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Summer 2019

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We now have available a group of titles by and about Prominent Female Figures and

books related to Women’s Studies that may be of interest to you. Detailed descriptions and

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Johanson Rare Books

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Women’s Studies

Memoir of Mrs. Harriet L. Winslow—1840

Accounts of Her Experience as a Member of the American Mission in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Winslow, Rev. Miron. Memoir of Mrs. Harriet L. Winslow, Thirteen Years a Member of the

American Mission in Ceylon. New York: American Tract Society,

1840. In June 1819, Harriet Lathrop Winslow embarked to Ceylon (Sri

Lanka) with her husband, Miron

Winslow, under the American

Board of Commissioners for

Foreign Missions (ABFCM).

They were stationed at Uduvil,

where Harriet gave particular

attention to the education of

girls. When a central boarding

school for girls was established

in January 1824, the Winslows

took charge of what became the well-known Uduvil School. Very good in modern green cloth,

spine gilt. Some toning and foxing of pages, but text is bright. 18mo. 480pp. $100.

Haps and Mishaps of a Tour in Europe

By Author and Correspondent Grace Greenwood [Sara Jane Lippincott]—1854

Accounts of her 1853 European Travels While on Assignment for The New York Times

Greenwood, Grace. Haps and Mishaps of A Tour in Europe. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields,

1854. Sara Jane Lippincott (pseudonym Grace Greenwood, 1823-1904) was an

American author, poet, correspondent, lecturer, and newspaper

founder. One of the first women to gain access into the

Congressional press galleries, she used her questions to

advocate for social reform and women's rights. Haps and

Mishaps of a Tour of Europe are accounts of her 1853 travels

in Europe, on an assignment for The New York Times, having

the distinction of being the first woman reporter on the Times

payroll. Very good in brown cloth, spine gilt. Lacks front fly,

scattered foxing inside. Octavo. 437pp. $75.

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Mrs. Brassey’s A Voyage in the ‘Sunbeam’

Voyage Around the World in 1876, Early Edition

With 118 Wood-Engraved Illustrations & 6 Maps

Brassey, Mrs. A Voyage in the ‘Sunbeam.’ Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months.

Toronto: Rose-Belford Publishing Co., 1879. Sixth edition. In their

yacht ‘Sunbeam’ Lady Brassey and her husband, Admiralty Secretary

and diplomat Thomas Brassey, sailed around the world, departing

from Chatham, England in 1876. Lady Brassey’s account, first

published in England in

1879 and derived from

her travel diaries, was a

best seller and went

through many editions.

Very nicely illustrated,

with 6 maps, including

the large folding frontis

showing the entire

journey, a folding map of the Straits of Magellan, and a map of the Sandwich Islands and

Paumoto or Low Archipelago. Very good in decorative brown, black and gilt Victorian binding.

With 118 illustrations engraved on wood by G. Pearson after drawings by the Hon. A. Y.

Bingham. Octavo. 489 pp., appendix. $40.

E. W. Foote Cheves’ Sketches in Prose and Verse—1849

Cheves, Elizabeth Washington Foote. Sketches in Prose and Verse. Baltimore: The Publication

Rooms, 1849. Elizabeth Washington Foote Cheves is an American author born in Eastern

Virginia. She was not formally

educated, but taught herself Latin and

French languages, drawing, and

painting by reading books. First

Edition. Very good- in brown cloth,

spine gilt. Some chips on boards,

including ¾ inch chip on top of spine.

Some water damage to margins of

back pages and rear board. Scant

foxing, but otherwise text is clean and

bright. 12mo. 264pp. $90.

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Elizabeth Putnam Gordon’s Women Torch-Bearers:

The Story of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

First Edition, Presentation Copy Inscribed by the Author

Gordon, Elizabeth Putnam. Women Torch-Bearers: The Story of the Woman’s Christian

Temperance Union. Evanston, Illinois: National Woman's Christian

Temperance Union Publishing House, 1924. First Edition. Presentation

copy inscribed by the author: “Hold high the Torch! Elizabeth Putnam

Gordon.” Also inscribed by Charlotte B. Fraser, Field Secretary for the

National W. C. T.U: “Best wishes

and love, from Charlotte B.

Christmas 1925.” The Woman's

Christian Temperance Union

(WCTU) is an active international

temperance organization that was

among the first organizations of

women devoted to social reform

with a program that “linked the

religious and the secular through

concerted and far-reaching reform

strategies based on applied Christianity.” Near Fine in the original dark green cloth; front board

and spine gilt. Illustrated throughout. 268pp. Hardcover. Octavo. Signed. Inscribed. $125.

How to Behave: A Pocket Manual of Republican Etiquette,

and Guide to Correct Personal Habits—1856

Wells, Samuel R. How to Behave: A Pocket Manual of Republican Etiquette, and Guide to

Correct Personal Habits. New York: Fowler

and Wells, 1856. First Edition. A classic

etiquette rules/etiquette guide: “An

exposition on the principles of good

manners, with useful hints on personal

habits, parliamentary etiquette, and the

etiquette of occasions and places, including:

moral and social training, the cultivation of

language and expression of opinions, good

behavior at home, observances of everyday

life; how to behave on the street, such as

stopping business men or walking with

ladies, how to behave when traveling and the

rights of fellow travelers, punctuality, and

understanding physiological laws; as well as courtesy in debate, securing a home, Washington’s

Code of Manners, Maxims from Chesterfield, etc. With illustrative anecdotes, a chapter on love

and courtship, and rules of order for debating societies.” Very Good in embossed black cloth

with brightly gilt front board and spine; lightly rubbed at corners and spine ends. Light foxing

throughout. 149pp., plus 4pp. ads. & small leaf on “Pleasures which a Christian should Forego.”

No. III in the series, Hand-Books for Home Improvement. $75.

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Ann Lauterbach’s Before Recollection—1987

Inscribed, With Manuscript & Typed Letters Laid-in

Lauterbach, Ann. Before Recollection. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. First

edition. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page, “For my

dear, first, friend, Jane” and with an autograph letter signed by the

author to Jane laid-in and written on the author's personal stationery;

also signed on the title-page by the author; and a typed manuscript,

3pp., written by the author

about her sister Jen and the

death of their father. Ann

Lauterbach (born 1942) is

an American poet, essayist,

and professor. Fine in coral

colored cloth with spine

stamped in silver and bright

gold. In a fine pictorial dust

jacket. Octavo. 73pp. $50.

Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight—1937

Narrative of her Final Journey Around the World to New Guinea

As Told by Earhart Before her Disappearance

With 27 Photographic Illustrations

Earhart, Amelia. Last Flight. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937. Arranged by

George Palmer Putnam. First edition. Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)

was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first

female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. During an

attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937,

Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the central

Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life,

career, and disappearance continues to this day. Last Flight is

almost entirely written by Amelia Earhart herself, originally

intended to be titled World Flight. It is a narrative of her journey

around the world to New Guinea, as it came by cable and telephone.

With 27 photographic illustrations. Very good in red cloth, spine

and front board gilt though faded. In a very good dust jacket with a

¼ by ¾ inch chip mid-spine, and some small chips on edges of dust

jacket. Interior clean and bright. Octavo. 226pp. $100.

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Ten Volume Set of Mrs. Jameson’s Works

Friend of Lady Byron, Wife of Lord Byron

Jameson, Mrs. [Anna Brownell]. Works, including Characteristics of Women, The Diary of an

Ennuyée, Memoirs of the Loves of the Poets, and others. Boston and New York:

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. Special

compilation of Mrs. Jameson’s works in a set of 10

volumes. Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860) was friends

with Lady Byron, wife of the Romantic Poet Lord Byron.

Their friendship lasted for seven years; apparently brought

to an end due to Lady Byron's unreasonable temper. Very

good in olive green cloth, spines gilt. 16mos. $150.

Hannah More’s Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education—1799

English Educator, Poet, and Playwright

More, Hannah. Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. London: T. Cadell Jun.

and W. Davies, 1799. In two volumes. With a view of the principles and conduct

prevalent among women of rank and fortune. The Seventh Edition. Hannah More

(1745-1833) was an English educator, poet, playwright, and author. The Hannah

More Academy in Reisterstown,

Maryland, is named in her

honor. Very good in full tree

calf, spines gilt with red and

black leather labels. Volume

one missing title page and spine

label with volume number.

Spines repaired. 305pp., 338pp.

12mos. Two volumes. $650.

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The Science of Being by Eugene Fersen

Inscribed to American Birth Control Activist Margaret Sanger

A Rare and Special Book

Fersen, Eugene. The Science of Being. New York: J. F. Tapley Co., 1923. First edition.

Inscribed and signed by the author to

Margaret Sanger. Margaret Higgins Sanger

was an American birth control activist, sex

educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger

popularized the term “birth control”,

opened the first birth control clinic in the

United States, and established

organizations that evolved into the Planned

Parenthood Federation of America. The

author, Baron Eugene Fersen, was born in

1873 in St. Petersburg to Marie the Grand

Duchess of Russia. His grandfather was

King Alexander II of Russia. His uncle

was Leo Tolstoy and his half-sister was

Queen Maria of Romania, who was the

grand-daughter of Queen Victoria of

England. A rare and special book. Near Fine in soft, brown textured leather. Front cover stamped

with the emblem of the Science of Being in gilt. All edges gilt with curved corners. Delicate

pages with rare light and thin paper, the first time in the history of paper manufacturing in the

United States that such a paper was made. Beautiful black and gold printing throughout,

decorative illustrations in gold begin each chapter. Interior is clean and text bright. 16mo. $500.

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Friendship’s Offering, 1854

With Contributions from Female Poets and Authors

Illustrated with 8 Engravings by John Sartain

Friendship’s Offering: A Christmas, New York, and Birthday Present for MDCCCLIV. Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co., 1854. With contributions from a number of female

poets and authors, including English author and

dramatist Mary Russell Mitford and English travel

writer and poet Emma Roberts. Illustrated with eight

engravings by John Sartain. Very good in black cloth,

spine gilt. Boards and spine with raised decorations.

All edges gilt. Interior clean and bright. 328pp. 12mo.

$125.

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford

Illustrated by Huge Thomson, Signed Riviere Binding

Gaskell, Mrs. [Elizabeth]. Cranford. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1920. With a

preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson.

Signed Riviere binding. Revised edition. Cranford

is one of the better-known novels of the 19th-

century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was

first published, irregularly, in eight instalments,

between December 1851 and May 1853, in the

magazine Household Words, which was edited by

Charles Dickens. Very good in ¾ green leather

with green cloth-covered boards. Spine gilt with 5

raised bands, darkened to brown. Top edge gilt.

Some toning of page edges, but text and

illustrations are clean and bright. Previous owner’s

bookplate on front pastedown. 297pp. 12mo. $50.

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Lydia Marie Child’s The Biographies of Lady Russell and Madame Guyon

American Abolitionist and Women’s Rights Activist

Child, Mrs. [Lydia Marie]. The Biographies of Lady Russell and Madame Guyon. Boston:

Carter, Hendee & Co., 1832. With a portrait of Lady Rachel Russell on

the frontispiece. Volume 2 of Ladie’s Family Library. Lydia Maria

Francis Child (1802-1880), was an

American abolitionist, women's rights

activist, Native American rights

activist, novelist, journalist, and

opponent of American expansionism.

Her journals, both fiction and domestic

manuals, reached wide audiences from

the 1820s through the 1850s. At times,

she shocked her audience as she tried

to take on issues of both male

dominance and white supremacy in

some of her stories. Very good- in

brown cloth, with paper label on spine.

Foxing inside. 264pp. 12mo. $125.

A Physician’s Counsels to Women, in Health and Disease—1872

First Edition

Women’s Health in the Late Nineteenth Century

Taylor, Walter C. A Physician’s Counsels to Woman, in Health and Disease. Springfield: W. J.

Holland & Co., 1872. First edition. This

health manual for women gives a good

snapshot of the state of health care in the late

nineteenth century in America. Very good- in

green cloth, spine and front board gilt. All

edge gilt. Few pencil marks in the margins,

otherwise text is clean and bright. 403pp.

plus ads. 12mo. $50.

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Rare Early American Magazine—1814-1815

With Selected Pieces by Benjamin Franklin

Carr, Mrs. Mary, ed. The Intellectual Regale; or Ladies’ Tea Tray. Volume 1, Numbers

1(partial)-17, 21. 1814-1815. Edited by Mrs. Mary Carr Clarke of

Baltimore. Rare example of a magazine

founded and edited by a woman in the

early nineteenth century. Including

selected pieces by Ben Franklin on

Beauty, marriage, and happiness.

Additional selections comprise topics on

female education, female writers, and

courtship. With numerous poems

throughout. In the original marbled

wraps, pages toned with scant foxing.

First 12 pages are missing. Octavo. $750.