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188330040London: Chapman and Hall 1883. First edition of this highspot of African literature. Octavo original olive cloth 2 volumes. Published under the pseudonym 'Ralph Iron'. The entire printing of this first edition has been estimated to be about 300 copies. and most were destined to libraries. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare especially in the original cloth. The Story of an African Farm published in 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Iron was South African author Olive Schreiner's first published novel. It was an immediate success and has become recognized as one of the first feminist novels. In writing the first great South African novel Schreiner drew on childhood memories of life on the isolated African veld to fashion a powerful indictment of the rigid Boer and English social conventions of her day. It was greeted by both praise and condemnation for its feminist views on women's status and on marriage and for its unorthodox critique of dishonesty and hypocrisy in the doctrines and practices of "respectable" Christian church people. Chapman and Hall hardcover
1883140940359London: Chapman and Hall 1883. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing of what is widely recognized as one of the first feminist novels. Near Fine with light rubbing to binding pages toned and with occasional instances of light spotting. Finely bound in full black ostrich skin by Sangorski and Sutcliffe mirroring the book's setting on an ostrich farm. At the time of publication the South African ostrich farming industry was rapidly developing to meet a craze for the high demand of ostrich feathers with their weight-price approaching that of gold's. The industry's rise brought about much cruelty and suffering for ostriches and the novel highlights the crossover among the contemporary leading activists of women's rights movement and the champions of animal rights.<p><br /> <br /> Published under a male pseudonym of Ralph Iron this was Scheiner's first novel and was met with immediate success. A complex narrative woven around themes of cruelty and restriction set against a colonial backdrop. It's notable for the main female character's handling of themes of love marriage and motherhood while subverting the traditional gender roles female sexuality and intellectual power. <br /> <br /> Published under a male pseudonym of Ralph Iron this was Scheiner's first novel and was met with immediate success. A complex narrative woven around themes of cruelty and restriction set against a colonial backdrop. It's notable for the main female character's handling of themes of love marriage and motherhood while subverting the traditional gender roles female sexuality and intellectual power. Chapman and Hall unknown
1883118143London: Chapman and Hall 1883. First edition of this highspot of African literature. Octavo 2 volumes bound in three quarters contemporary morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands top edge gilt marbled endpapers. Published under the pseudonym 'Ralph Iron' the entire printing of this first edition has been estimated to be about 300 copies and most were destined to libraries. From the library of British-born South African financier mining magnate and politician Sir Lionel Phillips with his bookplates to the pastedowns. Lionel and Florence Phillips left South Africa a major legacy through their art collections. Florence campaigned for the founding of the Johannesburg Art Gallery and arranged its first collections including her lace collection while Lionel donated seven oils and a Rodin sculpture. Rare and with desirable provenance. The Story of an African Farm published in 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Iron was South African author Olive Schreiner's first published novel. It was an immediate success and has become recognized as one of the first feminist novels. In writing the first great South African novel Schreiner drew on childhood memories of life on the isolated African veld to fashion a powerful indictment of the rigid Boer and English social conventions of her day. It was greeted by both praise and condemnation for its feminist views on women's status and on marriage and for its unorthodox critique of dishonesty and hypocrisy in the doctrines and practices of "respectable" Christian church people. Chapman and Hall hardcover
1846680171846. Rome Tipografia Contedini 1846 4° 4 16 pp. mit 1 lith. Folio-Falttafel feiner Halbledereinband. Exceedingly rare first and apparently only edition of "Alcune Operazione di Autoplastica del Dottore Augusto Ferro di Milano / Patrizio della Pergola / Membro corrispondente dell' Accademia Anatómica-Chirurgica di Perugia". With two additions in the author's own hand of several lines each with his own signature: 1 Chapter 'Risecazione parziale della mandibola inferiore' Tavola III figura 1a e 2a - p. 12 : Three lines & signature. 2 Chapter 'Restauratoredal sua lato destro' Tavola IVa figura 2a - p.15 : 6 lines & signature "Augusto Ferro was a prominent 19th-century Italian surgeon. In this rare book Ferro describes his techniques in facial plastic surgery. He describes his technique for nasal reconstruction and mandible jaw reduction. His operations on men and women are beautifully illustrated with detailed drawings." Douglas Monasebian Ferro's is a relatively early contribution to this procedure and at a time when Italian plastic surgery became to rank with the French and German. The History of Plastic Surgery Grolier Club No. 32 unknown
186278773New York:: Francis Hart & Co. 1862. First edition. publisher's gilt-lettered and blind-embossed cloth. Small marginal chip to one map; cloth a little sunned; a beautiful clean tight and sound copy. . Folio. Decorative half-title page; engraved illustrations throughout; one double-page and one folding double-page map; engraved decorative borders throughout. . Francis Hart & Co., hardcover
1868173873Lille: Imprimerie de L. Danel 1868. Limited to 25 copies. Good overall the silk endpaper has lifted from the corner. 3/4/ black leather with 6 raised bands and gilt title second compartment. Purple silk endpapers and pastedowns. T.e.g. Title-page with large gilt-decorated emblem device above imprint. 3 preliminary leaves 7-97 2 pages mounted portrait. Preliminary states "Recueil des Discours Pronounces sur la Tombe du Baron James De Rothschild et des principaux articles de journaux publiées à l'occasion de sa mort et de ses funéreailles Ce Recuei tire vingt-cinq exemplaires est offert A Madame La Baronne James De Rothschild et a sa famille par le personnel du Chemin de fer du Nord." Includes funeral sermons and obituaries published in Le Temps Journal des debats L'Epoque and other perodicals. The photograph shows the Baron as he appeared in 1864. Worthy of restoration and exceedingly scarce. Worldcat locates 4 copies including 1 in the United States. Imprimerie de L. Danel hardcover
189159258Loire Saint-Chamond 1891. Folio. 45 technical drawings most printed and hand-coloured on blue paper. All plates depicts the "Tourelle à éclipse pour canon 1 Canon de 75 m/m á tir rapide". Sizes vary from 75x36 cm to 101x73 cm. All housed in contemporary portfolio front board detached. All plates with stamp and nubering in contemporary hand. Plates fine and clean. <br/><br/><em>Collection of techincal drawings of Saint-Chamond's fast 75 mm canon. The Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la marine et d'Homécourt FAMH Company of marine forges and steelworks and of Homécourt was a French industrial enterprise that made iron and steel products for the French navy army and railroads. It is often known as Saint-Chamond from its main location in Saint-Chamond Loire. </em> unknown
18662092902144201629Not Available 1866. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1890502San Francsico California: Pacific Rolling Mill Company 1890. 8vo. 250 x 170 mm. 10 x 7 inches. 100 pp. plus 4 leaves of ruled paper 2 with measurements in manuscript. Illustrated throughout with simple drawings of parts many stenciled with green wash; one plate folding. Bound in limp cloth covered boards title in gilt on front cover; a cloth binding shows some wear to gilt title two pencil drawings on front endpaper; other a very good sound copy. Straight forward price list of iron bar steel rail rolled and forged metal axles nuts bolts washers and dozens of other metal products. There is no introduction about the history of the firm just images of parts prices and a few lines of text describing specifications for some of the more complicated manufacture items. What distinguishes this rare trade catalogue is the design sense of many of the images and the application of stenciled color to highlight the object. The printed form of the parts are in outline and as one pages through the catalogue the images take on an abstract quality. Metal parts become contoured shapes with form being determined only by the light green wash applied to the physical part of the design. Although unintentional I am sure this late 19th century publication replete with many of the characteristics of period book design exhibits a very modernist feel one that is most unusual in publications of this nature. Although called the 7th edition this is only one of three issues of the PRMC's product guide and price list that is known. Organized in 1867 PRMC grew continuously and by 1892 was producing more than 40 thousand tons of iron and steel. "This giant enterprise is so closely identified with the manufacturing interests of the Pacific Coast that there is scarcely a manufacturing firm or corporation on the Coast that does not depend upon its output. The mills are located at Potrero Point in South San Francisco and cover an immense area" Master Hands. Romaine Guide to American Trade Catalogues p. 200 this edition and one from 1886 both known in only one copy each at California Historical Society. OCLC cites an edition from 1885 in one copy at San Francisco Public Library and this edition 1890 also in only one copy at California H. S. See: Master Hands in the Affairs of the Pacific Coast Historical Biographical and Descriptive. A Resumé of the Builders of Our Material Progress. San Francisco: Western Historical Publishing Company 1892 pp. 260. Pacific Rolling Mill Company unknown
183730091St. Louis 1837. 36pp folding plate frontis full-page map. Institutional rubberstamps at base of title page verso. Original printed wrappers light rubberstamp discard stamp on front wrapper. Otherwise Very Good. <br /> <br /> "Missouri Imprints Inventory No. 197 cites only one copy. This tract is probably the first description of Iron mines west of the Mississippi. The Iron Mountains were located in St. Francis and Madison Counties. A proposal is made to make iron rails for a railroad from the mountains to the Mississippi" Decker. <br /> AII MO 197 1. 37 Decker 214. Not in Eberstadt Soliday Graff. OCLC indicates a number of institutional copies. unknown
1802701091802. Wien : Hraschanzky 1802 8° 192 pp. Titelvignette polierter Kalbsledereinband mit Rvg. Erste Ausgabe! "Mit gegenwärtiger Abhandlung werden dem Publikum die Berichte vorgelegt welche über die gemachten Versuche mit der Impfung von Kuhpocken der Nied. Oesterreichischen Regierung übergeben worden sind. . Da aber nun alle diese Versuche ohne einige Ausnahme die Behauptung bestättigen daß die Impfung der Kuhpocken ein leicht anwendbares und sicheres Schutzmittel gegen die Blattern sey so ist es nun Pflicht die wohltätige Erfindung allgemein bekannt zu machen ." Ferro Pascal Joseph Ferro ab 1805 Pasqual Joseph Ritter von Ferro 5. Juni 1753 in Bonn - 21. August 1809 in Wien war ein deutscher Arzt Sanitätsreferent der niederösterreichischen Landesverwaltung und Hochschullehrer in Wien der das moderne Sanitäts- und Rettungsdienstwesen sowie die Kuhpockenimpfung in Österreich eingeführt hat. Pascal Joseph wurde 1753 in Bonn als Sohn des Offiziers Johann Lazarus Ferro aus Treviso und der Anna Catharina Komerscheid geboren. Mit 14 Jahren begann er zunächst eine Ausbildung als Wundarzt damals ein Handwerksberuf und ging dann zum Militär. Von 1771 bis 1775 war er Feldscher eines pfälzischen Kavallerieregiments. Ferro wollte jedoch Arzt werden und studierte Medizin in Heidelberg Straßburg und Wien. Er blieb in Wien und war zunächst Assistenzarzt am Parzmayerschen Spital ehe er 1785 in den sanitären Verwaltungsdienst eintrat mit dem Titel Sanitätsmagister von Wien. Im Jahr 1793 wurde er zum Sanitätsreferent der niederösterreichischen Landesregierung im Rang eines Regierungsrates ernannt. In dieser Position sorgte er für die Einrichtung eines Rettungswesens und regelte das Bestattungswesen. 1780 begann Ferro als Mediziner mit Kaltwasserbehandlungen Hydrotherapie und Sauerstofftherapie zudem konstruierte er ein Badefloß als schwimmende Badeanstalt auf der Donau. -cf. wiki unknown
188052092New York: Printed For The American Iron Post and Construction Company n. d. ca 1880's. 1880. First edition. 11" x 8 1/2" pictorial printed one-sheet printed on both sides. The company promotes this iron post to be both stronger and cheaper than wooden posts. The company claims the posts are economical durable safe beautiful and strong. The posts are covered with a special coating to prevent rust fires do not affect them nor do floods carry them away and the posts and wire do not fill up with snow banks as with ordinary fences. The posts are manufactured by The American Iron Post and Construction Company at their manufacturing plant located in Wellsville Ohio and by special arrangement with the well-known iron firm of W. D. Wood & Company of Pittsburgh. The company further states "It is now conceded that in the great West the wire fence for the purpose of extensive cattle ranches for prairie farms and for railroads is superior to all others; and a want has been long felt for a post whose strength cheapness and durability would make this iron fence system complete -- one which the forest and prairie fires would not burn -- one which would do away with the expense and tedium of hole-digging -- one that could be cheaply and quickly put up and which would last a life-time." Faint fold creases else a near fine copy of an interesting and very scarce range item. Printed For The American Iron Post and Construction Company, n. d. (ca 1880's). unknown
18992111902160200289Genpon 1899. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 130 pages Size: 24cmx16.2cm 130p Number of books: 1 Genpon paperback
18693723Galveston Tx 1869. Very good. 2pp. on a single folded folio sheet of lined paper with integral blank plus fourteen partially-printed receipts completed in manuscript. Minor dust-soiling creasing and edge wear. A post-Civil War manuscript agreement from Texas with the signatures of twenty-six investors transferring their stock in the Brazos Iron Bridge Company to John Sealy of the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. Additionally the document is noted and signed on the verso by Sealy transferring those same shares to Thomas W. Peirce. The document is accompanied by fourteen receipts for installment payments on capital stock purchased in the Brazos Iron Bridge Company some of which relates directly to the larger transfer agreement. The Brazos Iron Bridge Company was organized in 1867. Its mission was to construct a railway bridge across the Brazos River. The bridge completed in July 1869 was purchased by the Buffalo Bayou Brazos and Colorado Railway later known as the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. When the dust settled on the various transactions among the shareholders John Sealy owned a one-eighth interest in the railway company. Sealy moved from Pennsylvania to Galveston in 1846 and became an important early Galveston merchant real estate investor and railroad magnate. unknown
1877h42288NP: Publisher not identified 1877. Very good. 12mo 7.5 x 4.75 inches limp black cloth stamped in gilt on front cover very good light wear faint crease to rear cover contents very good. 36 pp. Very rare OCLC locating a single holding in Wisconsin unaccountably described as having only 24 pp. The Amalgamated was an American labor union formed in 1876 to represent iron and steel workers. It partnered with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee of the CIO in November 1935. Both organizations disbanded May 22 1942 to form a new organization the United Steelworkers. They suffered significant setbacks from the results of the Homestead Strike and their other labor organizing efforts and strikes in early 20th century Pittsburgh and became linked with the AFL which gave them greater traction that increased with the merger of the AFL and CIO. A foundational document in American labor history: one can see the direct influence of fraternal organizations and masonic societies on the rituals of membership in the earliest days of this labor union. Publisher not identified unknown
183753481N.p. n.d. 1837. 8vo pp. 36; large folding lithograph frontispiece of the Iron Mountains of Missouri one other full-page map; removed from binding; very good. American Imprints notes 3 editions in 1837: Hartford Philadelphia and Boston. The present edition is not located in American Imprints. Missouri Imprints 197. unknown
19000086438Wisconsin: np 1900. Wraps. Very Good. A large unique book ca. 1900 14 x 8.5 inches vertically oriented; softcover about 100 pages of typescript in purple carbon very seldom with ink corrections culled from “The Republic†— probably the Baraboo Republic a newspaper of the period published in Baraboo the county seat of Sauk County Wisconsin this book with material relating to the Iron Brigade the 6th Wisconsin Regiment of volunteers who fought for the Union in the Civil War and also concerning the Sauk County Riflemen. It apparently was compiled by a veteran-turned-historian who concludes this compilation writing “Returned to private life -- became the 'man behind the hoe' instead of 'behind the gun.’†Very rare and a great resource for anyone interested in this period of Wisconsin history. np unknown
1849842F32Not Stated: None 1849-1851. Paperback. Very Good. 13.5" by 9". None. A fascinating handwritten mid-nineteenth century account of bores put down in the Scottish mining town of Dalmellington. A handwritten manuscript 'Journal of Bores Put Down in the Dalmellington Mineral Field' by the Dalmellington Iron Company between 1849 to 1851.The Dalmellington Ironworks were opened by The Dalmellington Iron Company in 1848 in the small Sottish market town of Dalmellington. Good quality coal was produced from surface workings and sent down the turnpike road to Galloway with the town growing after the completion of a local railway in 1858.This manuscript discusses the depth of boreholes made in the mid-glen Craigmark; Burnfoot Hill; Burnhead Glen and Lillyhole between 1849 and 1851 with note made of the depths and locations at which coal and ironstone were found.A wonderful insight into mines in mid-nineteenth century Scotland. In paper wraps with handwritten title to front wrap. Chipping small losses and discolouration to wrap perimeters. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright. Very Good None paperback
18912110502150905421Makura Yisai Zhuban 1891. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 4 Makura Yisai Zhuban paperback
1896120209AB1896. London Hutchinson & Co 1896. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece XV 346 pages. Hardcover publisher's original cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Small embossment to front board. Deckled top edge. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor bumps to board corners. Small cutout of old name on halftitle. Interior lightly tanned throughout but bright and clean. Binding is strong firm and square. Includes for example the following: Shadows from Child Life / Plans and Bushman-Paintings / Sunday Services / Bonaparte Blenkins Makes his Nest / Waldo's Stranger / Gregory Rose Finds his Affinity / A Boer-Wedding / Dreams etc. Olive Schreiner 24 March 1855 11 December 1920 was a South African author anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm 1883 which has been highly acclaimed as one of the first feminist novels. It tells the story of a girl on an isolated farm on the veld who struggles for her independence in the face of rigid Boer social conventions. in doing so it deals boldly with such contemporary issues as agnosticism existential independence individualism the professional aspirations of women and the elemental nature of life on the colonial frontier. Since the late 20th century scholars have also credited Schreiner as an advocate for the Afrikaners and other South African groups who were excluded from political power for decades such as indigenous Blacks Jews and Indians. Although she showed interest in socialism pacifism vegetarianism and feminism amongst other topics her views escaped restrictive categorisations. Her published works and other surviving writings promote implicit values such as moderation friendship and understanding amongst all peoples and avoid the pitfalls of political radicalism which she consciously eschewed. Called a lifelong freethinker she also continued to adhere to the spirit of the Christian Bible and developed a secular version of the worldview of her missionary parents with mystical elements. Wikipedia hardcover
188272074Boston:: Forbes Lithograph Company 1882. First edition. publisher's gilt-lettered cloth. A coin-sized dampstain affects the marginal fore-edge of several dozen leaves; one large folding diagram neatly reinforced with tissue at folds; cloth spotted and worn. . 8vo. Four folding diagrams. Forbes Lithograph Company, hardcover
184918614Albany: Published for the Convention 1849. 58 2 pp. Disbound with narrow band of wrapper remnant else Very Good. <br /> <br /> A call by industrialists for protection to the Iron Industry with Erastus Corning and other prominent representatives of the manufacturing interests participating. As the result of the current system's relaxed trade barriers "the poorest qualities of iron are largely introduced to the great injury of the country in place of the more useful and better qualities these being more highly priced." <br /> FIRST EDITION. Sabin 35099. Not in Eberstadt Decker. Published for the Convention unknown
1831231927Albany 1831. First. hardcover. very good-. Reports of Committees. On the Product and Manufacture of Iron and Steel. 32pp. Bound with: Proceedings of a Convention of Iron Workers Held at Albany N. Y. on the 12th day of Dec. 1849. 58 2pp. 8vo modern red cloth light foxing a few pages slightly underlined in pencil. New York and Albany 1831 1849. First Editions.<br/> <br/> unknown
1883349ml1883. Hardcover. Good. Gd. condition - Life on the farm in Africa . F1349ml hardcover
18712092902141600064Not Available 1871. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 22.5x15.5cm Not Available paperback
