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186145689New-York: Marie Louise Hankins & Co 1861. First Edition. Octavo 19cm.; publisher's decorative orange cloth stamped in gilt all edges gilt yellow glazed endpapers; x11-354pp.; 34 leaves of portraits printed on green stock text illus. throughout. Boards quite rubbed and worn at extremities the whole rather soiled and toned textblock a bit foxed throughout; a Good only copy in the gift binding the plates remaining in fine condition. Collection of short stories portraying various New York "types" including Ruth Martin "The Spiritual Medium"; Lizzie Blair "The Little Hunchback"; and Priscilla Wiggins "The Man-Hater." Hankins was herself an interprising woman of New York billing her "Family Newspaper" as "the first and only successful paper ever published by a lady." "SABIN 30228 calling for 36 plates; WRIGHT II 1092. Marie Louise Hankins & Co unknown books
1880931Austin: Statesman Steam Print 1880. Very good. 8pp. Original tan printed wrappers. Minor soiling and wear. A rebranding of the "Woman's Art Exchange" of Texas removing the mistaken emphasis on art to encourage wider participation. "It was never intended to devote our energies to Art alone but to the encouragement of woman's handiwork of all kinds such as paintings; needle-work fancy and plain; preserves; pickles; sauces; bread and cake." Includes the association's articles of incorporation as well as the by-laws. "We now call upon the ladies of Texas to show what they can do." A handful of copies in OCLC. Statesman Steam Print unknown books
189847551Hartford: A.D. Worthington & Co. Publishers 1898. Early printing. Octavo 23cm; burgundy cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and fleur-de-lis design and decorative border embossed to front cover; floral-patterned endpapers; xxxiv35-7304pp ads; with portrait frontispiece and 121 illustrations throughout the text. Spine gilt just starting to dull tiny bruise to rear cover with thin partial crack to gutter at copyright page and title page nearly separated; Very Good to Very Good. Handsome copy of the American journalist abolitionist and women's rights advocate's memoir including annecdotes regarding her experiences during the Civil War where she became involved with the United States Sanitary Commission. KRICHMAR 4843. A.D. Worthington & Co., Publishers unknown books
184345692Philadelphia: R.G. Berford 1843. First Edition. Octavo 22cm.; disbound; 48pp.; text printed in double columns. Tear at top edge of title page serving as upper wrapper small discreet rubberstamp "Sold by AAS" at spine edge of last leaf else Good to Very Good overall. A short tale by the immensely prolific author following the travails of a poor Boston seamstress named Lizzy Glenn later published in 1859 as "Lizzy Glenn or The Trials of a Seamstress." WRIGHT I 153. R.G. Berford unknown books
180819596Philadelphia: Published by Johnson & Warner; Lydia R. Railey ! for Bailey Printer 1808. Second Philadelphia edition the first appearing in 1803. Some foxing; a little chipped at the head of the spine calf a bit rubbed and the spine label just a bit worn at one corner; a very good copy. 12mo original calf red morocco label gilt lettering 4 140 pages. Engraved frontispiece four plates plus woodcut illustrations in the text. From an English work published by Newbery as early as 1762 but updated for an American audience; Karpinski attributes the work to Goldsmith Welch suggests Newbery as the editor of the English edition. Nipps Lydia Bailey 8; Welch 949.2; Karpinski page 149; Rosenbach 376 which notes updates for an American audience--including mention of Dr. Franklin of Philadelphia as well as in a passage on fossils "lately in the state of New-York the bones of an enormous quadruped have been discovered underneath the surface of the earth" this with a footnote "A complete skeleton of this animal is not to be seen at Peale's Museum in Philadelphia.--Ed. Published by Johnson & Warner; Lydia R. Railey [! for Bailey], Printer, unknown books
1860267777Boston: John P. Jewett & Co 1860. First edition. Illustrated. 6 vols. 12mo. Originally variously coloured cloths spines gilt a.e.g. Fine. First edition. Illustrated. 6 vols. 12mo. The Almanac for 1854 was the first issued. John P. Jewett & Co unknown books
188720402New York 1887. 3.25" x 5.75". 24pp. Original printed and illustrated wrappers light spotting small chip with wrapper title as issued. Stitched. Contemporary writing. Good. unknown books
1874JC17692Northampton : Bridgman & Childs 1874. Paperback. Very Good. Stitched wraps. 31 pp. <br/><br/> Bridgman & Childs paperback books
186944744Boston: Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1869-72. First Edition. Quarto 18cm. Bound volume of 25 consecutive monthly issues comprising the entirety of the first two years of publication. Mild external scuffing and wear; occasional spotting and soil within; Very Good. The official monthly organ of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. In addition to financial reports and notices of internal affairs includes much of interest on women's welfare in less-developed regions of the world primarily the Indian subcontinent where the Society's activities were the most prolific but also other regions of Southeast Asia China and North Africa. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church unknown books
183346010Boston: Leonard C. Bowles 1833. First American Edition. 12mo 15.5cm.; publisher's blue cloth printed paper spine label; 2177pp. Light wear to extremities spine cloth a bit faded corners bumped light foxing throughout else a Very Good quite fresh copy. One of three lengthy essays authored for the Committee of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association as an introduction and promotion of Christian Unitarianism this specifically addressed to "Mohammedans" and written in the form of a dialogue between friends Havilah a Muslim and Eber a Christian. Martineau raised in a Unitarian household began her career writing articles for the Unitarian journal "The Monthly Repository" though she later left the Church for more information see Ruth Watts "Harriet Martineau and the Unitarian Tradition of Education" in "Oxford Review of Education" Vol. 37 no. 5 October 2011 pp. 637-351. Leonard C. Bowles unknown books
183346011Boston: Leonard C. Bowles 1833. First American Edition. 12mo 15cm.; publisher's blue cloth printed paper spine label; 170pp. Spine cloth a shade faded endpapers toned due to inferior stock light foxing throughout else a Very Good and fresh copy. One of three lengthy essays authored for the Committee of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association as an introduction and promotion of Christian Unitarianism this specifically addressed to members of the Catholic Church. Martineau raised in a Unitarian household began her career writing articles for the Unitarian journal "The Monthly Repository" though she later left the Church for more information see Ruth Watts "Harriet Martineau and the Unitarian Tradition of Education" in "Oxford Review of Education" Vol. 37 no. 5 October 2011 pp. 637-351. Leonard C. Bowles unknown books
184325566Philadelphia and New York: Various 1843. Three novels by these women writers individually published & separately paginated bound in one volume including: The Cadet De Colobrieres. A Tale of the Old Convents of Paris. Translated from the French of Madame Charles Reybaud. Complete in One Volume. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1847. 91 pages; with a one-page Preface by the un-named translator. Henriette Etiennette Fanny Arnaud Reybaud 1802-1871 French writer who wrote under the name of Madame Charles Reybaud and other noms-de-plume. Title page with the signature at top margin of V.E. Baudry May 1847. Cleveland: A Tale of the Catholic Church. New York: Burgess Stringer & Co. 1847. 105 pages printed double-column. Author is not noted on title page; by British writer Mary Anne Georgia Murray-Gartshore. d. 1851. Tipped on to the title page are two thin strips of paper with a clipped signature and date of V.E. Baudry Sept. 1847. Life in Sweden. The President's Daughters. Part II Nina. By Frederika Bremer translated by Mary Howitt. New York Published by Harper & Brothers 1843. 137 pages printed double column. Fredrika Bremer 1801-1865 Swedish writer feminist reformer; Mary Howitt Mary Howitt 1799-1888 prolific English author; nee Botham; published translations from Frederika Bremer and Hans Andersen and successful children's books. DNB. Previous owner small bookplate of S.M. DuPont on the front endpaper; binder's note in pencil on back free endpaper "Dupont ½ roan" Approx. 6" x 9 1/8" size; bound in blue & black striped & marbled paper covered boards black leather spine and corners gilt spine titles and simple rule-lines gilt. Much rubbing and wear to the boards & corners; some foxing and spotting to the contents; in good condition. . First Edition. Leather. Good. Various books
189863866Raleigh NC 1898. Large format photograph 7 x 9 1/4 inches mounted on larger card stock 11 x 14 inches picturing 10 older women faculty and staff members one older man and 44 female students all posed in four rows in front of a campus building set among tall trees; verso with manuscript names for those pictured almost all with home towns. Founded in 1842 as a school for young ladies with the support of the Episcopal Church St. Mary's has operated continuously since presently as college preparatory school it included two years of college through 1998. Mount rubbed eroded in spots upper right corner broken off affecting three names on verso. 10340. <br/><br/> unknown books
18512970Philadelphia: G.S. Harris 1851. First edition. Very Good . Original blue printed paper wraps printed to front. Some chipping and creasing to edges but overall intact and undamaged despite being quite delicate. Light scattered foxing throughout. Ownership signature of the college's original dean N.R. Mosely struck out at the top of the Faculty list on page 4; pencil ticks next to the names of several students listed in the catalogue on page 6. Exceptionally rare OCLC lists copies of this Announcement at only 2 institutions.<br/><br/>Only one year after Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell graduated valedictorian and became the first female M.D. in the U.S. the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania opened its doors. Located in Philadelphia it was the only the second school to open with the mission of training women in medicine -- having been preceded by the New England Female Medical College two years earlier in 1848. Founded by Quaker abolitionist and Underground Railroad activists who believed that women could make exceptional doctors "the college provided rare opportunities for women to teach perform research manage a medical school and with the eventual establishment of the Woman's Hospital in 1861 learn and practice in a hospital setting. It was the longest-lasting all-women medical school in the nation until it became coeducational in 1970" Mandell. The present Announcement predates these growths however showing the roots from which they emerged. One year running and the faculty remain largely male because there has yet to be an inaugural graduating class this would come in 1852; but already a female student Hannah E. Longshore is listed as a Demonstrator in Anatomy. Indeed Longshore and her sister Anna would both be part of the inaugural class of the college with the latter going on the author Discourses to Women in Medical Subjects 1897. Indeed the majority of women listed in this catalogue went on to become doctors even when it took time -- as it did for Hannah W. Ellis and Susanna H. Ellis both listed among the graduates of the 1865 class. 12 pages in all this scarce pamphlet contains Officers Corporators Faculty and Students of the school; an Announcement on the school's missions and accomplishments; information on Specialties available; Terms of enrollment; and a list of required Textbooks. It also conveys the excitement optimism and pride of those involved. "The Faculty of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania are inspired by very different feelings from those that attended their efforts one year ago. Then they were about to enter into an untried path to engage in a great experiment.But that which was an experiment is an experiment no longer.give a woman knowledge commensurate with her natural qualifications enable her to go forth healing the sick and comforting the afflicted and she will bless the world." A rare survivor documenting that pivotal moment when women had been given the chance to prove their intellect rose to the challenge and made the future of the next female students more secure. Very Good . G.S. Harris unknown books
1877List323Chicago: J.B. Westendorf 1877. Folio 10 ½ x 14 inches 6 pp. Very Good. J.B. Westendorf unknown books
1873M7603Washington DC:: Government Printing Office 1873. 1873. 305 x 244 mm. 4to. iv 430 1 errata 1 blank pp. 19 plates 18 numbered and 1 un-numbered tables 3 figs. index; occasional light foxing. Modern maroon cloth gilt spine new end-leaves. Very good. Beginning at page 202 J. Harry Thompson gives a remarkable case report of a woman who had been admitted more than once to the Columbia Hospital for Women suffering from severe pain in the supra-pubic region with continuous urine dribbling. Having discovered a foreign object in the bladder Thompson removed it by an incision made in the viscous through the vagina with the patient under etherization. The foreign object turned out to be an iron handle of a crochet-needle around which had been wound and knotted hempen cord. The crochet-needle was encrusted with deposits of urine salts. The un-numbered plate gives an image of the crotchet-needle. Plates include illustrations of surgical procedures and instruments. Contributors include Samuel C. Busey on the diseases of children; D. Webster Prentiss on diseases of the eye and ear; and F. A. Ashford on the diseases of women. Rutkow GY20.1 Government Printing Office, 1873. hardcover books
182846343New-York: William B. Gilley 1828. 12mo 17cm.; contemporary full brown gilt-ruled polished calf gilt spine; 324pp. Extremities a bit scuffed chipping to spine leather foxing throughout textblock slightly later clipping on the life of the author in French tipped to front free endpaper else Very Good and sound better than often seen. Published the same year as the Boston edition no priority. Poetry collection by the English author the first half devoted to paeans to women both fictional and historical. The work was her most popular documenting "the courage nobility and tragedy of women's lives; embedded in their painful situations lies a critique of the domestic ideal of patriarchal values" Paula R. Feldman "British Women Poets of the Romantic Era" 2001 p. 278. SHOEMAKER 33524. William B. Gilley unknown books
1860LIST0125American 1860. Tintype in case 3 ¼ x 4 ¼ inches. Fine. A quarter plate tintype of a women's sewing circle probably circa 1860s. Three women hold patterns while one sews. Ante-bellum sewing circles were often anti-slavery or missionary in nature though we can find no details here that offer clues as to the nature of this circle. A sharp image with good contrast fine condition. unknown books
189750702Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America 1897. First Edition. 8vo pp. 426 plus catalog. Indices. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Front hinge loose cover scuffed and little worn at edges o/w VG. Jewish Publication Society of America unknown books
189750348Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America 1897. First Edition. 8vo pp. 426 plus catalog. Index. Dark green cloth stamped in gilt. Cover little worn at edges hinges beginning tender o/w VG. Jewish Publication Society of America unknown books
186645434San Francisco: Towne & Bacon 1866. First Edition. 12mo 18.5cm. Publisher's red cloth boards lettered in gilt on front cover; 72pp. Text printed within red borders throughout. External light wear and soil with cloth darkened at base of spine and bottom of rear cover; internally clean tight and unmarked and a pleasing Very Good copy overall. Privately-printed collection of poems by Sarah Carmichael a Mormon pioneer author who contributed so prolifically to the Deseret News in her youth that she came to be known as "The Sappho of Salt Lake City." According the the "Mormon Literature & Creative Arts" website maintained by Brigham Young University ".Carmichael's literary zenith was cut short when a year after her marriage she suffered an unspecified mental decline that may have been the result of a genetic problem her parents being "double cousins." She died in 1901 after more than thirty years of mental debilitation." <br/><br/>The current poems touch on a variety of topics with much descriptive of western and particularly California scenery; includes an ode on the death of Abraham Lincoln. Towne & Bacon unknown books
1900List518Most Cuba or Jacksonville 1900. Silver gelatin or albumen photographs various sizes ranging from 3 x 3 to 6 x 8 most captioned to verso. With handwritten manuscript four leaves discussing various diseases. The Spanish-American War was the first war in which nurses formed their own dedicated units as well as the first war in which they were accepted within military hospitals. While no nurses died in battle 153 died during the war from disease. Nurses were responsible for both treating soldiers as well as maintaining sanitary conditions within the camps. Conditions were often poor leading some to work until they were too sick to continue. <br /><br /> The current collection of photographs documents the experiences of a Mrs. Waters who was originally from Groton Massachusetts. The collection begins with a couple early photographs including a portrait as a young woman and a cyanotype of one of Waters' leprosy patients at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The next section shows Waters' training in Jacksonville Florida with either the Fourth or Seventh Army Corps at what was called Camp Cuba Libre both Corps trained there in 1898. The photographs of Jacksonville show life around the military camp and environs with some notable photographs of African-American inhabitants of the region. Three photographs quite notably show the Congregation of American Sisters a small group of American Indian nuns led by Reverend Francis Craft. The photographs taken in Cuba are notable for their portrayal of local life. Several photographs of military installations are taken around the "trocha" or line established by General Valeriana Weyler from Mariel to Majana. Another notable photograph is a cabinet card of a large group of nurses taken by the Havana photographer R. Testar. <br /><br /> The group overall shows very early photographic records of military nurses in training as well as a scarce photographic record from a woman in a combat situation. The photographs are generally well preserved in very good to excellent condition with some light fading. Accompanying the photographs is a four page manuscript essay presumably by Waters discussing leprosy as well as the booklet Spanish Phrase Book for American Soldiers and Sailors published by the National Relief Commission of Philadelphia. <br /><br /> Offered in partnership with Daniel / Oliver Gallery. books
1899List805Los Angeles and Vicinity 1899. Oblong quarto green cloth 11 ¾ x 5 ¾ inches with 98 photographs. Very Good. Frances Coulter the daughter of a department store magnate in turn-of-the-century Los Angeles was a socialite who regularly made the society pages of Los Angeles newspapers. The collection of photographs here - preserved in their original oblong green cloth album - give a candid look at upper class California in the 1890s. The bulk of the images show Frances and her friends in varied scenes of society gaiety: dressed formally on the beaches staging goofy scenes including a mock proposal drinking from a water hose and many scenes involving costumes and umbrellas. Some of the photographs interestingly were taken with a Kodak No. 2 camera which was in production until 1895 producing distinct circular images. Some of the scenes show the beaches of Santa Monica. Overall the collection offers an uncommon look into Los Angeles at the end of the 1890s when the city had only 100000 residents. Frances's father B.F. Coulter was a minister from Kentucky and some of the photographs show the Coulters at home. A very good collection images with slight fading album with a slightly musty odor but overall well preserved. books
18313497Mount Pleasant: Roscoe Printer 1831. First edition. 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed yellow wrappers dampstained throughout. First edition. 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. NEITHER IN NUC NOR AMERICAN IMPRINTS. Prime of the well known family was made Principal of the Seminary in 1831 after the Ladies who conducted it were relieved of their duties. The curriculum included Latin Greek and French; Geology Mineralogy Botany and Zoology as well as Domestic Economy and Vocal Musick sic. Everything the well turned out young ladies of the seminary would need to know. Not in NUC. Not in American Imprints Roscoe, Printer unknown books
18584036Cincinnati: H. M. Rulison 1858. First edition. Original publisher's printed wrappers with price 15 cents and publisher misspelled on front wrapper Wright II 1328. Wrappers somewhat chipped and soiled with rear wrap tender. 36 pages with 2 woodcuts. The only copy on the market of this scarce and delicate title OCLC reports 7 institutionally preserved copies. Isabel Mortimer last appeared at auction over a century ago in 1916. <br/><br/>Scarce and understudied Isabel Mortimer's sensational tale of seduction and revenge in New Orleans offers opportunities for considering how this popular Victorian form not only dealt with representations of femininity generally but more specifically forms of white Southern femininity. On a general level sensation novels explored the "ideological constructs of female irresponsibility passivity explosiveness and inacapacity" by pushing them to their limits; as female characters encounter or engage in seduction and murder they "undermine the validity of these constructions of womanhood.By linking women's subversive behavior directly to the stifling economic and psychological conditions of their lives the novels reveal women's madness is not the result of their instability as the doctors claimed but of their confined lives" Zahn. In the case of Isabel Mortimer a privileged young woman living in antebellum New Orleans readers witness her response to being taken advantage of by "a professional gambler a married man!" who trifled with her feelings and her virtue "hoping in some covert manner to obtain possession of her fortune." As a commodity on a marriage market Isabel's prospects are ruined. But the story proves that she is not the passive recipient of men's advances; she will not perform shame nor will she accept her current status with genteel docility expected of Southern women. Instead she decides to take her behavior to the opposite extreme: "I resolved like a second Delilah to shear these proud sons of Adam of their boasted strength and humiliate them." Isabel places blame for her situation on a patriarchal system that infantilizes women then punishes them for failing to see and respond to danger. A knowing Delilah now she will punish the representatives of that system. Ultimately the troubling contradictions that exist within the small space of the novel urge readers not to take popular value systems at face value encouraging them to look for tears within the seams of social expectation. H. M. Rulison unknown books
