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1873214113Japan. Meiji 6 1873. Four very attractive colour folded woodblock school posters 60 x 78cm each with accompanying woodblock printed textbook 32 double-folded leaves 22.5 x 15cm. Edges of posters worn with some minimal loss at margins the accompanying textbook is worn at edges with some thumb marks at lower corners but sound and generally clean. Overall good. Offers a fascinating glimpse into the beginnings of modern Japanese education. A wonderful collection of four primary school colour posters and a teacher's textbook dating to the very beginning of modern school education in Japan. The four posters contain sets of beautifully coloured and delicately printed pictures illustrating key words which children would be taught to read together with the corresponding kanji characters. The posters are divided by theme - one showing parts of the body and clothes; one showing crockery and cooking utensils; one with animals plants and tools; and one household items including a clock chair and abacus. They are particularly interesting for their combination of traditional Japanese and western items. The accompanying woodblock print text book 師範学校小学教授法 Shihan gakkō shōgaku kyōjuhō was published in Meiji 6 1873 and show how to explain each item in the classroom. <br> <br>The posters have the chops of Chikuma Prefecture current Nagano Prefecture and 1000 limited copies at the top. . hardcover
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
18785956New York: Royal Baking Powder Co 1878. Stapled octavo-sized booklet 23.5 x 15cm. 32 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Front wrapper verso with product reviews dated 1878. Includes a wood engraving showing twenty figures of diverse pans used in baking. “The recipes in this book are new and formulated by one of the most experienced Professors in the art of scientific and practical cookery especially adapted for the use of "Royal" Baking Powder and "Royal" flavoring Extracts. These preparations are incomparable in strength and purity. Substituting other articles will only end in disappointment." front wrapper blurb. Included are three hundred seventy seven recipes ranging from Bread & Rolls to Pies to Puddings to Fritters & Pancakes to Meat Pies to Icings. "The Royal Baking Powder Company was one of the largest producers of baking powder in the US. It was started by both Joseph Christoffel Hoagland & William Ziegler in 1866." Wiki. General wear & soiling to wrappers; foxing throughout; a bit musty. Good or a bit better in printed gray-green wrappers. OCLC locates four copies; Axford page 352; Bitting page 410 both for the 1882 and later editions; not in Cagle. Royal Baking Powder Co unknown
1886142431886 un volume, reliure bradel (années 50) pleine toile crème in-quarto (bradel cloth-bound), dos long (spine without raised band) - titre frappé or (gilt title), pièce de titre sur fond bordeaux avec filet or (label of title with gilt line), marque-page en tissu (bookmark in tissue), tête lisse, gouttière et tranche de queue non rognées (top edge smooth - fore-edge and edge of bottom no smooth), grand papier, couverture illustrée en couleur par Paul Jazet conservée (cover of the preserved paperback edition), tirage de l'Edition de luxe Edité à 75 exemplaires sur beau papier (limited edition), un des 50 Exemplaire sur Hollande numérotés, 26 à 75 (N°33) aprés 25 exemplaires sur Japon Impérial, (limited edition ), orné d'un frontispice et de 52 compositions hors-texte (full page engraving) en noir en phototypie sous serpentes légendées par Paul Jazet, 304 pages, 1886 Paris Ch. Delagrave Editeur,
1831D19539Karlsruhe: Verlag Von Gottlieb Braun 1831. Neue Ausgabe. Hardcover. Good. Two volumes bound in one. Oblong with cloth spine and corners marbled paper boards printed label to upper board. 45 21 & 24 hand-colored lithographed maps some folding. Rubbing and wear to boards spotting throughout but hardly untypical. A rather scarce student atlas. <br/><br/> Verlag Von Gottlieb Braun hardcover
18453220094<p><em>4to printed bifolio sheet 24 x 19.5 cm some marks and folds. Addressed to Joseph Hume M.P and signed by Richard Burchet R.W. Herman and W.D. Telfer. </em></p><p>In 1845 Richard Burchett became the ringleader of students protesting to the Board of Trade about the teaching methods at the Government School of Design: this was the first attempt to improve the instruction in the principles and practice of ornamental design. The complaint became so serious that eventually a Parliamentary Committee of Enquiry was instituted in 1846 at which he and others gave evidence. Oddly by that time Burchett had already become a master at the school and so was giving evidence against his own employees to the committee.</p><p>This copy was addressed to the radical Joseph Hume M.P who was a close friend of William Williams another radical M.P. who led the charge of incompetence by the School of Design in the House of Commons. After eight committee meetings it was agreed that the School was not in good shape 'the principles of Ornaments and the practice of original design as applicable to manufactures are not efficiently taught' and 'That a knowledge of manufacturing processes so as to enable the students to unite fitness and practicability in Ornament is not communicated.' Reforms were instituted but not in time for some woefully bad designs to appear at the Great Exhibition of 1851 for all the world to see.</p> [London], 17 Bond Street, Commercial Road. 10th July
1832List3436Auburn New York 1832. Single four-page letter measuring 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches. Folded with very small tears at folds. Excellent to Near Fine. A letter written from the Auburn Theological Seminary in 1832 from the soon-to-be Reverend Thomas Reed Rawson 1803-1877 to his soon-to-be wife Louisa W. Dawes 1810–1849. Dawes who lived in Cummington Massachusetts was the older sister of Senator Henry Laurens Dawes best known for the 1887 Dawes Act.<br /> <br /> Rawson opens by commenting on the death of one of his students and his time spent in Oswego “visiting in the most fashionable familiesâ€; he felt this taught him a great deal about “human nature†which in Oswego is “peculiarâ€. He seems to have been particularly perplexed by the spiritual character he encountered in upstate New York a locus of the Christian revival movement now called the Second Great Awakening:<br /> <br /> “You know I expected that the spirit of the west was a more active . spirit than what was seen in the N.E. states & hoped by breathing this pure atmosphere to enjoy great spiritual health. How erroneous was the impression! How greatly have I been deceived! . I acted as though it was so – as though man was man only in certain latitudes. I acted as though face answered to face only when seen in the waters of N.E. & consequently that the heart of a N.E. man had no analogy to what beats in the bosom of one born in a more western longitude.â€<br /> <br /> Not only is Rawson nonplussed by New Yorkers’ religious qualities he is vehemently opposed to some of the new practices that arose from the religious revival there:<br /> <br /> “The state of things here I mean in all this country at the west is very peculiar. You have heard of ‘Old & New Measures’ I suppose. For myself I cannot approve of the latter. I find not a spirit in me to Fellowship them. Have been exceedingly tried by them as I have been in the midst of ‘new measures’ all winter. You can form but a faint idea of the excitement which is in this country in the religious community. In Oswego Co. the lay-men are going through the Co. holding meetings once a month in praying exhorting dispensing the duties of Clergymen &c. &c.; & it seems that the present state of things must result in a wide division in the churches. ‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ . As near as I can find out very sinister is the spirit that knows the new measures to that wild-pine which ran so extensively in the time of Edwards. The effects of it are seen in your town to this day.â€<br /> <br /> The “New Measures†were novel practices for American Christianity that came about during the Second Great Awakening mainly due to Presbyterian minister Charles Finney. These include very lengthy meetings public naming of sinners and public confessions of sin and were controversial with those who preferred a more orthodox and restrained service. Rawson accurately predicts that the new practices would lead to a schism; starting in 1837 the Old School-New School Controversy split the Presbyterian church along these lines. He later worries that such a division in the church would allow “Catholicism to take the advantage†and that “Satan is bringing this about as rapidly as possibleâ€. The appeal of a strong hierarchical Catholic church as opposed to a weak and divided Protestant one was a common worry among Protestants at the time.<br /> <br /> Rawson traces the “sinister spirit†of the new measures back to “the time of Edwardsâ€: Jonathan Edwards a key figure in the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 40s. Given his reference to “your townâ€â€”Cummington Massachusetts—Rawson is probably referring to the so-called “New England theology†that arose from the First Great Awakening. Among other things New England theology proposed new views on man’s free will and responsibility; similar views would create controversy in Rawson’s time as he explains:<br /> <br /> “I see my own heart to be depraved & wicked beyond all observation but the fruits of the spirit I think I do love & hope they are sweeter & more sweet to my taste. I say taste the New measure-men are not taste-men but believe in the ‘motive scheme’ — By taste is meant the implantation of a new principle – love to God & is affected by the Holy Spirit. The ‘motive scheme’ implies that the sinner turns himself about in by motive merely.â€<br /> <br /> He is objecting to the idea that a sinner could redeem himself through an act of his own will—by his own ‘motives.’ Old School Presbyterianism holds a more orthodox Calvinist view wherein the redemption of the sinner is not up to the sinner’s will at all. Rawson makes an interesting comparison between New School views on the matter and states’ rights in the context of the then-ongoing nullification crisis:<br /> <br /> “The signs of the times declare most plainly to him who has wiped up his eyes that ‘the end has come upon the four corners of this earth’ i.e. the end of peaceful days for the present. Never was our Republic brought to a crisis like this. Nullification in the Political world is the same with Denunciation in the Religious world. This is my opinion; don’t know as have heard others say so.â€<br /> <br /> The nullification crisis arose when South Carolina declared that several import tariffs were unconstitutional and thus nullified them under the states’ rights doctrine of state nullification. Rawson seems to be drawing a parallel between the revivalists’ idea of the role of one’s motives in salvation and states’ rights advocates’ idea of the relationship between the states’ wills and the federal government’s. Of course the states’ rights issue would soon reach an apotheosis.<br /> Rawson closes with some affectionate lines for Dawes and advice about her own teaching job; the crossed text updates her on the Christian conversions within his family. Overall the letter provides detailed insights into the views of a more conservative theology student on the Presbyterian controversy that was soon to come to a head. unknown
18912092902143300143Mono fumei 1891. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 26 Size: 32cm Mono fumei paperback
188733222Philadelphia: Press of Wm. F. Fell & Co 1887. Wraps. Fair. Wraps 8.25" x 5.5". 27 pages 9 pages of advertisements. Gray wraps with borders and title on the front cover. A list of Dr. L. Sauveur's Educational Works printed on the rear wrap. Light chips to the covers. The rear wrap is detached. Vertical crease to the contents. Illustrated with two maps: a 12" x 12" folding railroad map of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad and Connections; and a 12" x 12" folding map of Rome Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad and Connections. Both maps are in very good condition. The second map is attached to the rear wrap which is detached. Contents include faculty school goals testimonials school information including courses etc. From Amherst College Archives:<br /> <br /> Dr. Sauveur started the Normal School of Languages at Amherst College in 1875. In 1878 the School was first held at Amherst College. Its objective was "to familiarize instructors with the 'Natural Method' of teaching ancient and modern languages." By 1894 the Sauveur College of Languages also known as Sauveur Summer School or Normal School of Languages joined with the Amherst Summer School. The Summer School offered in addition to language courses courses in "library economy" geology physical education and other subjects. A 1901 brochure describes the Summer School of Library Economy also known as Fletcher Library School as a distinct program developed by William I. Fletcher. By 1906 the program was defunct. Press of Wm. F. Fell & Co unknown
188633221Philadelphia: Press of Wm. F. Fell & Co 1886. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Wraps 8.25" x 5.5". 32 pages. Brown wraps with borders and title on the front cover. A list of Dr. L. Sauveur's Educational Works printed on the rear cover. Vertical crease to the contents. Light edge wear to some of the text. Illustrated with two maps: 9" x 7.5" folding railroad map of the New York Ontario & Western Ry; and a 12" x 12" folding map of Rome Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad and Connections. Both maps are in good condition. Contents include faculty school goals testimonials school information including courses etc. From Amherst College Archives:<br /> <br /> Dr. Sauveur started the Normal School of Languages at Amherst College in 1875. In 1878 the School was first held at Amherst College. Its objective was "to familiarize instructors with the 'Natural Method' of teaching ancient and modern languages." By 1894 the Sauveur College of Languages also known as Sauveur Summer School or Normal School of Languages joined with the Amherst Summer School. The Summer School offered in addition to language courses courses in "library economy" geology physical education and other subjects. A 1901 brochure describes the Summer School of Library Economy also known as Fletcher Library School as a distinct program developed by William I. Fletcher. By 1906 the program was defunct. Press of Wm. F. Fell & Co unknown
189422001239New York New York: G.H. Dickson's Sons & Co 1894. Very good. Boards rubbed with water staining. Some dust soiling upper hinge cracked end papers toned. Rare with only a single other recorded copy Brown "A Paradise of Dainty Devices" is comprised of over 100 pages of original poetry and prose by students at Mademoiselle Ruel's School in Manhattan in 1894. It was compiled by and privately printed for L.C. Baker Professor of Rhetoric and attributes each piece to the students via an index with their pseudonyms in the index: Boston Dido Vernon Van Flic Donovan Meredith Hooker and Pshaw. Subjects of the student's pieces include nature friendship school death dreaming Venice Santa Claus and more. There is also a poem about each student titled with their pseudonyms pp. 46-53 and revealing a little about each of their personalities. Overall a charming window into the lives of a small group of school girls their passions and interests.<br /> <br /> Square 8vo 7.5" by 6" pp. 105 5 in original red cloth binding stamped in gold and blind on upper cover all edges gilt patterned end papers.<br /> <br /> 1 copy on OCLC only Jan 2023. G.H. Dickson's Sons & Co unknown
1855102999New York; Carlton & Phillips For The Sunday-School Union 200 Mulberry Street 1855. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked and embossed cloth. Professionally recased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. ; 159 pages; Added t. P. Engraving text with borders. Form/Genre: Juvenile/Sunday school literature --New York State --New York --1861. Didactic/instructional literature. Engravings for other Sunday-School & Carlton works of this specific period are attributed to Felter after E. J. Whitney. New York; Carlton & Phillips For The Sunday-School Union, 200 Mulberry Street hardcover
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
186979241869 Caen, Le Blanc-Hardel, 1869. Une plaquette in-8 couverture grise, 68 pages. Couverture légèrement défraîchie, néanmoins bon état.
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
182946404906, 1829 ; Lettre de protestation contre sa mise à l’écart de l’École Royale de Musique. La date du 4 août 1829 est notée d’une autre main au dos de la lettre.Alexis de Garaudé (Nancy 1779 - Paris 1852) est le fils d’un conseiller au parlement de Nancy. Il reçut une bonne éducation où la musique n’entrait que comme divertissement. Ruiné lors de la Révolution il partit à Paris pour se consacrer entièrement à la musique. Il entre comme professeur à l’École Royale en 1816 et y enseigne selon Fétis III p. 402 jusqu’en 1841, ce qui laisse penser que cette lettre aura convaincu son destinataire. Il est l’auteur de nombreux ouvrages d’enseignement musical. Le destinataire n’est pas nommé autrement que M. le vicomte, il s’agirait donc du vicomte a. Dubois de Beauchesne, alors directeur de cet établissement. “Quelque péniblement froissé que je puisse être par la décision que vous me faîtes l’honneur de m’annoncer, je la reçois avec respect, persuadé que vous l’avez jugée être dans les intérêts de l’École Royale d’après quelques renseignements qui vous auront été transmis sur moi (...) par des personnes qui jamais n’ont assisté à une seule de mes leçons, depuis 13 ans (...) Si la preuve contraire à leur assertion hazardée résulte des prix nombreux obtenus aux concours par mes élèves ; si 8 ou 10 d’entre eux jouent avec succès les premiers rôles en province (...) si ces renseignements erronés (...) étaient formellement contredits par MM. Rossini et Banderali qui peuvent vous affirmer que je suis l’un des professeurs le plus utile à l’école (...) comment présumer que l’auteur d’une Méthode complète de chant reconnue pour être rédigée avec beaucoup de clarté soit incapable de la démontrer avec clarté ! ... et si ma clientèle de leçons payantes se compose en partie d’élèves des diverses classes de l’école et des épouses et filles d’artistes musiciens célèbres (tels que Bohrer, Drouet, Pacini &c) qui viennent m’apporter leur argent, comment croire que je suis un mauvais professeur (...) Je confie à votre esprit de justice le soin de vous bien éclairer sur une erreur qui blesse profondément un artiste auquel les malheurs de la Révolution n’ont laissé que son dévouement passionné à une carrière qu’il parcourt avec quelques succès (...)”Les archives de M. de Beauchesne, qui contenaient un grand nombre de lettres d’A. de Garaudé, ont été vendues à l’Hôtel Drouot le 3 avril 1877.
1845051426F.G. Fish 1845. Book. Very Good-. Hardcover. 1st Edition. In stamped brown cloth with chipping to cloth at spine ends and wear to cloth at corners. Small piece of paper with description of book glued to front pastedown. F.G. Fish Hardcover
186927861Saumur Javaud 1869 Une lithographie originale, format : 49,5 x 67 cm, dessinée par Tom Drake ( sous l'image à gauche) et lithographiée en couleur par Albert Adam ( dans l'image en bas à droite ), imprimerie Lemercier Cie Paris (sous l'image a droite) et éditée par Javaud a Saumur (sous l'image au milieu). léger manque de papier à l'angle gauche + 2 taches d'humidité en marge en bas à droite et à gauche sous la gravure, 1869 Saumur Javaud Editeur,
186927860Saumur Javaud 1869 Une lithographie originale, format : 49,5 x 67 cm, dessinée par Tom Drake ( sous l'image à gauche) et lithographiée en couleur par Albert Adam ( dans l'image en bas à droite ), imprimerie Lemercier Cie Paris (sous l'image a droite) et éditée par Javaud a Saumur (sous l'image au milieu). 1869 Saumur Javaud Editeur,
1860313321Albany 1860. 62 vintage albumen prints comprising 60 oval gem portraits 1-1/2 x 1 inches 1 larger oval portrait 2-1/8 x 1-5/8 inches and 1 full-length 3-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary brown morocco autograph album stamped in gilt and blindW.B. Sprague blindstamp on ffep. A few portrait photos damaged or loose 2 inscriptions are without photos. 62 vintage albumen prints comprising 60 oval gem portraits 1-1/2 x 1 inches 1 larger oval portrait 2-1/8 x 1-5/8 inches and 1 full-length 3-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches. 2 vols. 8vo. Early Albany Law School Photographic Yearbook. A photographic yearbook from the Albany Law School class of 1860 assembled by student Horatio Colony 1835-1917.<br/>Opened in 1851 Albany Law School is the oldest independent law school in the United States. Many of its students in the 1850s and '60s became prominent lawyers and judges.<br/>As is the custom with the professionally produced college photograph yearbooks produced by George Kendall Warren starting in the late 1850s each photograph is inscribed beneath by the sitter with his name and hometown. The album opens with professors Ira Harris Amasa Parker Amos Dean Nathaniel Harris and Levi Chamberlain. Some notable students include Alexander P. Ketchum who became a Colonel and Chief Appraiser of the Port of New York; Clayton H. Delano 1836-1920 who served eight terms as the Town of Ticonderoga's Supervisor and was elected twice to the New York State Assembly; and William S. Opdyke general counsel of the Delaware and Hudson Company. <br/>Horatio Colony 1835-1917 whose picture appears last and is unfortunately obscured by damage assembled this album. The photograph of Levi Chamberlain is inscribed to "Horatio friend and pupil." He was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire and New York in 1860; in 1869 he along with his brother George took over the management of the family business the Faulkner and Colony Woolen Mill. He held several other civic and local government positions before his death in an automobile accident in 1917. His son Horatio Jr. 1900-1977 a poet and novelist established the Colony family home as a museum upon his death.<br/><br/>With: Autograph album containing autographs of acquaintances and some notable figures including Amos Bronson Alcott "A. Bronson Alcott" and Octavius Frothingham "O.B. Frothingham". In near matching black morocco autograph album stamped in blind and gilt extremities rubbed. With later inscription of C.W. Lawbert on front free endpaper. unknown books
1894196761894. Paris Émile Testard Editeur 1894 - Relié demi-bradel dos à nerfs couv. conservée 15 5 cm x 22 5 cm XIII+326 pages ills in-texte frontispice - Dictionnaire de Albert -Lévy et G. Pinet préface d'Armand Silvestre eau-forte originale d'Emile Bracquemond - Couv. en état moyen sinon très bon état intérieur
18982202210070xbvkParis, Armand Magnier - Éditeur, 1898. I. Foretitlepage with justification on the verso, 1 sheet with xylographic frontispice-portrait, dedication-page to 'Laurette La Veillée de Vincennes Livre d'amateur' opposite on the next sheet, engraved frontispice-sheet signé ''chez Prouté'', illustrated (engraving) titlesheet printed in red and black; 170 pages, 3 specimen-sheets advertising the 2nd volume / II. Foretitlepage with justification on the verso, 1 sheet with xylographic frontispice-illustration, dedication-page to 'la Canne de Jonc Livre d'amateur' opposite on the next sheet, engraved frontispice-portrait 'A. de Vigny' signé 'Ed. Hédoin', illustrated (engraving) titlesheet printed in red and black; 144 (1) pages, 2 specimen-sheets. - Both volumes printed on strong 'Papier Vélin de cuve', with many engraved illustrations in the text and 12 intercalated engraved plates on varying large-papers. --- Publisher's illustrated softcovers, bound in strong red 3/4-morocco bindings with large leather-corners, colour-marbled endpapers and 2 blank flyleaves each at front and end of both volumes; large-8vo.(ca. 26 x 18 x 4 cm; ca. 2 kg.).
1816271<p>New York: J. Seymour American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Agents Appointed to Establish a School for Heathen Youth 1816. first edition. modern 1/4 niger morocco. Good. Inspiration for the First Mission to Hawaii. <br /><br />Rare in commerce most copies have been acquired by American institutions. Few copies have come to documented auction in the past 100 years. Of those made available about half are decommissioned library copies including a copy that sold for over $15000 at a 2006 Sotheby's auction.<br /><br />Condition: Very Good<br /><br />IMPORTANCE & BACKGROUND<br /><br />A biographical account of the lives of five Hawaiian youths who would come to form a core of initial students enrolled at the new Foreign Mission School established at Cornwall Connecticut in 1816. The vivid accounts of Captain Cook's and others explorers' voyages to the Sandwich Islands Hawaii and other Pacific islands generated interest in the U.S. to properly educative Hawaiians in both academic and Christian teachings. The school formed under the direction of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions ABCFM would serve to educate foreign students in preparation for missionary work in their native lands and elsewhere. <br /><br />A Narrative of Five Youth from the Sandwich Islands was the first of many publications intended to raise funds and stir up popular support for the new school as well as for the first Christian mission sent to the Hawaiian Islands three years later. The publications were a great success leading to the significant funding and public support critical to early efforts to fold Hawaii within the cultural and commercial influence of the United States.<br /><br />BOOK INFO<br /><br />Published in 1816 in New York by J. Seymour under the direction of ".agents appointed to establish a school for heathen youth" e.g. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. First edition first printing. Bound in modern 1/4 green niger morocco with gilt spine lettering over finely woven green cloth backed boards. Refreshed endpapers. Thin Octavo 8 1/2" x 5 1/8". Collated and complete: 3 4-44 p. <br /><br />ABOUT THE WORK & HISTORICAL CONTEXT<br /><br />By the early 1800s Hawaii had become a key aspect of America's growing trade with China. It was a critical resupply port for American ships on the trade route to China and a lucrative source for sandalwood. American merchants saw commercial possibilities that could be expanded. Protestant missionaries saw heathens in need of salvation via Christian conversion.<br /><br />This is a biographical account of and strong bit of fundraising propaganda on how five Hawaiian youths were saved from their heathen ways and savage pasts through a civilized education and Christian conversion. While the backgrounds of the youth vary - one was the son of a chief and another the survivor of brutal inter-tribal warfare for example-- the stories of these five youths share a number of common elements. All had spent time as sailors on American trade ships. Three had served at sea in the War of 1812. Most had experienced periods of extreme hardship after reaching New England. All found sponsors teachers and spiritual guides who helped them on their path to converting to Protestantism.<br /><br />CONDITION INFO<br /><br />The book is Good to Very Good by early 19th century American imprint standards.<br /><br />Binding is tight. Leather is supple. Areas of dust and light soiling to cloth. Lightly toned pages overall with light foxing. Some abrasion to paper along gutter margins of first few pages. Browning to first and last page with some brittleness and chipping. The paper used by the printer was quite thin so the text block background is darkened a bit by opposing page text on the same leaf as in all copies. No writing ex libris marks or library markings. Slight loosening at the head of the first few leaves where binding cords are exposed. A few smudges marginal paper nicks and other signs of light handling.<br /><br />.</p> J. Seymour, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (Agents Appointed to Establish a School for Heathen Youth)
189110008Seneca Falls NY 1891. No Binding. Near Fine. 3-inch diameter globe anchored in magnifying glass as issued; 5 ½ inches total height. Color-printed wax-engraved gores; some fading of place names a few repair in extreme southern portion but overall remarkably little wear; overall excellent condition. An unrecorded delightful cartographic curiosity: a very good quality miniature globe with a magnifying paperweight as its base. Only two other globes by the American Globe and Supply Company are known: a six-inch terrestrial recorded by Rumsey dated 1892 and an eight-inch terrestrial cited in Rittenhouse dated 1891; see below. This Seneca Falls New York company was one of several for which Rand McNally supplied gores for the globes it produced. Rand McNally did not issue its first globe until 1887. Very nice condition for an object of this kind. Cf. Rumsey 5120; Rittenhouse Vol. 2 No. 1 p. 23. unknown
189110008Seneca Falls NY 1891. No Binding. Near Fine. 3-inch diameter globe anchored in magnifying glass as issued; 5 ½ inches total height. Color-printed wax-engraved gores; some fading of place names a few repair in extreme southern portion but overall remarkably little wear; overall excellent condition. An unrecorded delightful cartographic curiosity: a very good quality miniature globe with a magnifying paperweight as its base. Only two other globes by the American Globe and Supply Company are known: a six-inch terrestrial recorded by Rumsey dated 1892 and an eight-inch terrestrial cited in Rittenhouse dated 1891; see below. This Seneca Falls New York company was one of several for which Rand McNally supplied gores for the globes it produced. Rand McNally did not issue its first globe until 1887. Very nice condition for an object of this kind. Cf. Rumsey 5120; Rittenhouse Vol. 2 No. 1 p. 23. unknown books
