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and close friend of Swift (1687-1738), grandfather of Richard Brinsley
Sheridan.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
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PESTALOZZI: - Payne (Joseph).
Pestalozzi; the influence
of his principles and practice on Elementary Education. A
lecture delivered at the College of Preceptors, Feb. 20, 1875.
Henry S. King,
1875
FIRST EDITION, 20-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very
good copy.
Payne (1808-76), introduced Jacotot’s system into England and was
himself nominated first professor of education in England by the
College of Preceptors.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
YOUNG (Frederic Rowland).
Hints how to make home happy: in which are contained
thoughts on home, happiness, courtship, matrimony, parentage,
child training, government, and other subjects connected with
home interests, and home duties.
London: Edward Truelove,
Epworth: Read & Co., circa
1854. FIRST COLLECTED
EDITION, pp 39, (1), small 8vo, recent wrapper: a very good
copy.
Not in NSTC or COPAC. Originally published serially in the
Epworth Herald.
(2)
TAWNEY (Richard Henry).
Education: the socialist policy.
Preface by Charles Trevelyan.
Independent Labour Party
Publication Department
1924. FIRST EDITION, pages (8), 62, (2,
adverts), 8vo, recent wrappers, the original stiff printed wrappers
preserved: with a small stamp in two places, but otherwise a
very good copy.
(3)
BEAL (James).
Misused educational endowments, London.
A plea for the restoration of the filched endowments of Christ’s
Hospital, St. Paul’s and Charterhouse schools: and other
possessions of the poor appropriated by the rich. A lecture
delivered at the Eleusis Club, 18th January, 1881, by James Beal.
Sir A. Hobhouse, K. C. S. I., in the Chair.
Published by Edward
Truelove
[1881]. FIRST EDITION, 24-pages, cr 8vo, recent
paper wrapper: a very good copy
(4)
DALE (Robert William).
Mr R. W. Dale’s Speech at the
Birmingham School Board, on the payment out of the rates of
school fees for children attending denominational schools.
Printed from a revised verbatim report.
Birmingham: Hudson &
Son,
1871. FIRST EDITION, pp 23, (1, blank), 8vo, recent
wraps: small stamp on title, but very good.
(5)
COLQUHOUN (John Campbell).
On the measures to be
now taken in order to secure a good national education. A letter,
addressed to the Committee and members of The National
Club.
T. Hatchard and J. Ridgway,
1853. FIRST EDITION, 16-
pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good to nice copy.
(6)
EDUCATION.
Practical hints on the education of the sons
of gentlemen. By Educator.
Burns & Oates
[1878]. FIRST
(?ONLY) EDITION, pages vi, (7) - 47, 8vo, recent wrapper: a
very good copy.
(7)
COX (E. J.).
Higher grade schools in the light of recent
statistics and reports. Presidential address … at the Annual
Meeting of the Association of Headmasters of Higher Grade
Schools and Schools of Science … Nov. 15th, 1901.
Womersley,
Halifax
[1901?]. FIRST EDITION, pp 27, (1), 8vo, recent wraps:
small stamp on title but still very good.
(8)
OSBORN (Wm. Cook).
The non-imprisonment of children.
The treatment of juvenile offenders, in accordance with the legal
enactment, suggested and advocated by the Rev. W. C. Osborn.
(Association for Advocating the Non-Imprisonment of Children)
[1860]. Drop-title, (4) -pp, 8vo, recent wrapper: with two small
faint stamps, otherwise very good.
(9)
SAMUELSON (Sir Bernhard), FRS.
Education. Return to
an address of the … Commons, dated 20 November 1867; - for,
“Copy of Letter from B. Samuelson, Esq., M. P. to the vice-
presiident of the Committee of Council on Education
concerning technical education in various countries abroad”.
Ordered … to be printedm 26 November
1867. Pages 58, (1), 8vo,
recent wrapper: small stamp on title: a good to very good copy
(10)
INFANTS’ ACT, 1886.
The Infants’ Act, 1886. The record
of a three years’ effort for legislative reform, with its results.
Women’s Printing Society Limited
[1888]. FIRST EDITION, pp
(2), 78, 8vo, recent wrapper: small stamp on title, but very good
copy. (11)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
357
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PETERS (Carl).
The Eldorado of the Ancients.
C. Arthur
Pearson,
1902
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, with 2 folding maps and 97 full-
page and other illustrations, pp x, 447, 8vo, original cloth, gilt:
small light oval stamp on title, otherwise a very good copy.
Between 1899 and 1902 Peters, in many respects the German Stanley,
explored regions between the Zambesi and Limpopo Rivers with a view
to commercial exploitation. His detailed account of ancient cities and
gold mines visited attest his belief that the most ancient nations of
history obtained their gold, ivory and other precious goods from South
Africa.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
KIDD (Dudley).
The Essential
Kafir.
A. & C. Black,
1925. SECOND EDITION, with 63 plates
and folding map, pp xiv, 436, 8vo, original cloth: slight wear to
headband, the binding lightly spotted but sound and strong: a
very good copy.
First published Johannesburg 1904, here unchanged. Includes a
valuable annotated bibliography. “Perhaps the most accurate, vivid, and
complete description of South African native life ever produced”. -
Mendelssohn 817.
(2)
ARNOT (Frederick Stanley).
Garenganze; or, seven years’
pioneer mission work in Central Africa.
James E. Hawkins
(1889). FIRST EDITION, with 20 full-page and other
illustrations and a large folding map, pp viii, (4), 276, 8vo,
original decorative cloth-backed pictorial printed paper boards:
very slightly rubbed at the corners but the binding sound and
strong and otherwise a very good copy.
A pioneer Scottish missionary, Arnot, seeking healthy places in which to
establish stations, travelled from Natal in 1884, crossed the Zambezi
above the Victoria Falls, followed the river to Lialui and traversed the
country to the north-west. His journey supplemented in some respects
those of the Portuguese scientific explorers.
(3)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
358
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PETRA (Vincentius).
Commentaria ad Constitutiones
Apostolicas, seu Bullas singulas Summorum Pontificum in
Bullario Romano contentas secundum collectionem Cherubini
… [with a preface by Francisco Tosques].
Venetiis, ex typographia
Balleoniana,
1729
The title-pages each with large device, pages (12), 420: (12), 360:
(12), 375: (12), 372: (12), 359, 5 vols, folio, contemporary limp
vellum: worn at fore-edges and wanting ties, but all vols sound
and strongly bound and otherwise a very good to nice set in
original state.
A very learned commentary on documents in Cherubini’s collection by
Benedict XIII’s prefect of the Sacred College of Propaganda. Complete
sets are uncommon.
(5)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
359
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PHILIPPART (John).
Memoirs, &c. &c. of General
Moreau; illustrated with a portrait, a fac simile of the general’s
last letter to Madame Moreau and a beautifully engraved plan of
the siege of Kehl, and passage of the Rhine in 1796.
Printed by
A. J. Valpy …,
1814
FIRST EDITION, with portrait frontispiece, a folding facsimile
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