New Haven: Yale University Press, 1914. First edition limited to 1000 copies, 2 volumes, large 4to, pp. xxii, [2], 368; 452; portrait frontispieces, plates throughout; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine, t.e.g.; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, light shelf wear, volume 2 upper cover a...... More

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., [1948]. First edition, 2 vols., 12mo, xviii, 123, [1]; text illustrations; full tan cloth, signed by the author on free endpaper of vol. 1, with ownership signature of Rodney T. Hood; fine in chipped and suntoned dust jackets. A classic introduction to the topic, which..... More

Des Moines: F. W. Palmer, State Printer, 1864. 8vo, pp. iv, 118, [2]; fine copy in original tan printed wrappers. Includes an act to authorize the teaching of German, or other language, in the common schools; an act prohibiting the exclusion of the Bible from the schools of the state;..... More

[n.p.]: Mathematical Association of America, [2012]. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 271, [1]; printed paper boards; fine. "A showcase of some of the best activites and student outcomes of the Institute. Based on 26 essays and eight additional pieces, concerning a wide variety of mathmatical tidbits, teasers and treasures." More

Detroit: Advertiser Power Presses, 1852. 8vo, pp. 52; disbound, ex-library book with usual markings; a sturdy and unmarked copy. Tappan's first address as the first official President of the University of Michigan, a position newly created by the 1850 state constitution. Tappan was a strong proponent in the German model..... More

Boston: Elam Bliss, for R. M'Dermut, 1810. Third edition, 12mo, pp. 16, 5 engraved plates, 1 folding; original printed paper wrappers; covers toned and spotted, spine perished with string repair, corner of lower cover perished and corner of last plate worn (no loss of letterpress), plates foxed, good. The first..... More

St. Paul: Saint Paul Public Schools, [2002]. 4to, pp. [10], 106, xxiv, [4], 109, [1]; text in double column; printed paper wrappers; lower wrapper bumped with short closed tear, else fine. More

Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1862. Boston edition (reprint), 214, [2]; engraved frontispiece, text illustrations throughout; original black cloth over drab pictorial boards; covers darkened, extremities a bit scuffed; later rubber stamp on front pastedown, else a very good, sound copy. At head of title: "Tower's Second Reader." 2 pp. of..... More

London: William Pickering, 1834. 4to, pp. xvi, 358, [2], 118, [10]; 10 engraved plates, woodcut on title; original purple cloth, printed paper spine label; shelf-worn, a bit shaken, some offset from frontispiece to title, lightly foxed, still a good, sound copy. Keynes 93. More

Philadelphia: John Young, 1830. First edition, 8vo, pp. 16; removed from binding, small closed tears to fore-edge of last two leaves, light waterstaining. Tyson was a lawyer and historical writer who served on many educational boards, including as Manager of the Apprentices' Library Company, and as a director of the..... More

[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1955]. New, enlarged, and revised edition, 8vo, pp. 239; original boards in tan dust jacket; mild shelf wear to jacket edges, else about fine. "Principles that govern the writing of the language [illustrated] with examples" (jacket blurb). Published in The Language Library series, edited by Eric Partridge..... More

Terre Haute: Friends of the Cunningham Memorial Library, 1999. First edition limited to 50 copies, 4to, pp. xix, [1], 171; original cream pictorial spiral-bound wrappers; fine. More than 1500 entries. Indiana only in OCLC as of December, 2013. More

New York: E. Duyckinck, T. & J. Swords [et al.], 1803. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. lvi, 353; [2], 470, [10]; contemporary full sheep, black morocco labels and red morocco numbering pieces on spine; the text is tones, both bindings rubbed and worn, but sound. In fact, not the first American..... More