Middletown, Conn. from the Gazette Press by Parmelee & Greenfield, n.d., [1829]. 8vo, pp. 22, [2]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; very good. American Imprints 40382; Sabin 78976. More
Chicago: W. F. McLaughlin & Co., n.d., [ca. 1893]. Broadsheet circular, approx. 6" x 4", text printed in English and German on opposite sides, on orange paper; very good. The young (twenty-two) and by all accounts attractive Frances (Folsom) Cleveland took the media by storm when she married the president..... More
New York: [G. H. Evans?], 1827. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 8; removed from binding; very good. This edition not in Ameruican Imprintgs or OCLC, but both record an 8-page "2nd New York edition," published by Evans in 1829. More
Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1838. First separate edition, 8vo, pp. 22, [2]; self-wrappers; slight soil and spotting; very good. Apparently an offprint from the annual proceedings of the American Institute of Instruction. Tyron & Charvat, Cost Books of Ticknor and Fields, A 24b (5,982 [!] copies printed): "The Institute frequently..... More
Boston: Eastburn's Press, 1846. First editipon, 8vo, ppo. 36; removed from binding; stain across lower corner of title and touching the imprint, disappearing after three leaves; some toning; all else very good. As an important industrial center, Boston typified such growth patterns of urban density, and its residential conditions worsened..... More
Washington: C. Alexander, printer, 1845. Second edition, with additions, following the first edition printed earlier the same year in Pittsburgh; 8vo, pp. 24; removed from binding; corner torn from the title page not affecting any letterpress. Published by authority of the War Department. American Imprints 45-5716; Howes S-86; Sabin 76388..... More
Salem: 1833. First edition, 8vo, pp. pp. [16]; text in douible column; self-wrappers; very good. "In early 1833, [Cheever] was installed as pastor of the Howard Street Congregational Church in Salem, where he soon became embroiled in controversy. His orations and articles on the inadequacies of Unitarianism did not endear..... More
Albany: printed by Croswell, Barnum, & Van Benthuysen, 1826. First edition, 8vo, pp. 37, [3]; removed from binding; very good. American Imprints 25556. More
Cambridge: [Harvard University], October 8, 1810. 4to, address on verso of integral leaf, was seal, previous folds; very good. H. Weston is likely Hiram Weston who was a divinity student at Harvard in 1811 and who later became a merchant in Duxbury. He was born in Duxbury, Mass, in 1793..... More
Washington City: printed at the Columbian Office, 1826. 8vo, pp. 44; stitching renewed; wrappers wanting; very good. An 80-page edition was published in 1825. As a physician, Sewall produced important work on the effects of alcohol and was a major force in the temperance movement. Columbian College subsequently became George..... More
[Concord, N.H. George Hough], August, 1810. 12mo, pp. 59, [1]; original blue printed paper wrappers, spine partially perished, corner of upper cover chipped; all else very good and sound. "Also, the origin of the doctrine of three persons in one God, extracted from Dr. Mosheim's 'Ecclesiastical history,' and confirmed by..... More
Philadelphia: John Young, 1830. First edition, 8vo, pp. 16; removed from binding, small closed tears to fore-edge of last two leaves, light waterstaining. Tyson was a lawyer and historical writer who served on many educational boards, including as Manager of the Apprentices' Library Company, and as a director of the..... More
Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1909. 8vo, pp. [3], 184-233, [1]; map frontispiece; gray printed paper wrappers, inscribed "with compliments bof Frederick J. Turner" on the upper wrapper; wrappers detached from text block, spine chipped and repaired. From the Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for 1908..... More
Cambridge: printed at the University Press by Hilliard & Metcalf, 1822. 8vo, pp. 40; removed from binding; wanting wrappers; very good. The first edition of 1805 had 32 pages; if there was a second, third, or fourth edition, I can't find them in OCLC. American Imprints 11351; Cordasco 20-0622; Sabin..... More
[New York]: 1845. First edition, 8vo, pp. 8; paper self-wrappers; foxing, old fold, shallow tears on foredge, ex-library with stamps on covers. The authors complain that the United States of America have no real name to identify themselves and offer Allegania as their suggestion. An uncommon Schoolcraft and Hoffman ephemeron..... More
Worcester: Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company, n.d., [ca. late 1880s]. Small 8vo, pp. 8; half dozen illustrations of company headquarters, wire guages, strands, etc.; toned, previous folds, marginal tears (no loss); good. More
Edinburgh: [printed by Neill and Company, Old Fishmarket], 1846. 8vo, pp. x, 112; 2 folding plates (loose); removed from binding; original blue printed front wrapper preserved, with an inscription in ink by George Combe, the Edinburgh phrenologist and founder of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society, to the American physician and phrenologist..... More
London: printed by J. Downing, for M. Wotton at the Three Daggers near the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleet-Street, 1704. First edition, 4to, pp. [2], 45, [1]; removed from binding; title with very slight damp, small tear in the gutter of the last leaf; good. The last leaf includes lists of books..... More
Boston: S. M. Howes Co., n.d., [ca. 1896]. 8vo, pp. 127, [1]; illustrated throughout (stoves, dampers, kettles, shovels, pokers, etc.); original printed red wrappers, cloth spine; cloth on spine flakey, but the binding is sound; some fading at the extremities. Original order form printed in red laid in. Not in..... More
Cork (Ireland): ca. 1717. 6ΒΌ" x 4", 24 pages on 12 leaves, the first leaf loose, the early leaves with slight chipping, and with many blank leaves at the back. Hand written copy of a letter of faith and religious encouragement written by Quaker Joseph Pike to Joseph Gurney, Quaker..... More
New York: Van Winckle, Riley & Co., 1817. First edition, 8vo, pp. 23, [1]; original blue wrappers; previous owner's ownership signatures; very good. The Forum was a New York institution dedicated to the cultivation of eloquence ("the noblest gift that can distinguish man from man") which, at the time, had..... More
Boston: Otis, Broaders & Co., 1847. First edition, 16mo, pp. 108; original limp brown cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover; rear endpaper excised and hinges cracked; good or better. Not in Coradasco. Library Company and U. Rochester Medical Center only in OCLC. More
[San Diego: publisher not identified], 1888. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 16; original tan printed wrappers; fine. California fiction based on a Placer County real estate scam. Wright III, 5604. More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, [1960]. First edition limited to 750 copies of which this is no. 203; original embossed paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine, clear dust jacket; about fine. Bookplate on front pastedown. "A publication from the James Ford Bell Collection in the University of Minnesota Library." More
London: John Murray, 1837-41. First edition, 8vo, 5 volumes, 3 frontispieces, 14 lithograph plates (some color and folding) and over 420 woodcut illustrations in the text; uniformly bound by J. Clarke in English beige calf, gilt spines, red and black morocco labels, a.e.g.; light wear to joints but generally a...... More
