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387 p. + Frontis, ** Plus a tipped-in extract from Isaiah produced in raised letters for the blind by N.B. Kneass Jr., Printer, Philadelphia. Nice original full blue cloth binding, lettered in gilt. Hardbound. Very good+. Memoirs and works of eminent blind authors, including: Homer, Blacklock, Holman, Wilson, Huber, Miss Alice Holmes, Miss Frances Jane Crosby, Miss Cynthia Bullock and others; as well as a collection of poems by blind authors including: L. V. Hall, Frances Brown, Margaret Belches, Michael M'Guire and others. ** The little broadside in raised printing employs the Philadelphia line fonts inspired by Julius Friedlander and adopted in 1837 for use by his Philadelphia school, now the Overbrook School for the Blind. Though helpful for years in educating the blind, many sightless persons found the Roman letters difficult to use, and all such systems were eventually superseded by Braille. This true First Edition is scarce, especially in decent condition. PA29 Far Rt
138 p. Endpapers foxed. The music printed on four line staves. 12 mo. 160 mm. Leather backed plain paper boards. Spine chipped. Hardbound. Very good. Autograph ownership of Ellen Bigelow (probably the person that the Ellen Bigelow School in Athol, Worcester County, Massachusetts is named after). John Freckleton Burrowes (1787-1852) was the organist at St. James's Piccadilly; as well as a composer and music educator. This First American Edition of his little handbook is rather scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W145
pp. (2), (iii)-ix, (1) [Contents, (1)-56, (3) [Publisher's catalogue of musical instruments and music books]. Lacks first fly leaf. Small tear on front margin of title page. Foxed. Needs to be resewn. 24mo. 145 mm. Original leather spine over marbled covered boards, very worn. Rear board detached. Hardbound. Fair. John Freckleton Burrowes (1787-1852) was an English organist, composer, and music teacher. First American Edition. SCARCE. S&S/AI 631. PAIMP 25
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original typescript letter signed by Cahit Külebi. 15x21 cm. In Turkish. 1 p. Dated Bern, November 3, 1961. Typescript document. Signed by Külebi as 'cultural attache'. Külebi was a leading Turkish poet and author. He has an important place in contemporary Turkish poetry due to his adherence to folk poetry traditions. His poetry is enriched with simple yet ironic language, embellished with original descriptions.
Two volumes bound in one, continuous pagination: pp. (1) [Title page], (1)-12 [Life of Mrs. Chapone], (iii)-v, (7)-259, 18 [an interesting subscribers' list as gathered and distributed by the book peddling Parson Mason Locke Weems (1759-1825)]. Page 5 of subscribers' list torn without loss. Early manuscript ownership of David Withrow, Jan 1, 1815 on first fly leaf. Later ownership of Nelson Myers. The life of Mrs. Chapone [p. (1)-12] is in a different type font setting than the body of the text. Age stain. Title page and first few signatures damp stain on top edge. 12mo. 180 mm. Original full leather binding, rubbed. Original leather spine label. "Those young Ladies who wish to figure in the kitchen and the parlour, and to shine both on earth and in heaven would do well to get Mrs. Chapones' admirable work by heart" - M.L. Weems. Mrs. Chapone was an English Bluestocking. She contributed to The Rambler and the Adventurer; was a protegee of both Dr. Johnson and Samuel Richardson. This rare Hagerstown edition demonstrates the broad influence of her appeal for better female education. S&S/AI 34323. Hardbound. Good. SCARCE. AI BX 8
pp. [6], LII, 550, [29]. Small 8vo. 18 cm. Very Scarce German Latin reader. Latin text with notes in German.**PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 7
288 p. Early manuscript ownership partially effaced from title page and elsewhere. Slight loss at top corner of title page. A few pages fly speckled. Lacks front fly leaves. Lightly XLib. 12mo. 160 mm. Original worn full leather binding. Front board detached. Spine very worn with loss. Title continues: "Also, A Variety of Elegant Letters for the Direction and Embellishment of Style, Business,.Love, Courtship, Marriage. To which is prefixed, A Plain and Compendious Grammar Of The English Language. English Spelling Dictionary." Evans 25403. Hardbound. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 64
pp. (1) [Recommendations], 282, 6 [Recommendations of military men]. Illustrated with drawings. Very foxed. Damp stain. Early pencil ownerships. 12mo. 185 mm. Original cloth binding, worn and soiled. Paper spine label perished. Hardbound. Fair. 'Prepared by Brevet Captain S. Cooper. Under The Supervision of Major General Alexander Macomb, Commanding the Army of the United States.' First edition. S&S/AI 36933. PAIMP 25
Two volumes. pp. cxvii, xii, 508 + Engraved facsimile of a letter from Louis XVIII to Dufief's family; [No divisional title to Vol. II] pp. iv, 344; 261 [Le Lecteur Francais; ou Choix de Morceau.] McGowan, London: 1819. Disbound. XLib. (Boston Athenaeum - Withdrawn). 8vo. 220 mm. Nicolas Gouin Dufief (1776?-1834) was a native of Nantes. In 1792 he followed the Royalist sentiments of his parents, and joined the Royal Naval Corps. In the same year he sought refuge in England, but soon afterwards he sailed for the West Indies, and was attracted thence to Philadelphia, which he reached in July 1793. During his sojourn in America, he became acquainted with Dr. Joseph Priestley, Thomas Jefferson, and other eminent men. In Philadelphia he published an essay on The Philosophy of Language, in which he first explained to the world how he was led to make those discoveries "from which my system of universal and economical instruction derives such peculiar and manifold advantages". For nearly twenty-five years he taught French with success in America and in England. With this set I offer Vol. I of the 1810 Philadelphia Edition for FREE. ** PRICE JUST REDUCED! FRENG 4
pp. xxv, 538 + Frontis & 22 folding copperplate engravings. Two XLib stamps of Washington and Jefferson College library on title page and elsewhere. Foxed. Full leather, boards detached. Hardbound. Text Very Good. Early pencil manuscript inscription 'R. H. Lee, Esq. presented to Dickinson College Carlisle by R. H. Lee, 1834 on first fly leaf. 8vo. 215 mm. Title continues: 'Being the Course of Lectures delivered by (Rev. John Ewing). The whole carefully Revised and prepared for the Press with sundry Explanatory and Supplementary Notes; By Robert Patterson. With a Biographical Sketch of the Author'. John Ewing was Provost of the University of Pennsylvania. First edition. S&S/AI 17470. PAIMP 21
As New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 3 volumes set (512 p.; 479, [1] p.; 480 p.), color and b/w ills. Articles in festschrift for Turhan Yazgan, (1938-2012). He's Turkish World Research Foundation founder. Researches about the Turks all around the world.= Türk dünyasi arastirmalari. Prof. Dr. Turan Yazgan'a Armagan üçlemesi. Year 35-36. Volume 104-105-106. Issue 206-207-208. 3 volumes set. Prep. by Ibrahim Akis, Mustafa Aksoy, M., Töre Yildirim.
pp. xi, 143, (1) [A Table showing the number of days in one month, to the same (or any other) day in any other month]. Illustrated with forms. Foxed. Mildly XLib. Remnants of XLib bookplate. Early manuscript and stamped ownership of Levi John Bertolett on first fly leaf. 4to. 260 mm. Original leather spine over green paper covered boards. Vellum corners. Spine very worn with loss. Title continues: 'Accurately to Draw Instruments of Writing, Legally and Correctly. Besides many other forms, useful to the Farmer, Mechanic, and Trader'. Hardbound. Very Good. After service in the Navy, George Getz (1789-1853) became the proprietor of 'The Berks and Schuylkill Journal.' He later was a bookseller and publisher (in English & German). He served as the mayor of Reading from 1849 until his death. These Form Books were of great practical utility through many walks of life in early America. SCARCE. S&S/AI 44472. PAIMP 20x2?
pp. iv, 236. Double column. Foxed. Printed in English and Hebrew. Penciled ownership of Thos. Douglass, Yale College, New Haven. Small Quarto. 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Original cloth spine over paper boards. Original paper spine label, worn with some loss. Spine hinges and extremities worn with some loss. Hardbound. Rosenbach # 345. AI #12600. In 1848 the early owner of this book, Thomas Douglass, opened in San Francisco "the first American school on the Pacific coast south of Oregon" - but six weeks later, caught up in Gold Rush fever, he dropped his books and headed for the mines. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUDAICA BOX 1
204 p. 12 mo. 19 cm. Foxed. Very nice modern buckram binding. The text is a sort of catechism on Roman history and culture. ** The publisher is of special interest - Daniel Rapine, was a bookseller and printer whose bookshop was located on Capitol Hill as early as 1801. The site was later engulfed in an expansion of the capitol building.During the War of 1812 (1812 & 1813) he served as Mayor of Washington. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 7
Full Title: DISCUSSIONS ON PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE, EDUCATION AND UNIVERSITY REFORM. Chiefly From the Edinburgh Review; Corrected, Vindicated, Enlarged, in Notes and Appendices. By Sir William Hamilton, Bart. With an Introductory Essay by Robert Turnbull. pp. xlviii, 9-764. Damp stained. Bookplates of Geo B. Orlady and the Library of the Philo Literary Society. Small 4to. 9.50" x 6". Original full brown cloth binding embossed and decorated in blind. Binding worn. Hardbound. Good. Sir William Hamilton, the 9th Baronet (1788-1856) was an influential Scottish metaphysician and teacher of philosophy. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 BOX 4
163 p. + Folding Plate. Plate of the solar system has a small tear on fold. Title page very browned. Text age stain and damp stain. Remnants of XLib bookplate on front paste down. XLib stamp of Lancaster Mechanic's Society on title page and elsewhere. Manuscript ownership of William White on title page, first fly leaf and first page of introduction. 8vo. 220 mm. Original full leather binding, worn. Hardbound. Poor. Front board detached. S&S/AI 15196. First edition. SCARCE. PAIMP 10 x2
Two volumes. pp. (xxx) 448; (x) 531 + Plates. 8vo. 22 cm. Original publisher's cloth binding. Rockwell Kent designed bookplate of Maxwell Steinhardt. The text includes: "A Short Bibliography of the W itings of Samuel Butler and of the Books and Articles Concerning Him". Samuel Butler was born in Langar, Nottinghamshire. The son of a clergyman and grandson of a Bishop, he was educated at Shrewsbury and St John's College, Cambridge. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1859, where he achieved success as a sheep-farmer. His letters home to his father were compiled to form 'A First Year in Canterbury Settlement' (1863), which later became the core of his most popular work, 'Erewhon'. He returned to England in 1864, having accumulated a small fortune, and settled in Clifford's Inn, where he stayed until his death. In 1872 he published 'Erewhon' (an anagram for nowhere) anonymously. It attacked contemporary attitudes on morals, religion, education, and science by describing a land where (among other things) illness is considered a crime. Sick people are thrown in jail, as their sickness is their own fault. Sad people are also imprisoned, for grief is a sign of misfortune and people are held responsible for the actions that made them unfortunate. People who rob or murder, on the other hand, are treated generously and taken to the hospital to recover from their affliction. No machines are allowed in Erewhon, as a philosopher once speculated that machines could rapidly evolve and would take over the world. Students study anything that has absolutely no practical purpose at the University of Unreason. The book was scintillatingly popular. It still can be read with great enjoyment and relevance today. During the next decade Butler wrote a series of controversial scientific works. They were distinctly anti-Darwin, and especially opposed to certain aspects of the theory of natural selection. He also began experimenting in musical composition, and collaborated with his friend (and later biographer) Henry Festing Jones on the oratorio 'Narcissus' (1880). In 1896 he published the biography of his grandfather, Bishop Samuel Butler. Today, his best-known work is probably 'The Way of Al l Flesh'. It was the thoughtful result of many years of hard labor, but did not appear in his lifetime. "I am the 'enfant terrible' of literature and science. If I cannot (and I know I cannot) get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling. I can (and I know I can) heave bricks into the middle of them" - Samuel Butler, 'Notebooks' **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W140
Former owner's name to ffeps Vol 1: small tears to spine ends with fraying along lower edges of boards. . Vol 2: duct tape applied to 1 edge of spine. Front hinge cracked. Spotting to boards. Corners edgeworn with wear along edges of boards. ; Large volumes - may require extra shipping overseas. V1: (1951) ; V2: (1951) ; 2 Volume Set; Vol. 1/2/2022; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 2111 pages
Minor Shelfwear; This book purports to take its readers beyond political correctness, beyond the predictable polarization of left and right, beyond the polemical hyperbole that has made rational debate a rarity in the culture wars that still beset us. Indeed, the editors explicitly claim to offer 'insight into the values, ideals, and motives of both sides' and thus to transcend the sterile and static opposition between affirmative action and merit, between human rights and academic freedom. ; 9.75 x 1.25 x 6.5 Inches; 272 pages
196 p. Foxed. **Early manuscript inscription 'Upper Swatara Township, Dauphin County in the State Of Pa. Tom Myers Is My Name & Single Is My Station. Happy Will That Girle (girl) Be That I Will Get For My Wife March 3, 1835' on first fly leaf. 24mo. 145 mm. Original full leather binding, slightly scuffed. Original leather spine label. Leather defect on rear board when first bound. Hardbound. Good. Title continues: 'In Which Solutions Are Given To All The Questions Contained Therein That Necessarily Require Them. Designed To Facilitate The Labour Of Teachers, And Assist Those Who Have Not The Opportunity Of A Tutor's Aid'. S&S/AI 14558. Nice manuscript ownership. PAIMP 25
pp. viii, 436. 16 mo. 150 mm. Edges uncut. Remains of the original printed wraps. An early French conversation and phrase book apparently designed for English and American travelers in France. VERY SCARCE. OCLC records only the copy at the New York Public Library. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! FR-VOYAGE 3RD FL
Two volumes. pp. (56), 353; 478. 8vo. Original full mottled leather (roan) binding. Boards detached. "Third American Edition. For the Use of Schools, as well as of Private Gentlemen." Apparently based on the work of James Davidson (1732-1809). AI 14772. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W120
cm. 17,5 x 24,5, due tomi di xxiv-800 pp. con 26 ill. f.t. Rilegati in cofanetto. Storia delle universit? italiane L?Universit? degli Studi di Firenze, nata nel 1924 dalla trasformazione dell?Istituto di Studi Superiori pratici e di perfezionamento, ha vissuto in ottant?anni di attivit? una crescita prodigiosa. Le quattro Facolt? del 1924 sono divenute dodici alla svolta del nuovo secolo, con settanta Dipartimenti e dieci Centri di eccellenza che la qualificano al massimo livello della ricerca sia sul versante scientifico e tecnologico che su quello umanistico, collocandola ai vertici del sistema universitario europeo. The University of Florence, formed in 1924 as a result of the reorganization of the Institute of Higher Education (?Istituto di Studi Superiori pratici e di perfezionamento?), has undergone extraordinary growth in the eighty years of its existence. The four initial faculties have become twelve by the turn of the century, comprising seventy Departments and ten Specialisation centres. The level of excellence they have achieved in the Humanities as well as in Sciences and Technology rank the University of Florence among the most renowned institutions of learning in the European university system. 2374 gr. xxiv-800 p.
364p. Hardcover Very good condition Contents: The district school as it was.--A supplication to the people of the United States.--Pages from old spellers.--A traveller's story.--The lighthouse.--The dark of autumn anf the bright of winter in New England.--Scenery-showing in word-paintinga.--The divine agency in nature.--The devout African.--Emulation as a motive to study.--A prayer.
Second edition, 12mo, viii, 172pp., engraved frontispiece slight offset on to title, a couple of gatherings standing proud, hinges a little shaken, cont. red roan-backed marbled boards, rubbed. Provenance: Nice calligraphic ownership signature of 'Abraham Burnet Stuart, 1827' in ink to front fly-leaf. Moon, 78 (2).