The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 28th May 2003
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Part 2
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1) Editorial
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2) News
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May 24, 2003
Third Week in May "Memorial Weekend" broadcast.
On the technical front, we are pleased to announce the first Gutenberg
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"American Antiquities" series:
Memorial Day in the US seemed a good time to start posting this series
of illustrated html files.
The exhaustive title page goes on: "With a Variety of Reliques,
Antiquities and Modern Autographs(1861)".
There will be fourteen more eBooks of these "American Antiquities"
to follow in the next weeks. Many of the large images require use
of the "Full Size" button under each image to appreciate detail.
Anyone with a bit of time to explore old American history might
download the following volume (Plate 46 in this Vol. 7 will
tear your heart out):
http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext05/aa07w10h.zip
For this project we took advantage of Internet Archive's kind offer
of their orbital scanner as many of the images are well beyond the
size of an ordinary flatbed. The 14"x19" books were surface mailed
from New York to California to Geof Pawlicki who scanned the double
page images.
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 10[AA#10][aa10wxxx.xxx]7910
[Full Title: American Historical and Literary Curiosities]
[Subtitle: Consisting of Fac-similies of Original Documents, etc, etc]
[Authors: John Jay Smith and John F. Watson]
[Illustrated HTML, zipped only - aa??w10h.zip]
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 9 [AA#9][aa09wxxx.xxx]7909
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 8 [AA#8][aa08wxxx.xxx]7908
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 7 [AA#7][aa07wxxx.xxx]7907
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 6 [AA#6][aa06wxxx.xxx]7906
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 5 [AA#5][aa05wxxx.xxx]7905
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 4 [AA#4][aa04wxxx.xxx]7904
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 3 [AA#3][aa03wxxx.xxx]7903
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 2 [AA#2][aa02wxxx.xxx]7902
Apr 2005 American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 1 [AA#1][aa01wxxx.xxx]7901
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A Complete Grammar of Esperanto, by Ivy Kellerman Mar 2005[esperxxx.xxx]7787
The Female Gamester, by Gorges Edmond Howard Apr 2005[fmgstxxx.xxx]7840
[Subtitle: A Tragedy]
A Primary Reader, by E. Louise Smythe Apr 2005[preadxxx.xxx]7841
[Also posted: illustrated HTML, zipped only - pread10h.zip]
The Rise of Iskander, by Benjamin Disraeli Apr 2005[?riskxxx.xxx]7842
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Three Dramas, by Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson [ Apr 2005?3dramxxx.xxx]7844
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Toward the Gulf, by Edgar Lee Masters [#2] Apr 2005[?gulfxxx.xxx]7845
Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads Apr 2005[dptdtxxx.xxx]7846
[Author's Full Name: Rudyard Kipling]
[This work combines two books by Rudyard Kipling: "Departmental Ditties,"]
[originally published in 1886, and "Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads,"]
[originally published in 1892. Both works are already in the PG ]
[collection with separate eBook numbers.]
Jack North's Treasure Hunt, by Roy Rockwood Apr 2005[?jnthxxx.xxx]7847
[Also posted HTML - 8jnth10h.zip and 8jnth10h.htm]
Last Poems, by A. E. Housman [#3] Apr 2005[?lspmxxx.xxx]7848
The Trial, Franz Kafka, Trans. David Wyllie [FK 2] Apr 2005[metamxxx.xxx]7849C
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1., Matthew L. Davis Apr 2005[?bur1xxx.xxx]7850
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2., Matthew L. Davis Apr 2005[?bur2xxx.xxx]7851
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete, Matthew L. Davis Apr 2005[?bur3xxx.xxx]7852
Quentin Durward, by Sir Walter Scott Apr 2005[qntdrxxx.xxx]7853
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in qntdr10.txt and qntdr10.zip]
[HTML version in qntdr10h.htm and qntdr10h.zip]
Les Noces Chimiques, by Christian Rosencreutz Apr 2005[ncschxxx.xxx]7854
[Author AKA: Johann Valentin Andreae]
[Language: French]
[Translated from German]
[The zip file contains 6 images]
The Vision of Desire, by Margaret Pedler Apr 2005[?vsdsxxx.xxx]7855
[7-bit version with non-accented characters in 7vsds10.txt and 7vsds10.zip]
[8-bit version with accented characters in 8vsds10.txt and 8vsds10.zip]
The Cheerful Cricket and Others,byJeannette Marks Apr 2005[chrcrxxx.xxx]7856
The Way of an Indian, by Frederic Remington Apr 2005[wyindxxx.xxx]7857
[Full author: Written and Illustrated by Frederic Remington]
[Also posted in illustrated HTML, zipped only - wyind10h.zip]
L'Arrabbiata, by Paul Heyse [#2] Apr 2005[?heysxxx.xxx]7858
[Language: German]
Der Diamant des Geisterkoenigs, by F. Raimund [#6] Apr 2005[?diamxxx.xxx]7859
[Full author: Ferdinand Raimund]
[Language: German]
Die unheilbringende Krone,by Ferdinand Raimund[#7] Apr 2005[?kronxxx.xxx]7860
[Language: German]
Moisasurs Zauberfluch, by Ferdinand Raimund [#9] Apr 2005[?zaubxxx.xxx]7861
[Language: German]
The Sword of Antietam, by Joseph A. Altsheler Apr 2005[tsantxxx.xxx]7862
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 1 [AA#1] Apr 2005[aa01wxxx.xxx]7901
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 2 [AA#2] Apr 2005[aa02wxxx.xxx]7902
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 3 [AA#3] Apr 2005[aa03wxxx.xxx]7903
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 4 [AA#4] Apr 2005[aa04wxxx.xxx]7904
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 5 [AA#5] Apr 2005[aa05wxxx.xxx]7905
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 6 [AA#6] Apr 2005[aa06wxxx.xxx]7906
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 7 [AA#7] Apr 2005[aa07wxxx.xxx]7907
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 8 [AA#8] Apr 2005[aa08wxxx.xxx]7908
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 9 [AA#9] Apr 2005[aa09wxxx.xxx]7909
American Antiquities, J.J. Smith, Part 10[AA#10] Apr 2005[aa10wxxx.xxx]7910
[Full Title: American Historical and Literary Curiosities]
[Subtitle: Consisting of Fac-similies of Original Documents, etc, etc]
[Authors: John Jay Smith and John F. Watson]
[Illustrated HTML, zipped only - aa??w10h.zip]
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