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1845List2995New York City 1845. Two printed pages measuring 9 ¾ x 11 ½ inches one signed. Folded and slightly wrinkled near fine. A circular advertising passage between Great Britain and Ireland and numerous locations in the United States from Boston to New Orleans by a regular packet ship service managed by John Herdman and Company. The company also offered remittances whereby an individual in the US could send money to a friend or relative back across the Atlantic generally to pay for their passage to the States.<br /> <br /> The second sheet a signed letter offers a commission for finding customers: five percent of the passage fare and one percent of the remittance money. In 1845 the Great Famine in Ireland was just beginning and Ireland would lose a large proportion of its population not just to starvation but also to emigration. Earning commission on remittances could have been quite lucrative: the National Museum of Ireland estimates that the amount sent back to Ireland in remittances between 1845 and 1854—the height of the famine—reached $19 million. unknown
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
184897631848. Full Leather. Good binding. 5-1/4" x 3-3/8." 108 pp. Full brown leather over flexible boards. Vertical red rules for accounting printed on each page. 1-3/8" strip of leather neatly removed from the fore-edge of the front cover; occasional ink spotting and minor stains throughout; toned leaves with a few creases; faded pencil calculations to pastedowns. <br /> <br /> Interesting mid-19th century farm ledger apparently from eastern Scotland possibly Inverurie or Aberdeen recorded during the great famines in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands. The currency symbols at the top of the expense and income columns appear to be in pounds shilling and pence and various place and personal names which appear repeatedly in the text – i.e. Commercial Co. of Port Elfinston sic Aberdeen Wm. Duncan et al – lead to our deducing this locale. Although the ledger is anonymous the names of Robert Frasier Brach and James Dugard appear possibly as business clients as do the names of the recorder's many temporary workers. These workers usually hired around the planting and harvesting season are both male and female and include Mary Ellice Jas Marr George Dugard Wm. Duncan Alex Burr and many others. <br /> <br /> Extensively detailed and highly readable this ledger document the many expenses and income sources of a working farm showing precise amounts for equipment scythes and carts feature prominently horses bolls of meal barrels of lime whisky and various other sundries. The farm's produce relied heavily on grains especially corn and barley just as the Corn Laws were being heatedly debated in Parliament and its overall diversity demonstrates the crop diversity that allowed eastern Scotland and the Lowlands to evade the ravages of the potato blight; plots and crops for planting the "slack land" are also demarcated. Charts showing daily employee wages are also of special note. <br /> <br /> Overall a unique useful and well-maintained agricultural document concurrent with and standing in stark contrast to the devastation occurring in the western portion of the country and Ireland at that time. unknown
198799128New York, NY, Aperture Foundation Inc. 1987. 79 S. Mit zahlr. s/w u. farbigen Fotografien. 29 cm. OKart.
169915520Lyon, sans nom, 1699 ; in-4 ; veau havane marbré, dos à nerfs très décoré et doré au fer aux oiseaux, titre doré, roulette sur les coupes, tranches mouchetées (reliure de l'époque) ; (16), 142, (2) pp., au titre grand bois gravé du blason de la Charité, bandeaux et culs-de-lampe gravés sur bois.
1949ABE-161446569316848 PAGES-15,8 CM X 24,2 CM-LES MISERES DE LA VILLE DE LANGRES ET DE LA CAMPAGNE LANGROISE, 5 PAGES-VISITE A CHAUMONT DU REPRESENTANT DU PEUPLE RUHL EN 1793, 5 PAGES-NOTES SUR L'INVASION DE 1814 1815 COUPLETS D'UN COLONEL RUSSE (?) EN FAVEUR DE LA FRANCE DES BOURBONS-TOPONYMIE HAUT MARNAISE, CHAUMONT EN BASSIGNY, SAINT DIZIER, LIFFOL LE PETIT, DOSME, TORNAY,.-CARNAVAL ET BRANDONS A BAR SUR AUBE EN 1918-ARTS ET LETTRES: LA LEGENDE DE LA VINGEANNE, PAR JEAN ROBINET, 3P-L'EGLISE DE PROVENCHERES SUR MEUSE, 3P-
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