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186663212Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers; 306 Chestnut Street 1866. 8vo pp. 120 8 ads; wrappers wanting removed from binding; very good. At head of title: "Trial life and execution of Anton Probst." "Anton Probst was one of those mass murderers who in a single stroke obliterates a group of people. The Deering family of six plus a hired boy and woman guest were all brutally hacked to death by him . After his execution the doctors had a field day with his cadaver putting it through all kinds of tests including one to test the theory that the retina of the eye of dying persons retains the last image seen. His head and right arm later appeared in a New York museum of anatomy and science" McDade. McDade Annals of Murder 775. T. B. Peterson & Brothers; 306 Chestnut Street unknown
1834024808Louisville KY: Wilcoc Dickerman & Co. 1834. First Edition . Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition very good in original tree calf leather binding with a brown leather spine and red title label on spine reading "Butler's History of Kentucky". The leather is a little worn at corners and spine ends but with very little loss mainly at corners. Owner name town and date 1923 on front endpaper with single different owner name at title page. Marbling on page edges is faded; some sporadic foxing to pages throughout but fairly minimal. Frontispiece engraved portrait of General George R. Clark to whom the book is dedicated; Appendix at the rear - 396 pages. Page block is slightly stiff although tight and square. A very well preserved copy of this early history. <br/> <br/> Wilcoc, Dickerman & Co. hardcover
1884ZB1331009London: The Fine Art Society 1884. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item Large Paper Edition limited to 250 numbered copies; oblong folio x text pp. 17 plates with accompanying text; original illustrated boards & cloth backstrip covers worn text shaken one plate foxed else internally clean. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. London: The Fine Art Society hardcover
1865005454Boston: Walker Fuller and Company 1865 Boston: Walker Fuller 1865. Second Edition published same year as first 1865. 8vo. Brown cloth binding gold decoration and titles top edge gilt. Chocolate endpapers antique library bookplate hand-numbered and hand-dated. 609 pp. Frontispiece engraving facsimile signature protective tissue. Pages toned. Light edgewear. Minimal library markings. Very good condition. Walker, Fuller, and Company hardcover
1853h45580Syracuse: Hall Mills and Company 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo period binding of half brown calf and paper-covered boards very good light wear and rubbing contents a bit tanned and foxed throughout 1878 pencil gift inscription on flyleaf bookseller's old tag on pastedown J. T. Heald Bookbinder Wilmington DE. 141 pp. First printings are rare in the trade and at auction. The work consists of two lectures Mann delivered in 1853 and 1854 in which he explores women's role in society arguing for the importance of education for women and their unique capacity to shape the moral character of those around them. From what we can gather from online sources in these lectures Mann who was the leading early 19th-century proponent of public school education expresses a degree of ambivalence about women's social roles and the relations between men and women. Rather than positing two entirely separate "spheres" for the sexes Mann reframed the traditional "woman's sphere" as a hemisphere - one half of a single shared orb of human interaction - emphasizing that each sex is necessary as the complement of the other. Consistent with his broader educational philosophy Mann believed women were particularly well suited to teaching and to the moral elevation of society and the lectures advocate giving women access to quality education so they can fulfill that role. He also argued that women should be permitted to participate in public life and be accorded the same legal rights as men - though a contemporary feminist critic Ernestine Rose sharply challenged his lectures accusing him of "pandering to prejudiced public opinion" by confining woman's greatest duty to the cradle and to educating children. Overall the work sits in interesting tension: progressive in its call for women's education and rights yet still tethered to 19th-century notions of feminine moral influence and domestic purpose. Hall, Mills, and Company hardcover
18392133Boston: Marsh Capen Lyon and Weber 1839 Volume 1 and 2 bound together in a three quarter leather binding marbled boards. Light foxing page 69- 70 has a rip possibly from binder very solid book subtly rubbed through on marbled boards leather in nice condition. A seemingly scarce book edited by Horace Mann. Marsh, Capen, Lyon and Weber hardcover
18341358309Louisville: Wilcox Dickerman & Co 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xi 396 pages; In Very Good Minus Condition. Bound in 20th century full paneled imitation period full tree calf paneled covers with gilt borders and spine labels with gilt lettering; Boards show light plus wear to top and bottom edges; Textblock has significant uneven age-toning to edges moderate plus foxing to pages interiorly a dampstain along the fore-edge up to p. 9 creasing to corners of several pages and significant foxing to frontispiece and titlepage; Top edge of titlepage has been repaired; RW Consignment. Howes B-1059. 1358309. Special Collections - Downstairs. Wilcox, Dickerman & Co hardcover
183835636Boston: Dutton and Wentworth State Printers 1838. Stitched 75pp. Untrimmed scattered foxing Good. 'Senate.No. 26' at head of title.<br /> <br /> When Mann took office as Secretary the free public school system was characterized by "short school terms dilapidated and unsanitary school-houses untrained and underpaid teachers and irrational methods of teaching. He brought to his new duties such a degree of courage vision and wisdom that during the brief twelve years in which he held office the Massachusetts school system was almost completely transformed" DAB. This first Report was significant for its "presentation and discussion of school problems of crucial importance. The needs and remedies growing out of these problems are set forth with convincing clearness and with the fervor of a prophet and reformer" Id.<br /> Edward Everett was President of the Board of Education whose membership included Mann Jared Sparks and Robert Rantoul Jr.<br /> FIRST EDITION. AI 51561 5. Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers unknown
1834730541834. KENTUCKY. BUTLER Mann. A History of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Louisville KY: Wilcox Dickerman and Co. 1834. 1st ed. Frontis. port. xi396pp. Contemporary full calf spine gilt all edges marbled. Small amount of faint scattered foxing wear to final leaf not affecting text else very good. HOWES B-1059 "aa": "Disputes many of Marshall's findings; contains the Journal of Col. George Croghan one of the earliest accounts in English of the Ohio country previously appearing only in magazine form. unknown
182329285Dedham: H. & W.H. Mann 1823. Hardcover. First Edition. 5 x 8.25in. 25pp. Bound in recent cloth with gilt titling. 32pp. of added blanks. Appears to be Horace Mann's first publication predating his oration delivered at Providence in 1825 which is the earliest entry in Benjamin Pickman Mann's bibliography of his father. NEAR FINE. Shows very minor and occasional oxidative stress throughout else Fine. As pictured. H. & W.H. Mann hardcover
182313925Dedham: H. & W. H. Mann 1823. First Edition. Sewn binding. Good . Large octavo 25pp. Ex-library with two stamps to the title page and a few stray pencil markings else clean. Side-sewing intact but extra stab holes and missing wrappers suggest that it was removed at some point from a bound volume of other works. Marginal tear to pp. 3-4 just barely approaches text else with shallower chips and tears to extremities. Untrimmed. Minimal foxing; a good or better example. Horace Mann's first publication which he printed at his own expense. A passionate and upbeat celebration of America's first 47 years which looks forward to the fruits of westward expansion. Published when Mann was a young lawyer; in fact the same year that he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. As such it precedes his earliest writings on education--the subject for which he is best remembered--by more than a decade. Missed by his early bibliographers. <br /> <br /> Scarce in the trade. OCLC records perhaps a dozen holdings distinctly concentrated in Massachusetts. Sabin only records a posthumous reprint as part of a collected edition. American Imprints 13120. H. & W. H. Mann unknown
181573000Bruxelles: Chez Benoit Le Francq Imprimeur-Libraire 1815. 2 vols complete. 8vo 21x14 cm. Contemporary leather spines richly gilt in compartments with title-labels few small rubbings; marbled endpapers. Printed in 2 columns. ivviii604;iv502 74 ii: 'Abrévations" pp.The 74 pp.: Tables 'Abbayes de France' 'Abbayes des Pays Autriciens' 'Noms latins'. - Several stamps on titles but on the whole a nice set. - With 2 folding maps: 1 "l'Europe 1800" and 2 folding world map 14x28 cm engraved by Ph. J. Maillart entitled "Mappe - Monde Dessinée d'après toutes les Découvertes qui ont été faites jusqu'en 1800 par I. A. M.". Chez Benoit Le Francq, Imprimeur-Libraire hardcover
1823008528Dedham: H. & W. H. Mann 1823 Book. Fine. No Binding. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo. Pp. 25 1 blank. Self covers. Pulled from a bound volume some remnants at spine. Some slight spotting to covers. Contemporary ink signature and comment to top border; else clean. A fine copy. Perhaps the earliest publication with Horace Mann as author. Horace Mann 1796-1859 was an American educational reformer and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education. Born in Franklin Massachusetts Mann studied at Brown University graduated with honors and then studied law. One of the early residents of Dedham Massachusetts Mann passed the local Bar and opened a law office in 1823. In only his first year in Dedham he was invited to deliver the Independence Day address. In his speech he "outlined for the first time the basic principles that he would return to in his subsequent public statements arguing that education intelligent use of the elective franchise and religious freedom are the means by which American liberties are preserved." Former President and then Congressman John Quincy Adams later read the address and "expressed great confidence in the future career of Mr. Mann". This pamphlet printed by Mann and his father is perhaps the earliest publication with Horace Mann as author. Includes a contemporary ink signature with the words "A significant work" penned in the same hand. Sabin: 44324. . H. & W. H. Mann unknown
1876241j1135London: L. Reeve & Co. Fair. 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. "In preparing the following pages of a description of the Colony of Natal the author has been mainly influenced by the desire to produce a readable book which may convey in an easy and pleasant form an exact picture of the existing condition and circumstances of the land; but he has also entertained the hope that whilst furnishing this sketch in broad outline he may also be in reality making a first contribution to a permanent history of an important and promising dependency." - Preface. xii 336 16 ads pp. Two maps including one fold-out. Several colour illustrations and faded photos. Lacking flower illustration at page 172 and portrait of Langalibalele at page 269. Soundly rebound in maroon faux leather. Average external wear. General foxing. Moderate spine slant. Few markings to contents which were once wet as is particularly evident at and about page 176. A worthy reading example of this informative vintage work.; 8vo . L. Reeve & Co. hardcover
188462172Fine Art Society London 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Size: Oblong 4to 9 3/4 - 12". Unpaginated. Rebacked with new end papers fitted. Original boards retained. Wear to spine ends. Front hinge cracked. Rear hinge cracking. Scattered foxing but text mostly clean. Covers marked and worn. Corners bumped. Complete with 17 plates. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Humour. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 62172. . Fine Art Society hardcover
184156092Boston: Dutton and Wentworth State Printers 1841. First edition 8vo pp. xvi 328; original cloth-backed tan paper-covered boards; title printed in black on front cover; gilt lettering on spine; ex-Massachusetts Historical Society pressure stamp on title page boards rubbed; corners bumped; some dampstaining; otherwise very good. Bookplate on the front pastedown noting a donation by Rev. S. C. Jackson 1859. Presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper by Horace Mann to the Boston Unitarian minister Rev. Ezra S. Gannett. Compiled by Horace Mann the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers unknown
18452341534Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown / Wm. B. Fowle and Nahum Capen / C. Stimpson 1845. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Minor cosmetic wear a couple pages toned. 1845 Hard Cover. 144; 16; 176; 59 pp. Four works bound in one hardcover volume. Brown leather spine marbled paper over boards gilt titles. A collection of publications related to Horace Mann's response to criticisms of his educational reforms to promote non-denominational common school systems. Charles C. Little and James Brown / Wm. B. Fowle and Nahum Capen / C. Stimpson hardcover
1836002532Boston MA USA: Dutton & Wentworth 1836 Boston: Dutton & Wentworth 1836. First edition. 4to. Full-sheep. 1007 pp. A copy of the Massachusetts General Laws and the United States Constitution lacking the thirteenth amendment prohibiting slavery but including specific prohibitions against forcibly imprisoning people of color. Pedophilia was punishable by death and rape by life imprisonment. Head and foot of spine material deteriorated 3" to expose signatures. All the pages are held fast. Minimal foxing. Clean copy. Overall good condition. Dutton & Wentworth hardcover
18530001197COUDERSPORT PENNSYLVANIA POTTER COUNTY 1853. On offer is an original manuscript letter handwritten by an important local Quaker reformer and Underground Railroad figure John S. Mann 1816-1879 who was a Quaker lawyer born in Chester County Pennsylvania. He was a teacher but moved to Coudersport in 1841. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1842. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives 1866-1868 1871; School Director 1858-1872 Coudersport Burgess 1862-1865; and Editor of the Potter Journal 1874-1879. Mann was the Underground Railroad "Stationmaster" for Coudersport which was an important stop on the route used by escaping slaves. Both his home and the building where his wife's bookstore was located were used to hide slaves. The latter even had a secret room. His son Arthur said as a young boy it was "not uncommon to find a colored person at the breakfast table". This letter dated Nov 8 1853 concerns settlers on the owner's lands addressed to 'Dear Sir' but most likely to John Keating elderly land owner of much land in Potter County Pennsylvania. Mann was an agent for John Keating 1760-1856 an Irish-French immigrant who bought 200000 acres in northern Pennsylvania in 1796 and began selling it the next year. "Coudersport Nov 8 1853 Dr Sir On my return I went to your lands as you suggested and made contracts with those settlers which had not already entered into contract. I succeeded in obtaining a contract with all but two and one of them was willing to do so but his improvement had been sold at sheriff's sale and the purchaser did not live in this county. The other one refused to contract and says he will hold by possession . I am satisfied he cannot and I think Mr. Harwick ought to take his lot at his own risk as I can furnish you a purchaser who will take his contract and not ask you to guarantee the possession of any of the lots. It took me so long to get over the tract that I am unable to make out a statement of the amount due on the old contracts and so I enclose thirteen of them herewith. Will send the new contracts by next mail together with a draft of the tracts showing the amount and location of the lots sold Yours truly Jno S. Mann". A receiving notation gives Mann's name again. Fold tear at top center overall G. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. English. unknown
181766865London: published by Sherwood Neely and Jones Paternoster-Row 1817. First edition 12mo pp. 4 224 8 ads; original blue paper-covered boards brown paper shelfback printed paper label on spine; a stain or two on the covers but this copy is near fine. With notes by J. Adam. Also attributed to David Carey. Jaggard p. 384. OCLC locates copies at the National Library of Scotland Nottingham two at the BL Folger Michigan Penn and UCal.-Davis. published by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row unknown
183923195London: Smith Elder & Co 1839. First edition. Hardcover. Modern quarter dark green morocco and matching cloth spine lettered in gilt. Fine. 360 pages. 18.5 x 11.5 cm. Large color fold out map in excellent condition. First few leave of text slightly toned balance generally clean. Bookplate. Only edition of a very scarce account of New South Wales Van Diemen’s Land Port Philip South Australia and New Zealand by an early colonist whose compendious account includes description of the historical and social background of the various “provincesâ€. BAGNALL. 3354. BILLOT. 156; FERGUSON. 2799. Smith, Elder, & Co hardcover
18442105040003Boston : C.G. Little and J. Brown; W.B. Fowle and N. Capen; S.N. Dickinson 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Horace Mann and the School Masters: Educational Reform in 19th century Massachusetts A sammelband of seven works bound as one. Includes the following: 1. Remarks on the Seventh annual report of the Hon. Horace Mann Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education.; 1844 144 pages; 2. Reply to the "Remarks" of thirty-one Boston schoolmasters on the Seventh annual report of the secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education 1844 176 pages; 3. Observations on a pamphlet entitled Remarks on the Seventh annual report of the Hon. Horace Mann secretary of the Massachusetts Board of education 1844 16 pages; 4. Penitential tears; or A cry from the dust by "the thirty-one" prostrated and pulverized by the hand of Horace Mann 1845 59 pages; 5. Letter to the Rev. M.H. Smith in answer to his "Reply" or "Supplement.' 1847 22 pages; 6. Sequel to the so called correspondence between the Rev. M.H. Smith and Horace Mann : surreptitiously published by Mr. Smith containing a letter from Mr. Mann suppressed by Mr. Smith 1847 56 pages; 7. Review of the Reports of the Annual Visiting Committees of the Public Schools of the City of Boston 1845 1846 58 pages. <br> Condition report: The pages are remarkable clean and white. The works are bound together in early 3/4 sheep over marbled boards. The spine is stamped in gold "Historical Papers; "Mann & the Schoolmasters." The front board has been reattached and the binding is solid. <br> Horace Mann was one of the most important figures in the development of universal non-sectarian free education in America. His six reforming principles forms the nucleus of American educational values: 1. the public should no longer remain ignorant; 2. that such education should be paid for controlled and sustained by an interested public; 3. that this education will be best provided in schools that embrace children from a variety of backgrounds; 4. that this education must be non-sectarian; 5. that this education must be taught using the tenets of a free society; and that education should be provided by well-trained professional teachers. Significantly Mann attempted to bring children of all classes together and better equalize the conditions of men. The Seventh Annual Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education included Mann's innovative findings from visits to schools in Europe particularly Prussia Saxony and Holland which Mann felt were superior to those of Massachusetts. The report proposed instruction for the blind deaf and dumb; modes of teaching children to read; the use of text books; and the abandonment of corporal punishment as a primary means of maintaining school discipline. Mann's innovative reform attempts created a backlash from Boston schoolmasters and this volume contains both their and Mann's responses. C.G. Little and J. Brown; W.B. Fowle and N. Capen; S.N. Dickinson hardcover
1845333470Boston: Wm. B. Fowle and Nahum Capen 1845. Inscribed on the front cover "G.F. Clark from Hon. Horace Mann. 124pp. 8vo. Printed wrappers small chip at upper outer margin on upper cover spine with wear and loss. Inscribed on the front cover "G.F. Clark from Hon. Horace Mann." 124pp. 8vo. An important work by Mann responding to criticism over his educational reform particularly his common school system and the emphasis on non-sectarian education. Wm. B. Fowle and Nahum Capen unknown
186122162London: Jarrold and Sons 1861. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. xii 46314pp. The final 4pp are the publisher's catalogue. Half black polished calf marbled paper boards. Hinges edges and sides lightly rubbed light foxing else this is a very good copy. Name and blindstamp fo former owner Joseph P. Mingeoli.<br /> <p><br /> Mann was educated at University College London. In 1857 he left England for Natal now part of South Africa where he composed this important text.<br /> <p><br /> Scarce. OCLC lists only 2 copies.<br /> <p>. Jarrold and Sons hardcover
1853316013Yellow Springs OH 1853. 2 pp. 12mo. Single leaf of stationery shallow chip at blank left margin with no loss of text. 2 pp. 12mo. The "father of American public school" writes to accept the invitation of the State Teacher's Association of Ohio to deliver their annual address and to express his admiration. In part: "I sincerely hope the time has now come when I can establish cordial relations with a Society which I have long regarded with so much honor & respect. I shall gladly avail myself of this ocassion to show the deep interest which I feel in the noble efforts of the Ohio Teachers of Common Schools." The letter dates from two months after Mann assumed the presidency of the newly established Antioch College at Yellow Springs. unknown
