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1755rif. 000341Various: Various 1755. Bound volume containing six sermons dated from 1755 to 1788: I. Lyman Joseph. A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency James Bowdoin Esq. Governour; His Honour Thomas Cushing Esq. Lieutenant-Governour.of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts May 30 1787 Being the Day of General Election. Boston: Adams and Nourse 1787 61 pages front cover used as pastedown for the volume with some old insect damage to pastedown and margins of first two leaves. II. Cumings Henry. A Sermon Preached in Billerica on the 23rd of November 1775 Being the Day appointed by Civil Authority for a Public Thanksgiving Throughout the Province of Massachusetts-Bay. Worcester Massachusetts-Bay: I. Thomas 1775. 29 pages. Final two leaves dampstained but very readable next-to-last leaf has margin chip. III. Morrill Isaac. The Soldier exhorted to Courage in the Service of his King and Country from a Sense of God and Religion: in a Sermon Preach'd at Wilmington April 3 1755 to Capt. Philehas Osgood and his Company of Soldiers Before their going out into Publick Service. Boston New-England: J. Draper 1755. 23 pages. Large margin chip at bottom of one leaf not affecting text. IV. Bridge Ebenezer. A Sermon Preached before his Excellency Francis Bernard Esq. Governor.of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England May 27th 1767. Being the Anniversary for the Election of His Majesty's Council for the Province. Boston: Green and Russell 1767. 60 pages last three leaves have internal tears with the last two having some paper loss and affecting a small part of the text. V. Cumings Henry. A Thanksgiving Sermon Preached at Billerica November 27 1766. Boston N.E.: Kneeland and Adams for Thomas Leverett 1766. 32 pages. VI. Parsons David. A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency John Hancock Esq.of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts May 28 1788 being the day of General Election. Boston: Adams and Nourse 1788.46 pages. The group is bound into a full blind-tooled calf binding measuring 21.75 cm x 13 cm. Other than the noted issues with the individual sermons cited above the pages are mainly clean and free from significant chips or tears with age-tanning and intermittent foxing throughout. The binding is lightly shelfworn with some minor separation at the spine ends joints good with covers firmly attached. A good collection of mainly scarce sermons. Full Leather. Good/None. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Various Hardcover
1986rif. mon0000291551Ruth Bridge 1986-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover. Ruth Bridge hardcover
1882rif. 22094Unknown place: Not Published 1882. Contemporary three-quarter leather. Very good; front cover detached; spine worn; card stock pages a bit warped. Folio. An album of 62 albumen prints meas. appx. 115 x 195 mm. mounted two to a page recto and verso on thick card stock meas. appx. 345 x 273mm. Most of the photographs are dated in the negative. There is no text; the exception is a nine line printed label mounted in the center of the first page of the album identifying the bridge and its basic details. A detailed record of the construction of the bridge by F J Haynes who had recently been appointed the official photographer of the railroad. The bridge was a wooden trestle design of 1500 feet in length between four stone piers in the river. It utilized a combination Whipple truss and bowstring trusses at the landings. The two main spans saw sections of the truss assembled on land and then floated and lifted into place for assembly. Morison DAB XIII 191-192 had previously designed and built a number of bridges for the Erie Railroad under the direction of its chief engineer Octave Chanute. He was however at this time an independent contractor and this was his most sophisticated individual effort. He would go on to complete several more bridges across the northern United States amassing an astonishing record of successful crossings of most difficult environments. Haynes carefully photographed the most salient features of the multi-year construction providing a superb - possibly unique - engineering record of the construction work. OCLC does not locate any copies of this album; see the Tilden biography of Haynes Following the Frontier . who mentions Haynes' bridge photographs but provides no illustrations to match this album; absent from the North Dakota Historical Society collection. See chapter 4 in Edwards' . Early American Bridges for an excellent account of bridge engineering and material science. Not Published hardcover books
rif. LCS-14623New York, Joseph Koehler, 1903. 645 x 975 mm.
