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17073The Holy Bible
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bibles
  • American Bible Society
  • 1857
Description:
1857 Holy Bible with a sticker inside cover which reads" Issued by the Maryland State Bible Society from their depository.....". Faded writing on inside cover: 'Lettie A. Smith, Pretty Marsh, Maine"
14622Progressive Parsing Book
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Grammar
  • Weld, Allen H.
  • Bailey and Noyes.
  • 1859
Description:
Parsing and Syntax Prose and Poetry
14621Weld's English Grammar
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Grammar
  • Other, Textbook
  • Weld, Allen H.
  • Sanborn & Carter
  • 1854
Description:
Composition, Analyzing, and Parsing
14168The Intermediate Standard Speaker containing pieces for declamation...
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Public Speaking
  • Sargent, Epes
  • Charles Desilver
  • 1857.
14159The Young Reporter or How to Write Shorthand
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Phonography
  • Other, Shorthand
  • Webster, E.
  • Dick and Fitzgerald Publishers
  • 1855
Description:
Shorthand exercises
13879True Stories from Modern History.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • C.S. Francis and Co.
  • 1859.
Description:
Short historical stories. gift of Abbie Thomas Richardson
13852A Key to the National Arithmetic Exhibiting the Operation of the More Difficult Questions in that Work: For the Use of Teachers Only
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Arithmetic
  • Other, Mathematics
  • Other, Textbook
  • Greenleaf, Benjamin
  • Robert S. Davis & Co.
  • 1854
Description:
Guide for teachers; appears to cover almost all grades, but method also seems obscure. Inscribed on front cover, Lyman Smith.
13826The Life and Times of Aaron Burr.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Burr, Aaron
  • Parton, J.
  • Mason Brothers
  • 1859.
13779The three eras of a woman's life: The maiden, the wife, and the mother.
  • Publication, Book
  • Arthur, T.S.
  • J.W. Bradley
  • 1858
Description:
Novel includes chapters illustrating the heroine's duty before pleasure and a woman's goodcharacter, trials, disappointments, love, beauty, courting, marriage.
12911Popular Legends of Brittany
  • Publication, Book
  • Bode, Heinrich
  • Crosby, Nichols and Company
  • 1854
Description:
English version of Sonvestre's "Foyer Breton" translated by "a lady." Inscribed Edith E. Salisbury, Mt. Desert, Maine Dec.1878.
12796Little Kitty Brown and Her Bible Verses
  • Publication, Book
  • American Sunday School Union
  • 1851
Description:
Written for the American Sunday School Union, this little book contains stories about a little girl learning Bible verses, one per day.
12780The Visit; or, the Difference Between Being a Good Child and Being Like a Good Chile
  • Publication, Book
  • American Sunday-School Union
  • 1853
Description:
One of the books in a series of Sunday School Union publications. Inscribed Sound Sabbath School No. 10
12777The Swiss Pastor
  • Publication, Book
  • Vulliemin, L. and C.
  • American Sunday School Union
  • 1850
Description:
Note on title page indicates this is "the life of the Rev. F.A.A. Gonthier". Inscribed "No. 58 Sound Sabbath School."
12773Stories for Village Lads
  • Publication, Book
  • 1856
Description:
Fictional stories for Sunday School. Inscription says, "????have you got a slate pencil that you would let me have. Yes.
12695O Novo Testamento
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bibles
  • Other, Religion
  • American Bible Society
  • 1857
Description:
"de Nosso Senhor E Salvador Jesus Christo" New Testament translated into Portuguese. Handwritten inside front cover: "Loaned by Kate Richardson."
12692Thoughts upon Thought for Young Men
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Moral & ethical aspects
  • Other, Philosophy
  • Other, Religion
  • Free Will Baptist Printing Establishment
  • 1855.
Description:
"In Three Parts. From the Second London Edition."
12679Margaret and Henrietta
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Moral & ethical aspects
  • Sigourney, Mrs. L.H.
  • American Tract Society
  • 1852.
Description:
Decorative, embossed cloth cover.
12664The Village Blacksmith
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fiction?
  • Everett, James
  • Carlton and Phillips
  • 1853.
Description:
From title page: piety and usefulness exemplified in a memoir of the life of Samuel Hick, late of Micklefield, Yorkshire From the Seventh london Edition.
12643Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Hymn Books
  • Lane and Scott
  • 1852
Description:
Revised Edition. Inscribed in front: Melissa D. Higgins. Includes first line and verse indices.
12633The Ladies Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance, Vol 14
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fashion industry
  • Other, Women
  • G. Henderson
  • 1850.
Description:
Reader for women. Contains colored Godey plates. Inscribed in front: From the late Ellen Gerry's Collection.
12631The Progressive First Reader for Primary Classes...
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Readers
  • Town, Salem and Nelson M. Holbrook
  • Oliver Ellsworth
  • 1856
Description:
Written for students in public and private schools; primary goal is to gain and fix attention of pupil on lesson to be read. Inscribed C.G. Bordeaux, Sound
12615Christmas Blossoms and New Year's Wreath for MDCCCL
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Christmas
  • Other, New Year's
  • Other, Readers
  • Uncle Thomas
  • E. H. Butler & Co.
  • 1850
Description:
Fourth in a series of short stories for Christmas: Christmas Blossoms Inscribed Edith E. Salisbury from Aunt Hittie, Dec. 25, 1878--Christmas present; also Edit Salisbury
7435Arithmetic on the Productive System
  • Publication, Book
  • Roswell C. Smith
  • 1854
Description:
"Mrs. Annetta Elliot, Washington D.C. No. 919 K St." written on inside of front cover.
1568Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bibles
  • Other, Religion
  • Jesper Harding
  • 1856
Description:
"Translated out of the original tongues, together with the Apocrypha, Concordance and Psalms, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised." Inscribed in front: "Sylvina J. Gilmore, Belfast, Me. Presented by Mrs. Martha J. Gilmore, July 21, 1856."
1543New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bibles
  • Other, Religion
  • American Bible Society
  • 1856
Description:
"Translated out of the original greek, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised." Inscriptions in front: "This book belongs to Mrs. Lloyd Lurvey, Bar Harbor, Me. Bought at 2nd hand bookstore." Older inscription also in front: "For "Dannie", Mrs. Loretta Covert from her great-grandson George T Coles, Christmas 1865."