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CHEVALIER, André-Joseph, professor; A.J. BERENTS, compiler.
‘Tractatus De Fide, Spe et Charitate Dictatus ab...
[Douai, 9 March–4 August] 1787.
A manuscript treatise concerning the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity as expounded in Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologiae, compiled by a student at the University of Douai from lectures by André-Joseph Chevalier.
£375
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[DELAMARCHE, Alexandre, cartographer; Bernard COUDERT, lithographer.]
‘Atlas’.
Paris, Legay, [c. 1889].
An attractive set of large educational jigsaw maps showing the world, Europe, and France, preserved in its original allegorical box.
£875
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FATHERS LEGACY (The):
or Counsels to his children. In three Parts. Containing the Whole Duty of Man, I. To God. II. To himself....
London, Printed for Henry Brome … 1678.
First and only edition, very scarce, of a fine courtesy book written by an anonymous former soldier, framed as a father's guidance to his children, this copy owned by the wife of the English Ambassador to France.
£1850
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GIGLI, Mariano.
Esperimento del nobile giovinetto Francesco Piazzi d’anni dieci non compiuti sulle sette lingue italiana, francese,...
Milan, Società tipografica de’ classici italiani, 1818.
First and only edition, rare, of a series of 450 translation exercises in French, Spanish, English, German, Latin, Greek, and Italian, posed to the ten-year-old linguistic prodigy Francesco Piazzi by his tutor as the culmination of his highly experimental method of linguistic instruction.
£1250
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GOODWIN, Thomas.
Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English exposition of the Roman Antiquities, wherein many Roman & English...
Oxford, Leonard Lichfield for Henry Cripps, 1638.
Early editions of these two popular schoolbooks on antiquities, often found bound together – a compendium of Roman antiquities and a study of the customs and religious rites of the ancient Jews, originally published in 1614 and 1625 respectively – by the headmaster and scholar Thomas Goodwin (1587–1642)....
£1600
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[JUVENILE.]
A Token of Remembrance from a Mother to her absent Children, comprising simple Tales, Dialogues, and easy Poetry, adapted...
London, William Darton, 1822.
First edition of this collection of moral tales and poetry for children, compiled by a mother for her young daughter, from the lending library of the newly established Coast Guard.
£350
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LAUTERBACH, Barbara, and Georg Christoph LAUTERBACH.
A group of five school exercise books comprising geographical dictations.
Lenk, 1834–1849.
A charming group of school exercise books from the Swiss village of Lenk im Simmental, unusually bound in decorated printed wrappers.
£1250
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MAXIMUS OF TYRE.
Μαξιμου Τυριου φιλοσοφου Πλατωνικου λογοι μα. Maximi Tyrii philosophi Platonici...
[Geneva,] Henri II Estienne, 1557.
Editio princeps of the forty-one theological and ethical dissertations of Maximus of Tyre, a sophist who was reputedly the tutor of Marcus Aurelius; it is sometimes found bound with the Latin translation of Cosimo Pacci, revised and reprinted by Estienne.
£1500
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[MONS.]
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Mons, J. B. Varret, 1748.
First and only edition, very rare, of this history of the Sunday school in Mons, established for the Christian education of the boys and girls of the city and supported by the Canonesses of St Waltrude among other benefactors.
£975
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[ORDE, John Powlett.]
A collection of 111 original compositions in Latin (and occasionally Greek) verse and prose.
Eton, 1818–1820.
A delightful insight into classical education at Eton, where until the mid-nineteenth century Greek and Latin were the only official classroom subjects, and Latin composition was considered a key accomplishment.
£1750
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PARR, Samuel.
A Discourse on Education and on the Plans pursued in Charity-Schools.
[Norwich, John Crouse for] London, T. Cadell and T. Evans, and Norwich, J. & C. Berry, [1785?].
First and only edition of this treatise on education, first delivered as a sermon, by the noted schoolmaster and writer Samuel Parr (1747–1825).
£175
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POPE, William.
Manuscript arithmetic schoolbook.
[Tiverton?] ‘Sunday Octr 24.th 1804’.
A manuscript arithmetic schoolbook belonging to one William Pope, very well preserved in its original stationery binding and wrapper, with provincially printed arithmetic tables as endpapers.
£850
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[SANDOW, Eugen, pseud. (i.e. Friedrich Müller).]
Manuscript manual of exercises for use with Sandow’s Combined...
[France, c. 1920].
A seemingly unpublished French manuscript translation of a manual for the use of Sandow’s Combined Developer, a fitness device designed by Eugen Sandow, the founding father of modern bodybuilding.
£850
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[SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.
A Guide to classical Learning: or, Polymetis abridged … being a Work absolutely necessary,...
London, J. Dodsley, 1777.
Second illustrated edition (fourth overall) of Nicholas Tindal’s abridgement for schools of Polymetis (1747), a dialogue by the traveller, scholar, friend of Alexander Pope, and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford Joseph Spence (1699–1748), in which he explored the connections...
£250
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SPURZHEIM, Johann Gaspar.
A View of the elementary Principles of Education, founded on the Study of the Nature of Man.
Boston, Marsh Capen and Lyon, 1832.
First American edition (first Edinburgh, 1821) of this eccentric work on education by the German phrenologist Johann Caspar Spurzheim, including observations on the development of the brain, drawn in part from the study of ancient cultures.
£125
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[TACOLI, Carlotta Munarini, Marchioness.]
‘Memorie riguardanti la storia filosofica per istruzione elementare d’una...
Modena, 1805.
An unpublished manuscript introduction to ancient philosophy compiled by Marchioness Carlotta Munarini Tacoli for the education of her precocious eight-year-old-daughter, the future entomologist Adelaide Tacoli Bellincini Bagnesi (see below).
£1250
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VARILLAS, [Antoine].
La pratique de l’education des princes, contenant l’histoire de Guillaume de Croy, surnommé Le Sage,...
Amsterdam, H. Wetstein & H. Desbordes, 1686.
A highly unusual pyrographic binding, likely an amateur imitation of then-fashionable tooling.
£750
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[VENICE.]
Juventus cesareo-regii gymnasii urbis Venetiarum ad Sanctam Catharinam e moribus et progressu in literis censa, exeunte...
[(Colophon:) Venice, Francesco Andreola,] 1828.
A seemingly unrecorded annual report for the boys’ boarding school of S. Caterina, the first liceo to be established in Venice under Napoleonic rule and one of the oldest in Italy.
£350
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ALTING, Jacob; Heinrich Jakob van BASHUYSEN, editor.
Compendium fundamentorum punctationis linguae sanctae. Sive grammaticae...
Hanau, Johann Georg Winsheimer ‘in Typographia Orientali’ for Johann Fernau, 1712
First and only edition, seemingly the only surviving copy, of this Hanau-printed abridgement of Alting’s Hebrew grammar (first published in 1654) by the German Hebraist Heinrich van Bashuysen, printed at Bashuysen’s own press for the use of his pupils at the local gymnasium.
£1250
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[AMERICAN EDUCATION.]
An Oration to Children by Way of Information.
[New England, c. 1800.]
An American manuscript of seemingly unrecorded devotional verses intended for children, bound reusing a child’s contemporary writing samples, a rare material witness to the early American classroom.
£1200