{"id":5028,"date":"2014-10-02T14:30:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T18:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=5028"},"modified":"2014-10-02T14:30:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T18:30:29","slug":"three-times-as-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2014\/10\/02\/three-times-as-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"Three times as nice"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired\u00a0Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

We are lucky to have found three first editions\u00a0of Trait\u00e9 du chanvre<\/em>\u00a0in different bindings as we continue to unpack and catalog items from Santo Domingo boxes. \u00a0From left to right the images reflect the covers of these copies at Houghton, Countway, and Botany.<\/p>\n

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Trait\u00e9 du chanvre <\/em>was published in 1758 in Paris and is a treatise about hemp. \u00a0Written by M. Marcandier, who was a magistrate from Bourges, a city in central France, he wrote about hemp’s history, preparation, uses, and about\u00a0new methods of cultivation and manufacture. \u00a0There is a translated\u00a0version<\/a> in English which was published a few years later in 1764 and can be found online.<\/p>\n

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The range of bindings on these volumes is just as interesting as the content within it. \u00a0Houghton’s copy was in the best shape\u00a0bound in contemporary mottled calf with the edges stained red in addition to having having beautiful marbled end papers.<\/p>\n

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Botany’s volume is similar to Houghton’s though its leather was in much poorer shape. \u00a0Though it lacked the marbled end papers,\u00a0this copy has a decorated spine.<\/p>\n

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Countway’s volume was the most\u00a0different as it wasn’t bound in leather at all, but in contemporary decorated paper wrappers featuring some sort of purple stamp\u00a0design. \u00a0Presumably at some point a custom box was made for it mimicking the original design with purple dots decorating\u00a0the box housing.<\/p>\n

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To look at any of these volumes of Trait\u00e9 du chanvre<\/em> \/par M. Marcandier.\u00a0A Paris :Chez [J.L.] Nyon, Quai des Augustins, \u00e0 l’Occasion,MDCCLVIII [1758] from the libraries mentioned above look in\u00a0the Hollis catalog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Alison Harris- Santo Domingo Project Manager, Ryan Wheeler- Rare Book Cataloger at Houghton, Joan Thomas- Rare Book Cataloger at Countway, and\u00a0Chris Robson of the Botany Libraries for contributing to this post.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired\u00a0Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. We are lucky to have found three first editions\u00a0of Trait\u00e9 du chanvre\u00a0in different bindings as we continue to unpack and catalog items from Santo Domingo boxes. \u00a0From left to right the images reflect the covers of these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72745,72744,64929],"tags":[72635,128183,72720,128184,128182],"class_list":["post-5028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-countway-library-harvard-medical-school","category-harvard-botany-libraries","category-houghton-library","tag-bindings","tag-hemp","tag-julio-mario-santo-domingo-collection","tag-m-marcandier","tag-traite-du-chanvre"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-1j6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5028"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5124,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions\/5124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}