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title: Old Books
date: 20259-01-04
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date: 2025-01-04
last_modified_at: 2025-01-04
categories: [colllections, old books]
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description: Inventory of my old books.
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## The Pleasing Preceptor
Title: "The Pleasing Preceptor; or Familiar Instructions in Natural History and Physics, Adapted to the Capacities of Youth, and Calculated Equally to Inform and Amuse Their Minds During the Intervals of More Dry and Severe Study"
Author: Gerhard Ulrich Anthony Vieth
Publisher: G. and J. Robinson
City: London
Date: 1801

This was my first old book, and it remains one of my favorites. An almost pocket sized volume published in 1801, it is bound in tree calf with a red morocco label. It has the delightfully quaint goal of ......

**Title**: "The Pleasing Preceptor; or Familiar Instructions in Natural History and Physics, Adapted to the Capacities of Youth, and Calculated Equally to Inform and Amuse Their Minds During the Intervals of More Dry and Severe Study"
**Author**: Gerhard Ulrich Anthony Vieth
**Publisher**: G. and J. Robinson
**City**: London
**Date**: 1801

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# The Natural History of the Human Species
If you think people today have deep seated racial biases, allow me to introduce you to Lt. Col. Charles Hamilton Smith. This book is a fascinating look at the state of scientific racism in the mid 19th century. It is bound in tree calf with a red morocco label, and was published in 1859.

**Title**: "The Natural History of the Human Species, Its Typical Forms, Primæval Distribution, Filiations, and Migrations"
**Author**: Lt. Col. Charles Hamilton Smith
**Publisher**: Henry G. Bohn
**City**: London
**Date**: 1859

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