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1807030818New London: Ebenezer P. Cady 1807. Soft Cover. Good. In tattered original wraps a few creased pages occasional staining and age toning but generally VG internally and complete save for last page 136pp of apparently 137. An interesting and early CT almanac. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Americana; Antiquarian & Rare; History. Inventory No: 030818. <br/><br/> Ebenezer P. Cady paperback books
1894045748New York: Longmans Green & Co 1894. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition. Light sheflwear scattered mild foxing. 276pp ads. This is the first US edition. Size: Octavo 8vo. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045748. <br/><br/> Longmans Green & Co hardcover books
1794030271Paris: Convention Nationale 1794. Disbound. Good . 19pp pamphlet issued by the Convention Nationale regarding the payment to soldiers defending France. Collot-D'Herbois was a playwright actor and essayist who was a member of The Committee on Public Safety Comites de Salut Public during the reign of terror. An attempt was made on his life in 1794 around the time of a similar attempt on the life of Robespierre that enhanced his reputation immeasurably. Mild general soiling and foxing but legible and only shows light wear at edges. Undated cas. 1794. Collot-D'Herbois was one of the few members of the Committee to escape the guillotine but was deported and died of yellow fever the next year. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: History; Inventory No: 030271. <br/><br/> Convention Nationale unknown books
1940209517New York: Committee on Militarism in Education 1940. 4p. 8.5x11 inch brochure with single-sheet mimeographed cover letter on Committee letterhead dated August 26 1940; very good. The Declaration lists a couple hundred co-signers. The Committee was established in 1925 by John Nevin Sayre Norman Thomas and E. Raymond Wilson. It disbanded in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Committee on Militarism in Education unknown books
1831798081831. FE. EDUCATION History of. THE QUARTERLY REGISTER OF THE AMERICAN EDUC-ATION SOCIETY. Vol. III. Boston: Perkins & Marvin 1831. With a fold-out color map of the U.S. much statistical information on social conditions educational condition of the country; and articles on Self-Made Men the Moral Destiny of America etc. There is some foxing and considerable wear to the boards and cloth back only traces of the paper label remain. Still a very good tight copy in the original binding. unknown books
1885WRCLIT76507Milwaukee WI: Druck der Freidenker Publishing Co. 1885. 231pp Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume without wrappers. Short tear in lower blank gutter margin of last leaf otherwise very good. An uncommon separate printing of an address concerning literary education among German- speaking students in the Midwest by the prominent educator poet and collector. OCLC locates two copies: Univ. of Wisconsin Madison and Univ. of Cincinnati. OCLC: 40577856 & 862978908. Druck der Freidenker Publishing Co. unknown books
1882WRCLIT76515Milwaukee WI: Druck der Doerflinger Book & Publishing Co. 1882. 18pp. Octavo. Extracted from none pamphlet volume without wrapper. Very good. First separate edition "Separatabdruck aus den Erziehungsblättern." Fick was a superintendent of the Cincinnati schools writer of children's texts and important collector of German-American educational and literary materials whose collection formed one of the backbones of the Univ. of Cincinnati German-American collection. OCLC locates only two copies: Univ. of Cincinnati and Horner Library. OCLC: 865582461. Druck der Doerflinger Book & Publishing Co. unknown books
1811045755London: Edward Jeffery 1811. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Contemporary cloth backed boards boards worn at the corners front endpaper loose endpapers browned; bright internally. 124pp Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Reference. Inventory No: 045755. <br/><br/> Edward Jeffery hardcover books
04678112 1/4" x 7 3/4" agreement in Dutch dated 1737. Watermarked laid paper folded full sheet 15.5" wide the other half blank. Neatly written a few small stains small tears at top touching a few letters. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 046781. unknown books
1833039785Boston: Allen & Ticknor 1833. Early Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Good Condition. 1/4 leather over marbled boards - edges of the boards are bumped heavily and worn with significant loss. Tear to page 40 lacking half of page 131/132 lacking blanks otherwise complete. 156pp. Terrific engravings. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Education; History. Inventory No: 039785. <br/><br/> Allen & Ticknor hardcover books
1945045505Barcelona: Archivo Historico 1945. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Leather backed burgundy cloth. Scattered slight browning otherwise very clean internally. The manuscript images are well done. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 045505. <br/><br/> Archivo Historico hardcover books
1855045391Madrid: Fundicion y Libreria de D. Eusebio Aguado 1855. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Sammelband in 3 volumes of 9 books on 19th century Spanish topics - telegraphs agriculture the national library roads etc. All rebound in 1/4 morocco. Attractive bindings - one title with a folding plate of agricultural machinery. Light wear to bindings scattered foxing and browning internally. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045391. <br/><br/> Fundicion y Libreria de D. Eusebio Aguado hardcover books
1885CAT000649London: Ield & Tuer 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Neatly rebound in old marbled paper fragment of old lettering piece retained slight browning internally old bookseller label to endpaper. 137pp with ads at rear - crack 'em and try 'em" "Large silver eels!".<br/><br/>Woodcut illustrations throughout - a nice collection of cries many food related. "New laid eggs eight a groat" Size: 16mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: CAT000649. Ield & Tuer hardcover books
1852045134London: Richard Bentley 1852. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Attaractively bound in half leather over marbled boards. Edges and corners worn but an attractive binding. Scattered foxing notes on the rear endpaper in pencil. 153pp Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045134. <br/><br/> Richard Bentley hardcover books
1901046026Great Grimsby: Grimsby News 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Original cloth light rubbing corners a little bumped endpapers browned but otherwise clean internally. 142pp Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 046026. <br/><br/> Grimsby News hardcover books
1830044921New Haven: William Storer 1830. Early Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Fair Condition. The 11th edition in 1/4 leather over boards - boards quite worn spine dry but binding sound. Stain the gutter a few marginal tears one page adhered in the gutter but no loss of text. Plates of the Battle of Trenton Bunker Hill and Saratoga. Size: Octavo 8vo. Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Americana. Inventory No: 044921. <br/><br/> William Storer hardcover books
1923001659New York: Workers Education Bureau of America 1923. Fine. 16 page stapled in pictorial wrappers. Articles by A.J. Muste George S. Lackland Hilda Smith and Algernon Lee. Scarce. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine in Wraps as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Workers Education Bureau of America Paperback books
2000EEG1379Mansfield CT:: Martino c. 2000. 2000. 4to. xiv 1315 1 pp. Index. Gray gilt-stamped cloth publisher's shrink wrap. As new. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL APPLY. Martino, [c. 2000]. hardcover books
15396Albumen photo mounted on heavy backing. 1912. image is 7"x5" on a 10"x8" original mat. "Guy Brouillard. Zwingle School. First to 8th Grade." A young male teacher stands in the back of a classroom with 30-40 students of all ages at their desks. An enormous book most likely a teacher's edition has its own bench desk at the front of the room. 4 large windows on the wall have made the image over exposed some aging to mat Image in very good condition. unknown books
191928312London: George Allen & Unwin 1919. First Edition. Octavo. Olive drab boards lettered in black on spine and front cover; xvi 336pp. Inserted advertising leaf tipped in before first page of Preface. Tight straight and unmarked copy Near Fine. Social survey of British labourers mainly in the city of Sheffield undertaken immediately following the Great War. The Society was under the directorship though not credited herein of the prominent Fabian Socialist anthroposophist and educator Arthur James Freeman 1886-1972 who also founded the Sheffield Educational Settlement 1918. Among contemporary testimonials included on the inserted advertising leaf is the following from the Daily Mail: ".One of the most interesting social studies that have been made since Charles Booth's Life and Labour in London.Anyone who agrees that 'the proper study of mankind is man' could not fail to find this fascinating." See Helen Smith "Love Sex Work and Friendship: Northern Working-Class Men and Sexuality in the First Half of the Twentieth Century" in Alana Harris & Timothy Jones eds Love and Romance in Britain 1918-1970 Lon: 2015. George Allen & Unwin unknown books
1793044802Upsala: Johan Edmans Enka 1793. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Contemporary boards spine defective wear to title page and soiling to final few pages a few notes in an early hand clean otherwise and a nicely printed wide margined copy. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 044802. <br/><br/> Johan Edmans Enka hardcover books
1870028333Albany: Joel Munsell 1870. First Edition. Cloth. Good Condition. Nice copy with a few library markings. Moderate wear to green cloth boards with heavier wear at the corners and the head and tail of the spine. One puncture hole through cloth in the middle of the spine but not affecting gilt lettering or structure of the binding. Binding is still tight and interior is bright and clean. Top page edges gilt. 312 pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: History; New England; Antiquarian & Rare; Boston; Inventory No: 028333. <br/><br/> Joel Munsell hardcover books
1949265810New York: National Council for American Education 1949. Pamphlet. 19p. wraps mimeographed on one side only very good condition 8.5x11 inches. Red-baiting attack on Harvard with a list of 76 professors and their alleged communist front connections. Those attacked include Gordon Allport Zechariah Chafee Jr. John King Fairbank Alice Hamilton Walter Gropius John Kenneth Galbraith Francis Otto Mathiessen Rocoe Pound Arthur Meier Schlesinger. National Council for American Education unknown books
16451Catholic Girls' School Ugbrook England. Regulations for the Catholic Girls' School at Ugbrook. Chudleigh: J. E. Searle 1841. This book contains the regulations approved by the Right Reverend the Vicar Apostolic of the Western District of England for the Catholic Girls School at Ugbrook. Uncommon to find formal women's education regulations from this early in the 19th century. Very good. unknown books
1913045503Madrid: Juan Perez Torres 1913. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Leather backed marbled boards light wear to edges spine slightly rubbed - an attractive binding. Modest browning internally otherwise unmarked. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Travel & Places. Inventory No: 045503. <br/><br/> Juan Perez Torres hardcover books