Lot 248: 1812 New England Primer, plus Four Antique School Books

A) The New England Primer, Or an Easy and Pleasant Guide to the Art Reading. Adorned with Cuts. To which is Added, the Catechism, Printed for the Purchaser. 1812. B) Great Truths in Simple Words, For Little Children. American Tract Society. 1850, 94pp. C) The Rhetorical Reader: Consisting of Instructions for Regulting the Voice With a Rhetorical Notation, Illustrating Inflection, Emphasis, and Modulation: And A Course of Rhetorical Excerices. By Ebenezer Porter. D.D. Forty Fifth Editions with an appendix. Leavitt, Lord and Co. 1838. $15 Putnam’s Sequel. Sequel to the Analytical Reader: in which The Original Design is Extended, so as to Embrace an Explanation of Phrases and Figurative Language. By Samuel Putnam. Samuel S. & William Wood. 1838. D) A Treatise on Arithmetic, Combining Analysis and Synthesis adapted to the Best Mode of Instruction in Common Schools and Academies. By James S. Eaton, M.A., Instructor in Phillips Academy, Andover, and President of the Essex County Teachers’ Association. Boston; Taggard and Thompson, 29 Cornhill, 1865. E) The Pocket Book of Quotations. Edited by Henry Davidoff. Collector’s Edition. Pocket books, Inc., New York. 1942.

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