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Title: Anniversary oration, pronounced before the Society of
Artists of the United States: by appointment of the Society, on the
eighth of May, 1811.Author: Benjamin Henry LatrobePublisher: 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: SABCP01915900CollectionID:
CTRG96-B1149PublicationDate: 18110101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: 32 p.; 23 cm
Georgia Institute Of Technology, Engineering Experiment Station,
No. 25.
Title: American Copper-Mines. Arguments in favour of an act of
incorporation of a mine and metal company, etc.]Publisher: British
Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the
national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's
largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all
known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The GEOLOGY collection includes books from
the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The works in this
collection contain a number of maps, charts, and tables from the
16th to the 19th centuries documenting geological features of the
natural world. Also contained are textbooks and early scientific
studies that catalogue and chronicle the human stance toward water
and land use. Readers will further enjoy early historical maps of
rivers and shorelines demonstrating the artistry of journeymen,
cartographers, and illustrators. ++++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: ++++ British Library Latrobe,
Benjamin Henry Boneval; 1800?] 8 . 7107.aaa.30.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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British-born Benjamin Latrobe is best known to American history for
his design of the United States Capitol, as well as Baltimore's
cathedral. After settling first in Virginia, then relocating to
Philadelphia, Latrobe spent much of his later life in Washington,
D.C., where he was hired as Surveyor of the Public Buildings of the
United States. Latrobe worked in Greek revival and Gothic Revival
styles, and was highly interested in urban planning, particularly
as it was affected by public health. Covering the years 1796 to
1820, The Journal of Latrobe is a "collection of observations and a
record of facts." The work describes his life and projects in
Virginia, Philadelphia, and finally New Orleans, where he died of
the yellow fever he caught while working on a waterworks project
there. These are the acute observations of an "architect,
naturalist and traveler," with commentary on social mores and
manners, as well as the development of cities and towns,
particularly Washington, D.C., in a booming post-war America.
British-born Benjamin Latrobe is best known to American history for
his design of the United States Capitol, as well as Baltimore's
cathedral. After settling first in Virginia, then relocating to
Philadelphia, Latrobe spent much of his later life in Washington,
D.C., where he was hired as Surveyor of the Public Buildings of the
United States. Latrobe worked in Greek revival and Gothic Revival
styles, and was highly interested in urban planning, particularly
as it was affected by public health. Covering the years 1796 to
1820, The Journal of Latrobe is a "collection of observations and a
record of facts." The work describes his life and projects in
Virginia, Philadelphia, and finally New Orleans, where he died of
the yellow fever he caught while working on a waterworks project
there. These are the acute observations of an "architect,
naturalist and traveler," with commentary on social mores and
manners, as well as the development of cities and towns,
particularly Washington, D.C., in a booming post-war America.
THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno,
which appears here for the first time in its entirety in English
translation, must rank among the most significant to have come down
to us from that notable age of barbarism, the twentieth century.
Benjamin and Adorno formed a uniquely powerful pair. Benjamin,
riddle-like in his personality and given to tactical evasion, and
Adorno, full of his own importance, alternately support and compete
with each other throughout the correspondence, until its imminent
tragic end becomes apparent to both writers. Each had met his
match, and happily, in the other. This book is the story of an
elective affinity. Adorno was the only person who managed to
sustain an intimate intellectual relationship with Benjamin for
nearly twenty years. No one else, not even Gershom Scholem, coaxed
so much out of Benjamin.
The more than one hundred letters in this book will allow
readers to trace the developing character of Benjamin's and
Adorno's attitudes toward each other and toward their many friends.
When this book appeared in German, it caused a sensation because it
includes passages previously excised from other German editions of
the letters -- passages in which the two friends celebrate their
own intimacy with frank remarks about other people. Ideas presented
elliptically in the theoretical writings are set forth here with
much greater clarity. Not least, the letters provide material
crucial for understanding the genesis of Benjamin's Arcades
Project.
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