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August 14

Appleton's handbook

For some reason, Google gives me only a snippet view of Appleton's Hand-book of American Travel, Southern Tour, although it was published in 1876. (Anything that old, in my prior experience, either isn't visible because they've not scanned it, or it's fully visible because it's in the public domain.) Can someone not in the USA check and see if it's visible in your country, and if so, can you identify a place in which sketches europe "been spared" "an idea of" all appear on the right side of a page?

Background: I have a falling-apart copy of Darwin's The variation of animals and plants under domestication (1876, Appleton), and the internal binding papers have become visible. On one side, the binding is clearly composed of an advertisement for Appletons' American Cyclopædia. On the other side, only the right edge of a page is visible, and all I can see is the rightmost dozen or so characters of each line. Google found the Hand-book when I searched for the above words, and it fits the context (Appleton published both books in the same year), but I'd like to know more than what a Google snippet gives. Nyttend backup (talk) 13:50, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

I can't see the full book from the UK.--Phil Holmes (talk) 14:22, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

The whole book is viewable at here at HathiTrust - not sure why we can't see it on Google Books because it's watermarked "digitized by Google". Alansplodge (talk) 18:16, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

There's a better copy here "digitized by Cornell University". Alansplodge (talk) 18:26, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. Couldn't find that text anywhere in the book, but now I think I've found it: see this advertisement. (I can't imagine why the same search in the same browser earlier today didn't find what I've just found.) It's an advertisement for another Appleton's book published around the same time. It's not identical (the layout is completely different, for one thing, and the sentences are in a different order), but I've found all the visible phrases in my text on that advertisement, and the combination of date + publisher + appearance of all items (including a large-print title ending with PE: ) is strong enough that I'm sure it's right. Nyttend (talk) 23:06, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

<aside, sort of> Regarding your remark (parenthesis) it's supposed to be parapraxis in the first sense. I do not know who, perhaps Lacan extended Freud's related main concept towards a "collective unconscious" which should be washing your image of your own self from any suspicion of an inch of a failure.</aside> The next following page following your link is very beautiful. Did ever man get to see beautiful ladies ride on the bull's back, the way the picture is presenting it ? --Askedonty (talk) 05:33, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

here https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/6113172 , you will find an option "I’d like to see the entire book, and I believe the book is in the public domain". I don't know how and if they react to such feedback Gem fr (talk) 09:25, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

If you're interested, there is an exhibition currently running at the British Library, Imaginary Cities, by Michael Takeo Magruder, currently artist-in-residence there, which includes images from Appleton's Hand-book of American Travel, Southern Tour and many more. Supplementing the article, the display notes

The Imaginary Cities exhibition emerged from a British Library collection of 65,000 19-th century books that were digitised with funding from Microsoft and now reside in the public domain ...

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