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OPEN AIR CRUSADERS: A Report of the Elizabeth McCormick Open Air School together with a General Account of Open Air School Work in Chicago and a chapter on school ventilation.

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Chicago: United Charities of Chicago, (1910). Illustrated by b/w photographs, charts. First edition. Illustrated cloth, gloss paper. 8vo. pp. 107. Near Fine. Pencil owner, traces of wear..
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Narrative Writing: Covering the work of the first half of the first year of the High School Course.

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New York: Stebbins & Co, 1916. First edition. Taupe cloth printed black. 12mo. pp. 60. VG/No jacket, as issued. Minor cover wear, no ownership or marking. Contents: Narrative Sentance; Unity in the sentance, paragraph and the story; Coherence...; Narrative vocabulary; Letter Writing; Paragraphing the Narrative; The Short Story..
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New England School of Law. Campus History Series.

New England School of Law. Campus History Series.

by Hamilton, Philip K.

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: Arcadia Publishing, (2008). First edition. Gloss illustrated wraps. 8vo. pp. 127, [1] ad. As New. A history in captioned photographs throughout, unread copy. ISBN: 139780738556765..
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District School Journal of the State of New York. Vol. VIII, No. 7 & 8
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Albany, NY: Self, Oct. & Nov. 1847. First edition. 2 volumes. Folded wraps, uncut, unopened. 8vo (28cm). pp. 109-124; 125-140. VG. Foxing starting, many unopened signatures. Variable monthly education periodical published from March 1840 (Vol.1, No.1) through March 1851 (Vol. 11, No.12), then merging with New York Journal of Education, to form District School Journal of Education of the State… Read more about this item
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District School Journal of the State of New York. Vol. IX, No. 1

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Syracuse, NY: Barns, Smith & Cooper at the Office of the Daily and Western State Journal, April 1848. First edition. Folded wraps, uncut, unopened. 8vo (29cm). pp. 20. VG. Overall toning (first and last), first page detached, most signatures unopened. Variable monthly education periodical published from March 1840 (Vol.1, No.1) through March 1851 (Vol. 11, No.12), then merging with New… Read more about this item
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Thoughts on Education. The Introductory Discourse delivered before the American Association for the Advancement of Education at its Fourth Annual Session, Held in Washington in December, 1854

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Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, 1855. First separate edition. Stitched wraps with original printed wrapper. 8vo (23cm). pp. [17]-31. Rear cover ad for the contents of Number 1 of the American Journal of Education and College Review. VG. Light minor staining. First Secretary of Smithsonian Institution and pioneer experimental physicist in electricity (magnetism). Scarce..
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Report on The System of Popular Education in the City of New York; Presented to the Board of Education May 28, 1851

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New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co. Printers, 1851. Illustrated by five tables, two as folding charts. Table C: Of The Common Schools, Table D: Colleges and Universities. First edition. No. 9. Board of Education. Sewn wraps. 8vo. pp. 32, [4]. Good+. Disbound report (stitching missing), joint tears to Table D and missing rear cover..
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Article VII-Common Schools and the English Language. A Course of Study for Primary Public Schools. AN ADDRESS Delivered in New Haven, February 4, 1860, before the Common-School Visitors of the County and the Common-School Teachers of the City

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New Haven: [New Englander and Yale Review Volume XVIII], May 1860. Edited by [Edward Royall Tyler et al.]. Disbound article edition. Sewn wraps, uncut. 8vo. pp. 429-440. VG. Soil, several stains and old folds, not disbound. Early paper of then Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Public Schools of New Haven. Later President of Yale and founder of Sheffield… Read more about this item
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Scientific Schools. Part I. France. THE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL AT PARIS.

Scientific Schools. Part I. France. THE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL AT PARIS.

by Barnard, Henry 1811-1900.

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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, (1862). First separate edition. Reprinted from Barnard's American Journal of Education. Original blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine printed "Polytechic School". 8vo. pp. [2] ads, [ii], 130, [22] educational publication ads. VG/No jacket, as issued. Lightly sunned spine, overall page toning. Part one in a series of papers on scientific schools for the American Journal of Education intended… Read more about this item
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University of the State of New York. Regents' Bulletin No. 2 July 1890. AN ADDRESS Delivered at the University Convocation Albany, N.Y. July 9, 1890

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Albany: University of the State of NY, 1890. First Separate edition. Stapled wraps with original printed cover. 8vo. pp. 83-102. VG. Archival spine reinforcement to toned cover, several edge chips with center leave pulled. Includes informative pieces on the University, State Library and State Museum..
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Advancement of the Common Schools, AN ADDRESS Delivered on the 23d of August, 1843 before the Pupils and Alumni of the Normal School at Bridgewater, M[as]s, The.

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Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1844. First separate edition. Stitched wraps with original printed wrapper. 8vo (19.5cm). VG. Covers lightly stained with a "2" and Emerson's name written on cover, tiny corner chip, foxing starting internally. Scarce early address of the Founder of the Emerson School for Girls and cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson..
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Norwich Free Academy. AN ADDRESS at the Dedication of the Free Academy in Norwich, Conn. together with the remarks of gentlemen present by invitation.

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Norwich: L.&E. Edwards, 1856. Illustrated by engraving of building and grounds (rear). First separate edition. Reprinted from Barnard's American Journal of Education for December, 1856. Stitched wraps with printed wrapper. 8vo. pp. 56. Near Fine. Light staining/soil to wrappers, internally fine. Early address of notable education and temperance advocate (including higher education of women)..
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Chapter of Errors in Appletons' Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas. An Article entitled "Poisoning of the Wells". Reprinted from The Messenger, A.

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New York., [1902]. Reprint edition. Green printed wraps. 8vo. pp. 20. VG. Toned cover with archival spine reinforcement, several edge chips to cover. Paper protesting the depiction of Catholic doctrine and practices in the 12 volume Universal Cyclopaedia edited by Charles Kendall Adams in 1900. There was a name change in 1902 with editor Rossiter Johnson..
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CATALOGUE OF THE OFFICERS & STUDENTS of Middlebury College, and Vermont Acadamy of Medicine, In Connexion. October 1825

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Schenectady: I. Riggs, Printer (Cabinet Printing-House), 1822. First edition. Stitched uncut wraps. Signed by several class members in quill on cover. Inscribed by James B. ___? to Joseph Law of Union College. 8vo. pp. 16. About Good. Foxing starting, edge tears. Includes Senior, Junior, Sophomore, Freshman class names, references, course of studies, students, and tuition..
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CATALOGUE OF THE OFFICERS & STUDENTS of Union College, June 1824

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Schenectady: I. Riggs, Printer (Cabinet Printing-House), 1824. First edition. Stitched uncut wraps. Signed by several class members in quill on cover. 8vo. pp. 7-13, [3], 4. About Good. Foxing starting, first page of senior class excised with pp. 7 starting with Samuel A. Porter. Includes Senior, Junior, Sophomore, Freshman class names, references, course of studies. 203 students, tuition 108 per… Read more about this item
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TIBER AFIRE, The.

TIBER AFIRE, The.

by Seta, Fabio Della.

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VT: Marlboro Press, (1991). Translated by Frances Frenaye from the Italian. First English Language edition. c.1969 as L'Incendere del Tevere. Red cloth. 8vo. pp. xiv, [2], 175. Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in clear archival cover. 1938 Italian government barred Jews from public schools, established Villa Celimontana for Jewish children where author attended. ISBN: 0910395632..
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Cambridge MA: Published by the University (University Press, John Wilson & Sons), 1895. Illustrated by facsimiles (Bequest of John Harvard). First edition. Crimson cloth. 8vo. pp. 515, [1] blank. VG/No jacket, as issued. Cap wear, alphabetical president's list has pen numerical order beside each name, one ink spot p. 465-6. Mass Bay Colony through 1895..
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FESTZUG Jubilaum der Universitat Heidelberg 1386-1886

by Kley, Heinrich 1863-1945.

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Heidelberg: Verlag (von Bangel & Schmitt) Otto Peters und Edmund von Konig, 1886. Edited by Karl Hoff 1838-90. Illustrated by Heinrich Kley in black and white. First edition. Illustrated red cloth backed paper covered boards. Oblong: 15x523cm folded to 15x22cm. pp. [48], colophon. VG. Red cloth reinforced with acid free tape. Illustrated 24 panel acordian-fold time line with captions depicting… Read more about this item
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Winter Park, FL: Self, December 1959 [and] n.d. Illustrated by b&w photographs and maps [and] all period b&w photographs ca.1895. First edition. Rollins College Bulletin, Vol.LIV, No.4 [and] separate pamphlet. 2 volumes. Gray stapled wraps. 8vo [and] oblong 8vo. pp. 38; [16]. VG/Ex-Lib. Library bookplate, numbers and stamp to cover, internally NF. Intended as a supplement to main catalog. Views… Read more about this item
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New Curriculum, The.

by [Rollins College].

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Winter Park, FL: Self, September 1931. Illustrated by rear cover map. First edition. Rollins College Bulletin, Vol.XXVII, No.I. Gray stapled wraps. 12mo. pp. 40. VG/Ex-Lib. Library bookplate, numbers and stamp to cover, internally NF. Intended as a supplement to main catalog..
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