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1918163j1631London: Stanley Paul & Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. "Notable as a piece of contemporary commentary for its sections on 'Paris and Petrograd' pp.1-51 which attempts to draw parallels between the French and the Russian Revolutions and 'The Jews as Pioneers of the Russian Revolution' pp. 228-252." - Smele 845. xxvii 281 3 pp. Index. Bibliography. List of illustrations. Black and white plates. Unmarked with average wear to original red cloth. Binding intact. Clearly legible black lettering upon backstrip. Tiny vintage bookseller's tag to bottom of front free endpaper. Soiling to lower portion of front board. No dust jacket if one was issued. A sound vintage example of this important history. ; Illustrations; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Pioneers of the Russian Revolution Bolsheviks History Soviet Union Jews Petrograd Terrorism Vassiliy Prince of Moscow Tsar Michael Romanov Tsar Peter the Great Tsar Paul 1 Michael Speranski Alexander I Tsar Nicholas I Vera Figner Tsar Alexander II H. Lo . Stanley Paul & Co. hardcover
1949429H3368London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited. Good in Good dust jacket. 1949. First English Edition. Hardcover. 327 pages. Index. Photographic frontispiece portrait of author. Translated from the 1948 German first edition. "The only full-length statement published since the war by a major figure in Hitler's government. Provides the detailed story of prewar German economic policy in the words of the man primarily responsible for it." - dust jacket. Moderate wear to unmarked book which remains tight and square. Foxing to edges. Average wear and soiling to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. KEHR & LANGMAID 817 ALDCROFT & RODGER p.83 PETERSON p.367.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; WWI Reparations Germany Treaty of Versailles Weimar Republic Adolf Hitler Nazi Germany German mark Hyperinflation Reichsbank Reicksmark Economic Policy History . George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited hardcover
192395410Chicago: July 20 1923. 1923. Good. - A one-and-a-quarter page letter with over 325 words typed on 2 sides of her 11 inch high by 8-3/8 inch wide light blue "4740 Dorchester Ave. Chicago" stationery. In her letter to the American lecture agent James B. Pond the noted feminist & pacifist Rosika Schwimmer outlines her intention to offer a lecture on Henry Ford's role in the Peace Ship expedition she led in the early years of the First World War a timely subject as Henry Ford was then campaigning for the Presidency. "Though numbers of Ford biographies and articles have been poured out none of them contains more than a hint about his peace efforts in 1915 Peace Ship and Neutral Conference." She goes on to explain that she is not proposing to "make a propaganda speech for or against him but merely to give the facts about a highly picturesque venture. It certainly would help the public to make up its mind what attitude to take in Ford's coming presidential campaign." Schwimmer also tells Pond about the subjects of other lectures she can offer listing 6 of them. Boldly signed in full on the verso with a couple of corrections in her hand. Folded for mailing with a few short tears to the bottom and to the edges of the folds reinforced with clear archival document tape from the verso. There is a horizontal crease along the top with a perforation to the top left. <p>The Hungarian-born leader in the international pacifist and feminist movements Rosika Schwimmer 1877-1948 was a leading advocate of women's rights in Hungary. Schwimmer campaigned against child labor and for marriage reform and birth control. Her Hungarian Feminist Association succeeded in passing woman suffrage laws in 1920 Hungary. Living in London when the First World War was declared she traveled to the United States to convince President Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan to sponsor a neutral mediation conference. Unsuccessful she traveled the US speaking to a wide range of constituencies including feminist and Jewish groups. Creating the Women's Peace Party she convinced Henry Ford to sponsor a Neutral Mediation Conference in Stockholm. Setting off on the Oscar II which became known as the Peace Ship the American delegation was ridiculed by the press and suffered several setbacks. Several delegates resented Schwimmer's overbearing authoritative approach and supposed financial mismanagement and Henry Ford withdrew his support. She served as Hungary's minister to Switzerland during its brief existence as a democracy but fled after Bela Kun's communist party took over. Returning to the United States in 1921 she was shunned by those who had once supported her and had difficulty obtaining speaking engagements. A Chicago federal district court denied her application for American citizenship as she would not "bear arms in defense of the country" due to her pacifist convictions and because she was an advocate for a form of World government. The district court decision was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court but with a dissent from Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The first reason for denying her citizenship is laughable considering her advancing age and that women were not then expected to serve in combat. She remained in the US as a resident alien until her death and was awarded a privately sponsored World Peace Prize and subsequently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948. Chicago: July 20, 1923. unknown
1980235j2140New York: Truman Talley Books / Times Books. Good in Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0812909232 . "A fascinating exploration of four great monetary inflationary eras of tumult - why they arose - who caused them - how family fortunes survived or were destroyed. What happens when hyperinflation sweeps across an entire society Whom does it threaten most and whom does it benefit And when finally the authorities act - why do the politicians and the bureaucrats invariably delay until after the value of an entire currency has been totally destroyed" - dust jacket. Recounts the destruction of Roman currency the French Assignat the Greenback and the Weimar hyperinflation. "Shapiro's fascinating description of four great periods of massive inflation in history should rightly cause us all to treat the present runaway inflation with a much greater sense of urgency than economists and officialdom have exhibited up until now. Timely narrative scholarship at its best." - Senator William Proxmire. 8 2-308 p. Tables and index. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to complete dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A quality example of this vitally important monetary history. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Inflation Finance History Hyperinflation Investing Economics . Truman Talley Books / Times Books hardcover
1983256j1546Hong Kong: Unicorn Books Limited. Good in Good dust jacket. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 9622320023 . "In the 14 decades since its inception in newly colonised Hong Kong the police force has been faced with formidable challenges: plague and typhoons triad societies civil warfare between rival political factions race riots political murders espionage the influx of millions of refugees seeking a new life as well as the maintenance of law and order among more than five million people in the world's most crowded city. Today the RHKP with its 23500 regulars 5000 auxiliaries and a civilian back-up of 5000 is one of the biggest city police forces in the world. This book follows the history of the RHKP from its birth as a makeshift group of reluctant military consripts to an organisation considered by many to be one of the premier police forces in the world." - dust jacket. 243 pages. Index. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos plus many recent color photos. Endpapers illustrated with reproductions of fascinating historical documents. Book tight clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Average wear to dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A sound example of this proud and informative history. Oblong 33.5 x 26.2 cm. Heavy book. Shipping weight will be over 2kg/4lb.; Photography; 4to . Unicorn Books Limited hardcover
1942643H4248London: John Murray Publishers Limited. Good in Good dust jacket. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. 260 pages. Index. List of main sources. Black and white photographic plates. Organizational chart of the German Broadcasting Company RRG in 1942 and its links to the Ministry of Propaganda. Organizational chart of the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in 1942. "The first complete account of the gigantic propaganda organization of the Third Reich. Reveals and describes: The inner workings of the Nazi propaganda organization; The network of Party speakers; The German radio's war effort; The Nazi press system; The German stage and screen in 1942; Propaganda for the armed forces; The men in control. Access to unique German documentary material and an intimate knowledge of German wartime broadcasting and of the Nazi press have enabled the authors to paint a full-length picture of Hitler's political warfare machine." - dust jacket. Printed to wartime standard apparently without a front free endpaper. Unmarked with average wear and soiling to publisher's canary yellow cloth. Average wear and half-inch of loss to decorated orange dust jacket at top of spine. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy of this vital and incisive wartime study. KEHR & LANGMAID 2950.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Goebbels Propaganda Third Reich Nazi Party Germany World War 1939-1945 German Broadcasting Company RRG Ministry of Propaganda Ministry of Propaganda and Enlightenment radio Theatre News Media Wartime Propaganda . John Murray Publishers, Limited hardcover
185813886New Haven: Yale College. Very Good. 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Now this is an interesting book. Very ornate binding. Gilt decorations with heavily embossed front cover with the owner's Thomas name at the bottom. The front hinge has started to crack which has been reninforced with a clear substance. No page count but the think is 3" thick. A beautiful engraving of every graduate followed by a handwritten inscription To Thomas. Inside the covers & on the first pages are engravings of the college & surroundings. The only xlib mark I can find anywhere is a small stamp at the bottom of the first page. There is no title page; the cover evidently fulfills that function. Most of the inscriptions give the signers birthdate; must have been a tradition. At least one was written later 1864 in a hospital and refers to a battlefield. This is just way cool. ; Ex-Library; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Yale College hardcover
20043361Shimon Tzabar Rami Heilbronn 2004 Extremely rare especially signed. Inscribed by the author Shimon Tzabar to my late friend Leolo Lozone. I acquired it from Leolo's archivist the Worm Word Tamer. "The Grand Tour of the Palestinian Holocaust. The Israeli efforts to get rid of the Palestinians and settle Jews in their place in the whole of the Holy Land. And the world looks on and does nothing just as it did during the Jewish Holocaust." Glossy green printed/illustrated wraps 8 3/8 X 5 7/8 inches 88 pp. numerous color illustrations including numerous maps of course. As new. The first and only printing was 500 copies. Michelin took Tzabar to court in London and stopped him from printing or distributing any more copies. 1722RO068. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Soft cover. As New. Shimon Tzabar, Rami Heilbronn paperback
1862011736NY: Edmund Jones & Co. 1862. Bound in full red morocco stamped in gold. AEG 775 pages The spines of the book have been professionally repaired. Chromo-Lithograph Title Page Many colorplates some folding. This is Salmon P. Chase's copy of the book with his name and title stamped in gold on the front panel of the book. The book was specially bound for Mr. Chase I am sure. . Later Printing. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Edmund Jones & Co. Hardcover
1907073014-MBuffalo New York U.S.A.: Self Published By The Society 1907. Book. Illus. by Various Contributors. Near Fine. Half-Leather. 1st Edition. 1st. Edition only Printing 1873 to 1874 vol. 1 1874 to 1875 vol. 2 1875 to 1877 vol. 3 1881 to 1883 vol. 4 1903 to 1907 vol. 5 . All volumes are in red leather spine and corners with 5 bands and gilted letters with red ribon book marks the binding are signed stamped by John Grabau and artist of the Arts & Crafts movement and a Roycrofter book binding artist . Each volume has a list of the essays by the Buffalo Society of Sciences the last volume 1903 is on the Utilization of Water Power at Niagara Falls.A complete set with all the tipped in maps and original albumen photo plates. Condition : Near Fine all are tight binding with edge rubs and wear at the corners spine neel and head and edge . Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Self Published By The Society Hardcover
1914556g0125New York: The International Monthly Inc. Good. 1914. First Edition. Paperback. 32 pages. This issue is twice as long as previous issues due to its blockbuster treatment of "The Case of Belgium" with reproductions of documents incriminating to Belgium. Features: The New York "Times" in Despair; Irish Home Rule Bill; Government Control of Public Utilities by Frank Koester; "I Protest" by Clara Viebig - one of the foremost novelists of Europe; We Demand Real Neutrality; What is an American German by Representative Richard A. Bartholdt of Missouri; The Case of Belgium - In the light of official reports found in the secret archives of the Belgium Government after the occupation of Brussels with facsimiles of the documents - a major article; cartoon shows a German dog being taken before an English firing squad; England's Embarrassment is Ireland's Opportunity; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy.; Magazine; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Viereck George Sylvester: Editor The Fatherland - Fair Play for Germany and Austria-Hungary December 30th 1914 - Cover Illustration of George Washington - "He Fought the Same Foe Then That Germany Fights Today Pro-German Propaganda WW1 Evidence Against . The International Monthly Inc. paperback
1949112j2666London: William Hodge and Company Limited. Fair with no dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. "The record of this trial which follows is the verbatim official record. Much of it is a translation from German and it has only been edited where necessary to make the meaning clear: it pretends to no literary elegance. It is hoped that in this way it reflects better the atmosphere of the trial and the extempore speeches and questions and answers." - Preface. "This report is being published not to encourage a morbid interest nor to keep alive feelings of ill-will against our late enemies. But because the horror through which the world passed in those dark years of WWII was not just a nightmare which cannot recur but is something against which the collective conscience and alert vigilance of mankind asserting the rule of law in international affairs as in municipal ones must protect us. The Natzweiler concentration camp record is terrible." - Foreword. Wikipedia reports that the Natzweiler-Struthof Nazi concentration camp located on territory annexed from France in 1940 held 52000 prisoners between 1941 and 1944 approximately 22000 of whom are estimated to have died at the camp and its sub-camps. The prisoners were mainly from resistance movements in German-occupied territories. 233 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Unmarked with above-average wear and fading to original red cloth. Endpapers soiled. Contents moderately tanned with age. Binding intact. No dust jacket. A rare and worthy reference example of this important history. Kehr & Langmaid 6161 Laska 1670.; War Crimes Trials Volume V; 8vo . William Hodge and Company, Limited hardcover
1982337j1694USA: McGraw - Hill. Good in Good dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0070691800 . "Now for the first time the insider's view of the Enigma story and other clandestine operations is revealed by Gordon Welchman a top British mathematician who was largely responsible for the crucial achievements at Bletchley Park in the first months of WWII. Goes beyond Bletchley to show how the lessons learned from Germany's errors in using the Enigma codes can - and must - be applied to the use of military communications today." - dust jacket. First printing. ix 326 pp. Index. Bibliography. Black and white reproductions of photos. Diagrams. Tight and unmarked with moderate wear. Faint erasure inside back board. Light foxing to edges. Average wear to complete dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A sound example of this epic cryptographic chronicle. Enser p.75.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; World War 1939-1945 - cryptography Secret Service - Great Britain Personal Narratives Codes and Ciphers ultra Enigma Gordon Welchman Charles Babbage Dennis Babbage Bletchley Park Guderian Scherbius Enigma Steckerboard Herivel Square Turing B . McGraw - Hill hardcover
1791048522Boston: J. Belknap and A. Young 1791. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary leather with neat repairs at the corners and spine ends old scirbbes to front blank foxing and age toning heavy in spots but not affecting legibility. The two volumes bound in one 1791 and 1792. 137pp; 138pp. Evans 24003 & 25039<br /> <br /> Abolitionist and supporter of the revolution and attended the Fête de la Fédération on the one year anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. She spent most of her later life in France and was a saloniere hosting Mary Wollstonecroft and Thomas Paine. A Girondist following the massacres of 1792 she was jailed during the terror though allowed to continue her work translating French works into English.<br /> <br /> Provenance: Hannah Lewis of Rochester note to rear endpaper Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; History. Inventory No: 048522. J. Belknap and A. Young hardcover
1947736j2130New York: Assocation Press. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. "This anthology breaks down the problem of anti-Semitism into its significant parts and presents the thoughts expressed by hundreds of men and women great and small on all phases of the Jewish question. Shows anti-Semitism as it has been seen by both Jew and non-Jew as it has been recorded in books magazines pamphlets speeches and other writings. The sources used are exclusively those available in English. The voices of those who have hated and despised the Jews and also the voices of good will are heard. Here are presented briefly the laws which from ancient times to the present have chained the Jew to ghettos compelled him to wear distinctive clothing expelled him from lands wherein he and his people have lived for centuries and - in more recent years - relegated him to a status of second-class citizenship deprived of all human rights and protective laws." - dust jacket. Author was a member of the Zionist Organixation of America the NAACP the American Jewish Congress etc. xxvi 362 p. Includes Lists of authors and publications referenced. Book tight and unmarked with the exception of pen marks along each outer joint. Moderate wear to original dark red cloth brightly lettered in gilt. Somewhat above-average wear to unclipped dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A sound signed example. ; 8vo; Signed by Author . Assocation Press hardcover
1872340441872. Hardcover. Used - Fair. The Rubaiyat LLC is a small used bookstore in Caldwell Idaho. All books are fair to good or bettermay have some markings no library copies unless specifically listed. David B. Grosvenor working copy with notes. Spine is missing but book is sound & intact. Festival pamphlet included. May Festival Oberlin. Wednesday May 22 1901 Oberlin Musical Union. Boston Festival Orchestra hardcover
1919258H1068London: The Times of London 1919. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Approximately 1000 pages. Very large volume measures over 18" high by over 12" wide and approximately 1.5" thick. Extensive coverage of the final weeks of World War I its conclusion and aftermath plus other news of the day and contemporary advertisements. Each page very densely packed with small type-faced print and occasional maps. Contents appear to be bound original issues rather than reprints. Includes an 8 page illustrated section devoted to "London's Great Peace Celebration Procession" in July 1919. Small vintage bookseller's sticker inside front board at bottom. Binding sound. Moderate external wear and soiling. Partially rubbed gilt lettering upon front board and backstrip. Contents yellowing at edges. Please note: the April 11 1919 issue and possibly others are not included. A sound copy of this most enthralling comprehensive and unique reference. The Times (of London) Hardcover
191960735Great Lakes Chicago & Waukegan IL: Naval Aviation Training School L. Blakemore Isaack Wallenstein & Western Photo Studio Photographers ca. 1919-1921. Oblong atlas folio. 21.5 x 9 in. 43 leaves unnumbered. on thick black paper stock. With 52 original silver gelatin photos tipped-in sized from 5 x 7 in. up to 19 x 8 in. 36 panoramas sized from 18 x 3 in. up to 19 x 18 in. some w/ photographer’s imprint w/in negative at lower fore-edge some captioned all tipped-in. Contemporary Spruce plywood post-binder covers same as wood used for spars and biplane bodies in World War I rounded corners piano hinge front joint gilt decorative lettering & logo on front cover minor scuffing shelfwear still VG exemplar. This outstanding souvenir album depicts the height of the vital Naval Aviation Training School which provided essential technical expertise and training to entire generations of Naval Aviators and Naval aviation mechanics and carpenters through World War I and beyond. Founded originally in 1904 when a board appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt selected two farms of north of Lake Bluff IL as a training station which originally covered 172 acres. By Armistice Day at the end of World War I the facility had expanded to 1200 acres and over 45000 men underwent training. Of particular interest in this album are the 36 panoramic photographs documenting Naval Aviator and Naval Aviation mechanic classes for the 15th Regiment and 1st Battalion 15th Regiment from 1919-1920 as well as class rooms machine shops for aviation mechanics and Naval instructors. Others encompass the cutaway model Aviation engines with instructional charts on the surrounding wals the carpenter’s shop with aviation machinery jigs on work benches and airline bodies under construction. One photo depicts the Motor Laboratory Steam Laboratory and Equipment from the USS Eagle 25 at the Aviation Mechanics’ School a US Navy patrol boat which had sunk in a storm in June 1920 and then been raised and sold off as a hulk by Dec. 1921. Other panoramic photos capture the Riggers’ School classroom at Great lakes with full scale biplanes and seaplanes scale model dirigible the Coppersmith School classroom the Fittings classroom with airplane propellers hanging from the walls dip baths for machined parts and nickel plate coating and several of the Naval Aviation School football baseball and other sporting teams including the largest panorama of the Inter-Training Station Baseball championship team from Great Lakes. Wallenstein 1861-1958 was a longtime Chicago photographer through the first four decades of the 20th Century who operated his studio out of his 3928 N. Kenneth home and specialized in panoramic photographs. Western Photo Studio in Waukegan IL appears to have been short-lived as the Waukegan IL directories from 1918-1921 do not list the business but possibly connected with the Western Union Telegraph offices as the address was interchangeable. Volpe 1885-1950 began working in New York originally as a bookbinder before enlisting as an aviation mechanic with the US Navy in 1910 assigned originally to the newly formed ground school in Pensacola and later became Chief Warrant Officer Pilot Airman and Instructor who oversaw the Naval Aviation Training School from 1918-1921. He was also the assistant Athletic officer for baseball and tennis at the base. Naval Aviation Training School, L. Blakemore, Isaack Wallenstein, & Western Photo Studio (Photographers), unknown
19362550Cincinnati OH: The Ridpath Historical Society Inc. . 1936. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 4381 pages; 11 Volume Set Green Cloth Binding Book Shows Some Shelf Wear. Text is clean no markings seen. No Dust Jacket Black & White with color Illustrations Maps are noted also. Previous Owner Name . The Ridpath Historical Society, Inc. hardcover
18492111902160200628Bufu Tsugido storehouse board Suharaya Mohei and others 1849. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Bufu Tsugido storehouse board Suharaya Mohei and others paperback
19732080202103700357Monbusho 1973. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 22cm A5 Monbusho paperback
19802080202103700240Japan Book Center 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 22cm A5 Japan Book Center paperback
19722080402107100342Mainichishinbunsha 1972. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: Large format Number of books: All 32 books set Mainichishinbunsha paperback
1797ST15599London: Printed for T. Longman B. Law F. & C. Rivington R. Baldwin G. & T. Wilkie and J. Walker 1797. 21st Edition. 150 x 93 mm. 5 7/8 x 3 5/8". viii 123 1 ads pp. <br/> Contemporary brown burlap flat spine. With allegorical vignette on title page and 25 half-page woodcuts illustrating items from the vocabulary lists. Pastedowns with traces of book label removal. ◆Spine slightly cocked short split to cloth on rear joint a little fraying at ends of spine but the insubstantial binding surprisingly solid. Two small stains to each pastedown where labels removed title page lightly browned leaves a shade less than bright due to paper quality other minor imperfections but an excellent copy internally clean and fresh with comfortable margins. All in all remarkably well preserved.<br/> <br/> First issued around 1711 this is the best-selling work of James Greenwood 1683-1737 an influential grammarian and a proponent of women's education. Arranged into 33 chapters the book divides vocabulary lists by topic beginning with "things" and proceeding through minerals plants animals humans and diseases to everyday items affairs of church and state the law the military and finally to the various parts of speech from verbs to conjunctions. Widely used the work was revised and reprinted until at least 1828. At about the time this work was originally issued Greenwood had founded a school in Essex where he accepted girls as well as boys as pupils; he was later recruited to serve as assistant headmaster at St. Paul's School in London. This volume is of particular interest because of its rarely seen utilitarian period binding. We would have expected it to have been worn to shreds long ago but against the odds it has withstood hard use by young pupils remarkably well and it gives us a glimpse of an important element of the English schoolroom at the turn of the 19th century. Printed for T. Longman, B. Law, F. & C. Rivington, R. Baldwin, G. & T. Wilkie, and J. Walker unknown
1827152741827. Philis Mr. Report of the Commission Charged to Examine Memoirs Relative to the Education of Women. Third Subject: Morality. 1827. This 1827 manuscript records one of the earliest sustained formal debates advocating systematic education for women across social classes. Structured as a commission evaluation of submitted memoirs the text advances the argument that education should be universally accessible to women "from the daughter of the Prince to that of the most humble of the subjects" asserting that the "elements of Language and Calculations" are "necessary and indispensable to women in all stations." At a time when formal education for girls was limited and higher education for women virtually nonexistent the manuscript situates female instruction not as ornamental refinement but as moral and civic necessity.<br /> <br /> Philis Mr. Report of the Commission Charged to Examine Memoirs Relative to the Education of Women. Third Subject: Morality. 1827. Folio manuscript in paper boards. 68 pages of handwritten script in black ink. The manuscript is organized around three submitted theses: "The Education Best Adapted to Form A Good Mother of A Family Is That Received at Home"; "It is Well Known That The Bad Education Of Women Does More Harm Than That of Men."; and "To Instruct the Children One Must Enlighten the Mothers." While the framing reflects prevailing assumptions that motherhood constituted women's primary social role the author strategically reverses that premise arguing that education is precisely what "nature formed women to be" capable of fulfilling their duties. Written one year after the opening of the first public high schools for girls in New York and Boston and more than a decade before women would begin earning college degrees the manuscript provides early evidence of reformist thought that linked women's education to broader civic improvement. Boards show wear with light soiling and scattered stains; manuscript evenly toned with occasional minor soiling; text clear and complete. Overall condition very good to good. unknown
