system universal geography principles comparison von willard emma william woodbridge (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Fair. Hartford: Belknap and Hamersley, 1841. 9th edition. Two volumes bound in one. Sm 8vo Hardcover. Green boards with black lettering on covers, and gilt lettering on brown spine. 336pp + 96pp. B/W illustrations and maps. Poor book. Spine split and chipped, joints cracked. Covers scuffed, rubbed, soiled, edgeworn, and detatching. Pages dampstained, foxed, soiled, and shaken. Bookplate removed from front pastedown. Owner's name on front free endpaper. In polypropylene bag. (geography, textbooks) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First collected edition. Two works in one volume. 12mo. xxx, 336, [2]; 88pp., illustrated with full-page wood engravings (including a frontispiece for each work), and numerous in-text wood engravings. In the original quarter black calf gilt and paper-covered boards printed on both covers. Two early owner names in ink on front free endpaper. The leather spine back is moderately rubbed, corners gently bumped, scattered foxing mostly on the endleaves, modest paper remnants on both pastedowns likely from a contemporary custom-made paper dust wrapper (removed), a very good copy with the printed boards clean and bright. Woodbridge and Willard collaborated on many geography texts and both shared a passionate interest in educational reform and the education of women. Emma Willard was founder and principal of the first school in the United States to offer higher education to women, The Female Seminary at Troy, New York. The school survives to this day as the Emma Willard School, and has graduated a great number of distinguished women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lily Spencer-Churchill (Duchess of Marlborough), Jane Fonda, and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. Willard was a strong advocate of science education for women, as noted by Margaret Rossiter: "Willard, her school, and others like it provided the essential starting point for women in science and the professions". (M.B. Ogilvie, *Women in Science* pp. 19-20). An attractive copy with the original printed boards well-preserved.

12mo (19cm). Contemporary pink paper-covered boards, printed in black, backed in gilt-tooled calf; plain endpapers; xxx, 336,[2], [i]-[viii] [9]-88pp; 7 full-page plates and numerous in-text relief illustrations. A sound copy, with general moderate wear, especially to board edges, occasional discoloration, but overall Very Good. Two detailed works of geography, the first with information on geology, "countries, their climate and productions; the prevailing religions, forms of government, and degrees of civilization" (including a bigoted racial breakdown). With geological diagrams and views of geological landmarks (Niagara Falls, Icelandic geysers, Giants' Causeway) and international capitals from Edinburgh to Beijing. The second work by Emma Willard (1787-1870), who founded the first American higher education institute for women.