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1647046538Amsterdam: Elzevirium 1647. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Attractively rebound in modern full calf old ownership marks and a long pen mark to title modest foxing and age toning to pages clean overall and a nice copy. 8 80 192 119 1 60pp; 8 62 8pp. <br/> Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 046538. Elzevirium hardcover books
196725089New York NY: The Cooper Union 1967. 23 pages; illustrated throughout in black and white. Articles including Cooper Union's stance and attack on air pollution in cooperation with the state and City of New York & the engineering & science dept. of the school; plans for a new building; photographs by Art Kane; artists at Green Camp; biography of a Cooper graduate police lab scientist alumni news & other information pertinent to Cooper Union; published quarterly. Previous subscriber mailing address on back panel; approx. 8 1/2" x 11" size; black and white illustrated stapled covers; little nicks to the paper edges edge-darkening; in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. The Cooper Union paperback 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
1707619th c. Women's Education Autograph Letter Signed by a mother to a her daughter at Ipswich Female Seminary MA.1866: 4 pages folded from a single sheet. 8 x 5 in. Original mailing envelope with stamp and address. She writes on the girl's academic studies as well as the regulations with living in student life. ": "I am glad to hear from you so often & that you are getting along so well.I am satisfied that you try to have good lessons.I think it would be a good plan for you to go with a Latin class - if you will not have to work too hard." She also writes: "I do not expect you can always be perfect. I know that you will not break any of the rules of the school knowingly.I don't know as I understand what you wrote about Mrs Coats not allowing you to buy things to eat if it was that you should not go to the stores & buy treat I think she is perfectly right but I suppose she would have no objection to your having something from home." Ipswich Female Seminary was founded in Massachusetts in 1828 and the school's focus was on preparing girls for careers as teachers and missionaries. It offered a "rigorous curriculum" including study of English arithmetic geography chemistry human physiology history the natural sciences religion vocal music and calisthenics and placed an emphasis on "standards of personal conduct and discipline." As part of their preparation students practiced teaching with guidance from school instructors. Ink is slightly faded. A unique and personal piece of early Female Education history. unknown books
16202Henry M. Pierce "Address to the Second Graduating Class of the Rutgers Female College; delivered in The West Presbyterian Church Rev. Dr. Hastings' on Sabbath Evening May 31st 1868. By Henry M. Pierce LL.D. President of the College. New York: Agathynian Press. 1868. Inscribed on inside end page "Compliments of H. M. Pierce President". Blue wrappers. 16 pages. 9 ¼ x 6 in. While Rutgers had a "Female Institute" for higher education since 1839 the school was accredited to award four-year degrees in 1867 and became Rutgers Female College with a location on 5th Avenue in Manhattan. An important piece of history from one of the earliest four-year colleges open to women. unknown books
1685041459's Gravenhage: Johan Veely Tongerloo Jasper Doll 1685. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary leather worn at edges heavily at corners hinges rubbed spine cracked but binding firm and intact. Bright internally wear to endpapers. Attractively engraved added title page. Printed in two columns 1520 numbered leaves. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 041459. <br/><br/> Johan Veely, Tongerloo, Jasper Doll hardcover books
18543249N.P 1854. Complete 28 page handwritten manuscript play prompt drawn directly from Julia Corner's 1854 adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. Stitched at spine and holding though some pages are loose or delicate. Occasional staining largely confined to margins or rear blanks. Composed in one woman's hand in ink throughout with what appears to be a much younger girl's annotation in pencil to the final pages. The text throughout corresponds with Corner's book with the exception of stage directions occasionally being abbreviated or simplified. We have been unable to locate the "Miss Lacy's School" mentioned in the younger girl's note.<br/><br/>Julia Corner the daughter of a printer became a prolific children's author in her time; and her adaptation of Beauty and the Beast was hailed for "creating quite a sensation among all the middling-size children" according to Eliza Cook's Journal from that year. At a time when there was debate about the morality of performance and theater Corner was noted for "wisely sympathizing with child-natures and she declares her belief in the propriety and profit of theatrical amusement among children"; and Eliza Cook's Journal documents instances of girls in particular gravitating toward the play "settling all the characters for all available friends" and performing at home or school Cook Vol 10. Here we see first-hand evidence of this phenomenon: girls in a ladies' school taking on roles and acting them out for classmates. Further research into the school its location and its class of girls would be enlightening -- uncovering for example if there were multiple prompts for girls who could not access Corner's text whether the manuscripts were done as a handwriting exercise in addition to the performance or whether one individual simply copied this play out as a souvenir of the event. The hand used throughout is elegant and well-trained -- seemingly a grown woman whose spelling corresponds with contemporary American rather than British expectations. <br/><br/>The choice of a fairy tale like Beauty and the Beast also deserves study as it promotes particular feminine qualities -- including respect for authority filial affection and self-sacrifice and modesty -- even within the darker setting of fairies sorcery and punishment. <br/><br/>A unique opportunity for research in fields including but not limited to the trans-continental transmission of fairy tales girls' education the history of performance didactic literature and performance in schools gender studies and paleography. unknown books
1604044714Hanover: Typis Wechelianis Wechel 1604. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary overlapping vellum slight soiling and discoloration but sound and attractive. Discoloration to endpapers old greek inscription to front blank final colophon leaf present. Two volumes bound in one each with a separate title page - printed in two columns the original Greek and the Latin translation. An attractive and well preserved edition of Diodorus of Sicily's history - the first volume is books 1-5 and the second 11-20 all that survive from antiquity with Henri Estienne's introduction from his 1559 edition. xxx 363 59; xii 1013 3pp. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044714. <br/><br/> Typis Wechelianis (Wechel) hardcover books
1951210413Detroit: UAW 1951. 30p. staplebound wraps very good. UAW unknown books
1843045561Madrid: Oficina del Establecimiento Central 1843. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary tree calf spine darkened corners worn; pencil marks to endpapers else very clean internally. 3 volumes in 1 each with a separate title. 72pp 64pp 77pp Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Biography & Autobiography. Inventory No: 045561. <br/><br/> Oficina del Establecimiento Central hardcover books
1903024659Published by the Class 1903. Cloth. Very Good. Ex-library with usual marks. Letter from the author to Bowdoin college librarian conveying the book and asking his opinion. Light shelfwear else unmarked. 532pp many portraits. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: History; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 024659. <br/><br/> Published by the Class hardcover books
196941882Atlanta: Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council 1969. First Edition. Quarto 11" x 8-1/2". Side-stapled wrappers; 36pp. Fine. A roster of Black elected officials in the south as of 1969. Alabama had the most; North Carolina the least. Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council unknown books
198420362F.A. Foster 1984. First Edition. Near fine in original printed saddle-stitched wrappers. Thin octavo. 6.325 x 8.5 in. 8 pp. Signed by F.A. Foster on title page. Scarce. <br/><br/> F.A. Foster unknown books
194964575Johannesburg: The Education League Opvoedingsbond 1949. 2nd enlarged ed. Paperback. Very Good. 38p. Wrapper. 22cm. <br/><br/> The Education League (Opvoedingsbond) paperback books
185038804New York: n.p. 1850. First edition. Self wrappers. Very good copies light soiling. 4 pp.; 4 pp. 8vo. Two editions of the Resolve the first for the Board Edward B. Fellows Clerk dated May 15th and the second headed 'No.3' for "each of the Commissioners Inspectors and Trustees of the Several Ward and Public Schools to be distributed among the Teachers" Albert Gilbert Clerk with an additional date of Oct.16th 1850. The Committee followed the recommendations included in the report and "Resolved That the Board of Education earnestly recommend the Inspectors and Trustees of the several Ward and Public Schools to exert their united influence to abolish corporal punishment in every department of the Schools under their control." it was signed by Dr. William A. Walters Samuel A. Crapo John McLean and Wm. S. Duke. Though the various boards had encourage less severity beginning in 1823 it was not until twenty years after this resolve in 1870 that the practice was banned and which remained in effect despite attempts to reverse it over the years. Currently 19 states allow corporal punishment in schools. Rare. OCLC locates no copies of the first document and only one of the second: Trinity College. n.p. unknown books
1095Steinbeck John. New York University Division of General Education. BOOK ADVERTISING. Materials handbook for the Seminar on Book Advertising Spring Semester 1947. Tabloid size newsprint pages stapled including advertising rates for various American newspapers and examples of book advertisements. Nice full page ad for CANNERY ROW. Fine condition. <br/><br/> unknown books
1883037901Boston: Boston Board of Trade 1883. Hardcover. Very Good. Some wear and chipping with loss on spine edges. Gilt page edges. Great period advertisements throughout. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Scattered foxing but text mostly clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Business Finance & Marketing; History; Inventory No: 037901. Boston Board of Trade hardcover books
1806046466London: John Stockdale 1806. Second Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. 4 volumes in contemporary leather bindings rebacked with the spines laid back down inner joints strengthened with cloth tape. Modest browning and foxing occasional light stains and wear to page edges some offsetting but generally clean and a very good copy overall. With 104 engraved plates 57 maps mostly folding and a 1 paginated folded chart. ccvi 415 1 blank2 ; iv 518 2; iv 527 1 blank 29 1 blank; iv 570 30pp. Brunet I 1511. <br/><br/>The second edition of Gough's Britannia the first was published in 1789. "bien préférable aux précedentes" Brunet. Size: Folio. 4-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Geography & Maps. Inventory No: 046466. John Stockdale hardcover books
16336Ragged schools and Hackney Juvenile Mission were bringing previously unavailable educational opportunities to poor children and young offenders. Original Broadside titled "Hackney Juvenile Mission and Ragged Schools"- dated Mar. 17 1871. From Hackney a district in East London England. Author Alfred Knight Hon. Treasurer Hackney Juvenile Mission and Ragged Schools founded in Well Street Hackney 17 March 1871 Bruce Hall and Lyme Grove Hall Mare Street Hackney London: Printed handbill circular of the 'Hackney Juvenile Mission and Ragged Schools' with list of officers and a long poem titled 'Prayer and Potatoes' illustrated with two engravings. Ragged schools were charitable organizations dedicated to the free education of destitute children in 19th century Britain. The schools were developed in working-class districts. Ragged schools were intended for society's most destitute children. unknown books
192514687Washington D.C.: American Printing Co 1925. First Edition. Broadside 20cm x 13cm ca 8"x5". Printed recto only; single column of text with portrait. Fine. Small promotional handbill for a rally and concert to benefit the Hampton-Tuskegee "Eight Million Dollar Drive" campaign. Featured speakers were R.R. Moton Anson Phelps Stokes and Kelly Miller; music provided by the Hampton and Tuskegee Quartettes. With halftone portrait of R.R. Moton. Together with a separate printed program of identical dimensions listing the speakers and order of ceremonies. Not located via OCLC. American Printing Co unknown books
19111598Brooklyn 1911. Sewn binding. Tan illustrated sewn wraps gold thread. Very good. Unpaginated 8 pages. Program for the Brooklyn Heights Seminary Club performed at The Brooklyn Academy of Music April 28 1911. Featured in the program are the daughters of the social elite including: Eunice Beecher granddaughter of Henry Ward Beecher and members of the Van Brunt Cropsey Ditmas Loomis Peabody Pratt and Scudder families. The Club was located at 18 Pierrepont Street and members were made up of the Senior Department of Brooklyn Heights Seminary with the expiration of their membership two years after leaving the Seminary. The Club was organized in 1885. Some light stains to wraps otherwise crisp and clean. <br/><br/> paperback books
225364Washington DC: AFL-CIO Department of Education n.d. Pamphlet. 92p. wraps 8.5x11 inches a few small stains on front wrap else very good condition. AFL-CIO Department of Education unknown books
1989198733Washington DC: AFL-CIO Department of Education 1989. Pamphlet. 78p. wraps 8.5x11 inches very good condition. AFL-CIO Department of Education unknown books
16728Women's Education Movement. Burlington Female Seminary Catalog 1850-1851. Decorative cover states it was founded in 1835. An early owner "Lizzie Lathrop" has signed her name on the top right comer of the cover. Perhaps a new student of the school as her name is not listed among the pupils. The minimum ago for admittance was 12 years old which was actually the gold standard at the time when most boarding schools and some colleges nature admitted pupils from age 8 or younger. The senior class curriculum is the same for all pupils. It includes Latin Chemistry GeometryPhilosophy of Rhetoric Intellectual Philosophy Physiology Kame's Elements French Moral Science and the Constitution of the United States. No copy could be found among Institutional or library Collections according to 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. This document dates from just 3 years after Seneca Falls. unknown books
1974131978San Francisco: Marxist-Leninist Education Committee SF Bay Area 1974. Pamphlet. 32p. wraps old price on front wrap else very good condition 5.25x8.5 inchers. Marxist-Leninist Education Committee (SF Bay Area) unknown books
