Search Results: Titles starting with E from Legacy Books

Richmond: Virginia Historical Society Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pp17-20, map. Removed from THE VIRGINIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, Vol. 54, No. 1, January, 1946. In report covers. VG. Articles from this publication may include a copied first or last page..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp571-578. 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. From the report: "As regards the history of human habitation, it is believed that at a certain period there was an age of caverns when man dwelt exclusively in the natural excavations of rocky regions. Later, when the earliest forms of buildings appeared, the circular structure was everywhere employed before those of quadrangular forms, wooden buildings before those of stone, etc. At the very dawn of evolution, man, it is thought, must have dwelt in hollow trunks of trees or in the tops of high trees. But we can make no positive assertions concerning that most remote stage of evolution." .

Arlington: The Printers' Devil Book. Very Good. Soft cover. (1977), x, 240pp, index. Stf wrps. VG. Includes over 2100 entries. From the introduction: "In this work, medicine has been interpreted in its wider sense to include nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, child care, hygiene, first aid, education, and psychology; quackery, faith cures and astrological medicine are also encompassed. Some works on veterinary medicine, compilations of morbidity and mortality statistics, and legislative works pertaining to medicine are included. In the subjects of botany and chemistry only theses and syllabi are included.".

The Century Co. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1932), xxi, 289pp, illustrated, index, bibliography. Backstrip sunned, extremities worn, else G. Includes chapters on: Portrait Painters of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries; Miniature Painters of the 18th and early 19th centuries; Landscape Painters; Historical Painters; Religious Painters; and Genre Painters.i.

New York: Tudor Publishing Co. Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. (1936), xviii, [21]-183pp, index, bibliography, illustrated. Light wear, spine faded, minor occasional foxing, else G+..

New York: Cooper Square Publishers, Inc. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1967, pp72-78. Removed from THE CIVILIZATIONS OF ANCIENT AMERICA. SELECTED PAPERS OF THE XXIXth INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS. Edited by Sol Tax. VG. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page..

Westminster: Willow Bend Books Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 2000, xi, 197pp, index, township map of Chester County. Wrps. VG+. Includes: Kennett Monthly Meeting (abstracted by Gilbert Cope); Londongrove Monthly Meeting (abstracted by Gilbert Cope); Vestry Book of St. John's Church, Pequay (copied by Julius F. Sachse); Great Valley Baptist Church Members..

London: David & Charles Publishers Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1983, 256pp, index, bibliography, profusely illustrated. Yellow highlighting on about fifteen pages, usually no more than four or five lines per page, else VG+ in VG+, price-clipped dj. The author traces the development of children's books from their beginning in the sixteenth century, through the early part of the twentieth century. A scholarly, exhaustive work..

New York: Burt Franklin Book. Good. Hardcover. (1971). Reprint of the 1912 edition, viii, 277pp, index, illustrated. Minimal underlining with red highlighter on about 15 pages, and minimal light pencil underlining on about ten pages, all within the first 37 pages. Neat pencil notes on the front and rear free endpapers, else G. The Ohio Company was the first incorporated effort to reach the great west. Its lineal successors have been: the Potomac (and various spellings) Company, 1784, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, 1826, and the National Road, 1806. The book consists of three parts: 1).The Ohio Company and Other Adventures, 1748-1774; 2).The Patowmack Company, 1784-1828, From its Unpublished Records; 3).Life of Colo. Charles Simms, Gentleman, With Selections from his Correspondence..

Columbus,: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, Book. Good. Soft cover. pp448-464. 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. The author first delivered this address before the Cincinnati Optimist Club in 1902. He was president of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio..

Danville: Danville and Boyle County Historical Society Book. VG+. Soft cover. 1966, first printed 1941, 283pp, index, bibliography. Wrps. VG+. See Coleman, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF KENTUCKY HISTORY, #2599: "An interesting history of Danville with numerous references to Boyle County, its people, churches, Centre College, and Dr. Ephraim McDowell.".

Toronto: The Canadian Institute Book. Good. Hardcover. 1899, 4to, pp1-24, one plate. Removed from TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. VOLUME VI. SEMI-CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL VOLUME 1849-1899. Small library stamp embossed on front page, else VG in report covers. Also includes CELEBRATION OF THE FIFTIETH YEAR OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE, pp641-660..

Wellesley: The Wellesley National Bank Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 1929, 43pp, illustrated. VG+. First published in 1928 and limited to 500cc, now reprinted in an edition with several new illustrations; celebrating the anniversary of the founding of Wellesley, Massachusetts..

St. Paul: E.W. Porter, 1901. First Edition thus, ix, 456pp, index, twenty three full page illustrations. Extremities worn, covers dull and/or somewhat discolored, inner hinges neatly reinforced, contents VG. See Howes A322 for the first history of Dakota Territory, 1866, from which this book was compiled and enlarged. Also Graff 89, for this edition. The author, (1832-1906), served in Congress as a delegate of the Dakota Territory. Other chapters of the book include comments on his congressional service and details of his travels..

Indiana University Book. Good. Soft cover. pp289-310. Removed from INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, Volume 48, No. 3, September, 1952. In report covers. G. Morris Birkbeck, George Flower, and Flower's cousin, Elias Pym Fordham, were travelling in Indiana in the early 1800's. Birkbeck wrote about his travels in his well known book NOTES ON A JOURNEY IN AMERICA. A man named William Faux also came to the same area in 1819 and wrote about his travels in his book MEMORABLE DAYS IN AMERICA. Additional information about these travelers during periods in which they were staying in Princeton, besides that given in their books and letters home, may be found in three ledgers of Princeton business firms of the period that are still extant: Jones and Stockwell, the largest general store of the day in Princeton, and Basil Brown's Tavern, also in Princeton..

Westminster: Family Line Publications Book. Very Good. Soft cover. (1994), 380pp, index. Wrps. VG+. Includes in-depth genealogical information on the following families: Preston, Berry, Marsh, Gary - Sharp, Christison, LeCompte, Rasin, Galloway, Wells, Parran, Ashcom, Spinke, Shercliffe, Sollers, Lashley, and Witten..

Westminster: Family Line Publications Book. Very Good. Soft cover. (1993), viii,359pp, index. Wrps. VG+. Includes in-depth genealogical information on the following families: Cecil, Cissell, Hutchison, Lewis Evans, Ismael Wright, Pile - Piles, Guy White, Orme, Doyne, A Lady Named Emma, Griffith, Greenup, Hilliard, Dickeson, Gittings, and Belt..

Indianapolis.: Indiana Historical Bureau Book. Good. Soft cover. The October, 1937, Volume 14, Number 10, issue of INDIANA HISTORY BULLETIN, pp263-341. In plastic report covers. G+. Divided into three sections: I).The Early Financial Administration of the State 1816-1835 - Early Financing; The Michigan Road; and Wabash and Erie Canal. II).The Internal Improvement Period, 1835-1852 - The State Bank of Indiana; Taxation; and Internal Improvements. III).The Period of Debt Payment, 1852-1872 - Taxation Legislation; Administration of the Finances; The Treasury System; and Education and State Institutions. A major article..

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers Book. Good. Hardcover. 1904, viii, 470pp, index, frontispiece portrait of Fox. TEG. Extremities lightly worn, else G. Fox, 1749-1806, was the English foreign minister, and leader of the Whig party during the American Revolutionary War..

Durham: Duke University Press Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1957, xi, 187pp, index. VG in VG dj. When political parties first arose during Washington's administration, there were two main rival groups. The Federalist Party was led by Alexander Hamilton; the Republican Party was led by Thomas Jefferson. By 1800, Jefferson's group was called the Democratic Republicans and by 1828 the name was fixed as Democrat. Between 1815 and 1832 a struggle arose within the Democrat party between the conservatives, consisting of businessmen, merchants and planters, and the radicals, consisting of the less well to do, primarily frontiersmen. The overwhelming victory of the radical Jacksonian Democrats in 1828 created turmoil and confusion and gave birth to the Whig Party. This book is a look at the Jacksonian movement in Ohio..