Search Results: Authors starting with J from Legacy Books II

NY: The Century Company, 1879. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 9pp extract, printed in double columns, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume XLIV, No. 264, October, 1879. A review of sorts of the books, The Life Of Albert Gallatin, by Henry Adams, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1879, and The Writings Of Albert Gallatin, edited by Henry Adams, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1879, in three volumes, both of which had recently been published. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve..

NY: Scribner's, 1889. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 19pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 16 drawings by the author, salvaged from a damaged issue of Scribner's Monthly Magazine, Volume V, No. 6, June, 1889. The highest provincial capital of Italy. Illustrations include a view of Castrogiovanni from Careo Rock, the belvedere, old Saracene House, the entrance to the Castle, peasant women, the fountain, Harvest Festival, a group in the old Forum at Enna, etc. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve..

NY: S. S. McClure, 1902. Book. Illus. by George Varian. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 16pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 13 drawings, salvaged from a damaged issue of McClure's Magazine, Volume XIX, No. 5, September, 1902. Illustrations include a view of Mont Pelee, a map of the region of Pelee, Basse Pointe, the church at Precheur wrecked by an overflow of the river, a sketch portrait of Pere Mary, the heroic parish priest of Morne Rouge, the Trois Ponts Quarter of St. Pierre, the Grand Reduit, a view looking up one of the upper gorges of the Falaise, the top crater as seem from the Trois Ponts Quarter, the night eruption as seen from the road going south from Vive toward Assier, an eruption as seen from the church at Morne Rouge, the River Blanche region, and a woman and her children as refugees. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1883. Book. Illus. by Henry Sandham. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 33pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 27 drawings including a full-page plate of the funeral of Junipero, and a small map of the coastline in 1787, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Magazine, Volume XXVI, No. 1, May, 1883. Illustrations include an old engraving of a ship for an ancient map made by a Benedictine monk about 1740, a portrait of Junipero, the old mill built by Indians at San Antonio, the Santa Ynez Mission, the San Antonio Mission, the San Gabriel Mission, an Indian booth at Pachunga in which Mass was celebrated, the San Carlos Mission, some of the windows at San Carlos, an interior view of San Carlos showing original spring of roof and curve of walls, etc., etc. These pieces would be reprinted in facsimile in 1966. Housed in protective mylar report cover. Very scarce..

Washington: GPO, 1946. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 25pp extract, bibliography, maps, plus 13 plates of animals, salvaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ended June 30 1945. Possible causes of reduction and extinction, species that have gone extinct, endangered species, species that have recovered, methods of preserving species. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve..

Washington: GPO, 1958. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. pp381 - 389pp, illus with 2 plates, disbound from the Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ended June 30 1957. Physical appearance, how it got its name, food habits, aggressiveness of bulls in Summer, birth and growth of young, defense against wolves and man, first captive musk oxen, capturing musk oxen in Greenland to send to Alaska, how the musk oxen were shipped to Alaska, a six year study of captive musk oxen, can the musk oxen be domesticated, conclusions. Author was formerly a Biologist with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service..

NY: International Magazine Company, 1908. Print. Good. No Binding. Sized about 6.5 x 9 inches, from Cosmopolitan Magazine, Volume 44, No. 4, March, 1908. Overall bright and clean, with unrelated illustration on verso..

NY: The Century Company, 1906. Book. Illus. by Jay Hambidge. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 13pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXII, #5, September, 1906. The Zoroastrian religion of ancient Persia..

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1886. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 10pp extract, printed in double columns, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's Monthly, Volume LXXII, No. 431, April, 1886. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve..

NY: The Century Company, 1885. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 13pp story, printed in double columns, final page-only was damaged and is here presented in reproduction, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XXXI, No. 1, November 1885. From the opening paragraph, "It was long past dusk of an August evening. Farmer Weitbreck stood leaning on the big gate of his barn-yard, looking first up and then down the road. He was chewing a straw, and his face wore an expression of deep perplexity. These were troublous times in Lancaster County." Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1885. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 8pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with a full-page portrait with facsimile signature, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XXXI, No. 2, December 1885. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: Johnson, Fry & Company, 1862. Print. Illus. by Alonzo Chappel. VG. No Binding. Sized 8.25 x 11.25 inches, unsigned engraver, after the painting by Chappel, generally sharp, clean, and bright..

London: John Murray, 1835. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 24pp extract, illustrated wth two full-page tables, one charting the temperature of the river, the other showing the progress of the congelation, and two folding charts, one titled Chronological Table of the Freezing and Opening of the River Neva for the 116 Years from 1718 to 1834, sized 10 x 11 inches, the other titled Table Showing the Temperature and Progress of Congelation at St Petersburg, sized 10.5 x 11 inches, faded damp-staining mostly at fore margins, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume V. The author was a British geographer and Colonel of the Imperial Russian staff. A paper read before the Royal Geographical Society January 12, 1835. From the opening paragraph, "The physical phenomena of nature, for the most part general, are found, in various parts of the world, to be greatly modified, and sometimes wholly counteracted by local causes. To study, therefore, with advantage… Read More

The Cosmopolitan Publishing Company Print. VG. No Binding. Circa 1896, sized 6 x 9 inches, staining at margins only, not affecting picture..

Washington: GPO, 1903. Book. VG. Soft cover. 21pp extract, salvaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ending June 30, 1902. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1891. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 4pp extract, printed in double columns, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XLI, #6, April, 1891. The author, b. 1842, d. 1906, was a well-respected American physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. In 1863, she graduated from the New York College of Pharmacy, thus becoming the first woman to graduate from a United States school of pharmacy. She would earn an M. D. in 1864 from the Female (later Women's) Medical College of Pennsylvania. She would later travel to France where she became the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris. She had a long career practicing medicine, teaching, writing, and advocating for women's rights, especially in medical education. She disparaged anecdotal evidence and traditional approaches, and instead demanded rigorous scientific research on every question of the day. Open Letters section. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

NY: The Century Company, 1903. Print. Illus. by W. L. Jacobs / H. C. Merrill, Engraver. Good. No Binding. 1st Edition. Sized 6.5 x 9.5 inches, engraved by Merrill, after the Jacobs drawing, minor damp-stain noted long upper right margin, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXV, No. 5, March, 1903..

NY: The Century Company, 1904. Print. Illus. by William L. Jacobs. VG. No Binding. Sized about 6 x 9 inches, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXIX, No. 2, December, 1904..

London: George Newnes, Ltd, 1899. Book. Illus. by W. S. Stacey. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. pp97 - 103, illus with drawings, salvaged from a neglected copy of The Strand Magazine, Volume XVII, #97, February, 1899..

NY: The Century Company, 1908. Print. Illus. by William L. Jacobs. VG. No Binding. 8vo. Sized 6.5 x 9.5 inches, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXV, No. 4, March, 1908..