1972ref. 72359Kathmandu: Royal Nepal Academy 1972. First edition 8vo pp. 16 327 1; portrait frontispiece; original red cloth-backed boards dust jacket; very good sound and clean in a very good slightly chipped dust jacket. Poems and short biographies of 13 of Nepal's leading poets in a shoddy Nepalese publication filled with "distinctive characteristics that makes us unique among the nations of the world. Royal Nepal Academy unknown books
1901ref. 93104New York: Published for the American Academy of Political and Social Science by McClure Phillips & Co 1901. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fair. 187p. Original blue cloth. 23 cm. Front free endpaper partially split along gutter. Covers soiled. Backstrip soiled andchipped and end and around edges. Ex lib. Goodwyn Institute Library bookplate inside front cover. No jacket. Most natable is probably "The Relations of the Negroes to the Whites in the South" by W. E. B. Du Bois at pages 119-140. Two of the earlier addresses on the Philippines were delivered by Charles C. Pierce and Oliver C. Miller at pages 21-63. Concluding this book were two addresses covering recently seized islands in the Caribbean: Cuba was discussed by Senator Orville Platt and Charles M. Pepper spoke about Puerto Rico at pages 145-178. Published for the American Academy of Political and Social Science, by McClure, Phillips & Co hardcover books
1943ref. 92838Newark N.J.: Students of the Newark Academy 1943. Paperback. Near Fine. 32p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Student literary magazine. Students of the Newark Academy paperback books
1940ref. 92420Chicago: American Academy of Art 1940. Paperback. Good. photos 32p. Softcover in oritinal wrapper. 24 cm. Modest cover scuffing and wear. Promotional catalog for this art school. Frank H. Young identifed as Director of the school. Tuition Rate page tipped inside back cover. American Academy of Art paperback books
1901ref. 93081New York: Published for the American Academy of Political and Social Science by McClure Phillips & Co 1901. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 187p. Original blue cloth. 23 cm. Ex lib. Bigelow Free Public Library. Various library markings including an oval stamp embossed in upper right corner of title-leaf and on at least one other leaf. No jacket. Last checked out on Nov 3 1902. Includes "The Relations of the Negroes to the Whites in the South by W. E. . Du Bois at pages 119-140. Also includes two addresses on Cuba and Puerto Rico by Senator Orville Platt and Charles M. Pepper at pages 145-178 and two addresses on the Philippines by Charles C. Pierce and Oliver C. Miller at pages 21-63. Published for the American Academy of Political and Social Science, by McClure, Phillips & Co hardcover books
1784ref. 58712Barcelona: en la imprenta de Brusi y Ferrer n.d. 1784. Small 8vo pp. 4 xii 191 1; 9 engraved plates at the back of alphabets; contemporary and likely original full calf gilt fillets on spine gilt lettering rubbed away; tiny wormhole pervades the top of the last dozen or so leaves occasionally affecting a letter ot two as well as minor loss on several plates vertical ink inscription on title page with date of 1784; all else very good. At the back is a 42-page Catalan dictionary in double column. Two copies in OCLC: Brown and the University of Leipzig. en la imprenta de Brusi y Ferrer, n.d. unknown books
1899ref. 171841899. Monson Academy student photo album circa 1899-1901 documenting coeducational secondary education and student identity at a Massachusetts preparatory institution during a period of expanding academic opportunities for both men and women. The album records individual students through formal portraiture providing evidence of enrollment class affiliation and institutional culture at one of the earliest coeducational academies in the United States. The material supports research on preparatory education gender integration in schooling and the development of academically oriented boarding institutions at the turn of the twentieth century. Photo album containing 43 original silver gelatin photographs including 25 cabinet sized portraits and 18 smaller prints primarily consisting of individual bust length student portraits with several group images. Many photographs include handwritten pencil annotations on the verso identifying sitters and class years such as "W. H. Ballard Class '01 M.A." The album is bound in an ornate leather cover with gilt and brown decorative elements and a central cameo portrait with pages arranged to display both larger and smaller format photographs. The images present male and female students in formal studio style compositions reflecting conventions of academic portraiture and documentation of student cohorts. Created at the turn of the twentieth century the album situates Monson Academy within broader developments in American education including the growth of coeducational institutions and preparatory training aligned with emerging scientific and technical fields. Founded in 1804 the academy later developed a reputation for preparing students for institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earlier admitted international students including Yung Wing who became the first Chinese graduate of an American university. The album provides a visual record of student populations within this institutional context documenting the presence of both men and women in a shared academic environment. Light wear to album with minor foxing to pages; photographs clear and well preserved; overall very good. A cohesive photographic record of coeducational preparatory schooling in the United States. unknown books
1886ref. 167511886. Women's Educational Movement. Bradford Female Academy Catalog 1886. A catalog from one of the most important historical female academics. Contains names of current students and an outline of the curriculum. Bradford opened as the first coeducational institution in Massachusetts but due to overwhelming interest from parents of girls with no other options for education Bradford soon transitioned to become the first all-female academy in Massachusetts and among the first in the United States in 1836. At the time that this description is being written no copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time. Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. unknown books
1890ref. 150331890. Archive of over 25 printed items documenting women's classical education at Bradford Academy 1876-1894 constitutes a substantial body of primary material illustrating the expansion of rigorous secondary education for women in post-Civil War New England. Bradford Academy founded in 1801 in Vermont and operating in the nineteenth century as a coeducational institution admitted women to a course of study that paralleled male classical training at a moment when female education was more commonly circumscribed by domestic or ornamental instruction. Produced between 1876 and 1894 these materials collectively document curriculum design examination systems tuition structures governance and public academic ceremony offering granular evidence of women's sustained participation in Latin mathematics science English composition and moral philosophy. The archive directly supports research in women's educational history coeducation nineteenth century intellectual culture and the institutionalization of merit based academic standards for female students. Over 25 printed items produced by Bradford Academy Bradford Vermont 1876-1894. The archive includes multiple annual catalogues issued between 1876 and 1892 under titles such as Catalogue of Bradford Academy and Catalogue of Bradford Academy and Union School detailing required and elective coursework faculty rosters tuition rates and governance structures. Examination broadsides for the Winter Term 1891-1892 and Fall Term 1892-1893 enumerate subjects examined and committees overseeing assessment providing rare documentation of formalized evaluation practices applied to both male and female students. Closing exercise programs from 1885-1886 and graduation programs from 1890 through 1894 record commencement speakers student participants and ceremonial frameworks that publicly affirmed women's scholarly achievement. Supplementary materials include five lecture and event handbills dated 1888-1892 five printed tuition bills reflecting the financial administration of the academy and one printed certificate accompanied by Rules of Scholarship outlining expectations of conduct and merit. Together these documents form a cohesive institutional record rather than isolated survivals. Emerging during a period of national debate over women's intellectual capacity and the propriety of classical training for female students these materials demonstrate the normalization of coeducational academic rigor in rural New England decades before widespread public high school standardization. The archive captures not only prescribed coursework but also the bureaucratic and ceremonial mechanisms through which women's scholarly labor was evaluated certified and publicly honored. Such documentation provides evidentiary grounding for studies of gender parity in secondary education the diffusion of classical curricula beyond elite male academies and the local implementation of broader nineteenth century reform movements in education. Light handling wear and minor edge wear consistent with age; printed text remains clear and legible throughout. Overall very good condition. A concentrated institutional record offering sustained multi year documentation of women's classical education in a coeducational academy during a formative period in American educational history. unknown books
1804ref. 167591804. This January 1804 session laws volume preserves the enacted statutes of the Massachusetts General Court including the original incorporation of Bradford Academy an institution that became one of the earliest centers of advanced education in the Commonwealth and a foundational site in the history of women's education in New England. Printed under legislative authority the volume opens with the formal constitutional language "BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled" situating the text within the statutory framework established by the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution. Among its enactments is the charter establishing Bradford Academy later recognized as the third oldest post-secondary institution in Massachusetts after Harvard University and Williams College. Initially admitting both male and female students at a time when advanced instruction for women remained severely restricted Bradford evolved by 1836 into the first all-female academy in Massachusetts marking a significant development in the institutionalization of women's academic training in the early republic. Acts and Laws. January 12 1804 Session. Boston 1804. Pamphlet volume identified as Vol. 14 of 17 for the legislative session. The title page bears the Commonwealth device and the heading "IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1804" followed by Chapter I "An act in addition to an act entitled 'An act to incorporate John Codman and others into a company by the name of The Suffolk Insurance Company.'" The volume includes commercial financial and educational incorporation statutes enacted during the session. Pamphlet format. Beyond its educational significance the volume documents the expanding legal infrastructure of early American corporate and civic development. Incorporation acts for insurance companies academies and other enterprises reflect Massachusetts' position as a commercial and maritime center in the Federalist era when legislative charters served as the primary mechanism for authorizing financial institutions educational foundations and public improvements. The Bradford Academy act is particularly notable for embedding coeducational authorization within state law at a formative moment in the republic's institutional growth. Early session law pamphlets preserve statutory language prior to later codification and revision offering direct evidence of legislative intent and institutional formation. Edge wear; scattered foxing; small tears along fore-edge; text complete and legible; overall good plus condition. A significant early republic legal printing linking state incorporation practice to the emergence of formalized educational access for women in Massachusetts. unknown books
1975ref. 90050Quezon City: Task Force on Human Settlements Developments Academy of the Philippines 1975. Paperback. Good. illustrations 166p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Text printed on one side. Some cover foxing/spotting. Modest staining along fore-edge. Institutional stamp on cover and title-page. Contents sound. Task Force on Human Settlements, Developments Academy of the Philippines paperback books
1972ref. 89574Paris: Impr. Nationale; C. Klincksieck 1972. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations 98 photographic plates 294p. Softcover in original wrapper. 29cm. Almost entirely unopened. First gathering of leaves present but never bound in. French text. Cover chipped at a couple of rear corners and also somewhat edge-worn. Contains 3 papers: 1 "Le Lac Sacre de Tanis" by Pierre Montet pages 1-92 plus XCIX plates; 2 "Les Noms des Parties du Corps en Egyptien et en Semitique" by Pierre Lacau pages 93-269; and 3 Une Inscription Phenicienne Recemment Trouvee a Kition Chypre" by Andre Dupont-Sommer pages 273-294 plus 1 plate. Impr. Nationale; C. Klincksieck paperback books
1887ref. 89783Exeter NH: Printed by William B. Morrill; The News-Letter Press 1887. Paperback. Good. 32p. Softcover in original wrapper. 21cm. Cover chipped and rather worn but still attached. Two light vertical creases. Printed by William B. Morrill; The News-Letter Press paperback books
1919ref. 88700New York: Published by the Academy 1919. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 90p. Original cloth. 25cm. Backstrip faded. Text double-columned. No jacket. Published by the Academy hardcover books
1924ref. 84770Washington: GPO 1924. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. folding map and plates ix 84p. plus 134 photographic plates. Original cloth. 30cm. No Jacket as published. Minor rubbing at extremities. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences Volume XVIII. GPO hardcover books
1851ref. 44478Bruxelles: Librairie Universelle de Rozez 1851. First edition thus 2 volumes large thick 8vo pp. 2 xxiv 1152; 1244; lexicon in double column; contemporary calf-backed boards green gilt-lettered morocco spine labels marbled endpapers; edges rubbed Vol. I upper joint cracked in the middle textblocks about fine; very good. OCLC does not locate any copies in North America as of January 2014. Librairie Universelle de Rozez unknown books
1777ref. 42973Nismes: chez Gaude Pere Fils & Compagnie 1777. 2 volumes 4to pp. 6 iii-vii 1 644; 4 633 1; text in triple column; contemporary quarter calf over speckled paper-covered boards gilt-paneled spines in 6 compartments red and green morocco labels in 2; top spine panel of both volumes cracked that on volume II with loss bottom 2 panels on volume I cracked and with old neat repair; boards rubbed extremities rubbed and worn; good and sound. The Academy was formed in 1635 at the request of Cardinal Richelieu "after the pattern of the Italian academies of the Renaissance. The Cardinal's purposes were to create something very serious a piece of governmental machinery to legislate for language as other bodies legislated on matters economic or judicial. In 1638 the work on the dictionary was begun. There was little practical organization of the task and hardly any efficiency. The result was an exasperating slowness which invited numerous lampoons. One wag suggested that the dictionary then being at the letter F he would be delighted to live until they reached G. There was one time papers were seized by creditors and the work was practically paralyzed. Finally in 1694 that is to say fifty-eight years after its inception the book was off the press and was presented to the king with ceremony. As was to be expected it was ultra-conservative and based essentially on the canons of Malherbe with even more restrictions on the admission of popular terms" Holmes & Schutz Hist. of the French Lang. pp. 86-87. Not a common edition: 7 in OCLC only UCLA in the U.S.; this edition not in Vancil. chez Gaude Pere, Fils & Compagnie unknown books
1948ref. 11319Cairo 1948. Paperback. Good. maps photos ills 87 9 113 14p. Softcovers in orignal wrapper. 30 cm. Ex lib. Two consecutive issues of this annual which are largely focused on natural history. paperback books
1919ref. 72929Philadelphia 1919. Paperback. Good. viii 252p. Gray wrapper. 25cm. Cover has a few chips. Front cover partially detached at ends. Backstrip shipped and partially reglued. Contents slightly age-toned but otherwise sound. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Vol. LXXXVI No. 175 November 1919. This railroad issue was edited by T. W. Van Metre. paperback books
1917ref. 50519Annapolis MD: The United States Naval Institute 1917. A revised edition of the text book of Ordnance and Gunnery by Roland I. Curtin compiled from the notes and works of Officers of . Annapolis MD.: The United States Naval Institute. 1917. A revised edition of the text book of Ordnance and Gunnery by Roland I. Curtin compiled from the notes and works of Officers of the United States Navy for the use of the midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy. Waterstaining of front board otherwise in good condition. 23.5 cm. x; 383 pp. b/w fold out photographic and diagrammatic plates and plans. b/w sketches and plans within text as illustrations. . The United States Naval Institute unknown books
1989ref. 47039Lisboa: Programa Nacional de Edicoes Comemorativas Dos Descobrimentos Portugueses 1989. 'Book of Carpentry Strakes by Manuel Fernandes'. A great copy in beautiful oversize binding. . Lisboa: Programa Nacional de Edicoes Comemorativas Dos Descobrimentos Portugueses 1989. 'Book of Carpentry Strakes by Manuel Fernandes'. A great copy in beautiful oversize binding. . 40 x 35 cm. 140 pp. color illustrations. . Programa Nacional de Edicoes Comemorativas Dos Descobrimentos Portugueses unknown books
1970ref. 52402The Hague: Vrije Academie / Psychopolis 1970. First Edition. Tabloid ca 60cm x 40cm; on newsprint unpaged 46pp chiefly illus. Vertical and horizontal folds as issued; some puckering to paper at intersection of folds; mild toning to fold-lines and extremities but still a complete well-preserved copy easily Very Good. Annual "catalogue" for this experimental art academy in The Hague founded in 1933 as a studio where "vrije" took on a double meaning: ".poor talented students could study without payment.and admissions requirements were not set.anyone could register.there was no set program in which the student should take an exam.education was dominated by personal development and individual expression." In 1968 under the Directorship of George Lampe the institution changed its name to "Psychopolis" and became something of a countercultural mecca a "bustling breeding ground for bohemians and avant-gardists who walked in and out of the classes but where exciting works of art were created." from the Academie's website 2021. Among the legendary faculty at Psychopolis were Jan Sierhuis Wil Bouthoorn Peter Gentenaar Georg Hadeler Jan Snoeck the filmmaker Frans Zwartjes and others all pictured in action here. This unconventional catalogue clearly intended to reflect the gestalt of the institution with minimal interference in the way of hard information is uncommon; not separately catalogued in OCLC KVK or COPAC. Vrije Academie / Psychopolis unknown books
2020ref. 1419101Singapore: Springer 2020. Softcover. Octavo xx 54 pages. In Very Good condition. Dark blue/grey cover with white lettering. Some very light shelfwear. Shelved in ND-B. 1419101. FP New Rockville Stock. Springer unknown books
1837ref. 113951837. CAMDEN ORPHAN'S SOCIETY ACADEMY. Partly printed receipt for one quarter's tuition for a ___ Brevard 9 December 1837. Signed by M. Holbrook preceptor. unknown books
1999ref. acs1382St. Petersburg: Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College 1999. Octavo softbound 76 pp. Illus. Fine. Learning in retirement. Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College, 1999. paperback books
