Title: Transatlantic tracings and popular pictures from American subjects.Author: John Ross DixPublisher: 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: SABCP01006900CollectionID: CTRG93-B430PublicationDate: 18530101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Collation: 337 p., 1] leaf of plates: port.; 19 cm

Title: Local loiterings: and visits in the vicinity of Boston.Author: John Ross DixPublisher: 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: SABCP01001300CollectionID: CTRG93-B470PublicationDate: 18450101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Collation: 147 p.; 19 cm

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ 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 ensure edition identification: ++++ Jack Ariel, Or, Life On Board An Indiaman, Volume 1; Jack Ariel, Or, Life On Board An Indiaman; John Davis John Davis, John Ross Dix T. C. Newby, 1847

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ 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 ensure edition identification: ++++ The Worth Of The Worthless: A Christmas And New Year's Story John Ross Dix Published under the direction of the Shakespeare Division of Sons of Temperance, No. 46, 1854

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed worksworldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.++++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 ensure edition identification: ++++ Jack Ariel, Or, Life On Board An Indiaman, Volume 3; Jack Ariel, Or, Life On Board An Indiaman; John Davis John Davis, John Ross Dix T. C. Newby, 1847

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, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO DANIEL FARRAR, Esq. OF BOSTON, IIA 88. Dear Sin: I feel no little pleasure in inscribing this Story to you, whose life afl'ords a practical exposition of that "law of kindness" which is enforced in it. More I need not say, for I feel assured that public praise would be distasteful to you, though none would more cheerfully accord it than, Dear Sir, Faithfully Yours, JOHN ROSS DIX December, 1853. CHAPTER I. It has come once more Three hundred and sixty-five unseen messengers upon soundless wings, have, the latest of them with frost, and snow, and blustering wind, brought to home, hearth and heart, the genial season. Bar the doors and draw the blinds; and let the flames from the huge log flash and flare to welcome its approach. Bar the door oh, no ?fling it open wide, though the snow flakes, driven by the sharp gusts from without, glitter for an instant, then dissolve in the soft warm atmosphere, and fall like dew on the floor. Wide open?that the cheering sound of wandering Christmas minstrels, chiming their carols, may reach us, as we sit reddening in the comfortable blaze. Wide open, that the sound of village bells may float to our fireside. Wide open, that the beggar and the outcast may, so they will, enter and welcome, for Christmas Eve is come Come to troops of romping girls and boys, shiny-faced and saucy; for the merry old Greybeard has, with frosty fingers, written the magic word " Holiday " on the windows of Doctor Bogie's "Establishment," and of the Misses Bluehose's " Seminary." Come to comfortable Fathers and Mothers in comfortable parlors, who have had Christmas candles lighted, and cakes made, and snap-dragons manufactured, and no end ofdainties provided for a jolly children's party, in which they themselves mean to be children...