New York, [NY]: C.S. Francis, 252 Broadway, 1830. First edition. 8vo. 175, [5] pp., including a list of subscribers. Original plain brown paper boards with brown cloth spine and paper label chipped. Some wear and chipping to spine, some dampstaining to margins of a few pages at front and rear..... More
Baltimore, [MD]: Edward J. Coale & Co., 1835. Second edition. 8vo. 272pp. Green pebbled publishers cloth, with rubbed leather spine label. Wear to spine ends and edges, some foxing and old staining to text block. A good copy. More
[London, England]: Printed J. Mitchell and Co. (late Brettell), Rupert Street, Haymarket, [1844]. Small broadsheet, 19 cm., 2 pp., printed in various sizes and styles of type, with small vignette of a lion and a shield at head of text. Accompanied by a tiny calling card for "Gen. Tom Thumb,"..... More
Boston, [MA]: Carter, Hendee and Co., 1832. First edition. 12mo. [1], 264 pp. Original blue cloth, some rubbing, spine label lacking. Burton was at Brook Farm between 1841-44. He was a preacher and writer on education. In later life he became a Swedenborgian. More
Burlington, NJ: Published by Joseph Sharpless, 1807. First American edition. 12mo. 144pp. Contemporary calf, rubbed, lacks rear endpaper. Page 25 has a paper flaw resulting in the loss of a few words. "Belonging to the Library of Roaring Creek Mo[nthly] Meeting." Signature of Abraham Lower. ROSENBACH 140. SINGERMAN 0175... More
[Paris, France]: Publie par un Citoyen de la Louisiane [Impr. de E. Duverger], 1825. First edition in French. 21cm. xvi, 792, [2] pp. Half title: Tresor Legislatif. Recent quarter leather and marbled boards. Old staining to portions of lower margins of last several leaves in the index, not affecting text..... More
Albany, [NY]: Published by E.F. Backus, No.67, State Street. E. E. Hosford Printers, 1815. First edition. 8vo. 67 pp. Contemporary calf backed marbled boards with red leather label on spine. "The Rules and Orders passed prior to February, 1814, or to No. 74, inclusive, were passed during the time of..... More
New-York: Printed by W. Mitchell, 265, Bowery, 1832. First edition. 8vo. 18 pp. Original printed wrappers, chipped, some stains. The author advises ministers to remain aloof from politics, but to monitor religious and political freedoms carefully. Horner was an open communion Baptist minister. Housed in blue clamshell box. One wonders..... More
New Haven, [CT]: Printed and published by Hezekiah Howe, 1830-31. Two volumes. First edition. 8vo. xi, errata, 518; vii, errata, 696, [3 plates], 48pp. appendix, 12pp. index. Numerous in text illustrations. Original cloth backed boards, printed paper labels. Ex-library bookplate on pastedown. Some wear and chipping to spine and spine..... More
Columbus, [OH]: Published by I.N. Whiting, 1832-33. Second edition. 8vo. 452. 28, 53, [1] pp. Contemporary calf backed marbled boards, spine heavily worn, with loss to head of spine, joints worn down to stitching, spine label mostly lacking. Blank lower margin of title page clipped. First published 1828, here expanded..... More
Boston (MA): Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1850. First edition. 8vo. xii, 628 pp. Frontis. & other plates. Original brown blindstamped cloth. Edges worn, joints starting, some wear to spine ends. With an ink presentation inscription from Pliny Merrick, chief counsel for defense at the trial. McDADE1060: "This is..... More
St. Louis, Mo: Printed by "Industrial Age' Printing Co., 1872. First edition. 8vo. 262, 4, [2] pp. Illus. Original brown blind stamped cloth. Worn edges, spine ends worn down to page edges, joints starting. Tice was a meteorologist working in St. Louis, and this work consists chiefly of geologic and..... More
Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, for Barnard B. Macanulty, Salem, June, 1802. First edition. 8vo. xxiv, [9]-345 (ie 352), [1] pp. Errata leaf. Contemporary calf (rubbed), leather spine label. Small puncture in the spine above the label, else a tight copy. Signature of Abraham Hinds and stamp of Herman..... More
New York: Banks, Gould & Co., 144 Nassau Street, 1857. First edition. 8vo. xxiii, [9]-240 pp. Recent brown buckram. Reid, the author of a famous work on the Mexican War, "The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch's Texas Rangers," was a member of counsel and reported the work as author. On the..... More
Boston, in New-England: S. Kneeland, 1759 [i.e., 1761?]. Two parts in one, complete. Folio. [1 leaf], 14; 24, 396 pp. Later 3/4 calf, marbled boards. Library stamps, some browning, but crisp. Includes Acts through 1761. Ownership signature of Moses Bliss; a few scattered annotations in the margins. A few Acts..... More
Baltimore: Published for the author, by Henry Taylor, Sun Iron Building, 1855. First edition. 8vo. xii, 13 - 300 pp. Publishers brown blind stamped cloth. Spine appears to have been lacquered, darkening and some chipping to spine ends. Ex-library with stamp on title page. Presentation inscription in pencil from the..... More
Providence, [R.I.]: Printed by John Carter, 1789. First edition. 8vo. 129 pp. Contemporary calf binding, leather label and raised bands on spine. Wear to top of spine. Newspaper clippings pasted to front endpapers, scattered foxing. Dedicated to Ezra Stiles, and published posthumously. WEGELIN 138. STODDARD/WHITESELL 394. Not in WELCH or..... More
Richmond, [Va.]: Printed by John Warrock, for the Author, 1819. First edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 576 pp. Contemporary leather binding with red leather gilt stamped spine label, with general wear and some loss to spine end. Black leather ownership label on spine of Harry R. Kern. Bookplate of Edmund P...... More
Richmond, (VA): Shepperd and Pollard, Printers, 1823. First edition. 8vo. viii, 562pp. One gathering pulled. Bound in full brown calf with gilt stamped red morocco spine label, tooled around borders and on spine. Crown of spine worn down, joints starting near top. Binding has the binder's name stamped on spine..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1911. First edition. Three volumes. 8vo. Frontis., liii, 549pp; frontis., (2), xvi, 653pp; frontis., xv, (2), 672pp. 36 plates. Original blue cloth with gilt stamping. Very good. HOWES W-240. More
New York: Fowlers and Wells Publishers, Clinton Hall, 131 Nassau Street. 1854. Stereotyped edition, revised and enlarged. 8vo. Three plates preceding title page, vi, - 192pp., in text illustrations, 12pp. publishers catalog. Publisher's business label on front pastedown: Fowler, Wells & Co., Phrenologists and Publishers. Blind stamped red cloth with..... More
Boston, (MA): B.B. Mussey and Company. Providence, (RI): Press of Marcus H. Young, 1854. First edition. 12mo. 18cm. 251 pp. Frontis. & other illustrations, with gilt stamped illustration of a row of teeth on the front cover. Original light green blind stamped cloth (faded). A very good, tight copy. CAMPBELL..... More
[New York]: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881. Decorated tan cloth. 8vo. 21 cm. xii, (3), 4- 242pp. In text illustrations and plates, some in color. Foxing and old staining affecting page edges and some of the illustrations. More
Philadelphia, (PA): Carey & Hart, 1848. First edition. 8vo. 474 pp. Original brown cloth with paper label on spine. A tear to crown of spine. Ex-library with bookplate and several stamps on titlepage and several internal pages. Carey (1793-1879) succeeded his father, Mathew Carey, in the family publishing business, but..... More
Philadelphia, [PA]: Lee and Blanchard, 1843. 8vo. 19.5 cm. xxii, (i), 25 - 248pp., (12)pp. of publishers ads. Printed wrappers, worn spine and scattered foxing. Variant of BLANCK 17388 which lists a wrapper copy with text ending on p.232. More