Vietnamese and teaching in Vietnamese in D.R.V.N. universities
Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1968. First edition, 12mo, pp. [3]-130, [2]; near fine in original printed wrappers. Contains seven essays on the Vietnamese language. More
Education
Williams College: the induction of Harry Augustus Garfield...into the office of president, October seventh, MDCCCCVIII
N.p. The Riverside Press, 1908. 8vo, pp. 127; black and white photographic portrait frontispiece; contemporary purple cloth, gilt-stamped upper cover and spine, khaki endpapers; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, spine toned, ink blot on top edge, interior fine. More
The part of the University of Michigan in the work of higher education
[Washington? 1885?]. 8vo, pp. 15; stitching; a good tight copy. Reprint of an address given by Adams to the President and members of the Alumni Association of the University; first printed in The Chronicle. More
Signed by Adams
A letter to American teachers of history
Washington, [D.C.]: [press of J.H. Furst Co., Baltimore], 1910. First edition, signed by Henry Adams at the end of the introductory letter; 12mo, pp. vi, 214, [2]; original green cloth, spine a bit sunned and with a small snag in the cloth (not effecting any lettering), otherwise very good. "In... More
Petit vocabulaire of klein woordenboekje, ingerigt tot een lesboekje voor de eerstbeginnenden
Amsterdam: Johannes Allart, 1798. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 237, [1]; text in double column; contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, quite rubbed, spine and edges faded and toned, top half-inch of spine head paper perished, interior fine. French entries, Dutch equivalents. Not in OCLC, Zaunmuller, or Vancil. More
Forty-one doors: a summer school for writing and painting [cover title]
Brewster, MA: Forty-One Doors, ca. 1950s. Bifolium, 4to; black and white illustrations, text on pp. [1-3] only; fine. Advertisement for a nine-week summer school held at the Aikens's Cape Cod farmhouse Forty-One Doors. Offered rate of $375, inclusive, for board, resident, and tuition. The Aikens had also run a similar... More
The American standard of orthography and pronunciation, and improved dictionary of the English language, abridged for the use of schools.
Burlington, N.J. printed by John S. Meehan, 1815. First edition, 12mo, 16 & unpaginated lexicon in double column, a nice copy in full orig. sheep, wavy blindstamped fillets on spine. In the advertisement on the verso of the title, the author hopes for the need of an unabridged version of... More
Approaches to teaching the works of Samuel Johnson
New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 152; as new in original wrappers. More
Approaches to teaching the works of Samuel Johnson
New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 152; as new in original gray cloth lettered in purple on spine. More
Munimenta academica, or documents illustrative of academical life and studies at Oxford ... By Rev. Henry Anstey.
London: Longmans, [et. al.], 1868. 2 volumes, royal 8vo; ex-library copy with usual markings, small cracks in upper hinges, spines and joints rubbed, small cracks in spine ends, else good or better in contemporary quarter brown morocco gilt over blue cloth. These two volumes contain documents from the thirteenth to... More
Epistolae academicae Oxon. (Registrum F). A collection of letters and other miscellaneous documents illustrative of academical life and studies at Oxford in the fifteenth century.
Oxford: Oxford Historical Society, 1898. First edition, 8vo, 2 vols., pp. xlix, [3], 336; [6], [337]-725, [1]; 15 facsimiles (some double-page) bound in at the back; fine set in orig. blue cloth. More
Northwestern University Medical School, 1859-1959: a pioneer in educational reform.
Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University, [c1959]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 495; illustrations in text throughout; a fine copy in the dustjacket with small tear at upper edge of back panel and some rubbing. More
The English works of Roger Ascham, preceptor to Queen Elizabeth ... with notes and observations, and the author's life. By James Bennet
London: printed for T. Davis and J. Dodsley, n.d. [1767]. First edition, second issue, 4to, pp. [2], 4, [4], xvi, 395; recent brown calf-backed marbled boards; very good and sound. John Ryland's copy, with his dated (1768) signature on the title page, and with a one-and-a-quarter page quarto manuscript account... More
The schoolmaster: or, plain and perfect way of teaching children to understand, write, and speak the Latin tongue ... Now corrected, and revised, with an addition of explanatory notes, by the Rev. Mr. James Upton...
London: Benj. Tooke, 1711. 8vo, pp. [12], xiii, [1], 212, [2], 40, [4] ads; 1 full-page engraved illustration; removed from binding; a very good copy. See Printing and the Mind of Man, 90: "In 1553 [Ascham] began the work which has made him famous, The Scholemaster. The book was occasioned... More
The English works of Roger Ascham, preceptor to Queen Elizabeth...with notes and observations, and the author's life. By James Bennet.
London: printed for T. Davis and J. Dodsley, n.d. [1767]. First edition, second issue, 4to, pp. [2], 4, [4], 395; full contemporary speckled calf, red morocco label; joints cracked, spine ends chipped level with text block, lower headband gone, extremities rubbed, minor spotting, else a good and reasonably sound copy... More
Fifth biographical record of the class of fifty-eight, Yale University. 1858-1908
New Britain, Conn. The Record Press, 1908. Edition limited to 250 copies, 8vo, pp. 205; black and white photographic frontispiece, 5 plates; later limp blue cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover, manuscript paper spine label; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, gift bookplate from the University; general light shelf wear, interior mostly fine. More
Technical education in the United States and England
Philadelphia: [Philadelphia Inquirer], 1884. 8vo, pp. 3, [1]; self wrappers; fine. Last page provides list of the economic papers published by Baird; this pamphlet a reprint of a letter written to the editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, April 30, 1884. Scarce, only one copy in OCLC, at the American Philosophical Society Library in Philadelphia. More
And you thought it was dead? [cover title]
n.p. Cast by Randolph Bertin at the foundry of Bradley Hutcinson, [ca. 1990]. Bifolium, 12mo; fine. A short, entertaining essay on the author's experience at "Monotype University" at the Hill & Dale Private Press and Typefoundry. Not in OCLC. More
Le maître italien (1510-1660): bibliographie des ouvrages d'enseignement de la langue italienne destinés au public de langue française, suivie d'un répertoire des ouvrages bilingues imprimés dans les pays de langue française
Bruxelles: Emile Van Balberghe, 1987. 8vo, pp. lix, [1], 358; facsimiles; original pale blue printed wrappers, near fine. Bibliography of Italian language textbooks and dictionaries produced for French speakers, printed from 1510 to 1660. More
Essays on several subjects
London: Richard Bently, 1692. Second edition, small 8vo, pp. [4], 178; full contemporary sheep, 18th-century calf gilt-lettered spine laid down, red morocco gilt spine label; armorial bookplate of Strickland Freeman Esq. dated 1810 mounted to front pastedown; edges and hinges rubbed, else very good and sound. DNB II, p. 719... More
Frisian-Dutch bilingual primary schools
['s-Gravenhage, Netherland: Ministry of Education and Science, 1976.]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 86; illustrated throughout; fine in original pictorial wrappers. More
Fifty years at Williams under the administration of presidents Chadbourne, Carter, Hewitt, Hopkins, and Garfield. [Books I-III (of IV)]
Pittsfied, Massachusetts: 1928-1932. 3 volumes, 8vo; black and white photographic portrait frontispieces, illustrations throughout; Book I in original grey, tape-bound printed boards, Books II and III in original half tan cloth over printed boards; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, Books I and II with gift bookplates from Williams College... More
To be or not: an E-prime anthology
San Francisco: International Society for General Semantics, 1991. 8vo, pp. xix, [3], 185; original white wrappers, near fine. More
A design for scholarship.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1936. First edition, 8vo, [4], vi & 185pp., fine in orig. green paper-covered boards, paper label on spine; printed presentation card from the author laid in. The texts of 13 speeches by the president of Johns Hopkins. More
The Edinburgh encyclopaedia, conducted by David Brewster ... with the assistance of gentlemen eminent in science and literature ... The first American edition, corrected and improved by the addition of numerous articles relative to the institutions of the American continent...
Philadelphia: Joseph and Edward Parker, 1832. 18 volumes text, plus 2 volumes of plates; 4to, original mottled calf, red and black morocco labels on spines; some internal tears, minor rubbing and scuffing, occasional mild to moderate dampstains, some foxing, several flyleaves loose with tears, one partially torn away, but in... More
