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

Chicago: Published by Root & Cady, 67 Washington Street, 1866. First edition of the first number of this juvenile musical quarterly. Small 8vo, contemporary marbled boards, cloth spine and tips, [ii], 5-61, [2] pages (lacks wrappers; this may be an issue sold in boards). Illus. Each number of this quarterly..... More

Paris: Aux Librairies Protestantes, 1890. First edition. 16mo, original printed blue wrappers, 78, [1] pages. Small map. Evidently an annual report on the work of the pioneering Protestant asylums founded by Calvinist pastor John Bost in La Force in the Dordogne, which took in abandoned and orphaned children, the mentally..... More

(Birmingham, England: Press of Hudson & Son), [ca. 1899]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, approx. 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 4 pages. Promotional material (including testimonials) for this "school for young stammerers" run by Mr. and Mrs. Beasley in Brampton Park, near Huntingdon, "Where Education in all its branches, embracing the highest..... More

Boston: Marden & Co. Printers, 32 Congress Street, 1840. First edition of this occasional report of this early charitable organization. 24mo (6.13 x 3.81 inches), original marbled wrappers, 53 pages. A token of the importance of maritime commerce in New England, a charitable organization founded as an association of sea..... 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

Boston: Published by A. N. Johnson, 86 Tremont Street, 1852. First edition. Oblong 12mo (4.63 x 7.25 inches), original sheep spine, printed orange boards, 224 pages. Printed music and words. “The arrangement of the Elementary principles, differs entirely from that of any similar work, known to the Editors. The Elementary..... More

New York: Published by A. S. Barnes & Co., 1847. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 7.5 x 4.63 inches, 36, [12] pages. An entry in what came to be called "the war of histories" between the pioneering female educator Willard and the rival textbook author (and critic), Willson. Willson had..... 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