Search Results: Titles starting with O from Legacy Books

D.C.: Senate and House of Representatives Book. Good. Hardcover. 1852, 135pp, engraved frontispiece. Stamp of The Sheldon Art Museum, Middlebury, VT on the first free endpaper, no other markings. Gilt designs on front and rear covers, that on the rear cover flaking, extremities lightly worn, else G. Sabin 13562. Clay was one of Kentucky's greatest statesmen and a hero to Abraham Lincoln..

Brunswick: Published by the college Book. Good. Soft cover. 1890, 27pp, index. Wrps. Ex-lib, non circulating, with two small internal stamps, light soiling, else G. Includes brief biographical sketches of 44 graduates who had died from 1822 through 1879, some of whom had been awarded honorary degrees, among them Jefferson Davis in 1858, before becoming President of the Confederacy..

Boston: Marsh Capen & Lyon Book. Fair. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1833. First American Edition, viii, 260pp, four plates, bibliography, errata slip. With an appendix by Amariah Brigham, who founded the American Journal of Insanity. Outer hinges splitting, extremities badly worn, most of label missing, covers discolored, light dampstaining at the bottom corner of several pages, occasional foxing throughout, very bad foxing of pages 113-120, though perfectly legible, else a good working copy of a rare book. The author, (1776-1832), wrote a book with Franz Joseph Gall, in which they introduced the theory of localization of cerebral function, which gave rise to the pseudo-science of phrenology. In this book, he "elaborates on the application of phrenological principles to the understanding, classification, treatment and prevention of insanity.".

Washington, D.C.: GPO Magazine. Very Good. Soft cover. pp283-286, plus two plates. Removed from PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM VOLUME XVI. 1893. PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. VG. In plastic report covers. In 1891 and 1892 the author collected specimens of the crayfish from caves near Bloomington and Bedford. .

St. Paul: Privately Published Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 1904, 384pp, portraits. Spine somewhat faded, extremities moderately worn, else G. Harlan Page Hall (1838-1907) was the founder of the St. Paul Dispatch in 1868 and devoted most of his life to journalism. This book is based on personal reminiscences, and relates many of the political contests from the beginning of the state through the early twentieth century. From the author's introduction: "It has been my aim to confine myself to political contests; not so much between political parties, but rather internecine struggles within the ranks of the party which has been dominant most of the time since the formation of the territory of the State of Minnesota. If the Democrats do not appear as frequently as the Republicans it is because the Republicans have been so much more numerous that they (the Democrats) did not have as much to fight about.".

Washington, D.C.: Society for American Archaeology Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pp769-788, figures and tables. Removed from AMERICAN ANTIQUITY, JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY, Volume 46, Number 4, October, 1981. VG. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. Synopsis: "Obsidian production was a major component of Classic period Teotihuacan's economy, with hundreds of workshops producing cores and blades of green obsidian and bifaces of grey obsidian for distribution throughout central Mexico. Most production took place in residential areas beyond the major public structures of the city, but some of these craftsmen also worked periodically within the public precincts where their output would have been at the disposition of state officials.".

Washington, D.C.: Society for American Archaeology Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pp544-547. Removed from AMERICAN ANTIQUITY. JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY, Volume 48, Number 3, July, 1983. VG. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. Synopsis: "The obsidian hydration dating technique has been refined since its invention in 1960. The hydration process slows down as it proceeds and appears to follow the relation: hydration thickness is proportional to the square root of time. The variables that influence the hydration rate are mainly the temperature experienced by the object to be dated and its chemical composition. Methods of estimating effective integrated field temperatures and composition variables of obsidians are discussed.".

New York: American Geographical Society Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pp269-283, four figures in the text. Removed from PROBLEMS OF POLAR RESEARCH, AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY SPECIAL PUBLICATION NO. 7, 1928. In report covers..

New York: G.P. Putnam's Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1956), 310pp. Extremities lightly worn, else VG in G+, lightly chipped dj. Clark McMeekin is the pseudonym for the writing team of Isabel McLennan McMeekin and Dorothy Park Clark. See William S. Ward, A LITERARY HISTORY OF KENTUCKY: "The OCTOBER FOX deals with love of the land. The time is the last decade of the nineteenth century, and the scene is Judge Thornberry's Bluegrass land, which is doomed as a vanishing way of life. The novel has its share of horses and hunting pleasure, but it also has a dominating father whose determination is to keep his children about him and whose actions bring tensions into a story filled with a great deal of wit and charm and warmth.".

Orange: Orange County Historical Society Book. Very Good. Soft cover. (1998), 4to, iv, 52pp, plus sections A - F paginated separately, about 65pp, plus index, large folding map of the Octonia Grant, plus other illustrations. Wrps. Price sticker "ghost" at the top of the front cover, else VG+. From the foreword: "The Octonia Grant conveyed an area of land roughly two miles wide and eighteen miles long and had the Rapidan River and its South River tributary as its northern boundaries. Today, included within its bounds are such communities as Montford, a part of Montpelier Station, Somerset, Scuffletown, Dawsonville, Burtonville, the town of Stanardsville, and many well-known Orange County and Green County farms. This great land area and its ownership to about the time of the American Revolution are the subjects of this paper. Included, however, because these data have heretofore never been published, are the sales of land by the Stanard family in that portion of the grant devised to them.… Read More

Bergen Park: Published by the author Book. Good. Soft cover. 46pp, profusely illustrated. Wrps. Covers very lightly sunned, else G+. The author was a watch-maker who was interested in all the strange aspects of time. This book is reminiscent of Believe it or Not volumes but all the strange facts are about various aspects of time and/or watches often with humorous drawings. .

Paris: Pierre Didot l'aine et de Firmin Didot. Book. Poor. No Binding. 1801. Edition Stereotype, 24mo, (5.5x3.25 inches), 259pp, binding copy, has no covers and no endpapers, begins with the title page and ends with the Table des pieces. Contents G, with little, or no foxing. Volume two only. In French. Includes: ATTENDEZ-MOI SOUS L'ORME; DEMOCRITE; LE RETOUR IMPREVU; LES FOLIES AMOUREUSES; and LE MARIAGE DE LA FOLIE. Regnard, (1655-1709), was born in Paris of a well to do family. He wrote primarily comedies that describe the social corruption of his day..

NY: Philosophical Library Book. Good. Hardcover. (1945), 208pp. Very light wear, gilt lettering somewhat dull, else G+. Three long essays on Life, Happiness, and Greatness by this prolific biographer. One of his scarcer titles..

Chicago: The Caxton Club Book. VG. Hardcover. (1912), 47pp, vellum and boards, previous owner's name and address at front endpaper, else VG+. Limited to 354 copies on Tuscany paper. From opening remarks: "Let it be understood at the very outset that this is to be no listing of books in any fashion as guides for reading or for study; no cataloguing of volumes warranted to comprise the hundred best books, nor a thousand; no measurement of shelf-space to contain selected works that no gentleman's library should be without. One may be pardoned for choosing his own titles, whether they be a baker's dozen or over-run the allotted limits of a measured shelf." .

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1955, 12mo, 24pp. Wrps. VG. Bulletin 64, limited to 2000 copies. A brief analysis of the three hundred books, seven atlases, and six hundred letters comprising the Hubert S. Smith collection of ships and sailing, given to the Clements Library at the University of Michigan. The collection falls into six broad categories: 1). Naval tactics and history, and ship building; 2). Voyages and atlases; 3). John Paul Jones and the American Revolution; 4). Admiral Nelson and his friends; 5). War of 1812; 6). Disasters at sea..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf Book. Good. Hardcover. 1954, xii, 300pp, illustrated with the author's photos. G+. The author went on a whaling expedition to get his basic facts, and used that experience to enlarge on the story of the whaling industry in general and to draw composites of the men he met..

New York: Henry Holt and Company Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1959), xv, 303pp, index, illustrated. VG in G+, lightly chipped dj. The autobiography of Bill Corum, legendary sports writer for the New York Journal for thirty three years. In his career he wrote more than 10,000 columns covering every major event and sporting personality of his time. He also reported on more than thirty Kentucky Derbies, and was asked to serve as president of Churchill Downs after the death of Mr. Kentucky Derby, Matt Winn. Corum, himself, died before the publication of the book, and it was edited by his friend and co-author, Arthur Mann..

National Education Association Book. Good. Soft cover. 1925, 46pp, index. Printed wrps. Covers lightly discolored, small closed tear at bottom of front cover, else G. In plastic report covers..

Glasgow: South Central Kentucky Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc. Book. Good Plus. Soft cover. 1988, 4to, 20pp, illustrated, maps. Wrps. VG+. Includes vintage photographs and information on the seventeen earliest known settlers and their wives..

Chicago: Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1933, small 4to, unpaginated, 64pp, all photographs. Wrps. G+. A celebration of Chicago's centennial. '.