[Rarebooks] Newsletter for April 21st...

Fri Apr 23 14:49:07 EDT 2004

Hello Rare-Book-o-philes!

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  JHRB NEWSLETTER FOR APRIL 21st, 2004

Spring is sprung,
the grass is ris,
I wonder where the Book Elves is...

They were in New York for the weekend, visiting the New York Book Fair,
and sitting in a bar on Broadway in their Red Sox hats, watching the Sox
beat the Yankees on the tv; it wasn't so much the hats that annoyed the
local Yankee fans, as much as the strange little victory dance they did on
the tables after a Sox home run...  Book Elves can catalog, but they
cannot boogie worth a darn, and let's just say they found out how many
Book Elves can be stuffed into a taxicab and leave it at that.

Everything turned out all right though, as the sun came out and the
temperatures hit 80 in Central Park on Sunday and they taught the locals
to play "Elf Frisbee", which for some reason involves lots of ice cream
and a boom box.  There are, alas, no pictures, as my camera mysteriously
ended up in the pond.

Oh well.  Before they tossed the photographic evidence to the ducks, they
finished putting together a new "Just Catalogued" page which we have now
posted on the website-

<http://www.joslinhall.com/justcat.htm>

This time we have a selection of art and antique-related books, including
metalware, ceramics, orientalia, glass, furniture, some forgery-related
items, and more!  I have included a short, author/title/price listing
later on in this note.

Also, don't forget that our new printed catalog- "(Almost) Ready for
Spring" is now available.  If you would like a free copy, please send us
your mailing address.

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Here is an author/title/price list of the books listed on our "Just
Catalogued" page <http://www.joslinhall.com/justcat.htm> -

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[note this list has been shortened
for posting on Rare-Books; we have about
65 new titles on our Just Catalogued pages]

Beurdeley, Michel. "Chinese Trade Porcelain" Rutland; Charles Tuttle:
1969. 2nd printing.  [05465] $125.00

(Biringuccio) "The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio, translated from
the Italian with an introduction and notes by Cyril Stanley Smith & Martha
Teach Gnudi" New York; Basic Books Collector's Series in Science: 1959.
[05449] $75.00

Boultinghouse, Marquis. "Silversmiths, Jewelers, Watch & Clock Makers of
Kentucky, 1785-1900" Published by the author: 1980.  [05418] $250.00

    A Copy Owned by 'Father Himalaya',
    the father of Solar Energy in Portugal-

Charleton, Arthur G. "Tin: Describing the Chief Methods of Mining,
Dressing & Smelting it Abroad. With Notes upon Arsenic, Bismuth and
Wolfram" London; E. & F.N. Spon: 1884.  [05444] $200.00

Cortes, Antonio. "Hierros Forjados" Mexico; Talleres Graficos del Museo
Nacional de Arqueologia, Historia y Etnografia: 1935.  [05404] $175.00

Dubbe, B. "Tin en Tinnegieters in Nederland" W. de Haan N.V. Zeist: 1965. 
[05446] $85.00

Entwisle, E.A. "Wallpapers of the Victorian Era" Leigh-on-Sea; F. Lewis:
1964. Edition limited to 500 copies.  [05406] $250.00

[French Wine] "Revue du Vin de France. Technical and topical information,
defense of quality" Paris; 1968-1971.  [05442] $60.00

Hare, Maurice Evan (ed.). "The Rowley Poems by Thomas Chatterton reprinted
from Tyrwhitt's Third Edition" Oxford; Clarendon Press: 1911.  [05379]
$100.00

Holgate, David. "New Hall and Its Imitators" London; Faber & Faber: 1971.
[05385] $150.00

Lang, Andrew. "Portraits and Jewels of Mary Stuart" Glasgow; James
MacLehose and Sons: 1906.  [05467] $200.00

Maiuri, Amedeo. "La Casa del Menandro e il suo Tesoro de Argenteria" Rome;
La Libreria dello Stato: [1933]. Limited to 480 sets.  [05474] $1250.00

Squibb, Edward R. "Proposed Legislation on the Adulteration of Food and
Medicine" New York; G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1879.  [05475] $125.00

Stokes, John W. "70 Years of Radio Tubes and Valves. A Guide for
Electronic Engineers, Historians and Collectors" Vestal Press: 1982.  
[05408] $85.00
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You will note that we headlined one of those entries "A Copy Owned by
'Father Himalaya', the father of Solar Energy in Portugal".  Behind this
line is one of those fascinating stories I sometimes come across when
researching books.  Manuel Antonio Gomes 'Himalaya' [1868-1933(?)],
"Father Himalaya", is considered to be the father of solar energy in
Portugal, and a visionary pioneer in the field of renewable energy. After
taking Holy Orders in the Society of Jesus he studied natural sciences,
physics, chemistry, mathematics and astronomy, and traveled to France
where he studied with the noted chemist Marcelin Berthelot.

In 1899 he was granted a patent by the French government for a device to
produce heat by focusing the sun's rays; in 1900 he constructed a test
device in the Pyrenees and attained a temperature of 1100 degrees
centigrade. In 1902 an experiment in Lisbon attained 2000 degrees, and he
made a final, startling demonstration of the power of such a device at the
St. Louis Exposition in Missouri 1904. There he constructed his
"Pireliofero", a 3-story high parabolic mirror mounted on a monstrous iron
framework which focused sunlight on an oven mounted at the top of the
structure. The oven reached a temperature of 3500 degrees, melting a test
chunk of basalt, and Father Himalaya won a Grand Prize for his efforts.

He promoted other forms of renewable energy as well, including tidal
energy and hydroelectric power, wind power, and geothermal power. Alas,
there was plenty of cheap coal and oil available, and his work was
generally ignored and forgotten.

Father Himalaya retired to become chaplain at Viana Castle, a charity
home, where he died at the age of 65. His work has excited interest in
Europe in recent years, and his ideas have only lately attained a measure
of the respect which eluded them in his lifetime.

We found a picture of "Father Himalaya" and his 1904 "Pireliofero"-
<http://www.joslinhall.com/images03/th-05444a.jpg>

All this and more on our Just Catalogued pages-
<http://www.joslinhall.com/justcat.htm>

Have fun!

-Forrest

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