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This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. Object of the Voyage CHAPTER I. Departure from England CHAPTER II.We enter Straits of Magellan CHAPTER III. Trinidad Channel gouged out by Glaciers CHAPTER IV. Arrival at Valparaiso CHAPTER...

This edition features a linked Table of Contents. CONTENTS Description of Clonard, Battle of Timahoe, Junction of the Wexford and Kildare Rebels, Battle of Clonard, Mrs. Tyrrell's sufferings while prisoner with the Rebels, Character of Col. Perry and Priest Kearns who were executed LETTERS. I....

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS I. The Discoverers of the Upper Mississippi II. Bearers of the Calumet III.The Man with the Copper Hand IV. The Undespairing Norman V. French Settlements VI. The Last Great Indian

"Gabriele D'Annunzio, principe di Montenevoso, a volte scritto d'Annunzio, come usava firmarsi (Pescara, 12 marzo 1863 – Gardone Riviera, 1º marzo 1938), è stato uno scrittore, poeta, drammaturgo, aviatore, militare, politico e giornalista italiano, simbolo del Decadentismo italiano, del...

This edition features illustrations. Excerpt ON THE ARTISTIC QUALITIES OF THE WOODCUT BOOKS OF ULM AND AUGSBURG IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.decoration The invention of printing books, and the use of wood-blocks for book ornament in place of hand-painting, though it belongs to the period of the...

This edition features a linked Table of Contents.   CONTENTS I.       A CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS      II.       THE MYSTERY SHIP      III.       SIR ROGER CASEMENT AND THE IRISH PLANS      IV....

This edition features illustrations. The Compendious Emblematist; Or Writing and Drawing Made Easy, Amusing, and Instructive Containing The Whole Alphabet in All the Characters Now Us'd, Both in Printing and Penmanship. Each illustrated by Emblematic Devices and Moral Copies, Calculated for the Use of Schools, and Curiously Engrav'd, by the Best Hands.

 • illustrations  • a linked Table of Contents   CONTENTS Foreword I. Philadelphia Architecture II. Georgian Country Houses of Brick III. City Residences of Brick IV. Ledge-stone Country Houses V. Plastered Stone Country Houses VI. Hewn Stone Country Houses VII. Doorways and Porches...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and linked Index CONTENTS PREAMBLE TOOLS SHARPENING-STONES — MALLET AND BENCH WOODS USED FOR CARVING SHARPENING THE TOOLS "CHIP" CARVING THE GRAIN OF THE WOOD IMITATION OF NATURAL FORMS ROUNDED FORMS THE PATTERNED...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Index CONTENTS I. Britons of the Stone Age II. Earliest Traces of Modern Man III. The Age of the "Red Man" of Wales IV. Shell Deities and Early Trade V. New Races in Europe VI. The Faithful Dog VII. Ancient...

WOOD CARVINGS IN ENGLISH CHURCHES I.—STALLS AND TABERNACLE WORK II.—BISHOPS' THRONES AND CHANCEL CHAIRS This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS PART I I. Design, Construction, and Cost of Stalls II. Position, Number, and...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS (abridged list) I. What You Should Have in Your Work Box— Sewing on Buttons—Basting—Darning II. Back-stitching—Over-casting— Creasing a Hem and Hemming—Rolling a Hem—French Hemming—Sewing on Tapes...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS Introduction. Woods, Tools, and Sharpening First Lesson. Indenting and Stamping Second Lesson. Cutting Grooves with a Gouge Third Lesson. Flat Patterns made with cuts and lines—Cavo Relievo...

Home Pork Making The Art of Raising and Curing Pork on the Farm A complete guide for the farmer, the country butcher and the suburban dweller, in all that pertains to hog slaughtering, curing, preserving and storing pork product—from scalding vat to kitchen table and dining room. This...