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Knight, [John], Dr., & John Solver

Indian atrocities. Narratives of the perils and sufferings of Dr. Knight and John Slover, among the Indians, during the Revolutionary War, with short memoirs of Col. Crawford & John Slover and a letter from H. Brackinridge, on the rights of the Indians, etc.

Cincinnati: U. P. James, 1867. Edition limited to 500 copies, 8vo, pp. 72; unopened; original yellow wrappers; fine. First published in 1783 in Philadelphia, and again in 1799 in Andover, in 1800 in Leominster, and in Nashville in 1843. "For interest and importance, in Ohio valley history of the period... More

Price: $150.00

Benezet, Anthony

Thoughts on the nature of war, and its repugnancy to the Christian life. Extracted from a sermon on the 29th November, 1759: being the day of public thanksgiving for the sucesses obtained in the late war. With some extracts from the writings of Will. Law and Th. Harley [sic] both clergymen of the Church of England, on the necessity of self-denial, and bearing the daily cross, in order to be true followers of Christ

Philadelphia: printed by Henry Miller, 1766. Small 8vo, pp. 30, [2]; removed from binding; very good. First issued with: Law, William. An extract from a treatise by William Law, M.A. called, The spirit of prayer .. Philadelphia, 1766 (Evans 10352), which title is found here as the first title in... More

Price: $500.00

Maximilian Wied, Prinz von

Travels in Brazil in the years 1815, 1816, 1817 ... Translated from the German and illustrated with engravings

London: printed for Sir RFichard Phillips, and Co., 1820. 8vo, pp. iv, 112; 8 (of 9) plates (2 folding); removed from binding; very good. "The part now published consists of the first volume of the author's work, which is all that, at this date, (May 1820) has appeared in Germany." Sabin 47022. More

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Koops, Matthias

Historical account of the substances which have been used to describe events, and to convey ideas, from the earliest date to the invention of paper

London: printed by T. Burton, 1800. First edition, small folio, pp. 91, [1]; tables in the text; contemporary full red straight-grain morocco,gilt-paneled spine in 7 compartments, a.e.g.; some scratching and light staining on the covers; a very good copy of an interesting book. Laid in is a note signed by... More

Price: $2,800.00

Thompson, Benjamin

The steam doctor's defence; exhibiting the superiority of the Thomsonian system of medicine, in releiving and curing disease; consisting of facts and extracts from the writings of the most respectable authors on the system. To which is added, some account of the cholera, and its treatment on the Thomsonian Plan

Boston: 1833. Small 8vo, pp. 40; engraved frontispiece; original printed green wrappers; bookplate partially removed; very good. With an account of Thompson's infirmary on the back wrapper. Not in American Imprints; not in NUC; not in Cordasco; Sabin 95467; Harvard and Clements Library only in OCLC. More

Price: $450.00

Heinzen, Karl

Communism and socialism: an address [wrapper title]

Indianapolis: published by the Association for the Propagation of Radical Principles, for sale by H. Lieber, 1881. Small 8vo, pp. 48; fine copy. Originally published in German in 1872. More

Price: $150.00

Lewis, Dio

Dio Lewis' monthly for jolly folks. Vol. I, no. 1

Boston: Eastern Book Co., July, 1881. 8vo, pp. 34; self wrappers; some curling at the edges but generally very good. This periodical ran to Vol. II, no 4 and was superceded by Dio Lewis' Nuggets. This issue contains "Sketches of Camp Life in California," "How Girls Should Walk," and "What... More

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Bosworth, Joseph, Rev.

A compendious grammar of the primitive English or Anglo-Saxon language...being chiefly a selection of what is most valuable and practical in the Elements of the Anglo-Saxon Grammar, with some additional observations

London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1826. First edition, thin 8vo, pp. xii, 84; a very good copy in original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine largely perished. An abridgement, with improvements of Bosworth's Elements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar (1823), "the earliest work of its kind in the English language" (DNB). More

Price: $200.00

Malkin, Benj. Heath

A father's memoirs of his child

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], xlviii, 172; engraved frontispiece by Robert Cromek after the design by William Blake and Haye, folding map, 1 other plate, 1 facsimile; original blue paper-covered boards, rebacked, original paper label preserved. Malkin was a personal friend of William... More

Price: $1,250.00

Packard, E. P. W., Mrs

Marital power exemplified in Mrs. Packard's trial, and self-defence from the charge of insanity; or, three years' imprisonment for religious belief, by the arbitrary will of a husband, with an appeal to the government to so change the laws as to afford legal protection to married women

Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Co., 1866. 8vo, 137, [1]; wood-engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait; contemporary cloth-backed black wrappers; wrappers very rubbed and worn, front hinge cracked, but holding, and the text block is sound. Sabin 58105, note, citing a Hartford 1867 edition. Mrs. Packard's experience at the hands of her husband... More

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Watkins, N. J., editor and compiler

The pine and the palm greeting; or, the trip of the Northern editors to the South in 1871, and the return trip of the Southern editors in 1872, under the leadership of Maj. N. H. Hotchkiss, traveling agent of Chesapeake & Ohio and Richmond & York River Railroads

Baltimore: J. D. Ehlers & Co., 1873. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 144; folding hand-colored map with a large advertisement (Jordan Alum Springs) on the verso, one other folding map with advert on the verso, frontispiece portrait of Hotchkiss; page 43-44 with paper flaw making for several mangled letters; all... More

Price: $275.00

Daly, James

For love and bears. A description of a recent hunting trip with a romantic finalé

Chicago: Frank S. Gray, 1886. Small 4to, 139, [6] leaves, printed from typescript on rectos only, tabular bound; "profusely illustrated by pencil sketches also a cabinet photograph of Grace Harton," original pictorial wrappers, large chip in lower right corner; very good. Howes D-41. Phillips, p. 93: "A loquacious description, partly... More

Price: $2,000.00

Winchester, Elhanan

The three woe-trumpets, of which the first and second are already passed, and the third is now begun: under which the seven vials of the wrath of God are to be poureed out upon the world

Johnstown, [N.Y.]: Asa Child, 1181, [i.e. 1811]. Third edition, 12mo, pp. 100; contemporary full calf, worn, but sound; some toning of the text. "Intellectually he was probably the ablest of the early American Universalists; he introduced Scriptural interpretation among them; and his influence in both America and Europe was extensive"... More

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Kimball, Sullivan C.

Poems

Albany: J. Munsell, 1858. First edition, 16mo (approx. 5½" x 4"), pp. viii, 139, [1]; original drab printed wrappers, spine partially perished, corners curled; all else very good. Contains a long poem on temperence, and others on Indians, slavery, William Walke5r (of Nicarague fame), etc. More

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Lenderman's thousand characters and ten thousand practical facts from common life. Introduced in an amusing and exciting narrative of his own varied and singular life ... Published quarterly. Volume I, no. 3

Cincinnati: M. A. Arnold, 1860. 8vo, pp. [247]-366, [4] ads for the previous issues; original brown printed wrappers, upper wrap a bit stained, else very good. More

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Burdell, John

Teeth, their structure, disease, and treatment. With numerous illustrative engravings. Sevenht [sic] thousand

New York: Fowlers & Wells, 1847. 12mo, pp. viii, [1], 10-72, [12] ads; 44 wood-engraved figures in the text; original pictorial green wrappers; slight split along the upper joint, else very good. More

Price: $300.00

Sprague, Charles E.

Hand-book of Volapuk. The international language.

New York: The Office Company; London: Trubner; Chicago: S.R. Winchell & Co., 1888. First edition, small 8vo, pp. viii, 119, [1]; original printed cream cloth slightly soiled, small snag at the bottom of the front cover, title page a little spotted and light foxing throughout; all else very good. Sprague... More

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Cobb, J[onathan] H[olmes].

A manual containing information respecting the growth of the mulberry tree, with suitable directions for the culture of silk

Boston: Carter, Hendee & Co., 1831. First edition, 12mo, pp. x, [1], 12-68pp., 3 plates, 2 with hand-coloring; some foxing and soiling but generally a very good copy in original cloth-backed printed paper-covered boards. Kress C3440; Sabin 13847. More

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Hydrographical chart of European Russia. Compiled by the Project and Estimate Department of the Chief Direction of Ways of Communications & Public Buildings

n.p., 1846. Very large dissected hand-colored folding map, 72" x 72," backed with linen and folded into 9" x 12" sections. White background with various colors of outline, with waterways colored blue; names in Russian, but legend with English equivalents. Fine, hand-lettered translation neatly tipped over the Russian title at... More

Price: $2,500.00

Wells, Walter

The water-power of Maine

Augusta: Sprague, Owen, & Nash, 1869. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 526; wood-engraved frontispiece, 19 wood-engraved plates, folding hand-colored map of "River Systems of Maine" by Colton; original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; very good and sound. The author was Superintendent of the Hydrographic Survey of Maine. The plates, which... More

Price: $150.00

Stevens, John H., Col.

The early history of Hennepin County; embodied in an address delivered before the Minneapolis Lyceum [drop title]

[Minneapolis: Northwestern Democrat Office, 1856.]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 12; last 2 pages are advertisments; text in double column; wrappers wanting; later blue cloth; leather label lettered in gilt on spine. Martin 125; Sabin 91543. More

Price: $100.00

Dodge, David Low

The mediator's kingdom not of this world; but spiritual, heavenly, and divine. Illustrated in remarks upon John, chapter XVIII, verse 36. By an Inquirer

New York: Williams & Whiting, 1809. First edition, 8vo, pp. 50, 8; removed from binding. Rare. An early pacifist work by the founder of the New York Peace Society (1815). "In 1809 he wrote a pamphlet, The Mediator's Kingdom... containing an argument against the lawfulness of war waged by Christians... More

Price: $600.00

Gordak, William Walstein

Here's luck to Lora and other poems

New York: Benj. R. Tucker, 1906. First edition, 8vo, pp. 62; original pictorial stiff cream wrappers; front free endpaper removed, all else fine. A curious collection of verse. Save for one piece on the French Revolution, Gordak's subject matter seeems oddly subdued and sentimental given the Tucker imprint. Possibly Tucker... More

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Schmidt, Johann Adolf Erdmann

Russisch-deutsches und deutsch-russisches Handwörterbuch mit Zuziehung des Wörterbuchs der Russischen Akademie in Petersburg [parallel title in Russian]

Leipzig: Karl Tauchnitz, n.d., [ca. mid-19th century]. 8vo, pp. [8], 752; lexicon in triple column; contemporary wallet-style brown morocco, scuffed, but sound; tear in the last leaf (no loss). Not in Vancil; Zaunmuller notes only a 1901 edition with a varying title. More

Price: $450.00

Shields, James P., & Ed Quielisch Jr.

The d-e-e-p six.

[At Sea]: The Author's Press, U.S.S. Mississippi, S.S. & W.W., n.d. 8vo, pp. [60]; orig. gray wrappers with title printed in green at the top of the upper cover; saddle-stitched; removed from a scrapbook as the back cover shows the remains of a mounting; all else very good. Likely printed..... More

Price: $250.00

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