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197123256Jeffersonville: KOA / Arrakis 1971. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall stapled wrappers. Rare first issue of this experimental newsletter covering topics in the field of educational theory. 15 pp. The newsletter is primarily about the KOA-Konference On Alternatives held on Fordham University's Campus April 16th and 17th 1971. Text by Ruth Messinger John Holt Larry Cole and others. A very good example. Page 5/6 has a crease. Only a handful of copies in institutional holdings. This issue was mailed to Iris Lezak and Jackson Mac LOw with their handwritten address sticker on the rear cover. <br/><br/> KOA / Arrakis paperback books
192868916New York: Department of Research and Education Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America 1928. 99p. wraps rear wrap and last page slightly chipped and stained in upper margin. Research bulletin no. 7. Department of Research and Education, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America unknown books
15275Female Correspondence Education. Book Set 1929. Delphian Society Correspondence Course 18 Hard bound books The Delphian Society was a national organization that promoted the education of women in the United States. This organization was founded around 1910 in Chicago. the Delphian Society published the Delphian Course of Reading: "A systematic plan of education embracing the world's progress and development of the liberal arts." The original volume course covers "history literature philosophy poetry fiction drama art ethics music" than developed to 18 volumes by 1929. <br/>the importance of the adult-education and self-culture movements and places the Delphian publications within the progressive milieu and the development of women's clubs. These publications were unique in the era as no other texts institutions or organizations were devoted to women's education at the highest level or fostered deliberative social interaction and civic advancement. The publications provided education to adult women at a moment in history when their roles in American social and civil life changed dramatically. The volumes are in good condition and heavy. Extra shipping charges may apply. unknown books
183063Bergamo: Dalla Stamperia Mazzoleni 1830. 24mo. 130 x 85 mm 5 1/8 x 3 1/4 inches. 32 24 pp. Contemporary red morocco gilt-tooled borders and spine. A lovely copy. First edition. Superb copy of this seemingly unrecorded volume designed to raise funds for the maintenance of girls' schools north of Bergamo near the Swiss border. It is published by the 'Pia opera di Santa Dorotea' an Italian movement founded in 1815 to provide education for female orphans. The volume contains two separately paginated parts each in the form of a letter. The first describes in a cheerful style the work of the schools the directors and assistants all female and the flavor of the education the girls receive; all the girls learn to read and write and educated in virtues of piety and charity. Contrasting the petulance nascent malice and puerile nature of many girls with that of those in the care of the Santa Dorotea schools the author notes that 'the education of these peasant girls is a miracle.' The author describes some of the highlights of the school year including the feast of St. Tecla 'a spectacular event'. At the end of the first part there is an advertisement for the charity's publication Pia opera di Santa Dorotea Bergamo 1830. The second part consists of a dialogue between the author of the first letter and two potential donors to the charity who after more discussion about the administration of the schools agree to make a donation. Not in cited in NUC SBN or OCLC. 63. [Dalla Stamperia Mazzoleni] unknown books
15484Bibliotheque Universelle Dames Histoire" 30 Volumes. Vols. 1--30.-1st Edition Publication dates 1785-1788- in French- Published in Paris with approval of the King rue d'Anjou. Leather Binding Hardcover binding of tawny-brown leather. Covers with gold frames spine decorated with gilt motif and and black moroco labels with gilt titles . Book edges decorated with gold lines. Flyleaves are four-colour marbled paper. All pages gilt edges . full leather bindings with gilt and black labels on spines gilt trimmed boards. Some minor flaws in some volumes All bindings remain intact with secured boards. Inside contents are consistent of a single edition the pages are clean and text unmarked. Overall in very good condition and attractive.<br/><br/>"Bibliotheque Universelle Dames Histoire" The Universal Women's Library was produced to provide an audience of upper class women general knowledge. It should be noted that the set was published in France in the years leading up to the French Revolution. Originally thsee volumes were published over a 3 year period "under the aprouval of the King". Later the collection included other subjects during the the French revolution. The slow process of education reform to include women began in the 1840s after it was acknowledged that if women were the first educators of children then they needed a solid education. This set dating form 1785 predate that time by half a century and as such is a valuable early attempt that goes beyond most simple women education books. As with other books of the period the volumes were provided unbound to subscribers of the series who would have been responsible for their own bindings. unknown books
179348782London: Printed for J. Johnson J. Murray and J. Evans 1793. Second edition. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf rebacked spines and corners worn ex-library with markings pockets and blindstamp on titles some light browning and offsetting of text upper corner of title on second volume torn to remove signature titles appear to be cancels endpapers browned some pencilled deletions and lines as well as comments with the stamp of J. L. Brandt and signature of Mary Warburton dated 1806. Second edition. 1 vols. 12mo. "female mind. . .sufficient for the acquisition of knowledge" Burton lectures on the expected topics: obedience duties of a wife daughter etc. but he also strongly recommends reading for ladies as necessary to keep them from being insipid and to prepare them as interesting members of society. From the publisher of "Thoughts on the Education of Daughters" and "Vindication of the Rights of Women." In fact Mary Wollstonecraft was a reader for Johnson at the time of this publication. Printed for J. Johnson, J. Murray and J. Evans unknown books
16749Women's Education Movement. Moravian Seminary Catalog 1873-1874. The Moravian Seminary traces its roots to the earliest institution of female education in the United States the Bethlehem Female Seminary founded in 1742 by Countess Benigna Zinzendorf. Originally providing only primary school the Bethlehem responded to demand for higher education for women in 1785 when it reorganized as a secondary educational institution that became known as the Moravian Female Seminary. In 1913 the Seminary officially became a College and in 1954 merged with a male institution to become the coeducational Moravian College. According to OCLC only one example of the 1873-1874 catalog of Moravian Seminary is held by institutions worldwide at the Commonwealth Library Pennsylvania. <br/><br/>Women's Academy and Seminary Archive recording the first important movement of women into higher education in the United States seminary was synonymous with "academy" and did not have the religious connotation of today. In the 1800's the Female Academy and Seminary Movement transformed American educational norms allowing women the opportunity to receive secular non-religious college-level education. Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. unknown books
16693Thompson Perry C. Editor Fayette Avery McKenzie et al. Fisk University News: volume 6 no.6 Nashville Tenn. March 1916. 32p. 6x9 inches booklet in stapled gray wraps printed blue. Editorials letters sports results arts club news and other material appears in this special "Student Number" compiled by the students themselves. Light staining and heavier toning to covers and margins of text block also mild wear and a vertical crease. Magazine. #194590 Monthly publication from the African American University founded in 1865. The News began publication in 1910 and ended in 1925. Only 9 holdings of broken runs or individual copies of various issues located in OCLC. This issue includes a selection from "How to rise as a race" by Sutton E. Griggs; a report on her experience as a resident of the French Quarter in Paris by C. Edwina Yerby who notes its multi-ethnic character; a short story by Gladys D. Dunbar and more. unknown books
1869018282San Francisco: Department of Public Instruction. Fair. 1869. Hardcover. Grey marbled boards are in fair condition. Title in gilt on spine. ¾ leather. Top ¼ inch of spine chipped. Bottom 3 inches of spine is worn exposing some back signatures. Boards contains significant wear and fading all over. Back and front interior hinges are cracked. Some pages have small moisture damage and soiling. "The exhibit of facts and figures herewith presented furnishes substantial proof that prosperity and progress have marked the history of our public schools during the last two years." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 199 pp . Department of Public Instruction hardcover books
1682039164The Hague: Adrian Moetjens 1682. Early Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. In full period vellum worn and soiled. Front endpaper loose binding loosening but intact. First published in 1681 Fleury's treatise on the ancient Israelites was hugely popular for over 100 years in both French and English. It is often paired with his work on the ancient Christians first published in 1682 in Paris and here in an early edition from The Hague dated 1682 bound in with a separate title page. 175pp and 256pp. Small paper lift on the final page scattered browning but generally clean. Size: duodecimo 12mo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Religion & Theology. Inventory No: 039164. <br/><br/> Adrian Moetjens hardcover books
1923045105Paris: Pijollet 1923. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Quarter leather over marbled boards - an attractive binding. Scattered mostly minor foxing internally. Illustrated with phorogravures. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; History. Inventory No: 045105. <br/><br/> Pijollet hardcover books
198420362F.A. Foster 1984. First Edition. Near fine in original printed saddle-stitched wrappers. Thin octavo. 6.325 x 8.5 in. 8 pp. Signed by F.A. Foster on title page. Scarce. <br/><br/> F.A. Foster unknown books
1969214640Irvington-on-Hudson NY: Foundation for Economic Education 1969. Fourteen issues of the newsletter 4p. each 8.5x11 inches plus two additional pieces booklists from August 1969 and a 1970-71 catalog A Literature of Freedom mild wear fold creases otherwise very good. Issues present are: May July September & November 1969 January March--May September & November 1970 January - March & July 1971. Foundation for Economic Education unknown books
1952Embry 196599Foundation for Economic Education 1952-1959. First editions in book form first printings. Fine. Various color cloths. Foundation for Economic Education, 1952-1959. First editions in book form, first printings. hardcover books
191928312London: George Allen & Unwin 1919. First Edition. Octavo. Olive drab boards lettered in black on spine and front cover; xvi 336pp. Inserted advertising leaf tipped in before first page of Preface. Tight straight and unmarked copy Near Fine. Social survey of British labourers mainly in the city of Sheffield undertaken immediately following the Great War. The Society was under the directorship though not credited herein of the prominent Fabian Socialist anthroposophist and educator Arthur James Freeman 1886-1972 who also founded the Sheffield Educational Settlement 1918. Among contemporary testimonials included on the inserted advertising leaf is the following from the Daily Mail: ".One of the most interesting social studies that have been made since Charles Booth's Life and Labour in London.Anyone who agrees that 'the proper study of mankind is man' could not fail to find this fascinating." See Helen Smith "Love Sex Work and Friendship: Northern Working-Class Men and Sexuality in the First Half of the Twentieth Century" in Alana Harris & Timothy Jones eds Love and Romance in Britain 1918-1970 Lon: 2015. George Allen & Unwin unknown books
185411184Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black 1854. 8vo. 98 pp. <br><br>First edition. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2F16840. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with small inked numeral in upper corner; last leaf with outer margin chipped. Adam & Charles Black unknown books
16537Friendship album of young lady students from 1862-1864 at Golden Hill Seminary in Bridgeport CT durin the Civil war. "Landscape Album." New York: Published by Leavitt & Allen circa 1862. Original red leather boards. 8 ½ x 7 in. Embossed front and back cover gilt-edged pages and gilt detail on front cover and spine. 67 pages. Includes 4 full-page landscape engravings of Smyrna Albany Bedford Springs PA and Zarapha the Ancient Sarepta in addition to 1 engraving on the title page. Includes 86 handwritten notes inscriptions and autographs from fellow students. 2 small portrait photos approx. 1 ½ x 1 in. and ¾ x ½ in. are pasted into book with note and signature. Some foxing and toning on engraving pages. Very good condition.<br/><br/>Signature and memento album kept by a student named Mary while studying at the Golden Hill Seminary in Bridgeport CT. Almost every page is filled with handwritten warm wishes of friendship pithy phrases and short poems such as "Not like the rose shall our friendship wither but like the evergreeen live forever" and "Our school soon will end. And I am going away. But try to remember your friend at some far distant day." "Is there no other tie that binds Has love the only claim Yes there is one that binds us fast And friendship is its name." Many of the inscriptions are dated to months in late spring or winter when academic semester would conclude and students would travel to their hometowns to visit with family. "Dear Mary May guardian angels their soft wings display To guard my friend from every dangerous way May health and happiness your steps attend May you always have an never want a friend In every state of life may you most happy be And when you're at a distance thing of me." "In future years when thou shall see Thou lines that I have penned Oh then may memory bring to view The image of your loving friend." "Something you wished me to write So something it shall be And when you think of something Think of me." "As gold more splendid from the fire appears So "Friendship" brightens by the length of years." "Twine thy brow with a lofty wreath with a wreath made not of glittering jewels from some far off mine." Some classmates listed their hometowns along with their autographs including places as far away as New York City and even Canada. The Golden Hill Seminary was founded in 1856 as a boarding school that would provide a moral literary and domestic education for young ladies. An extensive collection of autographs notes and well-wishes from classmates at a boarding school for young ladies. <br/><br/>Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. This document dates only from 14 years after Seneca Falls. unknown books
1662045440London: James Cottrel 1662. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Small folio. 18th century full calf worn and dry corners heavily rubbed and rounded spine dry rehinged in white cloth front endpaper cracked. Modest browning and foxing top of title excised and replaced but otherwise clean internally. With neat and expertly drawn nativities of the Esson family early on dating from the early 18th century. Neat marginal notes and manicules scattered throughout and a few corrections to the text. An intersting early English work of astrology and the science of nativities. Lacking the portrait. 16 219 1 pp. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Science & Technology; History. Inventory No: 045440. <br/><br/> James Cottrel hardcover books
1600046524Geneva: Paulus Stephanus Paul Estienne 1600. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Early paneled calf rebacked ca. 19th c. endpapers refreshed hinges worn and cracked held by cords corners bumped wear at edges title foxed scattered mostly light foxing and browning - generally quite clean internally and an attractively printed Estienne edition of Pliny's letters. 28 646 blank 28 8 168 151 pp. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046524. Paulus Stephanus (Paul Estienne) hardcover books
1562045392Venice: Domenico Guerra & Gio Battista 1562. Early Edition. Hardcover rebound in leather. Good Condition. Rebound in modern sheep front endpapers replaced minor worming and modest staining throughout but still an attractive copy of this early Italian edition. With historiated initials - separate section titles but continuously paginated. 16 375pp with a printers mark on the verso of page 375. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045392. <br/><br/> Domenico Guerra & Gio Battista hardcover books
17595386Milan: Giuseppe Galeazzi 1759. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo 20.2 x 14.4 cm. XXII pp. 352 pp. 8 ff. with 1 large 40 x 50 cm folding plate containing 5 illustrations; title-page printed in red and black engraved device on title. Bound in contemporary publisher's binding title in ink on spine. Minor edge wear minor staining to lower cover. Quires C and E loosening internally very fresh and clean retaining deckle at fore-edge and bottom edge toning to plate marginal paper flaw and rear reinforcement of crease to plate otherwise an excellent copy. Rare first and sole edition of this treatise on the proportional compass written by the Jesuit Giovanni Marchelli. The work was expressly written for the use of Marchelli's mathematics pupils in the Jesuit College of Milan and thus provides interesting evidence for the use of scientific instruments in Jesuit education. The text offers an advanced understanding of Galileo's landmark instrument and coming from a Jesuit it is perhaps notable that Galileo's "invention" of the instrument is so candidly celebrated. The proportional compass or 'sector' in fact combines two separate instruments one for making observations by adding a quadrant to its arms the other to calculate various measures like proportion trigonometry and squares and cube roots. Its several scales permit easy and direct solutions for problems in surveying gunnery and navigation. Conceived as a universal instrument the device was adapted for a variety of pedagogical purposes far more diverse than Galileo's sector ranging from pure geometry to such practical operations as taking measurements for the architectural orders p. 11 converting currency and calculating interest p. 42 performing various 'rule-of-three' operations such as the dissolution of business partnerships p. 53 surveying passim and the construction of Napier tables p. 73. The compass scales are well illustrated and the text includes tables giving the positions of the various markings. The large folding plate provides diagrams "for constructing Galileo's quadrant" that show with great refinement exactly where the markings on the quadrant's arm and tangent are to be engraved. The final chapter deals with military problems such as the determination of the caliber of cannon balls. OCLC locates copies at Adler Planetarium Michigan Oklahoma Woodstock Theological. De Backer-Sommervogel V.525 4; Cinti 177; Carli-Favaro 128; Tomash II.M34. <br/> <br/> Giuseppe Galeazzi hardcover books
1885WRCLIT76507Milwaukee WI: Druck der Freidenker Publishing Co. 1885. 231pp Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume without wrappers. Short tear in lower blank gutter margin of last leaf otherwise very good. An uncommon separate printing of an address concerning literary education among German- speaking students in the Midwest by the prominent educator poet and collector. OCLC locates two copies: Univ. of Wisconsin Madison and Univ. of Cincinnati. OCLC: 40577856 & 862978908. Druck der Freidenker Publishing Co. unknown books
1882WRCLIT76515Milwaukee WI: Druck der Doerflinger Book & Publishing Co. 1882. 18pp. Octavo. Extracted from none pamphlet volume without wrapper. Very good. First separate edition "Separatabdruck aus den Erziehungsblättern." Fick was a superintendent of the Cincinnati schools writer of children's texts and important collector of German-American educational and literary materials whose collection formed one of the backbones of the Univ. of Cincinnati German-American collection. OCLC locates only two copies: Univ. of Cincinnati and Horner Library. OCLC: 865582461. Druck der Doerflinger Book & Publishing Co. unknown books
186625041Stuttgart Germany: Wilhelm Nitzschke 1866. 16 pages; the 'pages' are a heavy cardstock with numerous identified hand-colored illustrations on each. Nature historical events war the seasons modern transportation and other subjects are depicted. German text throughout; the final leaves offer the alphabet in both the German Gothic and more modern Latin style of typeface. No copyright date; internal evidence suggests 1866. Small booksellers ticket of E. Steiger 22 & 24 Frankfort St. New York on front endpaper. The volume approx. 9 5/8" x 13 1/2" size; covers detached spine cloth gone. Much wear rubbing to the covers; contents with some soiling wear experienced the usage of children; title page with some paper-rubs at inner margin; generally illustrations bright; in good condition overall. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Wilhelm Nitzschke hardcover books
1840044214Paris: Baudry's Eureopean Library 1840. Early Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Good Condition. 8 volumes in brown cloth backed boards. Wear to the cloth with tears and loss on a few of the spines two of the spines laid back down bindings generally sound. Mild to moderate foxing throughout owner stamps on titles. 3 folding maps one with color. Light wear in a few spots tear in one gutter foxed. Size: Octavo 8vo. 8-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 044214. <br/><br/> Baudry's Eureopean Library hardcover books
