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184616563Boston: Redding & Co 1846. 32pp bound in modern marbled wrappers. Good. Mann who entered the copyright attacks free traders. Allies of the southern planter class they would "reduce the people of the free States.to the amount that barely sustains life" "to the level of the pauper laborers of Europe." American manufactures will suffer "stagnation that must follow a transfer of our work to the workshops of Europe." This "will curtail the profits of our capitalists and thereby put a period to the extension of railroads and other operations that employ many laborers whence the motive to stimulate emigration will be greatly weakened." FIRST EDITION. AI 46-4413 4. 359 NUC 0176397 3. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker BEAL. Redding & Co 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
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
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
184356149Boston: Dutton and Wentworth 1843. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 25cm. In original tan paper wrappers printed on front; 160pp. Largely sound though front wrapper partially detached some losses to paper over spine minor staining to wraps scattered foxing: Very Good. <br /> <br /> Mann was Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education from 1837-1848. Though his only power as secretary was "to collect and disseminate information" he nontheless worked hard to improve the lacklustre public school system. "As a mean of informing the public . . . his twelve annual reports 1837-1848. . . were unsurpassed. Chock full of statistical data the reports-which were widely read and circulated-presented the problems of the common schools as well as possible solutions" ANB. Approximately 7 copies recorded in OCLC; not common in the trade. Not in AMERICAN IMPRINTS. Dutton and Wentworth unknown
182996467Neustadt a. d. O. Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1829. Titel, [8] Bl. Subskribentenverzeichnis, X, 356 S., [8] Bl. Mit einem kalligraph. Frontispiz u. 1 gefalt. Tabelle. 24 cm. Pp. d. Zeit.
185999558Leipzig, Verlag der Modernen Klassiker, [ 1859]. 260 S., 1 Stahlstich-Portrait-Tafel [= Arthur Friedrich Bussenius, Hrsg.: Moderne Klassiker, Bd. 7]. 13,5 cm. OLn m. mit ornamentaler u. figürlicher Gold- und Blindprägung.
189684484Partitions sur l'Amérique du Nord Witmark 1896
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
18463983351846. Unbound. Near Fine. A remarkable group of 10 portraits of Horace Mann and his family featuring a unique and previously undiscovered cased sixth plate daguerreotype of Mann the great architect of the American system of popular education. The photos were preserved by the Mann family and all are housed in a circa 1950s cardboard box with the typed ownership label of Horace Mann III Mann’s grandson of Southwest Harbor Maine. The box has some internal repair and chipping. The photos are overall very good with general wear and light spotting to two; the daguerreotype has a few scratches at neck level and a couple of mild abrasions but else near fine. unknown
182929111Stuttgart, Fr. Brodhag'sche Buchh., 1829. (Boards with the year 1830). Folio. Text and plates inserted in the orig. printed cardboard. Plates uncut, and all as issued. (4),30 pp. and 24 lithographed plates, of which 22 are in beautiful original handcolouring. (Sign.: Auf Stein radiert von J.G.M.).
180189449CBLübeck, 1801. 1 Blatt; 32,2 x 20 cm.
185589445CBLübeck, 1855. 1 Blatt, 42,9 x 26,8 cm.
190027091Lübeck, Photodr. & Verlag v. J. Nöhring ohne Jahr [um 1900]. Leporelle mit 10 mont. Orig.-Photographien in rotem, auf dem VDeckel illustr., gold- und schwarzgepr. Orig.-Leineneinband. Kl.-8°. Durchgehend stockfl. Besitzeintrag mit Bleistift verso letztem Photo.
188489489Hamburg, Agentur des Rauhen Hauses, 1884. [4] Bl, 467 S. (= Bilder aus vergangener Zeit,1). 20,5 cm. HLn d. Zeit.
188096220Ohne Ort, Verlag, [Ca. 1880]. 14 montierte Lichtdrucke (2 wiederholt) auf 14 grauen, mit ornamentalen Bordüren bedruckten Bl. 26 cm. OBroschur m. ornamentalem Golddruck. Kordelheftung.
183997174Magdeburg, [ 1839]. [8] S. 18,5 cm. Rückenbroschur.
188068125Hamburg, Druck von H. O. Persiehl, im September 1880. 10 S. 21 cm. Broschur d. Zeit.
182886605[ca. 1828]. Ovaler Kupferstich in Punktiermanier,. Bildgröße 7 x 5,5 cm. Unter Feinkartonpassepartout.
1894200295Um 1894. Mit handschriftlichen biographischen Aufzeichnungen. Auf festem Zeichenpapier. Lose auf Karton montiert. 9,3 x 10 cm.
186242327Bonn : Cohen, 1862. NUR 19. Jg., N.F.: Jg. 9. VII, 336, 204, 39, 100 S. : Faltkarten. 8°. OHLwd. mit Rückengoldpräg. u. marmoriertem Einband. u. verstärkten Ecken.
188195461Paris, Amand-Durand, [ 1881]. 8,8 x 5,0 cm (Einfassung). Blattmaß 10,5 x 6,2 cm. Verso mit dem rotem Orig.-Stempel des Stechers. Unter Feinkarton-Passepartout.