[n.p.]: The Mathematical Association of America, [2010]. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xvi, 461, [1]; pictorial paper covered boards; fine. "A thorough presentation of classical solution methods for plane geometry problems ... with a collection of methods that have appeared since 1600." More
Lawrence: Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1975. 8vo, pp. 40; printed from scripted text; original tan pictorial wrappers; near fine. Publication based on an independent study made by a group of students at the University who taught beginning Latin in the Eudora, Kansas public school system. "Since the..... More
Philadelphia: p56414 rinted by W. Hall, Jun. & G. W. Pierie, 1809. First edition, small 4to, pp. 98; wood-engraved frontispiece and 2 double-page plates (Nash notes 4 individual plates but in fact they are double-page plates as being on the same sheet); the large folding plate is lacking; text diagrams;..... More
Providence: c. 1864]. Manuscript lectures on geology, 8vo, 111 pages, plus blanks; limp black roan, upper cover loose, text neatly written in ink and pencil; sound and legible. The full text of multiple lectures by George Chace, at the time professor of Geology at Brown University. The lectures cover a...... More
Providence: Sidney S. Rider & Brother, 1866. 8vo, pp. 51, [1]; old sticker on the upper wrapper, text slightly toned, else very good in original printed gray wrappers. Stern and heavy handed, Wayland did bring about progressive ideas for discussion in the classroom, but lack of support for his progressive..... More
Providence: Providence Press Company, state printers, 1867. 8vo, pp. xxix, [3], 161, [1]; largely unopened; original printed gray wrappers; small loss at the corner of the upper wrapper; all else very good. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1932. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 3-50, [4]; original brown cloth; gilt-stamped monogram of Columbia University on front cover; gilt spine lettering; fore-edge and lower edge untrimmed; near fine. Some musings about American university education and trends in popular thought. John Jay Chapman was a...... More
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[Boston: Harvard Graduates' Magazine, 1924]. Reprinted from the Harvard Graduate's Magazine, 8vo, pp. 20, original printed self-wrappers; fine. A debate between Chapman and Perkins on the commercialization of higher education, particularly within the business school. Chapman accuses Harvard of chasing alumni money to a predatory degree, criticizes preferential matriculation of..... More
[New York]: Palgrave Macmillan, [2012]. 8vo, pp. xxiii, [1], 291, [1]; blue printed paper covered boards; fine. "Examines the process of schooling in Taiwan amidst the social, cultural, economic, and political conflicts resulting from local and global dilemmas and issues." More
[Minneapolis: Indian Education Department, Minneapolis Public Schools, 1995?]. 4to, pp. iii, 15, [1]; illustrations; original grey pictorial wrappers; some wear from handling. More
Natick: A. K. Peters, [c. 2000]. Third edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 70; pictorial paper wrappers; fine. Signed by Cipra on title page. More
Boston: printed and sold by Samuel Hall, no. 53, Cornhill, 1796. First edition, 12mo, pp. 148; removed from binding; a half-inch excised from top of title and table of contents leaf, small burn stain on a few leaves but no holes, text otherwise clean and sound. The anonymous student is..... More
London: Charles Hitch, 1740. 12mo, pp. [4], 222, [2] ads; recent polished brown calf-backed boards, red morocco label on gilt paneled spine; some spotting of the text; overall appearance is fine. Clarke (1687-1734), a classical scholar, was head master of the Hull Grammar School, and later of the Gloucester Grammar..... More
Boston: published by Peirce and Parker, no. 9 Cornhill, 1833. First edition, 12mo, pp. x, [12]-362; original full brown cloth neatly rebacked, preserving the original printed spine label; covers stained; good and sound. Inscribed to "Wm. P. Mather from the author" on flyleaf. Cogswell was secretary of the American Education..... More
Taipei: Office of the Military Historian, 1969. Oblong 8vo, pp. xiii, [9], [426]; portraits, name, date of birth, and home town, with English translations, full blue cloth gilt; portraits sometimes of poor quality due to the facsimile nature of the text, pages clean and sound, near fine. More
Amstelodami: Danielem Elzevirium, 1665. Small 8vo, pp. [22], 266, 238; title page printed in red and black; woodcut printer's device and initials; full contemporary calf (dampstained), gilt spine in 6 compartments, all edges speckled red; 18th- or early 19th-century owner's notes on recto and verso of front free endpaper, ownership..... More
London: printed by B. Alsop, for the Company of Stationers, 1649. A famous school-book, and legendarily rare. This edition apparently unrecorded. "I profess to teach thee, that art utterly ignorant, to read perfectly, to write truely, and with judgement to understand the reason of our English-tongue with great expedition, ease..... More
Cambridge: printed by W. Hilliard & E. W. Metcalf, 1811. 12mo, pp. 24; removed from binding; title leaf reattached, else very good. Hooper's poem, "Seclusion," begins on p. 18; beginning on p. 21 are songs by Edward Everett and Nathaniel L. Frothingham. American Imprints 22617; Wegelin 997. More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1869. 4to, pp. 95, [1]; wood-engraved illustrations throughout, 16 full-p. color maps and 2 double-p. color maps; childish pencil scribble on endpapers, 1 internal page with clean tear; original pictorial boards rubbed and worn, but the binding is sound. A good copy. More
Cambridge [Mass,]: University Press….Hilliard and Metcalf, 1817. First edition, 8vo, pp. 32; sewn and untrimmed in self wrappers, pages 1 and 32 a little darkened and foxed, but all else clean and bright. Crafts (1787-1926), a Harvard grad, enjoyed renown as a poet, lawyer, orator, and statesman from Charleston, South..... More
New York: Stockholder Job Printing Office, 1867. First edition, 8vo, pp. 7; original terracotta printed wrappers, removed from old paper wrappers; very good. OCLC locates only the Yale and the Geological Survey Office copy. More
Newton: The Mathematical Association of America, 2005. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 238, [2]; yellow and blue printed boards; scratch on lower board, else fine. More
New York: published by A. S. Barnes & Co., 1850. First edition, 16mo, pp. 144; original green printed wrappers; spine worn; tear in upper rear joint; otherwise very good. For the benefit of teachers in the field of mathematics. More
London: Robert Baldwin, [1842]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xx, [1], 4-785, [1], 64; quarter black leather over marbled boards, gilt title on spine; edges rubbed, joints cracked, text clean and sound, bookplate of chemist Sydney Ross on pastedown, good. Originally published in 25 parts between 1836 and 1842, The Differential..... More
Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1986. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 303, [1]; 2 plates; near fine in dust jacket (old price sticker on rear cover). Full-length critical study of the full range of material in Johnson's Dictionary. "Although the Dictionary is primarily a...... More
