Search Results: Titles starting with C from Legacy Books

Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt & Co. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1888. Sheet Music, 5pp. Unobtrusive tape repair to spine, light soiling, else G..

Westminster Pres. Church Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1949), 12mo, 113pp, illustrated. A 150 year history of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Dayton, Ohio, from its founding in 1799 to the year 1949..

Stanford University: Stanford University Press Book. Good. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. (1946). Revised Edition, large 8vo, xvi, 134pp, illustrated, bibliography. G in fair only, well worn dj. From the dj: "A must for local folk and all those tourists who have been to San Francisco and ridden the cars in nervous delight along the skyline of the town.".

Lamesa: Published by the author Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1965, 4to, 17pp, printed on recto, index. Wrps. VG. This census lists the individuals with the usual eleven column format designating sex and age, and number of slaves. .

Melber: Simmons Historical Publications Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1988, 4to, 74pp,index. Wrps. VG+. From the preface: "This is one of several volumes of genealogical material taken from the Twice-A-Week Leader. The first papers on microfilm start in Feb. 1904 and continue on to nearly present times. In time to come I will be doing all of the early papers. Most of the material I will publish will be more to the interest of genealogists, but there will be items of historical interest. I am primarily concerned with births, deaths, visits, biographical data, some marriages, etc. What I will copy will be an abstract only, rarely a word for word copy.".

N.P.: N.P. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. N.D., ca 1980's, 4to, 193pp, index. Wrps. VG. Caldwell County was established in 1809; the county seat is Princeton. .

Melber: Simmons Historical Publications Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1987, 4to, 26pp, plus index. Wrps. VG. The 1820 census included six columns designating the age of the males and five designating the age of the females. .

Melber: Simmons Historical Publications Book. Very Good. Soft cover. (1977), 4to, 30pp, index. Wrps. VG. Includes eleven age columns for men and twelve for women. Caldwell County, Kentucky was established in 1809; the county seat is Princeton. .

Melber: Simmons Historical Publications Book. Very Good. Audio Book (Cassette). 1977, 4to, 34pp, plus index. Wrps. VG. In 1840, the number of columns designating the ages of the individuals was extended to eleven, with one added for those 80-90 years of age. .

Columbus,: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, Book. Good. Soft cover. pp247-271. Removed from OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS VOLUME XIV, 1905. Edited by Fred J. Heer. In plastic report covers. Some of the articles from this volume may contain a first and/or last copied page. Atwater, (1778-1867), was born in Massachusetts, and moved to Ohio in 1815. He was the author of several books on the history and antiquities of Ohio..

Baltimore: Clearfield Company, Inc. Book. VG+. Soft cover. (2001), pp65-136, index. Wrps. VG+. Excerpted and reprinted from Year Book of the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, 1917, which is #3143 in Coleman's, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF KENTUCKY HISTORY. The index includes persons listed in the "Earliest Surveys of Land in Kentucky." .

Edmonton: The Institute of Applied Art, Ltd. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. (1965), x, 246pp, index, seven illustrations. VG in G+ dj. The history of Calgary from its origin as a remote outpost of the North West Mounted Police to its development into a modern city. The author's name is apparently misspelled on the title page; it is spelled MacEwan everywhere else..

Oakland: Biobooks Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1945). First Edition thus, 4to, v, 161pp, boards. Limited to 1500 copies. Number four in the California Centennial Editions. Very light wear, else VG+ in VG+ dj. The best account of the Donner Tragedy which first appeared in 1849 in Thornton's book OREGON AND CALIFORNIA IN 1848, which is Number 74 in the ZAMORANO EIGHTY. Thornton relied heavily on his interviews with William Eddy while the latter's mind was still fresh from the incidents and scenes in the mountains..

Oakland: Biobooks Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1948, xvii, 163pp, illustrated. Limited to 750 copies. Light wear, else VG. Number 14 in the California Centennial Series. A reprint of the first edition of 1888. Charles D. Ferguson, a resident of Aurora, Ohio, describes his overland journey via South Pass and Salt Lake City, and his adventures in mining towns such as Nevada City and Gold Run. For the 1888 edition, see: Cowan, p 84; Mintz, 148; Six Guns 707; Graff 1305..

Oakland: Biobooks Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 1948, 4to, xiv, 261pp, index, illustrated. Light wear, else VG. First California Edition, limited to 1000cc. Number 16 in the California Centennial Editions. Colton was the first alcalde of Monterey under American control and one of the founders of the first American newspaper in California. His earlier book - DECK AND PORT; OR, INCIDENTS OF A CRUISE IN THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE CONGRESS - was an interesting narrative of a voyage from Norfolk, Virginia in October of 1845, to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and ending at California about nine months later. He then wrote THREE YEARS IN CALIFORNIA, 1850, (see Zamorano 80 and Howes 625)) of which this book is a reissue, relating his experiences in that state..

Indiana University. Book. Good. Soft cover. pp157-172, a few illustratios. Removed from INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, Volume 65, No. 3, September, 1969. Wrps. G. In report covers. Thompson left his home near Washington, Indiana in 1853 with a group of friends, to seek his fortune in the California gold fields. Like most, he soon became disenchanted and within two years was back home..

Nashville: Southern Sociological Congress Book. Good. Hardcover. 1912, 387pp, index, two portraits. Extremities lightly worn, else G+. In 1912, Governor Ben W. Hooper, of Tennessee, issued his call for the Southern Sociological Congress, and requested the governors of the other fifteen Southern States to cooperate with him in its development. The object was to bring together people interested in social welfare, for the purpose of studying and improving the social, civic and economic conditions of the South. The Congress met with about seven hundred delegates in attendance, representing twenty-eight states, the District of Columbia, Canada and Africa. Speakers addressed the problems of Child Welfare, Courts and Prisons, Public Health, Negro Problems, Education and Cooperation, The Church and Social Service, and Qualifications of Social Workers. This book is a record of the event..

San Diego: The Union-Tribune Publishing Company Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1968), 4to, xiv, 194pp, index, profusely illustrated with photographs by Harry Crosby and paintings by Lloyd Harting. Ex-lib, bottom corner of rear endpaper neatly removed, top edges partly inked in black apparently to cover a library stamp, tape remains on covers, contents G. The story of the beginnings and early settlement of California..

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company Book. Good. Hardcover. Repriced 11/16/15. (1963), crown 4to, 77pp, plus one hundred seventeen photographic plates. Light wear and soiling, else G+ in G, lightly rubbed and sunned, price-clipped dj. Translated by Ernest & Adair Heimann and photograhed by Michele Brabo and Serge Holtz. The Camargue, located 700 miles from Paris and 50 miles from Marseilles, is a strange region of lagoons, sand dunes, and waterways, and teems with wildlife, including wild horses, bulls, boars, and many species of birds..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp1-106, index. Removed from Smithsonian Institution PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, VOLUME XXIX, 1906. VG. In plastic report covers. A very extensive report on hundreds of Cambrian fossils collected in China by the Carnegie Institution..