The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company was a railroad that operated a rail network of 1,143 miles running east from Portland, Oregon, United States, to northeastern Oregon, northeastern Washington, and northern Idaho. After 1896 it operated as a consolidation of several smaller railroads.In 1880, the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company.....

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Travels through Russian Caucasus and Armenia to the legendary mountain Ararat, including an account of the ascent includes technical scientific reports. In February 1828, the Russian Empire annexed the historical Armenian province of Erivan (Yerevan) from.....

New York: Horace Thayer, 1858. Hardcover. William Pidgeon was an antiquarian and archaeologist his most famous work, Traditions of Dee-Coo-Dah, a history about lost tribes of the Upper Mississippi and the mounds they left behind. The book was eventually revealed to be partly a hoax, and partly embellishment of actual.....

London: New York: Toronto: Hodder and Stroughton, 1912. Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. A Near Fine Leather Hardcover. Step into the haunting world of Edgar Allan Poe with "The Bells and Other Poems," exquisitely illustrated by Edmund Dulac. This collector's edition features 28 stunning full-page color plates by Dulac, including a......

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1882. Hardcover. All of the essays except the first were originally contributed to the North American review.Background Information:William Hickling Prescott was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Based on the comedic and dramatic actress Margaret " Peg " Woffington ( 1714 - 1769 ) the English actress who played Polly Peachum in The Beggar's Opera at age 10, played Ophelia, etc. and her life. The book written after the.....

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1905. Vawter, Will. Hardcover. James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental.....

Indianapolis: Bowen Merrill CO., 1892. Hardcover. Background Information:James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of.....

London: T. Cadell, 1830 & 1834. Full Leather Hardcovers. Rogers an English poet of the Romantic School is best remembered as a witty conversationalist and as a friend of greater poets. On Wordsworth’s death, in 1850, Rogers was offered the laureateship, which he refused.His visit to Italy in 1815 suggested.....

New York and London: Macmillan and Co & George Allen, 1896. Illustrations by Chris Hammond. Hardcover. Background Information:George Saintsbury was an English writer, literary historian, scholar and critic; the most influential English literary historian and critic of the early 20th century. His lively style and wide knowledge helped make his.....

[Bloomfield, N.J.] : New York: Scott & Bowne, 1894. Stapled Wraps. Scott & Bowne was a pharmaceutical company that produced cod-liver oil (Scott's Emulsion) and was located at 132-134 South Fifth Avenue, New York City, as well as in London and throughout Europe. The firm was established in 1873 by.....

New York: Brentano's, 1909. Very Good Hardcovers. Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1925.

London: Vale & Ballantyne Press For Hacon and Ricketts, 1898. Designs by Charles Ricketts (1866-1931). Limited Edition. Hardcover. Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. Ref; Watley, B15; L'Art.....