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Fra Elbert Hubbard
Having collected several thousand dollars’ worth of furs he shipped them to London and embarked as a passenger in the steerage. The trip showed him that ability to sell was…
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John Jacob Astor
"A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future" by John Jacob Astor is a visionary science fiction novel that transports readers to distant realms and speculative futures. In…
Parton James
This biography tells the story of John Jacob Astor, one of the most successful and influential businessmen of the 19th century. Astor made his fortune in the fur trade and…
Lewis K Parker
John Jacob Astor came to America with only seven flutes to sell and $25 in his pocket. From there, he made a fortune. Accessible text, engaging photos, illustrations, charts, and…
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Kenneth Wiggins Porter
Larry W Jones
John Jacob Astor was a German-American businessman, merchant, real estate mogul, patron of the arts and investor who made his fortune mainly in the fur trade and by investing in…
Elizabeth L Gebhard
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 is in the "public…
Arthur D Howden Smith
Some weeks later a dray drove up to the Astor store, then at 68 Pine Street, and delivered a number of very heavy little kegs which chinked faintly as they…
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…
Axel Madsen
On The Deal Maker: How William C. Durant Made General Motors: A well-written biography. -New York Times On Stanwyck: The Life and Times of Barbara Stanwyck: Madsen’s admirably researched, insightful…
Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard
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…
John Denis Haeger
Biography of John Jacob Astor’s life and his career as a merchant, fur trader, and land speculator as vehicles for examining several important themes and issues in American economic and…
Alexander Emmerich
This biography analyzes Astor’s adaption to his American host culture and his rise from poor immigrant in 1784 to the first millionaire of modern times–he earned his money before the…
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Earth is effectively a corporate technocracy, with businesses using advances in science to improve life on the planet. Seeking other planets habitable for…
A Journey in Other Worlds - A Romance of the Future is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different…
A journey in other worlds. A romance of the future. This book, A journey in other worlds, by John Jacob Astor, is a replication of a book originally published before…
This Book "A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future " has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we…
The way to accomplish this is to increase the weight of the pole leaving the sun, by increasing the amount of material there for the sun to attract, and to…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
James Parton
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…
The ""Life of John Jacob Astor"" is a biography written by James Parton that chronicles the fascinating life of one of America's most prominent businessmen and philanthropists. Astor was born…
Title: Life of John Jacob Astor: to which is appended a copy of his last will.Author: James PartonPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
James 1822-1891 Parton
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 is in the public…
L B Woodruff Goodman
Full Title: Samuel G. Ogden, Administrator, &c., of Nicholas G. Ogden, Deceased, Vs. William B. Astor, and William B. Astor, John Jacob Astor, James Gallatin and Washington Irving, Executors, &c…
Daniel D Lord
Full Title: Samuel G. Ogden, Administrator, &c., of Nicholas G. Ogden, deceased, vs. William B. Astor, and William B. Astor, John Jacob Astor, James Gallatin and Washington Irving, Executors, &c…
Charles Astor Bristed, John Jacob Astor
This open letter to the great American educator Horace Mann offers a critique of Mann's ideas and policies regarding education. Written by Bristed and Astor, two prominent figures of their…
John Jacob Astor,A L Bowley
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…
In this science fiction classic we meet President Bearwarden, Dr. Cortlandt and Ayrault approaching Jupiter in their spaceship, Callisto. The three explorers travel the galaxy from Jupiter to Mars to…
Title: Statement and exposition of the title of John Jacob Astor to the lands purchased by him from the surviving children of Roger Morris and Mary his wife.
Author: Multiple…
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…