MODERN MNEMOTECHNY;
or
How To Acquire a Good Memory;
Comprising the Principles of the Art, and its Application to the
World's Important Facts:
Embracing History, Chronology, Geography, Biography of Eminent Persons, Presidents and Sovereigns, Remarkable Battles, Treaties of Peace, Population, Distances, Inventions, Improvements, etc., etc., of all Ages and Nations;
Including All the Battles and Principal Events of the Late Civil War,
Also, Biblical Facts, and Rules for Arranging, Delivering and Reporting Speeches, Sermons, etc.
With a Mnemotechnic Dictionary,
containing most of the words in common use; such as will be of great benefit to the student and general reader.
Fifth Edition
By A. S. BOYD
Baltimore, MD: The Baltimore Publishing Company
Copyright 1886
Book measures approx. 5 1/8" x 7 3/4" x 5/8"
Page quality is good throughout the book and they are supple and clean. Binding is tight and square. Cloth covers and spine. Slight curling on the spine tops and bottom. Corners slightly curled and rubbed. Hand written notes in pencil on first free page. Book is sewn tightly and all pages are well attached. Book is in a very nice condition.
This book is from the Estate of Joseph A. Sadony. His imprinted library stamp is on the top of Title page. His initials are also on the page #99 which is how he marked books he finished. Joseph Sadony is someone you should Google. He was a Friend of Teddy Roosevelt, Admiral Byrd, many Hollywood stars, Einstein, Ghandi and many others including royalty. He was psychic advisor to Chicago Police and wrote among other things "Gates of the Mind, the Proven Psychic Discoveries of Joseph Sadony". Joseph died in 1960 at 83 years of age and many of the books we are listing are from the 30,000 that were left in his estate.
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