Bay Eugene (13 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine or Better. Eugene C. Bay was Senior Pastor of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church from 1987 until his retirement in 2004. He was highly regarded by this 3500 member congregation for his sermons. This volume of 264 pages contains the best of the best. A very nice copy appears to never have been studied or even read. Available for immediate shipment, carefully packed in a sturdy box!

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Excellent condition. Some ever so slight shelf wear to the cover; interior is pristine. (BR) Box 351.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Oorspronkelijk omslag met flappen in cahiersteek, (paginagrote) illustraties in z/w, groot 8vo.

Condition: Good. Oorspronkelijk omslag met flappen in cahiersteek, (paginagrote) illustraties in z/w, groot 8vo.

Koenders & Van Steijn, Hans Peereboom. Softcover. 34x7 cm. Text in English.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. book of sermons of Eugene C.Bay who was Senior Pastor of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church from 1987 to 2004 book like new.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Tan cloth, paper label to front cover and spine. Limited to 500 copies. PO name, slightly bowed, cloth edges rubbed. Prospectus laid in. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 112 pages.

First edition, one of 500 copies. Tall 8vo. Frontispiece, 3 plates and 1 folding map. xxii, 112, [2] pp., with prospectus laid in. Publisher's brown cloth, printed labels; near fine. PROVENANCE: Everett D. Graff (booklabel); Newberry Library (deaccessioned and sold, Parke Bernet, 4 May 1966).

Tinted lithographic title; one typeset leaf of text (Navassa; Explanation of the Plates); six colored lithographic plates (Topographical Map; Low Beach; The Harbor; Lulutown and Old Diggings; Lulu Bay; Diggings). (illustrator). First edition. Tinted lithographic title; one typeset leaf of text (Navassa; Explanation of the Plates); six colored lithographic plates (Topographical Map; Low Beach; The Harbor; Lulutown and Old Diggings; Lulu Bay; Diggings). First edition. In the publisher's brown half cloth, embossed title on both boards, gilt on the front cover. [1] leaf tinted lithographic title, [2] pp., [6] leaves of colored lithographic plates. Folio (44 × 54 cm). Rare illustrated album documenting the exploitation of Navassa Island under the Guano Islands Act, with detailed visual evidence of nineteenth-century phosphate extraction, U.S. agricultural and imperial expansion, and the Black labor force on which it depended. Large-format illustrated album, a technical-promotional publication produced in support of guano and phosphate extraction on Navassa Island, a small Caribbean island located some thirty miles southwest of the Haitian coast. Comprising a geological and topographical text with a suite of six tinted lithographic plates executed by E. Sachse & Co., Baltimore, the work presents the island explicitly as the property of the Navassa Phosphate Company of New York. It combines the functions of scientific report and corporate prospectus, documenting the island's geological value, demonstrating the feasibility and efficiency of phosphate extraction, reassuring investors and managers at a distance, and legitimizing its commercial occupation under U.S. auspices. By the mid-nineteenth century, guano had become a valued fertilizer in the United States, as agricultural expansion and soil exhaustion drove demand for concentrated nutrients. Rising prices and fears of depletion led to the Guano Islands Act of 1856, which enabled U.S. citizens to claim unoccupied guano- and phosphate-bearing islands for the United States. As one of numerous small islands brought under U.S. administration through this framework, Navassa was claimed in 1857. Operating under this legal framework, the Navassa Phosphate Company undertook the exploitation of the island, accompanied by a series of publications intended to inform and attract investors. The present lavishly produced album is the most extensive and visually elaborate of these efforts. Its short text combines geographical description, geological explanation, and operational commentary, emphasizing both the quality of Navassa's guano in comparison with the widely used Peruvian guano and the exceptional scale of the deposits, while stressing favorable working conditions, a healthy climate with minimal sickness, and secure anchorage and shipping, presenting the island as well suited to sustained industrial activity. The lithographic plates, based on Gaussoin's sketches, form an integral part of the album's argument. A detailed topographical map and sectional profile present the island as a measured and manageable space, intended to facilitate the efficient control of distant operations. Coastal and harbor views depict calm seas and orderly anchorage, highlighting a well-developed industrial infrastructure-rail tracks, wharves, hoisting devices, workshops, storage buildings, and temporary shelters. Black workers are shown at different stages of extraction and shipment, digging phosphatic material-under the supervision of white guards-moving it on railway carts, and loading boats. Taken together, the images present Navassa as a fully organized working site, offering direct visual evidence of the conditions under which production was carried out. Alongside its industrial focus, the album also records elements of the island's natural environment. Vegetation appears selectively, with palms and scrub framing the worked landscape, while iguanas in the foreground of the digging scenes and seabirds in flight or along the cliffs recur across the plates. These animals directly reflect the text's explanation of the deposits as formed from the accumulated dung and bones of seabirds and large lizards over long periods. The album was produced by E.

Condition: Good. Four Cards. 4" x 2.5", from the East Bay Negro Historical Society, Very Good. Two B&W Photographs 4.5" x 2.75" of African American families in the Bay Area in the 1930s, One Good with creasing and minor stains, the other Fair with losses, tears, staining. Two envelopes, one addressed to Eugene Pasqual Lasartemay, the other to the East Bay Negro Historical Society. Post Card 5.25" x 3.5", MS Signed from Eugene Pasqual Lasartemay, Sept 26, 1933, Good with staining.Provenance: Eugene Pasqual & Ruth Hackett Lasartemay, Berkeley.Eugene Pasqual Lasartemay (1903-1993). In 1937, he earned a First Assistant Engineer's license, becoming the first licensed black marine engineer to sail from the Port of San Francisco. He was also active in a number of civic, religious, and historical organizations in Berkeley and Oakland. He was a co-founder of many black organizations in the East Bay including the East Bay Negro Historical Society, Berkeley Branch of the East Bay Lodge #44, Men of Tomorrow, Inc., Colonel Allensworth State Historical Park, Berkeley Branch of the NAACP. He was an active member of the boy scouts, serving as a Neighborhood Commissioner and Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop #43 and was awarded the scout's highest honor - the Silver Beaver Award. He served as president of the United Consumers and Producers, East Bay Negro Historical Society, vice president of the East Bay Pensioner's Club of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union and the Berkeley Branch of the NAACP, and treasurer of the Fannie Wall Children's Home of Oakland.Ruth Hackett Lasartemay (1902-1991)She worked for 17 years with the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company between 1928-1944. She was active in many civic and women's clubs in Oakland and Berkeley including the California State Association of Colored Women's Club, Inc., National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc., League of Women Voters, South Gate Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, and was a co-founder and the first curator of the East Bay Negro Historical Society.Scope and Content of Collection.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1830 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 804 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 804 Volume 2 Language: French.