Folly Cove 01930: 249 books

A good description of the fashions in vogue along the African Coast during the mid nineteenth century. Written for an American audience in 1868. Illustrated

Hallock takes us on an excursion for sport and pleasure on the Red River Trail through Minnesota at a time when the stories of the old west were recent memories and the modern world was overtaking the region. Original Illustrations. Charles Hallock (March 13, 1834 – December 2, 1917) was an American author and publisher born in New York City.

J Ross Browne called himself a Californian. This Irish born American writer and artist was a world traveler who was at one point minister to China. But it was California that he called home. When he removed to California in 1849 it was the start of the Gold Rush. He followed the Silver Boom across...

Forty Years before Fremont made his expedition to the Pacific,  Sylvester Pattie and his son set off trapping up the Missouri River. They made their way through Santa Fe and the Southwest to the Pacific. Pattie is the first American Buried at San Diego, and his son ended up in a Spanish Prison. This is a brief account of the journey.

In this short piece Thorpe discusses the Woodcock, a delectable dish in the mid nineteenth century. This piece highlights both knowledge of the bird and thought on hunting and wildlife preservation (or lack thereof) contemporary to the time. Thomas Bangs Thorpe 1815-1878 was an American...

A brief primer on wooden shipbuilding as it was done in a mid 19th century shipyard.

The story of nineteenth century investigation into the nature of spiders.... “February, 1865, when it was suggested to me to ascertain how much silk could be got from one spider, and to what extent it was possible to obtain and rear the insects themselves. This I readily undertook, for the investigation...

This is a brief description of early watchmaking in a factory setting written during the mid nineteenth century when the master watchmaker was fast being displaced.

This is a brief 19th century biographic sketch of the Life of Washington. Digitally restored illustrations.

A tour through the gas company with explanations of the gas works as typical in the mid 19th Century.

A brief biographic sketch of the author of The Compleat Angler, first published in 1653. This a a good background piece on Walton. Well illustrated.

A mid nineteenth century sportsman's adventure into the wilds of Quebec and New Brunswick in search of Salmon and Trout. Wilderness sport at it's best!

This is the story of exploration – Exploration in all the glory of isolation and starvation. There is something inexpressibly mournful in the detached sentences, entered by a weak and half-starved man in his journal. The absence of all attempt at description; the resigned, almost humble, way of...

This mid nineteenth century essay focuses on the Dutch Land Reclamations and the Dutch people.