Search Results: Authors starting with A from Legacy Books

Windham: Published by Executive Committee Book. Good. Hardcover. 1892, 124pp, illustrated with five photos and three steel engravings. Extremities well worn, contents G. Includes a history of the town, addresses by various dignitaries, a listing of the day's events, and letters received from those unable to attend..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp483-569, includes a thirteen page Meteorological Bibliography for 1882 and 1883. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR 1883. VG. In plastic report covers. From the article: "The second meeting of the International Committee was held at Copenhagen August 1 to 5, 1882. The principal resolutions related to the organization of an exhibit in London in connection with the International Fisheries Exhibition, May, 1883; at which the proposed meteorological exhibit should specially include whatever relates to (1) weather predictions and storm warnings; (2) the publication of meteorological data, especially the time of rainfall, the monthly mean for the preceding month, and the publication in full of meteorological observations during the year of international polar observations; (3) the preparation of daily charts of the Atlantic Ocean by the co-operation of Captain Hoffmeyer and Dr. Neumayer;… Read More

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp175-194, plus three plates, other illustrations in the text. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1913. VG. In plastic report covers. The author, born 1872, became acting director of the astrophysical observatory of the Smithsonian in 1896 and director in 1907. He completed the mapping of the infrared solar spectrum, and carried on extensive studies of solar radiation and the effect of sunspot cycles upon weather variation..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp107-120, plus three plates. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1932. In plastic report covers. VG. From the article: "Directly or indirectly our most important interests depend on the solar radiation. The sun rays keep the earth warm enough to sustain life. Variations of their intensity associated with summer and winter, and with light and day, produce climates. Slight variations of the original output of rays from the sun itself seem to be highly influential in altering the weather. All growth in plants depends upon the application of solar energy. Our atmosphere is the source of carbon, which is a principal plant constituent. The trifling percentage of carbonic acid gas contained in air is the essential food of plants, but it can not nourish them without the help of radiation. The health of animals, including man, requires radiation. The prevention of rickets… Read More

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp167-175, plus six plates. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1948. VG. In plastic report covers. "The Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution is the child of S.P. Langley, third Secretary of the Institution. Owing to his very keen interest in the sun's radiation, he had invented the bolometer about 1878, and about 1890 equipped it with photographic registration. His studies of the solar and lunar energy spectra were made not only at the Allegheny Observatory, but also at the summit of Mount Whitney, Calif., where he conducted an expedition to measure the amount of solar radiation.".

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company Book. Good. Hardcover. 1919, xiv, 373pp, profusely illustrated. Moderate wear, covers dull, contents G. A thorough history of the Merchant Marine with chapters on whaling, the transition from sails to steam, the slave trade, piracy, Arctic tragedies, the Great Lakes, the Mississippi and tributaries, the New England fisheries, and much more..

Westfield: Clark & Story, Pubishers Book. Good. Hardcover. 1870, viii, [9]-226pp, index. Extremities worn, else G. Apparently this copy had belonged to George W. Benedict, with his signature and the bookplate of the Wilbur Library at the University of Vermont. One of the letters to Mr. Bates is by Benedict, a professor at the time in the University of Vermont at Burlington. A report of the celebration at Westfield, Massachusetts, on the two hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town, October 6, 1869, with the historical address of the Hon. William G. Bates and other speeches and poems of the occasion, with an appendix, containing historical documents of local interest. Bates was a prominent lawyer and education activist..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Book. Good. Soft cover. 1875, 70pp, tables. Wrps. In report covers. Lightly soiling, else G+..

New York: Paragon House Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1990), xix, 250pp, index, bibliography, illustrated. Ex-lib, else VG in VG dj which is taped to the covers in library fashion. Presents evidence to show that Cook reached the North Pole in April 1908, almost a year before Peary claimed to have reached it..

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1971), 222pp. Saturday Review Book Club. VG in G+, lightly chipped dj. Acheson, 1893-1971, was Secretary of State under Truman, and a major figure in the country's foreign policy decisions, until the days of the Kennedy administration..

New York: Jonathan H. Mann. Volume 1, Number 1 through Volume 3, Number 4, April 1995 - April 1998. In all, 11 issues, Volume 3, Numbers 1 & 2 are combined in one, profusely illustrated, about 16pp per issue, 4to, Wrps. An inch of the btm corner of the front cover missing from Vol. 3, No. 3, with no loss of text; the top corner of the front cover of Vol. 2, No. 3, has been neatly removed, with no loss of text. Could have been removed to clip an area of insecting since there is some slight discoloration at the top of the rear cover, else all others are VG. Encompasses every facet of Lincolniana: historical articles, photos, ads, auctions, collectibles of all kinds. Indispensable for the Lincoln collector..

Columbus: The F. J. Heer Printing Co. Book. Fair. Soft cover. 1927, 16mo, 36pp. Wrps. VG. In report covers. Included are three-gaited, five-gaited, roadsters, harness, hunters, jumpers, and draft horses..

Readex Microprint Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1966), vii-l, [17]-468pp, index, folding map, (8x24in). Exlib, with minimal markings, else VG. First published in Swedish, 1759, this work presents a history and description of the Swedish community in the Delaware River valley, from the arrival of the first Swedish settlers in 1638 to the middle of the 18th century. Originally printed as Volume 11 in the Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Series. Howes 34: "Most trustworthy contemporary authority on the Swedisch [sic] settlements on the Delaware.".

New York: Morgan and Morgan, Inc. Book. Good. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. 1961, viii, 120pp, index , illustrated. Extremities lightly worn, else G in a Fair dj, which is chipped, lightly dampstained at the rear fold, not affecting any text, and with a half inch open tear at the bottom of the front cover, and sticker remains at the top of the front cover. Book 3 in the Basic Photo series..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp515-542. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1917. VG. In plastic report covers. From the article: "As creatures of habit, the attitude of mind with which we approach a scientific problem has much influence upon what we see in it or get from it. Although the essence of life is activity - the response of the changing organism to its changing environment - yet this dynamic conception of animal relations, and all that it implies, has not become as prevalent a mental habit among biologists as one might expect. While some naturalists view the animal from a more or less dynamic standpoint, they do not include a similar conception of the relation of an animal to its environment. Still others view the environment more or less dynamically but do not extend this conception to the animal, and thus both of these conceptions lack completeness and are not thoroughgoing and… Read More

Boston Book. Good. Soft cover. (1888), 9pp. Printed wrps. Light soiling, else G+. The author, 1835-1915, the son of Charles Francis Adams and the grandson of John Quincy Adams, was a civic leader and historian. In addition to numerous historical addresses, he wrote a biography of his father and Richard Henry Dana, engaged in several large business enterprises, and was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University..

London: George Routledge and Sons Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. N.D., circa 1880s, small 8vo, xvi, 400pp, index of first lines of both English and American writers, several full-page illustrations. Leather and marbled boards, with marbled endpapers. Moderate wear and soiling, still VG. Includes Americans Bret Harte, John Hay, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Godfrey Leland, James Russell Lowell, Robert H. Newell, John Godfrey Saxe, and Edmund Clarence Stedman; English writers include Robert Browning, Lewis Carroll, Austin Dobson, Alfred Tennyson, and many others..

Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc. Book. Good. Hardcover. (1944), 12mo, 77pp. Small ding at fore edges of front and rear covers, else G+ in a poor dust jacket missing sections along spine, and chipped and worn..

London: Whittlesey House Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. (1944), 246pp, index. Extremities lightly worn, else G+. Humorous commentary by the man who did the INFORMATION PLEASE radio program and who was a member of the Algonquin Round Table. .

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Good. Soft cover. pp695-710. Removed from the ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, JULY, 1889. VG. In plastic report covers. An address delivered before the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association. From the article: "This is an era of educational endowment upon a generous scale. A recently published report of Col. N.H.R. Dawson, Commissioner of Education, shows that the sum total of noteworthy educational gifts during the year 1886-87, was nearly $5,000,000. More than two thirds of the entire amount were distributed among nine institutions, four of them collegiate, one academic, three professional, and one technical." .