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American 19thc Textbooks:

Angell, Oliver. UNION, NUMBER FIVE
Philadelphia 1841.Marshall, Williams & butler. Hardcover. Containing lessons for reading and spelling, with exercises in mental arithmetics, abbreviations, definitons, etc being the fifth of a series of spelling and reading books. In six numbers. small octavo., 296pp., full leather with leather spine label. Owner signed. Good plus, some light foxing throughout. Binding nice and secure. (a12039)
$36.00 Haskel, Daniel . M'CULLOCH'S UNIVERSAL GAZETTEER - A DICTIONARY , GEOGRAPHICAL, STATISTICAL AND HISTORICAL, OF THE VARIOUS COUNTRIES , PLACES AND PRINCIPAL NATURAL OBJECTS IN THE WORLD - VOL. 1 A - H (of 2 vol set)
NY 1843 Harper. Hardcover. Large octavo, 1148pp., 4 very large foldout maps (The (i) World, (ii) Asia, (iii) Navigable Rivers and the Completed and Proposed Canals and Rail-Roads of Great BritaIn and Ireland, (iv) British Possesions in North America) on thin paper (maps good, a bit of fraying on edges and a few small closed tears), 3/4 leather. Front board present but detached (held on by paper hinge). Volume 1 only: (a33380)
$45.00 Emerson, Frederick . THE NORTH AMERICAN ARITHMETIC PART FIRST FOR YOUNG LEARNERS
Philadelphia 1838 Lippincott. 12mo., 48pp., original printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Fair, blank end papers gone, boards very rubbed, lower corner of one text page gone with some small loss of text. (a45697)
$30.00 Kerney, M. J. . IRVING'S CATECHISM OF GRECIAN ANTIQUITIES ...TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A DESCRIPTION OF THE CITIES OF ATHENS AND SPARTA
Baltimore c. 1850. Sixth edition, revised and improved. Nineteenth century American school textbook. 12mo., 109pp., illustrations, original blue printed hardcover. Good, hinges cracked. (a64334)
$25.00 (juvenile) . CHILD'S FIRST HISTORY OF AMERICA
New York 1853 1st Appleton. By the author of Little Dora. Square 12mo., illustrations, original printed paper-covered boards with leather spine. Good, worn, some light foxing throughout. (a65064)
$85.00 (massachusetts) . THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, AND THAT OF THE UNITED STATES; THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, WITH PRESIDENT WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS
Stockbridge (1805) H. Willard. Printed by Order of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and by Them Recommended to the Inhabitants of the Several Towns to be Read as a School Book in all the Common Schools. Octavo, 151pp., 1/2 leather and paper covered wood boards. Ink manuscript note on rear end papers : The property of the school in the North district of Lansborough, or school near to Captn. Gregory's Jan 18th, 1807. Also signed in a child's handwriting by Nathaniel William. A few ink scribbles on end papers. Fair, most of paper worn off boards, mostly disbound but complete. (a69952)
$95.00