Search Results: History: American from The Owl at the Bridge

Four bookseller catalogues. Reese: 58, 329 items, a few photos; 91, 244 items, a few photos; 136, 100 items, illus. Rostenberg, 1776, 251 items, index. All have paper covers; all Good+. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0298.

x, 373 p., portraits; 24 cm. "The story of the empire builders, the robber barons and the great tycoons, who, in their search for wealth and power, changed the course of history"--Jacket subtitle. Includes material on Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John Davison Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Daniel Drew, Jim Fisk, Edward Henry Harriman, Du Pont family, John Pierpont Morgan, Andrew W. Mellon...." Stock#48025.

x, 373 p., portraits; 24 cm. "The story of the empire builders, the robber barons and the great tycoons, who, in their search for wealth and power, changed the course of history"--jacket subtitle. Includes material on Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John Davison Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Daniel Drew, Jim Fisk, Edward Henry Harriman, Du Pont family, John Pierpont Morgan, Andrew W. Mellon...." Stock#48025.

"In this book one sees how democratically oriented political movements and their opposition were polarized and brought into one great conflict, throughout Europe and America, by the wars of the French Revolution from 1792-1800." "Second Printing 1965." 584 pages; 24 cm. Dust jacket has minor wear & rubbing; Very Good. Stock#ofc0594.

Spanish, French, Portuguese, and English histories; a list of bibliographies of American history at the end. Typed exhibition catalogue, 13 pages stapled; Good. Stock#ofc0506.

American Heritage Publishing Co., NY, 1971. Contents include: Disarmament Conference; Literary Boston; Elbert Hubbard; Stillwell in China; DDT; passing the Constitution. Hard Cover. 112 pages, illus. incl. color; 29 cm. Stock#40162. Vg.

Glenview, IL, Scott, Foresman [1973]. Soft Cover. 156 p., index, maps, diagrams; 23 cm. Introduction to Archaeology in the Americas. Stock# 30,845. Good, but much ink underlining/ wrappers. Spanish American history. Indians

Single issue. Contents: The Catacombs of Rome; Three of Us; What a Wretched Woman Said to Me; Songs of the Sea; The Kinloch Estate & How it Was Settled; A Perilous Bivouac; November-April; The Gaucho; Mademoiselle's Campaigns; The Swan-Song of Parson Avery; The Denslow Palace; Myrtle Flowers; Chesuncook; The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table; The American Tract-Society; Note to the Catacombs of Rome; Literary Notices. Covers detached, cover edges largely chipped away, ink blots; textblock stitching remains firm; most of spine label remains; Fair. Stock#ofc0423.

Boston, Boston Public Library, 1970. Facsimiles of 18 documents relating to the Boston Massacre, from the collections of the Boston Public Library, with an essay on the event by John Eliot Alden, the BPL Rare Books Librarian. Soft Cover. [32] pages, xviii facsimiles; 28 cm.; VG. Stock#32217b.

Bookseller catalogue dedicated to the literature, history, and society of the 1960s. 449 items; stapled in red pictorial covers; Good+. Stock#ofc0319.

Bookseller catalog offering items concerning the War of American Independence, including a manuscript map of Yorktown, a letter from Jefferson to the Marquis de Chastellux; atlases and maps; political works; broadsides; laws from the colonies and states, and histories. 165 items; illustrated; Very Good. Stock#ofc0219.

Worcester, Mass., AAS / JCB Associates, 1950 [Davis Press, Worcester, Mass.]. Soft Cover. 110 p.; 25 cm. Title continues: Exhibited at the John Carter Brown Library in the Spring of 1949, augmented by related titles from the Library of the American Antiquarian Society. Introduction by Edmund S. Morgan. Sections include House; Homestead; Farm; Staple Products; Mining, Manufacturing, & Other Industries; The Sea; Arts & Crafts; Science & Medicine; Finance, Business, & Law; Education; Welfare Agencies; Transportation; Military & Naval; Entertainment; Death & Disaster. Stock#20348x. Vg/ paper.

xiv, 287 p., 30 illus., portraits, 4 maps; 22 cm. "A short history of the rise of that historical movement which culminates in American secession from the British Empire. Includes descriptions of the individual colonies and their characteristics." New American Nation series. Stock#NEU404.

Based on a series of lectures prepared for the Voice of America. 24 short essays by prominent American historians on the whole range of United States history. xiv, 370 pages, 21 cm. Stock#Neu440.

Sections: Origina Peopling of the Americas; Era of Exploration; Founding of the English Colonies 1578-1732; Colonies & the Empire 1624-1775; Era of the American Revolution 1976-89; Erarly National & Antebellum Periods 1789-1860; Civil War & Reconstruction 1861-77; Domestic Issues from Hayer to Wilson 1878-1918; U.S. in World Affairs 1866-1918; America between two World Wars 1919-39; U.S. in WWII; U.S. & Balance of World Power 1945-74; Domestic Issues & National Politics from Truman to Nixon 1945-74; Presidents & their Cabinets; Party Strength in Congress; Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court; Declaration of Independence; Constitution of the U.S. Section 2, Topical Chronology: Expansion of the Nation; Population, Immigration & Ethnic Stocks; Leading Supreme Court Decisions; American Economy; Science, Invention, & Technology; Thought & Culture; Mass Media; Five Hundred Notable Americans; index. xiv, 1245 pages; dust jacket slightly worn, mild shelfwear; Good+. Stock#ofc0360.

Boston, Little, Brown [1971]. First Edition. Hard Cover. ix, 326 p.; 22 cm. An essay on the way children have been treated and regarded in the United States. Stock#NEU190. Professor Charles Neu ticked many paragraphs in red ink; dj good+.

xix, 324 p., 32 illus., 14 maps, 22 cm. "Presents a pageant of westward exploration, military conquest, commercial penetration, exploitation and settlement. It also considers the various types of frontiersmen, fur trappers, missionaries, Mormons, forty-niners, etc., and their types of adjustment to the new environment." The New American nation series. Stock#NEU408.

Hurley: Bookseller catalogue listing 1456 agricultural items plus 102 gardeners' catalogues; stapled in paper wraps. Jenkins: typewritten sheets, one side only, stapled together, listing 268 items on all aspects of New England history. Both Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0315.

"First published in separate form 1933 by The New York Public Library." xxii, 130 pages; portrait frontispiece; 25 cm. Hardcover; black covers in wax-paper jacket. Very Good+. "Edition Limited to 750 Copies." Stock#ofc0115.

Brochure, 25 x 21 cm., holding two folded facsimiles of letters written by George Washington in April 1789 plus 6 leaves of printed information concerning the letters: two pages by Jacob Israel & Josephine Ver Brugge Zeitlin and four pages by Page Smith "Demystifying George Washington". Stapled in red printed paper covers; edges sunned; Very Good. Stock#ofc0477.