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Knight Hospital Record, Vol. 1, No. 1-Vol. 1, No. 40. Jerome Coan [cover title]
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A rare complete run of this Civil War hospital newspaper, composed and published at Knight Hospital in New Haven, CT, offering insight into the lives of hospitalized soldiers during the War.
Knight Hospital was one of nine Union hospitals where a newspaper was composed, edited, and published on site during and in the immediate wake of the Civil War. Published weekly, Knight Hospital Record ran for a total of forty issues. Doctors, nurses, clerks, chaplains, and convalescent patients contributed to these pages with literature and poetry, and also served as typesetters and editors.
The contents include short stories, jokes, local news, national news, lists of admissions, transfers, deaths, events at the hospital, notices, ads for local businesses, medical subjects (amputations, disability, mortality, etc.), accounts of battlefield experiences; Andersonville Prison; the capture of Jefferson Davis in petticoats; surrenders and victories; intemperance; the capture of Richmond, VA ("Richmond Ours!!! The City on Fire. Negro Troops occupy the place"); the treatment of POWs; the election of Lincoln and Johnson; guerrilla warfare, and so forth. The articles carry such titles as "Rebel Barbarity"; "A True 'Lincoln Story'"; "What is Consumed in a Hospital"; "Twenty-six Months in the Rebel Army"; "Captain Speke's Adventure with a Boa Constrictor"; "Grant and Lee's Handwriting," and "Inside View of the Rebel Capital." Recurring themes concern returning home, romantic longings, remembering of the dead, nostalgia, homesickness, and trauma. Vol. 1, No. 28 (12 Apr. 1865) and No. 29 (19 Apr. 1865) are especially noteworthy, as they concern the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee and the assassination of President Lincoln.
The Knight U.S. Army General Hospital was opened in 1862 to treat soldiers wounded during the Civil War after the directors of the State Hospital (predecessor of today's Yale-New Haven Hospital) leased the building to the U.S. government. After the military built temporary quarters on the hospital land, the facility could accommodate 1,500 patients. Over 25,000 soldiers were treated there from 1862 to 1865, the number of dying totaling around 200. The facility was named after Jonathan Knight (1789-1864), president of the Board of the Directors of the General Hospital Society of Connecticut, founding professor at Yale's Medical Institution (1813-64), and noted surgeon.
OCLC records issues of the Knight Hospital Record at eight institutions, only two outside of Connecticut.
REFERENCES: "Poems from the Knight Hospital Record" at the University of Connecticut Library online.
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Map of a Part of the City of Richmond Showing the Burnt Districts
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[No place, no date, but London, 1766]. Etching, 9.25 " x 13.5" at neat line, surmounting 3 columns of letterpress on a 11.5" x 14" sheet of laid paper. Handsomely and appropriately framed. Important and scarce political cartoon lampooning the repeal of the Stamp Act under the administration of George Grenville, Prime Minister from 1763 to 1765. "One of the most famous and popular political satires commenting on the Stamp Act". (Dolmetsch) Background As Prime Minster, George Grenville (1712-1770) was faced with restoring Britain's finances and reducing the national debt, which had doubled with the cost of fighting the Seven Years' War. In normal circumstances, the first step of government would be to reduce the army from its wartime to a peacetime establishment. Unfortunately, this was prevented by the outbreak of Pontiac's War (1763-1766), broadly occasioned when tribes with traditional links to the French sought to oppose British claims by right right of conquest to their lands. In view of the…
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Catalogue "H," Illustrating Fountains, Ground Basins, Basin Rims, Jets, etc. manufactured by the J.L. Mott Iron Works offices and Showrooms, 86, 88 and 90 Beekman Street, New York and 311 and 313 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill
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New York: J. L. Mott Iron Works, 1889. Folio, recent three-quarters brown morocco and green cloth, gilt-stamped title on front cover. Title, 131 pp., of engraved illus., including 2 folding plates illus. on both sides. One of the more impressive American trade catalogs of the nineteenth century. Most of the catalogs published by Mott between 1873 and 1905 are described in Romaine, who states that the company "issued many of the finest pictorial catalogs of ornamental ironwork." The variety of fountains, urns and other iron garden furnishings is truly astonishing, and the scale of the illustrations, obviously necessary to convey an accurate sense of many of the richly detailed objects pictured, results in a graphically dazzling and convincing presentation. A genuine classic of its genre. Scarce in the market-place today. OCLC locates only one copy of this edition. REFERENCES: Romaine, p. 258. CONDITION: Good, large repaired tear across bottom of title page, occasional light staining with little…
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A Treatise on Bread, and Bread-Making
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Boston: Light & Stearns, 1 Cornhill, 1837. 18mo, original dark gray patterned cloth with gilt title on upper cover; 131 pp., [blank], 12 pp. of ads. CONDITION: Very good, minimal wear, moderate foxing throughout. The scarce, first edition of this influential work advocating the use of whole grain flour for bread-making. Reverend Sylvester Graham (1794-1851) was a vegetarian and the inventor of "Graham bread," known to us today in the rather corrupted form of the Graham cracker. His advocacy of whole grains and vegetables gave rise to a diet reform movement with strong moralistic overtones: "In the 1830s, critiques of American food and eating were rampant and shrill, and usually attached to the name of Sylvester Graham, the de facto founder of the diet reform movement in the antebellum United States. During the 1830s and 1840s, the man Ralph Waldo Emerson described as the 'prophet of bran bread' made a name for himself lecturing and publishing books on diet and proper living...The diet reform…
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Mardi: and a Voyage Thither
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New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 82 Cliff Street, 1849. 2 vols. 8vo, original green cloth. Vol. 1: 365 pp.; Vol. 2: 387, [1 blank] pp., 8 pp. of ads. First American edition of Melville's third book. His first two books, Typee and Omoo, were a blend of fact and fiction, inspired by his experiences as a sailor in the South Seas. Mardi, on the other hand, marks Melville's first wholesale excursion into fiction, following the protagonist, Taji, as he travels through mythical South Sea archipelagoes in search of transcendental beauty in the form of his lost love, Yillah. An experimental novel combining metaphysics, allegory, and a satire of modern nations, literature, religion, etc., it was poorly received by critics and general readers alike. Today it is seen as an important transitional work leading to the mature style found in his masterpiece, Moby Dick. REFERENCES: BAL 13658. PROVENANCE: With the ownership inscription of Frederick Halstead Teese (1823-1894), a New Jersey attorney and…
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[No place, no date, but London, 1766]. Etching, 9.25 " x 13.5" at neat line, surmounting 3 columns of letterpress on a 11.5" x 14" sheet of laid paper. Handsomely and appropriately framed. Important and scarce political cartoon lampooning the repeal of the Stamp Act under the administration of George Grenville, Prime Minister from 1763 to 1765. "One of the most famous and popular political satires commenting on the Stamp Act". (Dolmetsch) Background As Prime Minster, George Grenville (1712-1770) was faced with restoring Britain's finances and reducing the national debt, which had doubled with the cost of fighting the Seven Years' War. In normal circumstances, the first step of government would be to reduce the army from its wartime to a peacetime establishment. Unfortunately, this was prevented by the outbreak of Pontiac's War (1763-1766), broadly occasioned when tribes with traditional links to the French sought to oppose British claims by right right of conquest to their lands. In view of the…
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Catalogue "H," Illustrating Fountains, Ground Basins, Basin Rims, Jets, etc. manufactured by the J.L. Mott Iron Works offices and Showrooms, 86, 88 and 90 Beekman Street, New York and 311 and 313 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill
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New York: J. L. Mott Iron Works, 1889. Folio, recent three-quarters brown morocco and green cloth, gilt-stamped title on front cover. Title, 131 pp., of engraved illus., including 2 folding plates illus. on both sides. One of the more impressive American trade catalogs of the nineteenth century. Most of the catalogs published by Mott between 1873 and 1905 are described in Romaine, who states that the company "issued many of the finest pictorial catalogs of ornamental ironwork." The variety of fountains, urns and other iron garden furnishings is truly astonishing, and the scale of the illustrations, obviously necessary to convey an accurate sense of many of the richly detailed objects pictured, results in a graphically dazzling and convincing presentation. A genuine classic of its genre. Scarce in the market-place today. OCLC locates only one copy of this edition. REFERENCES: Romaine, p. 258. CONDITION: Good, large repaired tear across bottom of title page, occasional light staining with little…
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Boston: Light & Stearns, 1 Cornhill, 1837. 18mo, original dark gray patterned cloth with gilt title on upper cover; 131 pp., [blank], 12 pp. of ads. CONDITION: Very good, minimal wear, moderate foxing throughout. The scarce, first edition of this influential work advocating the use of whole grain flour for bread-making. Reverend Sylvester Graham (1794-1851) was a vegetarian and the inventor of "Graham bread," known to us today in the rather corrupted form of the Graham cracker. His advocacy of whole grains and vegetables gave rise to a diet reform movement with strong moralistic overtones: "In the 1830s, critiques of American food and eating were rampant and shrill, and usually attached to the name of Sylvester Graham, the de facto founder of the diet reform movement in the antebellum United States. During the 1830s and 1840s, the man Ralph Waldo Emerson described as the 'prophet of bran bread' made a name for himself lecturing and publishing books on diet and proper living...The diet reform…
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New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 82 Cliff Street, 1849. 2 vols. 8vo, original green cloth. Vol. 1: 365 pp.; Vol. 2: 387, [1 blank] pp., 8 pp. of ads. First American edition of Melville's third book. His first two books, Typee and Omoo, were a blend of fact and fiction, inspired by his experiences as a sailor in the South Seas. Mardi, on the other hand, marks Melville's first wholesale excursion into fiction, following the protagonist, Taji, as he travels through mythical South Sea archipelagoes in search of transcendental beauty in the form of his lost love, Yillah. An experimental novel combining metaphysics, allegory, and a satire of modern nations, literature, religion, etc., it was poorly received by critics and general readers alike. Today it is seen as an important transitional work leading to the mature style found in his masterpiece, Moby Dick. REFERENCES: BAL 13658. PROVENANCE: With the ownership inscription of Frederick Halstead Teese (1823-1894), a New Jersey attorney and…
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