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Sampson R. Urbino (1818–1896), also known as S.R. Urbino, was a book dealer, publisher, and library owner in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. He focused on books in languages other than English.
Prior to bookselling, Urbino worked as a teacher in Boston.Boston Directory. 1852 In the mid-1850s he bought "Miss Elizabeth P. Peabody's circulating library and book-store on West Street. He developed the library and also added German, French, and books in other foreign languages to his stock. He then ... began publishing the well-known series of Ahn's and Ollendorf's readers and grammars, and other text-books."Publishers Weekly, April 4, 1896 Google booksFor context, see: List of libraries in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts The business operated from an office on Summer Street (ca.1856)Boston Almanac. 1856 Winter Street (ca.1857-1861)Boston Almanac, 1857, 1859; Boston Directory, 1861; Boston commercial directory for 1871 School Street (ca.1864-1865)Boston Directory, 1864; Boston Almanac, 1865 and Bromfield Street (ca.1870).
Urbino sold part of his textbook enterprise "to Henry Holt & Co. shortly before retiring from business in 1865. He sold his business to De Vries, Ibarra & Co., to whom he also transferred the services of Mr. Carl Schoenhof and Miss Fanny Moeller."Publishers Weekly, April 4, 1896
He supported the Free Soil Party;Reunion of the Free soilers of 1848-1852, at the Parker House, Boston, Massachusetts, June 28, 1888. Cambridge: Wilson, 1888 the 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War;Richard F. Miller. Harvard's Civil War: a history of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. UPNE, 2005 and the National Liberal League.Equal rights in religion: Report of the Centennial Congress of Liberals, and organization of the National Liberal League, at Philadelphia, on the fourth of July, 1876. Boston: National Liberal League, 1876 He belonged to the American Association for the Promotion of Social Science.Constitution, address, and list of members of the American Association for the Promotion of Social Science, with the questions proposed for discussion: to which are added minutes of the transactions of the association. Boston: Wright & Potter. 1866. Retrieved 2010-09-14. In 1889 "S.R. Urbino and 30 others" presented a petition to the Massachusetts House of Representatives asking for "legislation providing that one-third of the members of school committees in cities and towns shall be women."Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Jan. 24, 1889
Urbino lived in Roxbury and Newton, Massachusetts, and was married to Levina Buoncuore Urbino, a writer and translator.William Cushing. Initials and pseudonyms: a dictionary of literary disguises, Volume 1. NY: T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1885Directory of the town of Newton. 1871
See also List of booksellers in Boston
Published by S.R. Urbino L. Boncoeur [i.e. Levina Buoncuore Urbino]. L'instructeur de l'enfrance: (A first book for children), 2nd ed. 1864 Goethe. Faust, Eine Tragoedie von Goethe: Erster Theil. With English notes. 1864. Goethe, E.C.F. Krauss. Iphigenie auf Tauris. With English notes. 1865. Goethe, E.C.F. Krauss. Hermann und Dorothea. With English notes. 1866. Explanatory text to S.R. Urbino's charts of the animal kingdom. 1869. "Revised and corrected by Samuel Kneeland" Google books L.B. Cuore [i.e. Levina Buoncuore Urbino]. Italian conversation-grammar, 5th ed. 1870 Google books Emil Otto. German conversation-grammar, 21st ed. 1870. M. Lamé Fleury; translated by Susan M. Lane. Ancient history told to children. 1870 Google books Eugénie Foa. Le petit Robinson de Paris, 4th ed. 1870
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