1959.04.19 _ Literary Treasures on View at Library in Shrub Oak
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1959.04.19 _ Literary Treasures on View at Library in Shrub Oak
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Public Library--Rare Book Exhibition
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"John C. Hart Memorial Library Historical News Clippings" Binder, Volume 1, 1919 - 1970
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Patent Trader
Date
1959-04-19
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Yorktown (N.Y. : Town)
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Shrub Oak - Literary treasures of many generations' standing were placed on display in the John C. Hart Memorial Library Saturday, in commemoration of National Library Week.
The oldest book on exhibition is a fifteenth century manuscript on vellum; "Ordo Baptismi," loaned by Robert A. Nelson of Chapel Hill who admits to a collector's instinct for rare books. Companion piece to the "Baptismi" is an abridgment of the "Chronicles of England" gathered by Richard Grafton, citizen of London in 1513, also loaned by Mr. Nelson.
From a point of local interest, the most historical book ls a calfbound arithrnetic copy book, loaned by Mrs. Calvin Tobias, once the property of Joseph Roake, one of Shrub Oak's first settlers. The decorated flyleaf declares that it was "performed with a Skewer" Angust 29, 1750, 10 months after it came into his possession. It contains such fascinating studies in addition as "How many Sparrows at 16 a penny will buy a Gelding at 25 ·1bs. value?"
Journal Of Voyage
Another o! local interest, loaned by Arthur C. Lee of Yorktown, ls "John Hawkin's book, a journal of a Voyage from London to Madeira in the Frances of London, Wllliam Heather, Commander," kept by Joseph Wyatt, Mate, began April 22, 1795.
Among the items loaned by Mrs. Adolf Sylvander is a three-volume set of "Letters Chinoises" prlnted in Paris in 1751, being the correspondence of a Phylosopher, Critique and Voyageuer, one Ches Pierre Gosse Jr.;" also "Fables de la Fontaine," printed in 1757, and an autographed copy of Wilson's American Ornithology, 1854.
Maurice Sellers' contribution to the exhibit is a Bible printed in Boston in 1802, a 1834 lexicon of the English language, a dictionary and a "Call to the Unconverted" both of eighteenth century vintage. Also a Hilleards' Third Class Reader, standard in the state of Maine schools in the middle of the last century.
Among the books loaned by Mrs. Sellers are a Godey's Ladies Book bound in calf, circa 1850 and the 1859 edition of the Ladies Repository.
Comstock, 1845; "The Floral Wreath', an offering of Friendship," 1851; "Grandmother's Pocket ," a collection of short stories 1856, and "The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manuel of Politeness," 1860.
Mrs. Percy Chadwick has contributed "An English Harmony of the Four Evangelists," 1809, a first edition of "Uncle Tom's cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, in two volumes, 1852, and "A House on Wheels, life among the gypsies," translated from the French in the early part at the last century.
George Cowper of Strawberry Hill, a descendant of the poet contributed "Poems of William Cowper, Esq," 1846, the "Poetry of the Passions" by Rufus Griswold 1846 and a Child's History of England, by Charles Dickens.
Mrs. Charles E. Hoyt has loaned ''The Keepsake," 1833, "The Minstrel and other Poems" by James Beattee, 1836, and "Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith,". 1837
Of local interest is "The Wide World" written in 1852 by Susan Warner on Constitution Island, loaned by Mrs. Leslie Purdy. Also a "Geography' of the Heavens" published in 1835, property of Mrs. William Odell.
School History
One of the gems of the books loaned by Mrs. E. Munson Frost is a "Quackenbos School History of the United States," l864,· Also, a book of "Common Prayer," 1829 and a "new" translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainment, illustrated," 1815; "Ancient and Modern Hisotry by Rev. Royal Robbins, 1856, and a colto's school geography, 1856.
"Melbourne and the Chincha Islands" by George Peck, 1854, is among the Tobias collection, along with "Tne Family Kitchen Gardener," 1807, "Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus," 1857; Elements of Punctuation," 1856; "Nicholas Nickleby" by Charles Dickens, 1839; and Lempriere's Classical Dictionary, 1832.
Other contributors include Mrs. Andrew Baum, Mrs. John Bartholomew, 'Mrs. Robert Archer, Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Wolf, Miss Bea Cowper, Mrs. Louis Rohrig, Mrs. Charles Wolfinger, Miss Eileen Watkins, Mrs. Concetta Schatteiet, Miss Barbara Hobbs and Mrs. Theodore Hill.
Included in the collection loaned by Mrs. Genevieve Martens are "Marmaduke Multiply," a combination first reader and arithmetis, 1845; Geography of the Bible, 1830 Copybook of handwriting, 1844; "The Science of Common 'Things'.'by David A. Wells, 1857, arn "Hoolth and Good Living" by Dr. W. W. Hall, 1870.
The prize fo the collection loaned by Mrs. Floyd Barger is "Cinderalla," published in verse form in Philadelphia in 1810. Others loaned by Mrs. Barger are "Little Rhyrnes for Little Folks," 1834; a book of Methodist hymns, "The Columbian Primer and Catechism printed in New York in 1805; Smith's New England Grammar; 1839; Noah Webster's Spelling Book, 1833, Webster's Common School Alithmetic, 1833, an 1829 Bib1e, an 1835 Atlas and a "Modern Builder's Guide, 1846.
'Scholars Arithmetic'
Mrs. Donald Weirman's exhibit includes "The Scholar's Arithmetic by Daniel Adams, 1810," and "Adams New Arithmetic, 1827 ."
Miss Mildred strong has loaned "Walker's Critical Pronouncing dictionary, 1823," and "The English Reader, 1820."
Included in the Lee collection are "Carver's Book of Sports," 1834; "The Gardener's Almenack," In old English type, probably seventeen century; "Bonnycasile's Introduction to Algebra," 1854; "Proverbial Philosophy" by Martin Farquhar Tupper Esq., 1855; "Outlines of Physiology, both Comparative and Human" by Dr. J. I.
The oldest book on exhibition is a fifteenth century manuscript on vellum; "Ordo Baptismi," loaned by Robert A. Nelson of Chapel Hill who admits to a collector's instinct for rare books. Companion piece to the "Baptismi" is an abridgment of the "Chronicles of England" gathered by Richard Grafton, citizen of London in 1513, also loaned by Mr. Nelson.
From a point of local interest, the most historical book ls a calfbound arithrnetic copy book, loaned by Mrs. Calvin Tobias, once the property of Joseph Roake, one of Shrub Oak's first settlers. The decorated flyleaf declares that it was "performed with a Skewer" Angust 29, 1750, 10 months after it came into his possession. It contains such fascinating studies in addition as "How many Sparrows at 16 a penny will buy a Gelding at 25 ·1bs. value?"
Journal Of Voyage
Another o! local interest, loaned by Arthur C. Lee of Yorktown, ls "John Hawkin's book, a journal of a Voyage from London to Madeira in the Frances of London, Wllliam Heather, Commander," kept by Joseph Wyatt, Mate, began April 22, 1795.
Among the items loaned by Mrs. Adolf Sylvander is a three-volume set of "Letters Chinoises" prlnted in Paris in 1751, being the correspondence of a Phylosopher, Critique and Voyageuer, one Ches Pierre Gosse Jr.;" also "Fables de la Fontaine," printed in 1757, and an autographed copy of Wilson's American Ornithology, 1854.
Maurice Sellers' contribution to the exhibit is a Bible printed in Boston in 1802, a 1834 lexicon of the English language, a dictionary and a "Call to the Unconverted" both of eighteenth century vintage. Also a Hilleards' Third Class Reader, standard in the state of Maine schools in the middle of the last century.
Among the books loaned by Mrs. Sellers are a Godey's Ladies Book bound in calf, circa 1850 and the 1859 edition of the Ladies Repository.
Comstock, 1845; "The Floral Wreath', an offering of Friendship," 1851; "Grandmother's Pocket ," a collection of short stories 1856, and "The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manuel of Politeness," 1860.
Mrs. Percy Chadwick has contributed "An English Harmony of the Four Evangelists," 1809, a first edition of "Uncle Tom's cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, in two volumes, 1852, and "A House on Wheels, life among the gypsies," translated from the French in the early part at the last century.
George Cowper of Strawberry Hill, a descendant of the poet contributed "Poems of William Cowper, Esq," 1846, the "Poetry of the Passions" by Rufus Griswold 1846 and a Child's History of England, by Charles Dickens.
Mrs. Charles E. Hoyt has loaned ''The Keepsake," 1833, "The Minstrel and other Poems" by James Beattee, 1836, and "Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith,". 1837
Of local interest is "The Wide World" written in 1852 by Susan Warner on Constitution Island, loaned by Mrs. Leslie Purdy. Also a "Geography' of the Heavens" published in 1835, property of Mrs. William Odell.
School History
One of the gems of the books loaned by Mrs. E. Munson Frost is a "Quackenbos School History of the United States," l864,· Also, a book of "Common Prayer," 1829 and a "new" translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainment, illustrated," 1815; "Ancient and Modern Hisotry by Rev. Royal Robbins, 1856, and a colto's school geography, 1856.
"Melbourne and the Chincha Islands" by George Peck, 1854, is among the Tobias collection, along with "Tne Family Kitchen Gardener," 1807, "Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus," 1857; Elements of Punctuation," 1856; "Nicholas Nickleby" by Charles Dickens, 1839; and Lempriere's Classical Dictionary, 1832.
Other contributors include Mrs. Andrew Baum, Mrs. John Bartholomew, 'Mrs. Robert Archer, Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Wolf, Miss Bea Cowper, Mrs. Louis Rohrig, Mrs. Charles Wolfinger, Miss Eileen Watkins, Mrs. Concetta Schatteiet, Miss Barbara Hobbs and Mrs. Theodore Hill.
Included in the collection loaned by Mrs. Genevieve Martens are "Marmaduke Multiply," a combination first reader and arithmetis, 1845; Geography of the Bible, 1830 Copybook of handwriting, 1844; "The Science of Common 'Things'.'by David A. Wells, 1857, arn "Hoolth and Good Living" by Dr. W. W. Hall, 1870.
The prize fo the collection loaned by Mrs. Floyd Barger is "Cinderalla," published in verse form in Philadelphia in 1810. Others loaned by Mrs. Barger are "Little Rhyrnes for Little Folks," 1834; a book of Methodist hymns, "The Columbian Primer and Catechism printed in New York in 1805; Smith's New England Grammar; 1839; Noah Webster's Spelling Book, 1833, Webster's Common School Alithmetic, 1833, an 1829 Bib1e, an 1835 Atlas and a "Modern Builder's Guide, 1846.
'Scholars Arithmetic'
Mrs. Donald Weirman's exhibit includes "The Scholar's Arithmetic by Daniel Adams, 1810," and "Adams New Arithmetic, 1827 ."
Miss Mildred strong has loaned "Walker's Critical Pronouncing dictionary, 1823," and "The English Reader, 1820."
Included in the Lee collection are "Carver's Book of Sports," 1834; "The Gardener's Almenack," In old English type, probably seventeen century; "Bonnycasile's Introduction to Algebra," 1854; "Proverbial Philosophy" by Martin Farquhar Tupper Esq., 1855; "Outlines of Physiology, both Comparative and Human" by Dr. J. I.
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