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The Pronouncing Spelling Book
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Spelling
  • Other, Word Pronounciation
  • Cummings, J.A.
  • 1821.
The Pronouncing Spelling Book
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Rules for spelling and guide for word pronounciation. Marian Townsend written on first page.
Elements of Elocution...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Public speaking
  • Walker, John
  • 1825
Elements of Elocution...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
The Introduction to Ancient and Modern Geography:
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Geography
  • Cummings, J.A.
  • 1820.
The Introduction to Ancient and Modern Geography:
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
The Adventures of Roderick Random Vol I
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fiction
  • Smollett, Tobias
  • 1827
The Adventures of Roderick Random Vol I
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
fiction stamped Daniel Somes
The Adventures of Roderick Random, Vol. !!
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Smollett, Tobias
  • 1827
The Adventures of Roderick Random, Vol. !!
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Stamped Daniel Somes
The Military and Political Life, Character and Anecdotes of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Napoleon
  • Las Cases, Count
  • 1823.
A New System of Mercantile Arithmetic
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Mathematics
  • Other, Merchants
  • Walsh, Michael, AM
  • 1820.
A New System of Mercantile Arithmetic
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Sections on Numeration: tables of money, weights, measures; practical questions, bills of parcels, vulgar fractions, simple interest, insurance, and more. Inscribed in front "Haskell Norwood" and Wm. Burnett (?) Ellsworth, 1838 and in back "Haskell lNorwook Mt Desert", also Nathan Salsbury (?) Esq. (?)
Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Home Economics
  • A Lady of Philadelphia
  • 1828
Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
This is a facsimile of the original 1828 publication. The writer is really Eliza Lislie
The Saint's Everlasting Rest, or A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in their Enjoyment of God in Heaven
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Religion
  • Other, Saints
  • Baxter, Richard
  • 1822.
Description:
Handwritten inside front cover: "Mary Somes; From old Lewis Somes house".
Short Poems: Including a Sketch of the Scriptures to the book of Ruth: Satan's Great Devise, or Lines on Intemperance: I and Conscience, or A Dialogue on Universalism: and a few others on various subjects
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Blue Hill
  • Other, Poetry
  • Other, Religion
  • Fisher, Jonathan
  • 1827
Description:
Handwritten inside cover:"Fred S. Thompson, Mt. Desert, Maine"
The Publications of the American Tract Society Vol III.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Religion
  • 1824.
The Publications of the American Tract Society Vol III.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Various religious tracts. Handwritten inside front cover: "From old Lewis Somes house." Hnadwritten inside back cover: "Lewis Somes, Mount Desert ____".
Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Paley, William
  • 1829
Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Donated by Mrs. George Somes; keep for Somes family connection, although badly damaged. On title page: "In Two Volumes. Vol. II."
The English Reader
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Readers
  • Murray, Lindley
  • 1827
The English Reader
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
" Pieces in prose and poetry selected from the best writers designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect..." Inscribed "the property of Sarah y Mayo Eden Maine February the 1830" [front] " the property of Sarah G (?) Wiggins" [back]
The English Reader
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, English language
  • Other, Readers
  • Murray, Lindley
  • 1824
The English Reader
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
From the title page: "Pieces in prose and poetry, selected from the best writers. Designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect; to improve their language and sentiments; and to inculcate some of the most imortant principles of piety and virtue..."
English Reader; or Pieces in Prose and Poetry.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Readers
  • Murray, Lindley
  • 1820
English Reader; or Pieces in Prose and Poetry.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
"To assist young persons to read with propriety and effect, to improve their language and sentiments; and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue with a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading." Inscribed Daniel Somes jr., Mt. Desert
Poems by William Cowper, Esq.; of the inner temple.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Poetry
  • Cowper, William, Esq.
  • 1826.
Poems by William Cowper, Esq.; of the inner temple.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Collection of poetry in 3 volumes. We have volumes III and III.
Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Religious Text, Bible
  • Other, Religion
  • 1827.
Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
"Translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised with Canne's marginal notes and references" Inside cover marked: "Loaned by Mrs. A.F. Joy, No.64" Following page inscribed: "1730, David Seavey". Inside back cover marked: "Catharine Seavy".