CLIVE FARAHAR Catalogue 60

100. LOEWE (Michael) Records of Han Administration, Cambridge, 1967 48 plates, 2 vols
roy.8vo, dw [CF5272] £175
101. LONG LANCE (Chief Buffalo Child) Long Lance, New York, 1928 FIRST EDITION,
frontis portrait and 7 other plates of photographs, 8vo, no dw. some slight wear, [11086] £65
An extraordinary and often reprinted work about the Canadian Indians of the North West, it is rare to
find the First Edition.
102. LORRAINE (J. Herbert) Aro Ishor-ke Doying-e “The Story of the True God,” in the Arbor-
Miri Language, The American Baptist Missionary Union, and the Calcutta Christian Tract and
Book Society, Madras, 1908 cr.8vo, original leather, worn and spine defective, [12675] £40
Lorraine is described on the title as “One of the Pioneer Missionaries to the Lushais and Abors”, hill
tribes, the former living in the land between Burma and Bengal, the latter in part of the Himalayas
between Upper Assam and Tibet.
103. LOTI (Pierre) Madame Prune, translated from the French by S.R.C. Plimsoll, [1919]
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 8 coloured plates by Mortimer Menpes, some occasional faint
spotting, original decorative cloth, [CF4546] £25
104. LOTI (Pierre) Vers Ispahan, Paris, 1936 stencil coloured illustrations, some full page by H.
Deluermoz, sm.4to, original printed wrappers, Limited to 1120 copies, [11006] £95
HEALTH OF SEAMEN
105. LOWNDES (Thomas) Brine-Salt Improved: The method of making Salt from Brine, shall be
as good or better than French Bay-Salt. In a Letter To the Right Honourable the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty. Dated 8 July, 1746, S.Austen, London, 1746 40 pp. 4to.
boards, modern calf spine [12558] £550
Not in Church, not in Sabin.
“This Treatise not only contains the method of making Salt from Brine, in a Letter &c. but likewise in a
Letter from the Lords of the Admiralty to the College of Physicians, and their Answer; also several
Accounts and Estimates, shewing what quality of foreign Salt is annually consumed in Great Britain
and Ireland, and in our American Fishery, with other proper Testimonies.” Advertisement on the verso
of the title. Cheshire’s traditional fine white salt was not thought suitable for fishery use and coarse sea
salt was preferred. In the 1740’s the Admiralty was still buying French Bay Salt for provisioning the
Navy even when at war with France. The problem was investigated by Thomas Lowndes of Middlewich
and in his “Brine Salt Improved” of 1746 and “Letter of Advice to Brine Salt Proprietors” of 1748 he
recommends a method of open pan operation that, in effect, became the common pan method of open
pan working. Basically this was slow evaporation at lower temperatures in larger pans.
Thomas Lowndes also makes the first reference to the use of alum as a pan additive which produced
hard clear crystals. Alum was still being added to common pans for this same purpose in the 20th
century. Lowndes also describes the growth of large pyramidal “hopper” crystals, a common feature of
the fishery salts and not observed with fine salts. Thomas Lowndes’s “ Improved brine salt” like
common salt, did not require drying in a hot house but drained till sufficiently dry on the hurdles at the
side of the pan. [Salt Association]
In this attractive pamphlet with its elaborate head pieces of gardeners flanked by cornucopoeia, baskets
of fruit, nests of birds, Lowndes was trying hard to get the Lords of the Admiralty to allow him to supply
salt made by his method in Cheshire for ships and the Fisheries Industry in Newfoundland. The
sundried brine made by the French he considered polluted and inferior in taste and preservative
qualities, necessary for the voyages of the British Navy and the Fishing Industry.
106. [MALLET (David)] Amyntor and Theodora: or, The Hermit. A Poem in Three Cantos, Paul
Vaillant, London, 1747 [ii] + viii + 92 pp. 4to, modern wrappers, printed label on upper
cover, [12562] £250