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184529909AB1845. First Edition. Dublin Alexander Thoma 1845. Octavo 13 cm x 18.5 cm. VIII 906 pages. Original Hardcover Publisher's blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Very good and firm condition with some minor signs of wear only. This is one of the most important and rarest sources for Statistics in Ireland in 1845 and one year prior of The Great Famine Gorta Mór / Irish Potato Famine. Thorough Statistics in Thom's Almanac for the Famine-years 1844 and 1845 in this Volume show for example: Page 180: "The Poor Law Act came into operation in 1839 but none of the Workhouses were opened for the reception of paupers till 1840 in which year 4 were opened in 1841 34 were opened in 1842 54 and in 1843 14 and in 1844 7; remaining to be opened prior to 1845: 17." Folding Tables show "Name Situation Extent Number of Electoral Divisionsand of Guardians in every Union in Ireland; also the Number for whom House Accommodation has been provided the Data of opening of every Workhouse with the number in each on 1st of January 1844 the average Number relieved daily etc. etc." Statistics show List of Articles Imported and Exported Net Produce of Molasses Hemp Rice as well as Exports of Corn Grain Lard Horses etc. The Statistics are detailed and thorough and list results from Skibbereen to Belfast. The Almanac also lists in detail for example: Tables for finding the rising and setting of Sun and Moon / Lighthouses on the Coast of Ireland / Fairs now held in Ireland / Stamp Duties / Corn Duties / Table of Irish and British Money / Bill Card for 1845 / Courts of Law / Governors of Colonies / Scotland Officers of Crown and State / Peerage / Peerage of Ireland with alphabetical Index / Knights of St.Patrick and Officers / Baronets of Ireland / Knights Bachelors in Ireland / Ancient Irish Titles retained by desendents / Foreign Titles borne by residents in Ireland / Knights of British & Foreign Orders in Ireland / Statistics of Ireland: Railways / Poor Law Statistics / Populations of Towns Skibbereen in West Cork showing for example: 4715 / Dunmanway: 3086 / etc. etc. hardcover
Signed and inscribed "For Robert Conquest, with admiration" atop title page, apparently by Luciuk, at Kingston, Ontario in 2008. Conquest [1917-1915] was a renowned author and sovietologist once described by a close adviser to Margaret Thatcher as Britain's greatest living historian. His landmark 1986 treatise 'The Harvest of Sorrow' documented the Ukraine's great terror-famine of 1932-1933. 493 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Fold-out colour map. "The documents reveal that even at the height of the famine the Soviet authorities denied that there was starvation, rejected foreign aid, and exported food, and that senior British officials refused to alert the public and discouraged private relief. This collection thus furnishes evidence about the causes, course and consequences of one of the great politically engineered famines of the twentieth century." - back cover. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound and special association copy of this important historical record. Book
1817127400Germany: 1817. A relic from the Year Without a Summer This small "Hungersemmel" produced in German-speaking countries during the famine of 1816-17 illustrates the severity of the food shortage. It was kept as a memento of the hardship as the accompanying note explains: "This 2-penny bun is from the expensive time of the year 1817 stored here as a memorial on the 12th of July. Paid by Carl Weißenbach" our translation. The price of such famine buns remained unchanged throughout the period but their size decreased as the stock of flour dwindled. Bakers supplemented their scarce flour with inedible material such as sawdust straw and tree bark and added whiteners such as alum chalk gypsum and burnt bones Angerer p. 165. They were often passed through families to remember the dead although some public institutions such as churches and town halls also displayed them. The famine resulted in the first wave of German emigration in the 19th century with many fleeing to Poland Russia and the United States. "Hunger pastries" are scarce survivals. The Museum der Brotkultur in Ulm holds five similar examples. Four more are traced in the Historical Museum in Regensburg and two in the Gerätemuseum in Ahorn near Coburg Angerer p. 162. The note in German reads: "Diese 2-Pfennigsemmel ist von der theuren Zeit des Jahres 1817. Als Andenken hierin aufbewahrt am 12. July. Von Carl Weißenbach bezahlt". Dried bun 60 x 40 x 25 mm accompanied by a folded manuscript note in German. Housed in a contemporary black card box. Bun darkened and with some expected damage including insect; manuscript note browned finger-stained and with a 20 mm tear; box worn. In good condition. Birgit Angerer Gutes Wetter - Schlechtes Wetter 2013; Dorothee Bayer O gib mir Brot: Die Hungerjahre 1816 und 1817 in Württemberg und Baden 1966. unknown
Signed by Robert Conquest [1917-2015] upon title page. Also signed and inscribed by Bob [Robert Conquest] to Joe [Joseph D. Dwyer, 1942-2017] upon front free endpaper in the year of publication. Dwyer was an invaluable resource to Conquest at the Hoover Institution and succeeded him as curator of its Russian collection in 2002. 412 pages with black and white plates, extensive footnotes, select bibliography and index. "A meticulous and moving account of a momentous, tragic yet neglected chapter of modern history [now known as the Holodomor]. Presents for the first time the full story of Stalin's collectivization program and its consequences. Reconstructs the background of the events and carefully details the fate of villages and individuals, the desperate condition of children left homeless, and the various cruelties and agonies of the man-made famine that followed. Seeks a true accounting of the death toll and shows how the West has long been deceived about what really happened." - dust jacket. "Conquest's excellently and professionally written book investigates the most serious crime of Leninist-Stalinist communism: its war against the peasantry of the U.S.S.R., which, before its destruction, constituted 82 percent of the entire population." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Unmarked with light overall wear. Tight and square. Dust jacket preserved in mylar. This stark testament of one of the greatest crimes in human history is a must for the shelf of any serious sovietologist. Book
1574W93823Franckofurti Moeni [Frankfurt am Main], Martinus Lechler 1574 viii + 143 [i.e. 286] + [vii] pp., with one blanco ff. between f.111 and 112, with index, Original 1574-edition, with numerous woodcut initials, 21cm., 19th cy. hardcover binding (spine in leather with gilt title, corners bit bumped, in good condition), marbled endpapers, upper left corner of all pages is lacking some paper (not affecting the text, except for - at some pages - the first word of the repeated chapter name mentioned on top of each page), text is very well readable and clean except for some vague spots at some pages, old ex-libris stamp and ex-dono on title page, [German title: "Durch Gottes segen, newe Speisskammer und Speiskeller in vorstehenden hungers nöten, Landstheuwerungen, und Kriegsslaeufften, sampt anmuetiger Haussapotecken und Kuchenartzney ; dergleichen niemals vorhin publiciert worden". This is a scarce complete edition of this interesting work discussing nutrition during wartime and famine. It contains numerous receipts for making bread, the use of fruit, liquor, etc. The text is written in Latin, but the shouldernotes in the receipts are in German. Ref.: Oberle 67 "Ouvrage rare et très curieux", Vicaire Sp.804f.: "Ouvrage assez rare", Wellcome I,6125], W93823
viii + 143 [i.e. 286] + [vii] pp., with one blanco ff. between f.111 and 112, with index, Original 1574-edition, with numerous woodcut initials, 21cm., 19th cy. hardcover binding (spine in leather with gilt title, corners bit bumped, in good condition), marbled endpapers, upper left corner of all pages is lacking some paper (not affecting the text, except for - at some pages - the first word of the repeated chapter name mentioned on top of each page), text is very well readable and clean except for some vague spots at some pages, old ex-libris stamp and ex-dono on title page, [German title: "Durch Gottes segen, newe Speisskammer und Speiskeller in vorstehenden hungers nöten, Landstheuwerungen, und Kriegsslaeufften, sampt anmuetiger Haussapotecken und Kuchenartzney ; dergleichen niemals vorhin publiciert worden". This is a scarce complete edition of this interesting work discussing nutrition during wartime and famine. It contains numerous receipts for making bread, the use of fruit, liquor, etc. The text is written in Latin, but the shouldernotes in the receipts are in German. Ref.: Oberle 67 "Ouvrage rare et très curieux", Vicaire Sp.804f.: "Ouvrage assez rare", Wellcome I,6125], W93823
1850183852New York: Bowman Grinnell & Co. c.1850s. Fleeing to a new life in America An advertising poster assuring American patrons that Bowman Grinnell & Co. could be trusted to relocate their relatives from Ireland in comfort. The advertisement lists the addresses of the company's agents the names of their ships and the procedures for emigrating from Ireland. Throughout the Great Famine of 1845 to 1852 many companies took advantage of emigrants' desperation to force them to travel in overcrowded and understocked vessels and coffin ships or to scam them out of their money. As printed on this item "Bowman Grinnell & Co. have seen and witnessed with feelings of regret for a long time that something was necessary for the protection of the Irish people in the United States sending their remittances to their friends in Ireland. from the numberless disappointments they have lately met with and in many instances the heartless frauds that have been practiced on them by parties professing to bring them out on ships over which they had no control or with which they had no connexion". Bowman Grinnell & Co. was formed in the 1850s by William Bowman and Robert Minturn Grinnell of the Grinnell Minturn & Co. shipping line owners of the famous Flying Cloud clipper ship. It claims that their ships listed with their captains' names were fast well-ventilated and comfortably furnished that their drafts could be cashed anywhere in Ireland and that baggage would be transported for free. Single sheet 444 x 265 mm printed in red black and blue on one side only vignettes. Ink number on verso 19th-century pencil inscription on lower right corner. Sometime folded loss on lower left corner barely affecting printed area light toning and soiling especially on verso: a very good copy of an ephemeral item. unknown
