(AMERICANA. EDUCATION)
A group of 12 books pertaining to early American education.


Property from a Private Chicago-area Collection

Condition: The American Spelling Book; Containing the Rudiments of the English Language. For the Use of Schools in the United States. By Noah Webster. Brattleborough, VT: Holbrook and Fessenden, ca. 1800. Rudiments of Geography... By William C. Woodbridge. Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke, 1831. A Compendious System of Universal Geography, Designed for Schools. By Elijah Parish. Amherst, N.H.: Thomas & Whipple, ca. 1800. The English Reader: or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers. By Lindley Murray. Boston: Lincoln & Edmands, 1824. Elements of General History, Ancient and Modern. By Edward Nares. Concord, N.H.: Haratio Hill, 1828. The Clerk's Magazine: Containing the most Useful and necessary Forms of Writings... Albany: Webster's and Skinner, ca. 1801. The Schoolmasters Assistant: Being a Compendium of Arithmetic, Both Practical and Theoretical. By Thomas Dilworth. Philadelphia: R. Aitken, 1781. The American Tutor's Assistant... Arithmetic. by Zachariah Jess. Baltimore: Cushing & Sons, n.d. A Key to the Western Calculator... By John Armstrong. Pittsburgh: Johnston & Stockston, 1844. An Introduction to Mensuration and Practical Geometry. By John Bonnycastle. Philadelphia: Kimber & Sharpless, 1839. History of the United States, from Their First Settlement as Colonies, to the Close of the War with Great Britain in 1815. Cincinnati: Morgan and Sanxay, 1833. The Constitution of the State of Massachusetts, and That of the United States... Portland: Isaac Adams, n.d.