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Saint George's School in the War

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Alumni Association of Saint George's School: 1920

Seller ID: 2297851

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Presentation copy. Inscription on front free endpaper. No jacket. Light general wear. 1920 Hard Cover. xii, 168 pp. Maroon boards. Top page ridge gilt, gilt decoration on front board. Includes memorials for alumni who died in World War I, and a complete war record.
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Images of RLT: We'd Only Just Begun - An Historic Montage of the People Who Made R.L. Thomas a High School, 1962-1994

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: S.N.: 1994

Seller ID: 2300578

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

1994 Large Hardcover. 304 pp. A collage of articles, photographs, verse, and descriptive text telling the story of R.L. Thomas High School from 1962-1994.
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The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: A Guide to the Collections

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Yale University: 1994

Seller ID: 2302790

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Photographic postcard of stacks laid in. An excellent copy. 1994 Soft Cover. 123 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; The General Collection of Rare Books and Manuscripts; The Collection of American Literature; The Collection of Western Americana; The Collection of German Literature; The Osborn Collection; Services and Programs; List of Illustrations; Index.
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The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto

By: Adler, Mortimer J.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.: 1982

Seller ID: 2268733

ISBN: 0020641001

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. Ink note on half-title page, pencil marginalia. 1982 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 84 pp. Analyzes the purpose of public education in a democratic society and recommends changes in American public schools designed to improve both the quality and equality of education.
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Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind

By: Adler, Mortimer J.; Van Doren, Geraldine

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Collier Books: 1990

Seller ID: 2276231

ISBN: 0020301758

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First printing. Minor crease to bottom corner of front wrapper, spine head lightly bumped. 1990 Trade Paperback. xxxiii, 362 pp. Spanning the breadth of his career, from 1939 to 1989, this book is the response from Mortimer J. Adler to the question What can be done about American education? For Adler the best education is one that offers the best education possible for all.
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Webster's New World Dictionary and Thesaurus

By: Agnes, Michael; Laird, Charlton

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Macmillan: 1996

Seller ID: 2202303

ISBN: 0028605748

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Faint stain to top page ridge. Fine. 1996 Hard Cover. xv, 734 pp. Unique in layout and format, this ground-breaking resource combines two great Webster's New World reference works in a single volume. Each page is divided into a dictionary section and a thesaurus section. The dictionary section provides concise authoritative definitions, while the thesaurus section below lists corresponding thesaurus entries. You can check the spelling and definition of a word and also research its synonyms -- all at a single glance! Included are over 58,000 dictionary entries, including widely used scientific,...
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A Decade of Addresses, Delivered, From 1820 to 1829, to the Senior Classes at Bowdoin College; Together with an Inaugural Address: To Which is Added a Dudleian Lecture, Delievered May 12, 1830, at Harvard University

By: Allen, William

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Horatio Hill & Co.: 1830

Seller ID: 2203760

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Former library copy--usual marks; no jacket, rear hinge starting. 1830 Hard Cover. 272 pp. CONTENTS: Inaugural Address, 1820; Annual Addresses to Seniors: True Dignity of Character, 1820; Value of the Christian Revelation, 1821; The Ignorace of Man, 1822; The Love of Country, 1823; The Knowledge of Man, 1824; Humility, 1825; Christian Faith, 1826; The Love of God, 1827; Eternal Life, 1828; The Method of Holiness, 1830. Dudleian Lecture, 1830. Notes.
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Arnold Arboretum Harvard University: A Cumulative Index to Arnoldia, Volumes 1-29 (1941-1969)

By: Arnold Arboretum

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Arnold Arboretum: 1970

Seller ID: 2208285

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A nice copy. 1970 Soft Cover. 87 pp. Arnold Arboretum Harvard University: A Cumulative Index to Arnoldia, Volumes 1-29 (1941-1969). KEYWORDS: HARVARD UNIVERSITY EDUCATION ARNOLD ARBORETUM GARDEN GARDENING BOTANY HORTICULTURE REFERENCE
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Views of Harvard: A Pictorial Record to 1860

By: Bail, Hamilton Vaughan; Morison, Samuel Eliot

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1949

Seller ID: 2163499

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Boards faintly soiled. 1949 Hard Cover. xviii, 264 pp. 66 plates, including reproductions of photographs, illustrations, and maps, follow text. A history of over 200 years in the life of Harvard University, from its construction in 1638 through 1860.
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Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Chemically Modified Surfaces

By: Blitz, Jonathan P.; Little, Charles B.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry: 1999

Seller ID: 2272884

ISBN: 085404714X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket otherwise a nice copy. 1999 Hard Cover. x, 399 pp. The field of chemically modified particle surfaces has seen many significant developments in recent years. Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Chemically Modified Surfaces covers the latest analytical and synthetic techniques for the development and understanding of these surfaces. Encompassing subjects including self-assembled monolayers, scanning probe microscopies, combinatorial synthetic techniques, plasma polymerizations and molecular modelling of modified surfaces, the book provides a unique snap-shot of state-of-the-art concept...
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Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged; with Examples for Parsing, Questions for Examination, False Syntax for Correction, Exercises for Writing, Observations for the Advanced Student, and a Key to the Oral Exercises: Stereotype Edition

By: Brown, Goold

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Samuel S. & William Wood, No. 261, Pearl Street: 1844

Seller ID: 2133088

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

Boards rubbed with minor loss from spine label, lightly stained throughout, rear free endpaper removed, pencil notes on endpapers. 1844 Full-Leather. 13, xiv, 311, [1] pp. 12mo. Originally published in 1825, this 1844 stereotype edition is the first printing of this work to include endorsements preceding the title page, among which is one from Edgar Allan Poe, taken from the March 1842 issue of Pioneer, stating, 'A work perhaps the very best of its kind, and of which the accuracy is far more than usual.' FULL TITLE: Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged; with Examples for Parsin...
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Albany State University, A Centennial History: 1903-2003 (The College History Series)

By: Brown, Titus

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing: 2003

Seller ID: 2299565

ISBN: 0738514934

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

2003 Trade Paperback. 127, [1] pp. Albany State University, located in southwest Georgia on the banks of the Flint River, is a four-year unit of the University System of Georgia with five academic schools and degree programs in more than 40 areas of study. Founded in 1903 as the Albany Bible and Manual Training Institute by Joseph Winthrop Holley, the institution-patterned after Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute-provided industrial, normal, and religious education for African Americans. In 1917, it became a state-supported, two-year college (Georgia Normal and Agricultural College), an...
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The Culture of Education

By: Bruner, Jerome

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1996

Seller ID: 2289078

ISBN: 0674179536

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Second printing. Owner's stamp on half-title page and on rear wrapper recto. 1996 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 224 pp. What we don't know about learning could fill a book--and it might be a schoolbook. In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Applying the newly emerging cultural psychology to education, Bruner proposes that the mind reaches its full potential only through participation in the culture--not j...
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A Prospect of the Colleges in Cambridge in New England Engraved by Wm. Burgis in 1726 [Colleges]

By: Burgis, Wm. [William]; Andrews, William Loring

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company: 1897

Seller ID: 2163501

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First thus. Bookplate on front endpaper, gatefold frontispiece loose but included. 1897 Hard Cover. 38 pp. 4to. 1897 reissue of 1726 original. A collection of early images of Harvard University, originally produced in 1726, and re-released here with descriptive text, including correspondence between Thomas Hollis and former Harvard President E. Holyoke.
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Image for Logarithmick Arithmetick Containing a New and Coreect Table of Logarithms of the Natural Numbers from 1 to 10,000, Extended to Seven Places Besides the Index; and So Contrived, That the Logarithm May Be Easily Found to Any Number Between 1 and 10,000,000. Also, an Easy Method of Constructing a Table of Logarithms, Together with Their Numerous and Important Uses in the More Difficult Parts of Arithmetick. To Which Are Added a Number of Astronomical Tables, By Which the Different Phases of the Moon,--the Times of Her Opposition and Conjunction, May be Computed with the Greatest Ease and Exactness: and an Easy Method of Calculating Solar and Lunar Eclipses; Illustrated with Geometrical Projections: Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Schools and Academies of New England

Logarithmick Arithmetick Containing a New and Coreect Table of Logarithms of the Natural Numbers from 1 to 10,000, Extended to Seven Places Besides the Index; and So Contrived, That the Logarithm May Be Easily Found to Any Number Between 1 and 10,000,000. Also, an Easy Method of Constructing a Table of Logarithms, Together with Their Numerous and Important Uses in the More Difficult Parts of Arithmetick. To Which Are Added a Number of Astronomical Tables, By Which the Different Phases of the Moon,--the Times of Her Opposition and Conjunction, May be Computed with the Greatest Ease and Exactness: and an Easy Method of Calculating Solar and Lunar Eclipses; Illustrated with Geometrical Projections: Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Schools and Academies of New England

By: Burritt, Elijah Hinsdale

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Williamsburgh, Ephraim Whitman: 1818

Seller ID: 2303633

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

Portion of lunar eclipse plate absent. Some loss to boards, first and last few pages missing, a few small holes in a few pages, light stain. 1818 Full-Leather. 245 pp. Logarithmick Arithmetick Containing a New and Coreect Table of Logarithms of the Natural Numbers from 1 to 10,000, Extended to Seven Places Besides the Index; and So Contrived, That the Logarithm May Be Easily Found to Any Number Between 1 and 10,000,000. Also, an Easy Method of Constructing a Table of Logarithms, Together with Their Numerous and Important Uses in the More Difficult Parts of Arithmetick. To Which Are Added a Num...
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40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin, and Other Oddities On Trial In Pennsylvania

By: Chapman, Matthew

Price: $7.00

Publisher: HaperCollins: 2007

Seller ID: 2286300

ISBN: 0061179450

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Minor general wear. 2007 Hard Cover. xv, 272 pp. In this fascinating story of evolution, religion, politics, and personalities, Matthew Chapman captures the story behind the headlines in the debate over God and science in America. In Kitzmiller v. Dover Board of Education, decided in late 2005, a Republican judge rendered a surprising verdict in a case that pitted the teaching of intelligent design (sometimes known as creationism in a lab coat) against the teaching of evolution. Taking place in a small Pennsylvania school district, the case had national repercussions, all the wa...
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Image for Cobb's Expositor, or, Sequel to the Spelling-Book; Containing about Twelve Thousand of the Most Common Words of the Language; in which each word is accurately spelled, pronounced, divided, and explained, and the primary and secondary accent noted; to which are prefixed Concise Principles of Pronunciation, and Rules for the Accentuation and Division of Words. Designed for the Use of Schools.

Cobb's Expositor, or, Sequel to the Spelling-Book; Containing about Twelve Thousand of the Most Common Words of the Language; in which each word is accurately spelled, pronounced, divided, and explained, and the primary and secondary accent noted; to which are prefixed Concise Principles of Pronunciation, and Rules for the Accentuation and Division of Words. Designed for the Use of Schools.

By: Cobb, Lyman

Price: $40.00

Publisher: J.H. Hickok & Co. / Hickok & Blood.: 1836

Seller ID: 2197848

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Eleventh edition. Boards rubbed with some loss from corners, free endpapers removed, lightly to moderately foxed throughout. 1836 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 216 pp. Leather spine, printed paper over boards. A condensation of a contemporary pronouncing dictionary, designed for the use of schools. Spellers and readers like these were often used by autodidacts to achieve literacy and develop reading and elocution skills (e.g., Frederick Douglass used the Columbian Orator for this purpose).
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Cobb's New Spelling Book, in Six Parts

By: Cobb, Lyman

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Clark & Hesser: 1854

Seller ID: 2288956

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Most of the spine is missing, front board nearly loose but still holding, rear board loose but included, pencil note on front endpaper. 1854 Small Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, 168 pp. Part I. Contains the alphabet, variously exhibited; easy words from one to four syllables, in which the single and double consonants are separately classed, and all silent vowels or consonants and diphthongs excluded. Part II. Contains the various and peculiar sounds of the single vowels, diphthongs, and triphthongs, all separately classed, both with regard to the terminating syll...
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The University of Rochester Medical Center: Teaching, Discovering, Caring (75 Years of Achievement, 1925-2000)

By: Cohen, Jules; Joynt, Robert J.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of Rochester Press: 2000

Seller ID: 2206725

ISBN: 1580460836

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Two gift notes to title page, page ridges very faintly foxed. Near Fine. 2000 Hard Cover. xiv, 339 pp. This commemorative volume tells the story of how a relatively small, university-based medical school over the course of 75 years became a national leader in medical research, health care, and their reform. Black & white photographs. Organized to reflect the three major missions of the University of Rochester Medical Center, this book reviews the distinctive achievements in teaching, research and clinical service over the 75 years of the Medical Center's history. Individual chapters on undergr...
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Comstock's Common School Philosophy

By: Comstock, J.L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Reed and Barber: 1839

Seller ID: 2260338

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fair

Spine repaired, loss from head and foot, edges rubbed, lightly foxed throughout. 1839 Full-Leather. 258 pp. A look at how the world saw the science of physics in the early 1800s.
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Image for Introduction to The American Orator; or, A New Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking, Adapted to the Use of the Difference Classes of Learners in Schools and Academies. to which are prefixed Instructive Hints, to Readers and Speakers, with Copious Exemplifications.

Introduction to The American Orator; or, A New Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking, Adapted to the Use of the Difference Classes of Learners in Schools and Academies. to which are prefixed Instructive Hints, to Readers and Speakers, with Copious Exemplifications.

By: Cooke, Increase

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Sidney's Press: 1812

Seller ID: 2303172

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fair

Stain to binding edge of first few pages and bottom corner of last few pages, foxed throughout, ink name on front endpaper, corners rubbed. 1812 Full-Leather. vi, 300 pp. 12mo. Full leather, red morocco spine label, gilt titles and rules, engraved frontispiece depicting education as virtuous. A popular early 19th century reader.
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Easy Experiments in Physical Science, for Oral Instruction in Common Schools

By: Cooley, Le Roy C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Charles Scriber and Company: 1870

Seller ID: 2302633

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Very minor general wear. 1870 Hard Cover. vi, 85 pp. Topics include the properties of matter; attraction; water; air; vibration; sound; light; heat; electricity; chemistry.
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Twenty-Five Years A-Graying: The Portrait of a College Graduate

By: Cooney, Barbara

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Racoon Books / Little, Brown and Company: 1963

Seller ID: 2303572

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Boards very lightly toned. 1963 Hard Cover. A pictorial study of the class of 1938 at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, based on statistics gathered in 1963 for the occasion of its twenty-fifth reunion.
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Cornell's Primary Geography, Forming Part First of a Systematic Series of School Geographies.

By: Cornell, S.S.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company: 1875

Seller ID: 2203169

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Loss from spine head and corner of rear board, boards rubbed and soiled, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1875 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author! 99, [1] pp. Includes black and white engraved illustrations throughout, as well as a number of maps hand-outlined in color.
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Cornell's Companion Atlas to Cornell's High School Geography: Comprising a Complete Set of Maps, Designed for the Student to Memorize, together with Numerous Maps for Reference, Etc.

By: Cornell, S.S.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1864

Seller ID: 2262494

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1864 printing. Boards toned and lightly rubbed, ink named and town on front endpaper (dated Jan 1st 1865), small newspaper clipping mounted on opposite endpaper, endpapers lightly foxed, cube sketched in pencil on rear endpaper. We have more books available by this author!. [36], 8 pp. A collection of hand-colored maps, some of which are different from modern maps in interesting ways: e.g., a map of Canada labeling portions as Hudson Bay Company's Territory; a United States map labeling what is now Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming as Idaho only, Oklahoma as 'Indian Territory', and showing no divisi...
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Geology of the Vicinity of Ogdensburg (Brier Hill, Ogdensburg and Red Mills Quadrangles) (New York State Museum Bulletin, November 1, 1916, No. 191)

By: Cushing, H.P.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The University of the State of New York: 1916

Seller ID: 2297526

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

One inch tear to spine head, wrappers lightly toned. 1916 Soft Cover. 64 pp. Includes map. CONTENTS: Introduction; Location and Character; General Topography: Glacial Deposits; General Geology; Descriptive Geology: Precambrian Rocks - Igneous Rocks: Structures of the Precambrian Rocks - Paleozoic Rocks: Character of the Precambrian Surface Under the Paleozoics - Cambrian (Ozarkian) Formations: Theresa Formation - Ordovician Formations: Tribes Hill Formation - Ogdensburg Formation - Structures of the Paleozoic Rocks; Historical Geology: Precambrian Time - Cambrian Time - Ordovician Time - Later...
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Harvard University Glee Club Collection of Part Songs for Mens Voices, in 6 Volumes

By: Davison, Dr. Archibald T.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: E. C. Schirmer Music Co.: 1922

Seller ID: 2302572

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Gilt on some volumes rubbed, first few pages missing from volume three, minor general wear. 1922 Hard Cover. Red boards. Complete six volume set. A collection of songs from Harvard University Glee Club, for men's voices.
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The 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the Dental School of Harvard University: A Record of the Celebration Held at The Harvard Club of Boston, April 16, 1943 [Inscribed by School's Dean, Leroy Mathew Simpson Miner]

By: Dental School of Harvard University

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cambridge: Published by the University: 1944

Seller ID: 2073623

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Inscribed & signed by the dean, Leroy M.S. Miner: 'To Edgar L. Abt. With appreciation and thanks for your letter and for the portrait which you helped make possible, Leroy M.S. Miner, March 1944.' (he is likely referring to the photographic portrait of himself in the text). 52 pp. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece of Nathan Cooley Keep, portraits of Charles Albert Brackett, Leroy Mathew Simpson Miner, and the entrance to the Harvard Dental School in text.
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Deschanel's Natural Philosophy, Part I: Mechanics, Hydrostatics, and Pneumatics

By: Deschanel, A. Privat; Everett, J.D.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1883

Seller ID: 2267138

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Edges lightly rubbed, front wrapper creased, ink name and date on front endpaper, light pencil marginalia throughout text, pages faintly toned. 1883 Soft Cover. xii, 256 pp. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy. Illustrated by 180 engravings on wood, and one colored plate. CONTENTS: Introductory; First Principles on Dynamics, Statics; Gravity; The Mechanical Powers; The Balance; First Principles of Kinetics; Laws of Falling Bodies; The Pendulum; Energy; Elasticity; Friction; Hydrostatics; Principle of Archimedes; Density and its Determination; Vessels in Communication. Levels.; Capillarit...
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Cambridge Past and Present

By: Downs, Brian W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Methuen & Co., Ltd. / George H. Doran Company: 1926

Seller ID: 2278355

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, no publisher date (circa 1920s), spine and front board faintly toned. 1926 Hard Cover. vii, 257 pp. Includes 16 color plates and a map of Cambridge on front endpapers. CONTENTS: The Town--Situation and Name; The Town--History and Commerce; The Town--Memorials and Things of Fame; The University--Origin and Organization; The University--Library and Senate House; The University--Press and Scientific Institutes; The Fitzwilliam Museum; The Colleges--Peterhouse and Pembroke; The Colleges--Queen's, St. Catharine's, and Corpus Christi; The Colleges--King's and Clare; The Col...
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