Henry Chapman Mercer (1856–1930)
Autor(a) de Ancient Carpenters' Tools
About the Author
Obras de Henry Chapman Mercer
The dating of old houses: A paper read by Dr. Henry C. Mercer, of Doylestown, Pa., at a meeting of The Bucks County… (1976) 12 cópias
The hill-caves of Yucatan : a search for evidence of man's antiquity in the caverns of Central America : being an… (1975) 9 cópias
The Survival of the Medieaval Art of Illuminated Writing Among Pennsylvania Germans (pamphlet) 2 cópias
Light and Fire Making 2 cópias
Hill Caves of Yucatan 2 cópias
The Bible in iron: Pictured stoves and stoveplates of the Pennsylvania Germans ; notes on colonial firebacks in the… (1961) 2 cópias
The Lenape stone 2 cópias
Lenape stone : or, the Indian and the mammoth. 1 exemplar(es)
The discovery of aboriginal remains at a rockshelter in the Delaware Valley known as the Indian House. 1 exemplar(es)
"Prehistoric Jasper Mines in the Lehigh Hills," 1 exemplar(es)
"Indian Jasper Mines in the Lehigh Hills," 1 exemplar(es)
The Bible in iron : or, Pictured stoves and stoveplates of the Pennsylvania Germans ; notes on colonial fire-backs in… 1 exemplar(es)
An Ancient argillite quarry and Indian village site on the Delaware (Bureau of Ethnology Bulletin 21) (1894) 1 exemplar(es)
Tools of the nation maker. A descriptive catalogue of objects in the museum of the Historical society of Bucks County,… 1 exemplar(es)
THE TILED PAVEMENT IN THE CAPITOL OF PENNSYLVANIA. Revised and Edited by Ginger Duemler. Illustrated by Linda Brown. (1975) — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
The Bible In Iron: Or, The Pictured Stoves And Stove Plates Of The Pennsylvania Germans ... (2012) 1 exemplar(es)
The Hill-Caves of Yucatán 1 exemplar(es)
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Mercer, Henry Chapman
- Data de nascimento
- 1856-06-24
- Data de falecimento
- 1930-03-09
- Local de enterro
- Doylestown Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Locais de residência
- Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Educação
- Harvard University (liberal arts ∙ 1879)
University of Pennsylvania (law ∙ 1881) - Ocupação
- tile maker
building designer
archaeologist - Organizações
- University of Pennsylvania
Bucks County Historical Society
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 31
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 213
- Popularidade
- #104,444
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Resenhas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 12
Mercer’s stories often feel a lot more lively than the drier style of many of his predecessors and contemporaries and that’s largely thanks to his experience and love of each historical influence he draws upon shining through, alongside a willingness to vary his settings. We read tales of a mad scientist plotting on gaslit riversides and warehouses; deadly spiritual customs and creepy avian nightmares; before travelling to the Carpathian mountains and its ancient monastic scrolls and early werewolf legends. We are even treated to parallels of Jason’s adventure to seek the Golden Fleece, a trip to the beautiful locales around Sicily and finally a wonderful mystery surrounding a forgotten piece of Italian art.
Sometimes Mercer’s enthusiastic informational flourishes divert a story off course as it does slightly in ‘The Blackbirds’ or in the even more indulgent ‘Sunken City’, and his occasional longer sentences are of an older era which will be slightly jarring to modern readers. But, these are minor quibbles. Once again Valancourt have brought back a fine collection of little known supernatural/weird tales to warm oneself with by the fire on any cold November night. Or even any night.… (mais)