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Tropical Fibres: Their Production and Economic Extraction
by Squier, E. G
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New York: Scribner & Co, 1861. . 8vo. 230 x 150 mm., (9 x 6 inches). 64 pp. Illustrated with 16 lithographic plates and one image bound-in from the R. H. Allen Company which illustrates the machinery used to separate the fiber from the leaves of tropical plants. Original publisher's brown cloth, decorated in gilt and blind; inner hinge cracked, head and tail with minor chipping, text block separated from the lithographs at the center of the book the result of the different paper stocks; yet still intact and quite a nice, clean copy. With the embossed ownership stamp of R. H. Allen & Co. on the title-page and ink stamp on front free end paper. First edition. Ephraim George Squier was one of those rare American originals, who being mostly self-educated, became a leading expert in American antiquities, Charge` d'Affaires to Central America, Commissioner to Peru, President of the Anthropological Institute of New York. He was a contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica, and author of, according to Sabin, of over 50 individual titles and editions many relating to his experience investigating the culture and economy of Honduras, Nicaragua, San Salvador and Peru. He was the co-author with Edwin H. Davis of a landmark book in American scientific research on the prehistoric Mound Builders of North American, which was the first publication of the newly established Smithsonian Institution in 1848. In the introduction to Squier's study of the tropical plants of Central America, he writes in the introduction, "that they not only furnish staple articles of food, oil, and refreshing as well as intoxicating drinks, but also that they are productive sources of valuable fibres, of every degree of fineness and strength and fit for the most delicate tissues as well as for the strongest cables. . . It is in this sense, and with this view of directing American enterprise to new and profitable fields of exertion, that I have thrown together the various facts relating to vegetable fibres, which I have collected during the ten years since the subject first arrested my attention." The colored lithographs include images of various species of Agave plants, wild pineapple plants, apple, banana, yucca, and a hemp plant from Mexico. The lithographs were produced by Sarony, Major and Knapp of New York who from 1845 to 1864 produced a "vast quantity of book illustrations, prints for government reports of surveys and explorations, medical and other scientific plates." One of the previous owners of this copy, the R. H. Allen Company, was a seed and agricultural merchant who imported products from Europe and Central and South America. They specialized in flowers, fruits, herbs, field and vegetable seeds and agricultural implement and supplies. They issued seed catalogues during the 1870. This copy contains a leaf from an unidentified publication that advertises a machine that separates fiber from the leaves of plants from "Tropical America", with the name R. H. Allen engraved on the machine part. Nice association copy. Sabin 90000; Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography V, p. 641. Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature, Vol. II pp. 2214-16. Peters, American on Stone, pp. 355-56. Romaine, American Trade Catalogues, 317. (374).
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- 374
- Title
- Tropical Fibres: Their Production and Economic Extraction
- Author
- Squier, E. G
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- Scribner & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1861
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De Simone Company Booksellers enjoyed its second opening as a book company in 2018 after a seventeen-year hiatus. Originally established in 1978, De Simone Company bought, sold, and evaluated rare books, manuscripts, and prints for twenty-two years before closing, when De Simone accepted the position as Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress.
De Simone held this position for fourteen years before moving to the Folger Shakespeare Library as the Eric Weinmann Librarian. In this position, he managed seven departments, including acquisitions, exhibitions, conservation, research services, and the Library's book, manuscript, and art collections. He held this position for three years before retiring in 2017 and reopening De Simone Company Booksellers.
Because of his experience in both the book trade and rare book librarianship, De Simone consults with institutions about the development and evaluation of their library collections. He is the author and editor of a number of books and articles on the history of book illustration and early bibliography.
He is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), the Print Council of America, the Grolier Club, the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, the American Printing History Association, the Bibliographical Society of America. He is also the Treasurer of the Antiquarian Book Seminar Foundation, a 501c3, which support the Colorado Antiquarian Books Seminar (CABS). Recently he has been appointed Secretary of Breslauer Prize for Bibliography by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.
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