Self-differentiation in the grafted limb-bud of the chick
Cambridge: Reprinted from the Journal of Anatomy, 1925. 8vo, pp. [379]-384; original printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Journal of Anatomy, vol. LIX, Part IV, July 1925. More
New Arrivals
Old Grimes ... Illustrated by Augustus Hoppin
Providence: Sidney S. Ride and Brother, 1867. First edition, 8vo, 14 leaves printed on rectos only; illustrated throughout; original pictorial terracotts cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover; light wear; near fine. With a manuscript poem entitled "Young Grimes" laid in, 10 quartets on a small octavo bifolium. More
Personae gratae. Pictures from a fading past
Boston: Club of Odd Volumes, 1953. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 80; 31 vignette portraits; original terracotta cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; fine in a chipped and torn glassine. Twenty-eight poems honoring people who had influenced Howe over his long career, including Alfred North Whitehead, Sarah Orne Jewett, Annie Fields..... More
Reveille: the call to a new life. complete in 14 issues
Fort Snelling, Minnesota: US Army General Hospital No. 29, 1919. 4to, 14 weekly issues from vol. 1 no. 1 April 26, 1919 to vol. 1. no. 14 July 24, 1919, comprising the complete run of the magazine. Each number with 18 or 22 pages, photographs and illustrations throughout, original printed..... More
John; or the darling of nature and the ladies
New York: Holland & Glover, 1843. 8vo, pp. 64; removed from binding, wrappers wanting, text in double columns, moderate foxing throughout; all else very good. Listed in McCorison's Risque literature published in America before 1877 but with no copies located therein. The story appears to have been also translated as..... More
A concise history, of the efforts to obtain an extension of suffrage in Rhode Island from the year 1811 to 1842
Providence: Benjamin F. Moore, printer, 1842. First edition, 12mo, pp. [9], 6-171, [1]; original green cloth-backed green paper-covered boards, printed paper label on upper cover; ex-Newport Historical Society (released) with its pressure stamp on title page and last page of text; occasional spotting and foxing; all else very good. With..... More
Three months in Jamaica, in 1832: comprising a residence of seven weeks on a sugar plantation
London: J. Hachard and Son, 1833. First edition, first issue, 8vo, pp. [2], 24; removed from binding and texblock disbound; manuscript edits to the page numbers, likely from when it was in a bound tract collection, pages clean and bright. A scarce and influential anti-slavery pamphlet. Whiteley describes the conditions..... More
Reminiscences, moral poems and translations. With an appendix
Exeter: Gerrish & Tyler, 1824. 12mo, pp. 275, [1]; original yellow printed boards; spine chiped and split, tidestain on upper board and gutter; hinges with neat professional reinforcement; a good and still attractive copy. With a preface defending American literature from critics. Fellowes was a Exeter lawyer. He published this..... More
Truth triumphant; or a candid examination of the Trinitarian doctrine: being a reply to two pamphlets recently published by Mr. Babcock and Mr. Tacket, ministers of the Methorist Episcopal Church
Union Mills, N.Y. J. and R. P. Clark, 1834. First edition, 16mo, pp. 36; original drab paper wrappers, the upper wrapper neatly reattached; moderate foxing, else very good. Not in American Imprints or NUC. Emory, AAS and Hamilton in OCLC. More
The young man's best companion; or, the new book of knowledge: being a regular system of education, withouth the aid of a tutor. In which are comprised, writing, arithmetic, grammar, mensuration, book-keeping, geography, astronomy, history, law, chemistry, and farriery...
Manchester: J. Gleave and son, 1825. 8vo, pp. 612, [4]; engraved frontispiece and title page, and 10 plates, one folding; quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt title on spine; lower joint split, plates are foxed, toned and affected by offset text, text is cleaner but with some foxing, gilt morocco..... More
Contribution to the Vietnamese people's struggle, or, solution to the Vietnam War
[Saigon]: Chi-linh, October, 1967. First edition, 4to, 2 parts in 1, pp. 41; [4], 41; printed from typescript; original cream pictorial wrappers; near fine. At the head of the front wrapper: "Revolutionary development cadre program." [Together with:] Nguyêñ-Bé. Contribution to the Vietnamese people's struggle, or, solution to the Vietnam War..... More
Dedication ceremonies of the Mount Hope Bridge. On the Mount Hope Bridge connecting the Providence and Newport highways at Bristol and Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Thursday, October twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine
[Providence: Hayley & Sykes Co., 1929.]. Folio, pp. [8]; double-page artist's rendering of the span; original terracotta wrappers printed in black with a gilt and black label tipped on; fine, in the original mailing envelope which is brittle. With a program of events, specifications, lists of contractors, and engineers. Laid..... More
Poems by ... Born at Linden Place, Bristol, Rhode Island, October 12th, 1820. Died at the same place, September 15, 1901. [Edited by Samuel Pomeroy Colt.]
East Aurora, New York: The Roycroft Shop, October, 1914. First edition, 8vo, pp. 231, [1]; mounted photograph portrait frontispiece and 4 other mounted photographs; text ruled in red throughout; origtinal three-quarter crushed green levant, gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2, t.e.g., gilt Colt monograp on the top..... More
The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
New York: American Historical Society, 1920. First edition, 4 volumes, large 8vo, portraits and views on plates; original half black morocco over green cloth boards, gilt stamped direcdt on spine; some scuffing and rubbing at the extremities, else very good and sound. The fourth volume is devoted to biographies. The..... More
Emergency Edition - Emergency Edition - Emergency Edition. The Bristol Phoenix
Bristol: Friday, September 23, 1938. Folio, 6 mimeograph leaves stapled at the top; near fine. "With its power cut off, the Bristol Phoenix lives up to newspaper tradition by going to 'press' through the medium of a mimeographed paper. This emergency edition, mimeographed through the co-operation of the school department..... More
South County neighbors
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1888. 12mo, pp. vii, [4], 12-272, 16 (ads); original blue cloth stamped in gilt and red; very good. Homespun stories about Washington County in Rhode Island. The book is dedicated to Oliver Wendell Holmes. More
Items of interest concerning Oliver Hazard Perry in Newport and Newport in the War of 1812
Newport: Newport Historical Society, Mercury Publishing Company, 1913. 8vo, pp. 32; frontispiece portrait and 8 plates; original printed tan wrappers; some soiling, old library sticker at the lower corner of the front wrapper; all else very good. More
An official report, by William Sprague, Jr. one of the committee of the House of Representatives of Rhode-Island, upon the subject of Masonry
Providence: printed at the office of the Daily Advertiser, 1832. First edition, 8vo, pp. 23, [1]; self-wrappers, stitched, as issued; light chipping and text toned; all else very good. "Sprague was a dissenting member of the [Legislative] Committee. The Committee held that Masonic secrets, such as signs, grips, words, etc...... More
One hundred and forty-second, one hundred and fifty-ninth, and one hundred and sixtieth Annual Reports of the directors of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum, to the proprietors
Newport: James Atkinson [and] F. W. Marshall, printers, 1872, 1889, & 1890. 3 volumes, pp. 26; 38, [4]; 26, [2]; very good in original printed blue and tan wrappers. The library, the second oldest in the country, was founded in 1730 and incorporated in 1747 and the building erected in..... More
Two holograph ship documents, as below
[Charleston?] & Havana: August 10 - September 27, 1805. 1) Schooner Concord to Bennet Munro, single sheet (approx. 9½" x 7¼") recording amounts due or paid August 10-13, 1805 to workers ("cash paid Mr. Swazey," "cash paid to Joseph Smith for driving charter party," "William Munro bill from work," "one..... More
Supplement to the laws of Rhode-Island College
Providence: printed by J. Carter, 1803. 8vo, pp. 6, [2]; uncut and unstiched; fine. American Imprints 3892; Bartlett, p. 66. More
An oration pronounced at the Baptist Meeting House in Providence, on Tuesday the seventh of January, 1800, at the funeral ceremony on the death of George Washington
Providence: printed by John Carter, [1800]. 8vo, pp. 15, [1]; uncut and unopened; original drab paper wrappers; fine. Alden, Rhode Island, 1662; Evans 37070; Stillwell, Washington Eulogies, 46. More
Memorandum, that on the 27th day of April in the 21st year of Our Sovereign Lord George the Second ... personally appeared before me, Thomas Bowen ... Charity Allen of Rehoboth in the county of Bristol, single woman. Jeremiah Allen, yoeman or Black Smith, and Richard Tree, gentlemen; all of Rehoboth...
Taunton, [Mass.]: 1748. Pro-forma document (approx. 6¼" x 7½"), accomplished in ink in a neat and legible hand, concerning Charity Allen, a [single woman], evidently with child, and who, with her presumed father, a blacksmith, and one Richard Tree acknowledge themselves to be severally indebted to the King for [five..... More
Narrative of the shipwreck and sufferings of Miss Ann Saunders, who was a passenger on board the ship Francis Mary, which foundered at sea on the 5th Feb. 1826, on her passage from New Brunswick to Liverpool ...
Providence: printed for C. S. Crossmon, 1827. First edition, 12mo, pp. [3]-38; dramatic folding woodcut frontispiece; modern wrappers. Bookplate of Clifford W. Ashley laid in. Text toned and with a few short tears entering from the margins (no loss), frontispiece with neat reinforcement at the folds on verso; a good..... More
Officers and members of the Senate, of the State of Rhode Island. May session, A.D. 1873
Folio bifolium (13¾" x 8½"), text in double column listing the Senate members under the running head with narrow columns for "yea" and "nay," so likely used as a ballot; wood-engraved state seal; page [3] lists the Standing Committees of the Senate and the Joint Committees of the Two Houses..... More
