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Mathematics notebook of a 16 year old girl being educated in the 19th century by [Women's Education] Caroline D. Waters

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books

Title: Mathematics notebook of a 16 year old girl being educated in the 19th century
Author: [Women's Education] Caroline D. Waters
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: [Great Britain], 1850. Comprised of 88 manuscript pages of mathematical definitions, tables, methods, and exercises in a single hand, with the ownership signature of "Caroline Waters Age 16 yrs" to the front endpaper. Marbled paper vernacular binding, measuring 8 x 12 inches and stitched at spine. Caroline's metric measurements and English currency reveal her to be a student somewhere in the UK. Though the commonness of her name and the absence of a specific date prevents us from locating her in genealogy records, the manuscript she left behind reveals much about how and why girls of her age and class were being taught arithmetic. Caroline's elegant, practiced hand suggests that she is a member of the rising middle class, and the opening of the book suggests that she is a beginning to intermediate mathematician. At the top of the first page, she defines Arithmetic as "the art of computing by numbers" which "has five principal [sic] rules for this purpose, viz. Numeration, Subtraction, Addition, Multiplication, and Division." Using this definition, she divides her notebook into a section for each, providing a definition for that principle, plus clear-cut examples of its use in both Simple and Compound formats. Numeration, Subtraction, and Addition are grouped together at the front; and after these sections conclude, Caroline enters in Practical Questions in Compound Addition and Subtraction. These involve word problems involving the exchange of money and the calculation of wet and dry weights, cloth measurements, and time. She then mirrors this with Multiplication and Division, before adding sections on Decimal Fractions, more Practical Questions, and sections on Federal Money and Simple Interest. The organization of the manuscript suggests that Caroline copied it out for continued reference, where sections are easy to locate and problems clearly illustrate each of the principles. And the emphasis in sample problems on currency conversion, monetary exchange, and banking implies that her family in some way wanted her to be aware of these concepts. An exceptional and rich document, Caroline's notebook is a rich resource for study including but not limited to the history of women's education, middle class education, women's domestic use of mathematics, women in business, paleography, genealogy, gender studies.

Charlie Chan Carries On by Biggers, Earl Derr

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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

Title: Charlie Chan Carries On
Author: Biggers, Earl Derr
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. First edition, first printing of Charlie Chan Carries On by Earl Derr Biggers.. Octavo, 334pp. Orange cloth, title in blue on front cover and spine. Top edge dyed blue, now faded. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Slight lean to text block, toned spine and joints, foxing to fore edge, and transference to endpapers. A very good example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.00 retail price on front flap, with professional restoration on verso to reinforce closed tears. Light shelf wear, bright spine, vibrantly illustrated cover. (Steinbrunner & Penzler 72) An attractive example. This is the fifth book in a mystery series by Earl Derr Biggers featuring a fictional Honolulu-based police detective named Charlie Chan. Chan was a Chinese-American designed by Biggers to combat the common villainous, Yellow Peril-induced stereotypes of the time.

Peg Woffington: Choice Recipes by Experienced Housewives of St. John's Guild, Pleasantville, New York by [St. John's Guild (Pleasantville, New York)]; Goodwin, Annie M. (compiler)

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Title: Peg Woffington: Choice Recipes by Experienced Housewives of St. John's Guild, Pleasantville, New York
Author: [St. John's Guild (Pleasantville, New York)]; Goodwin, Annie M. (compiler)
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: Brooklyn, New York: The Pearl Press, 375 Pearl Street, 1908. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), 87 pages. Advertisements throughout. FIRST EDITION. An attractive community cookbook, from the aptly named Westchester County hamlet of Pleasantville. It's unclear the connection between Pleasantville's St John's Guild and Peg Woffington. Margaret "Peg" Woffington was a popular 18th century English actress, linked romantically to David Garrick. A tea house in Teddington, UK, with a two hundred fifty year history, was established by Woffington, but otherwise the connection seems tenuous. A few small stains on the front board of black and red printed cloth binding, otherwise near fine. Scarce. [OCLC shows four copies].

Johnny Crow's Party by Brooke, L. Leslie

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Title: Johnny Crow's Party
Author: Brooke, L. Leslie
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: London: Frederick Warne and Company Ltd. Hardcover. Good. Black-and-white and color illustrations by Brooke. Good. Quarter cream cloth with green paper on the boards, rubbed and soiled. Square, bound with some reading wear, former owner's name and bookplate on the endpapers, some tape repairs throughout and with one of the colored plates laid-in.

Positive Aspects of Child Psychiatry, as developed in the selected writings of Dr. Frederick H. Allen by ALLEN, Frederick H.

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Title: Positive Aspects of Child Psychiatry, as developed in the selected writings of Dr. Frederick H. Allen
Author: ALLEN, Frederick H.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1963]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in dust jacket; 300pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities else Very Good to Near Fine.

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