continental press edition (20 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Workbook.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Workbook.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Workbook.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Workbook.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Unknown Binding. Condición: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Workbook.

Unknown Binding. Condición: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Workbook.

Quarto, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt lettering, 224 pp. Very Good, with light foxing (age darkened spotting). The Sarasota region lays claim to some of the oldest North American sites occupied by man. Yet for centuries after the decline of her proud indigenous peoples, Sarasota's long miles of shores and river valleys saw only sporadic arrival of Europeans amid eht gradual emigration of disenfranchised Indians from northern colonies -- Indians doomed to lose an ever-resent conflict with whites for the increasingly desirable land. Only a hundred years ago, regional Sarasota was a series of sparsely settled Gulf coast communities. Her bays and inland acres hosted seafood harvesting, cattle raising, and small farming. Then, Florida deeded massive land areas to speculators for development, and the dominance of the small farmer ended. The city of Sarasota itself was laid out and advertised no two continents by British investors in the Hamilton Disston deal. They graphed out a central hub, a platted bayfront where only a few buildings and a fertilizer business had stood. To that relatively unoccupied shore of coastal hammock rising to piney woods, corporate officials, surveyors, construction crews, and colony of purchasers converged to build a town. It is the centennial of that convergence which we celebrate this year, 1985, for it is that grandly planned beginning which mapped out the city of Sarasota and correspondingly influenced her social and cultural directions for decades. Florida, Floridiana, Florida History, Sarasota, Family History, Genealogy, Florida Land Boom zslic.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with good to very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is bumped and rubbed at spine tips and corners with some soiling near top back edge and two tears at top back edge of one inch or less. 240 pages with many illustrations. 4to size.

Very good with very good dust jacket. Gift inscription on front endpaper. Dust jacket is bumped and worn at spine tips and corners with two 1/2 inch edge tears and a tiny nick at top back edge. 224 pages with many illustrations.

Unknown Binding. Condición: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Quarto, red cloth (hardcover), red lettering, 192. Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: To the Spaniards, the beautiful harbor that would become Pensacola Bay was the best port in the Indies. But the harsh land was too remote, and early settlements almost starved. When the English claimed the land, they called it an earthly paradise and urged colonists to migrate to the new land. But most moved inland, and the town grew slowly. When American gained the land, the vagaries of ownership ceased. Ships crowded the harbor, and sailors of every sea-faring country found their way to the gulf port. The town, however, was little more than a haven for travelers in its early days. There was a newspaper -- but no public schools. Early Catholics had to meet in a converted warehouse, and there were no church buildings. Entertainment included cockfights and rowing contests, Navy dress balls and politics. When America split over the issue of slavery, the first volley of the war resounded from Fort Barrancas four months before Fort Sumter. From that time, Yankees and Rebels waged war across the bay until the Confederacy surrendered. There was little left but the port. But upon that natural advantage, the city grew up once again. Pensacola has weathered the hurricanes of nature and the wars of man. It was built by men and women who dreamed big. Sometimes they lost, sometimes they won. But they never lost sight of their dream. Pensacola is truly an American town -- a city of work and industry -- the best port in the Indies. Florida, Floridiana, Florida History, Pensacola, Americana, U.S.-iana, United States History, U. S. History, American History islic.

Unknown Binding. Condición: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Unknown Binding. Condición: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way. Workbook.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Workbook.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Author: Unknown. Title: Réglement de la Confrerie de l'Adoration Perpétuelle du S. Sacrement et de la Bonne Mort. Erigée dans l'Eglise Paroissiale de Ville-Marie, en l'Isle de Montréal, en Canada. Nouvelle Edition. Language: Text in French. Publisher: Montreal, F. Mesplet & C. Berger, 1776. Casey, Catalogue of Pamphlets 1536; Dionne 18; Lande, Rare Canadiana 153 ("considered the first Canadian imprint in Montreal"); Tremaine 231. An earlier edition of this work is believed to have been prepared by Mesplet in Philadelphia. He had emigrated to America on the advice of Franklin, and had moved from Philadelphia to Montreal in 1776 when commissioned by the Continental Congress to accompany Franklin, Chase and Carroll for the purpose of establishing a French press. Size: 5.5 "X 4 ". Pages: 40 pages. Binding: Attractive and good original boards, covered in figured wallpaper (spine worn but hinges still tight, overall worn and scuffed - as shown) in a quarter morocco leather cover with a nice ex-libris of C. GordonSmith with a view of Montreal in 1760, in a beautiful and fine burgundy morocco leather slipcase. Content: Good content (tight, faint staining to lower right corners - as shown, lacking rear blank free endpaper - as shown). All pages are complete. Estimate: Scarce with no other copies available for sale worldwide. AN EXTREMELY RARE little MANUAL OF PRAYERS, from the press of the first printers of Montreal. The book: THE FIRST MONTREAL IMPRINT. Attractive, beautifully bounded and scarce First Book printed in Montreal. Published by Fleury Mesplet (1734-1794), this physically tiny work would be the first work printed by Mesplet after his arrival in Montreal in 1776. After leaving Lyon for Avignon, London and Philadelphia, Mesplet settled in Montreal on the recommendation of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790}, with whom he had collaborated on printing ventures for the American Congress. Mesplet s luggage contained the first non-governmental press established in the Province of Quebec . Mesplet published many utilitarian works, with this title being distributed to members of the Confrerie, who could boast a membership of 1000 in late-18th century Montreal. Mesplet would go on to found the La Gazette litteraire with journalist Valentin Jautard (1736-1787) (known by the pseudonym le Spectacteur tranquille ) in 1778, but both would be thrown into prison without trial, which would put an abrupt end to their literary adventure. The wife of Mesplet, Marie Maribeau,(1746-1789) would take over the publishing reins during his imprisonment. Mesplet would establish the Gazette de Montreal in 1785, which would be bought by an Anglophone editor, eventually becoming the Montreal Gazette.