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Publications of the Red Cross Institute for the Blind. Our Blinded Soldiers, Instructions for Directors of Schools by Eugène Brieux This book, "Our Blinded Soldiers, Instructions for Directors of Schools", by Douglas C. McMurtrie, is a replication of a book originally published before 1918. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.

The California Gold Rush really was a bonanza for more than miners. Between 1849 and 1855 more than $400 million dollars was gathered by the miners, once adjusted, it is a sum today reaching into the trillions. But those who provided for the miners shared and in some cases did better than the gold seekers. It was a social phenomenon marked by the carnivalesque. In Mark Twain's Roughing It (1872), the protagonist remarks as his brother heads We...

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Excerpt from The Golden Book: The Story of Fine Books and Bookmaking, Past and PresentThe Origin of'the Alphabet The Phoenician Alphabet and its antecedents. The evolution of the alphabet we use today.Paper and Its Forbears The invention Of paper in China and the spread of the art of papermaking to the West.Books in Manuscript The work of the scribes in the Middle Ages, and the art of the manuscript book.About the PublisherForgotten Books publ...

Excerpt from The Golden Book: The Story of Fine Books and Bookmaking, Past and PresentThe Origin of'the Alphabet The Phoenician Alphabet and its antecedents. The evolution of the alphabet we use today.Paper and Its Forbears The invention Of paper in China and the spread of the art of papermaking to the West.Books in Manuscript The work of the scribes in the Middle Ages, and the art of the manuscript book.About the PublisherForgotten Books publ...

Excerpt from Additional Buffalo Imprints, 1812-1849A I Summary of Facts I in relation to the late I Treaty with the Seneca Indians, I together with a portion I Of the President's Mes: sage, I transmitting to the Senate the amended treaty I and of the report Of the I Massachusetts Committee. [double rule] Buf'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis boo...

Excerpt from Additional Buffalo Imprints, 1812-1849A I Summary of Facts I in relation to the late I Treaty with the Seneca Indians, I together with a portion I Of the President's Mes: sage, I transmitting to the Senate the amended treaty I and of the report Of the I Massachusetts Committee. [double rule] Buf'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis boo...

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Excerpt from Indiana Imprints, 1804-1849: A Supplement to Mary Alden Walker's "Beginnings of Printing in the State of Indiana, " Published in 1934In closing this brief introduction, I desire to express my appreciation to a number of librarians who have rendered espe cially helpful service in the listing of these titles Mr. Edward C. Starr of the Samuel Colgate Baptist Historical Collection, Miss Esther mcnitt of the Indiana State Library, Miss...

Excerpt from L'OEuvre d'une École Américaine de Rééducation des MutilésUne autre raison qui a poussé l'institut as s'engager dans la fabrication des membres artificiels a été le désir d'améliorer les modèles existants et de standardiser les matériaux et la fabrication, grâce à des recherches scientifiques et a des expériences. Dans ce but, l'institut est entré en correspondance les hôpitaux militaires et les centres étran gers de rééducation q...

Excerpt from Indiana Imprints, 1804-1849: A Supplement to Mary Alden Walker's "Beginnings of Printing in the State of Indiana, " Published in 1934In closing this brief introduction, I desire to express my appreciation to a number of librarians who have rendered espe cially helpful service in the listing of these titles Mr. Edward C. Starr of the Samuel Colgate Baptist Historical Collection, Miss Esther mcnitt of the Indiana State Library, Miss...

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Excerpt from The Relation of Earning Power to Award of Compensation for Disability Incurred in Military or Naval Service: A Memorandum on the Pensions Practice of Other NationsThe amounts of the different classes of gratuities were fixed by the same decree, modified by the decree of December 29, 1917. They ranged for a private soldier from 100 francs a year for a 10 per cent. Disability to francs for total disability. For the same degree of di...

Printing was introduced into North Carolina in 1749 when James Davis set up a press at New Bern. Davis served North Carolina as its official typographer for many years, printing both official documents and general literature. The vast majority of extant North Carolina imprints are of his printing. This book is a bibliography of those and other imprints available to the historian.Originally published in 1938.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from A Bibliography of Chicago Imprints, 1835-1850I think it unlikely, however, that any large number of additional titles will be subsequently recorded.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving t...

Excerpt from Pamphlets and Books Printed in Buffalo Prior to 1850: Being a Supplement to the List Compiled by Dr. F. H. Severance and Published in the Buffalo Historical Society Publications, Volume 6, Appendix A, 1903On p. 12 is an advertisement of Jairus Handy's Selection of Hymns for Cone ference Meetings, 300 pages, to be ready in November. The advertisement is dated Buffalo, September 15, 1831. See no. 34.About the PublisherForgotten Book...