History: U.S from The Owl at the Bridge

The Many Deaths of General Wolfe: 1 At the Face of the Cliff; 2 In Command; 3 Deep in the Forest; 4 On the Heights of Abraham; Death of a Harvard Man: 1 Honest Sweat: The Blacksmith's Son; 2 Income: The Pedestrian; 3 Enterprise: The Janitor; 4 Debt: Skyrocket Jack; 5 Taking Stock: The Prisoner and the Public; 6 Accounts… Ler mais sobre este item

Bookseller catalogue listing materials relating to the upper midwestern states of the U.S. 964 items; paper covers; Good. Stock#ofc0312.

Two catalogues from bookseller Michael Heaston. VI, 244 items; VIII, 300 items, a few illus. Both in paper covers; both Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0304.

Two single-subject bookseller catalogs from the respected Philadelphia firm; books on and about Pennsylvania "Including Many County & Town Histories; 18th Century Imprints; 17th, 18th & 19th Century History; Directories; Indian Captivities, History, Ethnology; Educational, Social & Religious History; Diaries; etc., etc. With a Large Selection of Books Relating to Philadelphia." 1195 and 992 items; printed probably a year… Ler mais sobre este item

Farrar & Rinehart Inc. [1941; J. J. Little and Ives, NY]. First Edition. Hard Cover. The Rivers of America. Edited by Stephen Vincent Benét and Carl Carmer. As Planned and Started by Constance Lindsay Skinner [1877-1939]. Art Editor Ruth E. Anderson. x, 356 p., index, illus., map; black cloth covers, 21 cm.; top edges near spine scraped, else… Ler mais sobre este item

Syracuse University Press, 1983. 'First Edition'. First Edition. Hard Cover. lxiii, 487 p., 14 plates, index, 23.5 cm. Translated and edited by Antonio Pace, with Natural History Commentary and Luigi Castiglioni's Botanical Observations translated by Antonio Pace and edited by Joseph & Nesta Ewan. Translation of two works originally published together: Viaggio negli Stati Uniti dell' America settentrionale fatto… Ler mais sobre este item

Farrar & Rinehart Inc. [1943; printed by J. J. Little and Ives, NY]. First Edition. Hard Cover. The Rivers of America. Edited by Stephen Vincent Benét and Carl Carmer. As Planned and Started by Constance Lindsay Skinner [1877-1939]. Art Editor Ruth E. Anderson. x, 374 p., index, map, illus.; tan cloth covers, spine darkened; pencil owner’s initials; no… Ler mais sobre este item

Edinburgh and London, Oliver and Boyd, [1957]. Hard Cover. xii, 293 p. 20.5 cm. A study of the diplomacy that led to the Peace of Paris of Sept. 3 1783 that ended the War and established an independen t United States. "Bibliographical note": p. 265-273. NEU070. Vg / dj good+, spine darkened

Ithaca [N.Y.] Cornell University Press [1973]. Hard Cover. xii, 235 p. 22 cm. "Portrait of Seward as primarily a commercial expansionist, closely associated with powerful mrtcantile and financial circles in New ork City." Bibliography: p. [213]-228. NEU036. Vg / dj vg.

A Colle, Et se trouve a Paris, Chez Froullé... 1788. Hard Cover. Four octavo volumes. v.1: [4], [i]-xvi, [1]-383, [1]; v.2: [4], [1]-259; v.3: [4, [1]-292; v.4 [4], [1]-366 pages. The Florentine Filippo Mazzei knew the United States more intimately, and was more involved in American life and politics, than any other Italian of the eighteenth century. He had… Ler mais sobre este item

Brown University, Providence, R. I. [Stinehour/Meriden], 1980. Hard Cover. 83 pages; illustrations; black & white, halftone, and color plates; color flagsheet endpapers; 30.5 cm. 127 books, manuscripts, and maps, from Marco Polo and Ca' da Mosto through Carlo Botta in 1810, on the cultural interactions of Italians with America. Fine in Good+ dust jacket with two small gouges to front.… Ler mais sobre este item

Pantheon, NY [1974]. 'I hope I have shown that the slaves made an indispensable contribution to the development of black culture and black national consciousness as well as to American nationality as a whole. But, knowing that the ambiguity of the black experience as a national question lends the evidence to different readings, I have chosen… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston, Fraternity Publishing Company, G.S.D.= 1893. Hard Cover. 623 pages, illustrations, [16] leaves of plates; 24 cm. The Order was dedicated to "friendship, brotherly helpfulness, fraternal love, and good fellowship" and was for whites only. Its charter purpose was that the "memory of primitive red men will be preserved to the latest period of recorded time". This is one… Ler mais sobre este item

[Washington, D.C.? 1852]. Soft Cover. 8 pages; 23 cm. Caption title continues: his retention of public money never accounted for, his extravagant and aristocratic charges upon the treasury: Read, farmer, mechanic, labourer! Read all! read carefully! An anonymous attack on Winfield Scott's candidacy in the 1852 presidential election. As Commanding General of the U.S. Army he was being paid… Ler mais sobre este item

Contents include General Description of the Jersey Prison-ship; Our Capture; Cook's Quarters; Hospital Ships and Nurses; Interment of the Dead; Crew of 'The Chance'; 'Dame Grant' and her Boat; Fourth of July; An Attempt To Escape; Memorial to General Washington; Exchange; Cartel; Our Arrival Home. Hard Cover. xvi, [17]-167 pages, folding frontispiece; 18 cm. Bound in dark marbled boards with… Ler mais sobre este item

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania UP 1987. Hard Cover. Edited by Craig W. Horle, Alison Duncan Hirsch, Marianne S. Wokeck, Joy Wiltenburg. General Editors Richard S. Dunn [&] Mary Maples Dunn. xvii, 823 p., index, front., maps, endpaper facsimile; 25.5 cm. Contents include The Proprietor in Residence, January-September 1701; Last Months in America, September-December 1701; Battling the Board of… Ler mais sobre este item

Farrar & Rinehart Inc. [1941; J. J. Little and Ives, NY]. First Edition. Hard Cover. The Rivers of America. Edited by Stephen Vincent Benét and Carl Carmer. As Planned and Started by Constance Lindsay Skinner [1877-1939]. Art Editor Ruth E. Anderson. xiii, 285 p., index, illus.; brown cloth covers, 21 cm.; spine faded, top of spine a bit… Ler mais sobre este item

Providence, Society of Colonial Wars, 1950. Soft Cover. 19, [1] p.; 23 cm. "At no time in our history have the the values on which we have built our life been so seriously challenged." Stock#43424. Vg / soft cover.

[Duluth, Minn., 1899]. Hard Cover. xii, [1], 267 pages, [17] leaves of plates) : illustrations, 22 cm. "as told by his sister..." Pages darkened; publisher's maroon embossed decorated boards printed in gold; dampstain throughout upper inch of book. Howes W297a; Graff 4616; Rader 3617. Stock#OB241.

[Philadelphia, W. M. Scull] Non-Partisan Bureau of Political Information [1896]. Hard Cover. 660 p., illus., plates, ports. incl. front.; 21 cm. Leaders of both parties give arguments for/against protective tariffs, the Gold Standard and Free Silver, the Monroe Doctrine, Cuba, Armenia (revealing US sympathy for massacres this early), Venezuela (we were close to war with Britain over this). A… Ler mais sobre este item