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[Printed pamphlet.] Proceedings of a Peace Meeting held at Union League Hall, New York, December 23d, 1870, For the purpose of Free Consultation on the Subject of a Woman's Peace Congress for the World, as proposed by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe of Boston.

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[Mrs. Julia Ward Howe of Boston; World's Peace Congress, Union League Hall, New York, 1870]
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Philadelphia: John Gillam & Co., Printers, No. 608 Arch Street. 1871.
£180.00

30pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. P.3 is headed 'World's Peace Congress' and lists the organisations officers, including among the 23 Vice Presidents William Cullen Bryant and the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. An extract from a letter of endorsement by Harriet Beecher Stowe is on p.14, and John Stuart Mill is among the 'absent friends' named on p.15. Five copies on COPAC, and eight copies on OCLC WorldCat.

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Manuscript copy, 1819, of the 'Specification of the proposed Catch Pier for Cullen Harbour' by the civil engineer John Gibb [for Thomas Telford]; with original signed certification by commissioners John Smith, James Gray and William Minto of Cullen.

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[John Gibb (1776-1850), Scottish civil engineer, deputy to Thomas Telford (1757-1834), founder member of the Institution of Civil Engineers; Cullen Harbour, Banffshire, Scotland]
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Specification dated from Aberdeen, 7 June 1819; certification by Smith, Gray and Minto dated from Cullen, 13 July 1819.
£500.00
John Gibb (1776-1850), Scottish civil engineer, deputy to Thomas Telford

Folio, 3 pp. Bifolium. On paper with 1818 watermark of Joseph Colles. Docketed, lengthwise on reverse of second leaf, 'Copy | Specification of Catch Pier at Cullen Harbour by John Gibb | 1819.' 46 lines of text. Clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, with two punch holes for a ring binder in margin of each leaf. The full heading reads 'Specification of the proposed Catch Pier for Cullen Harbour, agreeably to the Plan and Section which accompanies this [not present].' Begins 'The Pier is to be of the dimensions marked on the Plan and Sections, and to join the outer end of the rock.

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