A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and Physical MineralogyWiley, 1877 - 537 Seiten |
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Seite 432 - PRINCIPLES OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, with special reference to the late researches made in England.
Seite 435 - Artists and Amateurs in Oil Painting; being chiefly a condens.ed compilation from the celebrated Manual of Bouvier, with additional matter selected from the labors of Merriwell, De Montalbert, and other distinguished Continental writers on the art.
Seite 440 - Pattern Making." 417 pp. I2mo. . . • $J.-7S LUKIN.— The Lathe and Its Uses: Or Instruction in the Art of Turning Wood and Metal. Including a Description of the Most Modern Appliances for the Ornamentation of Plane and Curved Surfaces...
Seite 437 - COLBURN LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING AND THE MECHANISM OF RAILWAYS. A Treatise on the Principles and Construction of the Locomotive Engine, Railway Carriages, and Railway Plant, with examples. Illustrated by Sixty-four large engravings and two hundred and forty woodcuts. By Zerah Colburn. Complete, 20 parts, $15.00; or 2 vols.
Seite 433 - IV. An Itinerary of the Children of Israel from Egypt to the Promised Land. V. A Chronological comparative Table of the Kings and Prophets of Israel and Judah.
Seite 442 - A TREATISE on the SCREW PROPELLER, SCREW VESSELS, and Screw Engines, as adapted for purposes of Peace and War ; with Notices of other Methods of Propulsion, Tables of the Dimensions and Performance of Screw Steamers, and detailed Specifications of Ships and Engines.
Seite 431 - THE FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES OF AMERICA, Or, the Culture, Propagation, and Management in the Garden and Orchard of Fruit Trees generally; with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated In this country.
Seite 447 - THE TRUE AND THE BEAUTIFUL IN NATURE. ART, MORALS, AND RELIGION. Selected from the Works of John Ruskin, AM With a notice of the author by Mrs.
Seite 433 - THE HOLY SCRIPTURES OF THE OLD AND NEW BIBLE. TESTAMENTS; with copious references to parallel and illustrative passages, and the alternate pages ruled for MS. notes. This edition of the Scriptures contains the Authorized Version, illustrated by the references of "Bagster's Polyglot Bible," and enriched with accurate maps, useful tables, and an Index of Subjects.
Seite 431 - ... including their Culture, Propagation, and Management in the Garden and Orchard, with a Guide to the selection of Fruits, with reference to the Time of Ripening. By Chas. Downing. Illustrated with upwards of four hundred outlines of Apples,. Cherries, Grapes, Plums, Pears, &o.