Search Results: Authors starting with C from Legacy Books

Scribner's Sons Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1908, x, 396pp, ads, illustrated. Backstrip faded, light wear, else G+..

New York: Newsweek Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1971), 4to, 172pp, index, profusely illustrated in color and b&w, simulated leather covers. VG in G+ dj. Wonders of Man series. El Escorial, the vast monastery/palace that was the spiritual and political heart of Spain in the sixteenth century, was built to celebrate Spain's victory over the French at Saint-Quentin on August 10, 1557..

New York: William Edwin Rudge Book. Good. Hardcover. 1925, 19pp. Stiff covers. Dampstaining at the bottom one inch of the spine and covers, and the gutter of most of the pages, (very light and in the margins) else G in G, lightly worn dj. A brief essay on the literary figures, the architecture, and the history of London..

Concord, Book. Good. Soft cover. 1837, 16mo, 10pp. Wrps. Light foxing, else G. In report covers. The convention was held in Saint Andrew's Church in Hopkinton. Members of the clergy who were present were Charles Burroughs, Moses Bailey Chase, James Blake Howe, Petrus Stuyvesant Ten Broeck, and Albe Cady. The lay delegates were Danford Rice, John Whipple, Joseph Robinson, Leavitt C. Virgin, Samuel Green, John Harris, and Horace Chase..

Urbana: Illinois State Geological Survey Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pp54-65, map, tables. Removed from STATE OF ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. BULLETIN NO. 23. BIENNIAL REPORT FOR 1911 AND 1912. ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT AND ECONOMIC AND GEOLOGICAL PAPERS. 1917. VG. In plastic report covers..

Pennsylvania Historical Commission, Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pp115-124, 6 plates. Removed from FIFTH REPORT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION, 1931. In report covers. Dampstained at the bottom of all pages, not affecting text. The team made plaster molds of pictographs on Walnut Island, Creswell Rock, and Big and Little Indian. Since this investigation, much has been done to preserve, what is considered a very impressive display of over one thousand petroglyphs in Lancaster County..

New York: Taylor and Dodd Book. Fair. Soft cover. 1840, 12mo, 213pp, illustrated. Light toning throughout, heavier at front and final endpapers, covers stained and/or discolored, extremities badly worn, new backstrip laid-down in a contemporary binding, else Fair; contents G. See Howes C-17, for the later edition titled: Sketches of Newport and its vicinity. The present edition not noted..

Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1987), 332pp, illustrated. VG in VG dj. I saw a strange movie when I was very young. It was very bleak and stark and all I remember is a scene featuring some neanderthal types trying to steal each other's turnips. It was only many years later that I discovered that the movie was Tobacco Road, based on Caldwell's first novel, published in 1932. The book caused a sensation and sold millions, but the critics were widely divided as to its literary merit. Some fifty five books later, the critics are still divided..

Nashville: Frist Center for the Visual Arts, (2003), large 4to, 375pp, index, profusely illustrated with more than 270 color plates. Self wrps. Near Fine. An exhibition catalogue surveying the art of Tennessee. Includes chapters on the following with essays by people prominent in their fields: Prehistoric Native American Art; Antebellum Furniture; Silver; Pottery; Quilt Making; Textiles; Antebellum Painting; Painting - 1865-1920; Folk Art; Modern Art; Crafts. A large, heavy book; will require additional shipping charges..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1964, pp267-289, plates. Wrps. Bureau of American Ethnology, River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 36..

Washington, D.C.,: Society for American Archaeology, Book. Good. Soft cover. pp190-195. Removed from AMERICAN ANTIQUITY. JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY, Volume 38, Number 2, April, 1973. Wrps. VG. May contain a first or last xeroxed page. Abstract: "Sanders (1970) has recently attempted to analyze settlement pattern and demography at the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, on the assumption that an early map called the Maguey plan represents a part of the city. A careful analysis of the physical layout of the community shown on the map, and of several written and pictographic glosses added some time after the original map was completed, supports the view that the Maguey plan actually shows an island settlement located in a region which had been expropriated by Tenochtitlan following that city's conquest of Azcapotzalco in the early fifteenth century.".

Colorado Springs: The Western Horseman, Inc. Book. Good. Soft cover. (1982), 4to, 144pp, profusely illustrated. Wrps. G. From the introduction: "Team roping, one of the oldest events in rodeo, simply evolved from an efficient method of handling livestock on open range. For that matter, the practice of heading and heeling cattle, temporarily immobilizing them between two ropes for doctoring, branding, or whatever the need may be, is still used on many ranches in the course of a day's work. Naturally, the cowboys speeded it up for the arena to make a game of it, just as they made a sport of saddle bronc riding, another contest born of necessity." Camarillo won the world championship in team roping in 1972, 1973, and 1975, the same year he won the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association world all-around title..

The Canadian Institute Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1899, 4to, pp101-244, illustrations, map, index. Removed from TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. VOLUME VI. SEMI-CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL VOLUME 1849-1899. VG in report covers. A very extensive article which includes the following chapters: Palenque and its Ruins; The Tablet of the Cross; Maya-Quiche Documents and the Material for Their Decipherment; The New System of Reading the Hieroglyphics - The Groups on the Left; The New System of Reading the Hieroglyphics - The Groups on the Right; The New System of Reading the Hieroglyphics - The Detached Central Groups; The Text and Translation of the Tablet; Another Record of the Cachiquel Kings - The Altar at Copan; The Inscriptions in the Light of Other Historical Documents - The Histories of the Quiche and the Cachiquels; The Inscriptions in the Light of Other Historical Documents - The Histories of the Oaxacans, Mayas, etc.; An Analysis of the History of the Inscriptions in the Light of Written… Read More

University . of NE Press Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1956), xvi, 283pp. VG. A biography of the author and a critique of her writings..

St. Cloud: The Journal-Press Co. Book. Good. Hardcover. N. D., ca 1907, 71pp, illustrated. Ex-lib, extremities worn, few small snags in the backstrip, else G. From a note at the beginning: "At the semi-annual meeting of the Presbytery, held at the Harrison Church, October 8, 1903, E. V. Campbell, D.D., pastor of the church at St. Cloud, was requested to undertake the work of collecting and arranging such materials of information as could be secured, relating to the organization and early life of each church within our bounds." The result, a few years later, was this book, which includes the history of dozens of the churches with photos for many of them..

London: John Murray Book. Poor. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. 1874, Volume One only, of four volumes, 12mo, xix, 448pp, leather and marbled boards. Backstrip lacking, boards practically detached, needs rebacking and other repairs. Contents VG with no foxing. Covers the period 1066-1646..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp139-152. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1921. VG. In plastic report covers. An address on the occasion of the dedication of the Warner and Swasey Observatory, Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, on October 12, 1920. In this address, the author points out five ways we use astronomy in daily life, from determining the exact time, to producing accurate maps. .

Cumberland: Privately Published Book. Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1969, 79pp. Wrps. G+. Inscribed, dated, and signed by author Browning. JUST I by Campbell and BUTTERFLY THOUGHTS by Browning are collections of poems that focus on Appalachia, generally, and Harlan, Kentucky, in particular..

Poole: Blandford Press Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1983), 4to, 191pp, index, forty eight full page color plates picturing over 1000 badges and insignia, and numerous other illustrations. VG in VG dj. An exhaustive reference. From the dj: "The soldiers of the sea - Marine and Naval Infantrymen of the world -occupy a unique and secure niche in military history, and yet, there has never before been a single book that has gathered together even capsule histories of these units, descriptions of their uniforms and illustrations of their badges and insignia.".

Madison,: Democrat Printing Co., Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pp88-116. Removed from PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN AT ITS FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING HELD DECEMBER 12, 1895. Wrps. G. In plastic report covers. The author studied RADISSON'S VOYAGES in great depth and concluded that despite some "tall tales" on Radisson's part, nevertheless, he and Groseilliers were two of the most daring explorers that penetrated our North American wilderness. They were the first explorers of Lake Superior, of Northern Wisconsin, and of Northern Wisconsin, and they were the 'promoters' of the Hudson's Bay Company. .