Sales catalogue 32: Peter Murray Hill Ltd.

Date:
November 1949
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/43/2
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 32: Peter Murray Hill Ltd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    147 148 149 150 151 152 139 154 155 156 157 105 Cranmer Court, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. 17 of Gaelic Schools. N.p. [1811]. £1 1s Large folio, broadside, 4 pp. VERY SCARCE. LANCASTER (Joseph) Hints and Directions for Building, Fitting up, and Arranging School-Rooms on the British System of Education. Printed by the Author, 1811. £3 3s 8vo, new qtr. linen, edges uncut. FIRST EDITION. Large folding plate with plans. VERY SCARCE. [PESTALOZZI]]. JuULLIEN (Marc Antoine) Esprit de la Methode d’Education de Pestalozzi, Suivie et Pratiquée dans L’Institut d’Education d’Yverdun, en Suisse. [Two Volumes]. A Milan, De L’Imprimerie Royale, 1812. {2 2s 2 id oe 8vo, CONTEMPORARY MOTTLED CALF. FIRST EDITION. FINE COPY. SCARCE. xx, 364 and IV; Ppp. ; AMERICAN IMPRINT. LANCASTER (Joseph) The British System of Education: Being a Complete Epitome of the Improvements and Inventions practised by Joseph Lancaster : to which is added, a Report of the Trustees of the Lancaster School at Georgetown, Col. Georgetown: by Foseph Milligan, 1812. £5 10s 12mo, CONTEMPORARY CALF. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With frontispiece and four plates depicting the Lancastrian system of teaching. The report gives details of the school and prints a letter from Lancaster about the schoolmaster he has been asked to recommend and send. RARE. [ETON]. An Introduction to the Latin Tongue for the Use of Youth. A New Edition. Eton, Pote and Williams, 1812. 10s 12mo, CONTEMPORARY SHEEP. 189 [3] pp. GRANT (Mrs.) Sketches of Intellectual Education, and Hints on Domestic Economy, addressed to Inexperienced Mothers: with an Appendix, containing as Essay on the Instruction of the Poor. [Two Volumes]. Inverness, ¥. Young, 1812. . £1 5s 2 vols., 12mo, ORIGINAL BOARDS, UNCUT, rather worn. FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE. HOFWYL. Rapport de Mr. D. A. Chavannes a ses Commettans sur I’Institut d’éducation des pauvres 4 Hofwyl. Suivi de Vacte pour la création d’une com- mission perpétuelle chargée de surveiller cet institut. Paris, 7.-F. Paschoud, 1813. £1 10s 8vo, sewn, many fore and lower edges uncut. FIRST EDITION. 66 pp. An important account of the institution founded on Pestalozzian principles by Fellenberg. Robert Owen was so impressed by his visit to this school that he sent his two sons. HOFWYL. Rapport sur l'Institut d’Education des pauvres 4 Hofwyl, rédigé par Mr. A. Rengger, au nom de la Commission établie pour l’inspection de 1’Etab- lissement. Paris, chez F.-7. Paschoud, 1815. £1 10s 8vo, sewn. FIRST EDITION. 115 [5] pp. At the end is a 3-page list Des Ecrits qui ont paru sur Hofwyl. SCARCE. HOFWYL. Notice sur les établissemens de Hofwyl, par M. V. E. B. Crud. Genéve, F.-¥. Paschond, 1816. 15s 8vo, sewn. FIRST EDITION. 91 [5] pp. With list of writings already printed on Hofwyl. Badly stained in places and some worming. BENTHAM (Jeremy) Chrestomathia: being a Collection of Papers, Explanatory of the Design of an Institution, proposed to be set on foot, under the name of the Chrestomathic Day School, or Chrestomathic School, for the Extension of the New System of Instruction to the Higher Branches of Learning, for the Use of the Middling and Higher Ranks in Life. Printed for Messrs. Payne and Foss by F. M’Creery, 1816. £3 3s D. 8vo, half calf. FIRST EDITION. ' With several folding tables. Bentham offered his garden as a site for the school and wrote this elaborate commentary on the prospectus. TAYLOR (Mrs.) and Jane. Correspondence between a Mother and her Daughter at School. Second Edition. Taylor and Hessey, 1817. 10s 6d
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