Early American Textbooks 1775-1900.

Washington, D.C., OERI Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Bound in brown printed, illustrated wraps. xvi, 287 p. Extensive catalogue of American textbooks 1775-1900, arranged by subject, with bibliography, author and subject index. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Double-column text, easy to use.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 345979

Catalogue: American History

Keywords: American history|Early American Textbooks|Educational Research Library

Every Man His Own Doctor: Or, the Poor Planter's Physician

Williamsburg, Virginia, 18th Century Williamsburg, 1971. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Stated facsimile reprint from 1971 of the Second Edition of this classic in medicine and social history. Original was printed by William Parker in Williamsburg, Virginia and Annapolis, Maryland. Decorative marbled wraps, saddle-stitched, clean and unmarked of interior. 56 pp. plus two-page Index. The full title is: Every man his own doctor, or, The poor planter's physician: prescribing plain and easy means for persons to cure themselves of all, or most of the distempers, incident to this climate, and with very little charge, the medicines being chiefly of the growth and production of this country."Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 357212

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Keywords: Colonial Williamsburg 18th century America U.S. history medicine

Life of General Taylor

New York, Cornish, Lamport & Co., 1851. . Hardcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. A racing hagiography of the American General Zachary Taylor, born in 1790, hero of the U.S./Mexico and other battles and wars. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, bound in red cloth over boards, gilt design of a soldier on horse at front cover, gilt lettering and designs to spine, quite fine, clean, if toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities beyond scuffing to spine head and foot. Previous owner's extensive penned inscription at first free endpaper. 256 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 357207

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Keywords: General Taylor Zachary Taylor U.S. Mexican War military history American history

Young Progressives of America

This Is Our Credo // These Are Our Aims

New York, Young Progressives of Ameria, 1949. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Be a '49er. Join YPA." An item apparently unique in the trade, there being currently no copies available on-line or at WorldCat dot org. Young Progressives of America pamphlet titled "This is our Credo" (on the first page), "these are our aims" (on the fourth and final page of this four-page pamphlet). Published in New York by the Young Progressives of America, being the Junior year in high-school of the illustrator, one Betty LaDuke, later Betty LaDuke and who just enjoyed a full-on art gallery opening in Corvallis, Oregon on October 7th, 2022. Measures 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" when opened, "1949" penciled at bottom rear panel. else clean, not much toned, and unmarked. Betty Bernstein, of the Music and Art High School, graduated from high school and eventually married Vincent ("Sun Bear") LaDuke; she bore the Native American activist Winona LaDuke. This brochure calls for six numbered aims: full academic freedom, 2) a minimum wage of $1.00 for a "decent, secure job," 3) adequate unemployment insurance, 4) an end to Jim Crow in all its forms, 5) free college education for four years; and 6) "an end to all war - cold or hot - an end to all preparations for war against the Soviet Union." Betty LaDuke has been engaged in art and progressive activism in nine decades now, working in and between 35 different countries to which she has traveled and in which she has lived done art while engaging local artists. A unique item.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 353121

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Keywords: socialism Young Progressives of America Betty Bernstein Betty LaDuke Winona LaDuke young progressives

Anonymous

Important Documents Which Accompanied the Message of the President of the United States at the Opening of the Second Session of the Eleventh Congress

New-York, Prior and Dunning, printed by Southwick & Pelsue, Printers, 1809. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. An apparent First Edition of this important State Paper, being an extraordinary record of correspondence between U.S. government officials and envoys and other representatives of the King of England and His Majesty's Council and French equivalents. Spine of the original publication is taped and then bound in to a sort of library binding of wallpaper over boards, brown paper-backed. Top-stained in blue, with some superficial markings to endpapers, a gnawed page, light waffling to paper, penned pagination at upper tips, else clean and unmarked. The tape at spine has an abraded title label. Some toning to text portion, else very good. [3], 4-88 pp. Comprised of the correspondence between Robert Smith, then Secretary of the U.S. Navy with representatives of the King, Erskine, Jackson and Pinkney, and with French notables such as Count Champagny, all about maritime activities and sovereignty in the lead up to the War of 1812. Robert Smith was the Secretary of Navy during Thomas Jefferson's two terms as President and later served as James Madison's first Secretary of State.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 349535

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Keywords: U.S. Congress|Robert Smith|D.M. Erskine|Albert Gallatin|Pinkney

Dickins, Asbury and John W. Forney

American State Papers. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, from the Second Session of the Nineteenth to the Second Session of the Twenty-First Congress, Commencing January 12, 1827, and Ending March 1, 1824-1827, Class VI, Volumes II and III, Naval Affairs

Washington, D.C., Gales & Seaton, 1860. . Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Two remarkably attractive ardcover copies, Volume II and Volume III, rebound and with new endpapers and gilt-stamped titles to spines, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; ex-library, but only minimally so, there being an ink-stamp to each volume at title page noting that the volume had once been in the U.S. Congressional Library, but with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Massively heavy, oversized volumes. Occasional smudging to or crimping of pages, else, tightly bound, clean and unmarked of interiors. This volume is given over to "Naval Affairs" mostly from the 1820s, 1830s and 1840s. An incomparable set of primary documents for the scholar of U.S. history, the U.S. Navy, navigation, and military history.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 346717

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Keywords: American State Papers|U.S. Congress|19th Congress|20th Congress|21st Congress

Dickins, Asbury and John W. Forney

American State Papers. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, from the Second Session of the Nineteenth to the Second Session of the Twenty-First Congress, Commencing January 12, 1827, and Ending March 1, 1824-1827, Class VI, Volumes II and III, Naval Affairs

Washington, Gales & Seaton, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copies, Volume II, rebound in a creamy black buckram cloth and with new endpapers and gilt-stamped titles to spines, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; ex-library, but only minimally so, there being an ink-stamp to each volume at title page nothing that the volume had once been in the U.S. Congressional Library, but with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Previous owner's ink-stamp at title page, having been once in the library of the House of Representatives. Massively heavy, oversized volume. Occasional smudging to or crimping of pages, else, tightly bound, clean and unmarked of interiors.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 346750

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Keywords: American State Papers|U.S. Congress|19th Congress|20th Congress|21st Congress

Beecher, Catherine A.

Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book: Designed As a Supplement to Her Treatise on Domestic Economy

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1848. Third Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being only a single additional copy of this edition available currently on-line. Published in New York in 1848 by Harper & Brothers in Third Edition state and in overall Good condition, bound in blue cloth over boards in an octavo hardcover format. Plentifully illustrated throughout. Bound sturdily, same light cracking to hinge though holding, and lightly and uniformly foxed, and also a gift from the same foundation. Bound in original publisher's blue boards. Another bird's-eye look into what the author considered to be the ideal home of the mid-1800s, evincing her expertise if not pioneering status in kitchen planning and labor management including the wife/mother herself, but extending to counter-prep and newfangled sinks and wash-tubs, ranges and ovens, stoves, utensils, refrigerators and gadgets. The author was the eldest of nine children borne by Roxana Foote, her father having been Lyman Beecher. She was the sister of Henry Ward Beecher, and of course Harriet Beecher. Gift bookplate denotes this as having been a gift from the Sontheimer Foundation of Greenwich, Connecticut. xiii, 2-306-pp. plus a Preface to the first edition of the "Treatise" that preceded, plus eight pages of publisher's back catalogue at rear.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 355835

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Keywords: U.S. history American history etiquette domestic ecology domestic economy household management Catherine A. Beecher

Beecher, Catherine A.

A Treatise on Domestic Economy, for the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at School

Boston, Marsh, Capen, Lyon and Webb, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Published in Boston by Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1841, in First Edition state and in overall Fair condition because an oblong shape is missing from the backstrip, else tightly bound, a perfectly serviceable reference copy, bound in brown cloth over boards; nothing fancy, but complete and still pretty sturdy. The interior is tightly bound and clean, the hinges are slightly cracked but still holding firm. The bite of the type is satisfying. Light foxing. Gift bookplate denotes this as having been a gift from the Sontheimer Foundation of Greenwich, Connecticut. The author was the eldest of nine children borne by Roxana Foote, her father having been Lyman Beecher. She was the sister of Henry Ward Beecher, and of course Harriet Beecher. An important early work in "domestic economy" and ecology, it went through over a dozen editions in its life. The Treatise deals with many, if not all aspects of domestic life including standardization of routines and practices and the instillation of particular values. Granted, Beecher believed that a woman's proper role was in the home where she could affect values and morals and behaviors of her charges, but she was also an early proponent of (at least) white girls' education beyond intellectual. In 1823, she and her sister, Mary Foote Beecher Perkins, co-founded a girls school (the Hartford Female Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut). She also taught physical and domestic education there and mentored eventual famous women students. 441 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair

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Keywords: U.S. history American history etiquette domestic ecology domestic economy household management Catherine A. Beecher

Stone, William; Richard Bennet and William Claiborne

A Declaration Published in Maryland; Captain William Stone's Resignation of the Government; Order for Settling the Government of Maryland

Washington, D.C., Peter Force, . Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: Elephant Folio 23" tall. Virtually certainly a reprint by the Peter Force who published enormous quantities of American and then U.S. historical documents, looking virtually identical to other reprinted documents of his dating to the 1830s. Single elephant folio-sized sheet, folded thrice, one fold about 3/4 split, some foxing thereto, but still completely and easily readable. "Captain William Stone's Resignation of the Government" begins on p. 38 and ends on p. 39, with "Witness my Hand the 20 of July, 1654 In Presence of William Stone, Thomas Gerrad, Thomas Hatton, and Ed. Scarburgh, the latter three (probably) being the three authors. "A Declaration Published in Maryland" is on p. 36 and p. 37, dated at Pauxent, Maryland, dated 15 of July 1654, by Richard Bennet and Will Claiborne.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 349264

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Keywords: William Stone|Maryland|American history|Richard Bennet|William Claiborne

Bordewich, Fergus M.

Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, not price-clipped. From the publisher's blurb, "A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soilwhen Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government to dismantle the KKKThe Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as the first organized terrorist movement in American history, rose from the ashes of the Civil War. At its peak in the early 1870s, the Klan boasted many tens of thousands of members, no small number of them landowners, lawmen, doctors, journalists, and churchmen, as well as future governors and congressmen. And their mission was to obliterate the muscular democratic power of newly emancipated Black Americans and their white allies, often by the most horrifying means imaginable.To repel the virulent tidal wave of violence, President Ulysses S. Grant waged a two-term battle against both armed Southern enemies of Reconstruction and Northern politicians seduced by visions of postwar conciliation, testing the limits of the federal government in determining the extent of states rights. In this book, Bordewich transports us to the front lines, in the hamlets of the former Confederate States and in the marble corridors of Congress, reviving an unsung generation of grassroots Black leaders and key figures such as crusading Missouri senator Carl Schurz, who sacrificed the rights of Black Americans in the name of political reform, and the ruthless former slave trader and Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest. Klan War is a bold and bracing record of Americas past that reveals the bloody, Reconstruction-era roots of present-day battles to protect the ballot box and stamp out resurgent white supremacist ideologies." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xix [2], 4-447 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 356919

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Keywords: Civil War American history Ulysses S. Grant Fergus M. Bordewich Reconstruction K.K.K. Ku Klux Klan

Boyd, James P.

Life and Public Services of Hon. James G. Blaine: The Illustrious American Orator, Diplomat and Statesman

Chicago, Publishers' Union, for the Monarch Book Company, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Cracking to front pastedown, else sturdy, clean and unmarked. Bound in burgundy cloth over boards, no lettering to spine, but blind-stamped illustrations and flourishes to front cover in burgundy, gilt and black, quite fine. Replete with black-and-white illustrations and period photographs. With an Introduction by Honorable John Russell Young. An accessible illustrated biography of James G. Blaine, a Senator from Maine and Secretary of State under Presidents Garfield and Harrison. Protected by plastic sleeve.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 352072

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Keywords: James G. Blaine James P. Boyd John Russell Young orators U.S. history American history rhetoric

Ely, Burnham and Bartlett

Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Illinois, Convened at the City of Springfield, Tuesday, December 13, 1869, Volume I

Springfield, Illinois, E.L. Merritt & Brother, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A First Edition, Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Illinois, convened at the City of Springfield, Tuesday, December 13, 1869, Volume I, having been recorded by the stenographers Ely, Burnham and Bartlett. Marbled paper over boards, brown cloth tips-backed, original boards present but scuffed and worn and with backstrip missing. Some predictable waffling to text-block, but with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Some soiling to and foxing of edges and endpapers, else clean and unmarked. Perfect candidate for rebinding. Triple-column text makes for easy reading. An indispensable item for students of Illinois. 1,076 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair

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Book number: 346712

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Keywords: Constitutional Convention|Illinois|U.S. history|U.S. government|Springfield Illinois

By One Who Went to It [Warren Burton]

The District School As It Was

London, Carter, Hendee and Col, 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. An apparent First Edition, from 1833 (Howes), with multiple editions published again 1838, 1850, 1852, 1897, and 1928, at least. Bound in mottled, wrinkled thin leather over boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, rubbed and abraded paper label to spine, light chipping to spine head. Quite a didactic novel, in 156 pp., published anonymously, meant to point out shortcomings in public education in the rural hinterlands of early America. The author, Warren Burton, was a Harvard-educated Unitarian minister, mostly "at-large" but well thought of. The biographer of a Christian church-respite, Brook Farm, Lindsay Swift, notes that he spent about three years there, then left without notice in 1844 and disappeared. No front endpaper, previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair

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Book number: 356610

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Keywords: The School District American history Warren Burton U.S. history American education

Coker, Joe L.

Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement

Lexington, Kentucky, University Press of Kentucky, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, Religion In The South, published in First Edition state in 2007. The only brand-new copy available on-line, straight from the publisher. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. From the publisher's blurb, "In the late 1800s, Southern evangelicals believed contemporary troubles―everything from poverty to political corruption to violence between African Americans and whites―sprang from the bottles of "demon rum" regularly consumed in the South. Though temperance quickly gained support in the antebellum North, Southerners cast a skeptical eye on the movement, because of its ties with antislavery efforts. Postwar evangelicals quickly realized they had to make temperance appealing to the South by transforming the Yankee moral reform movement into something compatible with southern values and culture. In Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement, Joe L. Coker examines the tactics and results of temperance reformers between 1880 and 1915." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. x, 1-329 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . New/New,

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Book number: 353497

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Keywords: The Lost Cause prohibition temperance Civil War Reconstruction alcohol Joe L. Coker