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Lindley Murray's English Reader was an immensely successful textbook in nineteenth-century grammar schools in the United States. In this copy of the author's Sequel to the English Reader, first published in 1801, an entire reading by the Scottish…

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Book of Bible stories for young children formatted as a conversation between a mother and child.

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English Methodist historian and President of the Wesleyan Conference, Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), published this history of the "rise, progress, and present state" of the Welseyan movement. This copy was presented to James Heald (1796–1873), a…

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English Methodist historian and President of the Wesleyan Conference, Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), published this history of the "rise, progress, and present state" of the Welseyan movement. This copy was presented to John Bishop, a leader of…

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First complete Bible in Hawaiian language, translated by Hiram Bingham (1789–1869).

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First complete Hawaiian bible, with two volumes for Old Testament and one volume for New Testament all bound into one physical volume. Because of its size, Hawaiians referred to the book as “Ka Buke Poepoe” (“the rotund or fat book”). End of Old…
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