1845 SOBRE LA NEGOCIACION DEL HUANO POR EL CONTADOR BY CARRILLO GUANO PERU *

Description: I have here for sale an article entitled MEMORIA SOBRE LA NEGOCIACION DEL HUANO por el Contador encargado de la Cuenta de Ella by D Pedro Jose Carrillo. Escrita por disposicion del Ministro de Estado y del Despacho de Hacienda. Published in Lima, Peru in 1845 by Monterola. Huano or Guano is a certain type of dung or fertiliser found on the Huano Islands which were part of the Peruvian state and this document details the trading and negotiation of the fertilizer to other countries. There is a large fold-out table at the back showing the sales of the fertilizer between 1842 and 1845. There is another smaller table showing the vessels by name and how much tonnage of the fertilizer was transported and sold. In the 1840s, guano became a prized agricultural fertilizer and source of saltpeter for gunpowder. The U.S. began importing it in 1843 through New York. By the early 1850s, the U.K. imported over 200,000 tons a year, and U.S. imports totaled about 760,000 tons. The "guano mania" of the 1850s led to high prices in an oligopolistic market, government attempts to control prices, fear of resource exhaustion, and eventually the enactment of the Guano Islands Act of 1856 in August 1856. The Act authorizes U.S. citizens to take possession of unclaimed islands containing guano for the U.S., empowered the President to protect such claims with military intervention, and established jurisdiction of criminal offenses under the laws of the United States within the territories thus claimed. This encouraged American entrepreneurs to search and exploit new deposits on tiny islands and reefs in the Caribbean and in the Pacific. 17 page report plus 2 pages of tables. Marks to the front page and small holes to the pages (bookworm?) which go through all the pages so some minor loss of text. Folds and holes to the fold-out table also. 28 x 19 cm. We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy. Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday. pages

Price: 29.99 GBP

Location: Whitegate, Cheshire

End Time: 2024-11-21T14:38:26.000Z

Shipping Cost: 31.91 GBP