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Text Box: Page 4 Text Box: Added Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010: Three personal handwritten diaries (1879-1881) in the life of Eliot C. Clarke, Principal Assistant Engineer for Improved Sewerage, the man who built the Boston Sewer System 1878-1881 Boston, MA: City of Boston. The man responsible for building and maintaining Boston's sewer system in the years after the Civil War kept these handwritten diaries of his work from Sep. 7, 1878 to Dec. 19, 1881. Clarke was a prominent figure in Public Health and Civil Engineering in those days, and his work was interconnected not only with building, maintaining and expanding Boston's storm drain and sewer system, but the many railroads and horse railways criss-crossing the city, as well as streets and the system of collecting slops, house trash and ashes from residences and businesses all over the city, and collecting and disposing of dead animals daily. Clarke gave papers at national Public Health forums, and wrote a mountain of documentation on Boston's sewer system, covering sewer design, interconnections, manholes, pumps, and sewage through pipes that could backflood during high tides, causing noxious gases to back up in cellars across the city. He found a solution in intercepting sewer systems, and described this in a presentation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1879, and later in a book published in 1885. His diaries record daily encounters with his fellow administrators and engineers, foremen, developers, builders, politicians and the public. His writing is organized, literate and complete. 7.3 x 12 cm. Three small booklets one 9.7 x 15 cm, pages nearly all filled; two 7.5 x 12 Standard 19th c. diaries, gilt edged pages, very good. In 1880 one-third of pages are filled out, in 1881, one-half are filled out. All very good. (8111) $480.00. American Originals/Engineering Jerusalem: Pool of Bethesda, St. John Chap. V. 1-9, in 40 Different Languages 1928 Jerusalem: The White Fathers, St. Anne's. Booklet contains picture which shows Jesus at the Pool of Bethesda with the lame man, and then a page which relates the story from the Book of St. John, in French, Arabic, English, German, Greek, Russian (old orthography), Latin, Turkish, Kurdi, Esperanto, Hebrew, Maltese, Polish, Hungarian, Jugo-Slave, Santali (Inde), Gallois, Goannais, Lette, Ruganda, Ruthene, Czech, Flemish, Danish, Provençal, Catalan, Spanish, Scottish, Lithuanian, Italian, Armenian, Norwegian, Swedish and Kiswahili. 44 pp. 16 x 21 cm. Paper booklet, upper front corner slightly folded, good. (8109) $45.00. Religious/travel Pennsylvania Turnpike System: The World's Greatest Highway, Fourth Printing, July 1951 Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. Booklet describes Turnpike created by legislative act in 1937. Mileage Table, from Ohio b9rder to Eastern Terminal at King of Prussia, 327.2 miles. Traffic rules and regulations. Centerfold features two-page map of Penn. Tpk. System. "Rambling Reporter" by Ernie Pyle, famed World War II War Correspondent, describes Turnpike before World War II. 15 pp. 23 x 24 cm. Paper booklet, moderate wear, good. (8106) $17.00. Travel Jerusalem: A Brief Guide to Al-Haram Al-Sharif Jerusalem, published by the Supreme Moslem Council 1929 Jerusalem: Supreme Moslem Council. Guide describes "The August Sanctuary", a sacred enclosure of about 145,000 square meters. The two principal edifices are the Dome of the Rock and the mosque of al-Aqsa. Guide advises visitors of sacred nature of site, and warns not to smoke or bring dogs. Black and white photos of Fountain of Qait Bay, Southern Arcades and Pulpit of Burhaneddin, Dome of the Rock, al-Aqsa Mosque exterior and interior. Booklet was used as entry ticket, and so a perforated triangle on back cover about 6 x 5 cm is removed. 16 pp. 16.4 x 21 cm. Paper booklet, bound by two staples. Clean. Perforated upper left hand corner of rear wrap removed. Booklet has two holes punched in fore edge throughout, this is apparently standard for this guide book. Very good. (8108) $65.00. Travel/Religious Visingsö: Svenska Fornminnesplatser; Vägledningar genom Kungl. Vitt. Histo. Och Antikvitets Akademien N:o 17 [Guidebook to Visingsö, in Swedish] by Nisser, Wilhelm 1932 Stockholm, Sweden: Wahlstrom & Widstrands Förlag. Little historical guide book to the island of Visingsö, in Lake Vättern, Jököping, Sweden, located about midway between Stockholm on east coast and Göteborg on west coast, in south of Sweden. Läge och historia; Visingsborgs slottsruin; Brahekyrkan (named after Count Per Brahe in the 17th century); Kumlaby kyrka; Fornlämnigar och fornfynd; Förklaringar till kartan å omslagets baksida. 56 pp. With photos, diagrams showing ruins, map of island on back cover. 12.4 x 18.2 cm. Paper booklet, very good. (8110) $22.00. Travel Added Monday, December 6th, 2010. Southern California: Its Valleys, Hills, and Streams; Its Animals, Birds and Fishes; Its Gardens, Farms and Climate by Van Dyke, Theodore S.1886 New York, NY: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert. Author's main object is to describe the natural, out-of-door attractions of Southern California, when most Americans knew little about the region. "The old bells of the mission still clang in brazen discord, and the midnight yelp of the coyote may yet be heard....""Will the climate cure me? -- no, but it may provide conditions for a cure." Hints on Coming to California: The Chinese can never supply the demand for honest, energetic workingmen. There's plenty of cheap land available. 239 pp. 12.5 x 19 cm. Green cloth on board, gilt printing on spine, black on cover. Cover spine edges worn, back splotched, very good. (3959) $24.00. Travel/California Kartinniy Slovar' Russkogo Yazika, Chast' Pervaya [Picture Dictionary of the Russian Language, Part One] In Russian. Eighth Edition by Chekhov, N.V.; Robinson, M.F.; Khakimov, Kh. G. 1959 Moscow, USSR: Gosudarstvyennoye Uchebno-Pedagogicheskoye Izdatyelstvo Ministerstvo Prosvyeschenniya RSFSR. Uchebnoye Posoviye dlya Uchashchikhsya Nyerusskikh Nachal'nik Shkol. Text book provides guidance for instructors teaching non-Russian students using illustrations. First illustration is drawing of V.I. Lenin. Cover shows teacher showing pages of book to students. . 66 pp. 21 x 26 cm. Illustrated paper on board with tape spine, very good. (4059) $19.00. Educational/Russian Kartinniy Slovar' Russkogo Yazika, Chast' Vtoraya [Picture Dictionary of the Russian Language, Part Two] In Russian. Eighth Edition by Chekhov, N.V. 1959 Moscow, USSR: Gosudarstvyennoye Uchebno-Pedagogicheskoye Izdatyelstvo Ministerstvo Prosvyeschenniya RSFSR Uchebnoye Posoviye dlya Uchashchikhsya Nyerusskikh Nachal'nik Shkol. Editor's note states that textbook was the work of N.V. Chekhov, who has died. His work was fulfilled by Kh. G. Khakimov. Text book provides guidance for instructors teaching non-Russian students using illustrations. Illustrations include several Communist banners and Pioneers holding banners. Cover shows teacher with children in pastoral scene, with children gathering flowers. . 68 pp. 21 x 26 cm. Illustrated paper on board with tape spine, very good. (4060) $19.00. Educational/Russian