[Rarebooks] F/S 1848 Madras India Imprint / Temperance

[Garry R Austin]

For your consideration we offer the following net to all and postpaid at 
$350

India Temperance Almanac And Annual For 1848 Calculated For the Meridian 
Of Madras. Madras: South India Temperance Union, printed by P. R. Hunt, 
American Mission Press, 1848. Stated Second Edition. 16mo; pp; 48; two 
small woodcut engravings; original blue printed paper wrappers; One 
closed tear on the front wrapper, a marginal note within and an 
ownership name on the front wrapper, else very good or better.

An unusual almanac, rear wrapper has a chart of the "Table Of Daily And 
Yearly Pay For All Classes Of Drinkers". This will allow the person to 
calculate just how much they are spending on alcohol by week or decade 
and the cumulative effects of this spending. Besides the standard 
almanac fare regarding dates, and moon phases are pages of Temperance 
themed articles and some medical information. OCLC locates a single 
example of this title, but it is the 1856 Almanac, it resides in the 
State Library of New South Wales. A very scarce piece and an interesting 
imprint by a very good printer.
The printer "Phineas Rice Hunt (1816-1878) was an American missionary 
printer to India and China, under the auspices of the American Board of 
Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). He saw numerous works 
through his press in Tamil and Mandarin, including New and Old 
Testaments, a Dictionary of Tamil compiled by Miron Winslow, another 
dictionary of Tamil by G.U. Pope, Illustrations of Indian Ornithology by 
Thomas C. Jerdon (1847), and Illustrations of Indian Botany by Robert 
Wight (1850)."

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