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02/01/2024

“Webster’s Improved Dictionary of the English Language” Exhibiting the Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, and Definition of Words: Embracing All the Principal Terms Used in Literature, Science and Art, according to the Best Authorities. And Likewise Giving the Synonymous Terms for Nearly All the Words Explained. Written by Noah Webster. Published by William MacKenzie, in London, Glasgow, & Edinburgh; Circa 1850. Complete Two Volume Set.

A Dictionary of the English Language; Written by Noah Webster, LL.D. To which are added, A Synopsis of Words Differently Pronounced by Different Orthoepists, and Walker’s Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names. Revised and Enlarged by Professor C. A. Goodrich.

With the Addition of an Orthoëpic Vocabulary of Modern Geographical Names. A New Edition, Corrected, Improved, and Enlarged, by Thomas Heber Orr, Discoverer of the Process of Primitive Wordgrowth.

With an Introductory Essay on the Philosophy of Language and General Grammar, by Sir John Stoddart, KNT., LL.D.

And a Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing, by Henry Noel Humphreys, author of “The Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages.”

In Addition to the above, a section entitled, Treatise on Shorthand or Stenography by Isaac Pitman, ends the Second Volume.

02/01/2024

“Ridpath’s Universal History” by John Clark Ridpath, LL.D. This complete collection of 16 original volumes takes you on a captivating journey through the evolution of human civilization.

Published in Cincinnati by The Jones Brothers Publishing Company, Eaton & Mains, New York, in 1896. This antique treasure has gracefully aged over 127 years. Within its pages, you’ll find a treasure trove of knowledge, brought to life by an astounding array of illustrations, including colored plates, race charts, historical maps, type-pictures, sketches, and diagrams, totaling over three thousand.

02/01/2024

“The House of the Seven Gables” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Illustrated by Charles S. Olcott. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company; 1913. First Edition Thus.

02/01/2024

“The Settler and the Savage: A Tale of Peace and War in South Africa” by R. M. Ballantyne. Published in London by Jason Nisbet & Company.

This is an antique book that is ornately decorated on the inside and outside with gold gilt titles and stunning illustrated plates. While it remains undated, this antique book has an inscription on the inside front cover that is dated 1897.

02/01/2024

“Packards New Manual of Book-Keeping and Correspondence” by S. S. Packard. Published in New York, by S. S. Packard; 1885. First Edition.

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02/01/2024

“The Song of Hiawatha” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Published in New York by Thomas Y. Crowell; 1899.

02/01/2024

“The Story Of South Africa : An Account Of The Historical Transformation Of The Dark Continent By The European Powers And The Culminating Contest Between Great Britain And The South African Republic In The Transvaal War.” Written by John Clark Ridpath and Edward S. Ellis. Copiously Illustrated. Published in Chicago, by C. W. Stanton Company; 1899. First Edition.

02/01/2024

02/01/2024

“Lessons in Latin Parsing, Containing the Outlines of Latin Grammar, Divided into Short Portions, and Exemplified by Appropriate Exercises in Parsing”. Written by Chauncey A. Goodrich, a Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Yale College. Published by Durrie & Peck, in New Haven; 1846.

01/31/2024

“Heidi: A Child’s Story of Life in the Alps” by Johanna Spyri. Illustrated. Published by M. A. Donohue & Co.

01/29/2024

“A History of the United States of America, on a Plan Adapted to the Capacity of Youth, and Designed to Aid the Memory by Systematic Arrangement and Interesting Associations” by Rev. Charles A. Goodrich. Illustrated by Engravings. Printed and Published by A. Phelps, and sold wholesale retail, at his Bookstore, Greenfield, Massachusetts; 1824.

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01/29/2024

“The Pioneer History of America: A Popular Account of the Heroes and Adventurers, Who, by their Valor and Warcraft, Beat Back the Savages from the Borders of Civilization and Gave the American Forests to the Plow and the Sickle. Embracing the Legend of Powhatan; the Trials of La Salle; the Fate of Philip; the Lion and the Lilies; Rogers’s Rangers; the Adventures of Wayne’s Scouts; the Ambition of Pontiac; Brant and the Mohawks; the Bloody Year of the Three 7’s; the Conflict in the Ohio Valley; the Exploits of Wetzel; the Courage of Kenton; the Bravery of Brady; the Days of Daniel Boone; the Moravian Massacres; the Cruelties of Girty; the Doom of Crawford; Troubles of the Tennesseans; the Romance of Red Eagle; the True Stories of the Prophet; the Sorrows of the Seminoles; Black Hawk’s Humiliation; the History of Kit Carson; the Heroes of the Lone Star State; the Tragedy of Minnesota; Joseph and his Brethren; The Red Man of To-Day, etc.”

Written by Augustus Lynch Mason, A.M. With an Introduction by John Clark Ridpath, LL.D. Published by The Jones Brothers Publishing Company, in Cincinnati, Ohio; 1884.

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