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17291659688Chez Jean-Baptiste Coignard 1729. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. French text. Loss to spine ends lightly foxed a few marginal ink notations in French owner's title label on spine. 1729 Hard Cover. 8 198 10 index. Nouvelle et Derniere Edition. Buff paper boards sewn binding. A treatise on geometry followed by a distillation of Vauban's theories regarding military architecture. Vauban was the most respected mind of his time in this field and his innovations led to significant changes in fortified structures. This work contains numerous illustrations indicating the benefits of particular geometric configurations in terms of strength and strategic value. Not in Avery Memorial Library Catalog. Chez Jean-Baptiste Coignard hardcover books
1750523Philadelphia: Printed by T. Dobson 175.00. 8vo. 230 x 145 mm. 9 x 5 ¾ inches. 14 pp. Removed from binding; edges of paper a bit chipped spine secured with Japanese paper. "This society was instituted in the year 1780 in the city of Philadelphia for the purpose of keeping up the knowledge of the German language and to preserve it in its purity." Filled with the righteousness of the victorious Shultz echoed the call for a nationalistic spirit in American but cautioned against the loss of the German culture and language that was so important to many citizens of Pennsylvania. The Mosheimian Society was organized in 1789 by Justus Heinrich Christian Helmuth an immigrant from Halle Germany with the goal of creating a comprehensive education system with an emphasis on adult literary skills in the German language and culture. Like most of its members Benjamin Schultz was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He is most remembered as a physician and advocate of vaccination who acted as a circuit rider and itinerant "vaccinator" in Pennsylvania. He petitioned President Madison for an official position that would allow him to travel wherever he was needed to vaccinate the public in any state in the union. Sabin 80761. i Allibone's Dictionary of English and American Authors/i II p. 2092. Founder Online To James Madison from Benjamin Shultz 27 March 1813. See German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917 Edited by Henry Geitz 1995 pp. 87-88 157-58. 523. Printed by T. Dobson unknown books
17462879<p>Bologna 1746. Very rare illustrated edition second; first c. 1685 of this poem on the siege of Vienna along with Dialogues between Men and Women on daily life La Banzuola. The two compositions form the most extensive and most philologically genuine literary compositions in Bolognese dialect.</p> books
1737007894London: Printed by J. Hughs / Printed for J. Torbuck O. Payne and T. Woodman. 1737. Two volumes bound as one both Third Editions 1737 viii 317 150 1 pp ads. Sturdily rebound in 20th c. brown cloth gilt lettering and rules at spine the bookplate of noted Celtic language and folklore scholar Edgar M. Slotkin front paste down Near Fine occasional light toning a pencil note at title page indicating the first edition published in 1672. Third Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed by J. Hughs / Printed for J. Torbuck, O. Payne, and T. Woodman. Hardcover books
