5 p. l., 260 (i. e. 262) on 131 l., [8] p. incl. front. 21 cm.
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On cover: Ruth Webb Lee's Victorian glass handbook. A handy pocket volume containing all of the photographs and line drawings used in Victorian glass. A comprehensive check list and authoritative guide for collectors.
On cover: A handy pocket volume containing all of the photographs and line drawings used in Early American pressed glass. A comprehensive check list showing examples of approximately 2,000 pieces of early pressed glass.
On cover: A handy pocket volume containing all of the photographs and line drawings used in Sandwich glass. A comprehensive check list and authoritative guide for collectors.
A history of Maryland; from its settlement in 1634 to the year 1848, with an account of its first discovery, and the various explorations of the Chesapeake Bay, anterior to its settlement; to which is added, a copious appendix, containing the names of the officers of the old Maryland line: the lords proprietary of the province, and the governors of Maryland, from its settlement to the present time ... For the use of schools
Family records : mostly of three distinct groups and descendants of Joseph, David and Henry Bauman, who settled as pioneers in Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, up to the year 1825 : each representing one of the three tribes of Christian, Peter and Jacob, respectively, who are children of the old progenitor Wendel Bauman : also an extensive history of family lineages of the early ancestors
Old line Whigs for Buchanan & Breckinridge. Letters from Hon. James Alfred Pearce, and Hon. Thomas G. Pratt, to the Whigs of Maryland. Speeches of Hon. J.W. Crisfield, of Maryland, and Hon. James B. Clay, of Kentucky
Includes the camp -fire on the Susquehanna (p. 268).
Contents
Chapters: Dorchester Heights -- Cambridge -- Mount Independence -- Long Island -- Skippack Creek -- Germantown -- Valley Forge -- Whitemarsh -- White Plains -- Saratoga -- Middlebrook -- On The Susquehanna -- Springfield -- Morristown -- Old Pedee -- The Swamp -- Hills of Santee -- Near Charlestown -- Officer's Carouse
Summary
"Here we have the incidents of various battles, and the exploits of chieftains, told as if by eyewitnesses, and told in the familiar, easily comprehended language of the farmer and mechanic soldiers of the American army." [from the preface]
Wit and humor of the Pennsylvania Germans : a collection of anecdotes, stories, and witticisms : some old, some new : choicest parlor and after-dinner stories
