Cousin Sam's Library

15 years ago, I had accumulated a fairly respectable personal library on various subjects, many of which were reprints or old copies of out-of-print books. Most were either lost or stolen while moving during the mid-90s. Thanks to the Archive project, I can replace many of them on line at no cost, and locate many other volumes that I had wanted. By using links in this blog, I can share them with anyone having similar interests, and access them without having to search.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Saturday, December 17, 2011

INDEX: Q-R

Quebec

RAPHAEL (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)

Rhode Island (RI)

RAPHAEL (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Raffaello_Sanzio

Pala Ansidei:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PalaAnsidei.jpg

Friday, December 16, 2011

INDEX: D

DALI, SALVADOR (1904-1989)

Delaware (DE)

Dickens, Charles

District of Columbia (DC)

DODGE, MARY MAPES

DURER, ALBRECHT (1471-1528)

SALVADOR DALI

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD

Christ of Saint John of the Cross
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_of_Saint_John_of_the_Cross

INDEX: T

Tennessee (TN)

Texas (TX)

TITIAN

THIAN, RAPHAEL P.

TWAIN, MARK

TITIAN

Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490^[1] – 27 August 1576^[2] known in English as Titian (/ˈtɪʃən/) was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto), in the Republic of Venice. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth.
Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars" (recalling the famous final line of Dante's Paradiso), Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of color, would exercise a profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art.^[3]
During the course of his long life, Titian's artistic manner changed drastically^[4] but he retained a lifelong interest in color. Although his mature works may not contain the vivid, luminous tints of his early pieces, their loose brushwork and subtlety of polychromatic modulations are without precedent in the history of Western art.

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titian

Titian Paintings
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Titian+Paintings&qpvt=Titian&view=large&FORM=O1FD2#x0y0

The National Gallery, London
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/titian

ArtCyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/titian.html

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

APOCRYPHA AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHA

The apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English : with introductions and critical and explanatory notes to the several books (1913)
Charles, R. H. (Robert Henry)
Oxford - Clarendon Press
Vol. 1:
http://www.archive.org/details/apocryphapseudep01charuoft
Vol. 2:
http://www.archive.org/details/apocryphapseudep02charuoft

The book of Jasher: referred to in Joshua and second Samuel:
http://www.archive.org/details/bookofjasherrefe00sefe

The Book of Jasher : one of the sacred books of the Bible long lost or undiscovered ; now offered in photographic reproduction of the version by Alcuin (1981):
http://www.archive.org/details/bookofjasheroneo00iliv

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Big Bend History

Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington (1904)

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A History of Coulee City, Washington, by Leslie Edwin Lillquist (unpublished manuscript)
(bibliography includes the following:)

Hawthorne, Julian (ed.). History of Washington. Vol. II. New York: American Historical Publishing Company., 1893.
Vol. I: http://www.archive.org/details/historyofwashing01hawt
Vol. II: http://www.archive.org/details/historyofwashing02hawt

Judson, Katharine Berry. Early Days in Old Oregon. Portland, Oregon: Binfords and Mort, 1916.
http://www.archive.org/details/earlydaysinoldor00juds

Steele, Richard F. An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country. Spokane, Wash.: Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.
pt. 1: http://www.archive.org/details/illustratedhisto01stee
pt. 2: http://www.archive.org/details/illustratedhisto02stee
C. S. - Much of this Book is also available in this blog:
http://cousinsam.blogspot.com/2011/09/history-of-big-bend-country.html

Trimble, William, The Mining Advance into the Inland Empire. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1914.
http://www.archive.org/details/miningadvanceint00trimrich

Tyrell, J. B. David Thompson's Narrative of His Explorations in Western America 1784-1812. Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1916.
http://www.archive.org/details/davidthompsonsn00tyrrgoog

Wilkes, Charles. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expeditin During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845.
C. S. - go to http://cousinsamslibrary.blogspot.com/2011/12/charles-wilkes-1798-1877.html

CHARLES WILKES 1798 - 1877

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Charles Wilkes (April 3, 1798 – February 8, 1877) was an American naval officer and explorer. He led the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 and commanded the ship in the Trent Affair during the American Civil War (1861–1865). Although credited with several "firsts", his behavior led to two convictions at court-martial.

Early life and career

Wilkes was born in New York City, on April 3, 1798, as the great nephew of the former Lord Mayor of London John Wilkes. His mother was Mary Seton, who died in 1802 when Charles was just three years old. As a result, Charles was raised by his aunt, Elizabeth Ann Seton, a convert to Roman Catholicism who was the first American-born woman to be canonized a saint by the Catholic Church. When Elizabeth was left widowed with five children, Charles was sent to a boarding school, and later attended Columbia College, which is the present-day Columbia University. He entered the United States Navy as a midshipman in 1818, and became a lieutenant in 1826.
In 1833, for his survey of Narragansett Bay, he was placed in charge of the Navy's Department of Charts and Instruments, out of which developed the Naval Observatory and Hydrographic Office. Wilkes' interdisciplinary expedition (1838–1842) set a physical oceanography benchmark for the office's first superintendent Matthew Fontaine Maury.

Columbian Institute

During the 1820s, Wilkes was a member of the prestigious society, Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, which counted among its members former presidents Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams and many prominent men of the day, including well-known representatives of the military, government service, medical and other professions.^[1]

The South Seas expedition

n 1838, although not yet a seasoned naval line officer, Wilkes was experienced in nautical survey work, and was working with civilian scientists. Upon this background, he was given command of the government exploring expedition "... for the purpose of exploring and surveying the Southern Ocean, . . . as well to determine the existence of all doubtful islands and shoals, as to discover, and accurately fix, the position of those which [lay] in or near the track of our vessels in that quarter, and [might] have escaped the observation of scientific navigators." The U.S. Exploring Squadron was authorized by act of the Congress on May 18, 1836.
The United States Exploring Expedition, commonly known as the "Wilkes Expedition", included naturalists, botanists, a mineralogist, taxidermists, artists and a philologist, and was carried by the USS Vincennes (780 tons) and Peacock (650 tons), the brig Porpoise (230 tons), the store-ship Relief, and two schooners, Sea Gull (110 tons) and Flying Fish (96 tons).^[2]
Departing from Hampton Roads on August 18, 1838, the expedition stopped at the Madeira Islands and Rio de Janeiro, Argentina; visited Tierra del Fuego, Chile, Peru, the Tuamotu Archipelago, Samoa, and New South Wales; from Sydney, Australia sailed into the Antarctic Ocean in December 1839 and reported the discovery "of an Antarctic continent west of the Balleny Islands". Next, the expedition visited Fiji and the Hawaiian Islands in 1840. In July 1840, two sailors, one of whom was Wilkes' nephew, Midshipman Wilkes Henry, were killed while bartering for food on Fiji's Malolo Island. Wilkes retribution was swift and severe. According to an old man of Malolo Island, nearly 80 Fijians were killed in the incident.
From December 1840 to March 1841, he employed hundreds of native Hawaiian porters and many of his men to haul a pendulum to the summit of Mauna Loa to measure gravity. Instead of using the existing trail, he blazed his own way, taking much longer than he anticipated. The conditions on the mountain reminded him of Antarctica. Many of his crew suffered snow blindness, altitude sickness and foot injuries from wearing out their shoes.^[3]

Pacific Northwest:
1841 Map of the Oregon Territory
from Narative of the United
States Exploring Expedition

He explored the west coast of North America, including the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Puget Sound, the Columbia River, San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento River, in 1841. He held the first American Independence Day celebration west of the Mississippi River in Dupont, Washington on July 5, 1841.^[4]^[5]
The United States Exploring Expedition passed through the Ellice Islands and visited Funafuti, Nukufetau and Vaitupu in 1841.^[6] The expedition returned by way of the Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, Borneo, Singapore, Polynesia and the Cape of Good Hope, reaching New York on June 10, 1842.
After having completely encircled the globe (his was the last all-sail naval mission to do so), Wilkes had logged some 87,000 miles and lost two ships and 28 men. Wilkes was court-martialled upon his return for the loss of one of his ships on the Columbia River bar, for the regular mistreatment of his subordinate officers, and for excessive punishment of his sailors. A major witness against him was ship doctor Charles Guillou.^[7] He was acquitted on all charges except illegally punishing men in his squadron. For a short time, he was attached to the Coast Survey, but from 1844 to 1861, he was chiefly engaged in preparing the report of the expedition.
His Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition (5 volumes and an atlas) were published in 1844. He edited the scientific reports of the expedition (20 volumes and 11 atlases, 1844–1874) and was the author of Vol. XI (Meteorology) and Vol. XIII (Hydrography). Alfred Thomas Agate, engraver and illustrator, was the designated portrait and botanical artist of the expedition. His work was used to illustrate the Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition.^[8]
The Narrative contains much interesting material concerning the manners, customs, political and economic conditions in many places then little known. Wilkes' 1841 Map of the Oregon Territory pre-dated John Charles Fremont's first Oregon Trail pathfinder expedition guided by Kit Carson during 1842.
Other valuable contributions were the three reports of James Dwight Dana on Zoophytes (1846), Geology (1849) and Crustacea (1852–1854). Moreover, the specimens and artifacts brought back by expedition scientists ultimately formed the foundation for the Smithsonian Institution collection. In addition to many shorter articles and reports, Wilkes published the major scientific works Western America, including California and Oregon in 1849, and Theory of the Winds in 1856.

Vol. I: http://www.archive.org/details/unitedstatesexpl01unitrich
Vol. II: http://www.archive.org/details/unitedstatesexpl02unitrich
Vol. III: http://www.archive.org/details/unitedstatesexpl03unitrich
Vol. IV: http://www.archive.org/details/unitedstatesexpl04unitrich
Vol. V: http://www.archive.org/details/unitedstatesexpl05unitrich
Vol. VI: http://www.archive.org/details/unitedstatesexpl06unitrich
Vol. VII: http://www.archive.org/details/unitedstatesexpl07unitrich

Vol. X: http://www.archive.org/details/unitedstatesexpl10unitrich
Vol. XI: http://www.archive.org/details/unitedstatesexpl11unitrich

Vol. XIII: http://www.archive.org/details/unitedstatesexpl13unitrich

Vol. XX: http://www.archive.org/details/unitedstatesexpl20unitrich

Vol. XXIII: http://www.archive.org/details/unitedstatesexpl23unitrich

EDMUND S. MEANY

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Edmond S. Meany circa 1909

Edmond S. Meany (1862-1935) was a professor of botany and history at the University of Washington and a UW alumnus, having graduated as the valedictorian of his class in 1885. Meany further received a Master of Science from the University of Washington in 1899, a Master of Letters from the University of Wisconsin in 1901, and an honorary Doctor of Laws from the College of Puget Sound in 1926. He was a Washington state legislator for the 1891 and 1893 sessions and was also an active supporter of the local Boy Scout organization, the Seattle Area Council. From 1906 until his death, he served as managing editor of the Washington Historical Quarterly (renamed the Pacific Northwest Quarterly the year after his death). From 1908 until his death, he also served as president of the Mountaineers.
Mount Meany in the Olympic Mountains, Meany Crest on Mount Rainier, Meany Hall for the Performing Arts on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington, Camp Meany (a Cub Scout camp on the Olympic Peninsula from 1939 to 1942 and now a part of Camp Parsons), and Meany Middle School in Seattle, Washington are all named in his honor.
Edmond Meany died of a stroke in Denny Hall, on the University of Washington campus, on April 22, 1935, minutes before a lecture on the History of Canada.

Books

Origin of Washington Geographic Names. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1923.

History of the State of Washington. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910.
http://www.archive.org/details/historystatewas01meangoog
or http://www.archive.org/details/historyofstateof00meanuoft

New Log of the Columbia. Seattle; University of Washingto Press, 1921.
http://www.archive.org/details/newlogofcolumbia00boit

Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907.
http://www.archive.org/details/vancouversdisco00meangoog

Governors of Washington. Seattle: Department of Printing, University of Washington, 1915.
http://www.archive.org/details/governorsofwashi00mean

and Elwood Evans. The State of Washington. Tacoma: World's Fair Commission of the State of Washington, 1893.
http://www.archive.org/details/stateofwashingto00washuoft