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CHILDREN
• EDUCATION
Tamil
PRIMER
Tamil second book. Madras:
Christian Vernacular Education Society, printed at the American Mission Press,
1864. 12mo (13.5 cm; 5.5"). 108 pp., plus wrappers. 
• Publisher's wrappers, but clearly removed from a bound volume. (15126)
COOL
Things for
1850s
Kids to Know . . .[Tarbox, Increase N.]. Our children's
books. Carrier pigeon, etc. New York: Leavitt & Allen, [ca. 1850-59]. 24mo. [2
(blank)], frontis., 64, [4 (blank)] pp.; 31 plts. 
• Publisher's brown textured cloth over pasteboards, front cover with a gilt lettering and a gilt-stamped center-vignette of an old man with five children gathered around him. Binding lightly worn, with small cloth loss at top and bottom of spine. Front joint starting. Light foxing and small watercolor stains in some corners. Occasional shallow tears, limited to the margins and not touching the text. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. In mylar covering. (4674)
A Christmas Play, 1910Taylor, William Patterson. The night before Christmas. A play in three acts. New York: Samuel French, (1910). 8vo. [2], 17, [5] pp. 
• Laid into the original printed paper wrappers, chipped at the spine and one corner of front cover torn with triangular loss; front wrap pressure-stamped by a historical society. (12101)
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WORDS . . . Town, Salem. An analysis of derivative words the English language [sic]; or, a key to their precise analytic definitions, by prefixes and suffixes...Carefully revised, and adapted to schools of all grades. Boston: Phinney & Co., 1853. 12mo. 168 pp.
• This edition not in Vancil or O'Neill. Publisher's quarter black sheep with blue paper covers; front cover printed with replica of title-page and rear cover with ads. Leather pulled at top of spine and front joint opening/fragile. Small amount of rodent activity shows at top of front cover, and first gathering loosening. (8006)
Cock Robin: The Very Scarce First U.S. Edition The tragi-comic history of the burial of Cock Robin; with the lamentation of Jenny Wren; the Sparrow's apprehension; and the Cuckoo's punishment .... Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner (pr. by J. Bouvier), 1811. Square 8vo (12.5 cm, 4.9"). 16 pp., 8 plts.
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The first American edition is MUCH rarer than the second (Philadelphia, 1821).
Scarce in libraries: OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 find only 10 U.S. holdings.
• Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books, 448; Shaw & Shoemaker 24052. Original pale salmon-colored paper over light paste boards, binding lightly dust-soiled overall, front cover scuffed. Pages age-toned, first and last plates (affixed to covers) with offsetting. (24522)
“Students!
NO!
Women
— NO!
Musical Instruments!”
Universitat Freiburg im Breisgau. Collegium Sapientiae. Statuta Collegii Sapientiae, the statutes of the Collegium Sapientiae in Freiburg University Freiburg, Breisgau, 1497, facsimile edition. Lindau: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1957. 4to. 2 vols. I: 54 ff. II: 96 pp., 2 plts.
The statutes cover all aspects of the scholars’ lives, from the process of presidential election to rules regarding confession, from meal schedules and the recitation of the Hours to whether or not scholars might keep either weapons or women within the college (no).
These rules and regulations are completely spelled out in the facsimile volume of this set, where the text of the original Latin, written out in a Gothic hybrida textualis with red rubrics, is reproduced. 
The 80 miniatures are in full color illuminated with gilt. These show both religious scenes and illustrations of the college rules (a woman with a small child points to the college door under the rubric "mulierum in domo sapie prohibita." "Women not ever allowed in the house!") The initials are elaborate, decorated with geometric and anthropomorphic motifs. The second volume offers a biography of Kerer, a history of the College, and a transcript of the Latin text with a detailed synopsis of its contents in English as translated by Josef Hermann Beckmann. Another issue of this edition gives the translation into German.
The two volumes were wrought in celebration of the University of Freiburg’s 500th anniversary.
• Vol. I, the facsimile: publisher's binding of paper imitating vellum over boards (hard back). Front cover embossed with the College coat of arms. Flat spine with title and date. Vol. II, the commentary, transcription, and translation: publisher's paper covers (soft back). Front cover also embossed with coat of arms. Flat spine with title and date. Both volumes in one slipcase. Very good condition.
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