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FORT ROCK BASIN : PREHISTORY AND ENVIRONMENT; Fireward by L.S. Cressman

Small Quarto, 10.25 in. x 6.75 in. , pp. xiv, 189. Illustrated with many photographs, maps, and diagrams. Red cloth boards with light green title, arrowhead design and frame on brown background to front. Dark brown title on white spine. Very light rubbing to extremities. Red and dark brown arrowhead design to endpapers. Unmarked interior. Light sunning and very light edgwear to dustjacket. The author was newly launched on a teaching career when he was kiled in a boating accident in May 1972. At the time of his death he was an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. His extensive archaeological investigation as a grad student is "a landmark in the study of Great Basin prehistory." (from the dustjacket) "In 1938, University of Oregon archaeologist Luther Cressman excavated at Fort Rock Cave, where he and his crew found dozens of sandals below a layer of volcanic ash, subsequently determined to have come from the 7,600-year-old eruption of Mount Mazama. "In 1966 and 1967, Cressman and his graduate student Stephen Bedwell returned to Fort Rock Cave and several other sites in the Fort Rock Basin. By that time, the interior of the cave had been effectively cleaned out by artifact hunters, and the only undisturbed deposits were under large rock-fall boulders near the cave entry, which were removed with dynamite and a tractor. Bedwell recovered sandal fragments, but his most significant finding was a small set of tools, including a handheld grinding stone, chipped stone scrapers, and a stemmed projectile point which appeared to be associated with a small hearth that produced a radiocarbon age calibrating to more than 15,000 years old. Most archaeologists dismissed this age, citing uncertainty about the association between the artifacts and the dated charcoal and what was considered to be an unreasonably early age for human occupation in the Americas. Although the question of association remains clouded, the confirmed presence of human occupation at the nearby Paisley Caves to nearly 15,000 years ago provides a context that makes the outright dismissal of the early Fort Rock age ill advised." (from Oregon Encyclopedia). Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus
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DU PONT EXPLOSIVES HANDBOOK: INSTRUCTIONS IN THE USE OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES FOR CLEARING LAND, PLANTING AND CULTIVATING TREES, DRAINAGE, DITCHING, SUBSOILING AND GENERAL WORK.; THE FARMER’S HANDBOOK OF EXPLOSIVES (A-488 (January, 1917)

Staplebound Softcover. (9 in. x 6 in.) Beige card covers with a lovely cover graphic to front in red, black, dark green and brown of a large tree in both above- and below-ground views. Wrinkling and some wear to paper spine, but tightly bound, and remarkably clean and tight at 106+ years old! 196 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs illustrating techniques, diagrams as well as drawings of tools, "This book is intended to point out the advantages of the use of explosives for various purposes on the farm, and to give instructions for their use.This first part is to emphasize the different purposes for which explosives may be used; and the technical supplement is to describe the most approved methods of blasting. Explosives are also used to advantage for splitting logs for rails, for felling trees, destroying old buildings and for almost any kind of work where a strong force quickly applied, is desirable." "Dynamite is simply concentrated power or condensed strength. In order to have it work in the correct way, and move in the right direction, it must be properly harnessed and the bit kept in its mouth, but this is easily done if the directions given in this handbook are followed intellligently." (from Introduction) "As time passes, farmers will find other ways of saving money by using explosives, for the demand for farm products is increasing so rapidly that greater acreage must be put under cultivation, and the old acres must increase their yield."
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THE AMERICAN MISSAL REVISED : THE COMPLETE LITURGY OF THE AMERICAN BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER WITH ADDITIONAL DEVOTIONAL MATERIAL APPROPRIATE TO THE SAME : ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE ANGLICAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

Quarto, 11.2 in. x 8.8 in., pp. xxx, [2], 624, 1-145. Forest green, textured leather boards with gilt cross to front. Gilt edges. Seven sewn-in silk ribbons. Printed white sticker on title page offers final two lines (nine words) of title. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper; inscription and additional name to front flyleaf. Signature just starting at p. 224. Nine dark red leather tabs glued to nine fore-edges. The American Missal: The Complete Liturgy of the American Book of Common Prayer with Additional Devotional Material Appropriate to the Same. It was first published in 1931 by Morehouse Publishing Company. A revised edition appeared in 1951 with the copyright: Earle Hewitt Maddux, S.S.J.E. A note on page iv states: "this book can claim no authority from the Church and is not an authorized publication thereof; but is distinctly supplementary to, and not a substitute for, the authorized publication of the Book of Common Prayer." It was offered as a supplement to the BCP for voluntary consideration and use. It represents an Anglo-Catholic tradition and includes collections from monastic offices, and reprinted materials from English missals and ceremonial manuals. Its expanded liturgical calendar included patron saints from various ethnic groups. See Missal Mass. (from The Episcopal Dictionary of the Church).
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THE POST-CHAISE COMPANION : OR TRAVELLERS DIRECTORY THROUGH IRELAND. CONTAINING A NEW AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE DIRECT AND PRINCIPAL CROSS ROADS WITH PARTICULARS OF THE NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN’S SEATS, CITIES, TOWNS, PARKS, NATURAL CURIOSITIES, ANTIQUITIES, CASTLES, RUINS, MANUFACTURES, LOUGHS, GLENS, HARBOURS, &c. &c. FORMING AN HISTORICAL & DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE KINGDOM. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A DICTIONARY, OR ALPHABETICAL TABLES. SHEWING THE DISTANCE OF ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES, BOROUGHS, MARKET AND SEA PORT TOWNS, IN IRELAND FROM EACH OTHER

Octavo, 8.3 in. x 5.2 in., pp. [2] (introduction), i-xxviii (two numbered columns per page), 1-646 (two numbered columns per page), 647-660, [19] (index). Illustrated with large, thick-papered fold-out road map of Ireland (19 in. x 14.25 in. with cartouche of lighthouse scene to map) and fold out map of the Plan for the Lakes of Killarney (8 in. x 10 in.). Contemporary full tree calf. Gilt title to black panel, and decorative gilt bandlines, to rebacked spine. Front corners lightly nudged. Previous owner's bookplate ("Mann, Dunmoyle") to front pastedown. Small pen marking on top corner of rear free endpaper. Three inch tape repair to large fold-out map. Pages bright. This popular travel guide was the essential guide to the roads of Ireland, offering guidance and entertainment to the traveller in the early 19th century. Undated Family Bookplate of Mann family: Henry Mann from Essex arrived in Ireland in 1633 and settled in county Cork. The line from his son Deane established itself at Dunmoyle township in Tyrone.When some money came into the family in the mid-1800's they built Dunmoyle Lodge. (from Select Surnames).