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Author, Title, Summary Subject Price
Falconer Madan (1851-1935), Bodley's librarian [Bodleian Library; Brasenose College; Oxford]

Autograph Letter Signed ('F. Madan') to 'Mr. Hudson'.

Two pages, 12mo. Very good on lightly aged paper. Begins with three bibliographical points, including one about Wagner's edition of Bentley's 'Phalaris' ('that of course we have at the Bodleian. A very useful edition, with long bibliography'). 'Thanks about my brother William, and Osler. The...

£100.00
[National Association of Teachers of the Deaf; International Conference on the Education of the Deaf, 1907]

[Printed item.] [ Proceedings of the International Conference on the Education of the Deaf held in the Training College Buildings, Edinburgh, on 29th, 30th, and 31st July and 1st and 2nd August 1907.]

xiv + 176pp., 8vo. With seventeen plates carrying a view of the Edinburgh Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb, and photographic portraits of members. Lacking title-leaf, otherwise in fair condition, on aged paper, with one plate loose and worn, with shelfmark (of the Board of...

£80.00
[National Froebel Union; Annual Publications]

[Froebel; education; women's teacher training] "N.F.U. [National Froebel Union] Syllabus & Examination Papers" (1899-30, broken run); "Publications of the National Froebel Union" (vols 1933-8)

Total number of volumes , 15 (Syllabuses 12; Publications 3), green cloth, worn, spine gt, worn at extremities, contents slightly loose, generally fair, all with library stamps and shelf marks, and the label Board of Education Reserve Stock. Publications have wraps bound in.1. N.F.U. Syllabus...

Education, Women £950.00
London Society for Teaching the Blind to Read and for Training them in Industrial Occupations, London

[Printed pamphlet.] 70th Annual Report of the Executive Committee, Presented May 7th at the Annual General Meeting, held at the Institution, Sir George Barham (High Sheriff of the County of Middlesex) in the Chair. [With rules and subscription list.]

70pp., 12mo. With two full-page photographic illustrations: 'Girls Chair-Caning' and 'Boys' Industrial Work'. On aged and worn paper. Rear wrap only present, with photograph of the institution. With shelfmarks, stamp and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, London. Scarce: no copy...

£80.00
[The College and Association of Teachers of the Blind, London]

[Printed pamphlet.] The College and Association of Teachers of the Blind. Twentieth Annual Report For the Year ending 31st March, 1928.

23pp., 12mo. In orange printed wraps. In fair condition, lightly worn and aged, with rusting staple and shelfmark, stamp and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, London. Scarce: no copy traced on OCLC WorldCat or COPAC.

£60.00
A. G. Mashburn, Instructor in the Arkansas School for the Deaf [Volta Bureau, for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge relating to the Deaf, Washington City, U.S.A.]

[Printed pamphlet.] Some Differences in the Education of the Deaf and the Hearing. Read before the Arkansas School Association of Teachers of the Deaf, April 11, 1898.

15pp., 8vo. Tied with yellow ribbon. In fair condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. Stamp, label and shelfmark of the Education Department Library, London. Uncommon.

£50.00
Dr. J. I. Bauer [Joseph Ignaz Bauer], Lehrer an der Blindenanstalt Nürnberg [Vereins der blinden Akademiker Deutschlands, Marburg]

[Printed pamphlet.] Ergänzungsheft zum Handbuch der Blindenwohlfahrtspflege herausgegeben von Syndikus Dr. Carl Strehl. 2. Ergänzungsheft: Hauptprobleme der Blindenpädagogik.

90pp., 8vo. In grey stapled wraps. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, in worn wraps. Shelfmarks, stamp and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, London. Uncommon: no copies in English-speaking libraries on WorldCat.

£50.00
[Dublin Tract Repository]

[Booklets] Seven items published by the Dublin Tract Repository

Seven items, printed paper wraps, all 48mo or close, mainly anon., as follows: 1. [J.D.S.], "Why did God love Man", [24]pp., list of "Small books" on final page (back wrap); 2. "To-Day! To-Day! A True Story", [16]pp., list of "Small books" on final page (back wrap); 3. "Don't Wait", wraps grubby...

£220.00
Anon.

[Booklet] The Poor Man's Best Medicine

[16]pp., 48mo, printed paper wraps, worn and sl. damaged, but complete, text clear. No pther copy traced.

£35.00
Gordon Pask [Andrew Gordon Speedie Pask] (1928-1996), cybernetician and psychologist ('Conversation Theory') [Seymour Aubrey Papert; Marvin Lee Minsky; Warren Sturgis McCullogh]

[Gordon Pask, English cybernetician.] Duplicated privately circulated monograph titled 'Proposals for a Cybernetic Theatre'. [With diagrams.]

[2] + 30pp., 4to. Text paginated 1-30. With an additional nine pages of diagrams, numbered 1 to 10, and including one double-page fold-out (Diagram 8). Stapled duplicated typescript. Ink manuscript note (by Pask?) on back cover: 'MARVIN MINSKY [cognitive scientist in the field of artificial...

£350.00