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Bartholomew's Drawing Book, New Series, Nos. 1, 2, 5
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Three drawing books, Nos. 1, 2 and 5, by William N. Bartholomew, published by Woolworth, Ainsworth & Co., New York, copyright 1867, 1869, and 1870 respectively. Each book contains 12 half-sheet numbered exercises interleaved with full-page blank leaves for copying and additional original artwork. Book 1 begins with exercises in drawing horizontal and vertical lines, and continues with using those lines in various combinations and patterns to draw simple designs and decorative forms. All of the exercises have been completed.
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George Hannum notebook
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The manuscript is titled: A Compendious System of Practical Surveying taken from the latest Author by George Hannum, Philomath, and Taught by John Day, Preceptor. This fragile volume consists of approximately 54 pages of written text and diagrams. This is an advance work of surveying showing how to undertake the solution of complex problems. The manuscript opens with geometrical problems and moves on to right angle and oblique trigonometry. The text then shifts to finding areas of various shapes using logarithms. Also recorded are various methods of mapping and how to draw maps, ad methods of completing surveys for the division of land. It is in this section that Hannum applies colors to the illustrations of some of the surveys. There are two complete surveys and they are segregated in the text by being placed, inverted, on the last blank pages of the manuscript. From Birmingham Township, Pennsylvania.
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American Text Books of Art Education: Model and Object Drawing, Number One and Number Two
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Two 20-page drawing books by Walter Smith, published by L. Prang & Company, Boston, containing numbered exercises. There are two copies of Number One; one is issued separately, the other bound together with Number Two. Each exercise is comprised of instructional text, a lithograph image for copying, and space for copying. The books have not been completed by previous owners. Some of the objects and models pictured in the books include: fruit and vegetables, drinking vessels of various kinds, seashells, chairs and geometrical solid forms.
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How to Draw: The Right and The Wrong Way
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One art instruction book entitled How to Draw: The Right and The Wrong Way, by A.S. Avery, published by The University Publishing Co., New York and Baltimore, copyright 1872. Also on the title page: "Illustrated with over one hundred figures. Adapted for use in public and private schools, and prepared expressly for all persons who do not know how to draw, but would like to learn." This book is comprised of 14 individual lessons, each of which consists of an illustrated (lithograph) plate and a numbered half-page of textual guidelines and instruction. The lessons are progressive in that each one builds upon the previous lesson, and they range from basic and introductory to more complex. For example, Lesson 1 is devoted to drawing straight lines; Lesson 4 is for shading "to give more boldness to the figures..."; Lesson 7 is a continuation of learning curved lines, and Lesson 14 is to draw a scene in which an old castle is the focal point. The front cover is elaborately decorated and illustrated; the title and cover vignette are framed by a stick-and-ivy pattern. The vignette pictures three children who are studying and drawing a house. The vignette is signed "Bobbett". On the back cover is a publisher's advertisement for "The Original Duntonian System of Rapid Writing", with a sample page from "Dunton's Drill Exercises in Movement". The insides of the front and back covers are blank. On the verso of the title page is a two-column list of drawing terms and definitions. "Presented to E.J. Loomis by the Author, A.S. Avery. October 1874" is written in ms., in ink, on the upper right-hand corner of the front cover.
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The fabric of the human body : an annotated translation of the 1543 and 1555 editions
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This title recreates the masterpiece of science and art for the first time in a way that is understandable to 21st century readers who do not have any knowledge of Latin. The texts of both the 1543 and the 1555 editions have been translated with the utmost care by Northwestern University Professors Emeritus Daniel H. Garrison and Malcolm H. Hast, a task they completed in over 20 years of painstaking and dedicated work. Annotations give the reader keen insight into just how innovative 'De humani corporis fabrica' was, and high-resolution digital scans of the almost 300 woodcuts provide the images with a sharpness they never had before.
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Abbott’s Common School Drawing Cards
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One set of drawing cards entitled Abbott’s Common School Drawing Cards, by Jacob and John S.C. Abbott, printed by Robert B. Collins, New York, 1874, Landscapes, Set 1, designed by B.H. Coe." On the back of the card box are instructions, entitled Arrangements, on the use of the cards. The cards are removed from the case by pulling on an insert. A notice "To the Teacher" on the verso of the insert explains how to teach drawing in school, and below this, "Reasons for Introducing Drawing into Common Schools" are listed. The card set is complete with the original forty cards, plus an extra card 1. They are numbered in Roman numerals, from No. I to No. XL, along with further drawing instructions on the back of each. For example, drawing card No. I shows a farm courtyard with various buildings and on the reverse the following instruction: "Whenever you have a pediment end of a building to draw, that is, an end terminated by a point at the top, where the two sides of the roof meet, as occurs in this lesson, always draw both the side walls first...."
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