Boston, January 13, 1858. A.n.s., approx 7 x 5 inches on an unlined bifolium, [1] page. With the original stamped cover. Billhead approx. 5.25 x 8. An evocative and interesting clue to the spread of learning (and to the effects of sectional politics on scholarship) in antebellum America. Benjamin Sherwood..... More

Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The Weatherford Printing Company, May, 1912. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 24, [1] pages. Seven inserted plates. "It was Dr. Baird, I believe, who said that a public museum should be 'a collection of labels with specimens to illustrate them.'" Issued as Educational Paper 1 by the..... More

[Milford, Otsego County, New York, ca. 1817 to mid-1840s]. Two saddle-stitched gatherings bound together with stab-stitched soft doeskin thongs, approx. 13.13 x 8 inches, 40 leaves in autograph ink (with evidence of leaves extracted and a few portions of leaves and text torn out). A few ink diagrams in the..... More

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, [n. d., but 1833?]. Evidently a later printing of this tract. 12mo, original printed wrappers, 24 pages. A comprehensive plan on the proposed spread and regulation of Sabbath schools through the west and the rural areas. Apparently first published under the pseudonym "Owen"..... More

[Ann Arbor]: (Courier Print), [1881]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, [4] pages. Dramatic title page vignette. “Blow every fish horn loud and clear, / And yank the chapel bell, / Old Mathematicus non est, / He’s dead and gone to ——!” The satirical program for the ritual..... More

[Waltham, Mass., ca. 1900-1915?]. Oblong 8vo, quarter calf, pebbled cloth sides, 52 pp. autograph notes on Greek and Roman architectue, 63 pp. autograph notes on mechanical drawing. Illus. throughout (esp. the mechanical drawing lectures), with an additional 14 inserted plates of mechanical drawing examples. The detailed notes on two courses..... More

[Suffern, N. Y. School of Living, ca. 1945]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, approx. 8.25 x 5.5 inches, [4] pages. Vignette portrait. The standard dominant narrative of postwar America is that of the flight to suburban conformity; Ralph Borsodi and the School of Living had instead for a number of years..... More

London: Printed by G. Scott for J. Robson and B. Law, 1770. First edition in English of Bielfeld's Les premiers traits de l'erudition universelle, first published in French in Leyden in 1767. 3 vols, 8vo, contemporary calf, red morocco labels, gilt lettering, [xvi], 445; [2], ii, 443, [2] plus folding..... More

Chicago: Daily Democrat Steam Press, 1858. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 8.25 x 5.5 inches, 40 pages. With much in the way of tabular data on the demographics of the delinquents (43 American born delinquents in 1858, 47 Irish born), education levels, crimes committed, sanitary condition of the homes from..... More

Boston: Published by S. G. Simpkins, 1841. First edition. 16mo, original blind-stamped diaper grain blue cloth, gilt lettering, 48 pages. "No man of ordinary observation can pass through the streets of New York or Philadelphia, without meeting numerous living witnesses of the misery which exists in both of those cities..... More

Ann Arbor, Mich. Pulished for the University, 1890. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 248 pages. Ink signature at the head of the front wrapper, "Bertha E. Pritchard." (Per the Bentley Library, Pritchard matriculated in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and graduated with an A.B. in 1891.)..... More

Canandaigua [N. Y.]: Printed and Sold by J. D. Bemis & Co.; also sold by C. Morse and Co. Geneseo; and R. W. Haskins and Co. Buffalo, 1823. Second Canadaigua edition. 12mo, original tree calf, black leather spine label, gilt rules and lettering, 264 pages. The first Canadaigua edition of..... More

Boston: Printed by Samuel T. Armstrong, 1819. Stated tenth edition. Original marbled wrappers, 5.5 x 3.38 inches, 72 pages. Illus. Nearly entirely Biblical in nature, which—given the title—may not be entirely a surprise. Ink autograph gift inscription to a Sabbath school at the head of the front blank, with an..... More