Shepherd Reeve (2 results)
Language: English
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Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, IndiaS N Books World
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 252. A perfect gift… for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1811 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 252.
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Seller: Barry Lawrence Ruderman, La Jolla, U.S.A.Barry Lawrence Ruderman
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: good. Early 19th-century Philadelphia Nautical Commonplace BookCharming early 19th-century American commonplace book with several pages of manuscript nautical notes dating from the 1830s. These notes were likely by a Philadelp. Folio. Full old vellum. Approximately 80 pages of laid paper (with Lion Rampant…/ Pro Patria watermark). Numerous pages have been torn out of the volume. Overall condition is good. Early 19th-century Philadelphia Nautical Commonplace BookCharming early 19th-century American commonplace book with several pages of manuscript nautical notes dating from the 1830s. These notes were likely by a Philadelphia student, possible a member of the Stell family, attending a short-lived Nautical Academy at 89 South Third Street run by Shepherd A. Reeve. The nautical-related content in the volume mainly relates to navigational studies, including extracts from Bowditch's Practical Navigator (first published in 1805), with headings such as Mercator's Sailing; Variation of the Compass, To Find the Latitude by Double Altitude, and "to find the Longitude by a lunar observation." There is also a pen & ink illustration of a compass. One of the pages notes "Scale of distances from Philadelphia to Cape Henlopen and the intermediate points as recently ascertained by an authorized survey."Shepherd A. Reeve and Practical Education in early 19th-century PhiladelphiaThe volume has a wonderful undated circa 1835 printed label on front pastedown advertising Shepherd A. Reeve's Nautical and Franklin Academies in Philadelphia: "Nautical Academy, Navigation Complete in Every Respect, S. A. Reeve, Principal." The text styles Reeve as "A.M. Practical Teacher both at sea and on land for the last thirty years." The typographical label is really more of a broadside and is illustrated with a wood engraving of three young sailors on a small boat using nautical instruments. The text also summarizes a second institution: Franklin Academy Department, a few doors from the Nautical Academy at 83 South Third Street, also headed by S. A. Reeve.Judging from dozens of announcements in Philadelphia newspapers of the day, Shepherd A. Reeve was clearly an enterprising Philadelphia educator, active from about 1810 through the 1840s, who specialized in practical, career-oriented instruction at a time when the city was a major hub of commerce and navigation. Operating institutions such as his Nautical Academy and the nearby Franklin Academy on South Third Street, Reeve offered a curriculum tailored to the needs of merchants, mariners, and clerks, emphasizing navigation, surveying, mathematics, bookkeeping, penmanship, and related commercial skills. His schools reflected the broader early American shift toward utilitarian education, preparing young men for immediate employment in trade and maritime professions, and they stand as representative examples of the private academies that flourished in antebellum Philadelphia to meet the demands of an expanding market economy.S. A. Reeve s Nautical Academy was originally established as early as 1811 at No. 9 Cherry Street and was relocated to No. 89 South Third Street during the 1830s. The Franklin Academy Department, also headed by S. A. Reeve and located just a few doors away at 83 South Third Street, suggests that Reeve was operating not simply a specialized nautical school but a broader private educational enterprise in Philadelphia. Paired with the Nautical Academy at No. 89, this second institution appears to have served as a more general academic branch, likely offering foundational instruction that complemented the professional training in navigation, mathematics, and instrument use needed by mariners. In that sense, the two schools together reflect the flexible, entrepreneurial character of early nineteenth-century urban education, where a single proprietor could address both general scholastic and vocationa. Book.
