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Title: Travel into Missouri in October 1838 (i.e. 1833)

Title: Central America and the West Indian Islands (1863)
Date: 1863-01-01
Summary: This is a highly detailed copper engraved map of Central America and the West Indies published in 1863. This was created by A. K. Johnston for his book entitled, School Atlas of General & Descriptive Geography which was published by William Blackwood & Sons. Alexander Keith Johnston was a Scottish Geographer who lived from 1804 to 1871. This map has a section along with the title which states: Central America and the West Indian Islands, A. K. Johnston, F. R. S. E., Scale: 200 miles to an inch, 14,000,000 of nature, Scale of English Miles, The West Indian Islands are sometimes denominated the "Columbian Archipelago" or "The Antilles." In some English Charts the term "Leeward Isles", is erroneously applied to those of the Caribbean Group extending from Porto Rico to Dominica, those from Martinique to Tobago, being styled the "Windward Isles.", Railways, (B.)-British, (Da.)-Danish, (DU.)-Dutch, (F.)-French, (S.)-Spanish, (Sw.)-Swedish. Around the edge of the map reads: General Geography, Plate 25, William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London. Countries appearing on the map: Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Martinique, Curaçao, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Belize, Cuba, Mexico, The Bahamas, and the United States of America. Cities appearing on the map: Venezuela: Angostura or S. Thomas (Ciudad Bolívar), Corona (?), Cabruta, Merida (Mérida), Varinas (Barinas), Barcelona, Cumana (Cumaná), Cariaco, Assumption (La Asunción), Caracas, la Guayra (La Guaira), Coro (Santa Ana de Coro), Cariaco (?), and Maracaybo (Maracaibo). Colombia: Ocana (Ocaña), Tola (Tolú), Saragoza (Zaragoza Municipality), Antiquia (Santa Fe de Antioquia), Caceres (Cáceres), Uraba (?), Honda (Bahia Honda?), la Hacha (Riohacha), Sa. Marta (Santa Marta), and Cartagena. Panama: Yavisa (Yaviza), Carreto, Chame, Porto Bello (Portobelo), Aspinwall (Colón), Chagres (Now the World Heritage Site of Chagres and Fort San Lorenzo which was depopulated in 1916 and the residents were moved to Nuevo Chagres), Los Santos (La Villa de los Santos), Santiago (Santiago de Veraguas), S. Lorenzo (San Lorenzo), David, and Estrella (La Estrella). Costa Rica: Eredia (?), Cartago, S. Jose (San José), Alahuela (Alajuela), Nicoya, Bagases (Bagaces), and Guanacasto (Liberia). Trinidad and Tobago: Trinidad (British): P. of Spain/P. Espana (Port of Spain). Tobago (British): Scarborough. Grenada (British): S. George (St. George's). Barbadoes (Barbados) (British): Bridge Tn. (Bridgetown). S. Vincent (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) (British): Kingstown. S. Lucia (Saint Lucia) (British): Castries. Martinique (French): Pt. Royal (Fort-de-France). Curacao (Curaçao) (Dutch): Williamstadt (Willemstad). Nicaragua: S. Juan de Nicaragua or Grey Town (San Juan de Nicaragua), S. Carlos (San Carlos), Trinidad (?), Blewfields (Bluefields), Rivas or Nicaragua (Rivas), Masaya, Granada, Managua, Leon (León), Realejo (El Realejo), Comolapa (Comalapa?), Segovia (Ocotal), and Chinandega. Honduras: Juticalpa, Catacamas, Choluteca, Tegucigalpa, Comayagua, Copan (Copán ruins of ancient Mayan city), Poyais (Fake place created by Gregor MacGregor for a scheme), Truxillo (Trujillo), Lasal (?), and Omoa. S. Salvador (El Salvador): La Union (La Unión), S. Miguel (San Miguel), Concordia (?), S. Vicente (San Vicente), Tobasco (?), La Libertad, S. Salvador (San Salvador), and Sonsonate. Guatemala: Chiquimula, New Guatemala (Guatemala City), Istapa (Iztapa), Old Guatemala (Antigua Guatemala), Zacatepec (?), S. Thomas (Santo Tomás de Castilla), Livingston, S. Luis (San Luis), S. Andres (San Andrés), Coban (Cobán), Quesaltenango (Quetzaltenango), Solola (Sololá), and Tetonicapan (Totonicapán). Dominica (British): Roseau. Guadeloupe (French): Base Terre (Basse-Terre). Montserrat (British): Plymouth (Abandoned in 1997 after volcanic eruption and burying under pyroclastic flows). Antigua and Barbuda: Antigua (British): S. John (St. John's). Barbuda (British). Saint Kitts and Nevis: S. Christopher (Saint Kitts) (British): Basse Terre (Basseterre). Nevis (British). U.S. Virgin Islands: Sta. Cruz (Saint Croix) (Danish): Christianstadt (Christiansted). S. John (Saint John) (Danish). S. Thomas (Saint Thomas) (Danish). Porto Rico (Puerto Rico) (Spanish): San Juan and Ponce. Dominica (Dominican Republic): S. Domingo (Santo Domingo), Savanna (Sabana de la Mar), Samana (Samaná), Cotuy (Cotuí), La Vega, Santiago (Santiago de los Caballeros), Monte Christi (Monte Cristi), Bunica (?), and Nelva (Neiba). Haiti: Cape Haitien (Cap-Haïtien), S. Nicolas (Môle-Saint-Nicolas), Port au Prince (Port-au-Prince), Tiburon, Cayes (Les Cayes), and Jacmel. Jamaica (British): Kingston, P. Antonio (Port Antonio), Port Royal, Spanish Tn. (Spanish Town), Falmouth, and Savanna la Mar (Savanna-la-Mar). Brit. Honduras (Belize): Manati (?) and Balize (Belize City). Cuba: Baracoa, Cuba (Santiago de Cuba), Holguin (Holguín), Bayamo, S. Salvador (?), S. Miguel (San Miguel de Baga), Nuevitas, S. Maria de Pt. Principe (Camagüey), Pto. Principe (?), Trinidad, S. Clara (Santa Clara), S. Juan (?), Cienfuegos, Cardenas (Cárdenas), Matanzas, Batavano (Batabanó), Santiago (Santiago de las Vegas which is now a ward of Havana), Havana, Bahia Hoirda (?), and Pinar del Rio (Pinar del Río). Mexico: Yucatan: Arena (?), Bacalar, Campeachy (Campeche City), Seyba (Seybaplaya), Victoria, Balchaco (?), Cuyo (El Cuyo), Silan (?), Valladollid (Valladolid), Merida (Mérida), and Sisal. Chiapas: Tapachula, Palenque, Comitan (Comitán), and Ciudad Real (San Cristóbal de las Casas). Tabasco: Tabasco (?), Palasada (Palizada), Chiltepeque (Chiltepec), and S. Anna (Santana). Tehuantepec: Tehuantepec, Pilpa (?), and S. Pedro (?). Oaxaca: Tilapa (?), Oaxaca (Oaxaca City), and Alpisque (?). Vera Cruz (Veracruz): Alvarade (Alvarado), Vera Cruz (Veracruz), Cordova (Córdoba), Jalapa (Xalapa), Orizaba, Tuspan (Tuxpan), and Antonio (?). Puebla: Puebla (Puebla City) and Tehuacan (Tehuacán). Tamaulipas: Tampico, New Santander (Nuevo Santander was a region of Mexico before joining the Texas region in 1762), and Matamoros. The Bahamas: Nassau. United States of America: Florida: S. Augustine (St. Augustine) and Tampa. Louisiana: New Orleans. Texas: Austin and Galveston.

Title: Baetica sive Hispania Pars Australis ut in Caesare descripta de Bello Hispanico (1739)
Summary: This is a copper engraved historic map showing the Southern tip of Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar as well as the Northern tip of Morocco. The map is filled with a lot of geographic details concerning place names in Latin. The title is inside a simple cartouche. The source publication is: Geographia antique, Latinorum et Graecorum, tabulis XXXII novis & accuratis expressa, translated: Thirty-two new and accurate maps of the geography of the ancients, as contained in the Greek and Latin Classics. It was printed and sold in 1739 in London by Thomas Bowles. Herman Moll was a Dutchman bookseller, geographer and engraver. Around 1678 he moved to London where for a while he continued as an engraver. Later, he started his own businesses a map publisher and by the turn of the century had become the most prominent map publisher in the country. He published atlases and loose maps of all parts of the world many of which were highly decorative. In 1724 he published his 'New Description of England and Wales', an atlas of the English and Welsh Counties. He had many interesting friends including Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift (for whom he provided maps for Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels), explorers William Damier and Woodes Rogers, and the scientist Robert Hooke. Cities, towns, and rivers shown on the map are Castulo (Destroyed in 1227), Baetis F. (Guadalquivir River), Castra Posthumy, Ategua (Fortified city at the time of Caesar), Ulla, Salsum F., Corduba (Córdoba), Sorita, Ucubis, Aspaula, Singulus F., Astigi (Écija), Crematur a Caesare, Urso, Malaca (Málaga), Italica (Roman City that Dwindled in the 3rd Century), Lenius F., Cilicensis F., Carmona, Obeulo, Hispalis (Sevilla), Carruca, Mare Internum (Mediterranean Sea), Munda, Asta, Carteia (Roman town that declined in the 9th Century), Fredum Gaditanum, Gades (Cádiz), Lusitania (Portugal and parts of Spain), and Hispania Ulterior (Southern Spain).

Title: Lest they perish: Campaign for $30,000,000 : American Committee for Relief in the Near East, Armenia, Greece, Syria, Persia
Summary: Poster showing Syrian mother and child, standing in front of a destroyed home.

Title: A Little book of profitable tales

Title: Seventy-five years on the border

Title: Louisiana and the fair. An exposition of the world, its people and their achievements, volume 06

Title: Missouri's memorable decade, 1860-1870: an historical sketch, personal, political, religious

Title: A Tour of St. Louis: or, The inside life of a great city, Inside life of a great city

Title: The young people's hymnal, no. 2: Adapted to the use of Sunday schools, epworth leagues, prayer meetings, and revivals
Date: [1900?], 1900

Title: Louisiana and the fair. An exposition of the world, its people and their achievements, volume 05

Title: Minor children's income: Effect of the tax reform act of 1986
Date: 1987
Summary: The Tax Reform Act of 1986 made five changes in the taxation of minor children's income: changes in the personal exemption, changes in the standard deduction, changes in the taxation of unearned income of children under age 14, changes in the taxation of grantor trusts, and changes in the tax return filing requirements. This report summarizes these changes.

Title: The Young people's hymnal: adapted to the use of Sunday schools, Epworth Leagues, prayer meetings, and revivals
Date: 1899, [c1897], 1899

Title: Twentieth century songs. Part one: a collection of new and popular songs with standard hymns for church, Sunday school, young people's societies and special services
Date: c1900, 1900, 1900

Title: Praises to the Prince: a choice collection of sacred songs for Sunday-schools, young people's societies, evangelistic services and all occasions of church work and worship
Date: [n.d.]

Title: A History of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas: being an account of the early settlements, the Civil War, the Ku-Klux, and times of peace

Title: General Fremont, and the injustice done him by politicians and envious military men

Title: A Discourse delivered before the members of the "Old Guard" of St. Louis

Title: Bibliography of slavery and Civil War in Missouri, Bibliography of Civil War and slavery in Missouri

Title: Missouri newspapers, 1808-1966 [book], Newspapers serve Missouri

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