Staunch (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Sourcebook on Medical Law (Sourcebook S.) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. ock Chickamauga," the staunch Virginian who remained faithful to the Union- General Robert E. Lee, who refused to fight against his state, his family, and his friends; and the humble people, North and South, who bore the brunt of the terrible conflict. He (illustrator). The story of a southern Illinois family, torn between loyalty to their southern back-ground and loyalty to their country; of young Jethro Creighton, who bore the burden of a man's work as a boy of ten, when the men went off to fight; of a family, a county, a state, a nation, in the agony of a fratricidal war. April was blooming in the land when the news of the surrender of Fort Sumter came to the southern Illinois countryside. From that day on the singing of the birds was a crying, and the hard work in the fields was made heavier by the hard news of battles lost and young men slain. The great figures of the war move across the pages: Lincoln and Grant and Sherman- General George Thomas, the "rock Chickamauga," the staunch Virginian remained faithful to the Union-Get Robert E. Lee, who refused to fight against his state, his family, and his friends; and the humble people, North and South, who bore the brunt of the terrible conflict. Here is an unforgettable story of a tragic and crucial period in our country's history.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hard cover. This is a very old book and has been use quite a bit. It has been patched and it is loose in the boards.The front end paper is stained. There is a picture of 2 dogs and the hunter, near the title page. .146 pages are clean and unmarked. It covers several breeds, gray hound. setters, springing spaniel and more. This quite a book for a collection of Hunting or Raising Dogs.

o. O. u. J. [ca. 1886]. Bildgröße (inkl. gestoch. Bildunterschrift) 12,5 x 14,8 cm, Blattmaß 18,5 x 25 cm. Feinkartonpassepartout mit Linieneinfassung. Verso Text (Beginn des Gedichtes A Sensitive Plant von P. B. Shelley). - Papier schwach gebräunt.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB, which states that 'it fell to him in October 1805 to wake Lord Barham, as first lord of the Admiralty, with the news of victory at Trafalgar and the death of Nelson'. 1p, folio. Discoloration and wear along gutter, with two leaves half detached from head; otherwise in good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice into a packet. On recto of first leaf of bifolium, the second leaf being blank, apart from one word of docketing in manuscript 'Staunch'. (The recipient of the notice was the captain of HMS Staunch was a 1797 12-gun Courser-class gun-brig.) The document is a printed circular, the only manuscript being Marsden's signature and the number of the day of the month. It reads: 'Admiralty Office, [7] July, 1800. / Sir, / I AM commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to send you herewith a Printed Copy of His Majesty's Order in Council dated the 28th of May last, in respect to the Books hereafter to be made out whenever any of His Majesty's Ships shall come in course of Pay, or be directed to be paid off, and in like manner when Men are discharged by Pay Lists; and to signify their Lordships direction to you to cause the Regulations therein pointed out to be adopted and carried into execution in future. / I am, / Sir, / Your very humble Servant, / [Wm Marsden]'.

Condition: Very good. Spiegel Grove, Freemont, February 12, 1888., 1888. Very good. - Over 100 words penned on 8-1/2 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide creamy white watermarked linen paper. The former president Rutherford B. Hayes writes that he has "been a member of the National Prison Association Many years and am familiar with its work." He goes on to mention that William F. Round had been the association's secretary as well as the secretary of the Prison Society of New York, but has stepped down due to ill health. ".the Eminent secretary of the Illinois Board of Charities has taken the place of Mr. Round, and is altogether competent and worthy." Signed in full "Rutherford B. Hayes". Folded horizontally and vertically for mailing with minor ink smudges to the top corners. Very good. Having served as Cincinatti's city solicitor where he defended refugee slaves in court and subsequently wounded several times as a Union Army officer in the Civil War, Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893) was elected as the 19th president of the United States in 1877. He had previously served as a U.S. Congressman and as Governor of Ohio. After retiring from the presidency, Hayes, a proponent of prison reform, served as the first president of the National Prison Association from 1883 until his death. He devoted his later years to promoting good causes, including temperance and African-American education, personally awarding a scholarship to the budding author W.E.B. Dubois.