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TWO MANUSCRIPTS IN ONE - A VERY INTERESTING. ILLUSTRATED & COMMONPLACE - RARE
TWO MANUSCRIPTS IN ONE - A VERY INTERESTING. ILLUSTRATED & COMMONPLACE - RARE
TWO MANUSCRIPTS IN ONE - A VERY INTERESTING. ILLUSTRATED & COMMONPLACE - RARE
TWO MANUSCRIPTS IN ONE - A VERY INTERESTING. ILLUSTRATED & COMMONPLACE - RARE
TWO MANUSCRIPTS IN ONE - A VERY INTERESTING. ILLUSTRATED & COMMONPLACE - RARE
TWO MANUSCRIPTS IN ONE - A VERY INTERESTING. ILLUSTRATED & COMMONPLACE - RARE
TWO MANUSCRIPTS IN ONE - A VERY INTERESTING. ILLUSTRATED & COMMONPLACE - RARE
TWO MANUSCRIPTS IN ONE - A VERY INTERESTING. ILLUSTRATED & COMMONPLACE - RARE
TWO MANUSCRIPTS IN ONE - A VERY INTERESTING. ILLUSTRATED & COMMONPLACE - RARE
TWO MANUSCRIPTS IN ONE - A VERY INTERESTING. ILLUSTRATED & COMMONPLACE - RARE
TWO MANUSCRIPTS IN ONE - A VERY INTERESTING. ILLUSTRATED & COMMONPLACE - RARE

TWO MANUSCRIPTS IN ONE - A VERY INTERESTING. ILLUSTRATED & COMMONPLACE - RARE

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Availability: 100 in stock
  • Date of Publication: 1814
  • Type: Handwritten Manuscript
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Material: Paper
  • Language: English

    Description

    TWO MANUSCRIPTS IN ONE - A VERY INTERESTING ENGLISH NAPOLEONIC PERIOD MILITARY MANUSCRIPT
    AND A COMMONPLACE BOOK
    c. 1814-1840s
    [MANUSCRIPT] [MILITARY MANUEVERS] [COMMONPLACE]
    Manuscript 17.5 x 13  m.   Binding:  Salmon pasteboards, spine renewed, green silk ties, early label "Miscellaneous"  with wallet-like folding pocket in front for inserts.  Internally, quite legible, but with a severe dampstain throughout.  Appear to be two manuscripts  (approx 99 pp and 50 pp. respectively  written on opposite ends of the notebook.
    The first is c. 1814 and relates  to
    military maneuvers of Major-General Mackenzie who in 1813 commanded army outposts in Holland prior to the  return of Napoleon to France.  The  "Duke of Wellington, finding the Major-General in the command of a fortress of importance, where great delicacy of management was required, continued him in it, much against his inclination, until its final evacuation by the British troops, when he came to England"  [Ref: The Gentleman's Magazine 1834]
    The second manuscript is a  c. 1840s commonplace book with various pieces of  advice on  how to "Destroy Rats", "Protect Potatoes",  "Method of Extracting Honey" etc.   A Very  interesting entry on pg. 53.
    is related to Thermogenic Drawings, which in the formative years of photography
    (here an  dated 24 Feb 1847), describes s " ingenious mode of transferring the forms of natural objects or the patterns on ribbons to paper.. -Saturate common writing paper with porter, coffee mixed with sugar and cream, or a solution of schill, then place the object whose form is to be transferred on the prepared paper and expose them to the action of the sun's rays or those of a common fire. "