Boston: J. Howe, printer, Merchants Row, 1831. 8vo, pp. 16; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; very good. In a contemporary hand next to Windship's name on the title page, "M.D." has been added in pencil. American Imprints 10689. Can't find a tangible copy in OCLC, but there are copies at..... More
[Gilsum, N.H. 1841-1853]. Folio ledger, 13½" x 8¼", pp. [2], 156, [12]; roan-backed marbled boards; boards rubbed, joints cracked, a couple leaves loose; about 80 names / accounts are included, along with services, costs and trades. The majority of entries are for visits and medicine, plus pills, dressing, plaster, morphine..... More
New-York: printed and published by Charles N. Baldwin, bookseller, no. 49 Division-street, 1816. 12mo, 2 volumes in 1, pp. viii, 280; 336; title page of the first volume mounted; text toned and occasionally spotted; contemporary quarter red roan over marbled boards; spine chipped at the top with a 1½" x...... More
London: John Murray, 1864. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 443, [1], 16 (Murray ads dated January, 1864); wood-engraved frontispiece, 11 wood-engraved plates, large folding color map (approx. 16" x 27") in pocket inside lower cover; a very good, sound copy in original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Wikipedia notes the..... More
Rhode Island, Cleveland, Butler, IL: 1819-1865. 44 autograph letters signed, as follows: the majority between Mary White (née Westcott) and her two sisters Jane and Abbey, with 11 addressed to Dr. Jacob B. White from school friends and his brother, and 4 earlier letters from older relatives on Mary's side..... More
Baltimore: John W. Woods, printer, 1877. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, 95, [1]; original blind-stamped olive-green cloth; gilt lettering on cover; spine extremities scuffed; corners bumped; textblock shaken, p. 61 torn (but no loss); some staining throughout; otherwise a good copy. Contemporary inscription on front free endpaper: "Ella V. Allnutt..... More
Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, printer, 1854. 12mo, pp. 21, [3]; self-wrappers, stitched, as issued; old fold, contemporary pencil annotation on p. 13; very good. Not found in OCLC. More
Boston: printed by Thomas and John Fleet, 1790. 8vo, pp. [4], 24, [4]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; trimmed and a bit toned; all else very good. With leaf of appendix and list of members at the end, among whom Elbridge Gerry, Robert Treat Paine, and Paul Revere. Waterhouse (1754-1846)..... More
Providence: M. B. Young, 33 Westminster St. 1860. 8vo, pp. 22, [2]; original printed brown wrappers; corners chipped, some soiling; text very good. Concerning the Congregational denomination, with 21 churches in R.I. Not in Bartlett; AAS only in OCLC. More
Providence: [Standard Printing Company], 1903. Edition limited to 100 copies (this, no. 43); small 4to, pp. xxiii, [7], 23, [3], 27-49, [1]; uncut and largely unopened; vellum-backed brown paper-covered boards; spine soiled, corners bumped; all else very good. The first publication of the Club for Colonial Reprints of Providence, Rhode..... More
Providence: published by John E. Brown, 1837. 8vo, pp. 35, [1]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting, all else very good. The depression of 1837 was, according to Wayland, the result of God's wrath for the nation's investing its rapidly increasing wealth in leisure and licentiousness, rather than in cultivating the..... More
[Cambridge, Mass.]: printed at the University Press by W. Hillard, 1805. First edition, 8vo, pp. 32; original blue wrappers; old fold, wrappers chipped and torn, with ink stain penetrating three leaves of text, but not obscuring meaning. With a gift inscription from the poet and lawyer Richard H. Dana, to..... More
New York and Philadelphia: 1849-1857. 4to, approx. 300 pages, in ink, in a legible hand; original morocco-backed marbled boards, the boards rather rubbed, the spine partly perished, joints and hinges cracked, sewing structure still intact and the boards are not separated. Laid in are nearly a dozen newspaper clipping with..... More
Providence: Knowles, Anthony & Co., printers, 1857. 4to, pp. 27, [1]; original half brown morocco, gilt stamped on the upper cover; very good. This is one of a few copies printed on large paper. Ives was the long-time treasurer of Brown University. Bartlett, p. 270 not mentioning the large paper..... More
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1923. 8vo, pp. iv, 203, [1]; original blue cloth, printed paper label on spine; fine copy. Inscribed "To my friend Charles T. Howard with kind regards & best wishes, Walter B. Vincent / Providence, R.I., October 25, 1923." Vincent (1845-1931) was a Providence lawyer..... More
Providence & Whitinsville, Mass., [et al.]: early 1840s-late 1860s. A massive archive of items from this important Massachusetts / Rhode Island textile and machine manufactory which represents the pinnacle of industrial achievements of New England through an era that spans nine U.S. presidents, the Mexican War, the Gold Rush, Panic..... More
[Fall River, Mass.]: privately printed [at the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass.], 1920. 8vo, pp. [8], vii-xi, [5], 270; tipped in at the front is a presentation leaf (dated 1919) from the Massasoit Memorial Association; original embossed red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; near fine. Massasoit (ca..... More
Boston: Pilgrim Press, [1947]. 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 275, [1]; map endpapers; original green cloth; spine sunned, else very good. More
Newport: printed and sold by Oliver Farnsworth, [1805]. 12mo, pp. [24]; edges curled, stitching partially broken; good. Ownership signature on the first leaf of Anna Eliza Jenckes, and extensive ink notations by an early owner - possibly Jenckes - in the calendar noting snow storms, the killing of hogs, the..... More
Providence: J. A. & R. A. Reid, printers, 1876. 16mo, pp. 41, [1]; pages ruled in red throughout; 2 chromolithograph plates of burgees and private pennants, lists of members and officers; original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover with the club's monogram; some light staining to..... More
Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1852. First edition, 12mo, pp. 398, [12] ads; engraved portrait frontispiece of Martin Cheny and 6 other engraved portraits of Rhode Island Freewill Baptist ministers; original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spine ends chipped; good and sound. "Rhode Island, from its sterling attitude on religious liberty, and..... More
[Boston]: privately printed [by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press], 1923. Edition limited to 650 copies, small 8vo, pp. [6], 12, [2]; plate of the portrait; original tan cloth-backed green paper-covered boards; fine. Attractively designed and printed on hand-made Venetia paper. Accompanied by: Exercises Commemorative of Lida Shaw King..... More
Providence: [privately printed], 1930. Edition limited to 300 copies signed by the author (this, no. 182), 8vo, pp. [iii]-ix, [1], 130, [2]; colored frontispiece, illustrations in the text throughout; original blue cloth stamped in gilt and silver on upper cover and spine; near fine. Esther Leroy was the wife of..... More
Saint Paul: White Pine Bureau, 1917-22. All 4to, 16 pages each, all illustrated throughout, all in original printed wrappers, all printed at the DeVinne Press in New York. 1) Volume III, no. 5: The Bristol Renaissance. Introductory by Joy Wheeler Dow; 2) Volume VIII, no. 3: Newport ... An Early..... More
Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1905. First edition limited to 347 copies, large 8vo, pp. 401, [1]; title page printed in red and black, hand-colored frontispiece by Henry Hutt, 2 folding maps in back cover pocket, and "many illustrations in photogravure and double-tone and from drawings by Edward..... More
