Boston: Christian Register Office. S. B. Manning, printer, 1828. Small 12mo (approx. 5½" x 3½"), pp. [6], 189, [1]; original blue paper-covered boards; light wear; very good and sound. First published in 1824 with 118 pages. "The Recollections," and all but one of the other articles, were originally printed in..... More
Havana, New York, & Newport: 1821-25. All 4to (approx. 10" x 8", all bifoliate, docketed, and with previous folds; condition overall is very good to fine, but the last with a torn piece from the top of the letter barely nicking a few letters in the docket. Four commercial letters..... More
Boston: 1887. 12mo, pp. 176; 20 full-page wood-engraved illustrations of various water works; original pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover; very good and sound. Essentially a trade catalogue touting pump houses, water towers, stand pipes, boilers, etc. designed and erected by Howland & Ellis, with gerneral..... More
Boston: Elias Howe, 1847. 16mo, pp. 178; original blindstamped brown cloth stamped in gilot on upper cover and spine; the whole a bit faded and with a spot of annoying foxing at the bottom of the title page; all else good and sound. "Virtually forgotten now, Arthur did much to..... More
Saint Paul: J. E. Whitney, ca. mid-1860s. All are albumen prints, all approx. 4" x 2½", condition is generally fine. Joel Emmons Whitney (1822-1886) of Whitney's Gallery in St. Paul, Minnesota, photographed from 1851 to 1871. Born in Maine, "Whitney was the first photographer in St. Paul, and began working..... More
New York: Dix, Edwards & Co., 1856. 8vo, pp. 46; original printed green wrappers; slight soiling, spine a little cracked; very good or better. An important oration in the slavery debate by the Rhode Island writer and speaker George William Curtis. Curtis (1824-1892) was involved in the founding of the..... More
New-York: Leavitt, Lord & Co. 182 Broadway, Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1834. 16mo, pp. 237, [1]; engraved frontispiece; original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine; spine faded else very good and sound. Born in Hallowell, Maine, Abbott (1803-1879) wrote 180 books, largely juvenile fiction (his series of Rollo books were his most..... More
Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1830. First edition of the author's second book, and the first to use his pseudonym, Solomon Bell; 16mo, pp. xvi, 162pp.; unbound sheets in 16 gatherings; double-p. map wanting, but with the woodcut frontispiece and title page, and about 40 woodcut illustrations in the text, many..... More
Concord: printed by George Hough, 1810. 8vo, pp. 177, [3]; contemporary marbled wrappers; front flyleaf with tape repair, spine partially perished, text toned; otherwise good and sound. With a separately printed copyright slip pasted to the verso of the title page. "For some time he had been making a thorough..... More
New York: J. M. Davis, printer, 12 Old Slip, 1863. Broadside (approx.15" x 12"), display type at top enclosing a wood engraving of a horse-drawn passenger barge; previous folds, several short marginal tears and cracks, especially at the top; all else very good. The body of the broadside consists of..... More
Boston: printed by order of the city council, 1884. 8vo, pp. 70; engraved portraqit frontispiece; original olive cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; ex-Weston College Library, with their stamp on title page and first page of text, and small accession numbers at tghe base of the spine;..... More
N.p. [Portland?]: n.d. [1866]. Broadside (approx. 9¾" x 6"), text in double column beneath the running head, the whole within a decorative border; top right corner lost (not affecting any letterpress); all else very good. Verse in 12 octets. OCLC notes: "Another edition is printed from different settings of type;..... More
Matanzas, Cuba: Imp. Aurora Del Yumuri, 1882. 12mo (approx. 6½" x 4½"), pp. 36; original blue printed wrappers; some edge-wear and toning, spine perished; all else very good. Previous owner's stamp of George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; a surgeon and medical inspector, from 1861-1894 whose naval duties took him..... More
Greenfield, Mass. printed and published by Ansel Phelps, 1817. 12mo, pp. [3], 4-281, [3]; contemporary full mottled calf; red morocco label; covers and spine rubbed; textblock toned; otherwise very good. Abraided bookplate of George W. Morse, possibly George Washington Morse (1816-1909) the Seventh-day Adventist. Contemporary inscription of Fanny Foster on..... More
New York: American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-Street, n.d., [1868?]. 16mo (approx. 5¾" x 4¾"), pp. 64; 25 small wood engravings throughout; original limp black morocco gilt-lettered on the upper cover; edges rubbed, but on the whole, very good and sound. This is the "enlarged edition" with 64 pages, as opposed..... More
Boston: Advent Christian Publication Society, 1895. First edition, 8vo, pp. [3], iv-x, 11-387, [1]; original brown cloth; gilt lettering on cover and spine; frontispiece of Miller; spine extremities slightly scuffed, previous owner's signature on recto of the frontispiece; otherwise near fine. William Miller (1782-1849) was an American preacher known for..... More
[N.p. publisher not identified, n.d. but 1841.]. Broadside (approx. 11¾" x 9½"), 6 numbered quatrains beneath a running head and a large 4½" x 6" woodcut of the death-bed scene, with the dying President and seven others, occupying one-half the text area; all within an elaborate floral border; mounted at..... More
Boston: B. B. Russell and Company. S. S. Boyden, Chicago Ill. 1865. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 6-276; wood-engraved frontispiece and 2 plates; original brown blind-stamped cloth; gilt lettering on spine; light staining on first 4 leaves; moderate staining on pp. 117-120; corners and spine extremities scuffed, spine a bit..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883. First edition, 12mo, pp. [5], 6-196, 16 ads; original olive green cloth stamped in mauve and gold; paper toned, ink annotation in the gutter of the dedication page; otherwise very good. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844-1911) was an author and social reformer who advocated..... More
Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, 1890. First edition, with McClurg only in the imprint; 8vo, pp. [7], viii-xii, 13-280, [8]; original pictorial brown cloth printed in black; gilt lettering on front cover and spine; corners and spine extremities scuffed, front hinge starting; otherwise, very good. Frederic Homer Balch (1861-1891)..... More
Habana: Editor, Miguel De Villa, [Avisador Comercial, printers], 1881. Small 8vo (approx. 5¼" x 7¼"), pp. 88; original light gray printed wrappers; light wear at extremities, some toning of the text; very good. First published in 1879 of which only one copy located, at the University of Miami. Of this..... More
Boston: J. E. Tilton and Company, 1863. 8vo, pp. [3], iv-xx, 373, [1]; wood-engraved frontispiece, 5 wood-engraved plates plus other wood engravings in the text; original green cloth; gilt lettering on spine; gilt cover ornament of a man riding a griffin; spine extremities scuffed, top edge of lower board chaffed..... More
Late 1830s. Single sheet, 7¼" x 4¾". Samuel Howe (1801-1876) writes to Horace Mann (1796-1859) concerning an incident with "Bowen," possibly referring to the father or grandfather of Benjamin Bowen, who was a student at Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind where Howe served as the first Director..... More
[Providence: publisher not identified, 1842.]. Folio broadside (approx. 19½" x 11½"), text in triple column, wood-engraved vignette of the R.I. State seal at the top of the first column; mild dampstain central, but in all, very good. Also with the texts of "To His Excellency the Governor of Rhode Island..... More
Washington, D.C. W. Greer, printer, 1842. 8vo, pp. 21, [1]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; title page a bit foxed; all else very good. A dedicated public servant, Woodbury (1789-1851) served in the New Hampshire State Senate, was governor of N.H., was elected to the U.S. Senate, served as the..... More
