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Surrey Archaeological Society: Surrey Archaeological Collections General Index Volume XIX, Castle Arch Guiford The Surrey Archaeological Society 1906

Decorative Cloth Very Good/No Jacket First Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Harback Hardback. First Edition. Browning to end inside covers. Slight marks to back cloth. Black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Contents: Reports of Proceedings at Castle Arch, Guildford, in March 1904. Reports of Proceedings Jubilee Celebration, Guildford in April 1904. Reports of Proceedings the Fifteenth Congress of Archaeological Societies at Burlington House in July 1904. Reports of Proceedings Letherhead, Mickleham, Fetcham and Ashtead in July 1904. Reports of Proceedings at Castle Arch, Guildford in March 1905. Reports of Proceedings the Sixteenth Congress of Archaeological Societies at Burlington House in July 1905. Reports of Proceedings Woking, Wisely, and Byfleet in July 1905. Reports of Proceedings Stoke D'Abernon, in September 1905. List of Members. Rules. Library By-Laws. Form of Application For Admission of Members. Roman Coins From Croydon (Constantius II, Constans, Magnentius, and Gallus). Ashted and the De Mara Chantry. Note on a Late Keltic Burial Ground Recently Discovered at Haslemere. The Lay Subsidy Assessments For the County of Surrey in 1593 or 1594, Transcribed From the Origianls in the Public Record Office. The Corporation of Godalminf. Wandsworth Churchwardens' Accounts From 1603 to 1620. Notes: The Old Taverns of Surrey. The Monument to Chief Justice Foster in Egham Church. 'Rack Close', Guildford. St. Mary's Church, Blechingley. The Churches of Letherhead, Mickleham, Fetcham, and Ashtead, as They Were Forty Years Ago. Rake House, Witley. Rectors of Merstham. Ironstone Implements in Surrey. Index to Vol. XIX. Illustrated. 240 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.)

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[BIRDS - AMERICA]. [A Collection of 24 Offprints of Ornithological Articles covering Birds of North and South America].Washington, D.C.; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Ottawa, Ontario; Paris; etc., 1880-1924. 8vo. With 22 plates (including 2 hand-coloured lithographs, 2 colour half-tones, 1 map printed in colour and 16 black & white half-tones) and 26 illustrations in the text. From the collection of Rene Ronsil. Contemporary dark green half sheepskin, marbled sides.
Zoology [Ornithology],Birds, America

ca. 400 pp. in total.An extensive collection of offprints of articles about (North and South) American birds, from a wide variety of (mostly United States) journals from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many include title-pages and most include wrappers with the title on the front. In one case, the author added illustrations that had been (to his annoyance) omitted from the article as published in the journal. Several of the journals are now very hard to come by. There is a manuscript contents list at the end. The volume contains the following 24 items:1) STEJNEGER, Leonhard, "Birds of Kauai Island, Hawakan Archipelago, collected by Mr. Valdemar Knudsen, with descriptions of new species," from: <I>Proceedings of the United States National Museum</I> , vol. X (1887), pp. 75-102. With 1 plate of line illustrations.2) OBERHOLSER, Harry C., "A Revision of the Wrens of the Genus Thryomanes Sclater," from: <I>Proceedings of the United States National Museum</I> , vol. XXI (1898), title + pp. 421-450.3) OBERHOLSER, Harry C., "Notes on some Birds from Santa Barbara Islands, California," from: <I>Proceedings of the United States National Museum</I> , vol. XXII (1900), title + pp. 229-234.4) OBERHOLSER, Harry C., "Some New South American Birds," from: <I>Proceedings of the United States National Museum</I> , vol. XXV (1902), title + pp. 59-68.5) OBERHOLSER, Harry C., "List of Birds Collected by William T. Foster in Paraguay," from: <I>Proceedings of the United States National Museum</I> , vol. XXV (1902), title + pp. 127-147.6) OBERHOLSER, Harry C., "Description of a New Telmatodytes," from: <I>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington</I> , vol. XVI (1903), pp. 149-150.7) ALLEN, Joel Asaph, "The Baeolophus Bicolor-Atricristatus Group," from: <I>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History</I> , vol. XXIII (1907), pp. 467-481.8) MILLER, W. DeWitt, "A Review of the Manakins of the Genus Chiroxiphia," from: <I>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History</I> , vol. XXIV (1908), pp. 331-343. With a map in the text and 1 colour half-tone plate.9) SMITH, Frank, "Double-Crested Cormorants Breeding in Central Illinois," from: <I>The Auk</I> , vol. XXVIII (1911), pp. 17-19. With 4 photographic half-tone illustrations on 2 plates, omitted from the journal but added to this offprint by the author.10) LINCOLN, Frederick C., "Some Notes of the Birds of Rock Canyon, Arizona," from: <I>The Wilson Bulletin: a quarterly journal of Ornithology</I> , vol. XXIX (1917), pp. 65-73. With 6 photographic half-tone plates.11) WILLIAMS, John, "Purple Martins at St. Marks, Florida," from: <I>The Wilson Bulletin: a quarterly journal of Ornithology</I> , vol. XXXI (1919), pp. 71-83.12) WILLIAMS, John, "Notes on Birds of Wakulla County, Florida," from: <I>The Wilson Bulletin: a quarterly journal of Ornithology</I> , vol. XXXII (1920), pp. 5-12.13) CAHN, Alvin R., "The Terns of Weepecket Islands, Massachusetts," from: <I>The Wilson Bulletin: a quarterly journal of Ornithology</I> , vol. XXVIII (1916), pp. 11-18. With 6 photographic half-tone illustrations on 3 plates.14) CAHN, Alvin R., "Bird Notes from Itasca County, Minnesota," from: <I>The Wilson Bulletin: a quarterly journal of Ornithology</I> , vol. XXXII (1920), pp. 103-122. With 2 photographic half-tone illustrations on 1 plate.15) GRINNELL, Joseph, "The Subspecies of <I>Hesperiphona Vespertina</I> ," from: <I>The Condor</I> , vol. XIX (1917), pp. 17-22. With 1 line illustration in the text.16) GRINNELL, Joseph, "The Subspecies of the Mountain Chickadee," from <I>University of California Publications in Zoology</I> , vol. 17 (1918), pp. 505-515. With a map and 1 line illustration in the text.17) HORSFALL, R. Bruce, "Remarkable Habits of the Sage Grouse as observed in southeastern Oregon in May, 1918," from: <I>Zoologica: scientific contributions of the New York Zoological Society</I> , vol. II (1920), title + pp. 243-250. With 1 colour half-tone plate and 7 line illustrations in the text.18) MITCHELL, H. Hedley, "Catalogue of the Birds of Saskatchewan," from: <I>The Canadian Field-Naturalist</I> , vol. XXXVIII (1924), pp. 101-119. With 1 map printed in colour on 1 plate and 6 photographic half-tone illustrations forming 4 plates printed on 2 leaves.19) SCLATER, Philip Lutley, "Remarks on some Species of the Genus <I>Tyrannus</I> ," from: <I>Proceedings of the Zoological Society</I> ?, (1880), pp. 28-30. With 1 hand-coloured lithographic plate and 3 line illustrations in the text.20) JOUY, Pierre Louis, "Notes on Birds of Central Mexico, with descriptions of forms believed to be new," from: <I>Proceedings of the United States National Museum</I> , vol. XVI (1894), pp. 771-791.21) LUCAS, Frederic A., "Notes on the Anatomy and Affinities of the Coerebidae and other American Birds," from: <I>Proceedings of the United States National Museum</I> , vol. XVII (1894), pp. 299-312. With 13 line illustrations in the text.22) MENEGAUX, (Henri) Auguste and Carl-Eduard HELLMAYR, "Etude des Especes Critiques et des Types du Groupe des Passereaux Tracheophones de l'Amerique Tropicale appartenant aux collections du museum [III. Dendrocolaptides.]," from: <I>Memoires de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle d'Autun</I> , vol. XIX (1906), 86 pp. incl. title (= pp. 43-126 in the <I>Memoires</I> ).23) MENEGAUX, (Henri) Auguste and Carl-Eduard HELLMAYR, "Etude des Especes Critiques et des Types du Groupe des Passereaux Tracheophones de l'Amerique Tropicale appartenant aux collections du museum [IV. Formicariides.]," from: <I>Bulletin de la Societe Philomathique de Paris</I> , (1906), pp. 23-58 incl. title.24) HELLMAYR, Carl-Eduard, "Remarks on Some Recently Described Species of <I>Calospiza</I> ," from: <I>The Ibis</I> , (1910), pp. 327-331. With1 hand-coloured lithographic plate.In very good condition, with the edges of a few offprints slightly tattered. A collection of offprints on American ornithology that would now be almost impossible to assemble.

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Protestant Episcopal Church. Protestant Episcopal Church. Bound volume of 17 printed Journals of Proceedings of Conventions mainly in New York City and Philadelphia, dated 1804-1824 as listed & described below. Each with own title page & separate pagination. Bound together. N.Y. & Philadelphia, 1804-1824.
Incls. "Journal Of The Proceedings Of The [Thirty-Fourth] Convention Of The Protestant Epicopal Church Of The State Of New York: Held in Trinity Church...Oct. 17th -19th, A.D. 1820." N.Y., 1820. Prntd. by T.& J. Swords. (51pp.) Same for 1823, 1822, 1821, 1817, 1816, 1812, 1807 and 1804. Somewhat different lengths. Each includes list of clergy by church, town & county, list of lay delegates, list of those present at opening meeting, address on state of PEC in all towns & counties of N.Y., extent of Church resources, missionary work in various places, open letter to clergy & laity, the daily minutes of each day's meeting, reports of missionaries, table of missionary funds collected, PEC church by church listing of number of adult & children baptisms, marriages, burials & communicants by minister & church for the year, also list of Canons passed at the Convention, complete list of clergy of diocess of N.Y. The Journal for 1816 was a minister's copy with his pen name at top, "George Upfold Rector of St. Luke's, N.York and assistant minister of Trinity Church 1821". (Upfold is listed in several lists of clergy in various Journals). One copy of "Documents Respecting The Protestant Episcopal Theological Society In The State Of New York...Establ. in the Convention of the said Church, October, 1820 For The Purpose Of Founding And Supporting Theological Seminaries And Furnishing Aid To Candidates For Holy Orders." N.Y., 1820 (16pp.) Plus "Journal Of The Proceedings Of The Bishops, Clergy, And Laity Of The PEC In the U.S.A. In A General Convention, Held in St. James Church in Philadelphia, 16th-24th May, A.D. 1820." Philadelphia, S. Potter, 1820. (96pp.). Same for Journals Of The Proceedings Of Bishops, Clergy, & Laity held in Philadelphia, New Haven, Baltimore, & N.Y. for years 1823, 1811, 1808 & 1804 (2nd ed. publ. 1813). Each of these of somewhat different lengths includes list of House Of Bishops, clerical & lay deputies, a daily account of the proceedings of the House Of Clerical & Lay Deputies during the Convention incl. all the speeches, motions, addresses, messages & documents, finally a detailed state by state (incl. N.Y., Penn., N.J., R.I., Conn., N. Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Hampshire, Mass., Vermont, Ohio) report on the condition & progress of the PEC , erection of new churches, number of clergy & worshippers, the state of religion in th various places in each state, etc. Following this is a list of Canons passed & appendix reports & documents on the Theological Seminary. other appendices, & a list of clergy of the PEC by state listing ministers, churches, towns. The Journal for 1804 (2nd ed. publ. 1813) was minister George Uphold's copy (see above) with his pen name & pen doodling on title page. Plus "Journal Of The Proceedings Of The [Fortieth Convention] Of The Protestant Episcopal Church, In The State Of Pennsylvania, Held In St. John's Church, In The Borough Of Norristown, on...May 11th-13th, 1824." Philadelphia, 1824 (34pp.). Also: the same for the year 1823. These incl. List Of Clerical And Lay Deputies Who Composed The Convention, the Journal of the daily proceedings incl. speeches. reports, resolutions, motions, Parochial Reports from many Pennsylvania churches reporting on baptisms, marriages, burials, communicants, Bible classes, number of worshippers, etc. The volume as a whole includes several references to one or two black ministers by name, church, town, etc., also a few references to evangelical work among the Indians. There are many examples of churches in various small towns in many states, especially all parts of N.Y. & Pennsylvania. Impt. look at organized Protestant religion in early America. The Trinity Church references in NYC refer to an impt. NYC landmark church still in existence.

16pp.- 115pp. each. Thick 8vo. Orig. 3/4 calf & marble paper over boards. 1st editions except one. Binding rubbed at spine & corners, occas. scattered fxg. & light browning to a few journals. Gd. - VG.

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Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 1957, Entomological Society of Washington, Proceedings, 59 (5) :. Entomological Society of Washington,

1957, Proceedings, 59 (5) :. Printed wraps, usual signs of use and age, very good condition.

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