1840s Sammelband: “Excursion Through the Slave States,” “Demonstration of the Quadrature of the Circle,” “Complete Key to Gummere’s Surveying,” “Tales of Woman’s Trials,” “Course of English Reading,” “Mathematical Miscellany Number IV.”
ca. 1840s. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #776137
Sammelband of 1840s pamphlets and books. Half leather and marbled boards, 9 x 6 inches, very good, light wear to binding, occasional foxing to contents. Sammelbande of 6 publications: “Excursion Through the Slave States,” “Demonstration of the Quadrature of the Circle,” “Complete Key to Gummere’s Surveying,” “Tales of Woman’s Trials,” “Course of English Reading,” “Mathematical Miscellany Number IV.” Here is a description of each publication: 1) Pycroft, James. “A Course of English Reading Adapted to Every Taste and Capacity: With Anecdotes of Men of Genius.” Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1848. 59, 4pp. 2) Featherstonhaugh, G. W. “Excursion Through the Slave States, From Washington on the Potomac to the Frontier of Mexico; With Sketches of Popular Manners and Geological Notices.” New York: Harper & Brothers, 1844. 168pp. Appears to be the first American edition, an abridgment of the UK first printing that appeared in 2 vols. in the same year. 3) Hall, Mrs. S. C. [Anna Maria]. “Tales of Woman’s Trials.” New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. Lacking lower half of title page. 164, 4pp. 4) Murdock, W. D. C. [William David Clark] “A Demonstration of the Quadrature of the Circle.” 8pp + folding plate. Publication information not identified. 6 copies in OCLC. Murdock, a DC resident, was the owner of the “Friendship Tract” on which American University was built. In 1862 he emancipated his slaves. 5) [Gill, C.] “The Mathematical Miscellany. Number IV.“ 1836. [197]-268pp, (1) with folding meteorological observations chart. 6) Alsop, Samuel. “A Complete Key to Gummere’s Surveying; in which the operations of all the examples, not solved in that work, are exhibited at large, principally designed to facilitate the labour of teachers, and to assist those who have not the opportunity of their instruction.” Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. 1846. 84pp + 4 folding plates.
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