Introduction to counting & probability
[Alpine, CA: AoPS Incorporated, 2005]. First edition, 2 vols, including the solution book, pp. xii, 243, [1]; vi, 112, [2]; a few corners creased, else fine. More
Education
Conversation. An address delivered before the Newburyport Female High School, on the third anniversary of its establishment, December 19, 1846 ... Second edition
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1847. 12mo, pp. 23, [1]; original printed brown wrappers; edges curled and one or two small chips, else very good. Peabody (1811-1893) was a Unitarian pastor, author, and a trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy. He attended Harvard at the age of 12 and at the..... More
Inscribed to John Mayfield
The story of language
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1949]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 493, [1]; full tan cloth, gilt title on spine; boards faded, corners bumped, text clean and sound, inscribed by Pei to John S. Mayfield, very good. Laid in is an autograph postcard signed from Pei, dated March..... More
Address delivered before the alumni of Brown University, Tuesday, June 15, 1880 ... Poem by Rev. S. F. Smith
Providence: Sidney S. Rider, 1880. 8vo, pp. 45, [1]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; all else very good. Pierce's address focuses on the public and social duties of the college graduate. More
Will you read this, and keep it till it shall be called for? Knowledge is Power - Lord Bacon. To this should be added, "If it includes the knowledge of one's own language, by which, chiefly, that power is to be wielded." English Grammar - popular lectures...
New York: Jan. 4, 1841. Folio broadside, approx. 19" x 13", text in triple column, top half of the broadside announcing a series of lectures on English grammar in various locations in New York, and classes "for a term of years" on grammar at the Park Grammar School. Dates, times..... More
A new and complete system of arithmetick. Composed for the use of the citizens of the United States ... Third edition. Revised, corrected an improved, and more particularly adapted to the federal currency, by Nathaniel Lord
Boston: Thomas & Andrews, 1808. 8vo, pp. 480; contemporary full calf, gilt ruled spine, morocco label; endpapers lacking; boards worn, head of spine chipped, light spotting in textblock, good and sound. More
A mirror for the female sex. Historical beauties for young ladies. Intended to lead the female mind to the love and practice of moral goodness...
Hartford: printed by Hudson and Goodwin, for Oliver D. and I. Cooke, 1799. First American edition, 12mo, pp. xxiv, 211, [1] ads; contemporary full calf, boards scuffed with morocco label on spine partially perished, light stain in gutter of last few leaves, else clean and sound. Mary Pilkington was primarily..... More
The beginnings of Pitmanic shorthand in England and in the United States, as I know them.
Chautauqua, NY: August 16, 1905. Typescript transcript, [1], 19 leaves typed on rectos only; bound with an incomplete transcript of a speech by Olivery Dyer on shorthand, 2 leaves; printed gray limp cloth covers, spine sunned, near fine. A speech given at the Chautauqua Institution, focused primarily on Benn Pitman's..... More
A manual of phonograpy; or, writing by sound...
New York: John Donlevy, 1844. Third American edition, 16mo, pp. 32, 3 double-sided folding charts; contemporary cloth-backed marbled paper boards, edges dyed green, light foxing, corner of one chart mis-folded, owner's stamp on first page of introduction, very good. A relatively early American Pitman imprint. Benn Pitman would not establish..... More
The reporter; or, phonography adapted to verbatim reporting
Bath and London: published by the author, 1846. Second edition, 8vo, pp. 79, [1]; 30 pages of engraved shorthand exercises; original printed paper wrappers; spine perished, covers toned and starting, binding weak but holding, some pencil in the margins, fair. More
A year at the Sorbonne: a Proustian life
Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 2002. Edition limited to 150 copies, this, the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery, and out-of-series; 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 127, [3]; 4 pages of photographic inserts; title-page vignette and chapter headers engraved by Sandy Connors printed in blue; original quarter blue cloth, patterend paper-covered..... More
A year at the Sorbonne: a Proustian life
Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 2002. Edition limited to 150 copies (this, no. 12); 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 127, [3]; 4 pages of photographic inserts; title-page vignette and chapter headers engraved by Sandy Connors printed in blue; original quarter blue cloth, patterned paper-covered boards also by Connors, paper label on..... More
На темы русские и общие: сборник статей и материалов в честь проф. Н.С. Тимашева / Na temy russkie i obshchie: sbornik statei i materialov v chest prof. N.S. Timasheva
New York: Society of Friends of Russian Culture, 1965. 8vo, pp. 428, [4]; frontispiece portrait; blue printed paper wrappers; wrappers a little toned, spine with some wrinkles but no splits or damage, text clean and sound; very good. Nicholas Sergeyevitch Timasheff (Никола́й Серге́евич Тима́шев) was a sociologist and pioneering professor..... More
Three lectures on liberal education
Cambridge: Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, printers to the University, 1836. First edition, 8vo, pp. 72; removed from binding; light foxing, very good. An argument for the learning of Greek and Latin. Popkin was the second Eliot professor of Greek literature at Harvard and in his memorial, he is cited as..... More
Quindecennial meeting and dinner of the class of 1878, Yale University
Hartford: Press of the Fowler & Miller Co., 1893. Slim 8vo, pp. 94; original half white cloth over grey boards (soiling), upper cover stamped in black and gilt; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, spine discolored, edges and corners scuffed, interior mostly fine. Publication includes the menu, starting with Canapés..... More
An address delivered before the Franklin and the Washington Literary Societies of Lafayette College ... at the eighth annual commencement. September 20, 1843
Easton: printed at the Sentinel Office, 1843. 8vo, pp. 37, [3]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; all else very good. American Imprints 43-4139; Sabin 64317. More
An address delivered before the Rhode Island Historical Society, on the evening of February nineteenth, 1851 ... Published at the request of the Society
Providence: George H. Whitney, 1851. First edition, 8vo, pp. 27, [1]; original printed brown wrappers; very good. At the back is printed the Society's Constitution, adopted in 1848. Bartlett, p. 208; Parks 788: "History of education in R.I." More
An address delivered before the Rhode Island Historical Society, on the evening of February nineteenth, 1851 ... Published at the request of the Society
Providence: George H. Whitney, 1851. First edition, 8vo, pp. 27, [1]; original printed brown wrappers; near fine. At the back is printed the Society's Constitution, adopted in 1848. Bartlett, p. 208; Parks 788: "History of education in R.I." More
Report of the Committee of the General Assembly appointed to draught a plan for disciplining baptized children
New York: Whiting and Watson, no. 96 Broadway, 1812. First edition, 8vo, pp. [3], 4-56; uncut; original printed brown wrappers; ex-N.Y. State Library with small inoffensive rubberstamp on the wrapper; very good. Wrapper dated 1813. American Imprints 26519; Sabin 65218. More
Valedictory address to the graduating class of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania at the eighteenth annual commencement, March 12, 1870
Philadelphia: LOAG, printer, Samson Street Hall, 1870. First edition, 12mo, pp. 15, [1]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; old vertical fold, text clean; very good. Ann Preston was a member of the first class of the Pennsylvania Women's College, which was itself the first school anywhere to train women in..... More
Saint George's School in the war
[Boston]: printed for the Alumni Association of Saint George's School [by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press], 1920. 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 168, [2]; frontispiece, 16 gravure portraits and 3 other gravure plates; original red cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover, black cloth spine lettered in gilt;..... More
Miscellaneous observations relating to education. More especially as it respects the conduct of the mind
New-London [CT]: printed by J. Springer for C. T. Green, and S. Green; and J. Trumbull, Norwich, 1796. First American edition, 12mo, pp. x, 102, [2]; contemporary green paper-covered boards backed in calf; waterstains on boards and first and last few leaves, corners rubbed, signature of Gamaliel Manning on front..... More
Muscipula sive cambromyomachia: the mouse-trap, or the battle of the Welsh and the mice; in Latin and English: with other poems, in different languages. By an American
New York: M. W. Dodd, [1840]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 96; original brown cloth, stripe-grained, decorative blind-stamping; gilt lettering on front cover; spine extremities chipped down to textblock, mid-spine a bit chipped; corners scuffed; otherwise very good. A collection of Greek, Latin, and French poems with corresponding English translations for..... More
The early struggle for public education in Rhode Island
To the City Council of the City of Providence. Manuscript petition to the Providence City Council concerning public schools
Providence: January 30, 1837. 4to (approx. 10" x 8), 5 leaves of ruled stationery, with manuscript in ink on rectos only, in a neat, secretarial hand, bound with blue silk ribbon; previous folds, very light staining, otherwise near fine. Interesting chapter in the historical evolution of the Providence school system..... More
Half-page autograph letter signed, concerning a student
January 16, 1845, 1845. One page, 8¼" x 7½"; blue paper; fine. A note from Josiah Quincy to an anonymous father informing him that his son "has satisfied his instructor so little in history that he is ordered to study it during the vacation under a private instructor as specificed..... More
