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Robert Bennet Forbes
This book is a comprehensive guide to life-saving strategies and devices, including life-boats, projectiles, and more. Written by Robert Bennet Forbes, a prominent American naval officer and philanthropist, this work…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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The Life Boat And Other Lifesaving Inventions, written by Robert Bennet Forbes and originally published in 1880, is a comprehensive guide to the history and development of life-saving technology. The…
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: Little, Brown and company Subjects: Shipwrecks Science / Earth Sciences / Geography Sports
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Notes On Ships Of The Past is a book written by Robert Bennet Forbes and first published in 1885. The book is a detailed account of the history of ships…
An Interesting Memoir of the Jamestown Voyage to Ireland is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
Robert Humphrey Forbes
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
""The Penningtons, Pioneers of Early Arizona: A Historical Sketch"" is a book written by Robert Humphrey Forbes in 1919. The book tells the story of the Pennington family, who were…
Robert Forbes
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1834 Edition.
Provides practical advice on the various main vertical elements of buildings, both external and internal. This title contains over 400 illustrations.
Lifeboats, Projectiles and Other Means for Saving Life is a book written by Robert Bennet Forbes in 1872. The book is a comprehensive guide to the various methods and technologies…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
Emma Forbes Ware
Ware genealogy Robert Ware, of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1642-1699, and his lineal descendantsyu This book, Ware genealogy Robert Ware, by Emma Forbes Ware, is a replication of a book originally published…
Professor Emeritus of Post-Biblical Jewish Literature Alexander Philip (Manchester University University of Manchester),Robert Forbes
The correspondence of Robert Bennet Forbes (1813-1889), and his son, J. Murray Forbes (1843-1936), carefully preserved but long forgotten, was rediscovered in the attic of the Forbes House atop Milton…
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Horatio Robert Forbes Brown P Molmenti
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by…
Thomas Jefferson
The first edition of Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia to be based on both the 1785 first edition and the original manuscript
Robert M. Spector
This book details the tragedy of our withdrawal from Haiti and summarizes through it the failure of our entire Latin American policy. In effect, the author states the Good Neighbor…
Robert J Shade
The Pennsylvania frontier has erupted in flames! It is 1763: The French and Indian War is over. Victorious Britain is the master of the former French colonies of North America…
Ernesto P Molmenti, Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
Explore the rich history and culture of Venice with this authoritative guide. Written by a renowned expert in the field, Venice: Its Individual Growth offers a comprehensive look at the…