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1899163H3899London: William Heinemann. Good. 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. "The circumstances under which the wealth the power and the numbers of the Jewish race domiciled in this country are likely to be indefinitely increased seem to call for more prescience and thought at the hands of our rulers than have yet been bestowed upon them. To make people think is the object of this book. Should they refuse they will wake up one morning only to discover that they have parted with the realities of national life and are dominated by cosmopolitan and materialist influences fatal to the existence of the English nation." - Introduction. Chapters include: What is a Jew; The Problem in Russia; The Jew in Austria/America/France/England/The Argentine Colonies; The Aloofness of Israel; Money Lenders; The Destitute Alien in Great Britain; Zionism; "Darkest Russia"; The Conversion of the Jews; Jewish Humour. pp xvii 301 32 ads. 7.5 x 5.3 inches. Quarter-bound in black leather and olive cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Modest lean to spine. Binding intact. Prior owner's name dated 1899 inked atop front free endpaper. Large rectangular tanned area upon front free endpaper presumably caused by an item formerly laid-in. Average wear. Faint spots upon front board perhaps from water droplets. SINGERMAN 46.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Modern Jew Arnold White Anti-Semitism Zionism Argentina Relocation Russian Jews Usury Conversion Money Lenders Chedorim Lord Rothschild Rev. J.E. Salkinson Great Britain Immigration Jewish Question . William Heinemann hardcover
18544200Lindsay & Blakiston Philadelphia 1854 First edition. Original green cloth-covered boards gilt spine lettering still bright blind-stamped front and rear boards 9 x 5 7/8 inches 80 pp. 3 leaves of plates including frontispiece. Very good mild warp boards; modest edgewear and staining cloth; offsetting endpapers; focal mild foxing; small damp stain upper spine aspect of first few leaves; moderate pencil marginalia in a neat hand; otherwise pages clean and binding sound. A rare first edition. "Thomas Story Kirkbride July 31 1809 December 16 1883 was a physician advocate for the mentally ill and founder of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane AMSAII a precursor to the American Psychiatric Association. In 1840 Kirkbride became superintendent of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. In 1844 Kirkbride helped to found AMSAII becoming secretary and treasurer and subsequently its president from 1862 to 1870. Kirkbride pioneered what would be known as the Kirkbride Plan to improve medical care for the insane as a standardization for buildings that housed the patients. Kirkbride's influential work On the Construction Organization and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane with Some Remarks on Insanity and Its Treatment was published in 1854 and again in 1880. Kirkbride's ideas brought about mixed feelings in both patients and peers. Some in the medical community saw his theories and ideas as stubbornly clinging to ideals that hindered medical progress while others supported his ideas and saw them change the treatment philosophy for the mentally insane. In his patients he sometimes inspired fear and anger even to the point that one attempted to murder him but he also believed that the mentally ill could be treated and possibly cured and in fact Kirkbride after the death of his first wife married a former patient. Kirkbride was an advocate of building hospitals for the mentally ill in a style which he believed promoted recovery and healing. This style was used on many late 19th century hospitals including St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington D.C. Many of these buildings designed by leading architects of the time are in ruins or decay. An estate now known as "The Village" previously Traverse City State Hospital was saved from destruction and beautifully restored." K073. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Lindsay & Blakiston, Philadelphia hardcover
189228822Montreal: F. E. Grafton & Sons. Very Good. 1892. 1st Edition limited. Numbered and signed by the author. Large 12mo hardcover in duo-tone cloth cover: dark green spine over red buckram cloth separated by a vertical wreath of Maple leaves tight textblock pages clean bright and unfoxed the cover has a trace of rubbing at tips front hinge weak endpaper loose book plate of Frances Silcox McDowell else VG. Attractive copy in the duo tone cloth. 149pp illustrated all present including dramatic Victoria Bridge maps top edge gilt. Quite scarce; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall . F. E. Grafton & Sons hardcover
184830143Wendell and Van Benthuysen. Very Good. 1848. First Edition . Hardcover. Compact octovo hardcover 614 pages tight and square spine/binding pages clean untorn and unmarked text has a scintilla of foxing covers have light wear with intact and readable spine label else VG. Contains 67 plates including Indians flora fauna buildings full page maps etc. Two large folding maps: laid in is "Map of Territory of New Mexico" by Kearney "under instruction from Emory" 1846-47 and "Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cpple from Santa Fe to the Pacific Ocean 1846-47". Both are serviceable one reattached to stub with archival tape the other laid loose with no tears. Overall solid and intact. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Wendell and Van Benthuysen hardcover
180126901T. Cadell Et Al. Near Fine. 1801. First Edition :. Hardcover. Quarto hardcover in one-half leather over marbeled boards First Edition complete Title vii Preface cxxxii 412pp errata two pages. The frontispiece is an engraved portrait of the author. Light wear to edges spine very clean marbeled boards marbeled edges hinges strong gutters likewise notation of being Mary Bouromeo Collection on front endpaper faint stain on frontis maps In nice untorn and unworn condition else VG to NFINE. Contains 3 folding maps on heavy paper one reinforced but not torn. A cornerstone of N American exploration narrative. Mackenzie became the first European to reach the Pacific by a cross country voyage in 1793 on his second attempt the first ending in the Frozen Artic. He ended up near Bella Coola B. C. This was years ahead of Lewis and Clark. Inquiries for pics answered quickly. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 412pp pages . T. Cadell Et Al hardcover
181899422Liverpool June 16 1818. 1818. Fine. - Original vellum document consisting of 2 attached sheets with scalloped top edges. An indenture 24 inches high by 30 inches wide and the assigns 22 inches high by 30 inches wide as usual folded down to 9 inches by 10-1/2 inches. 84 lines of text handsomely calligraphed over the two sheets. Within the initial "T" is the British emblem encircled by the words: "Honi soit qui mal y pense" a motto of the British chivalric Order of the Garter which translated means "Shamed be whoever thinks ill of it". The document has 2 George III embossed revenue stamps with a metal band one for three pounds and the other for one pound. There are also 2 Royal Cyphers.<p>On the rear fold of the document is a sketch of property showing several divisions including "Embleton Street 12 yards wide Dr Solomons land & Cottage". Upper Stanhope Street "20 yards wide" is on the south and Hayton Street "6 yards wide" is on the north. To the west of Solomon's land is land of Bland and another party. Further to the west is a 12 yard plot of land sold to Rowland Owen and "Release dated 23rd & 24th December 1818". This parcel appears to have the signature of Sefton over its description. Another entry on the indenture dated August 11th & 12th 1820 conveys property to Robert Rawlinson and Thomas Hesketh by the trustees of the will of Samuel Solomon. The conveyance is signed by two of Solomon's sons Abraham an oculist in Birmingham and John an amateur boxer and non-practicing lawyer. It is also signed by Ebenezer Daniell the manager of Solomon's Cordial Balm firm. Further in 1828 there is notice of "59 yards including half of Hayton Street" being conveyed to James Watts of Toxteth Park. It was later conveyed to a M J Hicks in October 1832. Both of these later conveyances are accompanied by minimal sketches. <p>The document is signed by the Earl of Sefton a party of the first part Peter Still and Alexander Strong of Lincoln's Inn parties of the second part Joseph Dawson of Liverpool party of the third part John Henderson of Toxteth party of the fourth part John Clare of Liverpool party of the fifth part. The lessees are described as "Samuel Solomon of Gilead House near Liverpool Doctor of Physic" and his Trustees "John Bird of Liverpool aforesaid Architect" and "Thomas Murrow of Liverpool".<p>In addition to the June 16 indenture there are 3 others:<p>1 A 15 inch high by 24 inch wide indenture on parchment dated June 15 1818 and titled "The Earl of Sefton to Doctor Solomon & Trustee / Lease for a year". The trustee is identified as John Bird of Liverpool Architect and it is signed by Sefton.<p>2 A 16 inch high by 23-1/2 inch wide indenture on parchment dated June 15 1818 and titled "The Earl of Sefton to Doctor Solomon & Trustee / Lease for a year". The trustee is identified as John Bird of Liverpool Architect and it is signed by Sefton.<p>3 A 17 inch high by 23 inch wide indenture on parchment dated August 17 1818 and titled "Peter Brown to Dr. Solomon and Trustee / Lease for a year". The trustee is identified as John Bird of Liverpool Architect and it is signed by Peter Brown. The indentures are folded down to approximately 8-1/4 by 6 inches.<p>Each of these 3 indentures on parchment has a George III embossed revenue stamp of one pound fifteen shillings a royal cypher the stamp of James Walker of Bermondsey parchment dealer and the British emblem within the initial "t" encircled by the words: "Honi soit qui mal y pense".<p>The 3 indentures by the Earl of Sefton are of particular interest for this reason - parliamentary elections were being held from June 17 to July 18 1818 and being an Irish peer Sefton was eligible to run for a seat. Dr. Solomon who by this time had become quite wealthy was the chief organizer of the Earl's campaign. Solomon spared no expense on his behalf in Liverpool which was famous for lively electioneering. It was to no avail as Sefton lost his election to George Canning. It seems quite possible that these leases given their dates within 2 days of the campaign served as a kind of reward for Solomon's future efforts.<p>"Doctor" Samuel Solomon c. 1768 - May 21 1819 was born in Cork and moved to Dublin influenced by his uncle Isaac Solomon who worked as a druggist there. Around 1789 he and his uncle went into business in Liverpool's dockland area. In 1796 he began marketing his "Cordial Balm of Gilead" which he claimed would cure one of ulcers of the lung kidneys and liver sexual dysfunction hypochondria female complaints etc. His claim to have been a Doctor of Medicine is suspect. Solomon became very wealthy from the sales of his expensive tincture made from a mixture of brandy and turpentine flavored with herbs as well as from real estate investments. [Liverpool], June 16, 1818. hardcover
1815IX7405Never Published 1815. HB. Quarter tan leather and green paper covered boards 8vo 164 hand numbered pages. Title page states "Bowen Adams Manuscript AD 1815." Very nice example of a cypher book an educational method of teaching both mathematics and penmanship used in Europe and early America. Contains nearly every example of colonial era mathematics needed for an educated citizen including: Reduction Decimal Fractions Federal money and conversions Interest Rule of Three Square Root Cube Root Fellowship Barter Loss & Gain Duodecimals Alligation Timber Measure Single and Double Position Discount Equation of Payments and Carpenter's Work. Contains solutions to problems as to feeding of soldiers in fortifications computing of various volumes of wine and ale measurements of land and distance and travel times. Covers show light moisture stain joints starting to crack but binding tight. Remarkably in a handmade dust jacket of rather crude brown paper with series of numbers and the same handwritten statement "Bowen Adams Manuscript 1815" on cover. Author was probably from East Medway Mass. born 1798. Dust jacket shows chipping and edge wear. Book condition VG. Pages are clean and legible. Never Published hardcover
1891718a4805London: Percival & Co./Rivingtons 1891. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The complete works of this early British learned economic journal which was published quarterly between 1881 and 1914 for the Oxford University Branch of The Christian Social Union. Includes writings by many names familiar to the modern historian of economic thought including: W.J. Ashley; W.H. Beveridge; J. Bonar; A.L. Bowley; Edwin Cannan; S.J. Chapman; A.W. Flux; L.L. Price; J.C. Stamp; R.H. Tawney; Sidney Webb; Beatrice Webb. Usual library markings. Most volumes bound in three-quarter leather with raised bands. Many later volumes bound in black buckram. Buckram volumes in good condition although all volumes bear varying degrees of external dustiness due to the partial disintegration of the leather on the leather-bound volumes which has produced considerable residue. Some leather backstrips partially loose. Gilt lettering upon all backstrips bears varying degrees of wear. Bindings generally sound. Leather volumes bear heavy external wear. Aside from the external soiling/dust a worthy working compilation of this rare and interesting journal. Total weight approximately 90 pounds. Percival & Co./Rivingtons Hardcover
1840735c9946Washington D.C.: Blair and Rives 1840. Book. Illus. by Burr David H. cartographer. Fair. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xi 227 pages. Index. Fold-out map. Signed and inscribed by author to renowned historian William Hickling Prescott inside front board. Upon front free endpaper a subsequent owner late 1800s has documented the provenance of this copy and documented Prescott's pencil markings to pages 23 through 27 which deal with Cortes and Mexico. Occasional light markings to contents. Prior owner's mini-bookplate inside front board. Narrow openings along both hinges. Usual library markings. Fold-out map bears several short openings and a tape repair along right edge. Front free endpaper loose but present. Prior owner's signature atop title page. Above-average external wear to brown marbled boards. WHALE 508 TPL 2369 HOWES G-389 RICKS P.112 TOURVILLE 1850 SMITH 3848 WICKERSHAM 4086. Blair and Rives Hardcover
1899313a1213Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company. Good. 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. 483 pages. "In this volume the author endeavors to give an accurate history of the present National Bank System of currency including an account of the first United States Bank - both of which were borrowed from Great Britain by those statesmen who like the father of Sir Robert Peel believed that a national debt was the source of prosperity. It is believed that the facts adduced in the following pages will be productive of some good in pointing out the immense evils lurking in that system of banking - a system which has produced panics at will and which is the active abettor of the stock gamblers railroad wreckers and those industrial tyrants of modern times the enormously overcapitalized and oppressive trusts. It is sought to point out the great dangers of delegating purely government powers to these greedy monopolists by which they are enabled to organize a money trust far more tyrranical than all the other combinations now in existence; and by which they absolutely defy the authority that endowed them with corporate life." - from Introduction. Binding sound. Unmarked. Moderately worn and soiled externally. Only defects are insect damage along exterior of each hinge. Detailed photos available upon request. An ultra-rare first edition copy of this classic and vitally important work.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; The Coming Battle Economics Money System united States of America Banking Federal Reserve Precursors Rothschild Rockefeller Trusts . W.B. Conkey Company hardcover
1871025478Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1871. First Edition . Original Blue Printed Wrappers. Very Good . 8 7/8" Tall. 40 Pp. Original Blue Printed Wrappers. Preserved Nicely In A Well Made Maroon Chemise And Slipcase With Morocco Spine Label Gilt. Inscribed And Signed By Pasteur " Hommage De L'autour / L. Pasteur" In Small Handwriting At Upper Right Of Front Cover. A Scarce Book In The Trade Particularly Scarce When Inscribed And Otherwise Unmarked As Here And A Very Early Inscription From Pasteur In Any Case. <br/> <br/> Gauthier-Villars unknown
18086471Guadalajara: Apud Mariannum Valdez Tellez Giron 1808. Good. Three stitched fascicles totaling 30 manuscript leaves and fifteen printed broadsides and broadsheets completed both in manuscript and in type. Some folded. Straight vertical cuts from foot of one fascicle. Some dust soiling and toning; scattered damp staining and foxing. A few separations along folds of printed sheets. Head of some printed sheets trimmed away effecting some loss. A fascinating combination of printed and manuscript material relating to the completion of Baccalaureate requirements for degrees in divinity from the University of Guadalajara in the early 19th century. Present here are three stitched fascicles each relating to a different student that contain manuscript attestations from the candidates themselves and university professors to the individual's achievements as well as printed copies of their degrees and other official documents from the university bestowing honors upon their recipients. Each recipient was conferred a copy of their degree completed in manuscript and affixed with the printed seal of the university attesting that after four years in the study of "Sacrae Theologiae" he had achieved the rank of Baccalaurens. Then the three students Gabriel Sanchez Leñero Joaquin de Valdecañas and Miguel de Talaveras received different printed broadsheets completed to varying degrees in type and in manuscript according to their specific studies an accomplishments. In all we identify eleven different printed forms and broadsheets none of which are located by Medina or OCLC. Most bear the imprint of Mariano Valdes Tellez Giron the first printer of Guadalajara who worked alone in the city from 1793 to his death from an epileptic seizure at the end of 1807 making the present job work some of the last printing completed by this important printer. Some of the broadsheets printed on two joined leaves and folded into each fascicle have been trimmed at the head with the loss of some material including engraved illustrations. Nevertheless the present documents represent a trove of previously unrecorded early job printing from Guadalajara. Apud Mariannum Valdez Tellez Giron unknown
18831271969Various: Privately Printed 1883. First edition. Leather bound. Good. UNIQUE VOLUME CONTAINING TWENTY-FOUR ORIGINAL CATALOGUES FROM NORTH AMERICAN CATHOLIC COLLEGES. All catalogues are the original printings published in 1883 for the 1882-1883 school year. Catalogues in good or better condition all whole and complete with no missing majors of substantive damages. Bound in 19th century half black leather and cloth; the outer covers are slightly dampstained and soiled from having gotten wet decades ago but none of the interior catalogue pages were damaged. Several catalogues contain plates and maps of campus buildings as noted below. Old library stamp on endpaper. A fascinating source for American Catholic higher education in the 1880s. Many of the schools which were colleges then are major universities now others such as the Jesuit-run Las Vegas College founded in 1877 are long gone. The catalogues contain a wealth of information on academics student life lists of students etc. Included in the volume are St. Louis University St. Xavier College Cincinnati with one plate St. Mary's College Kansas St. Ignatius College Chicago with one plate; Marquette College Detroit College Creighton College St. Francis Institution for Boys - Osage Mission Kansas Georgetown College with one plate St. John's College Fordham with one plate Gonzaga College Washington DC Holy Cross St. Francis Xavier NYC Boston College St. Peter's College Jersey City Spring Hill College - St. Joseph's Mobile AL College of the Immaculate Conception New Orleans St. Charles College Grand Coteau LA Santa Clara College with two maps one map with small hole in center and 12 plates St. Ignatius College San Francisco Canisius College College of the Sacred Heart Prairie du Chien WI Las Vegas College and College Ste.-Marie in Montreal. Privately Printed unknown
1864734c6244New York: John Bradburn. Fair. 1864. Reprint. Hardcover. 479 pages. Translated from the French. "The object in translating this work the production of a sparkling and witty French writer De La Hodde is to show the dangerous consequences to society and government arising from the practices of secret associations. It gives a perfect illustration of the operations of these associations in bringing about the present unprincipled rebellion in the United States. French characters similar to the leading conspirators against our own government are set forth in a way that gives the reader a clear insight into the science of demagogism and lays open that nefarious class of political transactions which must tend to the ruin of any country whatever and especially to one which is governed by republican institutions. New light is shed upon the darkling work of secret societies; their demoralizing consequences to society are exposed and their deeds of subterraneous deceit and treachery brought to the contempt and detestation of all good true and loyal men." - Preface. A heavily worn former library copy with the usual markings.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Cradle of Rebellion: A History of the Secret Societies of France . John Bradburn hardcover
1897431j1247London: John Murray. Good. 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. "Hundreds of years ago British New Guinea was put on the map as a shaded spot marked 'Islands of the bad people.' For the last half-dozen years its character has been studied. Now we purpose to review briefly what we have been learned of the country and of the people for whom we the British have thus become responsible." - page 1. "Sir William MacGregor 1846-1919 was Lieutenant-Governor of British New Guinea from 1888 until 1898. He had to deal with many tribes of a warlike people. It was necessary at times to make punitive expeditions but by tact and perseverance he eventually brought about a state of law and order. Some of this related to the annual headhunting raid and cannibalisation of coastal tribes by the Tugeri warriors which ended in 1891." - Wikipedia. 8 100 pp. Twenty-two black and white reproductions of photos in text. Fold-out colour map. Tight and unmarked with new backstrip. No dust jacket as issued. A sound example of this rare item. 8.5" x 5.7" ; 8vo . John Murray hardcover
18475350002New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1847. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Sound bindings and hinges. Text pages slightly tanned clean. Previous owner's book plate on front pastedown. Previous owner's name on title page. Half leather binding has general light wear shallow tear at top of volume 1 spine. Extensive collection of the writings of George Washington. Each volume has engraved portrait of Washington as frontispiece. 9.5" tall. Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover
18905955Kutztown PA 1890. Quarter roan over marbled boards measuring 8 x 6.25 inches and comprised of 73 pages of manuscript text including a mixture of notes passed between friends on the verso of the final leaf and on the rear pastedown. Spine largely perished with boards and textblock held together by cords. Several leaves neatly excised towards rear. Containing notes from Fannie Hottenstein's courses in teacher training the present volumes offer researchers a range of study topics including the history of pedagogy and women's increasingly visible place in American education; the book also is a valuable resource for examining how educated young women were thinking through their own lives and roles -- as individuals and as a generation. <br /> <br /> Trained in one of the most educationally progressive states at the time Fannie Hottenstein was one of a generation of women who could more widely dream about and pursue more independent lives than their matriarchs. Historically Pennsylvania had been a vanguard for public and progressive education. "In his 1830 address to the state legislature Governor George Wold championed the cause of universal public education" as a scaffold for "the security and stability of the individual privileges we have inherited from our ancestors" Explore History. Before the decade was over "more than 1000 local school districts under a single statewide system of instruction" had been founded working to regularize "educational standards curriculum and instructional credentials" in tandem with the 1857 Normal School Act which founded "a network of ten state academies to prepare public school teachers" Explore History. Fannie attended one of these preparing for a career in education that would give her a new level of social and economic independence. <br /> <br /> Much of Fannie's notebook reflects the kind of rigorous work required to teach middle and high school students. Contents include for example three pages of facts on basic Botany; fifteen pages on the practice of Logic in writing and debate including an extensive section on presenting proper Opposition accompanied by text book page numbers; and five pages on pedagogical methods for helping students develop curiosity and drive it forward into productive study. There are additional fairly staid essay samples on topics such as Influence and Gentleness. Yet it is in the thirteen page essay We Girls that sparks of Fannie's individuality ambition and independence show. In it she reveals how much contact she has had with the period's literature on women's rights and suffrage; she shows her familiarity with anti-feminist arguments in opposition to women like her; and she powerfully expresses her hopes not only for her generation but the ones that follow.<br /> <br /> Fannie opens: "It is a recognized fact that the degree of civilization of every nation is marked by the social position of woman. Indeed one of the most prominent features of the progress of civilization is her gradual elevation in society and the clear perception and recognition of her rights. In the earlier ages of the world when the sphere of her influence was bounded by the narrow prejudices of the opposite sex her happiness as well as her mental improvement and social rank depended more on what was done for her at the hands of men than on what she could do for herself. All this is changed now." Fannie praises the hard-won changes women accomplished in accessing education and job training; and she touts how many opportunities are available for women to dream about and pursue. This does not mean she's unaware of the challenges that continue -- particularly from men. "We have to contend with the prejudice sometimes entertained against us that our highest destiny in life is to be a pretty piece of furniture in a handsome parlor. Men who entertain this notion we girls must always urge to get their furniture somewhere else." To those who accuse women of being too emotional and insufficiently intellectual she also has a response. "Our aim must be to develop and perfect our entire nature mental social and moral" she argues. Only by embracing both thinking and feeling as strengths can any individual -- man or women she contends -- succeed. Women are in a unique position to embrace both. <br /> <br /> A truly rich document which also includes brief notes among Fannie and her friends about their flirtations and recent purchases of accessories at the end gives insight into the development of a young woman who would go on to live what she preached. According to the US Census of 1900 Fannie remained single and lived in a boarding house working as an office stenographer. unknown
18703389United Kingdom 1870. Geography notebook of Mary Barker: Quarter black roan over marbled boards measuring 9 x 7 inches. Comprised of a calligraphic title and frontis plus 59 hand drawn-and-colored maps done by a young woman in her first three years of teacher training. Throughout Mary annotates on the margins which year and term she is in and occasionally notes that the map was drawn "From Memory"; and each map has penciled corrections and assessments. <br /> <br /> with Geography notebook of Allison Jane Gillespy: Quarter cloth over marbled boards. Calligraphic title page and 35 intricately hand drawn maps from the British Empire Europe and the Middle East. <br /> <br /> A pairing of beautiful and research-worthy notebooks documenting teacher training in the late nineteenth century as well as providing a look into how geographies changed across time and how British educators were being trained to perceive and educate the young about other parts of the world and how they connected to the British empire. With nearly 100 pages combined the notebooks offer scholars important comparative opportunities and means for better understanding the rising number of women educators and authors publishing works that engaged geography and international cultures during the Victorian era.<br /> <br /> "The Wesleyan Methodists had a school for ministers' daughters at Trinity Hall Southport.which admitted both boarders and day girls.to educate ministers daughters and train teachers" Roach. Pupil teacher programs like the one Mary Barker was enrolled in had become a popular method of producing teachers at a time when the public's access to education expanded and the demand for instructors was at a high. Such programs functioned like an apprentice system taking a senior pupil typically thirteen years old and putting her in a five year assistantship to her own instructor. Pupil teachers typically took on responsibility for teaching lower classes observing their superiors educate the more advanced students and completing their own educations. By the 1870s these programs had become standardized to ensure proper preparation for instructors Robinson. <br /> <br /> Mary's maps trace this process. As she moved from her first to her third year in this notebook the quality and care she puts into her work improves. Her handwriting and attention to detail matures. And her assessments move from Fair to Good and Very Good. Maps in the notebook include nearby locales such as Ireland Scotland and the British Isles as a whole; European nations including Sweden Norway and Prussia as well as eastern Europe and Russia. Mary also maps out "Arabia" and the "Chinese Empire" as well as "Further India" revealing a wide array of changing borders and shifting cultural attitudes. <br /> <br /> While Allison does not leave any marker of her class age or school the level of intricacy in her maps suggests she was a senior student or finished instructor. These appear to be fair copies not done from memory but prepared as examples for students or as teaching aids.<br /> <br /> Together the two provide a comparative opportunity to study the history and politics of mapping nineteenth century girls' education pedagogy and pedagogical training and geography. unknown
1805158331London: T. Egerton 1805. A groundbreaking school for the working class First edition of this detailed record of the founding warrant and regulations of this remarkable institution Britain's "first large-scale system for the education of working class children" Cockerill nearly 70 years before the Elementary Education Act. Instigated by the commander-in-chief Frederick duke of York the RMA offered co-educational facilities for orphans and the children of destitute enlisted men. Rare just two locations world wide British Library and Koninklijke Bibliothek. Set up in 1801 the institution was modelled on the Royal Hibernian Military School Dublin established in 1765 and at the height of the "Great War" against France 1793-1815 the RMA was caring for over 1000 boys and 500 girls in its grand purpose-built home in Chelsea now widely known as the Duke of York's Barracks and home to the Saatchi Gallery. "To govern the new Asylum the commander-in-chief formed a board of commissioners from among his most senior generals at the Horse Guards officers who had been under his command when campaigning against the revolutionary army of France in the Low Countries these included David Dundas Harry Calvert John Whitelocke and Robert Brownrigg. The RMA was intended to replace the dependence of military families on regimental depots and the charity of the officers. Alternatively destitute families of soldiers had to rely on the workhouse system which meant that families first had to travel from the regimental depot to the parish in which the father had been born. This could mean a long and arduous journey for which the Commanding Officer of the regiment in question had to provide a signed pass of safe conduct through parishes along the way to avoid being charged with vagrancy" ibid. The boys' education in reading writing and the "four rules" of arithmetic was based in Lancaster's monitorial system with older pupils relaying the lessons from one or two teachers to larger groups of younger boys. Male pupils were trained for a military career or indentured apprenticeships and the young women taught by an all female staff fitted for life in domestic service. The text sets out the terms for the acceptance of an applicant and the specific duties and remuneration of the various members of staff. The forms annexed to the volume give a diet table for pupils and for staff separate applications for boys and girls and a template for marriage birth and health certificates. In 1892 the RMA became the Duke of York's Royal Military School in 1909 moving to premises in Dover where it continues to the present day. Octavo 206 x 130 mm. Four folding specimen forms at the rear one of them double-sided. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco paired gilt rules to the spine black morocco patch label to the front board double gilt fillet panels to the boards dotted roll to the board edges scrolled roll gilt to the turn-ins finely patterned Shell marbled endpapers all edges gilt dark blue silk page marker. Spine just a touch sunned some light chafing at the extremities pale toning else very good indeed. A. W. Cockerill Duke of York's Military School history site on line. hardcover
18503448Great Britain 1850. Comprised of 88 manuscript pages of mathematical definitions tables methods and exercises in a single hand with the ownership signature of "Caroline Waters Age 16 yrs" to the front endpaper. Marbled paper vernacular binding measuring 8 x 12 inches and stitched at spine. Caroline's metric measurements and English currency reveal her to be a student somewhere in the UK. Though the commonness of her name and the absence of a specific date prevents us from locating her in genealogy records the manuscript she left behind reveals much about how and why girls of her age and class were being taught arithmetic.<br /> <br /> Caroline's elegant practiced hand suggests that she is a member of the rising middle class and the opening of the book suggests that she is a beginning to intermediate mathematician. At the top of the first page she defines Arithmetic as "the art of computing by numbers" which "has five principal sic rules for this purpose viz. Numeration Subtraction Addition Multiplication and Division." Using this definition she divides her notebook into a section for each providing a definition for that principle plus clear-cut examples of its use in both Simple and Compound formats. Numeration Subtraction and Addition are grouped together at the front; and after these sections conclude Caroline enters in Practical Questions in Compound Addition and Subtraction. These involve word problems involving the exchange of money and the calculation of wet and dry weights cloth measurements and time. She then mirrors this with Multiplication and Division before adding sections on Decimal Fractions more Practical Questions and sections on Federal Money and Simple Interest.<br /> <br /> The organization of the manuscript suggests that Caroline copied it out for continued reference where sections are easy to locate and problems clearly illustrate each of the principles. And the emphasis in sample problems on currency conversion monetary exchange and banking implies that her family in some way wanted her to be aware of these concepts.<br /> <br /> An exceptional and rich document Caroline's notebook is a rich resource for study including but not limited to the history of women's education middle class education women's domestic use of mathematics women in business paleography genealogy gender studies. unknown
1876228H4081Glasgow: William Collins Sons & Company Limited 1876. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 214 110 maps 142 index pages. "The continual extension of commerce into new channels the rapid growth of the colonial possessions of the British Empire the recent territorial changes in several kingdoms both of Europe and Asia and the many discoveries of late years in various parts of the world have created a demand for a new treatise in Descriptive and Political Geography." - Preface. "A capital atlas of maps clearly printed in colours and at the very low price of one guinea. The maps are not only ancient modern and historical out of the Northern and Southern Constellations and of the Planetary System - indeed all that can be wanted in an ordinary library. This excellent book meets with our hearty approval." - The Publishers' Circular August 3 1875 p.526. All maps in colour with with many hinged to fold out. Includes indices with upwards of 50000 names. Pattern of tanning marks upon endpapers suggests boards once bore a protective cover which would account for their still brilliant gilt lettering. Narrow opening along front hinge. Dark maroon cloth decorated in black over bevelled boards is worn through along bottom edges corners and in spots along backstrip. Most maps numbered in light pencil. Fold of World Map #2 mostly open with two-inch opening affecting northern Europe. G.P. Putnam's Sons of New York appears to have also published this work in 1875. A quality copy of this marvelous Victorian era cartographic memento. William Collins, Sons, & Company, Limited Hardcover
1892736j0874London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. "England thanks to the Huguenots Mr. Cobden the Slave Trade the Jews and an inherent capacity for taking large views of grave national questions has been the last country in all the world to question or even to examine the doctrine that uninterrupted ingress for men women and merchandise of other nations is essential to and advantageous to her national life. There are however no longer wanting signs that the reign of this dogma is not to continue without challenge." - Introduction. "In 1881 and 1882 a violent if somewhat intermittent persecution had been directed against the Jews in Russia. Realizing as best they could such poor possessions as they owned and departing with all possible haste the expatriated wretches made every attempt to reach a more hospitable land: those who could muster the passage-money were bound for America; the rest the more destitute and the elderly ones the great majority of the exodus were hoping to settle in the great English towns." - p 168-169. 8191 pages. Former library copy with usual markings sturdily rebound in green buckram. No dust jacket.; Social Science Series; Sm 8vo . Swan Sonnenschein & Co. hardcover
1843ST20896London: William Pickering and John W. Parker and Son 1843-57. Second Edition of volumes I III V VI VIII XI XV XVII. Third Edition of volume II. FIRST EDITIONS of the other 13 volumes. 170 x 103 mm. 6 3/4 x 4 1/8". 22 volumes bound as 13. <br/> Pleasing contemporary calf by Leighton stamp-signed on verso of front flyleaf covers framed with a double blind rule raised bands spine compartments with a single gilt sun tool russet morocco labels lettered in gilt all edges sprinkled. First volume with one plate depicting the brain and one illustration in the text depicting the brains of different animals.<br /> Final volume with an ad for the complete series by John W. Parker. A few light scratches scuffs and spots to leather each volume with offset from ribbon page marker other trivial defects but a fine and attractive set--extraordinarily fresh and clean internally in bindings essentially without wear.<br/> <br/> Containing a rarely seen complete run of 22 separate works in 13 volumes this attractive set represents the joint efforts of a female Victorian polymath and major publisher William Pickering to introduce the general public to a very wide range of subjects partly to contribute to general popular education and partly to alert the public to the need for reform. Caroline Cornwallis 1786-1858 was a writer scholar and feminist activist whose life-long self-directed course of study led her to explore subjects as diverse as mineralogy theology Tuscan law and the Ancient Egyptian language. In 1842 the first work in the "Small Books on Great Subjects" series appeared authored anonymously by Cornwallis she is named only as "A Pariah" and the editorship of the series is credited to "A Few Well-Wishers to Knowledge". Along with initiating and editing the series Cornwallis composed all but four of the books herself the second and third numbers were written by John Barlow #15 by Wilhelm von Humboldt and #16 by David Power. The works cover philosophy psychology chemistry Greek philosophy Christian history and theology biology law grammar geology politics and more and proved to be a great success in Britain and America. Some of the volumes are histories of general interest "A Brief View of Greek Philosophy up to the Age of Pericles" and "Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century"; others are of significant scientific content "The Connection Between Physiology and Intellectual Philosophy" and "On Man’s Power Over Himself to Prevent or Control Insanity; still others are strongly reformist in thrust "On the Principles of Criminal Law" decrying the harshness of punitive Victorian laws and "On the Philosophy of Ragged Schools" dealing with the pressing issue of educating London's poor. Initially "Small Books on Great Subjects" was published by William Pickering but upon his 1853 bankruptcy John W. Parker took over the series. Stray volumes of this series are readily available but complete sets especially in the condition seen here are much more difficult to find. William Pickering (and John W. Parker and Son) unknown
18434025Berkeley: T.R. Marvin 1843. First edition. Very Good . Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to front board. Minor loss of cloth to crown of spine. Faint residue of removed library label to spine and front board. Peach endpapers. Light scattered foxing as is typical of the period. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Ward's husband the compiler: "Reverend Mr. Ellingwood with the respects of J.W. Ward." Bookplate on the front pastedown reveals that the recipient Rev. Ellingwood went on to donate the volume to the Theological Seminary of Bangor Maine. A scarce and important example of a published American elegiac volume produced in this case by an eminent family to mourn the loss of an educated woman. Memoirs is unrecorded by OCLC and has never appeared at auction. <br /> <br /> In their marriage James Wilson Ward and Hetta Lord Hayes Ward united two prominent Northeastern families. A senator and Congregationalist minister James descended from the founders of Plymouth and had attended Andover and Amherst. Hetta the daughter of a judge and niece of a Dartmouth president was herself a graduate of Miss Grant's Seminary Academy. The present volume released "exclusively for private circulation among the friends of the deceased" is a testament to Hetta's value not as a daughter who married well or a wife who effectively managed a house but as a companion an intellectual and an individual. In this sense it deconstructs the period's expectations of separate spheres or hierarchy between sexes. With an opening letter by Susan Hayes Hetta's mother as well as a copy of the eulogy conducted by her husband the book reveals vast details about who Hetta was as a person. Both describe her as tender and affectionate; but time and again emphasis is placed on her mind. Though Hetta was skillful with a needle as a child according to her mother "her numberless questions interested and surprised me.She acquired a fondness for poetry.She became as much interested in the in the study of the exact sciences as in the works of imagination making herself acquainted with the higher branches of Mathematics Algebra Geometry etc." James similarly eulogizes his wife. What becomes clear is that he is grieving the loss of a companion and equal. "If we have found a friend of distinguished excellence and for years rejoiced with that friend in mutual interchange and warm affections it is natural when death intervenes and separates us from the dear object of our love to contemplate their virtues.First characteristic which I would notice which she possessed in an eminent degree is an ardent love of truth.She possessed great powers of abstraction.She saw with great clearness the point of an argument and was quick to distinguish between sophistry.She loved to trace the workings of the human mind." Not satisfied simply to have their own testaments to Hetta's extraordinary mind the compilers included to the last half of the book a collection of her own poetry and prose.<br /> <br /> A scarce work in a genre underappreciated in American literature and history. Such coterie publications of intimate mourning were uncommon for the time particularly for a woman.<br /> <br /> National Cyclopedia of American Biography 148. Very Good . T.R. Marvin unknown
18804993N.p. but likely Live Oak FL 1880. Very good. Albumen photograph 4.5 x 7.75 inches mounted on card. Card trimmed with pinholes at corners remnants of printed caption in bottom margin slight surface soiling and spotting. Penciled annotation on verso. A stunning original photograph featuring Rev. Joseph Leroy Atwell Fish 1828-1890 and his wife and children posed amongst their African-American students at an unnamed "colored school" which was very likely the Florida Baptist Institute. The images captures Fish his wife and probably his daughters in the middle of the frame standing in front of a large two-story schoolhouse surrounded by about eighty young Black men and women in suits and dresses. Revered Fish was a graduate of Amherst College and the Newton Theological Seminary who was ordained a Baptist minister in 1856. Fish was also a teacher who helped found Florida Memorial University Florida Baptist Institute in Live Oak in 1880 where he served as first president of the institution until his death there on March 26 1890. Florida Memorial University is the only HBCU in the southern part of the state. The penciled annotation on the present photograph provides some information on the photograph but is probably ultimately misleading in one regard: "Rev. J.L.A. Fish & wife In Virginia teaching a colored school -- He married my Father & Mother Mr. & Mrs. Milan Hills Lucy M. Williams Dec. 21 1875."<br /> <br /> The latter part of this inscription is indeed true. Reverend Fish married Milan Hills and Lucy Williams on December 21 1875 in Hebron New York where he was serving as a church pastor. But the historical record does not indicate that Reverend Fish ever taught at an African-American school in Virginia if he did it was so brief that it is now lost to history. Fish's first known foray into teaching African American students was a brief six-month stint in Natchez Mississippi in 1879. Immediately thereafter Fish was appointed to the Florida Baptist Institute where he served the last decade of his life. As such it is far more likely that the inscriber here meant to say that Reverend Fish and his wife were "In FLORIDA teaching a colored school."<br /> <br /> Reverend Fish's work at the Florida Institute is covered in the Obituary Record of Graduates of Amherst College for the Academical Year ending June 27 1883: "His chief work was with the Freedmen as he brought Florida Institute out of all its troubles financial and social changed the feeling of the whites from hatred to sympathy with his work and put the school on a permanent foundation. His aim was to educate leaders for the race and the principal effort of his school was to train teachers and preachers to go out through the state and by their example to lift up and educate both intellectually and morally the colored people. His influence was felt throughout the state both through his training of teachers and preachers and through his counsels given at conventions associations and other gatherings of the colored men and in private. He is mourned by both white and black. By the whites because they knew his teachings would help the colored people without causing trouble to them. By the latter because they miss their leader teacher and friend. unknown
