Gen john meredith read (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. The De Vinne press, 1894. 116 pages. Lime green cloth, gold decor, top page edges gold gilt, other edges rough-cut. Frontispiece portrait. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. Size: 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Memorial volume. Active in charitable works, Trustee of the Greenwich Bank for savings, director South Carolina railway, vice-president American Geographical Society, trustee NY Social Library, NY Institution for the Blind, Samaritan Home for the Aged, Supporter of the Union, special policeman in the NY draft riots. Proponent of the NY State Survey, a trigonometric survey of the State of New York. President of the Nicaragua Canal project. Contents: Introductory remarks; Francis Aquila Stout. A Study (biography); The Nicaragua Canal; Notices of the Press; Resolutions of Societies. Biography 7280.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. RAre copy of this 115 page biography of Stout - literaery man, civil engineer, Union Army supporter, associate of the American Geographical Society, American patriot, "typical New Yorker", etc. Binding has minor wear, light soils, minor foxing on endpapers. Book.…