages clean throughout. A very nice clean well bound copy. First Edition. Very Good Plus. 8vo. George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode hardcover
42542Quebec. Printed for the contractors by Hunter Rose & Co. 1861. 8vo. 24cm 176p. in the original printed blue wrappers with the title repeated on the upper cover in publisher's frame border a fine copy rare. cdn. T.P.L. 3960. Our first copy. no records and listings located. With a list of places visited including the Quarantine Hospital Grosse Isle. Report addressed to Sir Edmund Walker Head Governor General of the British Provinces in North America. Includes also Lunatic Asylums Marine Hospitals Penitentiary Reformatories. Quebec. Printed for the contractors, by Hunter, Rose & Co. 1861 unknown
18474980Troy: Published and Sold by L. Willard 1847. First Edition. 1 - 44 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers uncut and unopened; some chipping at margins sporadic foxing. First Edition. 1 - 44 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contains: The Condemned: A Chapter from Our City Prison: A Tale of Truth and Horror. Wright I 2444 Published and Sold by L. Willard unknown
19121080Londres etc.: Lloyds Greater Britain Publishing Company Limited. 1912. First edition. Large quarto. Publisher's original full dark-green morocco; the upper board triple-ruled in gilt and with the Uruguayan crest in gilt; the spine with five raised bands compartments ruled and decorated in gilt and with titles in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Title page contents page introduction and first text page with gilt borders and embellishments. Illustrated profusely throughout with black and white photographs and one map. Ownership inscription of the Australian writer Mary Gilmore to the head of the title page: "Mary Gilmore / Her book / 16. 3. 26". A very good copy the binding square and firm with a few small marks and scuffs to the boards rubbing to the spine and joints and wear to the corners. The contents with scattered foxing to the endpapers are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. An interesting association copy of this comprehensive extensively illustrated and luxuriously produced survey of the people culture history politics economy industry agriculture geography and natural history of Uruguay at the beginning of the twentieth-century belonging to the influential Australian author journalist and poet Dame Mary Gilmore 1865-1962. </p><p>A prolific contributor to Australian literature and the broader national discourse during the first half of the twentieth-century Gilmore wrote for a number of leading newspapers and journals of the period serving as the editor of the women's section of The Australian Worker 1908-1931 as well as The Bulletin The Sydney Morning Herald and the Communist Party's Tribune becoming known as a campaigner for the welfare of the disadvantaged. Her first volume of poetry was issued in 1910 thereafter publishing prodigiously for the ensuing half-century coming to be regarded as one of Australia's most popular and widely read poets. Her poetry essays and memoirs covered a wide variety of themes although public imagination was particularly captured by her evocative views of country life with her best known work - 'No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest' - serving as a morale booster during the Second World War.</p><p>A political progressive Gilmore gained a reputation as a 'fiery radical' - a champion of the workers and the oppressed. Involving herself with the burgeoning labour movement early in her life she had become a devotee of the utopian socialism of William Lane 1861-1917. In 1896 Gilmore and two hundred others followed Lane to Paraguay where they established a communal settlement called New Australia. She started a family there with William Gilmore whom she married in 1897 but the colony was ultimately short-lived with Gilmore leaving in 1900 living in Buenos Aires for six months followed by a period in Patagonia returning to Australia in 1902 after having saved enough money for a return passage.</p><p>Gilmore maintained a strong interest in Latin American politics culture and literature for the rest of her life. Indeed she also engaged in translation projects bringing Latin American literature to a wider audience notably endeavouring to produce a 'Uruguayan anthology' for which she corresponded with friends and associates in the country. This was perhaps also the origin of the present volume which itself forms a pleasing representation of Gilmore's wide-ranging ambitions.</p><p>By her later years Gilmore was a doyenne of the Sydney literary world and became something of a national icon making frequent appearances in the new media of radio and television and maintaining a significant literary output into old age publishing her last book of verse in 1954 aged 89. She died at the age of 97 and was accorded a state funeral a rare honour for a writer and has featured on the reverse of the Australian ten-dollar note since 1993. Londres [etc.]: Lloyds Greater Britain Publishing Company, Limited. hardcover
181991196Paris: Imprimerie de Denugon 1819. A collection of 18 reports issued between April and December 1819 for the French Royal Society for the Improvement of Prisons comprising: 1. Rapport au Roi 9 avril 1819. 8 pp. Signed in print by the Comte Decazes. 2. Ordonnance du Roi 9 avril 1819. Pp. 9-14 Signed in print by Louis and Decazes. 3. Circulaire de S. Exc. le ministre de l'intérieur à MM. les préfets 4 mai 1819. 5 pages. 4. Statuts de la Société royale pour l'amélioration des Prisons 15 mai 1819. Pp. 15-18. 5. Liste des Fondateurs de la Société royale pour l'amélioration des Prisons. Pp. 19-30. 6. Arrêté de S. Exc. le ministre de l'intérieur 7 août 1819. Pp. 8. 7. Réglement de S. Exc. le ministre de l'intérieur 7 août 1819. Pp. 9-14. 8. Procès-verbal d'installation de la Société royale des prisons 14 juin 1819. Pp. 15-29. 9. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons dans sa séance du 25 mai 1819 M. le duc de la Rochefoucauld rapporteur. Pp. 31-38. 10. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons dans ses séances des 25 mai et 8 juin 1819 M. Pariset rapporteur. Pp. 39-71. 11. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons dans sa séance du 2 juin 1819 M. le comte Bigot de Préameneu rapporteur . Pp. 73-88. 12. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons dans sa séance du 8 juin 1819 M. le comte de La Borde rapporteur. Pp. 89-100. 13. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons dans la même séance M. Try rapporteur. Pp. 109. 14. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons dans la même séance M. Jacquinot ded Pampelune rapporteur. Pp. 111-121. 15. Visite des prisons des départemens de l'Eure et de la Seine-Inférieure en octobre 1819 M. le marquis de Barbé Marbois. Pp. 44. 16. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons M. le comte Bigot de Préameneu. pp. 136. 17. Arrêté de S. Exc. le ministre de l'intérieur 25 décembre 1819. Pp. 137-154. 18. Extraits des lois et réglemens concernant l'administration et la police des prisons. Pp. 2 39. Quarto 243 x 192 mm. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. Occasional light spotting; a very good copy. unknown
1827AQ19356London: Printed by Luke Hansard and Sons 1827. 56pp. With four lithographed folding plans by William Webb. Contemporary perhaps original publisher's roan-backed boards morocco lettering piece gilt to upper board. Rubbed with slight loss to spine and short cracks to joints at head and foot. Some spotting and damp-marking to plates. A handsome copy of a comprehensive account of the governance and operation of Lincoln county gaol at Lincoln Castle founded in 1789 which includes the specific rules surrounding prisoners' labour discipline religious observance and diet in Lincoln and extracts of prevailing Regency penal legislation including references to female prisoners and the manner of removing the bodies of executed prisoners. The four plans illustrate executed by William Webb illustrate three floor plans of the gaol and a general ground plan of the Castle. Rare. COPAC locates only four copies in the UK BL NT Royal Society and Senate House; OCLC adds four copies in North America Chigago Georgia Ohio State and Simon Fraser and three elsewhere Auckland Hong Kong University and Queensland. . First edition. Quarto. Printed by Luke Hansard and Sons hardcover
