European School, 19th centuryBiblio.com
395 résultats
184023481840. Watercolor graphite and grayish ink on two sheets of cream laid paper with an 1836 M and smiling sun watermark 10 1/4 x 25 7/8 inches 260 x 658 mm the full sheet. Titled in ink in French on the recto. In very good condition with minor edge wear including creasing and nicks. A splendid panorama with each of the major peaks and point of interest labeled and identified in French. The iconic symbol of the Swiss resort the "Sun of St. Moritz" was adopted from early European heraldic marks and rebranded around 1930 by graphic designer Walter Herdeg. The image was patented in 1937 by spa director Walter Amstutz becoming the world's first visual trademark for a tourist destination. 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
1814948London: Robert Wilkinson 1814. Copperplate engraving on watermarked Smith wove paper 12 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches 310 x 245 mm full margins. There is some minor marginal toning and handling wear that is consistent with age otherwise in very good condition. Robert Wilkinson 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
189013401890. Ink and gouache with gold heightening on fibrous brown laid paper with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in purple ink on the recto 12 1/2 x 9 inches 318 x 230 mm. Toning handling creases and minor scattered surface soiling throughout. There are scattered coeval inscriptions in ink on the recto and verso. The first revenue stamps in India were issued in the mid-nineteenth century during the Raj and they are still being issued to this day. Apart from issues for the whole of India many princely states provinces and other states also had or still have their own revenue stamp issues. Before independence Indian revenue stamps were closely modeled on similar designs from Great Britain as is the case with this carriage motif stamp from Jaipur. <br /> <br /> The stamps were issued to denote various denominations including rupees and annas. An anna or Änna was a currency unit formerly used in British India equal to 1â„16 of a rupee. It was subdivided into four old Paisa or twelve pies thus there were 192 pies in a rupee. When the rupee was decimalized and subdivided into 100 new paise one anna was therefore equivalent to 6.25 paise. This particular stamp was used as evidence of court taxes remitted for property dealings. unknown
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
184025111840. Ink and wash on wove paper 5 1/8 x 6 1/2 inches 130 x 165 mm the full sheet. In very good condition with uniform toning some minor surface soiling and with the right sheet edge creased. unknown
186018931860. Watercolor and pencil on cream wove J Whatman 1827 paper with a partial watermark 7 x 10 1/8 inches 176 x 256 mm the full sheet. The left sheet edge has significant wear; the result of its removal from a page in an album to which the sheet was tipped in. There is also a horizontal tear in the center left sheet edge which extends approximately one inch into the image through the image of the figure with outstretched arms. Small corner losses at the the top right and left sheet as well as a small 1/4 inch at the lower left corner. Colors are extensive and saturated. unknown
188083103c.1880. Charming country scene showing the river Thames with Windsor Castle in the background. Original watercolour. Size: 360 x 520 mm Excellent condition. unknown
1850018971Massachusetts Sabbath School Society 1850. Soft cover. Near Fine. A based-on-fact account of early live in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Good in green cloth original. 198 pages third edition. <br/> <br/> Massachusetts Sabbath School Society paperback
189013411890. Ink and gouache with gold heightening on fibrous brown laid paper with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in purple ink on the recto 13 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches 336 x 226 mm. Toning handling creases and minor scattered surface soiling throughout. There are scattered coeval inscriptions in ink on the recto and verso. A traditional Indian butter churn is operated by rapidly pulling a rope which turns a paddled spindle. The paddles churn cows milk inside a large jar until milk solids form. Ghee is made from cow milk butter which is treated with low heat until the water evaporates leaving behind milk solids. The solids are skimmed off or strained if needed. Ghee is a staple food on the Indian subcontinent and as a cooking oil it is the most widely used food in India apart from wheat and rice. Because of its exalted status at Hindu weddings ghee is expensive and in high demand. Male wedding guests are expected to compete with each other to see who can eat the most of it; consuming two pounds or more at a sitting is considered a proof of virility. <br /> <br /> On the stamp:<br /> <br /> The first revenue stamps in India were issued in the mid-nineteenth century during the Raj and they are still being issued to this day. Apart from issues for the whole of India many princely states provinces and other states also had or still have their own revenue stamp issues. Before independence Indian revenue stamps were closely modeled on similar designs from Great Britain as is the case with this carriage motif stamp from Jaipur. The stamps were issued to denote various denominations including rupees and annas. An anna or Änna was a currency unit formerly used in British India equal to 1â„16 of a rupee. It was subdivided into four old Paisa or twelve pies thus there were 192 pies in a rupee. When the rupee was decimalized and subdivided into 100 new paise one anna was therefore equivalent to 6.25 paise. This particular stamp was used as evidence of court taxes remitted for property dealings. unknown
1873160861873. Edward Freeman. Autograph Letter Signed. April 2 1873 Somerleaze Wells Somerset England. 4 pages on a single sheet folded. To "My Dear Lord" possibly a Bishop About a teacher who is too talented to be a governess whose name he puts forward as a candidate for headmistress of a new girls' school.<br /> <br /> Stating in part "I see your name as a "Patron of the new Girls School to be set up at Manchester." I do not know whether that word is to be taken in the ecclesiastical sense as employing that you have a voice in disposing of offices in it. If so I would venture to recommend a candidate for the place of Head Mistress which I hear that the Committee are going about to fill one whom I am sure you will find it a great gain to put at the head of the new institution. This is Miss Macarthur who has been governess in my house for nearly five years and who is just now leaving us because all my daughters are now grown up. She is in correspondence with Miss Vernon to whom Mrs. Kitchener first spoke of her and she has asked me to say what I can for her to any of the Committee. I think the best witness of my opinion of her is that I have set her to write one of my series of small histories a History of Scotland which I hope will soon be out. She is a woman of powers far above the common and I can witness that she has practiced them well in the only two departments of which I am able to judge namely those of History and language. She is really strong in both; for though she does not actually understand Latin and Greek she knows all about them their relation to French English etc. I am sure she would do credit to the place. We are most anxious to find some post for her more independent than that of a private governess."<br /> <br /> Unfortunately Miss Macarthur was not appointed; there being far better qualified candidates competing for this sought after position. She was Margaret A.R. Macarthur born in Scotland in 1842 and was the author of 'History of Scotland' in Freeman's Historical Course for Schools. It would be interesting to find out what happened to her. In fine condition. unknown
1888215331888. Rowan County Board of Education teacher pay vouchers 1888 and 1892 documenting African American education within the segregated public school system of post-Reconstruction North Carolina. The vouchers record segregated public education and its funding mechanisms through payments to Black teachers approved at the county level. These documents show how African American educators were paid through formally structured systems requiring countersignature by the county superintendent and approval by district committee members.<br /> <br /> Two manuscript teacher salary vouchers each approximately 8.5 x 7 inches and written on both sides. The first dated March 26 1888 authorizes payment of $30.00 to Maggie Locke for teaching in "School District No. 4 Rowan County for Colored Race" covering the period from January 3 to March 2 1888 in Atwell Township. The printed form specifies that payment is contingent upon countersignature by the county superintendent and approval by at least two district committee members establishing formal oversight procedures. The verso bears Locke's signed receipt dated March 27 1888 acknowledging payment from county treasurer J. M. McCubbins. The second voucher dated January 16 1892 records payment of $25.00 to Isaac Kerns for teaching in "School District No. 2 Salisbury & No. 2 Prov. Rowan County for Colored Race" with similar requirements for administrative approval prior to disbursement. The verso includes Kerns's signed acknowledgment of payment. Both documents explicitly designate the schools as serving the "Colored Race" indicating the formalized racial segregation embedded within the educational system.<br /> <br /> These vouchers document the operation of segregated schooling in the decades following the Civil War when African American education expanded under conditions of systemic underfunding and institutional control. The requirement for multiple authorizations before payment records the bureaucratic regulation of Black teachers' labor while the recorded wages provide quantitative evidence for comparative study of compensation disparities. Produced during a period when access to education for African Americans remained contested these documents contribute to research on Reconstruction-era legacies Jim Crow governance and the role of Black educators in sustaining community institutions. Light wear minor creasing and typical manuscript handling marks; overall very good condition. Documentary record of the administrative structure and lived realities of segregated education in the late nineteenth-century South. unknown
18812082402113505504Nagasaki normal school 1881. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Nagasaki normal school paperback
18112090202120412196Sounami Izo edition Suharaya Mohei and other editions 1811. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Sounami Izo edition Suharaya Mohei and other editions paperback
18712111902160200126Kihei Yanagihara 1871. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 25cmx18cm Number of books: 15 Kihei Yanagihara paperback
18922110502151100923Sekizenkan 1892. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 15 Sekizenkan paperback
18982091502135708985Otsuji Wasaburo 1898. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Otsuji Wasaburo paperback
189331862Albany: Printed for the Ladies Union Mission School Association 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. 1 133 pages. Frontispiece photograph. Illustrated with photographs. Brown cloth hardcover with black title on the front cover and gilt stamped title on the spine. A small dent and scuff mark on the spine. <br /> <br /> An "Association Copy." Inscription not entirely legible written on the right front flyleaf: "From Mrs. A. J. A. E. Fort Meade Feby 94." Mrs. A. J. A. is Mrs. A. J. Alexander wife of General A. J. Alexander. She is mentioned in the introduction on page 10. Mrs. A. J. Alexander played an important role in establishing a Christian mission at Sacaton Arizona Pima Reservation. Printed for the Ladies Union Mission School Association hardcover
1814017205New York: Collins and Co. 1814. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 70 2p. Paper-covered boards. A good copy spine is worn outer front joint is cracked but hinge is secure covers are soiled and there is foxing throughout. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collins and Co. Hardcover
182849341New-York: J. Seymour 1828. First Edition. Octavo 22cm.; stitched brown wrappers printed within decorative border; 18pp. Lacking rear wrapper upper wrapper separated and heavily chipped along extremities with some loss of border though not affecting text textblock a bit foxed and toned along extremities. Good only though internally sound. List of Officers on p. 19 name DeWitt Clinton as President of the Society though he died early that year on February 11. SABIN 54615; SHOEMAKER 34939. J. Seymour unknown
1835334873Boston: Russell Odiorne and Company 1835. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 52pp. Removed from a nonce volume a little trimmed slightly affecting the inscription some offsetting on the title page else very good. Inscribed: "Josiah Quincy Jr. Esq. with the respects of the author." Name of Charles F. Adams written on the title page in a non-authorial hand possibly Quincy's. Quincy a member of the Whig Party was the second of three Josiah Quincys to serve as Mayor of Boston; Charles Francis Adams Sr. the son of John Quincy Adams was a lawyer and a Whig and then later a member of the Free Soil Party and finally a Republican who studied law with Daniel Webster served in the House of Representatives but resigned to become Lincoln's Ambassador to Great Britain from 1861 to 1868 where he along with his son Henry Adams who acted as his secretary was instrumental in maintaining British neutrality and preventing British diplomatic recognition of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Russell, Odiorne, and Company unknown
1870279111870. Finely executed portraits of women and their musical instruments larger and more detailed than many other albums. From the school of Youqua. The portraits have no background painting. 8 images mounted with dark turquoise border silk some with cracks; 3 images are mounted on card at a later date. All images loose in papered boards which open Western style and are disbound and very rubbed. Most images are in lovely and larger than most. Besides some small cracks they are in very good condition. 4to 11 1/2 x 8 unknown
1815952London: Robert Wilkinson 1815. Etching and engraving on wove paper with an "1809" watermark 13 1/2 x 10 inches 342 x 252 mm full margins. In very good condition with some age related toning and light spots of discoloration in the lower sheet quadrant. Damaged in the Blitz and largely demolished in the 1960s what remains of St Mary Elsing includes these doorways which still stand looking back towards London Wall. The ruins include tall arches which once formed the base of the tower. There is also a low wall with an arched recess which may have been used to house a tomb. Robert Wilkinson unknown
1896091713Providence RI: Press of E.L. Freeman & Son 1896 Book. Good . Hardcover. Book has some exterior rub marks and speckling as well as edge and corner scuffs. . Press of E.L. Freeman & Son hardcover
