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200220629London: Reaktion Books. As New in As New dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 1861891199 . Illustrated. First edition. As new in like dust jacket. . Reaktion Books hardcover books
1781025172London: Lockyer Davis 1781. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Rebound in modern paper covered boards with title on spine in black type. Interior is in excellent condition with no foxing or other age related problems. Very wide margins. An important author who worked with Diderot on his earlier work and contributed much philosophically to his time Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare; Inventory No: 025172. <br/><br/> Lockyer Davis hardcover books
1859045071Paris: E. Dentu 1859. Second Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Leather backed marbled boards wear at edges hinges a little rubbed; a bit of foxing mostly early on. 318pp with an attractive folding map of California at the rear with a small crease and light foxing. Howes M198 Sabin 38700. Aristocrat connoisseur of colonialism gambler possible pirate. The Count set sail for San Francisco after failing to make a go of it in Algeria and France. He fell in love with Sonora and mounted an expedition to secure its independence that ended with him meeting a firing squad in 1854. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Exploration; History. Inventory No: 045071. <br/><br/> E. Dentu hardcover books
16085Early Women Education. Autograph Letter Signed on verso of a Handbill regarding Ragged Schools April 13 1868. Rev. H. Newton-Vicar of St. michael's Mission Schools Lant Street writes to a donor about the work of the Ragged schools. Verso is a broadside for "The Lant Street Ragged Schools for Boys and Girls Borough Southwark." Reading in part "These Ragged Schools are placed in the midst of the poorest populationin Southwark in are the largest with about 850 attendances daily and the most important in South London." Attendance shows girls far outnumbered boys in the school "Boys in the Lower School Room.167 Girls in the Upper School Room.243.Afternoon Boys.162 Girls.233. The attendants at the Evening School in which more grown persons of both sexes are taught to read and write number about.65." He has made notes in his hand on the broadside portion in part "Ragged Schools male & female." This rare handbill is absent from OCLC Worldcat and considerably more interesting for the first-hand manuscript content regarding the coeducational activities of the school. unknown books
1651046296Insulis 1651. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary vellum mild age toning surface scar on front cover some edge wear endpapers worn and front endpaper with light dampstain date added in red pen to title a few notes in the margins in a contemporary hand otherwise clean internally. 694pp index. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046296. Insulis hardcover books
197044104Detroit: Radical Education Project 1970. First Edition. Quarto 27.5cm.; publisher's yellow pictorial staplebound wrappers; 19pp.; illus. Fine condition. Issue devoted to the women's liberation movement with the lead article by Kae Halonen "Man's World & Welcome to It!" Also includes Ethel Dunbar's essay "Women: Black & White / Young & Old" and "Women in Communes" by Kit Leder. Radical Education Project unknown books
199523692Athens: University of Georgia Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0820316377 . First printing. As new in like dust jacket. . University of Georgia Press hardcover books
15971Princeton University "Princeton Alumni Weekly" Princeton N.J. Sept. 24 1968. Vol. LXIX No. 1. Titled "The Education of Women at Princeton: A Special Report; On the Desirability and Feasibility of Princeton Entering Significantly into the Education of Women at the Undergraduate Level." Inscribed by the Author on cover. In 1968 amid controversy and uncertainty concerning the acceptance of women at Princeton the President and Trustees authorized this extensive study to cover all aspects of the coeducation question. Published as an entire issue of the "Princeton Alumni Weekly" the result interprets multiple examples from other schools addresses arguments and concerns and imagines a coeducational Princeton of the not-so-distant future. It also includes the virulent minority opposition of Prof. Arthur Horton who fought the presence of women well after they became a normal feature of campus life. The positive decision came just in time for the April 1969 letters when for the first time the student body was joined by 148 women. Very good condition. This copy is notably inscribed to a woman "With the complement of the author/ 16 Sept 1968/ Princeton N.J." An important historical artifact of 1960's feminist academic reform. unknown books
1847739Philadelphia: The Presbyterian Board of Education pr. by William S. Martien 1847. 8vo. 32 pp. <br><br>Unsuccessful attempt to promote Presbyterian parochial schools as a defense against secularism and Liberalism. Very good. Sewn; in original yellow printed wrappers. The [Presbyterian] Board of Education, pr. by William S. Martien unknown books
1944145318Philadelphia: Presbyterian Church 1944. 32p. wraps very good. Presbyterian Church unknown books
184519523West Chester Pa.: Printed at the Office of the "Village Record 1845. Neat archival repairs on the verso to tears; paper stock browned; in very good condition. Broadside approx. 12 x 12 inches on laid paper roughly trimmed. A striking broadside advertising eight weekly lectures at "the Cabinet" beginning on Thursday the 23rd of January with tickets available at Wm. P. Townsend's Temperance Hotel the design of the course and the broadside itself are both suggestive of the contemporary trade in popular entertainment combined with education. Printed at the Office of the "Village Record, unknown books
199825071NY: Philomel Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0399231668 . Illustrated by the author. Seventeenth printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Philomel Books hardcover books
1559046914Venice: Paul Manutium Aldus 1559. Hardcover Half Vellum. Very Good Condition. 18th century vellum backed boards worn at corners and a bit soiled title page stained an torn with loss in a few spots and a paper repair in the gutter; scattered staining and foxing elsewhere but generally clean small wormtrail in the lower margin at the end of the index touching a few letters. Still about very good overall - two volumes bound as one separate title for part two the index. 28 1-976 numbered columns i.e. 488 pages 36 132 pp. Index volume dated 1558; Ahmanson-Murphy 575<br/><br/>Pliny both compiled current knowledge of the world citing over 400 authorities and added to it himself . Not just the model for all encyclopedias to follow it is the ur-book of reference the model for an eclectic boundlessly useful assortment of human knowledge. "Over and over again it will be found that the source of some ancient piece of knowledge is Pliny Printing and the Mind of Man 5 Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046914. Paul Manutium (Aldus) hardcover books
1600046554Coloniae Vbiorum Cologne: Cholini 1600. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary full pigskin soiled and stained but sound. A few private library marks old names crossed out on title signatures to front blank modest browning to text block with scattered minor wear and worming to margins mispgination neatly corrected;generally quite clean overall with in text portraits throughout. 8 532 16 83pp blanks intact. <br/><br/>Platina's history of the popes first printed in 1479. He was also the author of the first printed cookbook a collection of recipes from Martino di Como 1475. His description of events in the Vitis Pontificum around the 1456 appearance of Halley's comet during the reign of Pope Callixtus III gave rise to the persistent tale that the comet was excommunicated. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Religion & Theology. Inventory No: 046554. Cholini hardcover books
199823781Boston: Northeastern University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 1555533469 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Northeastern University Press hardcover books
1770WRCAM47269Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap 1770. 24pp. 12mo. Modern half morocco and marbled boards spine gilt. Ex-Library Company of Philadelphia with their early and modern bookplates on the front pastedown deaccessioned as a duplicate initialed by Edwin Wolf II. Trimmed a bit close affecting an occasional catchword. Very good. The first printing of this work which was also issued a few years later as part of some copies of A COLLECTION OF RELIGIOUS TRACTS Philadelphia: Joseph Cruikshank 1773. Armelle Nicolas was a 17th century French servant girl whose life of piety and good works developed a cult following. Lady Elizabeth Hastings 1682-1739 was also well known for her good works and charity in England. This book was issued by John Dunlap best known for the first broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence. A scarce volume on moral instruction for an American audience drawing on European examples at a time when Americans were shaping their own national character. EVANS 11654. ESTC W17056. HILDEBURN 2529. Printed by John Dunlap hardcover books
1685046297Amsterdam: H. & Viduae Theodori Boom 1685. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary vellum darkened significant tear to vellum on spine and rear cover but binding sound scattered minor foxing otherwise very clean internally. 32 470 16pp.<br/><br/>First edition of Perizonius's foundational work of historical criticism. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046297. H. & Viduae Theodori Boom hardcover books
1977236715Milwaukee: People United 1977. Four different documents issued by the anti-racist organization which included members of the Milwaukee Alliance. Three are leaflets either 8.5x11 inches or 8.5x14 inches though there is also a six-page Draft Strategy packet. All have a horizontal crease or other handling wear; the Draft Strategy packet is markedly creased. The organization participated in a largely successful effort to break up segregated schools by introducing busing. People United unknown books
1977236716Milwaukee: People United 1977. 8.5x11 inch leaflet printed both sides very good. The organization participated in a largely successful effort to break up segregated schools by introducing busing. People United unknown books
187229825Harrisburg: Benj. Singerly State printer 1872. 16mo 16 cm; 6.25". vi 276 pp. <br><br>Revised and arranged by J.P. Wickersham superintendent of common schools." A digest of the laws decisions and explanations of the educational law and legislation of Pennsylvania so the each topic occupies only one page. Publisher's charcoal cloth top of spine pulled and with small paper label. Exsocial club library: call number on endpaper rubber-stamp on title-page no other markings. Small ownership label on front pastedown of a state representative. Benj. Singerly, State printer hardcover books
16862Women's Education Penn State First women enrolled in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. October 17 1934. Original silver gelatin print press photograph. 8 x 6 in. Original press caption typed on image verso. "Taking a Man's Course. Alexandra Tillson the first girl to enroll in the school of Mineral Industries at Penn State with Dean Edward Steidle who is showing her around the school's Museum of Minerals. Miss Tillson is taking the metallurgy curriculum which deals with the study of iron and non-ferrous metals. She is the daughter of Benjamin Franklin Tillson noted mining engineer of Montclair N.J. Miss Tillson can't be discouraged from pursuing a study which may eventually take her to the steel mills or to the mines. 10/17/34." The Steidle Building one of the most iconic pieces of architecture at Penn State was named in honor of Dean Steidle pictured with Tillson. Some wrinkling to center right edge. Good to very good condition. A groundbreaking woman pictured at the start of her academic career. unknown books
1990254826Albuquerque: The Alliance for Cultural Democracy 1990 Conference 1990. 11x17 inch poster folded to an 8.5x11 inch brochure with information about the Conference on one side and registration form and mailing addresses on the other and the poster inside. Joy Harjo was the Keynote Speaker at the November 1990 Conference held at University of New Mexico. The Alliance for Cultural Democracy 1990 Conference unknown books
1723045520Madrid: Juan de Ariztia 1723. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Undated ca. 1723 in later marbled wrappers. Small octavo scattered minor soiling title and final page slightly worn upper right corner torn from final leaf with no loss of text first and last leaves with some discoloration in the gutter from the glue used. 16 175pp lacking blanks. Scarce only 4 copies in OCLC. Palau VI 49. A curious contemporary history - it begins with a discussion of the Gregorian calendar then gives a calendar with feast days then a year by year history of major events with separate sections for treaties and battles and ends with a country by country run down of leaders and important deaths. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045520. <br/><br/> Juan de Ariztia paperback books
1665045767Paris: Charles de Sercy 1665. Later Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Contemporary full calf worn but sound hinges rubbed a few small wormholes to board surface; scattered soiling and light foxing scattered minor pencil marks otherwise clean internally. With the attractive frontis portrait. 14 910 index. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 045767. Charles de Sercy hardcover books
1855WRCLIT81584Bury St. Edmund: Printed for Private Circulation by W. Fuller Butter Market 1855. 171pp. Octavo. Extracted from pamphlet volume. Pictorial title vignette. A bit of spotting at top spine corners of last two leaves otherwise very good. First edition. A sermon in favor of universal education even if hampered within the structure of a religious authority and in tribute to the Rector's mother who left £1000 toward the erection of the schools. Rare: OCLC locates a copy at Yale and COPAC locates the copy at the BL. OCLC:45176058. Printed for Private Circulation, by W. Fuller, Butter Market unknown books
