And Adapted to the New Practice in the States of Missouri, California, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and Alabama; The Territories of Oregon and Minnesota, and the Island of Newfoundland, with Copious Notes and Authorities to Which are Added Forms in Submissions of Controversy Without Action; In Proceedings Against Joint Debtors, Etc.; And of Judgments by Confession. 541 pages with index. Full leather covers with red and black title bars and gilt lettering on spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed, edges rubbed, plenty of rubbing and scuffing to cover faces, some areas with tears to l... View More...
Road from Zanesville, Ohio, to St. Louis, Missouri. 20th Congress, 2d Session, House of Representatives, Executive Doc. No. 113. February 7, 1829.--Referred to the Committee on Roads and Canals. 12 pp. Foldout table of expenses for the road. Uncut edge on table. Disbound government document. Residue from book remains on spine. Creasing to spine edge. Browning and light foxing to document. Front lower corner is torn and missing. Last page has uncut edge and creased top corner, with extra paper exposed at top. Document in VG- condition. View More...
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XIX, Part VI. 24 illustrations of this Missouri cave including carvings on bones. Pages 293-335 . Exterior stiff covers are Very Good to Very Good +. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. View More...
Edited By John C. Ewers. Civilization of the American Indian series.217 pp. including Index and Bibliography. ex.lib. markings. Front cover 2 white blemishs? otherwise covers are VG. Description flap from DJ glued to front free endpaper. College library bookplate glued on front endpaper. Library stamp and numbers on Editor's Acknowledgment page. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. View More...
Held at Southeast Missouri State University, April 28, 1972. Sponsored by School of Forestry, University of Missouri-Columbia. Bulletin, Vol.1 (Supplement). 115 pp. Contents: Biological control of insects and weeds; Pesticides and the aquatic environment; The ecological and physiological effects of insecticides on Missouri mammals; A Critical examination of pesticides and pesticide regulation; EPA pesticides policies and regulations; The great trial of science and scientists; The pesticide question: An examination by an environmentalist and Controlling the gypsy moth. Front cover's bottom edge... View More...
Contributions to the History of Education. Historical Sketch of the University of Missouri. 72 pp. including Appendix and Index. In the Introduction a 3 page Table "Synopsis of Proposed Centennial History of American Education: 1776-1876" giving "The Grade or kind of instruction"; Educational topics"; and "Influences and results". Starting on pp. 15: HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, Prepared at the Request of the United States Commissioner of Education by the Late Daniel Read, LL.D., President of the University. 11 engravings of different buildings o... View More...
27th Congress, 3d Session, Rep. No. 278, Ho. of Reps. "Mr. Steenrod, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, submitted the following Report: The Committee on Roads and Canals, to whom were referred sundry memorials from citizens of the United States, praying that Congress would complete the Cumberland road east of the State of Ohio, by erecting a bridge over the river Ohio, at the city of Wheeling, in the State of Virginia, make the following report:..." 2 pp. Disbound government document. Edges are chipped and torn, particularly along spine edge. Paper is brown, text easily legible. D... View More...
27th Congress, 3d Session, House of Representatives, Rep. No. 272. February 23, 1843. Referred to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union. "On Motion of Mr. Triplett, Ordered, That the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the bill No. 348, for the relief of Henry M. Shreve, and to authorize the purchase of his patent for a snag boat, be discharged, and that the said bill be recommended to the Select Committee by whom the same was reported, of which Mr. Cross was chairman." 12 pp. Disbound government document. Back two pages are separated from rest of do... View More...
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Tranmitting a communication from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, accompanied by opinions and arguments respecting claims to land in Missouri, embraced in the reports of the board of commissioners at St. Louis, &c. 24th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives Treasury Department, Doc. No. 270. Read, and laid upon the table. June 3, 1836. 168 pp. Disbound government document. Residue from book remains on spine. Library stamp from the House of Representatives library in the middle of page 50 and a blue ink smudge also on page,... View More...
Annual Report submitted by Alex. H. H. Stuart, Secretary (Alexander Hugh Holmes STUART,served as Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Fillmore from September 16, 1850, to March 6, 1853);showing receipts and expenditures for 1851, surveys of public and private land claims,in Illinois and Missouri, including tables and Report of the Surveyor General of Oregon with tables. 31 pps. Disbound but intact. Document is Very Good. View More...
Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting, with a Letter from the Acting Chief of Engineers, Report of a Survey of Egyptian Levee. 54th Congress, 2d Session, House of Representatives, Document No. 223. January 28, 1897--Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and ordered to be printed. 8 pp. Very large fold-out map. Disbound government document. Residue and string-tie from book remains on spine, with some small tears and holes from binding. Edges are creased and lightly browning, very light waterstain to top of pages 5-8. Map appears in VG condition, but there are some sma... View More...
The Contributions of the Ancient Dramatic Poets to Our Knowledge of the Arts and Crafts of Greece. Four "volumes": Volume II, Part I and II on Sculpture 1931. Volume III, Part I and II on Painting and Allied Arts, 1932. The University of Missouri Studies. A Quarterly of Research.Volume II, Part I and II:Sculpture. Contents: Archaic Period; Transition Period; Fifth Century; Sculpture of Unknown Authorship and Unknown Time; Sculpture in the Theater, Wood Carvings; Metal Work, Articles for the Boudoir, for Use in the Service of the gods; Funeral Urns; and Coinage. pp.331-597. 45 illus... View More...
Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, Vol.XI, No. 4. The Relation of Direct to Reversed Photographic Pictures pp. 31-62. Most pages uncut. and The Specific Heat of Gaseous Nebulae in Gravitational Contraction, pp.63-70. Some pages and plates uncut at top edge. Plates II-X. Covers detached from text. Missing some pieces at edges and on spine. Front/back attached. Overall covers are Good. Side edge partly untrimmed. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good. Laid in advertising sheet for ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM, A MATHEMATICAL TREATISE, by Francis E. Nipher. View More...
And on the Subject of Obstructive Bridges Across, and of Flood Conditions in, Kansas River at and Near its Mouth. Kansas (KAW) and Missouri Rivers. 58th Congress, 2d Session, Senate, Document No. 160. February 15, 1904.--Laid on the table and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. 133 pp. 18 b/w photographs depicting damage caused by flood. Disbound government document. Residue and string-ties from book remains on spine. Chipping to bottom front page corner, and back page top corner is dog-earred. Some waviness to plates. Document in VG- condition. View More...
"The purpose of Nature Study in the elementary grades is to awaken in the child a love for the beautiful in nature, to cultivate his powers of observation and to stimulate in him a desire for investigation." Table listing of one lesson per week for each grade from first to eighth, with suggestions on topics including Health Lessons, Plants, Animals and Inorganic Nature. 11 pp. Paper covers. Cover edges and corners are worn, edges are faded/discolored, covers smudged and dirty. Minor creasing to interior pages, otherwise clean. Pamphlet in Good to Good+ condition. View More...
"The following catalogue is, I believe, the first publication of any list of the plants of the State, excepting a 'Partial Catalogue of the Plants of Ilinois and Missouri' published by Mr. Geyer about 1842 which has long been out of print." Author was Professor of Botany, Missouri State University. 106 pp. ex. mus. numbers on cover. soiling and paper residue on front cover, otherwise Good+. mild chipping to paper spine. Interior is clean, tight and in VG condition. Samuel Mills Tracy was a naturalist, botanist, and agronimist. He devoted his life to the study of plants and their econom... View More...
Gift inscription on front free endpaper SIGNED by author. Preface: " This volume has been printed...solely to gratify the vanity of the author, who egotistically believes that here and there will be found an original idea admirably expressed....The selections herein contained were written over a period of many years,...dates given in footnotes, so that the interested reader, if so inclined may observe the changes in the author's views as they have occurred." 306 pp. Front cover with gilt lettering. Discolored and stained from dampness? Slight "bleeding" on free endpaper side ed... View More...
