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The Holy Bible
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bibles
  • 1857
The Holy Bible
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
1857 Holy Bible with a sticker inside cover which reads" Issued by the Maryland State Bible Society from their depository.....". Faded writing on inside cover: 'Lettie A. Smith, Pretty Marsh, Maine"
Progressive Parsing Book
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Grammar
  • Weld, Allen H.
  • 1859
Progressive Parsing Book
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Parsing and Syntax Prose and Poetry
Weld's English Grammar
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Grammar
  • Other, Textbook
  • Weld, Allen H.
  • 1854
Weld's English Grammar
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Composition, Analyzing, and Parsing
The Intermediate Standard Speaker containing pieces for declamation...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Public Speaking
  • Sargent, Epes
  • 1857.
The Young Reporter or How to Write Shorthand
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Phonography
  • Other, Shorthand
  • Webster, E.
  • 1855
The Young Reporter or How to Write Shorthand
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Shorthand exercises
True Stories from Modern History.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • 1859.
True Stories from Modern History.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Short historical stories. gift of Abbie Thomas Richardson
A Key to the National Arithmetic Exhibiting the Operation of the More Difficult Questions in that Work: For the Use of Teachers Only
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Arithmetic
  • Other, Mathematics
  • Other, Textbook
  • Greenleaf, Benjamin
  • 1854
Description:
Guide for teachers; appears to cover almost all grades, but method also seems obscure. Inscribed on front cover, Lyman Smith.
The Life and Times of Aaron Burr.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Burr, Aaron
  • Parton, J.
  • 1859.
The Life and Times of Aaron Burr.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
The three eras of a woman's life: The maiden, the wife, and the mother.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Arthur, T.S.
  • 1858
Description:
Novel includes chapters illustrating the heroine's duty before pleasure and a woman's goodcharacter, trials, disappointments, love, beauty, courting, marriage.
Popular Legends of Brittany
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Bode, Heinrich
  • 1854
Popular Legends of Brittany
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
English version of Sonvestre's "Foyer Breton" translated by "a lady." Inscribed Edith E. Salisbury, Mt. Desert, Maine Dec.1878.
Little Kitty Brown and Her Bible Verses
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • 1851
Little Kitty Brown and Her Bible Verses
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Written for the American Sunday School Union, this little book contains stories about a little girl learning Bible verses, one per day.
The Visit; or, the Difference Between Being a Good Child and Being Like a Good Chile
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • 1853
Description:
One of the books in a series of Sunday School Union publications. Inscribed Sound Sabbath School No. 10
The Swiss Pastor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Vulliemin, L. and C.
  • 1850
The Swiss Pastor
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Note on title page indicates this is "the life of the Rev. F.A.A. Gonthier". Inscribed "No. 58 Sound Sabbath School."
Stories for Village Lads
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • 1856
Stories for Village Lads
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Fictional stories for Sunday School. Inscription says, "????have you got a slate pencil that you would let me have. Yes.
O Novo Testamento
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bibles
  • Other, Religion
  • 1857
O Novo Testamento
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
"de Nosso Senhor E Salvador Jesus Christo" New Testament translated into Portuguese. Handwritten inside front cover: "Loaned by Kate Richardson."
Thoughts upon Thought for Young Men
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Moral & ethical aspects
  • Other, Philosophy
  • Other, Religion
  • 1855.
Thoughts upon Thought for Young Men
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
"In Three Parts. From the Second London Edition."
Margaret and Henrietta
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Moral & ethical aspects
  • Sigourney, Mrs. L.H.
  • 1852.
Margaret and Henrietta
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Decorative, embossed cloth cover.
The Village Blacksmith
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fiction?
  • Everett, James
  • 1853.
The Village Blacksmith
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
From title page: piety and usefulness exemplified in a memoir of the life of Samuel Hick, late of Micklefield, Yorkshire From the Seventh london Edition.
Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Hymn Books
  • 1852
Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Revised Edition. Inscribed in front: Melissa D. Higgins. Includes first line and verse indices.
The Ladies Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance, Vol 14
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fashion industry
  • Other, Women
  • 1850.
The Ladies Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance, Vol 14
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Reader for women. Contains colored Godey plates. Inscribed in front: From the late Ellen Gerry's Collection.
The Progressive First Reader for Primary Classes...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Readers
  • Town, Salem and Nelson M. Holbrook
  • 1856
The Progressive First Reader for Primary Classes...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Written for students in public and private schools; primary goal is to gain and fix attention of pupil on lesson to be read. Inscribed C.G. Bordeaux, Sound
Christmas Blossoms and New Year's Wreath for MDCCCL
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Christmas
  • Other, New Year's
  • Other, Readers
  • Uncle Thomas
  • 1850
Christmas Blossoms and New Year's Wreath for MDCCCL
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Fourth in a series of short stories for Christmas: Christmas Blossoms Inscribed Edith E. Salisbury from Aunt Hittie, Dec. 25, 1878--Christmas present; also Edit Salisbury
Arithmetic on the Productive System
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Roswell C. Smith
  • 1854
Arithmetic on the Productive System
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
"Mrs. Annetta Elliot, Washington D.C. No. 919 K St." written on inside of front cover.
Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bibles
  • Other, Religion
  • 1856
Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
"Translated out of the original tongues, together with the Apocrypha, Concordance and Psalms, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised." Inscribed in front: "Sylvina J. Gilmore, Belfast, Me. Presented by Mrs. Martha J. Gilmore, July 21, 1856."
New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bibles
  • Other, Religion
  • 1856
New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
"Translated out of the original greek, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised." Inscriptions in front: "This book belongs to Mrs. Lloyd Lurvey, Bar Harbor, Me. Bought at 2nd hand bookstore." Older inscription also in front: "For "Dannie", Mrs. Loretta Covert from her great-grandson George T Coles, Christmas 1865."