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18934761Boston: Roberts Brothers 1893. Octavo xiv 2 536 16 ads. Later ed. Originally published in 1884 although copyright 1883. The milestone cookbook from the first principal of the Boston Cooking School and a student of Maria Parloa. According to the preface the work was "undertaken at the urgent request of the pupils of the Boston Cooking School who have desired that the receipts and lessons given during the last four years in that institution should be arranged in a permanent form." This work is considered one of the first American cookbooks to provide scientific information about cooking and nutrition and helped set the pattern of rational organization for cookbooks to come. Lincoln was also the teacher of Fannie Farmer. Spine a bit cocked but clean throughout. Near very good but for bit of edgewear to the paper-covered boards over brown cloth. Grolier Club One Hundred Influential American Books Printed in Before 1900 page 116-117; Bitting page 288 1896 ed. Cagle 478 the first edition. Roberts Brothers hardcover books
182634982Worcester: Printed for the publishers by Rodgers and Griffin 1826. First edition. Three quarter calf over marbled boards. Spines scuffed one with black tape covering old call number ends worn hinges in one volume split at front index a few leaves with chips tears or creases occasional foxing library plate with discard stamp on versos of title pages remnants of stickers on rear blanks still overall about very good. vii 384 pp.; 2 314 pp. 8vo. All published. "Besides miscellaneous articles the publication contained historical contributions relating to the United States and particularly to Worcester County. These included articles by the members of the Worcester Historical Society" Sabin. "In the autumn of 1825 Mr. Baldwin became an editor and proprietor of the Worcester Magazine and Historical Journal. This work issued in monthly numbers was intended to collect and preserve facts tending to illustrate the origin progress and condition of the institutions exhibit the resources physical political and social advantages of the County of Worcester and present a full and accurate account of each town within its territorial limits. It was continued during a year forming two octavo volumes and was then suspended for want of patronage" An Account of the American Antiquarian Society p.7. Sabin 105433. Printed for the publishers, by Rodgers and Griffin hardcover books
195687499Lincoln High 1956. Very Good. 5 staple bound magazine style pieces housed in a card trifold and slipcase. Mostly very good one issue shows light pull and crease. Art and literature by students. Slipcase soiled with one open seam. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Lincoln High unknown
1926650126William Edwin Rudge Inc 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. A Fine copy of the scarce First Edition in original gray cloth over decorative boards paper spine label; includes the original glassine jacket glassine nicked with wear. Monaghan 2835. William Edwin Rudge, Inc hardcover
2938Light soiling and wear to spine and boards; front free endpaper creased; light toning throughout. Very good. <p>Abraham Lincoln. The President's Words: A Selection of Passages from the Speeches Addresses and Letters of Abraham Lincoln. Boston: Walker Fuller and Co. 1865. Early edition. </p> <br /> <p>16mo approx. 6.54 x 4.5 inches. 186pp iv ads indexed. Publisher's brown cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt top edge gilt endleaves in brown. </p> . unknown
1865851301865. PHOTOGRAPHY 19TH CENTURY - LINCOLN Abraham. UNCOMMON CARTE-DE-VISITE PHOTOGRAPH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN CA. 1865. Providence RI: Salisbury Bro. & Co. n.d. ca. 1865 "Manufacturers of Gold and Plated Jewelry Also Carte de Visites of all Noted Persons." Pale embossed paper mount is 4 x 2 1/2 inches with 1 3/8 x 1 1/8 inch oval photograph a bust of a bearded Lincoln. Very good light soil to the mount with the photo contour partially cut through from being pressed into the paper mount. The embossed design features an eagle laurel leaves flags shield and cannons. The photo is in excellent condition the President's gaze clear and sharp. Free of the toning often seen on this cdv. unknown
1891353635Boston: Roberts Brothers 1891. Early reprint. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Quarter publisher's cloth worn. Early reprint. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Grolier American 86 First Edition; Crahan 74; ; Wheaton p.152 #3707; Vicaire p.524 1887 edition; Bitting p. 288 citing 1896 edition neither this or the first cited Roberts Brothers unknown
189610320Boston: Roberts Brothers 1896. Octavo xiv 2 536 24 28 pages. Table of Contents Index Advertisements blanks for additional recipes. Later Edition. Originally published in 1884 although copyright 1883. The milestone cookbook from the first principal of the Boston Cooking School and a student of Maria Parloa. According to the preface the work was "undertaken at the urgent request of the pupils of the Boston Cooking School who have desired that the receipts and lessons given during the last four years in that institution should be arranged in a permanent form." This work is considered one of the first American cookbooks to provide scientific information about cooking and nutrition and helped set the pattern of rational organization for cookbooks to come. Lincoln was also the teacher of Fannie Farmer who was to <br /> <br /> Spine a bit cocked but clean throughout. Near very good but for bit of edgewear to the paper-covered boards over brown cloth. <br /> <br /> With the ownership inscription "Annie Noyes Bailey 1185 Congress Street Portland Maine 1897". <br /> <br /> Grolier Club One Hundred Influential American Books Printed in Before 1900 page 116-117 for first edition; Bitting page 288 this edition; Cagle 478 the first edition; Crahan 74; Vicaire p.524 1887 edition. Roberts Brothers hardcover
1857202086<p>Boston: Gould and Lincoln 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Brown cloth boards with blindstamped decorations gilt lettering to spine yellow clay-coated endpapers frontis many in-text illustrations. Spine ends & joints repaired it is now a clean & sturdy copy. This particular copy has the ownership inscription of Joshua Fry Speed. Speed was Abraham Lincoln’s four-year roommate and close lifelong friend. The 2024 documentary film Lover of Men suggests that Lincoln and Speed had a gay relationship. For much of his life Speed was a lawyer in Louisville and from 1848-1850 he was a Representative in the Kentucky House of Representatives. Provenance: From the great-great-grandson of Edward Dorsey Hobbs who was Joshua Speed’s brother-in-law. One of Hobbs’ slaves married one of Speed’s slaves. Hobbs’ grandchild was taught to swim by one of Speed’s freed slaves.</p> Gould and Lincoln hardcover
183616583London: Printed for Scott Webster and Geary 1836 First London edition reprinted from the second American edition "considerably enlarged" and "improved" consisting of a series of lectures given by the author at Troy Female Seminary. The first American edition was published in 1833 under the title Lectures to Young Ladies. The second American edition was published in New York in the same year as The Female Student. . Original black morocco stamped elaborately in gilt gilt-spine all edges gilt yellow coated endpapers. . Small octavo. Binding extremities lightly rubbed minor bump to front board crown of spine neatly repaired. Hinges a bit cracked but holding. The occasional minor smudge or stain. A very good copy of a rare book. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps 1793-1884 was an American educator author editor younger sister of women's rights activist Emma Hart Willard 1787-1870 and a teacher and vice-principal at Troy Female Seminary in New York. Phelps was devoted to raising the academic standards of education for girls. She published several popular science textbooks in the fields of botany chemistry and geology. Her interest in botany was fostered by Amos Eaton 1776-1842 and while at Troy Female Seminary she wrote her first and best-known textbook Familiar Lectures on Botany 1829. Phelps eventually became the principal of Patapsco Female Institute in Maryland and created its high academic standards with a curriculum that included natural history the sciences and mathematics. The curriculum was designed specifically to train highly qualified teachers; the "polite attainments" that were the typical hallmarks of female education were not excluded though they were considered to be of secondary importance. In 1859 Phelps became the second woman elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science following Maria Mitchell. The Female Student an "intellectual manual for young ladies" p. iv has been divided by Phelps into five parts: I. Preliminary Views on Education II. Physical Education III. Intellectual Cultivation IV. Accomplishments V. Moral and Religious Education and VI. The Profession of Teaching. Printed for Scott, Webster, and Geary unknown
183712238New York: F.J. Huntington & Co 1837. First Edition. Leather bound. Octavo 7.5 x 4.75" brown calf gilt and morocco spine label vi 14-380 pp engraved illustrations. A "Natural Philosophy" or Physics textbook written by Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps a prominent American scientist educator and author. Phelps was the younger sister of Emma Willard to whom this book is dedicated and a teacher at Troy Female Seminary in New York. She was dedicated to the education of young women and influenced other women to become botanists; "Between 1828 and 1837 Phelps established herself as a reputable publisher by publishing 10 textbooks most focusing on botany and the education of young women. Her books such as Familiar Lectures on Botany received praise as excellent educational tools for women. These books became the standard textbooks across the United States and Canada selling over 3500 copies" Maryland Women's Hall of Fame. An attractive copy with foxing to pages student's scribbles and doodles to front endpaper old red wax seals to front pastedown chipping to leather at upper spine end upper and lower inch of front joint cracking lacking rear endpaper. F.J. Huntington & Co hardcover
1926627068Dorrance & Company Inc. 1926. 144 pp. 19.5 x 13 cm. Black cloth covered boards with illustrated title lables on cover and spine. Sunning to spine with wear to spine ends. Spine label is quite sunned and rubbed. Rubbing and bumping to corners of boards. Book is now protected with a mylar cover. Cracking to front and rear hinges which appear to have been glued at some point. Signed and inscribed by Steffens to Mr. and Mrs. John Copley on the front free endpaper with a second gift inscription from a later owner of the book dated 1953 on the front pastedown. Some very neat occasional underlining in pencil. Binding sound. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Dorrance & Company Inc. Hardcover
194764723Boston MA: Little Brown and Company 1947. First edition. First edition stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. DJ has wear soiling tears and chips. xviii 1 412 p. Includes illustrations. Wartime alphabet--Glossary of Abbreviations. Personnel Index. Subject Index. One of the Science in World War II Office of Scientific Research and Development series. Foreword by Karl T. Compton President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lincoln Thiesmeyer authored Part One and John Burchard authored Part Two. Little, Brown and Company hardcover
RWASAME00tpmVery Good. Washington George. American Documents 15 Facsimiles. Seminal Documents in United States History. Jefferson Thomas; Lincoln Abraham; Madison James; Bradford William. NP: NP ND. Folio. Book condition: Very good with a few lightly bumped and slightly chipped edges. Documents have been intentionally toned textured and weathered for an aged appearance. Includes the Mayflower Compact of 1620 Declaration of Independence and rough draft Emancipation Proclamation Gettysburg Address U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights Washington's Inaugural and Farewell Addresses and others. unknown
1932257505Salem Mass: Marine Research Society 1932. Copy #9 of 97 copies. Illus. xiv 465 pp. 4to. Bound in original cloth and boards t.e.g. rest uncut; almost fine copy with light wear in original slipcase with some wear. Copy #9 of 97 copies. Illus. xiv 465 pp. 4to. Marine Research Society unknown books
1932257505Salem Mass: Marine Research Society 1932. Copy #9 of 97 copies. Illus. xiv 465 pp. 4to. Bound in original cloth and boards t.e.g. rest uncut; almost fine copy with light wear in original slipcase with some wear. Copy #9 of 97 copies. Illus. xiv 465 pp. 4to. Marine Research Society unknown
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1833Pa658Lincoln: J.W. Dury 1833. 1st Edition . No Binding. Vg. 8vo. 50pp. Printed title-page. Dis-bound from a nonce volume. Erratta slip bound in at the rear page. Very rare book with no other copy traced. The Institution was established on Oct 31st 1833. with the Right Honourable Lord Yarborough as the Patron. Packed with history of the forming of the organisation with minutes lists of members rules etc etc. Beautifully printed with small type. Some occasional foxing but very dark and clean type impression. Near fine. <br/> <br/> J.W. Dury unknown
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697174473Taylor & Francis Group pp. 232 . Hardback. New. Taylor & Francis Group hardcover
2010Adhya-9780878938667Sinauer 2010. Paperback. New. Sinauer paperback
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