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35 pages of text, Italian translation of Horace by Gargallo and the Latin original, below; followed by a section of blank leaves (approx. 80 pgs) presumably for note-taking; Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC) the leading Roman Lyric Poet during the time of the emperor Augustus, best known as Horace; Marchese Tommaso Gargallo (1760-1843) Italian poet, scholarly historiographer, the most important translator of Horace's poetics of his time; bound in the original full vellum covered boards; gilt spine rules and ornamentation, contrasting brown leather label with gilt titles; a few previous owner marginal annotations in text, in an earlier, nineteenth century hand, probably contemporary; some edge, tips wear and soiling to binding, tiny wear-through hole on back board; some spotting and foxing in text; overall, very good condition.
Arte Poetica di Q. Orazio Flacco recata in versi italiani da Tommaso Gargallo Marchese di Castellentini col Testo Latino a Pie di Pagina
(Q. Orazio Flacco)
Napoli: Stamperio dell'Ancora Napoli, 1837.
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98 pages; illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece & other color plates by Arthur I Keller, and with elaborate decorations and ornaments gold-gilt, by him throughout; decorative colored endpapers; bound in green cloth boards, with illustrated paste-down; top edge gilt; some soiling, edge and tips wear & rubbing to the boards, very good condition.
His Answer & Her Last Letter
Harte, Bret
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905.
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115 pages; tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait engraving of Maj. Gen. Charles Lee, engraved by G.R. Hall, another rather uncomplimentary engraving by A.H. Ritchie after B. Rashbrooke and tipped-in at back a large folded facsimile of the letter of General Lee to General Gates Basking Ridge 1776; tipped-in at front is a letter signed by the author, 2 pages, addressed to Joseph A. Copp, D.D., written from the Library of the New York Hist.l Soc. New York City Jan 31 1865, regarding a paper that Copp had read before the N.E. Hist. Geneaological Society concerning General Lee and hereby sending him a copy of (this) book with the hopes of entering into correspondence: "...I shall be very glad if any new researches, or the application of the most rigid principles of historical criticism shall enable me to change the views which I have expressed-for I truly desire the vindication of the truth of history in all such studies and investigations...I am perfectly ready to acknowledge my errors, if they are pointed out to me..." and respectfully asking for a continuing look at the evidence that Copp may have in his possession; George Henry Moore (1823-1892) American librarian, historian, bibliographer, very active in work of New-York Historical Society 1941-91, superintendent of Lenox Library, New York City. (DAB); original red pebbled-cloth binding, gilt cover titles; some edge, tips wear and rubbing to boards; bottom 1/4 part of spine covering chipped away; top board detaching, block's sewing secure; good condition, good American Revolutionary War scholarly research material, especially interesting for the inclusion of the author's signed correspondence.
"Mr. Lee's Plan - March 29, 1777." The Treason of Charles Lee Major General Second in Command in the American Army of the Revolution.
Moore, George H.
New-York: Charles Scribner, 1860.
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"Our Father Who Art in Heaven." A Story Illustrative of the Lord's Prayer
(The Lord's Prayer)
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1860.
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623 pages; 1 page publisher's announcements at back, with black and white tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece illustration of the author and in the text; Mrs. Stenhouse and her husband became disaffected with Brigham Young and aspects of the Latter-Day Saints commercial policies and became associated with the "Godbeyite Heresy" from the Mormon faith-and published on that account; original publishers' green decoratively blindstamped cloth binding, gilt spine titles & decorations; cloth tips and edges wear, illustrations a bit foxed; overall, good condition.
"Tell It All": The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism. An Autobiography: By Mrs. T.B. H. Stenhouse, of Salt Lake City, for More Than Twenty Years the Wife of a Mormon Missionary and Elder. With Introductory Preface By Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Stenhouse, Mrs. T.B.H.
Hartford Conn.: A.D. Worthington & Co., 1874.
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104 pages; portrait frontispiece illustration of Ketchel, other black and white illustrations in the text depicting the fighter's days in the ring and various opponents, with Fleischer's commentary; with the ring record at back; the short and notable life of this top middleweight boxer, shot and killed a few months after his last fight in 1910; bound in blue cloth, some edge, tips wear and rubbing to binding, very good condition, good boxing history.
"The Michigan Assassin" The Saga of Stanley Ketchel, World's Most Sensational Middleweight Champion
Fleischer, Nat
New York - Paris: Author Published, 1946.
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'Album of Beauty' C. 1850's Pennsylvania Friendship Album
(Friendship Album)
New York: Leavitt & Allen,
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Document; partially printed, in letterpress; Judge Beekman presiding over the case; accomplished in manuscript and stating: "...Samuel Burtis of No. 164 Fly Market street in the Second Ward of the city of New-York, Grocer and George Forbes of No. 164 Fly Market street in the Second Ward...Grocer personally came before me Theophilus Beeckman one of the special Justices for preserving the peace..." and regarding that Burtis should abide peacefully, "...particularly towards Garbriel Duryea and Isaac Bogart..." with a hundred dollar sum on the recognizance, evidently for some dispute not recorded here; 6 1/2" x 8" size; back of document docketing the case, with a note regarding distances 'Milage from Oyster Bay to New York' and signed by the constables who had to do the notifications, Joseph Latting & Sam Apple; interesting in that there is some frugality involved in the local government, where this Recognizance was evidently printed for cases taking place in the city of New York, here it has been hand corrected and adjusted to Queens County (on Long Island) and with the corrections duly noted and signed-off below the printing; signed by the Judge below; some edgewear, browning along folds & spotting; still, very good condition and an interesting Long Island judicial ephemeral item, along with being of some historical note regarding job printing history at the time.
1805 Partially Letterpress Printed Document concerning the Recognizance Bond of Samuel Burtis Queens County Judge Beekman Presiding
(Long Island Judicial History)
Queens County Long Island: 1805.
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Original document, Justices were William H. Jones, Daniel Feeks, James Hegeman presiding over the case; stating, among else: "...Coles Craft...Saith that on the 24th day of December 1824 - that Jacob Baldwin and Robert Ludlam were pushing each other about the store of Richard Cock and Samuel (last name illegible) and that Jacob Baldwin struck him the said Coles Craft, a blow on the face, and threatened to flogg him if he took the law of him..." continuing with a disputatiously various group of testimony as to who hit who in this fight; listed are the subpoena and constable expenses and the case's docketing information on the back; 8" x 12 1/2" size approx.; a sadly violent case, however interesting in that there is some mention of local businesses, both for the court of sessions and the locality of the "affray" itself; some edgewear, browning along folds & spotting; still, very good condition and an interesting Long Island judicial ephemeral item, along with being of some historical note specifically for the Oyster Bay area.
1825 Manuscript Document Court of Special Sessions Held at Zina Chatfield's in Oyster Bay for an Assault and Battery The People Versus Jacob Baldwin
(Long Island Judicial History)
Oyster Bay Long Island: 1825.
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Every document concerns a particular insurance concern including: 1856 Office of the Continental Insurance Company, No. 18 Wall Street , (signed by) John Street president; 1863 Washington Insurance Co. 172 Broadway, printed by Nesbitt & Co. Prinrters and Stationers Pearl and Pine Sts. N.Y.; 1865 Office of the Jefferson Insurance Company on a property at 13 Mulberry St. and another for 1866, with Revenue stamp; 1866 Exchange Fire Insurance Company of the City of New-York, also for 13 Mulberry, nice sidebar ornament; 1873 Importers & Traders' Insurance Co. for bonds & mortgage insurance; 1873 Phenix Insurance Company; 1879 The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York; most of these pieces about 3 1/2" x 7 3/4" average size, a few larger and a couple smaller;(with) an 1860 Clinton Fire Insurance Company ppolicy against loss or damage by fire of a Hotel, Dancing & dining establishment in East New York, with a woodcut large illustration of Clinton, backgroudn scene of canals, railways, cities & countryside, signed in the plate by Jocelyn & Purcell, about 17" x 10 1/2" size, four sides and detailing the arranments of the insurance; 1877 another Clinton Insurance item, this with Clinton engraving by American Bank Note for premises at 551 & 553 3rd Ave. "...with hazardous occupation and dwelling...", giving the list of hazards (printed on integral page) and the rates of premium each attracts; These two documents with splitting along old lines; light wear; very good condition and an interesting glimpse at the inner workings of New York City Insurance and finance history, through ephemeral paper evidence, with the additional interest generated by the evidence of many of the city's nineteenth century job printers' work. We include one other policy on The Jefferson Insurance Company, 1865 for 13 Mulberry Street, printed by Arthur, Gregory & Co., Stationers that has a section excised from the front page, with loss, may have been done in cancellation of the agreement.
1850s-1870s Collection of 11 Pieces of Ephemeral Material Relating to the Insurance Industry in New York (with) Three Insurance Policies for New York Properties
(New York Insurance Industry History)
New York: 1857.
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Document makes the statement of three inspectors for the County: '...we have been over and inspected three miles of the Turnpike Road of the...Company, that the (road)...comences at the point of intersection of said road with the Williamsburgh and Jamaica Turnpike and extends from there Eastwardly to the Black Stump Road...said road is in all respects fit and suitable for the purposes of travel, and we therefore authorize...to erect a Gate and collect tolls thereat..." (signed) by Levi W. Brush Nathaniel Sweet Inspectors of Turnpikes; dated 8 December 1856; light wear along old fold lines; very good condition and interesting Long Island toll road and transportation development documentation from the middle of the nineteenth century.
1856 Manuscript Certificate of the Inspection of Three Miles of the Road of The Union Turnpike Co. County of Queens Long Island New York.
(Union Turnpike Company)
1856.
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Archive of approximately 65 items, all documenting the business history of Hempstead Long Island, New York town, good local history for established businesses and community, legal agencies and services in the nineteenth century; including: 1862 R.t. & C. A. Powell Staple and Fancy Dry Goods; 1863 Jesse S. Petit "Inquirer" office, Main Street "...Printing of All Descriptions..."; 1867 I. & s. N. Snedeker & Co.; 1867 Lott Van De Water Queens County Sentinel, printers; 1869 (manuscript) Edward Denton for the Estate of Joseh R. Brick School taxes, with a printed receipt as well from the Town of Hempstead Valentine Ketcham Collector; 1870 Queens County Sheriff's Office Benj. F. Rushmore, Sheriff Constables for June Term, listing names in manuscript on letterhead for the Sheriff; 1875 Bannat Salky Dealer in Fine French, English and German Cloths, Cassimeres, Vestings, &c., Main Street, near Front, with a statement of certifcation signed by a Notary Public regarding the verity of the bill; 1876 Everitt & Post Dealers in General Merchandise, Farm Implements, &c. also with a legal statement of truth of billing, this signed by the Justice of the Peace; 1876 Office of G. Edward Carll, Treasurer of Queens Co., N.Y. regarding some unpaid taxes, with the attached receipt of payment of same; 1881 J.B. Adams manufacturer of and Dealer in Stoves, Ranges, Heaters, Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Ware, Patent Milk Cans, Plumbing, Gas Fitting, Mason Materials, etc.; 1881 Jacob Siedenberg Merchant Tailor and Dealer in Hats, Caps and Gents' Furnishing Goods (we note that there is another billhead here, 1889, this printed "Jacob Sidenberg" noting Dry Goods, Notions, Lace Curtains, Carpets, Oil Cloths and Window Shades as the stock in trade); 1885 Walter N. Weeks Carriage Ironing and General Jobbing. Horse Shoeing a Specialty; 1887 William Plyer & Co. Sash, Blind and Door Manufacturers Dealers in Paints and Hardware and also another "Charles" Plyer, with manuscript corrections to read "Estate of" and 'Deceased" of the same business, in 1885, which business evidently passed on to William; 1885 Henry L. Nichols Baker, confectioner and Caterer. Weddings and Parties Supplied; 1885 Hentz & Clowes Livery and Sale Stable, First-Class Horses and Carriages to Let, with horse woodcut vignette; 1885 Frank Place Artistic Wall Paper, Paints, Oils, Artists' Materials, White Lead, Zink, Varnishes, &c.; 1886 John Mimno Manufacturers of and Dealers in Heaters, Stoves, Ranges, Tin, copper and Sheet Iron Ware. Gas Fitting and Plumbing. Patent Milk Cans., with a nice woodcut vignette on the billhead of a "Paragon" large kitchen-model cooking iron stove and another billing from Mimno in 1888; 1886 G.D. Van Vranken Dealer in Lumber; 1886 Whitaker & Bedell Cigars, Tobacco and Smokers Articles, Revolvers and Cartridges; 1886 Thomas V. Smith Civil Engineer and Surveyor; 1886 H.L. Abrams Beef, Lamb, Mutton, Veal Poultry and Game Vegetables in Their Season; 1887 John H. Seabury Fancy Bread and Cake Bakery Also, a Choice Line of Groceries and Canned Goods; 1887 S.A. Smith Groceries, Feed, Hay, Coal, Wood, Fertilizers; 1887 Hempstead Inquirer A.M. Onderdonk Publisher, Book and Job Printing; several Town of Hempstead legal notices; 1890 Louis Cohen Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Clothing, Notions, Hosiery, Boots and Shoes, Etc.; 1891 E.S. Titus Engineer and Machinist Heating of Buildings and Greenhouses by Steam or Hot Water a Specialty. General Agent for Long Island for the Deering Mowing and Harvesting Machinery. Dealer in Agricultural Implements.; 1892 Onderdonk & Smith Auctioneers; 1895 Birdsall Post Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Farm Implements, etc.; 1895 S.H. Gildersleeve Dealer in Harness and all kinds of Saddlery Goods; 1895 Fred. Eckerlin Upholsterer and Decorator; 1896 Christian Vogelsang Painting, Paper Hanging, Graining, &c.; 1896 F.B. McLean Furniture and Carpets Crockery, Wall Paper and House Furnishing Goods. Contracts Furnished on Painting and Paper Hanging; 1897 Queens County Sentinel Fine Printing; 1897 Theo. A. Carman Hardware Stoves & Tinware Steam and Gas Fitting Plumbing and Tin Roofing High Grade Bicycles Electric Bells; 1897 Long Island Railroad Co. to "Hemp. W(?) Co.; 1897 Mollineux Bros. Flour and Feed Mills Coal and Wood Yards; Adams & Lowe (Successors to John H. Seabury) Fancy Bread and Cake Bakery and more, with additional Town Water Authority & other service billings; a few from the same businesses or governmental services; often the job printers are indicated on these business receipts and billheads, these frequently being the local newspaper publishers; interesting progression of business from the mid-to-late nineteenth century, the changing nature of goods and services sold and provided and also the change of ownership for several businesses; some edge, tips wear to documents, old fold lines; generally in very good condition and an interesting ephemeral paper group.
1860s-1890s Collection of Business History Paper Ephemera All Related To Hempstead, Long Island New York
(Hempstead)
New York & Tokyo: 1860.
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All dated 22 May, 1862 and all signed by Mrs. Cochran on front and back; for a couple of different types of coal and from various 'Cart No.'s'; each ticket or receipt approx. 1 ¾" x 3 ¼" size; nice job-printing ornamental borders; some edge, tips wear and soiling, old pinhole in center, perhaps where docketed; very good condition overall and interesting New York City ephemeral paper items; according to these, 19 tons of coal were delivered to this address in one day; especially during the tough times of the Civil War, these small bits of paper give evidence of business as usual in the daily lives of the city's dwellers.
1862 Collection of 19 Small Printed Receipt Tickets for Coal Delivery for Mrs. S. Cochran at 34 East 21st Street New York City, received from Randolph & Skidmores Dealers
(New York City)
New York: Randolph & Skidmores Dealers, 1862.
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Partially printed document; accomplished in manuscript, stating that the applicant Augustus Bailey "...a resident of Election District, No. 2 in the Town of Oyster Bay...hereby propose to keep a store at the Village of Locust Valley... and hereby apply for a License to sell strong and spiritous Liquors and Wines not to be drank on my premises..."; dated May 21st 1862 and signed by the applicant; printed on light blue paper, about 4" x 7 3/4" size; old fold line, little edgewear; little smear of ink; very good condition and interesting Long Island business and liquor retailing paper ephemera.
1862 Locust Valley New York Oyster Bay Long Island Liquour License Application to Open a Store for Augustus Bailey
(Locust Valley)
Locust Valley Long Island New: 1862.
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Partially printed Salary as Clerk Court General Sessions receipt for Henry Vandervoort; To the County Treasurer of New York, at the Broadway Bank; Signed by the Mayor, John T. Hoffman (1828-1888) born in Ossining in Westchester County and was governor of New York (1869 -1872), judge (elected 1860) and Mayor of New York (1866 - 1868). Supposed involvement with the Boss Tweed Ring ruined his political career; counter signed by the city comptroller and the county bookkeeper and by Vandervoort on the back of the check; 3 1/2" x 8" approx. size; with a nice bit of job-printing - a good vignette and ornate corner ornaments around the edges, printed in blue tones by A. Brown & Co. Nassau Street; light wear, darkening; with the old-style 'x' cancellation-cut, unobtrusive & cancel number '12'; very good condition, interesting City of New York ephemeral autograph material.
1866 Signed John T. Hoffman Mayor of the City of New York
(New York City)
New York: 1866.
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C. 200 pages of manuscript church reports, records followed by the details of the Queens County farming business of the Bergen family; volume begins with alphabetical list of church members with names: Baylis, Bennem, Cornell, Collison, Carpenter, Bergen (many), Dickerson, Dean, Horsfield, Herrick, Harrington, Hendrickson, Kellogg, Kissam, Maccrum, Mitchell, Martin, Prink, Remsen, Richardson, Suydam, Simonson, Tomkins, Terahan, Valentine, Wiggins, Van Nostrand, Wade, Williams, Whitmore, Wood, more, with following pages detailing each member's history with the church, dues paid, how much & when and notes- ie. "Expelled" "resigned", more, mostly between 1868 and 1872; followed by a several-leaves section concerning the "Treasurers Acct. of the Reformed S. School of Queens" which extends from 1885-86 detailing expenses-Christmas wreaths, Board of Foreign Missions, Domestic Missions, something called 12 Mile chest, Brooklyn Hymns, 300 book covers, and much more; the farming accounts are from 1886-1892 and give information on hay sales, individual accounts with the farm and people; folks paid for tasks, amounts owed, seed, equipment and crops bought and sold, more; with a few other notes and letters laid-in; all written in good legible hands, mostly regarding receipts and information concerning the Bergen farming endeavours; some farming 'receipts' for -buttermaking, "to keep hens healthy", rule for selling locust (wood), plowing information, other farming 'hints' of 19th century America; on last leaf is a set of instructions in a mid-19th century hand for the dance "Lancers" with all the steps written out; 8" x 12 1/4" approx. format; some wear and rubbing to covers, detaached, spine perished, mostly still bound as one; few leaves at back lacking, torn out; good condition and interesting Long Island church and society, farming & business history for New York & Queens County.
1868-1892 Ledger & Record Book Queens Long Island New York Containing Manuscript Notations for a Church Group, Sunday School of the Dutch Reformed Church and a Queens Farmer, All Related to the Bergen Family with Laid-in Related Ephemera & MS Material
(Queens)
Queens Long Island: 1868.
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Group of documents; about 14 pages worth of handwritten material; include appeals statement by the presiding Justice George Parsells; a partially-printed Summons issued on the LIRR to appear at the Flushing courthouse, Town of Newtown to answer the complaint of John Thurston for injury to "personal property to his damage", with Constable William Heaney's notes on back of the summons; attached also are a list of 'Exhibits' where the plaintiff complains that the LIRR "...at Dutch Hills town of Newtown wrongfully and negligently drove their engines and locomotives against and upon one heifer and one steer the property of the plaintiff and then and there wrongfully and negligently tore, wounded and lacerated said heifer and steer that they immediately died..."; the LIRR rebuts and denies "every allegation in the said complaint"; the story is vividly told in the complainants deposition: "...the cars of the Long Island RR ran over them & the next morning I saw the heifer and steer lying near the track one each side thereof within about five feet of the track the cattle were all mangled to pieces when I saw them the legs of each were broken the heifeter was cut open the calf lying outside & near they were all dead..." noticed cow hair along the track for fifty paces blood also more or less the whole distance"; evidently the LIRR had a tough opponent, since the owner was "...a judge of Cows I buy and sell them..."; The LIRR lost their appeal and had to pay the fine and costs; old fold lines, some browning; very good condition and interesting Long Island transportation law and community development history
1869 Collection of Manuscript Documents relating to a Court Case against the Long Island Railroad
(Long Island Railroad)
1869.
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16 printed illustrated images from this Exposition and Philadelphia landmarks, on lightly tinted paper, with red line surrounds and bound accordion-style, one image per panel, one per side- with titles in French, German and English: Main Building, Memorial Hall, Horticultural, Machinery, Agricultural Halls, Ladies Pavilion, Public Buildings, Independence Hall, Mint, Girard College, Masonic Temple, Acad. of Music, of Fine Arts, of Nat. Sciences, Univ. of Penn., Girard Ave. Bridge; with a map of Centennial Grounds and Exhibition Buildings at back, printed in black and white, giving length and width of the Main, Art Gallery, Machinery, Horticultural & Agricultural buildings and identifying & giving locations of many of the other attractions; small booklet, approx. 3" x 5"; original color-printed illustrated boards, with a black cloth spine; wear and rubbing, block of views detached, spine cloth with some holing at back; good condition.
1876 Centennial Souvenir Philadelphia
(Centennial Exposition)
Philadelphia: 1876.
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A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of Charles Jean Marie Loyson "Pere Hyacinthe"; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet; Hyacinthe Loyson (1827-1912) was a controversial French Roman Catholic priest, religious figure and author. "...taught philosophy and theology at Avignon and Nantes, and gathered enthusiastic audiences to the Madeleine and Notre Dame in Paris. He boldly denounced abuses in the church; was excommunicated; protested against the Infallibility Dogma; married and founded a Gallican church in Paris." (Chambers); photograph by Thompson Cooper, Lock & Whitfield photographers; oval Woodburytype, (photoglyptie) patented in 1864 by Walter Bentley Woodbury (1834-1885) an early form of photomechanical print, made by embossing a photographic image on paper with a metal mold containing the gelatin relief of a photographic negative: "...the tonal scale of the resultant image was highly luminous...has a continuous tone, showing neither a screen nor a grain pattern..." (Baldwin, 1991); a striking portrait of this noted British clergyman in very good condition.
1876 Woodburytype of Charles Jean Marie Loyson "Pere Hyacinthe"
(Charles Jean Marie Loyson)
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876.
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A sharp and clear oval Woodburytype portrait of Lord George Hamilton; approx. 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, on the original heavy paper 8 1/2" x 10 1/2" sheet; Lord George Francis Hamilton (1845-1927) British politician, "...Disraeli made him under-secretary for India...(and) From 1895 Hamilton was secretary of state for India, a post he held for a record eight years...The Times obituarist (23 Sept 1927) highlighted the ‘great work he did at the Admiralty’ and his ‘long and able tenure of the Indian Office’, but felt that ‘he held fast to a tradition too austere to be popular; his own political imagination was not inflamed, and he had neither the will nor the power to inflame the imagination of others’. John Morley had found that at the India Office he was remembered as an outstanding minister. These are among many indications that he was a gifted administrator with a strong sense of duty and of loyalty to party, but limited political gifts. Hamilton was always good company, if no great orator-a man unexpectedly and misleadingly catapulted into popular electoral politics." He was a diligent defender of the independence of Indian government, even against the cabinet (John Ramsden in the DNB; photograph by Thompson Cooper, Lock & Whitfield photographers; oval Woodburytype, (photoglyptie) patented in 1864 by Walter Bentley Woodbury (1834-1885) an early form of photomechanical print, made by embossing a photographic image on paper with a metal mold containing the gelatin relief of a photographic negative: "...the tonal scale of the resultant image was highly luminous...has a continuous tone, showing neither a screen nor a grain pattern..." (Baldwin, 1991); a striking portrait of this noted British politician; in very good condition.
1876 Woodburytype of Lord George Hamilton Under-Secretary of State for India
(Lord George Hamilton)
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876.
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