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[American Antiquarian Society]Biblio.com

PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY AT THE ANNUAL MEETING HELD IN WORCHESTER OCTOBER 21 1878

[Antebellum South – Travel Narratives] Barnard, CalvinBiblio.com

A Letter Written from Augusta Georgia Describing the Author’s Voyage from Boston to Augusta Georgia in 1818

1818List2715Augusta Georgia 1818. Single letter three 9 x 16 inch pages letters with some tape repairs and stray holes at folds still quite legible. Very good. A letter written by Calvin Barnard to his friend Asa Holman of Bolton Massachusetts describing the formerâ€™s trip from Boston to Augusta South Carolina from November 25 to January 1. Barnard first traveled from Boston to Charleston South Carolina by boat from which he notes â€œalmost a continual gagging and vomitingâ€ from the passengers. In Charleston Barnard observes that the city is inelegant the unpaved streets â€œfilled with mudâ€ and views â€œthe breastworks which were thrown up during the last warâ€. This would have been the War of 1812 of which Barnard was likely a veteran. South Carolina had engaged upwards of 5000 soldiers and had put up defenses along the coastline in anticipation of the war but it did not come to the mainland â€“ although South Carolina was under naval blockade and the Sea Islands were targeted by the British. Barnard reaches Savannah Georgia on the 25th of December; similarly he finds it â€œalthough a place of considerable businessâ€ â€œabout as dissatisfactory a place I ever was in.â€ Augusta which he reaches by foot â€œis much handsomer built and situated than Savannah but not less dissipatedâ€ â€“ he remarks that â€œBeing the first day of the year is in this part of the country another great day for getting drunk.â€ After spending some time in Augusta he finishes the letter with some pointed observations about its residents: â€œI have had a better opportunity of becoming acquainted with the manners customs and dispositions of the citizens of Augusta . I shall not do them injustice by dividing them into three classes in which the Negroes are excepted. The first class of which are the gentry as they would expect to be called made up of men from all parts who have become rich here mostly by avaricious and unjust means . And this class we cannot expect to see drink more than once a week. The second is mostly the natives of this state and South Carolina who are men of a little property of a little education and very little of an honorable principle of any kind and these are not often seen drunk in the forenoon. The third class appears to me to be made up of the off-scouring of every bad place on earth for I never saw their equal for drunkenness lying stealing fighting swearing from morning till morning again. It is not possible that the continent of America has in any other place their equal. If it had I think the whole world soon be sunk.â€ He finds Augustaâ€™s African-American residents the only trustworthy ones despite local opinions: â€œIf any stealing is done here it is laid to the Negroes but I had my surtout a shirt and handkerchief stolen on Friday night last but have too good an opinion of the blacks to think they have them.â€ Of interest as an outsiderâ€™s views on the early Antebellum South and on drinking â€“ another pressing social issue of the day. unknown

Auger Down Books · États-Unis950,00 $US≈ 803,80 €

[BOXER REBELLION MAP OF BEIJING].Biblio.com

Map of Peking. 京城內外全圖 .Jing cheng nei wai quan tu.

1900169765Circa1900. Large illustrated map of Beijing showing the city in the period following the invasion of the military forces of the Eight National Alliance old folds scale not given. Some scattered light foxing particularly at edges short closed tear at fold lower edge neat non acidic tape repair short section upper edge wear along folds and a couple of small unobtrusive holes with minor image loss. Blocks of text in traditional Chinese right and left upper sections stating each nation's occupied zone Japanese text title accompanies the English title along the upper section of the map. 63.7 x 56.9cm. Very good overall. A rare and significant large Japanese woodblock map of Peking Beijing issued just after the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion. Centred on the Forbidden City the map depicts Peking following the multinational suppression of the Boxer Rebellion or Yihetuan Movement of 1900. The map was issued to illustrate the areas of occupation associated with each of the powers in the Eight Nation Alliance. The map gives measurements of the city walls detailed names of streets and buildings and the boundaries of the inner and outer city including the forbidden city are shown with demarcation lines in pink yellow and blue. The hand coloured eight national flags of the occupation powers are featured at the right and left. This map is essentially a later edition of 京城内外首善全圖 a map of Beijing issued by the Qing for administrative purposes in the mid-19th century. The Japanese seized the wood blocks during the suppression of the Rebellion and subsequently pulled new impressions overprinting them additional details including flags and demarcations of areas of the city held by members of the Alliance. Versions are known in French German Japanese and as with the present example English. An attractive map of great historical interest. . unknown

Asia Bookroom · Australie7 750,00 $AU≈ 5 108,03 €

[Canadian Travel]. [Women]Biblio.com

Cruise of the Two Canoes "Squawk" and "Indian Girl." Sailing from Frontenac to Charleton Lake and Return manuscript title

19073212Various locations near Ontario Canada 1907. About very good. 22 leaves illustrated with 178 black-and-white photographs most between 2.25 x 3.25 inches and 3.25 x 5.5 inches with some slightly smaller images cut into ovals but also including twenty-one panoramic images measuring 3.25 x 11.5 inches plus a thirty-seven-page typed narrative of the journey inserted throughout adjacent to relevant images. Oblong folio. Contemporary hand-decorated limp suede covers reading "Squawk and Indian Girl 1907" with a small oval photograph from the trip inset at center. Covers are detached and tattered at the edges main body of album sound with light chipping to edges with images in generally nice shape. A delightful and unique daily travel narrative and vernacular photograph album memorializing a canoe trip taken by two men and three women over the course of eleven days in the Thousand Islands region of Ontario in the summer of 1907. The narrative is written in a humorous style that often mimics a typical ship's log especially when it describes navigational challenges rough water bad weather or other obstacles blocking their progress. The travelers also describe are a variety of people their food various wildlife and sights encountered along the way such as local residents skunks birds an "old haunted house" and much more. Among the locations mentioned either as they stopped for a rest camped or paddled by are Maple Island Grindstone Island Hay Island Gananoque Lake Charleston Lake Blue Mountain Warren's Bay Red Horse Lake and Marble Rock. The photographs show members of the party in their canoes at campsites and in the midst of activities such as fishing hiking sitting around their campfires at night and so forth. A wonderful handmade document of a trip through the Canadian wilderness in the first decade of the 20th century. unknown

McBride Rare Books · États-Unis950,00 $US≈ 803,80 €

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