Bøger af Elkanah Watson

Title: Men and times of the revolution, or, Memoirs of Elkanah Watson: including journals of travels in Europe and America, from 1777 to 1842, with his correspondence with public men and reminiscences and incidents of the revolution.Author: Elkanah WatsonPublisher: 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 LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00679200CollectionID: CTRG10189454-BPublicationDate: 18560101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Collation: xvi, 460 p.; 23 cm

Title: History of the rise, progress, and existing condition of the western canals in the state of New-York: from September 1788, to the completion of the middle section of the Grand Canal, in 1819: together with the rise, progress, and existing state of modern agricultural societies, on the Berkshire system ...Author: Elkanah WatsonPublisher: 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 LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00640000CollectionID: CTRG10182018-BPublicationDate: 18200101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: T.p. vignette. Added t.p. facing p. 104: History of agricultural societies, on the modern Berkshire system. From the year 1807, to the establishment of the State Board of Agriculture in Albany, January 10, 1820. (Albany: Published by D. Steele. packward & Van Benthuysen, printers. 1820); p. [111]-210. Specimen of a certificate of membership for the a "Society for promoting Agriculture and Domestic Manufactures" bound between p. 168 and 169. Signed "Published and sold by Ralph Rowdon Engraver. Albany."Collation: 210 p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded): ill., maps, port.; 23 cm