John Wesley Powell; Geological Survey (U.S.).Livre Rare Book
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1895221501895 Washington D.C. : Government Printing Office, 1895.part 2 :Papers of an economic character: Geology and mining industries of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado / by Whitman Cross and R.A.F. Penrose, Jr. A geological reconnaissance across Idaho / by George H. Eldridge. The geology of the road-building stones of Massachusetts, with some consideration of similar materials from other parts of the United States / by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler. Economic geology of the Mercur Mining District, Utah / by J. Edward Spurr, with introduction by S.F. Emmons. The public lands and their water supply / by Frederick H. Newell. Water resources of a portion of the Great Plains / by Robert Hay. --has 2 maps in back pocket. Thick quarto. xix, 598pp. 42 plates (including maps and photographs, some folding, some in color, 2 large folding in rear pocket); 65 text figures. Index. Original dark brown cloth, gilt. A very good copy. A third of this important volume covers "Geology and mining industries of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado," and "Mining Geology of the District" by Whitman Cross and R.A.F. Penrose, Jr. Other topics include, "Geological Reconnaissance Across Idaho;" "Economic Geology of the Mercur Mining District, Utah;" "The Public Lands and Their Water Supply;" and "Water Resources of a Portion of the Great Plains." . 1895. Government Printing Office US
183552302090050B. Waugh and T. Mason NY 1835. Bound Leather. Good. Bonded Leather Hardcovers. ORIGINAL 1835 PRINTING. 7 VOLUMES COMPLETE. Text unmarked. Pages are foxed. Covers calf leather with tooled gilt borders show light edge wear with rubbing. Most of the hinges are cracked slightly but bindings are all intact. Some outside covers with tears along hinges. mostly near edges. Previous owners bookplate on inside front covers.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! B. Waugh and T. Mason, NY hardcover
1891022666New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1891. Photograph available upon request. First Edition. A single issue of this monthly magazine. NOT print on demand or a modern reprint. Very Good condition. Cover has some light edgewear. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO owner's name or bookplate. Bound in the original decorated wraps. Complete with all ads. Sealed in a clear plastic bag for protection. Questions on content Please inquire. Includes Chapters 7-9 of "The Wrecker" by Robert Louis Stevenson. "The New Lake in the Desert" by John Wesley Powell Director of the U.S. Geological Survey concerning Colorado. Also 11 illustrations by A. B. Frost. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by Frost A. B. 6.75" wide by 10" tall. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Charles Scribner's Sons Paperback
1844707London: Barr & Co. 1844. Hardcover. pp. viii 408. 16mo. Stamped cloth with floral decoration and gilt lettering to spine and boards. Engraved frontispiece depicting two young girls and the other presumably depicting the author. Extremities are worn with fraying to the spine ends period ink name to ffep tide-marks to the upper corners of the frontispiece. Overall the text-block remains clean and unmarked with sound binding. Good. Scarce. A particularly unusual title this work appears to derive much of its' content from earlier stories of apparitions by Daniel Defoe 1660 1731 namely 'An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions'. Published in 1727 it contained what went on to become the most famous ghost story of the 18th century: "A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day after her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705". At time of cataloguing WorldCat indicates the presence of two distinct editions of this title in various institutions with no physical copies with the publication date of 1844 or by this publisher Barr & Co. A microfiche edition is available from the Wellcome Collection. <br /> <br />The publication history is most unusual; J. Barry in News from the Invisible World: The Publishing History of Tales of the Supernatural c.16601832 writes: <br /> <br />It was also a very substantial work at over 400 pages of closely printed duodecimo which effectively brought together in one compendium most of the classic stories from the seventeenth-century authors with a host of new eighteenth-century material much of it from the Arminian Magazine. This was News from the Invisible World: or Interesting Anecdotes of the Dead. Containing a particular survey of the most remarkable and well-attested accounts of apparitions ghosts spectres dreams and visions with some valuable extracts from the works of the Rev. John Wesley the Rev. David Simpson and others the whole forming a series of useful and necessary information for the support of our faith and practice Burslem undated c. 1800. A standard preface defended the reality of the spirit world though in cautious largely biblical terms and promised extracts from the expensive and voluminous works of the most learned and judicious authors with all precision possible but leaving the reader to judge for himself whether they are natural or miraculous events ii. The editor and publisher was a former Wesleyan lay preacher from Cornwall John Tregortha d.c. 1821 who had settled at Burslem near Stoke by 1796 as a printer and bookseller publishing editions of religious classics such as Bunyan his own complete family Bible with commentary works of Methodist history and other texts defending the reality of divine providence as well as chapbook publications like Mother Bunchs Closet Newly Broken Open and A History of Richard Whittington. The book had a complex publishing history going through editions with the same core title but varied subtitles usually with the same preface but then with the stories in varying order. Editions are recorded in 1808 1812 1813 and 1814 at Burslem plus an undated new and improved edition there then after his death and the bankruptcy of his son John junior in 1822 at Manchester in 1827 1828 and 1835. By the 1813 edition the reference to support of our faith and practice had been dropped but the Hobson story by Wesley was brought to the start while the last Burslem and later editions modified the subtitle offering instead a number of well attested facts; showing their power and influence on the affairs of mankind; with several extracts and original pieces from the writings of the best authors. The whole designed to prevent infidelity show the state of separate spirits and evince the certainty of the world to come. Then at least by 1836 the title and some of the content was taken over by an otherwise unknown author called from 1843 onwards T. Ottway. In his first London edition printed for Joseph Smith at 3s in 24mo it had the slightly amended title The Spectre or News from the Invisible World a collection of remarkable narratives on the certainty of supernatural visitations from the dead to the living etc; impartially compiled from the works of Baxter Wesley Simpson and other authors of indisputable veracity. But by 1840 The Spectre had been dropped and with some editions reprinting Tregorthas preface readers could reasonably have assumed they were reading the same book but they were not as it contained a different selection of stories which also varied between the 1840 and 1843 editions but then remained constant in later editions some in London some in Halifax in 1844 1848 1853 1860 and finally in 1870 when the authors name also changed to T. Charley!. <br /> <br/><br/> Barr & Co. hardcover
18508103Lane & Scott 1850. Hardcover. Good. Ex-library. 7 leather volumes with red and black banding on spines. Normal library markings but the spine labels are old and handwritten so they look appropriate. Corners bumped bit of wear to the heads of spines. Some cracking of leather on spines. Foxing throughout. Volume V has some mold stains apparently on last 30 pages at bottom edge. Volumes I and II: Sermons. Volumes III and IV: Journals. Volumes V VI & VII: Miscellaneous. Photos on request. Pages: 534: 568 with index; 729 with index plus 12 pages of advertisement for Sunday School publications; 759; 828; 795; 858 with index. Lane & Scott hardcover
18549003New York: Redfield 1854. First Edition 2nd issue. Cloth. Very good. 12mo. 4004pp. Tinted litho added title with a view and 1 other tinted litho and a large folding map at back. Orig. brown cloth gilt spine. Top of spine a bit chipped. This is the first edition second issue with the title dated 1854 rather than 1853. Redfield hardcover books
1847x04751<p>New York: Lane & Tippett 1847. 8vo. 2 734 pp. Calf with red spine label. Good. Wear and rubbing to boards. Hinges sound. Foxing to leaves ownership stamp to front free endpaper.</p> Lane & Tippett hardcover
1898200771Ithaca: cornell University Press 1898. First Edition. hardcover. very good. 2 volumes thick small 4to 3/4 brown morocco marbled boards. Ithaca: Cornell 1898-1900. First Edition. Very good.<br/><br/> A bibliography of the Dante Collection in the Cornell University Library.<br/><br/> cornell University Press unknown books
1898200771Ithaca: cornell University Press 1898. First Edition. hardcover. very good. 2 volumes thick small 4to 3/4 brown morocco marbled boards. Ithaca: Cornell 1898-1900. First Edition. Very good.<br/> <br/> A bibliography of the Dante Collection in the Cornell University Library.<br/> <br/> cornell University Press unknown
188776787Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. In addition to a brief summary of Frank Cushing's research among Zuni this report includes the papers "Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States" by Cyrus Thomas "The Cherokee Nation of Indians" by Charles C. Royce "The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony" by Dr. Washington Matthews "The Seminole Indians of Florida" by Clay Maccauley and "The Relgious Life of the Zuni Child" by Tilly E. Stevenson. From the library of Antonio Apache with his small embossed stamp to the title page and his bookplate to the front flyleaf. An individual of considerable mystery Apache was educated at Harvard assuming a public persona of "the educated Indian" despite serious questions regarding his ethnic identity. After a breakfast meeting with Theodore Roosevelt in 1900 he was appointed to supervise the Indian Exhibit at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo; later he managed Indian Village a living history museum in Los Angeles. Quarto: liii 564 p. with 23 plates including two folding maps housed in the rear pocket and 77 figures. Original green cloth binding with gilt stamping. Some minor wear to the extremities; otherwise very good. Government Printing Office hardcover
1896BOOKS003684Two Volumes: lxi1136 pages; with 122 plates 104 figures and index. Quarto 11 1/2" x 8 1/4" bound in original publisher's olive green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial to cover. Volume 1: Papers by Walter James Hoffman <i>The Menomini Indians</i> 3-328 pages plates I-XXXVII and figures 1-55; George Parker Winship <i>The Coronado Expedition 1540-1542</i> Winship's significant and scholarly study of the Coronado Expedition comprises pages 329-613 and 47 of the plates pertain to it 17 of which are facsimile maps Volume 2: <i>The Ghost-dance religion and the Sioux outbreak of 1890</i> pages 641-1110 plates LXXXV-CXXII and figures 56-104. Edited by J W Powell. List of Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology pg 5 First edition.<br /><br />Although classified by most conventional texts John Wesley Powell always maintained that he was not an adventure or an explorer. He considered himself a scientist motivated by a desire for knowledge and to further the progress of human kind. However Powell did live a busy and active life as a military leader the first navigator of the Colorado River and director of the United States Geological Survey. His accounts from navigating the Colorado River earned him early fame. Due to his compassion toward Native Americans he was elevated to director of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology in which he continued until his death. His work on the Irrigation Survey for the western United States although never fully realized lead to the establishment of river gauging stations and preliminary work toward storage and utilization of river water for irrigation and prevention of floods and overflows.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Corners bumped extremities rubbed part 2 spine and front cover pictorial dulled part 1 gilt bright else about very good copy. Washington, Government Printing Office hardcover
1818279880New-York: J. Soule and T. Mason 1818. Full Leather. Very Good binding. An early American printing of Wesley's Extract first published in America in 1793. In contemporary calf with morocco label. Front joint has been discreetly reinforced. Very Good binding. J. Soule and T. Mason unknown books
189203028New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Printed by the Knickerbocker Press in New York 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor. Signed by Other. US HISTORY. William Wesley Woollen 1828-1902. "William McKee Dunn Brigadier-General U. S. A.: A Memoir Signed by McKee Dunn Kastner." New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Printed by the Knickerbocker Press in New York 1892. Signed in ink on front flyleaf by a likely family member. First edition for private circulation. English language. Hardcover with navy cloth boards titled gilt on spine. Machined laid paper with cut gilt top edge and machined deckled edges to rest. Rare nonfiction biography of Civil War Union general with black-and-white frontispiece portrait etching and appendix of extracts from Dunn's speeches judicial decisions and correspondence. 8vo. 8 x 5 1/4 inches. 13 oz. 6 156 pp. This copy is complete but in need of conservation. Bottom of boards discolored. Bottom and top of spine rubbed. Binding broken along bottom half and along gutter of back endpapers. Some minor staining. Toned. Table of contents leaf detached but present. Text clean. Acceptable to Poor. No ISBN. No ASIN. OCLC: 247864679 5629293 1403905989. LoC: 08012847. "Dunn December 12 1814 – July 24 1887 was a US Representative from Indiana from 1859 to 1863 and Brigadier-General Judge Advocate General of the US Army from 1875 to 1881. Dunn studied at Bloomington attended Yale served as aide-de-camp to McClellan at the start of the war and was then elected to Congress. During his time in the Indiana State Legislature and in Congress he was a vocal opponent of the expansion of slavery in the West and some of his anti-slavery speeches are included herein. This elusive privately printed volume was produced in a small edition. Missed by Broadfoot Nevins etc. The other two copies available in the trade are in the $1200 range. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Printed by the Knickerbocker Press in New York hardcover
1870060035London : Sold for the author at the Wesleyan Conference Office 1870. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. Engraved Portrait Frontispiece AND Music Score. LONDON : Circa 1870. An attractive binding. First issue of the Companion was 1845. Two Volumes bound together. Hymns PLUS A Companion to the Wesleyan hymn-book "Twentieth thousand": with Music Score. Hardback. Engraved Portrait frontispiece. To Hymns. Contemporary dark-red full Morocco-leather. Raised bands; gilt lettered spine and gilt and blind decoration. Raised panels to front and rear covers; gilt and blind decoration. Gilt dentelles; all edges gilt over red. Original brown end-papers. Presentation subscription to William Driver of Keighley Yorkshire 1870. No internal markings. Early few pages have minor wear and thumbing. Bright tight and clean. VERY GOOD INDEED. 206 xxiv 252 pages. Indexes. FULL TITLE: A Companion to the Wesleyan hymn-book : being a selection of two hundred and twenty-eight tunes from the works of the most celebrated masters / comprising all the metres in the hymn-book and supplement / arranged in four parts with accompaniments for the organ and piano forte / intended for use in Wesleyan congregations classes prayer-meetings schools and families / also a supplement of the most admired chants with plain directions for their use. 8vo. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. London: Sold for the author at the Wesleyan Conference Office. SCARCE with Companion. <br/> <br/> Sold for the author at the Wesleyan Conference Office hardcover
189214696New York: Harper & Brothers 1892. fair. 438 illus. appendix sm tear top margin title pg title pg partly detached from text lower text margins stained no pages stuck Front board weak inside front hinges torn boards and spine scuffed and stained and edges worn some foxing to fore-edge. One of the best treatments of the U.S. Army in the period just prior to the Spanish-American War written by Brigadier-General Wesley Merritt. Also contains an article on "The Standing Army of Great Britain" by General Viscount Wolseley as well as articles on the German French Russian Austro-Hungarian Italian and Mexican armies. Harper & Brothers hardcover
18491806260032The author 1849-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Bound in publisher's tooled brown cloth. Rubbing. Front gutter weak. Hardcover. 371 1 p. Frontispiece portrait. Includes information about the Adnakis Abenaki Indians of Maine and Quebec. The author John Wesley Hanson was a well known Universalist preacher and author. He wrote a number of town histories and some religious works. He was also the chaplain of the sixth Massachusetts Regiment for part of the Civil War and a war correspondent for the Journal out of Boston and the Tribune out of New York. Howes H176. The author hardcover
1881616541881. Annual Report 1 of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880. - Ed. Dir. J.W. Powell. - Washington Goverment Printing Office 1881 4° XXIII 603 pp. 346 Abb. u. Taf. 1 Karte orig. Leinenband. First Edition! Content of the Accompanying papers: Powell J.W.: On the Evolution of Language. Powell J.W.: Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians. Powell J.W.: Wyandot Government. Powell J.W.: On Limitations to the use of some Anthropologic Data. Yarrow H.C.: A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians. Holden E.S.: Studies in Central American Picture Writing. Royce C.C.: Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States. Mallery Garrick: Sign Language Among North American Indians. Pilling C.C.: Catalogue on Linguistic Manuscripts in the Library of the Bureau of Ethnology. Illustrations of the Method of Recording Indian Languages. From the Manuscripts of Messers. J.O. Dorsey A.S. Gatschet and S.R. Riggs. First Edition! Content of the Accompanying papers: Powell J.W.: Indian LinguisticPwell J.W.: Indian Linguistic of America North of Mexico. Hoffman W.J.: The Mide Wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa. Mooney James: The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees. John Wesley Powell 1834-1902 U.S. soldier geologist explorer of the American West professor at Illinois Wesleyan University and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers including the first official U.S. government-sponsored passage through the Grand Canyon. Powell served as second director of the U.S. Geological Survey 1881-1894 and proposed for development of the arid West policies that were prescient for his accurate evaluation of conditions. He became the first director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution during his service as director of the U.S. Geological Survey where he supported linguistic and sociological research and publications. "Powell became the director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution in 1879 and remained so until his death. Under his leadership the Smithsonian published an influential classification of North American Indian languages." wiki unknown
18811701050004Govt. Print. Off 1881-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 1. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology series. Publisher's green cloth with gold native American embossed on front cover. Clean unmarked pages. German Society stamp on title. xxxv 603 pages : illustrations ; 30 cmContents: On the evolution of language / J.W. Powell --Sketch of the mythology of the North American Indians / J.W. Powell --Wyandot government / J.W. Powell --On limitations to the use of some anthropologic data / J.W. Powell --A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians / H.C. Yarrow --Studies in Central American picture writing / E.S. Holden --Cessions of land by Indian tribes to the United States / C.C. Royce --Sign language among North American Indians / Garrick Mallery --Catalogue of linguistic manuscripts in the librarary of the Bureau of Ethnology / J.C. Pilling --Illustration of the method of recording Indian languages from the manuscripts of Messrs. J.O. Dorsey A.S. Garschet and S.R. Riggs. Govt. Print. Off hardcover
1875324031875-1895. 8vo. Contemporary maroon half morocco over brown cloth sides gilt ruled compartments to the spine lettered to two panels early ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Wear to the spine ends with slight loss a little rubbing to the other extremities some mottling to the boards which also show some wear else in decent condition. Professor at the Royal College of Science and one of the most respected men in his field Judd edited editions of Lyell and had contributed Introductions to Darwin's ".Coral Reefs". He is probably best known for his work on volcanoes. unknown
186622245Boston: Lee and Shepard 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. 352pp. Maroon cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine brown endpapers. Frontispiece and two plates with photographs. Inscription on the front free endpaper by John Pierce from Company G of Lowell Mass in the year of publication his name is on page 328. Sunned spine faint stain to cloth wear to extremities. A good copy. Sabin 30269.; Octavo. Lee and Shepard hardcover
1818293203New York.: J. Soule and T. Mason for the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. 1818. 8vo. Re-backed with brown leather over old tree calf boards paper spine label new endpapers. Very good cover corners worn light scattered foxing. 22x13x5 cm. Uncommon edition of this popular commentary by the famous theologian and hymn writer who is recognized as the father of the Methodist Church. weight: 1.9 lb. J. Soule and T. Mason for the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. hardcover
1900419552Ithaca New York: Cornell University Library 1900. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Two volumes. Thick quartos. A handsome unopened set in the original printed wrappers. Volume 1 has a one-inch tear to the top of the paper spine back and a modest light stain to the outer margin of the last two leaves a near fine set. Cornell University Library unknown
18936201Washington: Government Printing Office 1893. First edition. Very Good/The definitive survey of petroglyphs and pictographs. 30 cm; xxx 822 pages : illustrations plates. Original green cloth-covered boards gilt-stamped with image of a man in feathered headdress. Front hinge reinforced. Ownership stamp on front free endpaper of anthropologist Rudolf Martin 1864-1925 chair of physical anthropology at the University of Munich. Few age spots little wear. Government Printing Office hardcover books
189182713Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1891. Presumed First Edition First printing. Hardcover. Good. Format is approximately 8 inches by 11.5 inches. xliii 1 409 3 pages. Illustrations including some color plates. Footnotes. Musical scores. Pocket at back is empty. Private library bookplate. Corner of rep torn off. Bookseller's address label inside back cover. Cover worn and some spine weakness. John Wesley Powell March 24 1834 - September 23 1902 was a geologist soldier explorer of the West professor and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for his 1869 geographic expedition a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers including the first official U.S. government- sponsored passage through the Grand Canyon. Powell served as second director of the U.S. Geological Survey 1881-1894 and proposed policies that were prescient for his accurate evaluation of conditions. He became the first director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution while serving as director of the U.S. Geological Survey where he supported linguistic and sociological research and publications. During the Civil War he enlisted in the Union Army as a cartographer topographer and military engineer. At the Battle of Shiloh he lost most of his right arm when struck by a Minié ball while in the process of giving the order to fire. Despite the loss of an arm he returned to the Army and was at the battles of Champion Hill Big Black River Bridge and the siege of Vicksburg. Powell was the director of the Bureau of Ethnology from 1879 until his death. Under his leadership the Smithsonian published an influential classification of North American Indian languages This report discussed the field work of Professor Cyrus Thomas on Mound Explorations as well as other field work in the area of stone villages. There is also a discussion of Synonymy of Indian Tribes. This report contains three Accompanying Papers: Indian linguistic families of America north of Mexico by J.W. Powell -- The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa By Dr. W. J. Hoffman and The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees by Mr. James Mooney. James Mooney February 10 1861 - December 22 1921 was an American ethnographer who lived for several years among the Cherokee. Known as "The Indian Man" he conducted major studies of Southeastern Indians as well as of tribes on the Great Plains. His most notable works were his ethnographic studies of the Ghost Dance after Sitting Bull's death in 1890 which was a widespread 19th-century religious movement among various Native American culture groups; and his works on the Cherokee: The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees 1891 and Myths of the Cherokee 1900. All were published by the US Bureau of American Ethnology within the Smithsonian Institution. Cyrus Thomas July 27 1825 - June 26 1910 was a U.S. ethnologist and entomologist prominent in the late 19th century and noted for his studies of the natural history of the American West. Thomas is best known for his work in archaeology and ethnology—specifically his contributions to the question of the origin of the mound builders. Government Printing Office hardcover
187944784Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office. Good. 1879. Hardcover. 1879 second edition. Black cloth binding shows heavy wear to the edges and corners. There is some fading and rubbing and discolored spots to the covers. The front hinge has been repaired with archival glue. The binding is tight and the contents complete. The three maps inside the pocket of the back cover have some small splits to the folds. ; 195 pages . Government Printing Office hardcover
