Historical collections of the state of Pennsylvania : containing a copious selection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc. relating to its history and antiquities, both general and local, with topographical
Historical collections of the state of Pennsylvania : containing a copious selection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc. relating to its history and antiquities, both general and local, with topographical...
Contents: Introduction, Roger Silverstone. Inclusion and Exclusion: Inclusion and exclusion in the information society, Kees Brants and Valerie Frissen; Mapping diasporic media cultures: a transnational cultural approach to exclusion, Myria Georgiou; ICT-usage among transnational social movements in the networked society: to organise, to mobilise and to debate, Bart Cammaerts; ICT and the everyday life experiences of less-abled people, Doroth???e Durieux. Consumption and the Quality of Life: Consumption and quality of life ...
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Contents: Introduction, Roger Silverstone. Inclusion and Exclusion: Inclusion and exclusion in the information society, Kees Brants and Valerie Frissen; Mapping diasporic media cultures: a transnational cultural approach to exclusion, Myria Georgiou; ICT-usage among transnational social movements in the networked society: to organise, to mobilise and to debate, Bart Cammaerts; ICT and the everyday life experiences of less-abled people, Doroth???e Durieux. Consumption and the Quality of Life: Consumption and quality of life in a digital world, Yves Punie, Marc Bogdanowicz, Anne-Jorunn Berg, Caroline Pauwels and Jean-Claude Burgelman; Internet consumption in Ireland: towards a 'connected' domestic life, Katie Ward; The everyday of extreme flexibility: the case of migrant researchers' use of new information and communication technologies, Thomas Berker; The discourse of the perfect future: young people and new technologies, Maren Hartmann; The future of ambient intelligence in Europe: the need for more everyday life, Yves Punie. Methodology and Policy: The information society in Europe: methods and methodologies, Fran?șois Pichault, Doroth???e Durieux and Roger Silverstone; ICTs in everyday life: public policy implications for 'Europe's way to the information society', Paschal Preston; Towards the 'communication society', Roger Silverstone and Knut H. S??rensen; Glossary, prepared by Anita Howarth, Index.
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Add this copy of Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania, to cart. $53.00, good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1843 by George W. Gorton.
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Very good- Rebound in beige cloth boards, octavo, 708pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has soil, toning and rubbing to boards and spine, wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight but inner front hinge cracked, text toned, off-set and foxed throughout.
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1843, George W. Gorton
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George W. Gorton
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1843
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English
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Light foxing throughout; weak at front hinge opposite the title page; binding scuffed at edges. 708 pp. Illustrated from 164 of 165 engravings (this copy lacks the frontispiece). Large thick 8vo,
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Very good. Large 8vo, 9.25 x 6.25 inches, bound in ca. 1870s half morocco and patterned boards, very good, lightest wear and rubbing, contents very good and clean, contents complete, including frontispiece of Market Street in Philadelphia and many in-text woodcuts (measuring approx. 4 x 3 inches) as well as full page plates, which tend to be on tanning paper. 708 pp, illustrated (165 engravings in all).
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Very good. Large 8vo, 9.5 x 6.25 inches, contemporary full ruddy brown calf, black gilt spine label, very good, light general rubbing and wear to leather, moderate foxing throughout, light strengthening to inner hinges, contents complete, including frontispiece of Market Street in Philadelphia and many in-text woodcuts as well as full page plates. Light worming to fore-edge margin from p. 565 to 585. 708 pp, illustrated (165 engravings in all).
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Very Good- 8vo 708 pp; "...Topographical Descriptions of Every County and All the Larger Towns in the State." Ex-library with usual marks. Full leather binding has some scuffing and edge wear, top corner of text block is slightly bumped, minor foxing and toning throughout. A nice book in tight binding.
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Good. Relating to its History and Antiquities, both general and local, with topographical descriptions of every county and all the larger towns in the state. 165 engravings, most of which are text vignettes. 708pp. 8vo, full publisher's brown morocco, gilt decorated spine and front cover, edges of corners lightly worn and bumped, head of spine lightly worn, back cover bowed, text lightly browned throughout, a few pages with pencil annotations in margins, pages slightly wavy throughout. Philadelphia: George W. Gorton, (1843). First Edition Author was a civil engineer who lived in Philadelphia for several years. Sherman Day was the grandson of Roger Sherman, the signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the son of Jeremiah Day, president of Yale University from 1817 to 1846. This volume is one of the earliest books to include a county history of every county in Pennsylvania. Howes D-163.
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Illus. with engravings. Boards loose, spine cracked, contents clean and fine. Illustrated with 165 wood engravings; all edges marbled. 8vo, 708 pp., Full title reads as follows: "Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania; Containing a Copious Selection of the Most Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. Relating to Its History and Antiquities, both General and Local, with Topographical Descriptions of Every County and All the Larger Towns in the State"
