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Educating girls about the history and origin of household goods, including those acquired through slave labor and imperialism
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A Key to Knowledge; or...

London: J. Harris, 1814. First edition. Publisher's quarter roan over marbled boards with gilt to spine. Measuring 135 x 85mm and collating complete with frontis: [2], viii, 172. Gentle bumps..... (Item #4964)

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Introducing children to the concept of grace through a simplified version of Pilgrim's Progress made just for them
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The Little Pilgrim's Progress

Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theodore Bliss, 1855. Early edition. Apparent third edition, following those of 1845 and 1850, with all three fairly scarce institutionally. Original red publisher's cloth binding stamped..... (Item #4600)

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A woman reports on the culture of the South, including the violence of enslavement and the institutional means through which white men committed atrocities
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Reminiscences of Georgia

[Oberlin, Ohio]: James M. Fitch, 1850. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding ornately embossed in gilt. All edges gilt. Yellow endpapers. Measuring 165 x 105mm and collating complete including frontis..... (Item #5033)

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Addressing the importance of women's reading to their humanity as well as their philanthropic duties toward members of all races
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Lectures on Female Education and...

Rochester: Printed for the author by Gillman and Etherington, 1793. First edition. Issued by subscription, with the list at the rear of volume II. Contemporary tree calf with morocco and..... (Item #5174)

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Finely bound by Bayntun, Burton's daring narrative of participating in the sacred Hajj
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage...

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. First edition. Finely bound by Bayntun in half calf over cloth, with gilt to spines. Top edges brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of..... (Item #3087)

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A compilation designed to raise funds for a reformatory assisting "girls rescued by the hands of police, who have found homes within our walls"
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My Portfolio: A Miscellaneous Collection...

Liverpool: Joseph A. D. Watts and Co., 1865. First edition. Original navy publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine. Gentle bumps to corners, else in about Fine condition. Faint offsetting..... (Item #2993)

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Calling for more affordable and easily procurable divorces to prevent marital infidelity that risked the purity of primogeniture
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Conjugium Languens: Or, The Natural...

London: R. Roberts, 1700. First edition. Rebound in modern drab boards with facsimile of title page to front cover. Measuring 190 x 135mm and collating [2], 28: bound without rear..... (Item #5220)

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A mother advises her son -- and all sons by proxy -- on avoiding hasty sexual relationships and strategically finding a companionate marriage
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Letters of Advice from a....

London: W. Cadell and T. Davies, 1803. First edition. Contemporary tree calf, recornered and rebacked to style with gilt and morocco label to spine. All edges speckled blue. Original endpapers..... (Item #4256)

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First English edition of this French humanist's advice for princely conduct
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A Most Excellent Hystorie, of...

London: Printed by H. Bynneman, 1571. First English language edition. A translation of L'histoire de Chelidonius Tigurinus sur l'institution des princes chrestiens, & origine des royaumes by Pierre Boaistuau. With..... (Item #3026)

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A tale of political resistance and individual freedom that gained international appeal
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William Tell; or Swisserland Delivered...

London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1809. First English language edition. Translated into English by William Hewetson. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, rebacked to style. Marbled end papers and edges..... (Item #5213)

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Exposing the violence of hereditary chattel slavery in the South as well as the violence of systemic racism in the North
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An Appeal in Favor of...

Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding retaining the delicate paper label to spine. Measuring 185 x 110mm and collating [6], 232: complete, including frontis and..... (Item #5285)

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A young woman blends evangelism with literary realism, revealing her belief that even-handed Christians might better convert non-believers
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Religious and literary commonplace book...

[England]: 1841-1867. Full sheep embossed in blind with gilt to front board, measuring 200 x 160mm and comprised of 155 manuscript pages. A gift inscription to the front pastedown reads..... (Item #5032)

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First edition of the earliest Jewish cookery published in California & among the earliest West of the Mississippi
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Council Cook Book

San Francisco: International Printing Company, 1909. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding. Fraying to corners and extremities of spine. General spotting to cloth. In a contemporary hand, several names and..... (Item #3212)

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The first American woman's autobiography to intimately discuss sexual consent and female pleasure in marriage
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Mary Lyndon: Revelations of a....

New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1855. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding embossed in blind with gilt to spine. Mauve endpapers. Measuring 185 x 125 inches and collating complete: 388..... (Item #5037)

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A scarce cookery predating the government's passage of laws ensuring nutritious food to be served in schools
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A Practical Cookery Book for...

London and Manchester: John Haywood, [c.1903]. First edition. Original pictorial boards with cloth to spine. 76 pages. Faint toning to edges of covers but surprisingly clean overall. Early ownership signature..... (Item #3158)

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Parliament criminalizes poverty, outlining corporal punishments, fines, and imprisonment for the poor
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Abstract of an Act of...

[London]: [N.P.], [1791]. First edition. Broadside measuring 15 x 12.25 inches and printed to recto. Some light chipping and toning to edges, particularly to lower quarter of sheet; short closed..... (Item #5160)

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The first appearance of Boyd's translation of Dante, in an unsophisticated contemporary binding
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A Translation of the Inferno...

Dublin: P. Byrne, 1785. First Thus. Contemporary speckled calf with morocco spine labels and gilt to spines and boards. Very slight repair to the outer joints. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 108..... (Item #3201)

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“No better study of a nation’s institutions…has ever been written” – NY Times
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Democracy in America [with] Democracy...

London: Saunders and Otley, 1838, 1840. First English language edition. Third Edition of Part One and First Edition of Part Two. Four octavo volumes (pages: 198 x 120 mm) bound..... (Item #3178)

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A decade after The Yellow Wallpaper, a young woman's mental health is objectified, pathologized, and sensationalized
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Her Other Self

Washington DC: The Neale Company, 1901. First edition. Original pictorial publisher's cloth binding. Bright and square externally; internally fresh. A scarce semi-autobiographical novel fusing concerns about mental health and physical..... (Item #5299)

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