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Text Box: Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant, Improved and Enlarged Being a Plain Practical System of Arithmetick Adapted to the United States with the addition of the Farmers' and Mechanick's Best Method of Book-Keeping by Dabol, Nathan 1836 Ithaca, NY: Mack, Andrus and Woodruff. Recommendations in the front of this interesting little text book are dated 1799, from Josiah Meigs and Noah Webster. In his preface Daboll notes that he introduces Federal Coin, now (1836) gaining more use, and decimal and vulgar fractions. He includes Arithmetical Tables for numeration and Pence (d. s. d., or dollars, shillings and pence). Also Wine Measure, Long Measure, Land or Square Measure, Time, Circular Motion. Includes tables that correspond to Act of Congress 1792 making foreign gold and silver coins legal tender. Tables show weights of English and Portuguese Gold in dollars, cents and mills, also French and Spanish Gold. Final 12 pages are Farmers' and Mechanick's Best Method of Book-Keeping for the Easy Instruction of Youth, by Samuel Green. This provides form for a Day Book and for a Leger (sic.). 240 pp. 9.5 x 16 cm. Calf on board, worn, inside rear hinge cracked, very good. (8125) $28.00. Educational Japanese-Russian Peace Conference at Portsmouth Navy Yard, commemorative Post Card, 1905 1905 Portsmouth, NH: W.L. Julian. Postcard shows photo of building at Portsmouth Navy Yard where Russo-Japanese Peace Conference will be held. Card, printed in blue and red, shows Japanese and Russian flags, and also photo of Hotel Wentworth, where envoys and their suites will be quartered. Background for card is American flag. 1 card 15 x 9.3 cm. Postcard, reverse contains block for one-cent stamp. Good. (8128) $15.00. Ephemera/History V.O.K.S. Published by the Soviet Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, Vol. II No. 4, 1931 Yoffe, Yakovlev, Semyakin, Mikhailov, Tsypkin, et al 1931 Moscow, USSR: VOKS, Trubnikovsky Pereulok, 17. V.O.K.S. (Vsyesoyuznii Obschestvo Kulturniyi Svyazii Zagranitsiy), All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries was founded in 1925 and widely recognized as Stalin's heavy-handed effort at foreign propaganda. "The Planning of Science"-- how it is done with the new Five-Year Plan, by the new socialist people. The language of the "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" referring to the "shock-brigade troops and the storming detachment of Communist Youth" is so obviously immature, in its attempt to speak to a sophisticated foreign audience, yet satisfy all the propaganda needs of an ignorant bureaucracy at home. "Tecnics of the Future" by Academician A.F. Yoffe. talks of new ideas for harnessing solar energy, and efforts to harness water power (Volkhovstroi, Svirstroi, Dneprostroi). Poem "Industrial 1931" by Vassili Semyakin, a worker in a Moscow Co-operative Candy Factory. "The Fight for the Metal" story by N. Mikhailov, worker at the "Sickle and Hammer" Sheet-rolling Factory produces a fanciful story of the massive effort in the factory to fulfill the Five-Year Plan. Photos and text tell story of return of Maxim Gorki to Moscow in May, 1931. "What is Polytechnical Education?" by I. Pistrak includes photos of men and women learning on heavy machines. "Sverdlovia" Communist University by E. Ukhalov. Photo essay shows foreign workers in the USSR; Italian woman instructs Uzbek women workers in silk mill. 100 pp. 17 x 26 cm. Periodical, heavy cardboard cover loose from text block, spine worn, edges frayed. Fair. (8126) $85.00. History/Propaganda/Soviet Union Caucasus Crimea Map by Intourist ca. 1955 Moscow, USSR: Intourist. Fold out color pictorial map shows USSR from Odessa on Black Sea, includes Sea of Azov to Astrakhan on the Caspian, south to Batumi on Turkish border, Lenkoran on Iranian border. Folder 80 x 53 cm. Folder with fold-out map, moderate wear, good. (8127) $20.00. Maps Detskoye Selo --Parks and Palaces Tourist Guide for Intourists [in English] N. Arkhangelsky, Editor 1934 Leningrad, USSR: Park and Palace Dept., Leningrad Soviet. Early in the life of the Soviet Union, this little Stalin-era guide was produced for English-speaking Intourist visitors to St. Peterburg, and especially for the 26 kilometer trip to Tsarskoye Selo, renamed by the Soviets "Detskoye Selo" or "Children's Village" in 1918, reflecting the Soviets' uneasiness with the history of the Tsars. In re-naming it, the Soviets designated this village one for caring for children, and this text states that "formerly the domain of a privileged few, have become a source of education and enlightenment" for the masses. In 1937 it was re-named "Pushkin". Text in this little book tells about life in the time of the Tsars, but is generous with the Soviet approach. Photos show Catherine Palace, Gala Hall, Amber Hall, Large Throne Hall, White Hall, Drawing Room, Private Chambers of Catherine II, Alexander Palace, Chinese Theatre, more. 64 pp. 10.7 x 14.4 cm. Paper booklet with dustjacket with view of Catherine Palace, minor wear and chips on dustjacket, booklet very good. (8122) $65.00. Travel

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Zeppelin-Weltfahrten Vom ersten Luftschiff 1899 bis zu den Fahrten des L Z 127 "Graf Zeppelin" 1932. Cigarette-picture album with 264 silver-bromide photos and one metallic Weltflug-Gedenkmünze seal. [In German]  1933 Dresden, Germany: Bilderstelle-Lohse. Marvelous book tells the story of German Zeppelins, including their history, construction and operation. Small (6 x 4 cm.) photos from cigarette packages are pasted on heavy album-style pages to help tell the story.  Includes maps of Zeppelin trips all over the world.  Some photos show happy passengers using restaurant, wash room and staterooms aboard  zeppelin, also aerial photos of cities and locations around the world, including U.S. Capitol, London Bridge, Kremlin.  [Interesting that only seven years later, German bombers were dropping bombs on some of these sites!]  Frontispiece photo of Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin with tissue guard. Vorwort: Zeppelin-Weltfahrten-Bilder  liegen  nur den Packungen der Zigaretten-Marken: Club und Liga.  Photos and information on 25 Luftschiffen. . 54 sheets. 34 x 24 cm. Paperback book with photo of Graf Zeppelin airship on cover, minor edgewear to cover, text and photos clean and complete. Album pages printed on heavy card stock. Very good.  (7971) $224.00. Travel/History

Soft-cover features photo of Graf Zeppelin.

Most pages contain small (6 x 4 cm) photos of Airship interior, construction, history, and aerial photos shot from airships.
Text Box: Cigarette Albums— Story of the German Zeppelins