Handbooks & Manuals Books

A Handbook of Old Japan, Volume I

Richard Hildreth

In collecting materials for a biography of the first explorers and planters of New England and Virginia, I was carried to Japan, where I happened to arrive (in the spirit) almost simultaneously with C..

A Handbook of Old Japan, Volume II

Richard Hildreth

The garden is the only place in which we Dutchmen, being treated in all respects little better than prisoners, have liberty to walk. It is commonly square, with a back door, and walled in very neatly...

Keeping Down the Cost of Your Woodwork

Anonymous

What is meant by “lower costs?” Curtis Woodwork is not the lowest priced woodwork on the market, but it is the greatest value, dollar for dollar. You may be able to buy, for less money, woodwork that ..

Practical House, Wagon and Automobile Painter

W. F. White

There are a variety of purposes to which ornamental glass gilding may be applied besides sign work, shop fronts or glass doors. It is now much used for show cases, window tablets, druggists’ bottles, ..

Hints to Travellers, Scientific and General, Vol. 2

Royal Geographical Society

Thermometers are either direct-reading or self-registering. The former are used for obtaining the temperature at any given moment, the latter for ascertaining the highest or the lowest temperature in ..

The Key to the Family Deed Chest: How to Decipher and Study Old Documents

Emma Elizabeth Thoyts

It has been urged that handwriting and its characteristics have nothing to do with old deeds, but careful study of every line and letter is useful, especially with regard to private letters, or when a..