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18836237New York & Cincinnati: Phillips & Hunt / Walden & Stowe 1883. First edition. Paperback. Good. 24mo 44 pages pictorial series cover chipped at fore-edge and spine rear cover lists Chautauqua books through no. 40. <br/><br/>Issued as Chautauqua Text-book no. 43. This likely precedes the Hunt & Eaton edition of 1883 because the firm of Hunt & Eaton was not formed until 1889. Phillips & Hunt / Walden & Stowe paperback
186550251Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society 1865. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 5.5 by 3.75 inches. 14pp. Rubbed and darkened overall with some light foxing else a good example in publisher's stitched wraps. OCLC shows no holdings. <br/><br/> Massachusetts Sabbath School Society paperback
187934705Unknown 1879. Ledger. Good. Ledger. Approx. 7.5" x 6". Marbled paper covered boards with black leather spine. Boards are shelf and edge worn. Leather is rubbed and chipped at the head and base of spine. A few pages have been torn out and one sheet torn in half. Old library label of "Perseverance S.S. Library" on the front paste down.<br /> <br /> Ledger consists of 106 lined pages used for recording student names classes teachers questions treasurer reports minutes of school meetings etc. No location of this Sunday School was provided in the records. unknown
188230734Roanoke VA: Southern Methodist Publishing House 1882. First Edition. Ledger. Fair. Quarto. 134 pages. Black cloth covered boards with black leather spine. Most pages used for hand written accounts of attendance records. Form book published by the Southern Methodist Publishing House. Binding is edge worn shaken and falling apart. Hinges are broken but boards are still attached. Spine is chipped head and base. Last leave has the upper third portion torn off. Pencil notes on the end sheets. Fair only. <br /> <br /> Written on the front paste down are the two Superintendents of the school from 1883 to 1886: "J L Gresham Supt from April 1882 to Nov 16 1883 J C Hornsby Nov 16 1883 to fall of 1918." Contents contain several student names. Southern Methodist Publishing House unknown
183332993New York: Published by B. Waugh and T. Mason. J. Collard Printer 1833. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo. 215 pages 1. Frontispiece illustration and illustrated half title page. Marbled paper covered boards with red leather spine. Gilt title on the spine. Small chip to the leather spine. Scuffed marbled paper on the front cover. Some edge wear to the boards. Moderate toning and scattered foxing to the contents. Old pencil inscription of J H sp. Parkers Book" at the top of the right front flyleaf. Below the first inscription is a later pen inscription - "Presented to David H Aurally by Mrs. Sara Graves Reeves from the library of the Graves family at Mount Pleasant their home near Covington in Newton County Georgia 1956." On the front paste down is a yellow store label "Bailey's Shoe Shop 142 Sycamore St. Dr. 3-0172- Decatur Ga." From RootsWeb Ancestry<br /> <br /> Mt. Pleasant Georgia is named for the plantation that was built by Solomon Graves beginning in 1819. His land holdings totaled over 7500 acres at one point. The original plantation home which still exists was built in 1835. The land remained in the Graves family until the final 426 acres were sold in 1958. In the early 1980s 450 acres of the former plantation not including the 22 acres immediately surrounding the original plantation home were sold to a speculator/developer who had been assembling land at Interstate 20 interchanges east of Atlanta. By the late 1980s the land had been rezoned to a mix of industrial multi-family highway commercial and residential.<br /> <br /> See also: Perkerson Madora Field. White Columns in Georgia. New York: Rinehart & Co. Inc. 1952. Print.<br /> <br /> Covington Newton County Georgia: Mt. Pleasant Plantation - Off Hwy. 278 - 1820 plantation now a working Christmas tree farm. December 2011. Published by B. Waugh and T. Mason. J. Collard, Printer hardcover
187938680Mount Vernon: Printing office of the Wartburg Orphans' Farm School 1879. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Overall very good copies with some chips to wrappers. Tenth report has tear along spine. 8vo. Tenth Report includes a "Compliments of G.C. Holls" card as well as a typed letter laid in loose. Thirteenth Report contains a typed letter laid in loose from the same. Holls was the Director of the Institution and on the Board of Managers. Reports cover from May 1 1875 to May 1 of each of the following years through 1879. The Wartburg Orphans' Farm School was founded in 1866 serving children who had lost parents during the Civil War. Over time the facility shifted to serving the elderly and is currently known as the Wartburg Adult Care Community. OCLC shows four locations: Huntington Trinity Yale NYHS. Printing office of the Wartburg Orphans' Farm School unknown
185017143Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union. Good. 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Green embossed cloth with gilt decorated spine. All edges gilt. Illustrated with a color plate and engravings. Pages printed within a border. Interior of text is tight clean & intact. Prior owners inscription on front endpaper. Top edge rubbed. Top corner of rear endpaper has been removed. Various authors. Short religious children stories ; Engraved illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 223 pages . American Sunday School Union hardcover
1860885Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co 1860. Lithograph and engraving with handcoloring in watercolor on white wove paper 11 1/2 x 9 inches 290 x 230 mm Sheet full margins. Chip at each of the corners and at the left sheet edge all well outside of image area. A single plate from The Birds of North America; the descriptions of species based chiefly on the collections in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution / by Spencer F. Baird; with the cooperation of John Cassin and George N. Lawrence. With an atlas of one hundred plates Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co.1860. J.B. Lippincott & Co unknown
182698470American Sunday School Union Philadelphia 1826. Pamphlet. Used - Good. I. Ashmead & Co. 1826. 144 pages. 4 Scripture Lesson woodcuts. 8.75 x 5.5" wrapper woodcut advertisements Agents Agencies. Shoemaker American Imprints 23498. Publications distribution libraries state activities officers constitution depositories members. Lower wrap final leaf detached soiled edge chips minor foxing sewing broken G. American Sunday School Union, Philadelphia unknown
185014221850. Engraving on cream wove paper 4 x 5 5/8 inches 102 x 143 mm margins trimmed. Uniform toning and some adhesive residue on the verso. unknown
186025041860. Graphite on cream wove paper 3 1/4 x 2 5/8 inches 83 x 67 mm the full sheet. In good condition with a soft horizontal and vertical crease from having been once folded into quarters. unknown
18702351Stuttgart: Krais & Hoffman 1870. Steel engraving with hand coloring in watercolor 7 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches 185 x 273 mm the full sheet. Minor mat tone and scattered light areas of minor discoloration. Krais & Hoffman unknown
1845121660Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society 1845. Second from the London Edition. Hardcover. Good. Revised by the committee of publication. 162 p. 16 cm. B&w line drawings. Cloth hardcover with blank impressing gilt trim on spine. Boards a little warped corners bumped. Ink inscription on front free endpaper: "Presented to Mary Ann McLean by her pastor John Scott for writing a report of the Anniversary Meeting of St. Andrew's Sabbath School Dec. 29th 1857. London C.W. Mar. 31st 1858." Some foxing. <br/><br/>Prose and poetry on the Christian life. Massachusetts Sabbath School Society hardcover
1848ALEX299Stereotyped by S. Douglas Wyeth for Leary & Getz Philadelphia: . 1848 160 p. Title page illustrated with a drawing of a desk and books. Dampstain. Foxed. Signatures loose. Early pencil manuscript ownership of L. Nettie Bowen West End School Bridgeton NJ on front paste down. Another early ownership. 32mo. 110 mm. Original leather spine over printed paper boards. Binding very worn with loss head of spine and boards. Hardbound. Fair. This handy little songster includes Temperance Songs. PAIMP 23. Hardcover. (Stereotyped by S. Douglas Wyeth for) Leary & Getz, Philadelphia: (). hardcover
190043614Lincoln: Journal Co. Printers and Stationers. Good. circa 1900. 1st Edition. Softcover. Tan covers quite worn and pulling away from staples with staining and chipping to edges. Still quite easily read and complete. School treasurer's report with cash received and expenses detailing payments for teachers school supplies coal and hauling coal etc. Dates range from 1902 through 1912 with entries on 21 pages. A one of a kind Webster County Nebraska historical and genealogical item. ; MCN35950; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 59 pp . Journal Co., Printers and Stationers paperback
189888992The Boston Public School Art League 1898. Pamphlet. Used - Very Good. Riverside Press Cambridge 1898. 30 pages 4p advertisements: Witter Prang Berlin Photographic & Pierce Prints; Caproni & Olsson Statuary Frames. Frontispiece: Memorial Room Horace Mann School Boston. 8.5 x 6" printed wrapper. 'From W.G. Page 90 Westland Ave. Boston 28/9/98'. Constitution Officers Movement Work in Salem Rice & Agassiz Schools Appleton Street School Holyoke Tinting Walls Bibliography Arthur Astor Cary & Walter Page Collections. Tiny corner chip wrap pulled from 1 staple VG. The Boston Public School Art League unknown
1846007435New York: Lane & Tippett 1846 180 pages. In the original binding. Early owner's signature and old damp stains to the margins of pages. Size: Small 8vo. Illus. by Illustrated with three engravings. First American Edition. Leather and Marbled Boards. Good. Lane & Tippett hardcover
1894519126B.T. Batsford London 1894. 1st Edition. Unframed Photograph Print. Very Good Condition. Bolsover's Riding School built c.1660 is England's earliest surviving dressage arena; restored by English Heritage. Charles Latham was one of the most influential architectural photographers of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods renowned for his evocative images of country houses and formal gardens across Britain and Italy. His work helped define the visual language of architectural publishing and preservation. His first major commission was for J. Alfred Gotch's Architecture of the Renaissance in England 1894 from which this photograph is taken where his collotype plates captured the texture and grandeur of Elizabethan and Jacobean houses with remarkable clarity. Latham later helped shape the visual identity of Country Life magazine which we always have in stock photographing both historic estates and newly built homes. His images became central to the magazine's appeal combining editorial elegance with technical innovation in print reproduction. Each of Charles Latham's architectural photographs captures a singular moment of craftsmanship patronage or domestic ambition from heraldic chimney-pieces to formal garden fronts. Whether collegiate civic or aristocratic these buildings speak to the stylistic confidence of their age. Many remain inhabited studied or preserved today making each image not just a historical record but a quietly resonant portrait of continuity. Published in 1894 this fine Victorian-period image has been carefully removed from Gotch's monumental work. Printed in Leipzig Germany by Sinsel & Co. on thick cream-coloured paper this image reflects the firm's hallmark clarity and tonal depth featuring the building's name in sepia ink below a ruled border with Latham's beautifully composed black-and-white photograph taking centre place. POSTED ROLLED. Size: 34 x 47 cms. Category: Architecture; English Country House Photographs; J. Alfred Gotch's Architecture; Charles Latham Photographs. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. B.T. Batsford unknown
1853abc5423Longman Brown Green and Longmans London 1853 Longman Brown Green and Longmans London 1853 hardback gilt titles to embossed brown boards First edition vi 372 pp with maps Designed for the use of schools & private reading neat inscription dated 1853 to fep small tares to top/bottom spine inner hinge lightly cracked and underlines to just a few pages but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing a scan of the actual book is available on request. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Longman Brown Green and Longmans London hardcover
18961229E046Charterhouse Godalming: The Greyfriar 1896-1900. 1st Edition . Paperback. Good. 10 x 12.5 inches 25.5 x 31.5 cm. Volume 3 of The Greyfriar the school magazine of Charterhouse School Godalming. Complete set of 15 issues in thin card wraps. Loose pages as issued. Several of the covers are torn along the fold and in two pieces. No. 37 has slight staining and one of the illustrations is creased. A few other illustrations have wear to the edges. Text is clean throughout. Scarce. Overall condition is Good. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: Europe £19.00; USA £33.00; Oceania £40.00; Rest of World £37.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 10 x 12.5 inches 25.5 x 31.5 cm. The Greyfriar paperback
188235708Farncombe & Co. Lewes 1882. 1st edition. Fair vol. 2/No Jackets. Hard covers Vol. 1 has a slight split in front hinge; vol. 2 has a piece missing from the spine. Ex-library copies. Farncombe & Co., Lewes hardcover
182931861Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union 1829. Hardcover. 180pp. Cloth. Engraved frontispiece. With the small bookseller label of George L. Weed Juvenile Bookseller of Cincinnati. Front free endpaper partially torn scattered foxing to text block wear to covers. A very good- copy. ; 24mo. American Sunday School Union hardcover
1843318388Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society 1843. First Edition. Softcover. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 63 pages final page defective. Subjects; New England Primer. Catechism. Reading. Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society paperback
189014532Moses Brown School 1890. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine copy in the original pictorial-printed warppers. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight bright clean and strong; 0 pages; Impressively illustrated with a series of views and photo and portrait plates. Subjects: Education in the United States --US Local History Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Moses Brown School paperback
185025ABC877London: Impensis Georgii Bell Published by George Bell 1850. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Leather half-binding with marbled boards and gilt-tooled spine. Leathe scuffed along edges with closed splits at corners of spine. Front hinge has come unstuck from the text block clean - simple to repair Primary texts in English German Greek and Italian; translations into Latin and Ancient Greek. Include sseveral engraved plates/illustrations with one prominent frontispiece. Original poems alongside translations into Ancient Greek or Latin on the facing pages a popular academic exercise among Victorian classicists. The book was edited by the Victorian classicist Benjamin Hall Kennedy famous for his Latin primer with contributions from former pupils of Shrewsbury School including James Riddell. <br/> <br/> Impensis Georgii Bell (Published by George Bell) hardcover
