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Wright, Alexander Tremaine. SAMUEL TAYLOR, ANGLER AND STENOGRAPHER (2 VOLUMES IN BOX; SIGNED)
1904 first edition. Willis-Byrom Club "for its members only." no place given. Two matching volumes, square sm4to, papercovered boards with mounted printed labels on front panels. in original box with printed title label. 44p. 52p. Copy # 38 of only 61 printed. ****Signed by five members including Alexander Tremaine Wright. Other signers are: Jerome B Storrs of Cincinnati, John M Warden of Edinburgh, J E Rockwell of Washington DC and Charles Currier Beale of Boston. Facsimile booklet of "Stenography; or the art of short hand perfected" bound in nice marbled paper is laid in vol 2. (booklet is in Fine condition.) Volumes are VG with end paper toning and slight spine end wear. Hinges not cracked; text clean. Box is Good, intact but somewhat worn . Pictures available on request. (a103238)
$600.00Howard, Jerome B (ed). THE PHONOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE - 18 issues March - october 1894
Cincinnati 1894 first edition. Phonographic Institute. 16 4to issues. About 15 pages per issue. Articles include: Phonography in the Public Schools, Portrait of Henry Pitman, Portrait of F G Adams. Good, a few issues have backstrip reinforcement. No owner marks. Shorthand journal. 18 issues, not bound together in one volume. Shorthand. (a108727)
$79.00Longley, Elias. AMERICAN MANUAL OF PHONOGRAPHY
Cincinnati 1865 first edition. Longley. Being a complete guide to the acquisition of Pitman's phonetic shorthand. Hardcover. 12mo, 138p., original light brown cloth with gilt lettering. Library bookplate. Good plus, binding securel text clean. (a22006)
$30.00 Clement . LA STENOGRAPHIE OU L'ART D'ECRIRE AUSSI VITE QU'ON PARLE
Paris An IX (1801) Chez l'Auteur. In French. Hardcover. 12mo., 70pp., half leather and marbled boards. Owner signed. Near Good, boards quite worn on edges. (a33033)
$85.00 Reed, Thomas Allen . A BIOGRAPHY OF ISAAC PITMAN (INVENTOR OF PHONOGRAPHY)
London (1890). Hardcover. Small octavo, 191pp., illustrations, index, printed boards. VG, fore-edges spotted, tiny chip along top margin of final few leaves (roughly opened). (a44691)
$50.00 Holmyard, F. ; E. Howard and H. Morton Jones (editors) . THE NATIONAL PHONOGRAPHER; THE PHONOGRAPHERS' MONTHLY SHORTHAND MAGAZINE (25 journal issues bound in one volume)
England 1892-1894. Volume 1 Numbers 1 thru 12 and Volume 2 Nos. 1 thru 7, March 1892 thru April 1894. (112pp.) Bound with: The Phonographers Monthly Shothand Magazine, Volume 1 No. 1, September 1892; No. 2, October 1892; No. 6, February 1893; No. 7, March 1893, and No. 8 8 April 1893. Except for article titles, the text is written in shorthand. Includes illustrations of early typewriter, famous stenographers and stenography teachers. Interesting articles as: Phonography as a Recreation, by T. A. Reed; A Phonographer of 21 Years Ago, by E. A. Cope; Swan Fountain Pen Competition; British and American Stenographers Compared. Bound in one volume, 8vo., original green cloth with mounted brown leather spine label. A few exceedingly light pencil circles in text on a few pages. VG, corners lightly bumped. (a44726)
$220.00Vassallo, Edgard V.. COURS RATIONNEL DE STENOGRAPHIE PITMAN
London 1953. In French. Hardcover. 12mo., 109pp., original printed cloth. Near Fine, no DJ. no owner marks. (a56153)
$23.00 Gould, M. T. C. . THE ART OF SHORT-HAND WRITING , BY WHICH THE LANGUAGE OF A PUBLIC SPEAKER MAY BE RECORDED IN A STYLE BOTH BEAUTIFUL AND LEGIBLE AS FAST AS DELIVERED COMPILED FROM THE LATEST EUROPEAN PUBLICATIONS WITH SUNDRY IMPROVEMENTS ADAPTED TO THE PRESENT STATE OF LITERATURE IN THE UNITED STATES
Philadelphia 1832 revised stereotype edition, with new additions. Published and sold by the Author. Hardcover. 12mo., 60pp., two page frontis (engraved illustration of Elements of Short Hand and calligraphic rendering of titlepage), original cloth. Very old bookplate. District Library and number in ink inside front cover.Tiny old book seller stamp. Good. (a56947)
$35.00Mavor, William. UNIVERSAL STENOGRAPHY OR A PRACTICAL SYSTEM OF SHORTHAND
London 1807 new edition Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme and Brown. Octavo, 55pp., 9 plates illustrating the shorthand, wraps with later spine. Good. (a6241)
$75.00 Addy, Guliemus (William) . HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT WITH SINGING PSALMS, IN SHORTHAND
London 1687 Printed for the Author and sold by Dorman Newman. William Addy was an early innovator of shorthand. Very Small. Hardcover. 16mo. 4-1/2 x 3-1/4 inches. (6), 396pp., (1), double page engraved frontis piece, small engraved vignette of Garden of Eden, full gilt decorated leather with marbled end papers. Double column text. All pages have decorative red line borders. All edges brightly gilt. Key to the shorthand code neatly handwritten in ink on rear end paper. VG plus, light wear. Excellent condition - beautiful book. Rare. (a66076)
$2900.00 Albrecht, Dr. Karl . LESEBUCH FUR ANGEHENDE STENOGRAFEN
Hamburg 1878 dritte, verbesserte Auflage, Haendcke & Lehmfuhl. In German. Hardcover. 12mo., 76pp., 3/4 cloth. VG, light wear. (a73158)
$45.00 Pitman, Benn and Jerome B. Howard . THE PHONOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY AND PHRASE BOOK
Cincinnati 1913 first edition Phonographic Institute. Hardcover. Octavo, 552p., publisher's catalogue, greygreen cloth. Ex-exlibrary with spine numbers and bookplate but no pocket. VG. (a85961)
$29.00(stenography/shorthand). THE PHONOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE - 11 issues, February 1913 - December 1913 (individual issues, not bound together)
Lacks only January issue to be complete run for 1913. Cincinnati. 1913 first edition. Phonographic Institute. 12mo wraps. Photo portraits of stenographers on cover; some text illustrations. About 50 pages per issue. Advertisements at beg and end. Near Fine, no wear, no ownership marks. Group of 11 issues. Cover portraits of William H Folland, John F. Holaday, Marvin Miller, Eugene Morehouse, George M'Bride, John E Gill, Dr. Wm. D. Bridge, Benn Pitman (sculpture), B N Gordon, Charles F Whitton, Willard B Bottome. (a91144)
$59.00 Carlton, W J . SAMUEL PEPYS HIS SHORTHAND BOOKS (contained in one issue of Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, June 1933)
London. 1933 first edition. June 1933. octavo wraps. Carlton article on pp. 73-84. Other articles in issue as well. Good, some wear, no ownership marks. (a92075b)
$29.00Brown, Karl and Daniel Haskell (John R. Gregg, association). SHORTHAND COLLECTION IN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
NY 1935 first edition. NYPL. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 644pp., index, buckram binding. VG, cover faded. hinges secure; text clean. ***Copy signed by John R Gregg in presentation to E. L. Delafield, dated 1943. (a96193)
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