Search Results: Titles starting with N from Legacy Books

Bryn Mawr: Bryn Mawr College Library Book. VG+. Soft cover. 1986, ix, 54pp, profusely illustrated. Stiff self wrps. VG+. An exhibition catalogue which includes 76 items by and about Housman from Adelman's collection. .

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp215-225. Removed from SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, VOLUME 42, 1912. VG. In plastic report covers. A list of 167 species of the genus Osmia, found in North America, of which 60 were in the collection of the United States National Museum. I imagine many more have been collected by now. .

Westminster: Willow Bend Books Book. Very Good. Soft cover. (2000), facsimile reprint of the 1890 edition, 118pp, index. Wrps. VG+. All white male inhabitants of the state of Pennsylvania, except those in the counties of Bedford and Westmoreland, had to take a religious oath and the following oath of allegiance by July 1, 1777, and in the excepted counties by August 1: "We, the subscribers, do swear (or affirm) that we renounce and refuse all allegiance to George the Third, King of Great Britain, his heirs and successors, and that we will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a free and independent State, and that we will not at any time do, or cause to be done, any matter or thing that will be prejudicial or injurious to the freedom and independence thereof, as declared by Congress, and also that we will discover and make known to some one justice of the peace of the said State, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which we now know or hereafter shall… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1975, ix, 411pp, index. The very bottom of the covers have been wet, causing some bleeding through to the inside of the dust jacket, none on the pages, else G+ in G+ dj. Paraphrased form the dj: The author apparently had a life long fascination with Man as Name Giver. He examines the reasons for naming places from a human dimension, rather than by territory, language or type of place. For example, he is interested in who gave a place a particular name and why. And he studies how the name may have changed and why. He views a name not merely as a linguistic relic but as the enduring evidence of some very human activity-its origin subject to investigation and in many cases actually recorded in some journal or logbook. A very interesting study, which encompasses the whole world of place-names..

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1935, 349pp, index, illustrated, genealogy chart, bibliography. Lightly worn, spine dull, a few droplet stains, else G. The life of a Colonial belle set against the background of the Revolution and the early days of the Republic. The journals give us intimate glimpses of the great figures and families of America - the Lees, the Shippens, the Livingstons. Among the guests of the Shippens are General and Mrs. Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson..

New York : The Century Co. Book. Illus. by Edward Potthast. VG. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1902). First Edition, 12mo, 132pp, illustrated with eight drawings by Edward Potthast. Light wear, previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf, else G+. The author, a native of Louisiana, was born in 1849 and died in 1917. This is the story of a black family in post Civil War days, written largely in Negro dialect. .

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp443-460, plus eight plates. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1956. VG. In plastic report covers. From the introduction: "The Caribees, the Lesser Antilles, the Windward and Leeward Islands! - names to conjure with. This cradle of many of our hurricanes and much of American history is equally fascinating from a purely scientific point of view. It is still a happy and fruitful hunting ground for the naturalist, and so it proved to be during the recent Smithsonian-Bredin Expedition to the Caribbean, sponsored and led by J. Bruce Bredin, of Wilmington, Del. The Smithsonian has long been interested in these islands 'adjacent' to our continent and has welcomed all opportunities such as the present one to learn more about them and their inhabitants - animal, plant, and human, present and past, recent and fossil." .

Cincinnati: Published by the author Book. Good. Soft cover. ca 1858, pp485-510. Removed from a damaged copy of ADVENTURES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICANS. A SERIES OF NARRATIVES ILLUSTRATING THEIR HEROISM, SELF-RELIANCE, GENIUS AND ENTERPRISE. Occasional light foxing, else G. In report covers..

Cincinnati: Published by the author Book. Good. Soft cover. ca 1858, pp383-410, one illustration by F. O. C. Darley. Removed from a damaged copy of ADVENTURES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICANS. A SERIES OF NARRATIVES ILLUSTRATING THEIR HEROISM, SELF-RELIANCE, GENIUS AND ENTERPRISE. Occasional light foxing, else G. In report covers. This expedition, taking place several years after Texas had won its independence, was partly in response to the so called Dawson Massacre. The members of the Mier expedition were captured and sentenced to die by Santa Ana, but later only one out of ten were executed after the famous Black Bean lottery, in which those drawing black beans, which comprised one black bean for ten white ones, were executed and those drawing white were not. This incident was the subject of a famous painting, titled THE DRAWING OF THE BLACK BEAN by Frederic Remington..

Old Saybrook: Konecky & Konecky Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1990), xliv, 274pp, illustrated. VG in VG dj. Edited by Clark and Mary Lee Spence. See Howes 62 for the first edition of 1871. Fanny Kelly was a member of a wagon train from Geneva, Kansas to Idaho, in 1864, when she and her companions were confronted by a band of about 250 Sioux Indians. Three men were killed, two were wounded, and Fanny and her daughter and another woman and child were captured and taken into captivity for five months..

Cincinnati: Published by the author Book. Good. Soft cover. ca 1858, pp299-356, one illustration by James Hamilton. Removed from a damaged copy of ADVENTURES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICANS. A SERIES OF NARRATIVES ILLUSTRATING THEIR HEROISM, SELF-RELIANCE, GENIUS AND ENTERPRISE. Occasional light foxing, a minor tape repair to the margin of the illustration, else G..

Chicago: The Newberry Library Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1928, vii, 49pp, index. Stiff wrps. G+. This is a supplement to the first list of the books of the Edward E. Ayer Collection published in 1912. That list contained 339 titles, this supplement has 143. It contains different editions of some of the narratives of the first list, but it also contains the narrated experiences of 78 captives who were not named in the first list..

Louisville: The Filson Club Book. Good. Soft cover. pp201-209. Removed from THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY, Vol 37, No. 3, July, 1963. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. VG. An account of a remarkable Indian captivity of five years duration in northern Ohio. James Smith, who later settled in Kentucky, was eighteen years of age when captured. His experiences were set down in one of the rarest of all Kentucky books: AN ACCOUNT OF THE REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES IN THE LIFE AND TRAVELS OF COL. JAMES SMITH. DURING HIS CAPTIVITY WITH THE INDIANS IN THE YEARS 1755-1759, first printed in Lexington, Kentucky in 1799..

Cincinnati: Henry Howe Book. Good. Soft cover. ca 1858, pp261-298. Removed from a damaged copy of ADVENTURES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICANS. A SERIES OF NARRATIVES ILLUSTRATING THEIR HEROISM, SELF-RELIANCE, GENIUS AND ENTERPRISE, edited by Henry Howe. Occasional light foxing, else G. In report covers..

Cincinnati: Published by the author Book. Good. Soft cover. ca 1858, pp571-598, one illustration by E. J. Whitney. Removed from a damaged copy of ADVENTURES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICANS. A SERIES OF NARRATIVES ILLUSTRATING THEIR HEROISM, SELF-RELIANCE, GENIUS AND ENTERPRISE. Occasional light foxing, else G. In report covers. The plight of the homeless and downtrodden in areas such as the infamous Five Points, and the attempts to help them..

Tennessee Book Co. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1959), xv, 182pp, index..

N.P.: Self Published Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 2nd Edition. (1974), 221pp. VG in VG dj. Limited to 300 copies numbered 300 through 600, this number 328, signed by the author. The author was a student in Dr. Crabb's Creative Writing class. Crabb (1883-1980), was born in Plum Springs, Kentucky and attended college and taught for awhile in public schools in his native state. He received his Ph.D. at Peabody College, in Nashville, Tennessee, where he taught from 1927 until 1950. One of his students at Peabody was Jesse Stuart, who wrote the foreword to this book. Crabb wrote seven historical novels dealing with the Civil War, one about the founding of Nashville, one about Andrew Jackson, and one about Henry Clay..

Kent State University Press Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1975), xi, 209pp, index. VG+. West is best known for his novels MISS LONELYHEARTS and THE DAY OF THE LOCUST. Nine months after he married Eileen McKenney, they were both killed in an auto accident in El Centro, CA. He was 37 years old..

Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1987), xiv, 395pp, index, five portraits of Shaler, exhaustive bibliography. VG+ in VG+ dj. A volume in the History of American Science and Technology Series. The first book length study of the man who served as Harvard's Professor of Geology and Paleontology during the Darwinian era. Shaler, (1841-1906), born near Newport, Kentucky, was a student of Louis Agassiz and had a successful multi-faceted career as geologist, geographer, educator, humanist, and poet. He published several Kentucky Geological Surveys in his position as Kentucky state geologist. He also wrote a history of the state, Elizabethan verse plays, and works on natural history, and transportation..

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Good. Soft cover. pp589-600. Removed from the Smithsonian Annual Report for 1894. VG. In report covers. Also includes: SUMMARY OF PROGRESS IN ANTHROPOLOGY, by Otis Tufton Mason, pp601-629. From Brinton's article: "I desire to emphasize the fact that the anthropologist will never fully comprehend the science which he professes to follow, will never attain the preception (sic) of its whole significance, if he omits from its study, as not pertaining strictly to it, any influence whatever which bears upon and modifies in any direction the evolution of the human species. This the nation does with a directness and a potency which can not be misunderstood or called in question." The article by Mason reviews some of the important advances made in the field during the year 1893.