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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
184853652Boston: William B. Fowle 1848. 8vo pp. 31 1; fine copy in original printed green wrappers. First published in Washington the same year but with only 20 pages here "revised and improved in better style and in larger type than any previous edition." This edition is also Mann's final text. Mann was elected to Congress in 1848 to fill the vacancy left by the death of John Quincy Adams. This is his first speech to Congress and it left a mark advocating Congress's right and duty to exclude slavery from the territories and in a letter in December of that year he said: "I think the country is to experience serious times. Interference with slavery will excite civil commotion in the South. But it is best to interfere. Now is the time to see whether the Union is a rope of sand or a band of steel. William B. Fowle unknown
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
18341944455Wilcox Dickerman and Co. 1834 1834. Hardcover. Used-Very Good. Full calf. 396 pp. Frontis. Hinges repaired. All edges marbled. Well preserved internals. Howes B-1059. Wilcox, Dickerman and Co., 1834 hardcover
183336802Bedford PA 1833. Folio sheet folded to 8" x 9-1/2". Written on the first two pages in ink manuscript. Docketed on final blank "5th Dec. 1833 D. Mann ansd." Addressed "Samuel M. Barclay Member H.R. Harrisburg Pa." Circular postal cancel "Bedford PA Dec 7". Folded for mailing wax seal with tear of blank margin where opened. Several fold splits repaired no loss. Good. <br /> <br /> In 1832 and 1833 Pennsylvania conducted a marathon contest for the election of U.S. Senator chosen in those days by the legislature of each State. The term of Senator George Dallas came to an end in March 1833. "The Pennsylvania General Assembly consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate convened on December 11 1832 for the regularly scheduled Senate election for the term beginning on March 4 1833. A total of thirty-six ballots were recorded. Ballots 1-17 were recorded on four separate dates 11th 12th 13th 15th in December 1832. Ballots 18-21 were recorded on two separate dates 9th and 10th in January 1833. Ballots 22-29 were recorded on two separate dates 19th and 20th in February 1833. The thirtieth ballot was recorded on March 12 1833 followed by three additional ballots on April 2. Following the thirty-third ballot on April 2 the election convention adjourned sine die without electing a Senator" wikipedia; "U.S. Senate Election - 1832-33" Pennsylvania Election Statistics: 1682-2006 Wilkes University Website accessed 7/21/2020. <br /> On December 7 1833 two days after David Mann wrote this letter to his friend in the Pennsylvania legislature the Democrat Samuel McKean Mann's least favorite candidate emerged as the winner. <br /> The writer of this Letter David Mann 1782-1859 of Bedford County had been County Clerk Recorder Prothonotary under Governors Snyder and Findlay a member of the State Senate from 1822-24 and County Auditor General. The Letter's recipient Samuel M. Barclay 1802-1852 was a Bedford lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in August 1826; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1833; and to the state Senate in 1837 Website of the Pennsylvania State Senate. Job Mann 1795-1873 appears to have been a cousin of David Mann. He was a Jacksonian member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1835-1837 and a Democratic member from 1847-1851. He also served as the Treasurer of Pennsylvania from 1842-1848. unknown
1887011792Philadelphia: Lea Brothers 1887. Published 1887-1888. First Edition. Original Sheep. Very Good. Lea Brothers Hardcover
185790021273London: Jarrolds & Sons 1857. First. . Hardcover. Poor. 8vo. ex-library binding 69pp pages loose Folding Plate 1 Section of Atlantic from East to West Plate II Diatoms <br/> <br/> Jarrolds & Sons hardcover
1861CAT000044Boston: Ticknor & Fields 1861. Third Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Original brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Scattered mild foxing and age toning to interior mild soiling and shelf wear to covers wear at spine ends and some loss to cloth at the heel of the spine. 189pp plus 16pp of ads.Cagle/Stafford 514 Bitting 306 the 1858 edition.<br/><br/> An interesting little book that takes on both the adulterations of food question and abstinence in cookery. Originally published in 1857 and again in 1858. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Cooking Wine & Dining. Inventory No: CAT000044. Ticknor & Fields hardcover
18966ratcHutchinson and Co. Publishers Ltd 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bookplate from the previous owner tipped in on the front inner board. Publication of 123 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. There is foxing on the end papers. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Hutchinson and Co. Publishers Ltd hardcover
1875002648S. l. New York: F. W. Stewart 1875. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 1/2 x 4 3/4; pp. 3-24; beige wraps printed and ruled in black; illustrated with numerous woodcuts; two small chips and a small closed cut to front wrap; a few minor spots to wraps; very good condition. Cameron Mann 1851 - 1932 was an author Episcopal priest the Third Bishop of North Dakota and the First Bishop of South Florida. The Theta Delta Chi Society was founded as a social fraternity in 1847 at Union College New York. Byy the last quarter of the 19th century the society spread rapidly adding charges a term used by TDX brothers to refer to their local organizations rather than the more-commonly used "chapters" throughout the entire country including Stanford Berkeley Brown Tufts UVA Dartmouth Yale etc. The historical poem related to the Civil War was written and delivered by Mann at the closing of the 27th Annual Convention of Theta Delta Chi at a grand banquet at Delmonico's in New York. The illustrations designed by Franklin Burdge combined typography and beautiful unique wood-engraved illustrations to represent the Greek letters by which the charge was known. According to a "Notice to Graduates" at the end of the booklet the engravings were included "partly in order that by an inspection of the wood cuts inserted they may judge of the character of the new Catalog of the Society and have their attention called to the fact that more subscriptions are needed to print it." Not in OCLC not in the trade. F. W. Stewart paperback
1844101107<p>Boston: Wm. M. Fowle and Nahum Capen 1844. 1844. Good. - Octavo 9 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide. Softcover bound in printed gray wraps. The spine has perished and the book is lacking the rear cover. The front cover is heavily chipped with a previous owner's name Seth Lowpenned at the top. 176 pages. Several page corners are slightly creased. The text block is cracked. Good.</p><p>RARE First Edition.</p><p>Known as "The Father of the Common School Movement" Massachusetts Secretary of Education Horace Mann 1796-1859 offers a fierce defense of his progressive reforms against the opinions of traditionalist schoolmasters. The controversy came about following Mann's publication of his "Seventh Annual Report". Mann a progressive praised the "object method" approach of the Prussian education system over rote memorization. He advocated for teacher training and for the use of positive reinforcement over corporal punishment that was common in Boston schools of the period. His reply was aimed at a group of 31 prominent Boston schoolmasters who objected to his reforms and the feud continued through 1845.</p> Boston: Wm. M. Fowle and Nahum Capen, 1844. paperback