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1876690691876. 39-1/2" x 31-1/4. 39-1/2" x 31-1/4" A Notable Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Lawyer and Democratic Politician American School 19th Century. Hirst William L. 1804-1876. Portrait of William L. Hirst. 31-1/4" x 39-1/2" image size. Oil on canvas in ornate nineteenth-century gilded wood frame. Some minor nicks and chips to frame gilding slightly dulled otherwise fine. $3750. Hirst had a thriving private law practice and was active in Democratic politics. In 1853 Hirst was elected President of the Democratic State Convention. He was an early proponent of the City of Philadelphia consolidation. This portrait belonged to the Philadelphia Bar Association. Founded in 1802 it is the oldest association of lawyers in the United States. Its library where this portrait was last displayed was renamed the Theodore F. Jenkins Memorial Law Library in 1967. unknown books
181439223Londini: Ex officinâ Johannis Nichols et Sociorum 1814. Small 8vo 18.5cm 7.25". Frontis. port. 1 f. 62 pp. <br><br>John Colet 14671519 Dean of St. Paul's seems in 1508 to have begun to think about "applying his patrimony to education by the reconstitution of St Paul's Cathedral school in new premises reflecting a preoccupation with education as prerequisite for spiritual regeneration" DNB online. He "opened the doors to St Pauls School in 1509 to educate boys 'from all nacions and countres indifferently' St. Paul's School website.<br>Â Â Â Â Elegantly bound and handsomely printed this is the first edition of this collection for use of the boys of the school and is comprised of "Preces quotidianae ut celebrantur in scholâ Paulina" and "Catechismus cum ordine Confirmationis." The prayers were first published in 1642 and are in Latin while the catechism is in Greek on versos of leaves and Latin opposite on rectos. The engraved frontispiece portrait of Colet is by John Taylor Wedgwood 17831856 a cousin of Josiah Wedgwood.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Late 19th-century bookplate of the Rev. George H. Culshaw; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary green straight-grain goat spine gilt extra; both boards with a gilt double-rule outer border and an inner center frame of single gilt rule with large gilt corner devices. Board edges with a gilt roll; narrow turn-ins with a different gilt roll. All edges gilt.<br>Â Â Â Â Searches of WorldCat locate only six U.S. libraries IU NjNbT PPiT IEN NNC NNG reporting ownership. Binding as above; spine sunned to olive front cover with scuff sometime well disguised boards showing signs of having been bent some time ago. Bookplate and label as above. A very few light spots of foxing pages overall clean and crisp. Very good condition. => A very attractive book. Ex officinâ Johannis Nichols et Sociorum hardcover books
189011653Andover CT: E. H. Cook printer 1890. 4to 4pp. Nice copy. A prospectus of what would become the University of Connecticut. Includes small woodcuts of the school building and the dormitory both in the process of erection. E. H. Cook printer unknown books
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
183811013Birmingham: Richard Davies 1838. 8vo. 31 1 blank pp. <br><br>Second of two parts only. The first part was "Report M.DCCC.XXXVI." With engraved device of the Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery on title-page. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2B34799. Removed from a nonce volume. Light watestains in top and outer margins. Inked series of numbers in one corner of title-page. Very good. Richard Davies unknown books
185450120Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley 1854. First Edition. Octavo 22.5cm.; publisher's tan wrappers printed within decorative border; 50pp. Ex-Massachusetts State Library with their small pressure stamp to title page and faint Withdrawn rubberstamp to upper cover wrapers rather chipped along extremities; a Good copy internally clean and sound. Report especially recommends that news reporters and printers learn phonography Pitman shorthand. Crissy & Markley unknown books
183957665London: printed for the Society by Mead & Powell 93 Whitechapel 1839. 16mo pp. 37 1; removed from binding wrappers wanting; else very good. Founded in 1800 the Methodist Sion Chapel was in the notoriously squalid Whitechapel section of London. Not in OCLC. <br/><br/> printed for the Society by Mead & Powell, 93, Whitechapel unknown books
18398953Edinburgh: Whyte & Co. 1839. 8vo. 11 1 blank 8 pp. <br><br><br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Apparently not in NSTC CD version. Removed from a nonce volume. Lightly age-toned. Inked numeral on title-page. Whyte & Co. unknown books
187029538Montgomery Alabama: John G. Stokes & Co. State Printers 1870. 7 1 blank pp. Stitched in original printed green wrappers. Light old folds wrappers lightly spotted Very Good. Contemporary inscription at head of front wrapper "Respects of G. Horton Mobile." A Bostonian who had moved to Mobile as a young man Horton was Mayor of Mobile at this time. Previously he had been an advocate of public education and had served on Mobile's school board. During the Civil War he was jailed for Unionist sympathies. During Reconstruction his advocacy of civil rights placed his life in constant danger.<br/><br/> The Report is a chapter in Alabama's bitter Reconstruction strife. It attacks Dr. N.B. Cloud State Superintendent of Public Instruction who was regarded by unreconstructed Alabamans as a Scalawag for his support of Reconstruction and the Republican Party. The Report also attacks G.L. Putnam whom Cloud had named Mobile's superintendent of education an appointment which other Mobile educators refused to recognize. Cloud brokered a compromise-- for which he lacked authority-- by making Putnam superintendent of Emerson College known as the 'Blue School' a Negro school run by the American Missionary Association. The Report accuses Cloud and Putnam of illegally diverting public funds to the support of the Blue School.<br/>Ellison 1597. OCLC locates five copies as of August 2014 under two accession numbers. John G. Stokes & Co., State Printers unknown books
1865800079mSalem Mass.: Printed at the Salem Gazette Office 1865. Octavo self-wrappers 8 pp. Short tears along upper edge of front cover not effecting text. Printed at the Salem Gazette Office, 1865. unknown books
183557666Walworth: printed by J. Packer Albion Place 1835. 16mo pp. 22 2; removed from binding wrappers wanting; else very good. Includes a list of subscribers and donors. Not in OCLC. <br/><br/> printed by J. Packer, Albion Place unknown books
18382596Alnwick: M. Smith 1838. First edition. Fine. 3 page pamphet measuring 152 x 228mm. Trifolded with ownership signature of Wm. Dickson Esq to rear blank. Else an exceptionally clean and seemingly untouched copy of this rare pamphlet advocating for improvements in the early education of children. The only copy known on the market this title does not appear in the modern auction record or at any institutions according to OCLC.<br/><br/>A proposal and prospectus for an Infant School to serve the town of Alnwick and improve the overall level of education within the community. The pamphlet clarifies that the Duke of Northumberland is confirmed as the school's patron; and it outlines how donations and subsciptions from the town will add to the school's endowment. But more importantly it focuses on the communal benefits that will come from citizens' support for children's education regardless of their class. Touting the successes of other Infant Schools in England and abroad in providing "well-regulated nurseries for the children of the poorer classes" the committee also explains that " the most approved system of training will develop the physical powers and improve the health of children from two to six years of age -- to cultivate their intellectual faculties and communicate such knowledge as may be adapted to their infant capacities." The committee asserts that when the larger population begins sending children to school those children will be endowed with a desire to learn and "those attending will feel it as a punishment to be kept from the School" because school "is to the children what the actual business of life is to the man. Here the feelings are manifested and the character is developed" so that infants grow to intelligent and responsible members of the populace. Notably the committee also points out the short term benefits of developing an education system. "To the parents themselves many advantages will accrue from these Schools. Not only will their minds be relieved from much anxiety for the safety of their children but the mother free during the day from the necessity of watching over them will have an opportunity now denied to her of contributing by her labour to their support or of devoting more time to the promotion of their comfort at home." This acknowledgment reveals an important shift in thinking about the economic role of mothers and about women's need for time to accomplish their own work. A rare and important example of the spread of early childhood education and the arguments for its expansion. Fine. M. Smith unknown books
188240901New York: Published by the Royal Baking Powder Co 1882. 1st printing thus Axford p. 352; Bitting p. 410; Brown 2431. Not in Cagle though see 1011n nor Wheaton & Kelly. OCLC records 5 holding institutions. Chromolithographed paper wrappers sewn. String hook loop in upper left of booklet. General wear & soiling. Foxing to paper. An About VG copy. 4 41 3 pp. 3 page Index at front. Page 4 a wood engraving showing 20 figures of divers pans used in baking. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/> Published by the Royal Baking Powder Co unknown books
18508857Paris 1850. Pencil pen and wash drawing with numerous detailed measurements. A fascinating and beautiful drawing--or "rendu"--of an ancient Roman sarcophagus.<br/> <br/>A fine drawing from an architectural student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris the most influential architectural school in existence during much of the 18th century the whole of the 19th century and the first part of the 20th century. 'Students were eligible for the Ecole if they were at least fifteen years old or under thirty. They began with the seconde classe in which they competed in the concours d'émulation. These alternated between an esquisse --a rough sketch for which up to twelve hours was allowed--and a rendu --the large-scale finished drawing for which one to three months were allowed.Two to four years were usually required for a student to accumulate enough credits to enter the première classe. The same system was followed again usually for two to three years after which the student should have accumulated enough credits to compete for the Grand Prix de Rome. The winner of the Grand Prix was entitled to five years study under the auspices of the French Academy in Rome. For each of his first three years he was required to submit an analytical study of an ancient monument. For his fourth year he had to submit a complete reconstruction of a major classical work. For his fifth year he was required to submit an original work designed to a program of his own invention. "This study of the sarcophagus of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus was part of an Ecole de Beaux Arts student's portfolio. The sarcophagus was one of many in the Scipio family tomb on the Via Appia just outside of Roma and it dates from c. 290 B.C. The obituary text reads English "Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus son of Gnaeus a valiant gentleman and wise whose fine form matched his bravery very well was aedile consul and censor among you he conquered Taurasia and Cisauna in fact Samnium he overcame all the Lucanian lands and brought back hostages."<br/> <br/>Arthur Drexler The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. New York MoMA 1977. unknown books
1860001429Boston: Ticknor and Field 1860. Blindstamped cloth. Very Good. 8vo viii 405 pp. Later early edition. A handsome bron blindstamped copy clean and tight inside with slight cocking of the spine and light edgewear and the like. <br/><br/> Ticknor and Field hardcover books
182429584Boston: Printed by Phelps and Farnham 1824. 16pp. Untrimmed stitched spine reinforced with tape. Tanned dampstain running through first three leaves scattered spotting rubberstamps and blindstamp on title page and its verso. Good. <br/>AI 16474 many locations. OCLC records copies with two leaves of plates not present here. Printed by Phelps and Farnham unknown books
184657694Buffalo: Buffalo High School Association n.d. 1846. Oblong 8vo 67 leaves with pro-forma engraved forms on rectos without accomplishment; quarter old sheep hinges split and boards worn and nearly loose old non-original label mostly perished on front board final four leaves reappropriated as a scrapbook for local recipes the rest of the certificates generally fine. Inscribed on the front pastedown: "In Chancery 8th Circuit. In the matter of the Dissolution of the Buffalo Literary and Scientific Academy. Produced and proven before me as "Stock scrip book" "F" on hearing June 24 1846" The Buffalo High School Association later the Buffalo Literary and Scientific Academy was established in 1827 with ambitious plans for providing a "scientifick literary and military academy." It offered courses in "topography construction of maps navigation fencing ethicks natural theology evidences of Christianity and metaphysicks." Rates for attendance were high and the level of matriculation could not sustain the school. In 1863 Oliver G. Steele wrote "It was the great pet of the city. It was however too expensive for the time failing to reach the great body of our people; and changes of teachers and policy soon brought its career to a close." An act to dissolve the corporation and to provide for the just disposition of the property was passed in 1846. See "Buffalo's First High School Had its own Defense Program" by Walter McCausland Buffalo Courier-Express 1943. <br/><br/> Buffalo High School Association, n.d. hardcover books
1856791091856. SUNDAY SCHOOL ADVOCATE VOLUME XIII NUMBER 14 WHOLE NO. 292 APRIL 8 1854 - VOLUME XV NUMBER 12 WHOLE NUMBER 339 MARCH 22 1856 PP. 105-200 1-192 & 1-96 complete. 4to 3/4 leather with marbled paper covered boards. Spine joints cracked one inch chip to heel tiny chips to crown. Corners scraped boards rubbed. Interior near fine with occasional small closed tear to edges of pages. Light foxing throughout. Illustrated in b/w in text. Uncommon early volumes. unknown books
187031292Montgomery 1870. 23 1 blank pp with original printed title wrappers. Text lightly dusted wrappers dirty stitched. <br/><br/> This case is a chapter in Alabama's bitter Reconstruction history. Mobile School Commissioners claimed that George L. Putnam Superintendent of the Mobile schools had mishandled funds which were supposed to be used to support the free public schools. Putnam had been appointed Superintendent by N.B. Cloud State Superintendent of Public Instruction whom unreconstructed Alabamans considered a Scalawag. Putnam used public funds as authorized by Cloud for the support of a school for Negroes. The outcome of the case turned on whether the Commissioners were properly established under the laws and Reconstruction Constitution of Alabama. This brief reviews the history of the Mobile School System and the controversy. <br/>Not located on OCLC as of July 2014. unknown books
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 books
1830WRCAM45869Philadelphia 1830. Seven volumes. Illustrated. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards spines gilt leather labels. Hinges cracked; spine on volume seven heavily worn. Library label at foot of each spine. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Internally clean. Good plus. A complete run of this periodical published by the American Sunday School Union. The magazine was intended to spread news and information regarding Sunday schools the setting up and operating of such schools and new educational methods. The goal of the American Sunday School Union was to establish a Sunday school in every possible community in order to spread the gospel. At this time the association was also advocating free public education in order that the Sunday schools could be primarily focused on religious rather than general education. Important for the history of American education and the rise of the free school movement. A nice run of this periodical. hardcover books
183627260Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union 1836. First edition 12mo pp. 72; engraved frontis illustration title-page vignette 5 illustrations in the text 1 full-page; contemporary quarter calf and blue paper-covered boards lettered in gilt direct on spine; extremities worn with boards soiled and scuffed and pages with some staining but overall good and sound. A brief illustrated description of anchors and their functions--both literal and metaphorical--followed by an account of the wreck of the packet ship Albion. The "sketches" of Evarts 1781-1831 missionary reformer and opponent of Native American removal policies Montgomery b. 1787 Episcopal minister and first rector of St. Stephen's church in Philadelphia and Bedell 1791-1834 founder of St. Andrew's also in Philadelphia are in fact accounts of their death-bed experiences. Bloch 1474. <br/><br/> American Sunday-School Union hardcover books
182736573Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union between 1827 and 1853. 32mo 10.8 cm; 4.25". 16 pp.; illus. <br><br>Charles learns new things about Christianity during a walk home with his brother and teacher who matches scripture with the different parts of nature they experience. There are => three in-text wood engravings the one on p. 3 signed "GG" i.e. George Gilbert.<br>Â Â Â Â Front wrapper notes the work has been "revised by the Committee of Publication of the American Sunday-school Union"; back wrapper contains a hymn. Publication date is from the American Antiquarian Society OPAC. Original beige printed wrappers spotted/foxed; text with light to moderate foxing. American Sunday-School Union unknown books
18442199451American Sunday-School Union 1844. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. Boards rubbed pages foxed and toned page 19's corner missing does not affect text. 1844 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 101 pp. 12mo bound in sixes. Black leather spine marbled boards gilt titles. "The Children's Crusade is the name given to a variety of fictional and factual events which happened in 1212 that combine some or all of these elements: visions by a French or German boy; an intention to peacefully convert Muslims in the Holy Land to Christianity; bands of children marching to Italy; and children being sold into slavery. A study published in 1977 cast doubt on the existence of these events and many historians now believe that they were not or not primarily children but multiple bands of "wandering poor" in Germany and France some of whom tried to reach the Holy Land and others who never intended to do so. Early versions of events of which there are many variations told over the centuries are largely apocryphal. American Sunday-School Union hardcover books
1851285627Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union 1851. Hard Cover. Good binding. 177pp. With two leaves of plates and numerous small vignettes. Very light scattered foxing in text. Red embossed cloth binding with moderate edgewear to extremities. Creasing to the endpaper. Good binding. American Sunday-School Union unknown books
