Title: Rural essays. Author: A J Downing Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, ...
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Title: Rural essays. Author: A J Downing Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP04446700 CollectionID: CTRG03-B741 PublicationDate: 18530101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: Added, engr. t.p. Collation: lxxi, 557 p., [8] leaves of plates: ill.; 24 cm
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Good+ 0306710358. Architecture And Decorative Art Series; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 557 pages; 1974 Da Capo Press. Stout HC in publisher's cloth binding with titles in black to cover and spine. Presentation copy signed by the author of the introduction for this edition, George B Tatum. Inscribed and presented on the title page to David Schuyler, prominent scholar of Downing, Olmsted, Parks movement and architectural landscape history. Facsimile reprinting of the 1853 edition. Binding sound but a little shaken; cloth lightly rubbed at edges. Periodic pencil brackets and marginalia in Schuyler's hand. Illustrated with reproductions of the period woodcuts and plans. G+...Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.; Signed by Editor.