George augustus strong (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

San Francisco, Cal. : Pacific Bank, 1889. Small octavo (170 x 105 mm), original stitched yellow wrappers printed in black (light staining), the lower wrapper with an advertisement for the Pacific Bank; pp. 56; early pencilled calculations to inside of upper wrapper, otherwise internally clean and sound, a very good copy. A vicious satire on hydrotherapy (a.k.a. hydropathy),in the form of aparody of Henry Wordsworth Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha.The poem itself isentitled The Song of Milkandwatha; translated from the original Samoan-Feejee by Marc Antony Henderson, D.C.L., professor of the Samoan-Feejee and South-Sea Islands language and literature.It was originally published as The Song of Milgenwater(Cincinnati: Jones, Brown & Robinson, 1856). Trove locates only the NLA copy.…