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Ossian the Son of Fingal Translated by James MacphersonBiblio.com

Fingal An Ancient Epic Poem In Six Books Together with several other Poems composed by Ossian the Son of Fingal

Ossian (attributed). Translated from the Original Galic by James MacphersonBiblio.com

Fingal A Poem in Six Books by Ossian: Translated from the Original Galic by Mr. Macpherson; and Rendered into Verse from that Translation.

17721577212024536Author: Ossian attributed. Translated from the Original Galic by James Macpherson. Title: Fingal A Poem in Six Books by Ossian: Translated from the Original Galic by Mr. Macpherson; and Rendered into Verse from that Translation. Publisher: Oxford: Printed for J. and J. Fletcher; T. Payne at the Mews-Gate; and J. and F. Rivington St. Paul's Church-Yard London 1772. Language: Text in English. Size: 8" x 5". Pages: viii 180 pages. Binding: Very good contemporary full mottled calf over boards. Gilt fillet borders and gilt corner fleurons to boards. Spine with five raised bands gilt fillets and gilt floral ornaments to compartments Outer hinges partly cracked ca. 2 cm to upper joint but still tight and secure - as shown overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown under a protective removable mylar cover. Content: Very good content bright tight and clean rare light foxing or staining - as shown light age-toning in places - as shown early ownership inscription in a late 18th-century hand "Basil Heron April 1782" to the front free endpaper - as shown. The book: This 1772 Oxford edition of Fingal represents one of the most controversial literary works of the 18th century. Marketed as a lost Gaelic epic by the third-century bard Ossian it was "translated" by James Macpherson who claimed to have discovered fragments of ancient poetry in the Scottish Highlands. Fingal quickly caused an uproar in coffee houses and academic circles across Britain admired for its sublime landscapes and heroic tone but hotly contested as a possible forgery. Whether authentic or not the poems inspired an entire generation of Romantic writers and artists across Europe from Goethe to Napoleon. This copy handsomely preserved in its original late 18th-century mottled calf binding offers both literary importance and historical resonance. Oxford: Printed for J. and J. Fletcher; T. Payne, at the Mews-Gate; and J. and F. Rivington, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, London, 1 hardcover

MFLIBRA Antique Books · Canada385,00 $US≈ 325,75 €

[Diplomatic History - New Spain and the United States] De Carondelet, Francisco Luis Hector; Pope, PiercyBiblio.com

Fair Copy of a Speech by Baron de Carondelet Regarding the Maintenance of Troop Presence in Lower Louisiana 1797

1797List2522New Orleans 1797. Three pages of a bifolium 8 x 9 Â½ inches New Orleans; May 31 1797. Fair only with moisture damage and some text illegible. Fair. An interesting document from the period following the Treaty of San Lorenzo and before the eventual surrender of Natchez to the Americans in 1798 in which the governor of Louisiana and West Florida Francisco Luis Hector de Carondelet issues a statement regarding the delayed withdrawal of Spanish troops from the region. Carondelet is concerned with the British presence in the area and notes that it is a violation of â€œthe treaty concluded with Spainâ€ - or Pinckneyâ€™s Treaty which opened up navigation rights of the Mississippi to the United States. The letter describes the possibility of escalating hostilities between the United States Great Britain and Spain as a result of an impending American mission against the Illinois the motives of which Carondelet questions as he notes that â€œThese hostile dispositions can naturally only concern these provinces because the U.S. are in peace with all the savagesâ€¦â€ He raises the possibility of British invasion of Louisiana and potential danger to the city of New Orleans and states that the Spanish will maintain their presence at Natchez and Walnut Hills unless the American soldiers withdraw. This is a copy of Carondeletâ€™s speech in the hand of Lieutenant Piercy Smith Pope and we find no other record of it. A full transcription follows: â€œThe Government being informed by his Majestyâ€™s Ambassador to the U.S. that an expedition assembled on the lakes was intended to attack the Illinois has judged necessary for the surety and tranquility of Lower Louisiana to suspend the evacuation of the posts of Natchez & the Walnut Hills being the posts that cover it; the possession of which will put the English in a situation to disturb and ravage the country in case they rendered themselves masters of upper Louisiana with so much more facility as by an article of the treaty concluded posteriously with Great Britain the U.S. acknowledge that the English may freely navigate and frequent the posts belonging to the said States; situated on the river in general lakes &c being a manifest contradiction to the treaty concluded with Spain which it appears. because by this the U.S. acknowledge that no other nation can navigate upon the Mississippi without the consent of Spain. . the legitimacy of these motives the .presented to the Congress of the U.S. with all the necessary veracity and intimated by our orders in the Commissary of Limits as well as to the Commandant of the Detachment of American troops now at Natchez. We are now informed that a detachment of the army of the U.S. cantoned on the Ohio are on their way by Holstein towards Natchez while the Militia of Cumberland are intimated to hold themselves ready to march at the first notice. These hostile dispositions can naturally only concern these provinces because the U.S. are in peace with all the savages the anterior menaces of the Commissary of Limits & the Commandant of the detachment of Americans now at Natchez; the immediate rupture & if the American Gazettes are to be believed already effected between France our intimate ally and the U.S. engage us to be on our guard to defend our property with that valor & energy which the inhabitants of these Provinces have manifested on all occasions with the advantage and superiority which a knowledge of our local situation will procure and that confidence which right and justice inspires. If the Congress of the U.S. had no hostile intention against these provinces they will either leave the post of Natchez or Walnut Hills the only bulwarks of Lower Louisiana that can stop the courses of the English or that they give us security against the article of the Treaty with Great Britain which exposes lower Louisiana to be pillaged and destroyed down to the Capitol. We will then deliver up the said posts and lay down our arms which they have forced us to take up by arming their Militia in time of peace and sending a considerable body of troops by round about ways to surprise us. New Orleans 31st May 1797 A copy of the Baron de Carondeletâ€™s Proclamation. P. Popeâ€ Overall a document of significance in United States / Spanish relations in the period following Pinckneyâ€™s Treaty worthy of further study for scholars of the diplomatic history of the period. unknown

Auger Down Books · États-Unis2 500,00 $US≈ 2 115,25 €

Attorney of the Real Audiencia for the Viceroy of New SpainBiblio.com

EXTREMELY RARE AND IMPORTANT FIRST HAND TEXT OF MEXICAN HISTORY 1794 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT BOOK

1794000035bNew Spain Mexico. Fine with no dust jacket. 1794. Full-Leather. Handsome Folio Manuscript in early calf with gilt written by the Attorney of the Real Audiencia see Bibliografia Mexicana 220 and prepared for the Viceroy. Lengthy stipulations of taxes for the freed mestizos mulattoes and negroes as well as exemptions for Indians of the repartimientos even when married to Spanish women. These taxes were the root of the perceived injustice that explains why freed men formed the core of the Revolution when it came. EXTREMELY RARE AND IMPORTANT FIRST HAND TEXT OF MEXICAN HISTORY. see Archivo General de la Nation "Los Precursores Ideologicos della Guerra de Independencia 1929 pgs 137.139." LAID IN NOTE: Arce Y Echeagary J. Yinstruction para que los Administradores de Aduanas del Reyno de Nueva Espana hagan la legitima exaccion de los dros. de Alcabalas y Pulques en los casos que por lo regular se ofrecen en las propias Aduanas. Mexico 1794. ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND: In 1519 the Spaniards conquered Mexico. This led to the formation of a new state called New Spain and later into a new hybrid culture. Several military expeditions were led to extend 'New Spain'. The whole of Central America West Indies Philippines and parts of the current Texas and California were later conquered to become part of New Spain. The Spanish political control over Mexico lasted for three centuries. The entire region was formed into a viceroyalty in 1535. The colony was divided into provinces ruled by governors. These provinces were divided into departments and subdivided into districts. Magistrates controlled the districts and mayors led smaller villages. The parliament court handled all political matters and the Council of Indies controlled the other administrative matters. Off course the supreme authority over the Spanish empire belonged to the king. This system was pretty inefficient as it took several years for directives from the king to be implemented at the lower levels. During the initial administration grants called Encomiendas were given to colonists which controlled Indian labor and produce. This led to the misuse of power and atrocities against the Indians increased. The Indians revolted against the Spaniards in 1541 but were easily subdued. The Spanish emperor Charles V initiated the decline of the Encomienda system in 1542. This decline saw the emmergence of the Roman Catholic Church. The church was successful in carrying out mass conversions. The Spaniards protected the Indians that converted. Missions and monasteries dominated much of the land. The Spaniards thrived by the new found wealth in the colonies. They amassed huge wealth by controlling silver mining large ranches and estates that grew wheat sugarcane and indigo for export. Spanish merchants exported such goods as cotton silk and dye that were produced by the Indians. The prosperity of New Spain began to decline in the 17th century. Disease and natural disasters destroyed most of the Indian population. Most others migrated slowly to remote parts. Mines were abandoned and large areas of farmland were destroyed. The economy of New Spain collapsed. In 1810 a catholic priest named Miguel Hidalgo called upon Mexicans to rise up and fight the Spanish. Although father Hidalgo was killed another priest Jose Morelos continued to lead the fighting. New Spain finally won its independence from Spain in 1810 and came to be called Mexico. ; Spanish Language; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; MEXICO MEXICAN TAXES NEW SPAIN MEXICAN REVOLUTION NAPOLEON BONAPARTE CHARLES V HIDALGO MORELOS HANDWRITTEN HISTORICAL HISTORY HAND WRITTEN HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT MANUSCRIPTOS SPANISH ESPANOL VICEROY mestizos repartimientos antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel. . hardcover

Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc. · Canada11 595,99 $US≈ 9 811,37 €

VOLTA, (ALEXANDRO). - ESTABLISHING THE "ELECTRIC CURRENT" - THE PRECURSOR OF THE VOLTAIC CELLBiblio.com

Extrait D'une lettre de M. Volta à M. Gren sur l'électricité dite animale. Par Van Mons; Traduit de L'Allemand. Seconde lettre. Addition a la Lettre précédente.

179748189Paris Guillaume/Fuchs An VI ou 1797 AN VII 1799. Without wrappers.In: "Annales de Chimie ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie" Tome 23 4. Cahier. Titlepage to vol. 23. Tome 29 Cahier 1 Titlepage to tome 29. Stamp to verso of titlepages. Pp. 225- 336 pp. 1- 112. 2 entire issues offered. Volta's letters: pp. 276-315 1 folded engraved plate with 22 figs. pp. 91-93. First French edition of these 3 letters to Gren in which Volta described his last steps towards his groundbreaking construction of his famous "Pile". In the letters he established the first law governing an electrical fluid and he anticipated both Davy and Faraday."In 1796 Volta wrote three letters to Gren published in German in Gren's N.J. der Physik. In THE FIRST he describes 'a very remarkable experiment'. A tin cup filled with soapy water milk of lime or better fairly strong alkaline ley was held with one or both hands moistened witn ater and the tip of the tongue dipped into the liquid. A sour taste was at once perceived by the tongue in contact with the alkaline liquid which soon changed into a salty and finally into a sharp alkaline taste. The acid taste was 'produced by the current of the electric fluid passing from the tin to thee alkaline liquer from there to the tongue then through the body to the layer of water and from there to the tin in a continous current. In his SECOND LETTER Volta repeats this 'law' of the combination of three conductors. The mutual contact of silver and tin for example produces 'an action a force by means of which the first gives the electric fluid and the second receives it. If the circuit is completed by a humid concustor a current or continous circulation of this fluid is set up in the direction indicated in the table depicted on the attached plate. In his THIRD LETTER Volta describes experiments in which plates of silver and zinc so smooth that they adhered on contact polished dry and insulated were brought in close contact and separated by pulling them perpendicularly apart. They gave small deflections when applied directly to the electrometer." Partington "A History of Chemistry" Vol. IV pp. 10-12. unknown

Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn A/S · Danemark3 200,00 DKK≈ 429,76 €

WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSIONBiblio.com

Europa Libera:

1703139168London: Printed and sold by John Nutt 1703. Planting colonies in the Spanish Americas First edition preceding the second edition of that year with an added postscript. Published in the third year of the War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714 the anonymous author proposes that in return for the support of Britain and the Netherlands for the claim of the Emperor of Austria to the Spanish crown Spain's territories in America should be ceded to the two mercantile powers. They propose a confederation which will share the treasure from the Spanish mines keeping it out of the hands of a single monarch and in so doing preserve the balance of power in Europe. They moreover support extending the war to the Spanish West-Indies at that stage untouched by the conflict and offer proposals to plant colonies there. They respond to critics who would argue that such attempts at joint control of the American mines and territories would engender war between Britain and the Netherlands as trade brings peace and also reject the arguments that American wealth flowing into the mercantile nations would weaken the nation as was believed to be the case in Spain. The polemic nonetheless offers a stark realpolitik view of world politics and of the war treating as irrelevant the moral questions of stripping the territories of their nominal ally Habsburg Spain rather than the official war aims of taking French territories and stemming the growth of Bourbon power. A scarce treatise with ESTC locating six copies for this issue and a further two copies of the second edition Library Hub and Worldcat adding several more yet still absent from many prominent institutional collections and untraced in auction records. Small quarto 205 x 162 mm. Disbound pamphlet with remnants of original spine the pages numbered in an 18th-century hand 589-654 from its original place in the sammelband vol. Lightly browned and foxed top two cords mostly gone but bottom two holding light worming at foot not affecting text tiny hole affecting one letter to pp. 25/26. A very good copy without chipping or repairs. Alden 703153; European Americana 703/53; ESTC T193661; Kress S2261. Not in Sabin. unknown

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni1 000,00 £GB≈ 1 141,80 €

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