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Phelps Almira Mrs. Almira H. Lincoln Vice Principal of Troy Female SeminaryABAA

Familiar Lectures on Botany.For the Use of Higher Schools and Academies

18293922Hartford: H. and F.J. Huntington 1829. First edition. Contemporary tree calf with morocco label to spine. Gentle bumps to corners; slight bowing to upper front board. Internally with some light scattered foxing as is common in imprints of the era with some dampstaining to the inner margins of the first fifty pages; else clean and unmarked. Collating x 11-335 1 errata 4: complete including thirteen plates. The most popular botany textbook of its time and the first book by education activists Phelps the present is surprisingly scarce in trade. It last appeared at auction in 1989 and this is presently the only copy on the market. A pioneer in American women's education Almira Phelps began her career tutoring students of the all-male Middlebury College in science mathematics and philosophy. "This experience illustrated the disparity between education available for men and for women and Almira spent the rest of her life fighting for more educational opportunities for females" History of American Women. Joining forces with her sister Emma Willard the founder of the Troy Female Seminary in New York Phelps began to teach rigorous humanities and science courses in addition to lecturing publicly on behalf of women's rights for equal education. Phelps established herself as a frontrunner in the field publishing ten books on the education of women. The present work is the first of these and it brought her into dialogue with earlier British women citizen-scientists such as Priscilla Wakefield and Jane Marcet. Like her predecessors Phelps wanted to make the study of botanical science accessible to readers bringing them into contact with the field's vocabularies and practices and encouraging them to find opportunities for study in the areas around them. Yet her book pushed this movement to the next level as it was designed specifically for the use of advanced schools. To this end it is designed for classroom instruction includes a note To Teachers and provides at rear sections on Vocabulary Analysis and a functional index. Ultimately Familiar Lectures on Botany made it possible for instructors -- especially women -- to improve the method and practice of their lessons by referring to Phelps' own tried and true methods. And it made botanical education of a more rigorous kind available to a new generation of students. Ogilvie's Women in Science 147. History of American Women. H. and F.J. Huntington unknown books

Whitmore Rare Books · États-Unis1 850,00 $US≈ 1 565,29 €

PAVLOVA Anna 1881 1931 Kinney Troy 1891 1938ABAA

Anna Pavlova and Alexander Volinin performing the "Gavotte Pavlova." Original etching

29689Image size 200 x 185 m. sheet size 347 x 292 mm. Signed in full by the artist in pencil just below platemark at lower left. Printed on laid paper. Slightly worn and browned; remnants of mounting tape to upper corners of recto and outer edge of verso; 6 mm. paper loss to upper left margin. Limited to 200 copies the present copy unnumbered. American Etchers Vol. IX 35. NYPL b12151447. The most celebrated dancer of her time "Pavlova's technique was so perfect that it concealed technique. her arabesque and pas de bourrÃ©e have rarely been equaled and. her line was always impeccable. As an interpretive artist Pavlova probably even today remains unsurpassed. She was supreme in roles requiring feminine coquetry and light comedy; she excelled in lyrical and poetic roles in which her fluid expressive arms and hands were remarkable; and she could be deeply moving in dramatic and tragic roles such as Nikia and Giselle. What made her performances unique however was not so much her technical mastery or even her talent at characterization; it was the emotion she poured into her performances her incomparable stage presence - in short the power of her personality." The International Encyclopedia of Dance Vol. 5 pp. 125-126. The Gavotte Pavlova was choreographed to music from Paul Lincke's operetta Lysistrata arranged by Ivan Clustine. "Troy Kinney was most notable for his works portraying dance performers fanciful subjects and classically styled nudes. He worked with dancers including Ruth St. Denis Anna Pavlova and Sophie Pflanz among others. His artistic works are part of the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago the Cleveland Museum of Art the New York Public Library the Library of Congress and many others. Perhaps Troy Kinney's greatest legacy is in his contributions in the area of dance. He co-authored with his wife the books "Social Dancing of Today" and "The Dance: Its Place in Art and Life" for which he traveled throughout the world to study various dance styles. It remains to this day one of the most comprehensive works on the subject." Wikipedia. unknown books

J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC · États-Unis413,00 $US≈ 349,44 €