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Published by London & Edinburgh : W & R Chambers, 1869, 1869
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. viii, 832, 32 pp. ; 27 cm ; LC: AP4; Dewey: 052 ; OCLC: 5097262 ; year's compilation of issues of the 1869 Chambers's journal of popular literature, science and arts, bound in 1/2 b lack leather with marbled papers and tooled leather edges with gold lettering and bands ; worn ; 19th century bookplate of the Lending Library of the Sisters of Mercy's Convent of Mercy, Kinsale ; foxing ; stamp of the Rev. J. Alcock, Archdeacon of Waterford, Ireland ; signature of the Very Rev. John Kelleher, Chancellor of the Diocese of Cork, Ireland ; Partial Contents: Old London Life - A Pack of Demons - Polar Ice - The Month : Science and Arts - A Modern Alphabet Inventor (Eliot's Indian Bible) - The Moon - The People of the Parana - St. Paul's - Epitaphs - The Royal Marines - The Domestication of the Ostrich - The Bastille - The Luur (Norway) - The First Coiffeur of His Age (M. Gastelet) - The Last Record of Lord Byron - Little Venice - Pawnbroking in Scotland - Savages I have Known : The Negro - Spectrum Analysis - Medieval Bookbinding - Francois Rabelais - The Sea-Kings at Home (Norway) - River-side London - Brotherhoods - Submarine Treasure Ventures (The Vigo) - The Land of the Diamond (Brazil) - A Revolutionized Trade (Dairymen) - Railway Communication Across the Channel - The Red River and the Fertile Belt (Canada) - The Sublime Society of Beefsteaks - Comets - Jack Haviland - The Diary of an Elizabethan Barrister (John Manningham) - Poddins on the New Velocipede - At Tattersall's - Ours in Japan - Savages I Have Known : The Half-Blood - Playing the Mole (London Tunnel) - A Yorkshire Coal-Cellar - Nonesense-Verses - King Arthur and His Times - Photographic Wonders - The French Atlantic Telegraph Expedition - Some Views of a Unit : The Royal Cherry-Stones - A Peep at Pompeii - The Regalia - A Doomed People (Rapanui) - Better Railway Carriages - Byron at Work - Wrecks - French Bank-Notes - The Hill-Tribes of Chittagong (Bengal) - The Prisoners of President Lopez (Brazil, Paraguay) - Our Ironclad Navy - The Mystery of Belgravia - The Central Caucasus - Walter Scott at Work - Life in a Log-Hut - A Medieval Banquet - America's New Highway (Pacific Railroad) - Field-Gardens for Labourers - Sailor's Shanties and Sea-songs - Drawn from the Life : Hunting Extraordinary - The Bulgarian Rayahs - Monograms - On Her Majesty's Service : Special - Keeping Christmas - A Cheap Market - A Secret of the Sea - Begumbagh : Episode of the Indian Mutiny ; G. Book.
Published by Independently published, 2019
ISBN 10: 1075009790ISBN 13: 9781075009792
Seller: Save With Sam, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Brand New!.
Published by Lansing : W. S. George, State Printers and Binders, 1874, 1874
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 526 pp. ; ill. ; 24 cm ; LCCN: sf 83-3063 ; LC: SB21; Dewey: 630.62774 ; OCLC: 8464264 ; Pages 1-83 have been used as a period scrapbook [!], into which are pasted various poems from the 1870's-90's clipped from newspapers such as The Detroit Commercial, The Detroit Post & Ledger, and The Berrien County Journal (April 10, 1880) ; Included are A pasted illustration, "St. Louis High School", poems include Eventide / Julia C. R. Dore -- Always mine -- Fatherly Advice -- If I Could Know -- In the Old Church Tower / T. B. Aldrich -- At Last / J G Whittier -- Woman Gossip -- Making the Best of It -- Bob of the Golden City / Will S. Hayes -- Beautiful Things / Ella P Allerton -- Growing Old -- The Kaiser and the Little Maid -- Reward of Endeavor / Julia Ward Howe -- We Must All Scratch / Frank S Bondy -- The Countersign / Margaret Eytinge -- Which one? -- The Honest Farmer -- Our Frank / M. S. A. -- The Love of Long Ago / Ella Wheeler -- Fathers Growing Old, John -- Somebody's Mother -- Comparison / Annie E Fisher -- To My Mother -- Falsely Accused -- Dear John -- Taking the End of the Seat -- It May Be Your Turn Next -- Pomp's Defense -- Cliff Roses / F. W. B. -- Little Mabel / Alice Van Orden -- The Printer's Toil / Scott -- A Pintin' To-day? -- Heartless / Medora Clark -- The Dead Child and the Mocking-Bird / Paul H Hayne -- Mother's Way -- Buddha and the Hindoo Mother / Edwin Arnold -- I Have Drunk My Last Glass / Louisa S Upham -- Brevities and Oddities A Temperance Curiosity -- Of All -- Dr. Holland's Last Poem -- The Two Gates, Only! -- The Country Schoolmaster -- Leap Year -- A Nibble -- A Swarm of Bees -- Do Your Best / M. Ella Cornell -- Annie and Willie's Prayer, A Christmas Story / Sophia P. Snow -- How the Conductor Took the Fare -- Laugh and Grow Fat -- I am So Tired of Being Me -- A Laugh is Worth a Hundred Groans / Josephine Pollard -- A happy New Year / Spirit May -- Just Here -- Coming Home / M. T. Shelhamer -- He Loveth When He Chasteneth / Lizzie Fenner Baker -- They Shall Revive As the Corn / Annie Mills -- True Courage -- Better than Gold / Father Ryan -- Lift Up the Temperance Banner / Rev. Charles Garrett -- Little By Little / J. Albert Wilson -- No Time Like the Present / Phoebe Cary ; articles in the report include: Discussions of the Peninsula Farmers' Club--Fungus not the Cause of Disease, the advantages of top grafting -- Insects injurious to strawberries / A J Cook -- Garden and Wild FLowers / Mrs. Jeremiah Brown -- New Varieties of Fruit (Peaches: Hill's Chill, The Barnard, Honest John, Keyport White, Foster; Paw Paw Apple, Romanite Apple) / T T Lyon -- Fruit Growing at South Haven / J E Bidwell -- Fruit Culture at Grand Traverse / Stanford Howard -- Birds / L H Bailey -- The Necessity of a State Entomologist / H A Shaw -- Orchard Drainage / A T Linderman -- Of One Hundred, How Many? / T T Lyon, James D Husted, A J Cook, Edward Bradfield, R F Hathaway, H E Bidwell -- Pear Blight / P J Berckman, Josiah Hoopes -- The State Fair 1873 -- Orchards and Vineyards of Michigan / S Q Lent -- A Grand Traverse Fruit Farm / T T Lyon -- A Kent County Peach Orchard and Grapery / Albert Baxter -- Flowers at the Michigan State Fair / James Vick -- Old Mission Orchards / WHC Lyon -- Early History of Horticulture in Michigan / JC Holmes -- The Importance to the Fruit Culturist of Shelter or Protection / TT Lyon -- Western New York Horticultural Society / PC Reynolds -- Lecture on Entomology / CV Riley -- The Bird Question / Wm. LeBaron -- Agressive Parasitism of Fungi / TJ Burrill -- Peaches of the Michigan Peach Belt / AS Dyckman -- Horticulture for the People / JJ Thomas -- Insects Injurious to House Plants and Shubbery / AJ Cook -- The Apple Tree / WJ Beal -- Grape Culture / Artimus Sigler -- The Honey Locust as a Hedge Plant / JW Helme ; 14 black and white illustrations ; page 203/204 creased ; because of the scrapbooking, condition is FAIR. Book.