john corning (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:0872900630.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. First Edition. G: in good condition. Cover rubbed. Edge stainto front board. Some pages unopened. 250mm x 160mm (10" x 6"). 234pp. Frontispiece tissue guarded portrait illustration. Blue hardback board cover with buff cloth spine.

Zustand: Fine. 1 leaf, 162 x 135 mm. Cashier's check of the Mechanics and Farmers' Bank made out to Erastus Corning, Mayor of Albany, in the amount of $50,000. Signed on recto by New York Secretary of State (and later Governor, Senatory, and Civil War General) John A. Dix, comptroller Azariah C. Flagg, and Surveyor General William Campbell. Endorsed on verso to chamberlain P.V. Shankland, and signed by Corning. A check $50,000 drawn on the Mechanics and Farmers Bank, payable to Erastus Corning as Mayor of Albany, and endorsed by him on verso. Corning was an American industrialist whose speculations in land, manufacturing, and transportation made him one of the wealthiest men in the United States. His Albany Iron Works provided material for the Union army during the Civil War. The Erie Canal, which linked the Hudson River to Lake Erie, was the Interstate of its day, and the foundation of New York's economic expansion in the first half of the 19th century. The railroads rendered it obsolete, but in 1836 the city fathers of Albany, apparently ignoring that writing on the wall, raised funds to expand the canal from 40 feet wide to 70, and deepen it from 4 feet to 7, enabling it to handle much larger boats carrying much more cargo.

Zustand: Very Good. Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes, 1930. Limited Edition of 225 copies. Two tall octavo volumes. 277, 278 pp. Blue paper-covered boards with cloth spines and decorative gilt medallions to front. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Boards lightly edgeworn with brief exposure to corners; soiling along top edge of volume II. Bindings sound. Gift inscription to a Malcolm Bell from a Chauncey Nash dated 1966 to front free endpaper; additional Audubon stamp to same. Interiors else unmarked. Slipcase worn with exposure along edges and cracked along rear vertical edge and starting along top, though still structurally holding soundly. Overall a Very Good set.