Description: "A veritable epicurean dictionary." Alphabetical list of "new and popular dishes to serve"..."what the dishes are composed of and what they look like." Includes a pronouncing dictionary. Inscribed inside front "G. Cookson [donor's great great uncle] St. George Bermuda Banquet Jan (?) June (?) 1907. Moved to Portland Sept 27
Description: Including statistics and descriptions of its history, educational system, geology, rail roads, natural resources, summer resorts and manufacturing interests, compile and drawn from official plans and actual surveys.
Description: ...on the condition of the Savings Banks, Trust and Banking Companies, Loan and Building Associations and Foreign Banking Companies Having License to do Business in the State
Description: Monograph: Fort Pentagoet and the French Occupation of Castine. "Read before the Maine Historical Society on December 9, 1892". Includes maps of site.
Description: Originally an article in the Century Magazine, published 50 years prior. this work tells the story of John Gilley, who " by hard toil cleared fields, built dwellings, fished on forgotten waters, reared families and...managed schools and churches and administered self-governing communities." Gilley was born on Cranberry Island and lived most of his life on Baker's Island.
Description: This is a revision of the fish and game laws for the state of Maine. It includes such topics as the prohibition against use of dynamite, closing time for hunting or fishing designated species, and the like.
Description: Emphasizes words in common use that are difficult to spell. Label pasted in front shows that the book is the "property of the Town of Mt. Desert" No. 97 and gives the rules, such as inspection by the teacher very two weeks, students must pay for "material injury" to the book.
Description: Designed for schools that don't have time for the full course (per introduction); principles are illustrated; problems given for practice. Inscribed Rubie Higgins; Property of the Townof Mt. Desert label pasted inside front cover.