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1878. Paris, G. Masson, Éditeur Libr. de l'Acadèmie de Médicine, 1878, 8°, (4), 143, (1) pp., avec figures et tableau, orig. Broschur; in feiner Chemise. "May be considered one of the fi… More...

1878. Paris, G. Masson, Éditeur Libr. de l'Acadèmie de Médicine, 1878, 8°, (4), 143, (1) pp., avec figures et tableau, orig. Broschur; in feiner Chemise. "May be considered one of the first modern textbooks on diseases of the blood." Dreyfuss First Edition! TABLE DES MATIÈRES : Sur la numération des globules du sang. (Fragment d'une lecon clibnique publiée par M. Dupérié. (Gazette hebdomadaire de médecine et de chirurgie, no19, p.291, 1975). Instruction pour la numération des globules du sang. Tableau pour faciliter le calcul des globules rouges. Tableau pour le calcul des globules blancs. Du dosage de l'hémoglobine par le procédé des teintes coloriées. (Extrait des Archives de physiologie normale et pathologique, no 6, 1877.) Des caractères anatomiques du sang dans les anémies : Première note. (Extrait des Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, 3 juillet 1876.) Deuxième note. Extrait des Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, 10 juillet 1876.). Troisième note. Extrait des Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, 17 juillet 1876.). Des degrés d'anémie. (Extrait de l'Union médicale (troisième série), 28 et 30 avril 1877.) Note sur l'action du fer dans l'anémie. (Extrait des Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, 20 novembre 1876.) Étude clinique sur le ferrocyanure de potassium (Extrait du Bulletin général de thérapeuthique, t. XCIV, 30 mars 1878.) Des altérations anatomiques du sang dans l'anémie. (Fragment d'une communication faite au Congrès internationale des sciences médicales, 5e session (Genève septembre 1877).). Des caractères anatomiques du sang chez le nouveau-né pendant les premiers jours de la vie (Extrait des Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, 21Mai 1877.) Sur la nature et la signification des petits globules rouges du sang... (Extrait des Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, 27 Mai 1876.) Des hématoblastes et de la coagulation du sang (Article des extrait de la Reveue internationale des sciences, mars 1878). I. Note communiquée à la Société de biologie II. Note complémentaire III. Note communiquée à l'Académie des sciences sur les hématoblastes des vivipares IV. Note communiquée à l'Académie des sciences sur la formation de la fibrine Note sur le sang du chat nouveau-né (Extrait des Comptes rendus de l'Societè de biologie (sénace du 13 avril 1878. - Gaz. Médicale, no 21, p.257)) WHEN, as a young doctor, I went to Paris for the first time, I attended a meeting of the Societe Medicale des Hopitaux de Paris on the Rue de Seine. Seated beside me was a little old man, his tanned face crowned by an abundant crop of snow-white hair, the locks falling to his neck. He had a small, stiff beard and a snub nose surmounted by gold spectacles. Vivid and piercing eyes completed this remarkable head of a true scientist. I was deeply impressed by his appearance, and it was not until later that I learned that this old man, who was treated with great respect and deference, was Georges Hayem. The story of his life hardly lends itself to the dramatics of romantice. It is earnest and straight, like that of the lives of so many seekers after truth. He experienced his allotment of great emotions, sudden turns of fortune, joys, and disappointments in the laboratory, when a hypothesis became a truth, or when a new observation came to overthrow a truth of yesterday. But we are not qualified to judge. Under a calm and impenetrable mask sometimes lurks a tormented existence; and a life of action is often but an escape from personal suffering. I do not wish to have you believe for a moment that such was the case of Georges Hayem. However, I wish to indicate how frequent it is that people take the secrets of their inner lives to their graves. Nevertheless, it is obvious that there was nothing in Hayem's life to remove it from the framework of the normal. He was born in Paris, November 24, 1841, the son of Simon Hayem, a successful businessman of the Sentier section, who had hoped that his son would succeed him. By some strange fate, Georges Hayem preferred to be a student, and, perhaps by atavism, to choose a medical career. For his family had preserved the portrait and the memory of an ancestor, Isaie Servus Ulman, who practiced medicine in Metz. Louis XV, at that time still called Louis the Well-Beloved, having accompanied the army in the War of the Polish Succession, was seized with a bad case of dysentery in Metz. As the condition of the prince as growing progressively worse, the royal physicians, overcoming their prejudice, in desperation called in the Jewish doctor. Against every expectation, the remedies of Isaie Servus Ulman brought about a cure. In the midst of the delirious joy ushered in by this news to the entire kingdom, Hayem's ancester deemed himself happy to obtain as his reward an improvement in the conditions of the Jews of Lorraine. There is no doubt that such a family heirloom was largely responsible for directing young Hayem toward medicine. Georges began his medical studies in 1861. He completed a two-year course in one year-a remarkable achievement. In 1862 he received the highest honor in the examination for externship, and was admitted as an interne in 1863. He received the gold medal in 1867 from the Academie de medecine for his brilliant work. In 1872 he was accepted as a physician in the hospitals and was licensed to practice. Seven years later he was named titular professor, and finally, in 1886, he was elected to the Academy of Medicine. He was then forty-five years old. His exceptionally rapid ascent created many jealousies and grudges. But he was not the man to bother with public opinion. He was sure of himself, conscious of his worth, and seldom, if ever, stepped aside from this line of conduct. Henceforth, his life unfolds between his service at the hospitals and at home. He used to arrive early in the morning at the Saint Antoine in a fiacre. On entering his office he donned a simple white apron and a black velvet cap for ward rounds. He did not waste time in the exchange of civilities with his co-workers. He was rough and brisk and demanded much from others, as well as from himself. The students feared him, and much courage was needed to become his interne. Paul Bensaude told me to what extent Hayem was feared. His rude brusqueness, which at first repulsed people, actually was a facade to conceal timidity, and his closest associates knew that beneath this superficial exterior beat a warm and generous heart. Their fidelity is touching testimony of their comprehension of this great man. The public liked him. The people of the Saint-Antoine district greeted him with respect. His fame dates from the epidemic of cholera which ravaged Paris in 1870, during the siege. Hayem did not spare himself in caring devotedly and courageously for the stricken. He noticed that a great number of the cholera victims died of dehydration. By intravenous injection of artificial serum, isotonic saline, or Hayem's serum, he managed to save 30 per cent of his patients, a considerable number for the time. This success brought him his nickname, Doctor Cholera. Until his death Hayem remained the master who looked upon his associates as disciples. Bensaude, of whose world-wide renown by virtue of his work in proctology I need not remind you, had, like many others, stuck by Hayem with almost filial devotion. A few days before his death, Hayem asked for a camphor injection and requested that Bensaude perform it. Hayem thanked him with this remark: "Bensaude, you still don't know how to give an injection." Bensaude was then sixty-seven years old. In 1911, because of his age, Hayem had to quit service at the Saint-Antoine Hospital. "I cannot complain," he said. "I have studied and taught medicine during a half century which shone with incomparable luster: the work of Pasteur, the ascent of surgery, the discovery of serotherapy and radiology. This incessant, tumultuous growth of knowledge, ringing discoveries, is comparable to a rising tide that keeps on rising. How small one feels during the submersion! How fitting it is to be humble!" In his private life cruel experiences were in store for him. First he lost a daughter whom he adored. A terrible malady overtook his wife. His older son was killed at Verdun. Later he lost his second son. To withstand implacable destiny, only one daughter was left him, and the affection of his son-in-law, his grandchildren, and his pupils. On the sixth floor of his house at Auteuil, Hayem furnished a workroom where, in his last years, he practiced his hobby of modeling medallions and showed his skill at painting. It is impossible in the space allotted me to pass in review all the scientific work of Georges Hayem. His publications are so numerous and diverse that we are forced to limit ourselves to hematology. But we must not forget that other fields, particularly that of gastroenterology, were strongly influenced by his research. Before launching on our subject let us mention, however, that his thesis for the doctorate was entitled "Studies on Diverse Forms of Encephaiism" (1868), and that of his two master-theses, one treats of "Bronchitis" and the other of "Arachnoid Hemorrhages" (1872). What was hematology in France before Georges Hayem? This question has not until the present had the development it merits. To discuss this question one must first descend to the obscure sources of modern medicine. Let us refer to two works, rarely cited, but which constitute in my mind the milestone on the narrow path leading out on the wide road of Georges Hayem's hematology. The first is the previously mentioned "Medical Analysis of Blood," published by Theophile de Bordeu in 1775. A pamphlet written in the style of the eighteenth century, it opposed the pretension of physics and chemistry to invade the field of medicine and to attempt to dominate it. He does not admit that these accessory sciences submit the phenomena of life to their close scrutiny. In speaking of those physicians who claimed that blood is composed of globules which can be counted (no one could object to the arbitrary count), he derided them for going so far "as to imagine bursting globules, broken globules, globules sticking together, as occurs with glass globules." And, for our edification and consolation, he adds, "Sensible men will not pay attention to this childish prattle." Thus speaks the eighteenth century, opposing with its ironic verve the destiny of medicine. This is routine, mocked by Moliere and Montesquieu, which would hold back the advent of a new era. The second work which will help us form an idea of the status of medicine before Hayem is Andral's "An Essay in Pathological Hematology," cited in the first section of this book. This little treatise, which was published in 1843, just two years after the birth of Hayem, contains in a nutshell the opinion of the period of transition from the eighteenth century medicine to the medicine of Georges Hayem, and is truly a remarkable milestone in the history of hematology; if Hayem is known today as the Father of Hematology, surely Andral deserves the title Grandfather of Hematology. His treatise is so important that I must again offer miscellaneous quotations, such as the following: Until the present, direct observation of the blood has been involved more rarely than reasoning. To cope with this problem, blood must be analyzed. Hematology will be in a position to gain valuable facts only when the blood of a great number of sick people will be submitted to a chemical investigation and examined under the microscope. . . . Because of our failure to make a preliminary examination of the physiology of blood, many erroneous assertions have been made in connection with the changes produced in the blood corpuscles by illness. I am not afraid to state that until the present no alteration in form or texture, which might be considered the result of the influence of a disease, was definitely found in these small bodies, and also that all modifications of aspect described and other modifications which were briefly mentioned result from the progressive destruction which they undergo in proportion to the length of time they are cut off from the influence of life. But aside from these considerations on methods, Andral had ideas on diseases of the blood. Witness, for example, this notion: "... And it is, in effect, the great increase in number of the red corpuscles which establishes in the blood the characteristics of plethora." Or this one: "The blood cannot be deprived of a certain quantity of its corpuscles without causing serious disturbances of the nervous system, disturbances which find their clinical expression in various disorders of intelligence, emotion and movement." And he adds what we understood only a century later: "If the facts on this order were submitted to proper verification, they would doubtless prove of extreme importance since they would demonstrate that the nervous system exerts a great influence upon the constitution of the blood. Consequently, the blood, when altered, can modify nervous action. Thus, a disturbance of the nervous system is capable of altering the blood." These sentences, which might have been written in our time, are the more remarkable when we consider that Gabriel Andral had to struggle against his elders who, he says, "rejected the microscope as useless, or feared it as a source of error." Only a century ago, we recall, there was a slogan of the "microscopic illusion," a slogan which risked pushing back for years the coming of the scientific era of medicine. In his textbook "Cours de microscopie," Alfred Donne explains in a limpid style the struggle he had to sustain to give the indispensable basis to medical sciences in general and to hematology in particular. Here is what we read-not without emotion-in his book published in 1844: For seven years I gave myself up wholly to public teaching of microscopy applied to medical studies. I founded this teaching at my cost, at risks and perils. I can draw out satisfaction from my effort since it took place in the midst of the decadence of teaching, despite the indifference of the physicians and the obstacles thrown to the way by microscopic observation itself. The success obtained went beyond what my zeal and my convictions permitted to hope. And with a just pride he added: My lectures, attended by a great number of French and foreign pupils, contributed to make the importance of the microscope understood and to win the interest and the confidence which it merits. I know what there is still to accomplish in diffusing the knowledge of the use of this instrument in medical practice, to popularize it, as it has to be. But by looking back to a half score of years, by seeing the progress of this s, 1878, 0, Copper engraving, ca. 37,5x53,5 cm (14 ¾ x 21 in) on the leaf of laid paper ca. 43x60 cm (17 x 23 ½ in). Engraved title in Russian and German, names of the artist and engraver under the image; plate number in the right upper corner. A couple of very minor tears on the blank margins not affecting the image, otherwise a very good strong impression with wide margins.Plate LIV from the famous Russian edition of the Atlas of Krusenstern’s circumnavigation in 1803-1806 (Atlas k Puteshestviiu Kapitana Krusensterna… SPb, 1813). The Atlas and three volumes of text published in Russian in 1809-1812 is the first publication of the account of the first Russian circumnavigation accomplished in 1803-1806 on the Russian ships “Nadezhda” and “Neva” under command of Adam von Krusenstern and Yury Lisyansky. The book became an important piece of European literature of exploration and discoveries and within ten years was translated into German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Swedish and Danish. The price for the Russian edition at the book market right after the publication was 150 rubles (with atlas) and 25 rubles (text only) (Russian State Archive of the Navy, f. 14, op. 1, d. 210, l. 87a). The complete Atlas (containing engraved title page + 112 maps and plates) is a great rarity and a famous desideratum for state and private collections around the world, “one of the best – if one may say magnificent – examples of Russian printing and engraving of the nineteenth century” (Lada-Mocarski, 61 and 62).The engraving depicts the boat of the local feudal lord which transported the expedition member and the first Russian ambassador to Japan Nikolay Rezanov (1764-1807) from “Nadezhda” to the specially prepared house in Nagasaki. Rezanov stayed there in September 1804 – March 1805 during the negotiations aimed to establish diplomatic relations with Japan. The mission turned out to be unsuccessful, and “Nadezhda” returned to Petropavlovsk. In his account, Krusenstern wrote that the owner of the boat was “Prince of Fisen” (lord Nabeshima, the daimyo of Hizen Province, who was in charge of the defense of Nagasaki during “Nadezhda’s” stay there). The caption to the plate says it was “Prince Tschingodzin” (daimyo of the neighbouring Chikuzen Province who was present at the negotiations with Rezanov and, like Nabeshima, was responsible for the defense of Nagasaki). Note that the engraving shows four Russian guards, Russian Imperial eagle and the ensign of Nabeshima of Hizen on the back of the Japanese boat. The engraving was made after the original drawing by Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau (1769-1857), German naturalist and artist who participated in Krusenstern’s expedition. The engraver, Ivan Chesky (1782-1848) was a member of the Russian Academy of Arts (1807), known for his masterly engraved architectural landscapes, portraits and book illustrations, including engravings for Alexander Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin”.From the first English edition of Krusenstern’s account: “On the 17th of December the ambassador was conveyed on shore, for which purpose the Prince of Fisen sent his boat, a vessel exceeding in size (being 120 feet long) and magnificence everything I had hitherto seen. The walls and ceilings of the numerous cabins were all varnished over in the most handsome manner; and the stairs, which were of redwood, were polished so highly as to have the appearance of lacker. The decks were covered with mats and the most costly carpets; the curtains to the doors were of rich stuff, and the whole boat was hung up with double rows of silks of different colours. As the ambassador stepped on board, the Russian imperial standard was hoisted and waved together with the flag of the Prince of Fisen; and his guards, which accompanied him on board the vessel, took their place on the upper deck close to the standard. The imperial fortresses were ornamented with new flags and curtains, and manned by a number of Japanese troops in their best clothes: an innumerable fleet of boats surrounding the vessel and accompanying the ambassador to the city.” (Krusenstern, Captain A.J. Von. Voyage Round the World in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805 & 1806. London, 1813. Vol. 1, pp. 272-273)., 0, ABOARD THE S.S. SAMARIA. Good. 1923. On offer is a sensational, original manuscript diary written in a souvenir Around the World Log Book for the Golden Jubilee in 1923 beginning January 24th departing New York aboard the S.S. Samaria to return four months later. The 112 page book, which has a scrapbook quality; tucked in are postcards, newspaper articles, cards, the passenger list etc., was handwritten by a super diarist, Mariana Townsend a 60 year old woman who has an excellent eye for detail and a great sense of humor that translate to the page wonderfully well. Besides the great narrative this was a historical trip in a number of ways: we learn as she writes in her wonderfully descriptive way that the Samaria was hailed: "the largest ship ever to pass through the 98 miles of ditch" having been permitted to go through the Suez Canal at the cost of $30,000. Of particular interests to Egyptologists and historians of post World War I Egypt will find extensive entries of her time there and all the more fascinating as they traveled with a noted archaeologist and then later toured tombs mere months after the discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb. She also notes the unrest: when she is in Cairo and a bomb goes off and she writes about the presence of all the English soldiers because Egypt has become so dangerous. Uniquely the ship is used as their home base and only occasionally do they stay in a hotel. An enclosed article states: "SAMARIA SAILS FOR TRIP AROUND WORLD WITH 348 TOURISTS: Magistrate Jean Norris will study women and children's courts abroad: Insurance Heads on Ship. The Cunard liner Samaria sailed yesterday for an easterly cruise around the world, under the auspices of Thomas Cook and Son. The voyage marks the golden jubilee of their tourist business. The ship, dressed in flags of the international code, carried 848 tourists, representing practically every section of the United States. Magistrate Jean H. Norris, who is taking the trip which will end with the arrival here again of the Samaria on May 31, will observe, as far as possible, the conditions under which women and children live in other countries of the world as well as the manner in which they are treated in courts. Darwin P. Kingsley, president of the New York Life Insurance Company, accompanied by Mrs. Kingsley and their daughter, Miss Hope Kingsley, was a passenger. Although he will not have the opportunity of visiting the large financial centers abroad, Mr. Kinsley said he would study conditions of the countries at the various points of call and renew acquaintances in Japan which he visited three years ago with the Vanderbilt party. Others on the Samaria were: Forrest F. Dryden, former president of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, and Mrs. Dryden; Mrs. Stanford White widow of the architect who was slain by Harry thaw; Charles T. Barney, of 4 East Sixty-sixth street; Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. De Forest, who will visit the Luxor tomb, which is now being excavated; Henry D. Pierce, of Indianapolis, who is making his thirty eighth trip abroad and Mrs. Frank C. Henderson, who has visited every country in the world but likes no place quite as well as her home in Roslyn L. I." Mariana attends a lecture by Dr. De Forest [the Robert W. mentioned previously] while sailing in the Red Sea which she describes in detail. [De Forest was the President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art In New York and Tutankhamen's Tomb had only recently been discovered in November 1922. The Metropolitan Museum was asked to help with the excavation and I believe that's why De Forest is heading to Egypt on the Samaria.] Here are some snippets: 1923 "January 25th, At Sea. My room as I felt pretty miserable till towards evening. January 26th, At Sea. Friday a rough day. I came down before luncheon and sat in the lounge. While there my chair and table suddenly pushed itself across the room together with other people and chairs but no damage was done. At luncheon, which I had with Mamie at Dr. Maitland's table, a terrible big wave which I saw coming slapped against the side of the ship and many people were thrown down and one table smashed and much crockery in the kitchen. I held on to the table and was not disturbed." "February 3rd, Gibraltar. From my window quite early I could see the African shore and then the Rock of Gibraltar in the distance. We made an early start for the shore, in perfect weather, landing on the ocean side. We found carriages waiting for us which held three so I joined a Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft of San Francisco and went about with them. We were driven through the town to the Rock where we were taken up a steep enough climb, through the passage cut in the rock during the siege of 1784 by the British where we looked out through openings cut for guns in the living rock. I could not go all the way and saw quite enough to satisfy me so sat down on a step and waited for my party on their downward way and wrote postals dated "In the heart of the Rock of Gibraltar." We saw quantities of fortifications but of course nothing that would really show us anything. All cameras were temporarily confiscated. We went shopping but most of the things came from somewhere else so I did not want them…..Returned to the ship at 1 o'clock for luncheon and started for Algiers." She visits the Arab quarters and talks about beggars and women standing in the doorways calling out to you as you passed. Then Naples, Sorrento and on to Egypt. "February 11th, Alexandria to Cairo. We landed at Alexandria about 7 Sunday morning. The city looking quite impressive as it approaches with its domes and minaret's against the palms in the early morning sky. I saw the sun rise and the city but its outline (the city) was all that I saw of it as we were put on the train close by the boat and started at once for Cairo. The country was very interesting as we passed. Very green and well watered by irrigation ditches. The water being carried by shaduf's, walked by a buffalo each who moved a shaft round and round ceaselessly apparently. There were numerous little villages which at first I thought looked like those in Southern Colorado of adobe but the difference was that though the walls were _____ in appearance, the wraps were either of palm leaves or if brick were _____. Almost every village had a large white dome in one part which marked the tomb of someone of rank, probably in the religious world. We had luncheon on the train in our compartment but served "table d' hote". About 2:30 we reached Cairo having got quiet used to the sight of camels, donkey's with their masters sitting over their hind legs and wearing long shirted garments of various colors with either feg (I think she might mean pjr which is an Egyptian word for turban) or turbans on their heads and women veiled and unveiled in black chiefly. In Cairo we were taken to Shepherd's where Lydia and I had a room adjoining Mamie's and Marian's. The hotel was as gay as I had been led to expect. Native servants literally swarmed, all men dressed either in long white night gowns with scarlet belt and fez or in dark blue and brown uniform, gay with gold braid. I never was anywhere where there were so many servants. There were white European head waiters and chambermaids, mostly French. The guests were of every shade and color but mostly white. There were very dark Egyptians of rank and an Indian barber with two Indian ladies in wonderful gowns; Spanish, French and Italians. The hotel itself if very beautiful with Moorish and Arabic decorations and the present style of clothes are so gay that there was always a brilliant one. At times we saw English officers but here was so much unrest among the natives and white who were in the city General Allenby issued a proclamation that all people in a certain district would be searched for arms that there would be a caravan around this district and that there could be no assemblages of the people. All this was because 14 English men had lately been murdered and while we were there Cairo a bomb was thrown which injured two soldiers. Mamie saw a Dr. Geaney, an Englishman, who she had employed last year and he told her that "for the first time he must go back on Johnny Bull" as through his work among the natives he saw how the British were treating them unfairly. He had never had any fear in going about even in the worst quarters but now he said for the first time since he had lived in Cairo, over 30 years, he carried a pistol. Very grand looking Lancers with pennants fluttering from their lances paraded the streets in pairs. We understood that the native police were also under the control of the English…….Monday A.M. all four went to the pyramids and Sphinx driving out in a motor over a well made road. At the Mina House we descended and Mamie and I took a "Sand Cart", a two-wheeled affair and the girls took donkeys for the trip. Not long to the edge of the desert. We had seen the pyramids from a long way off and near by they looked exactly as I expected them to look. The Sphinx had more color there being much red in the stone and although she is so battered in her features she has a quiet dignity which is very impressive. Her origin is lost in the history of time, no one ever having been able to discover anything about her……" "February 16th, Through the Suez Canal. It took us 17 hours to pass through the canal with a pilot before us and another at the stern and a rowboat which was attached to the bow but kept over on each side of us all the way through. The bill for the passage of the boat and the attendant's boats was $30,000. The Samaria was the largest ship ever to pass through the 98 miles of ditch and extra precautions were taken on the account. She reached Suez at about sunset in time to see the numerous light houses gleam forth but we made not stop. I spent most of the day in my cabin as I had something of a cold. There was great sameness in the view, the green water of the canal except when we passed through the Bittia Lakes, the desert each side except where the winds had piled up drifts in a few places. Most of it was level with no vegetation or inhabitants except once a caravan was seen. The coloring of the waste of sand over which the clouds of time cast their shadows was very interesting to some people." "February 19th, A warm night but not unbearable, followed by a warm day but by no means as bad as we had been led to expect. Spent most of the day on the upper deck. At 5 o'clock had the pleasure of hearing with a very few others, Mr. Robert de Forest talk of what he saw at Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Sukaar as President of the Metropolitan Museum he having had the opportunity of seeing "all that there was to see" there last week. He told us that when the discovery was made by Mr. Carter, the head of Lord Carnarvon's work, they were so overwhelmed that they called him to ask if they could have the services of the Metropolitan Museum force, who were working in the next valley, to aid them, and that they would gladly pay for their services. Mr. De Forest replied that the whole Metropolitan artifact men, photographers, scientists and diggers were at their services for as long as they wanted them. Mr. De Forest told in a very simple way of the treasures seen and answered all the questions simply but refused to draw any conclusions as to the history or exact dates as the objects found as they had had no time to really study them as yet. He told us that negotiations were in progress between our government and the Egyptians in which the government of England and France were taking part to settle the whole question of the rights of explorers in Egypt. Hitherto the explorer, who always worked without support from the Egyptian government, divides equally with the aforesaid government. The men on the ship are all in white today as well as the chairs. A pleasant entertainment in the evening of Indian poetry and music closing with some Indian Love songs charmingly sung by a Miss Holmes." They head on to the Arabian Sea, Agra where she visits a deserted city, Bombay, Colombo, Bay of Bengal, Calcutta, Rangoon, Sumatra, Port of Batavia, Singapore, Manila, Canton, Hong Kong, China Sea, Magasaki, Kobbe, Osaka, Tokio, Kyoto then across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii. They spend one day/night in Honolulu then head for San Francisco. Spend a few days in San Francisco and then on to the Panama Canal. That's a fantastic entry as they pass through the canal. Back out on the Caribbean Sea, the Atlantic and home to New York on May 31st. The journal measures about 6" x 9" and it's a three ring binder so there are a few pages loose from the binder but all pages accounted for. Overall G.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF, MARIANA TOWNSEND, SS SAMARIA, AROUND THE WORLD TRAVEL, OCEAN TRAVEL, GRAND TOUR, EGYPT, GOLDEN JUBILEE, TUTANKHAMEN'S TOMB, CUNARD, POST WORLD WAR I, WW1. 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Along with a rewritten and updated text, entirely new photographs and line drawings have been selected. Over 75 step-by-step stills of the tea ritual itself, featuring a number of close-up shots, give the reader a fuller visual understanding of the ceremony. Numerous line drawings illuminating the more important elements of the ceremony have been inserted for the first time, and for those readers wishing to delve further into the subject, bilingual charts of tea terms have been appended." -- with a bonus offer-- ., Kodansha, 2000, 6<

2000, ISBN: 9784770025074

Kodansha. New. 2000. Paperback. 4770025076 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, … More...

Kodansha. New. 2000. Paperback. 4770025076 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- 224 pages. Publisher's description: "In Japan, serving tea is an art and a spiritual discipline. As an art, the tea ceremony is an occasion to appreciate the clean lines of the tea room's design, the feel of the bowl in the hand, the company of friends, and a simple moment of purity. As a discipline, it has roots in the twelfth century and intimate connections to architecture, landscape gardening, ceramics, painting, flower arrangement, and, of course, Zen Buddhism. Written by contemporary tea masters, The Tea Ceremony takes a clear and comprehensive look at the sources and inspiration of this ancient discipline. The authors trace the practice from its earliest origins to the present day, considering in detail the individuals who helped it evolve. They discuss all the elements of the ceremony-including art, architecture, incense, flowers, and the influence of Zen-and show how readily the study of tea can serve as a spiritual path to greater insight and calm. Originally published in 1973, The Tea Ceremony has been revised extensively. Along with a rewritten and updated text, entirely new photographs and line drawings have been selected. Over 75 step-by-step stills of the tea ritual itself, featuring a number of close-up shots, give the reader a fuller visual understanding of the ceremony. Numerous line drawings illuminating the more important elements of the ceremony have been inserted for the first time, and for those readers wishing to delve further into the subject, bilingual charts of tea terms have been appended." -- with a bonus offer-- ., Kodansha, 2000, 6<