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La Cassette de Plomb.

La Cassette de Plomb. by DERAIN, ANDRE; Gabory, Georges; ANDRE DERAIN

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Title
La Cassette de Plomb.
Author
DERAIN, ANDRE; Gabory, Georges; ANDRE DERAIN
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Ursus Books (United States)
Description
1920. DERAIN, André and Georges GABORY. La Cassette De Plomb. 30 pp. With two etchings by Derain. 4to., original wrappers in a cloth folding case. Paris: (Éditions de la Galerie Simon), Imprimerie Francois Bernouard, 1920. A typical example of the elegant books published by Kahweiler. This one was originally published by Bernouard and then taken over by Kahnweiler after he started the Galerie Simon with his label affixed to the front cover. Both typographically and aesthetically an important document of modern book illustration. One of 125 copies signed by Derain. Skira 87.
Women's Access to Classical Education and Coeducation: Vermont's Bradford Academy Archive 1876 to 1894

Women's Access to Classical Education and Coeducation: Vermont's Bradford Academy Archive 1876 to 1894 by Bradford Academy

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Women's Access to Classical Education and Coeducation: Vermont's Bradford Academy Archive 1876 to 1894
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Bradford Academy
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Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
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1890. 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.
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Informe sobre el resultado de la Exposicion Retrospective Celebrada per la Academia de Bellas Artes de Barcelona en 1867 dado a la misma academia por la comision encargada de dicha Exposicion

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Informe sobre el resultado de la Exposicion Retrospective Celebrada per la Academia de Bellas Artes de Barcelona en 1867 dado a la misma academia por la comision encargada de dicha Exposicion
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
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Very Good
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Barcelona: Celestino Verdaguer, 1868. Hardcover. Very Good. Mottled green cloth over boards, backed in gilt-lettered green morocco; oblong folio (428x305mm); 31 pp. letterpress, and 35 ff of lithographic plates. Spine tips, corners, and joints a bit scuffed; some light bumping along edges of boards. Text pages foxed; marginal foxing to lithographs. An exhibition of Catalan arts and craftsmanship that includes sculpture, tapestries, metalwork, and ceramics -- with an emphasis on religious paintings.
(Ephemera-Postcards) Greetings from Centennial Exposition Dallas 1836-1936

(Ephemera-Postcards) Greetings from Centennial Exposition Dallas 1836-1936

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(Ephemera-Postcards) Greetings from Centennial Exposition Dallas 1836-1936
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Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
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Very Good
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Dallas: Texas Centennial Exposition, 1936. Postcard. Very Good. Postcard. 4 1/4 " x 6". Accordion-fold postcard packet containing nine sheets with buildings in the Exposition both sides making a total of 18 images, versos of the cover folds with text about the Expo. Very Good, the cards were mailed to Mrs Ida Popkins of Halsted, Kans in 1938 and postmarked with the Texas Centennilal postmark. Light rubbing to the covers at edges..
The glorious adventure

The glorious adventure by Halliburton, Richard

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The glorious adventure
Author
Halliburton, Richard
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1927. First edition, 8vo, pp. [14], 17-354; map endpapers, portrait frontispiece, 60 illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 29 plates, 2 double-page relief maps; original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; spine a little sunned, light overall wear; all else very good, clean, and sound. A retracing of Odysseus's' travels and adventures through the classical Greek world as recounted by Homer's Odyssey, and included his visiting the grave of English poet Rupert Brooke on the island of Skyros.
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INGRID MENENDEZ: ¿A SALVO EN CASA

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INGRID MENENDEZ: ¿A SALVO EN CASA
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Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
ISBN
9789806324343
Description
Caracas: Museo Alejandor Otero, 1999. color plates, catalogue, biography, chronology, folding wrappers. A catalogue of an exhibit from this Venezuelan (b. 1963) who has gathered together works that explore the various themes that involve the family and its involvement in the definition of the self. TEXT IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH. LIMITED EDITION OF 1,000.

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