Those with an interest in school and children’s books may want to read Charles Carpenter’s History of American Schoolbooks. It covers New England and other primers, McGuffey’s readers, and more. Item 79. $30. Speaking of McGuffey, Item 257 is The Story of the McGuffeys by Alice McGuffey Ruggles. It’s a biography of the McGuffey family. $30. And number 80 is Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. This is a facsimile of Carroll’s original manuscript for “Alice in Wonderland.” $85.
Item 10, A Szazesztendos Athenaeun, answers the challenge “name a word containing three Z’s.” Actually, it’s a history of the Hungarian firm Athenaeum Publishers. $45. A truly odd title is Cyril Clemens’ Mark Twain and Richard M. Nixon. What did these two have in common? Were they both humorists? Agnew was kind of funny, but it’s hard to think of anything amusing about Nixon. Were both paranoid? That depends on whether Twain/Clemens was paranoid. Apparently it’s about an exchange of letters about Twain between the author and Nixon. If you want to know what Nixon thought of Twain, you’ll just have to buy the book. Item 415 from 1970. $17.50.
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ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.
ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.
ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.