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15393Vintage Albumen photograph on heavy backing. C. 1890. A young female teacher stands outdoors with approximately 20 students of all ages. An American flag hangs on the schoolhouse wall. A rural scene with a large load of firewood visible at the back of the school building and some fog on he trees in the background. The school seems to be in an opening in a forested area. The teacher's outfit is late 19th century. Some age staining to mat Image in very good condition. unknown books
1899039946Quincy MA: Eastern Printing & Engraving 1899. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition. Slight wear and soiling to blue cloth boards otherwise fine and unmarked. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 039946. <br/><br/> Eastern Printing & Engraving hardcover books
1588044443Seville: Fernando Diaz 1588. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Later tree calf worn front hinge split rear starting front endpaper torn at the top corner as is the title with an old repair and manuscript UZIA in the title to replace the missing letters. A few paper repairs in the margins touching a few letters a few short tears with no real loss scattered pencil marks and a few minor marginal marks in an old hand. One group of pages trimmed a little close with loss of some text to the table on leaf 53 of the genealogy of the Kings of Austria. Generally minor scatterd foxing browning and staining - mostly quite clean. Magnificently illustrated throughout with armorial devices - first and only edition of an outstanding work on the Andalusian aristocracy. 10 348 ff. Argote de Molina great humanist and librarian also edited the first Spanish book on hunting 1582 and a history of the embassy sent by Henry III of Castille in 1403--1406 to the Court of Tamerlaine at Samarkand 1582. Graesse A195 noting that the title page is often lacking. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044443. <br/><br/> Fernando Diaz hardcover books
193532469Beijing: Zhonghua ping min jiao yu cu jin hui 1935. Later printing. Paper wrappers. 62; 60; 60 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. Sm. 8vo. Drawings on most rectos. Zhonghua ping min jiao yu cu jin hui 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
1852045134London: Richard Bentley 1852. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Attaractively bound in half leather over marbled boards. Edges and corners worn but an attractive binding. Scattered foxing notes on the rear endpaper in pencil. 153pp Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045134. <br/><br/> Richard Bentley hardcover books
1975156207London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1975. 28p 6x9.5 inches very good booklet in stapled yellow wraps. Follow-up report to the 1965 working party and supports its recommendationsalso makes further observations Her Majesty's Stationery Office unknown books
1781045095Geneve 1781. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary calf spine and hinges rubbed but binding sound. Volume 1 of 2; 252pp. Size: duodecimo 12mo. One volume of the 2-volume set. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045095. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1793046905Dublin: W. McKenzie 1793. Early Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. 2 volumes in half green calf over marbled boards. Scattered foxing some browning in upper margin - quite clean overall. 292pp; 419pp Size: Octavo 8vo. 2-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 046905. W. McKenzie hardcover books
1885CAT000649London: Ield & Tuer 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Neatly rebound in old marbled paper fragment of old lettering piece retained slight browning internally old bookseller label to endpaper. 137pp with ads at rear - crack 'em and try 'em" "Large silver eels!".<br/><br/>Woodcut illustrations throughout - a nice collection of cries many food related. "New laid eggs eight a groat" Size: 16mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: CAT000649. Ield & Tuer hardcover books
195525973New York: Association Press 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Hardbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 241 pp. Steering adolescents to adulthood. A handsome near fine copy in lightly used dustwrapper. INSCRIBED by the author and dated in year of publication. Association Press hardcover books
15274Women's Early Education. Report of the Commission Charged to examine memoirs relative to the education of women. Third Subject. - Morality. By Mr. Philis - Reporter. 1827. Paper boards. Folio size 13 in x 8.5 in. 68 pages of handwritten script in black ink. In this manuscript one of the earliest formal debates on the value of education for women the author radically concludes that formal education for women should be universally accessible: "We think that in whatever condition heaven has placed a woman" the author argues "from the daughter of the Prince to that of the most humble of the subjects there should be a similarity of ideas. When they are wisely explained the elements of Language and Calculations are they not necessary and indispensable to women in all stations" The author then reverses the very argument used against women's education-- that it is unnatural since motherhood is the only suitable destiny for women-- by arguing that education is exactly suited to "what nature formed women to be". "She knows she was created to fulfill duties and penetrated with a sense of those she has to perform she makes all she possesses of enlightened ideas talents and fortune concur in accomplishing them. This is what nature formed women to be and such a well directed education would make her. This is what would make a good mother of a family who would well know how to form daughters worthy of imitating her." Education in fact is as naturally suited to women as motherhood and ought to be the province of adult women and girls alike regardless of age or opportunity-- an ideal still worth fighting for even nearly two centuries later. <br/><br/>It begins with a deceptively leading question: "What is the sort of education most suitable to Woman and the most proper to render them capable of fulfilling their destination as Mothers of families"Although the opening query is limited by modern standards formal education for many children-boys and girls alike-was not considered necessary in this period let alone for adult women with responsibilities in the home. The argument that education would serve women in their motherly duties was a crucial tool for advocates of womens' enfranchisement. The Commission judges three memoirs submitted on this topic and this forms the structure of the manuscript: "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 Because the Want of Good Conduct in Man Proceeds Frequently From The Education They Received From Their Mother ."; and "To Instruct the Children One Must Enlighten the Mothers". Thus the manuscript is valuable not only for its radical ideals but for its historical benefit as an overview of attitudes towards women's education at the turn of the 20th century. Just one year prior in 1826 the first public high schools were opened for girls in New York and Boston; it would be another 13 years until the first woman earned a college Bachelor's degree.  Cover boards worn with light soiling and scattered stains. Even toning and light soiling throughout. Very good to good condition. unknown books
1711719th c. Women Physical Education C.L. McCluer Stevens. "A Unique School" for girls that focuses on physical education described in an original 1897 article from The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly Volume 6 1897. Unbound. p. 589-594. 9 x 6.5 inches. Article about a school for girls that focuses on physical education Bergman Österberg Physical Training College in Dartford UK. Martina Bergman-Österberg pioneered teaching physical education as a full subject within the English school curriculum with Swedish-style gymnastics at its core. Bergman-Österberg was an advocate of women's emancipation directly encouraging women to be active in both sport and education. Dartford was one of the first physical education instructor's college in England Osterberg had founded one earlier. "Madam Osterberg's is intended to be a training-school for the body . Its raison d'etre to produce as nearly as may be women who shall be physically perfect." She only admitted students with above-average intelligence and education an aptitude for natural science a sound constitution and character a pleasing appearance and considerable zeal and devotion. After completing the course graduates of the college were virtually guaranteed employment in girls schools throughout the country. <br/><br/>Six photo-illustrated images of the school grounds and gymnasium the headmistress girls cycling and playing basketball. Basketball was invented in America in 1891 and in 1893 Bergman-Österberg returned from a visit to the United States and informally introduced one version of basketball to her students. In the article the sport is described in a rather novel way: "a new and exceedingly fascinating sport called 'basket-ball.' This really splendid game about which a good deal will probably be heard in England in the near future is an importation from America." Light brown stains along inside edge of pages. In very good condition. An article about a unique girls' academy. unknown books
1487046404Milan: Antonius Zarotus 1487. Second Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. 19th century red morocco gilt hinges and spine rubbed and a little weak but still generally sound and attractive. Added marbled endpapers and a description of the edition and a note on the binding penned on added blank endpapers. The second edition of Tacitus much improved by Puteolanus from the first with the editio princeps of The Life of Agricola. Once thought to have been printed in the 1470s but now usually pegged as 1487. Likely washed though gently except for the first and final leaves Agricola leaves 176-187 with a dampstain in the margin final two leaves darkened. Four small wormtrails in last section leavs 121-end two trails in the textblock but generally very unobtrusive. Top edge gilt and trimmed slightly when rebound leaf numbers penciled lightly and neatly in the inner gutter.<br/><br/>Five 6 line and one 2 line initial colored in early or contemporary color 37 lines set in a fine Roman typeface often compared to Jenson and assumed to be set by him at one point 187 leaves with the blanks at 160 and 176 but lacking the final blank. <br/><br/>Graesse T7 Dibdin Bibl. Spenc. v2 461 Brunet V 633 Goff T7 ISTC it00007000<br/><br/>Provenance: With the label of A.C.C. Brodribb but likely from his father C.W. Brodribb who wrote and published in The American Library Annual a poem describing this volume laid in with a penciled date for the binding of 1855; an inscription on an added endpaper bears the same date. Also laid in is a 1949 letter to A.C.C. Brodribb Esq. from L.A. Sheppard at The British Museum describing the volume which he likely inherited following his father's death in 1945 Size: Folio. Antonius Zarotus hardcover books
17167Women Eduation Music Saroni Herrman S. "The Twin Sisters. An Operetta adapted to the use of Female Colleges Schools Exhibitions &c." Musical Score. Boston: Oliver Ditson Company 1888. 5.5 x 7.5 in. Original boards. 101 pages. "The Twin Sisters" is considered by some to be the first American operetta. The work is scored for women's voices only and the cover of this edition prominently notes that it is "adapted to the use of female colleges schools exhibitions &c." The Operetta features six women characters along with chorus parts. Born in Germany Herrman Saroni was an American composer and author. He published an early American music journal Saroni's Musical Times in New York from 1849 to 1851 while also being among the first in the city to organize concerts of exclusively chamber music. Saroni's composing and writing output was impressively varied: works of parlor music and dances scholarly histories of Western music and poems and short stories that appeared in women's magazines. In 1852 he left New York and three years later he founded the Columbus Symphony Orchestra the second-oldest orchestra in the country. Interior hinges loose but holding. In good to very good condition .Only 2 copies of this volume are held by any library or institution in the world according to OCLC Worldcat. unknown books
1939197898Washington DC: GPO 1939. iv 214 p. lightly worn wraps faint library stamp. GPO unknown books
16709Handwritten original novel. By M. L. titled"Rose A Tale in the Time of Queen Margaret." 1868. Handwritten in ink. Dedicated on first page "To my dear Father and Mother from their ever loving daughter Mary". 7 x 4.5 in. Original quarter black morocco boards. 158 Handwritten pages. Gilt detail to cover and "Rose" on spine. A remarkable original novel written by a young girl at a time when formal education was not common for girls. This story reveals an educated mind in both the realms of writing and is history as this novel is set in medieval England. "The sunny month of July had come and Edward had begun his troubled reign. A short period of quiet had begun in which the people were to enjoy a rest before fresh trouble and bloodshed should begin. The fields were filled with waving grain and the woods were fresh and green round the old castle of Dunkirk." Page 155. Light toning. Writing on some pages has faded but still legible. Very good condition.<br/><br/>The novel takes place in medieval England. "The setting sun was sending a flood of light over the hills and distant mountains and over the old castle of Dunkirk making the river Wharfe shine like gold when a little boat shot swiftly out of a turn in the river and came towards the castle. There were two men in it the older man was seated at the stern wrapt in a long dark cloak and having his hap pulled over his face so that only a pair of dark twinkling gray eyes showed below it" page 1.<br/><br/>One of the protagonists is a beautiful teenager about the same age as the author along with a cast of other characters including Lords and Dukes. "She was a most lovely girl. A quantity of dark brown hair that curled around a neck and face of most lovely form and complexion and a mouth of beautiful expression helped to form a face both sweet and lively But the most striking feature was a pair of almost black eyes fringed with long dark lashes. They were full of expression sometimes merry with laughter and again deep and thoughtful. Rose Murray was about seventeen years old at this time she was niece of the Lord of Dunkirk and having hardly any relations except him had always lived with him. Ever since she could remember those old towers had protected and sheltered her" page 8. "Rollin entered a large hall with a huge staircase on one side. Going up the stairs he passed into a passage and after numerous turning and ups and downs he opened a great door and passed into a good sized room. In the middle of this was a round table and on it were papers and books. At one end of the room was a recess with a window with a broad window slit. There was a little shelf on which were a few written books and writing materials.As Rollin entered a gentleman with a paper in his hands look up from his writing and smiling said 'Well Rollin have you had a pleasant time at London and what have you learned while you were gone of the queen's intentions and of what the Duke of York is going to do'" page 5-6.<br/><br/>The tale has adventure suspense and a happy ending. "The patched eye one seemed anxious to go on by his motions urging them to proceed. Rose watched him closely and at last saw him while his companion's backs were turned hold the lantern in such a way as to let his whole figure be distinctly seen and motion them to go back quickly it seemed so to Rose at least. She told this to her companion who was anxiously considering what should be done next" page 99. "And now for the next hour or two before the gray dawn came Lord John and Rose sat talking over all that had happened while they had been apart" page 149. unknown books
16930Civil Rights Education Original silver gelatin print press photograph of Education-related Civil Rights demonstration in Chicago 1965. The protesters block the street in the heart of the city to protest for better public education for African-American students who faced overcrowding and segregated schools. 8 x 10 in. Iconic Chicago hotspots from that era such as McVicker's Theater and Tad's Steakhouse can be seen in the background of the photo. Original press caption printed above image: "Chicago: Two-hundred civil rights demonstrators were arrested here 6/12 when they stormed from the sidewalk at intersection of State and Madison and staged a mass sit-down. Here demonstrators sit in intersection in front of waiting police van after several were arrested. Demonstrators were marching to City Hall where they wanted to make a personal plea to Mayor Richard Daley to fire Benjamin Willis Superintendent of Schools." Stamped on verso "1965 June 12". Red and black markers at edges of image. Handwritten note along top edge not affecting image. Original press stamps and markings to verso. Very good condition. unknown books
191415965Cortland NY 1914. Very good. Oblong 32mo. album. Green pebbled cloth covered boards. Metal post binding. Marbled interior pastedowns. <br />57 paper leaves with signatures and 52 small black and white portait photographs measuring approximately <br />1.5" x 1.25" each recto mounted. Contents well preserved very good-plus overall. <br/><br/>A small photograph album of classmate portraits from the 14th and 15th annual sessions of the Cortland Summer School a specialized two-month term of the Cortland Normal School intended to aid student's in securing New York state teacher's certificates. 3 images capture male administators and teachers. The remaining 49 are artful diminutive portraits of young women quintessential of the American style of the period in the years just prior to WWI. <br /> <br />A lovely photographic record of early 20th Century women's education. hardcover books
16190Women's Education. Photograph: High School Girls Conducting Electricity Experiments 1905. Large sepia press photo. 8.5" x 7". Handwritten note on verso states the photograph is for an article on public schools. Creasing on upper right and left hand corners tiny tears and nicks along the top and bottom of the image. Very good condition overall. Approximately eighteen girls conducting experiments on electricity using conducting boxes at an unspecified public high school in New York. They sit on tall stools around long tables wearing expressions that vary from concentration to vexation. High school gave girls the opportunity to advance beyond a rudimentary education and become versed in subjects such as history their rights as citizens and advanced science. The US was the first nation to provide the general public with secondary education and in 1900 there were 6000 public schools. Only a fraction of those however were open to women. These girls were part of the first generation taught science a right denied to their mothers and grandmothers. unknown books
17131African American Education De facto Segregated classroom in Portland OR. Original silver gelatin print press photograph. May 12 1963. Image of a classroom of 25 African-American students and 1 White teacher. Original press clipping of image caption pasted to verso: "Are Negro students such as these sixth graders at Eliot school being denied equal educational opportunity and development by attending schools composed of nearly all Negroes A citizens' committee Monday night will ask the Portland school board to name a committee to study effects on students at de facts segregated schools." In 1964 Eliot School student body was 96% African-American children. Housing policy discrimination explained some of the skewed school demographics. Redlining restricted African-Americans from living in certain areas of the city keeping them within North and Northeast Portland where their children ended up going to school. Additionally Portland like many other cities across the country experienced the "white flight" of families moving out of cities into the suburbs. Around 1964 one year after this photo helped spark the question on de facto segregation the district began allowing African-American families to voluntarily transfer to other schools in the neighborhood in an effort to integrate. Original handwritten press annotation in blue ink along bottom margin recto not affecting image. Original filing stamp and handwritten annotations on verso. Light handling dents. In very good condition. unknown books
17129Education Boston Public Schools desegregate by busing students. Original silver gelatin print Press photograph. Two police motorcycles lead a school bus down a residential street in South Boston. Sept. 13 1977. size: 8 x 11 in. Original press caption printed next to image: "Police Escort School Buses - Motorcycle police escort school bus carrying black students to South Boston High Friday on second day of court-ordered busing. No crowds were permitted to assemble near schools." Original press filing stamps on verso Sept. 13 1974. While crowds were not allowed to assemble near schools there are groups of onlookers gathered along the street and sidewalks. Busing was the official desegregation policy for Boston Public Schools beginning in 1974; it was a hotly contested policy in some communities especially in the first years when anti-busing groups would sometimes regularly protest sometimes violently school integration. 1 x .5" surface damage and partial repair to lower right edge affecting image. Surface scratches in bottom right corner and diagonal scratches in bottom left corner on motorcycle. Original press stamps stickers and handwritten annotations on verso. In very good to good condition. unknown books
1992181592Piscataway NJ: OSAALE 1992. Tabloid-format newspaper published by the South African Trotskyist group WOSA; 8 p. very good. Largest article is an essay by Neville Alexander head of WOSA criticizing South Africa's response to the Salman Rushdie fatwa: "Censorship as intellectual terrorism: White spots in Black South African history or The Worm Inside the Liberation Struggle. OSAALE unknown books
15507Booklet: Our Church Industrial High Schools for Negroes under the supervision of the American Church Institute for Negroes. New York: Abbott Press n.d. circa 1922. First edition first printing. 48 pages. Black and white photographic images of students classes and school grounds throughout booklet. Publisher's gray staple-bound card wrappers. Light wear to extremities and handling dents. Loss to upper right corner of back wrapper. No listings in OCLC Worldcat making it a rare find.<br/><br/>An account of the ten industrial high schools in the South that were supervised by the American Church Institute for Negroes. Summaries for each school include their number of students and teachers "students in World War" and expenses and immediate needs for the year 1922. For example the Fort Valley High and Industrial School sought $50000 for new dormitories. Crisp bright interior. Very good condition. A rare booklet that documents the developments and investments in African American educational advancements in early 20th c. America. unknown books
17120Women Education Photo album from female student at Lasell College the first two-year college for women in America. 108 original silver gelatin print photographs. Circa 1905-1906. Photographs of various size from 2 x 3" to 4 x 6". Snapshots of young women students in their dormitory performing theater productions celebrating May Day traditions and in cap and gown for graduation exercises. Images of Lassell Campus in Newton MA. Original black cloth boards. 10 x 12.5 inches. 48 pages. Photographs from inside dormitory rooms show a 1906 calendar and ephemera from other local colleges such as Harvard University; in one image the girls visit nearby Wellesley MA. Original owner Leila Hoffman. Founded in 1851 as the Auburndale Female Seminary Lasell was the first two-year college for women in the country at a time when a woman's place was considered to be in the home not in the classroom. Lasell was renowned as an academically rigorous institution and prestigious school with a highly scientific approach to domestic work art and music. As an innovative institution known for a radical approach to women's education at the time Lasell also administered the Harvard exams and offered law courses for women. In 1932 Lasell officially became Lasell Junior College and in 1989 the school was chartered as a four-year institution Lasell College. In 1997 Lasell became co-educational and opened its doors to men. The campus is situated in suburban Newton Massachusetts eight miles from downtown Boston. In very good condition. unknown books
