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1785045311Paris: Duflos 1785. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Marillier; Duflos. Full contemporary crushed red morocco a bit of wear at edges and corners. Incomplete binding up a small section of the complete work - 30 plates along with 2 title pages and table the last section of 6 plates from Abrege de l'Histoire Sacrée. Mostly very light dampstain in the inner margin of the first half - quite attractive and engraved throughout on recto only. The complete work is rare complete and had over 200 plates and was issued in parts this comprises plates 1-6 of parts 1-3 of Abrege de l'Histoire Universelle along with 1-6 part 1 of Sacrée along with 7-12 of part 2. An attractive selection in a nice binding. Size: Octavo 8vo. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Illustrator: Marillier; Duflos. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045311. <br/><br/> Duflos hardcover books
1707319th c. Women's Education Autograph Letter Signed from female student dated May 25 1854. 4 pages folded from single sheet. 6.5 x 5.25 in. Written by student Eloise Hemstreet to her parents. She writes about her school which she feel is one of "the best of schools and one of the edens of the earth." She writes on her interest in astronomical observations and how she is looking forward to looking "at the eclipse through the telescope." She mentions "the college" and talks about the health and wellness of both male and female classmates at the Institution. Additionally she mentions that the College was getting a new roof. Research indicates Eloise was born in 1833 making her 21 at the time of this letter. She became a teacher thus was likely studying for the education profession as she wrote this letter. In the latter half of the 19th century women in America had growing access to higher education especially in the professional training to become teachers. For many women working as a teacher was the key to independence-both financial and socially. Hemstreet went on to teach in New York and Wisconsin where in 1861 she made $16 for teaching a summer session. Toning around bottom left edge and corner of page 1. Original fold lines with small 1/2 inch tear along outer edge of horizontal fold line on all pages. Very small tear 1/2 cm. along top edge of pages. Else in very good condition. A unique and personal piece of early Female Education history. unknown books
15395Albumen photo on heavy tan backing. c. 1910-1915. Aprox 8 in x 5 in. Image on original photographic board. shows a male a teacher stand outdoors with approximately 30 students of first or second grade age outside a clapboard school building. The class includes one young African American boy in the back row decades before Brown v Board of Education. A small 1/2 inch stain in emulation to upper part of image above teacher not affecting him or the students. Very good condition. unknown books
16627Women's Education Lincoln Phelps A.H. Chemistry for Beginners: With Engravings. Hartford: F.J. Huntington 1834. Publisher's original cloth boards. 4" x 6.75" inches 269 pages. First edition. Numerous black and white engravings of objects and diagrams. Paragraphs on Matters light Laws of Motion gases electricity acids metals organic chemistry etc. Mrs. Lincoln Phelps was a famous teacher lecturer and advocate for girl's education at a time when schooling for women was severely limited; her sister was the famous suffragette Emma Willard. The nineteenth century saw major advances in educational opportunities for women and girls. In the 1800s women began to play central roles in education - as teachers and as learners-- and literacy among women doubled between 1780 and 1840. However American higher education remained a virtually all-male affair until after the Civil War in the 1860's. Shelfwear. Dampstain to upper right edge of cover and pages. Moderate toning and foxing pages occasionally creased. In good condition. unknown books
16751Women's Educational Movement. Bradford Female Academy Catalog 1886. A catalog from one of the most important historical female academics. Contains names of current students and an outline of the curriculum. Bradford opened as the first coeducational institution in Massachusetts but due to overwhelming interest from parents of girls with no other options for education Bradford soon transitioned to become the first all-female academy in Massachusetts and among the first in the United States in 1836. Not copy of this item could be found among Institutional and library Collections according to OCLC Worldcat. <br/><br/>Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. unknown books
16750Women's Education Movement. Pamphlet/ Volume 4 of 17: Bradford Female Academy Catalog 1844. A very early catalog from one of the most important historical female academics. Contains names of current students and an outline of the curriculum. Bradford opened as the first coeducational institution in Massachusetts but due to overwhelming interest from parents of girls with no other options for education Bradford soon transitioned to become the first all-female academy in Massachusetts and among the first in the United States in 1836. Very rare to find items from the first decade of operation of this pionering Female Academy. There are no copies of this very early female education catalog in any institution or libraries as per OCLC Worldcat. <br/><br/>Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. This document dates 4 years before Seneca Falls. unknown books
16760Early American Women's Education Movement. Catalog of the Officers and Members of The Seminary For Female Teachers. Salem Massachusetts. Printed at the Register Press. April 1839. Women's Academy and Seminary Archive recording the first important movement of women into higher education in the United States seminary was synonymous with "academy" and did not have the religious connotation of today-This is an important point but seems awkwardly placed. Maybe either use the phrase "into secular higher education" in first sentence or in next sentence say "In the 1800's the Female Academy and Seminary Movement transformed American educational norms allowing women the opportunity to receive secular non-religious college-level education<br/><br/>Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. This document dates 10 years before Seneca Falls. unknown books
16748Women's Education Movement. Goddard Seminary Catalog 1877. Pamphlet Catalog for the 1877 class of Goddard Seminary a coeducational school in Barre VT. Including the names of students. Goddard College began in 1863 in Barre Vermont as the Green Mountain Central Institute and in 1870 was renamed Goddard Seminary. Founded by Universalists Goddard Seminary was a four-year preparatory high school primarily for Tufts College. For many years the Seminary prospered. But the opening of many good public high schools made many of the New England academics obsolete. The trustees added a Junior College to the Seminary in 1935 and in 1938 Goddard College was chartered. It remains progressive Universalist institution. There are no copies of this very early female education catalog in any institution or libraries as per OCLC Worldcat. <br/><br/>Women's Academy and Seminary Archive recording the first important movement of women into higher education in the United States seminary was synonymous with "academy" and did not have the religious connotation of today. In the 1800's the Female Academy and Seminary Movement transformed American educational norms allowing women the opportunity to receive secular non-religious college-level education. Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. unknown books
16084Early Women Education ALS Jn Howard. Preston. Nov. 29 1823. To his daughter Sarah "My Dear Child." 3 pages Autograph Letter Signed folded from a large sheet with the 4th page showing the original stampless address panel. Usual holes where original wax seal was torn off.<br/><br/>She writes in her hand in Part: "My dear child I had great pleasure in reading your letter to your Brother-and the more-when I understood that you had not only written it but composed it. I feel persuaded you will try to profit every Day by the kind and good instruction of your Cousin and Tutoress:--you must never esteem anything too difficult which you are set to do. If you were the King's Daughter you would have to learn in patient submission; and how much more ready should you be to do so in your situation in Life! Your dear mother and I have always been glad to see your fondness for reading but you must try always to understand and remember what you read-as it is not the quantity of reading but duly improving it which is the thing to be desired-and that makes it of real worth.Believe me dear Sarah we do not forget you but love you much tho' you are at a distance from us--" A touching and encouraging letter from a progressive parent whose interest in his daughter's education is clearly more than the polite drawing room variety. unknown books
1811WRCAM31877Washington City: R.C. Weightman 1811. 6pp. Self-wrappers. Minor wear along fore-edge old stab holes in left margin. Very good unopened. An eloquent defense of the committee's assertion that the Constitution does not provide for the establishment of a national university. Scarce. OCLC locates only two copies. OCLC 24978940. R.C. Weightman unknown books
16693Thompson Perry C. Editor Fayette Avery McKenzie et al. Fisk University News: volume 6 no.6 Nashville Tenn. March 1916. 32p. 6x9 inches booklet in stapled gray wraps printed blue. Editorials letters sports results arts club news and other material appears in this special "Student Number" compiled by the students themselves. Light staining and heavier toning to covers and margins of text block also mild wear and a vertical crease. Magazine. #194590 Monthly publication from the African American University founded in 1865. The News began publication in 1910 and ended in 1925. Only 9 holdings of broken runs or individual copies of various issues located in OCLC. This issue includes a selection from "How to rise as a race" by Sutton E. Griggs; a report on her experience as a resident of the French Quarter in Paris by C. Edwina Yerby who notes its multi-ethnic character; a short story by Gladys D. Dunbar and more. unknown books
17162Girls Education Japan Photograph album from a girl student in Japan c. 1926. Filled with 78 original silver gelatin print photographs of classmates school activities and social outings. Original cloth and red boards. 10 x 7.5 in. "Photo Album" printed on front cover. Pasted label on the final page with some information on the original owner dated 1926. Photographs of various small sizes from 1.75 x 2.5 inches to 3 x 5". Many images are school portraits of teenage girls in their matching uniforms posing either individually in pairs or small groups. Occasional photographs of teenage boys as well including one with the sitter dressed in a samurai outfit. Photos of a field day with outdoor footraces marches and performances. A few later photographs of older young women in civilian clothes posing by a river and strolling in a park together. These may be images of some of the younger students years later as adults. Most of the images show figures in Western styles clothes although 2 photographs show women dressed up in kimonos. Images lack captions but there is an autograph on one photograph. Some soiling to cover and 8 sheets of album are detached from spine. Unique images are in very good condition. unknown books
17170Sexual Health George W. Corner M.D. Attaining Womanhood. A Doctor Talks to Girls About Sex. New York London: Harper & Brothers 1939. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author on front end page in ink in part: "February 1940 / George W. Corner." 15 scientific and anatomical illustrations of the female reproductive system the ovary sperm cell etc. "This book is intended to provide intelligent girls of high school age with a scientific account of sex and human reproduction." Original blue cloth boards. Gold label with title author and publisher at top of spine. 95 pages. 7.5 x 5 inches. Information on sexual health was not freely available to many people throughout the early 20th century. Some sexual health pioneers such as Margaret Sanger were persecuted under "decency" laws for education women on how to prevent unwanted pregnancy. This volume is remarkable as it was designed for teenagers and clearly lays out scientific facts regarding menstruation conception pregnancy and even some social issues such as how to deal with Sexual Attraction. This volume was a companion to a book aimed at teenage boys "Attaining Manhood." George Washington Corner was an American physician embryologist and pioneer of the contraceptive pill. He played a critical role in the discovery of progesterone. Corner specialized in analyzing the function of hormones in the female reproductive system and with the American gynecologist Willard M. Allen identified the hormone progesterone an ingredient used in oral contraceptives. In very good condition. unknown 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
17181African American Education Frank W. Padelford. "Christian Schools for Negroes."New York: Board of Education of the Northern Baptist Convention 1938. 23 pages. With 10 photo-illustrated images of HBCU campuses. Original illustrated wraps. 9 x 5.5 inches. "The intelligence of the Negro race has often been called in question but their rapid response to the educational opportunities which have been given to them refutes any such groundless assertions." Includes brief histories and writeups on Morehouse College Atlanta University Spelman College Virginia Union University Bishop College Storer College Shaw University Benedict College Jackson College Leland College Florida Normal and Industrial Institute The Mather School and The Ministers Institutes. In very good condition. Only 2 copies in an institutional or university collection according to OCLC Worldcat. unknown books
15033Bradford Academy was admitting female students to its halls as early as the 19th century. At a time when women were typically educated at home or sent to finishing schools that specialized in entertaining and domestic arts the ladies of Bradford Academy experienced the same rigorous classical education as the boys. In this unique and scarce archive there is a well rounded picture of the course work and intellectual stimulation that these women gained as members of the academy.<br/><br/>Collection includes the Course Catalogues for the academic years from 1876 to 1892; Examination Schedules for Academic years 1891-1893; Closing Exercise Programs 1885-1886; Graduation Exercise Programs 1890-1894; as well as 5 Programs and handbills for events and board meetings1888-1892; 5 Tuition Bills; and a Certificate and Rules of Scholarship. All in very good condition. Fascinating and extensive collection of an early institution of coeducation. unknown books
16085Early Women Education. Autograph Letter Signed on verso of a Handbill regarding Ragged Schools April 13 1868. Rev. H. Newton-Vicar of St. michael's Mission Schools Lant Street writes to a donor about the work of the Ragged schools. Verso is a broadside for "The Lant Street Ragged Schools for Boys and Girls Borough Southwark." Reading in part "These Ragged Schools are placed in the midst of the poorest populationin Southwark in are the largest with about 850 attendances daily and the most important in South London." Attendance shows girls far outnumbered boys in the school "Boys in the Lower School Room.167 Girls in the Upper School Room.243.Afternoon Boys.162 Girls.233. The attendants at the Evening School in which more grown persons of both sexes are taught to read and write number about.65." He has made notes in his hand on the broadside portion in part "Ragged Schools male & female." This rare handbill is absent from OCLC Worldcat and considerably more interesting for the first-hand manuscript content regarding the coeducational activities of the school. unknown books
16825Memory album with photographs newspaper clippings and rare mementos from a high school girl in 1930 in Ohio. 23 original gelatin print photos approximately 4.5 x 2.75 in. Signatures and handwritten inscriptions from over 100 classmates teachers and friends. "The Girl Graduate Her Own Book" Designed and Illustrated by Louise Perrett and Sarah K. Smith. Chicago: The Reilly and Lee Co. n.d. 9 x 6 in. Original boards. "The Girl Graduate Her Own Book" in gilt and illustrations of flowers and a young lady on the front cover. 190 pages. Original owner's name and high school written on label printed inside front cover: Gertrude M. Avery Graduated from Bowling Green Senior High "1930". Table of contents include space for handwritten entries on: Class Yell or Motto Photographs Autographs Class Officers Teachers Class Prophecy Invitations Programmes Social Events Press Notices Gowns Presents Jokes and Frolics and the Baccalaureate Sermon. One newspaper clipping lists all of the graduates who were bound for college; notably 18 of the names listed are women.<br/><br/>75 signatures and handwritten inscriptions from classmates. Many include short lines about friendship and school memories. "School days are your happiest days Enjoy them while you're young And become old another day". "Count me as a brick in your chimney of friendship." Some write a shorter but more personal line: "A fellow sufferer in English". Many look towards their futures as wives: "May your life be bright and sunny and your hubby fat and funny." "Come and see me hubby April 28 1935". "When you are married and living at your ease Remember you have a friend who is single and does as pleases. -"Al" Aline Allison". Several sign off with colorful nicknames such as Zoot Midge and Bud. 18 photos of classmates. People are identified by given names although one is simply labeled "pals" though not the context. Many photos appear to be outside of a large school building and two images show "our bus" including the driver and all 28 students who rode it. Two show young ladies labeled "me" Elthel & Maria standing in slacks. Two others shows the subjects in costumes "Lyle & Sally" are dressed in vintage costumes and "Paul Smith" appears to wear a dress and pearl necklace on the following page. 15 additional signatures from classmates p. 120.<br/><br/>22 signatures from teachers and 3 photos. Also portrait of the album owner and photo of her and friend in their Graduation Dresses. 50 pieces of ephemera including programs for musical performances and school plays. Napkins paper flowers press clippings about school dances. Ticket to the Senior Day Steak Roast at City Park. 3 invitations including enveloped pasted in with commencement invitation inside. Includes a handwritten list of gifts received such as: Three Dollars Modernistic Vanity Looking Glass Fancy Hanger and Perfume Atomizer. 4 cards and letter that accompanied gifts pasted in. Scarlet and gray ribbons in school colors. Check receipts for items related to academic fees and class finances. Newspaper clippings list school events and graduation announcements. "Seniors Look Like Gay Nineties Making Whoopee Whoopee Whoopee!" Also a notice about a girls basketball tournament: ".the last game of the girls interscholastic basketball to be played in Bowling Green." Final pages include newspaper clippings of school friends marriage announcements from the years following their graduation. Light scuffs to cover. Some wear to interior front hinge. Very good condition. unknown books
18321819Andover: Flagg and Gould 1832. 4 vols. With a folding map colored in outline in Volume 3 and a frontispiece in Volume 4. Cont. calf a few hinges cracked but still sound. Some occasional text soiling. Volume 1 without its general title. The very scarce first 4 volumes of the J ournal of the American Education Society. The Journal went through a number of names and in 1832 became "The American Quarterly Register.Ó Volumes 3 & 4 have the imprint of Boston: Perkins & Marvin. The first editors were Elias Cornelius and B. B. Edwards. Flagg and Gould unknown books
24458New York N.Y.: Not Published 1910. Group includes: Photography: C. 1915 6 ½" x 8 ¼" grammar school class photograph with very large flag back-drop. Evidence of the gradually changing demographic in New York City as black migration took place from the south and whites left for the suburbs. Edges chipped soiled; plate numbers at lower left; in good condition. Young Jewish man standing portrait; 6" x 9" overall size; H.Smith 109 Second Avenue N.Y. backstamp edges chipped a bit; in good condition. Group of well-dressed Jewish men in a meeting hall; some religious furnishings are visible candelabra lecturn cabinet. Approx. 7 ¼" x 9 ½" size; no photographer or studio identifiers. Group of 9 snapshots mounted on black paper album pages a couple identified of women at various locations circa 1920s. A circa 1915 photo-both strips; one having 2 poses the other four of a young Bertha Levy. The larger strip with the back stamp of Tarr 164 W. 126th St. A real-photo postcard of a larger photograph group-shot of a group of young girls between infant and young teen ages accompanied by 4 women. With the studio identifier of L.I. Harris The Pioneer Photographer of South Beach S.I. A group of 9 loose snapshots and a trimmed real-photo postcard. One identified on back as "Grandstand B.H.P. Sept. 30 1914" and another as taken at Garnerville Labor Day 1913. Ephemera: 13 Individual Rating Report Principal's Report on Teacher's Service for Bertha Liebovitz Levy at P.S. 68 and P.S. 70 1925 - 1943. Approx. 5 ¼" x 7 ¼" size. A couple of typed letters signed by Morris Scherer principal of P.S. 70 one regarding an award to be present to Ms. Levy the other a letter of condolence upon Ms. Levy's death. With 6 handwritten letters 1921 - 1941 complimenting Ms. Levy's kindness & teaching skills and also a request for information for details on a mutual friend's life. Condition: Some of the photographs with edge-wear creases others very good. Paper ephemera with old fold lines some ageing and wear. Overall the group in good condition. . Photgraphy. Not Bound. Good. Not Published Paperback books
1646045121Cologne 1646. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary full overlapping vellum slight browning to page edges in a few spots otherwise a fine bright copy. In two parts Bentivoglio's letters from Flanders beginning as negotiations to end the 80 years war commenced and his letters from France in the second part. 233 3pp. Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Religion & Theology. Inventory No: 045121. <br/><br/> hardcover books
184133795New York: W.B. & T. Smith Printers 1841. First edition. A very good copy a few folds two pinpricks in top and bottom margins. Broadside. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. Not in Sabin. Not in OCLC. Not in NUC. W.B. & T. Smith, Printers unknown books
1703046283London: John Hartley 1703. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Contemporary paneled calf worn and dry rear board detached scattered minor browning and foxing generally quite clean internally. 16 423 1pp. In a custom leather backed slipcase and chemise. Size: Octavo 8vo. Previous owner's book-plate on endpaper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046283. John Hartley hardcover books
15400Early African American Class gelatin silver photograph. 1937 A female African American teacher stands outside a brick schoolhouse with approximately 30 African American students of approximately 1st grade age. Image is approx. 5" x 7" . The class seems to be all African American girls with 2 African American boys far right front row and far left second row. The identification "Garfield School - 1937" is written into the photo at top in negative. One corner creases and some imperfections to white borders but overall very good condition unknown books
193647473Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1936. A New Edition. 3 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth. Near Fine. A New Edition. 3 vols. 8vo. At the Clarendon Press unknown books