Baltimore, [MD]: Printed by Jas. Lucas & E.K. Deaver, No. 19, S. Calvert Street, 1834. First edition. 24 cm. 54,(2), 51 pp. Sewn, untrimmed, with some fraying to edges. Some browning to text block, and faint old tidelines at margins. A reply to Evan Poultney's charges that his partners in..... More
Baltimore, (MD): Printed by Wm. Ogden Niles, 1830. First edition. 24 cm. 72pp. Disbound. Signature of Levi Woodbury on title page. Woodbury was Senator from New Hampshire at the time this was printed. He became Secretary of the Navy under Jackson, then Secretary of the Treasury under Jackson and Van..... More
New York, (NY): Steam Printing House, Corner of Centre and White Streets, 1875. First edition. 22.5 cm. 57pp. Numerous illustrations. Original printed pink wrappers, some soiling and staining to edges of wrappers and text margins. More
New York [NY]: Casper C. Childs, Printer, 113 Nassau Street, 1852. First edition. Original green printed wrappers (some chipping to edges). 22 cm. 32 pp. "Mechanical science has strengthened the bonds of human government.... International communication has suspended international prejudices." Not in Sabin. OCLC: NY Hist. Lib., Univ. of IL..... More
Indianapolis: Smith and Bolton, State Printers, 1828. First edition. Disbound. 21 cm. 165pp. Foxing, with darkening and toning to text block. Acts of a note include: Canals and improving waterways; Roads; Divorces ; Charter of Indiana College. More
Indianapolis: Smith and Bolton, State Printers, 1829. First edition. Disbound. 21 cm. 179pp. A few page margins closely trimmed. Acts of note include: Wolf bounty; Improved river navigation and canals; Roads; Dogs known to kill sheep may be killed. More
Boston [MA]: Printed for the Author, by Homer & Palmer, Congress Street, 1835. First edition. Two volumes. 22 cm. 96; 97-172 pp. Original printed paper wrappers on each part. Part one ends in mid-sentence, and commences with the rest of the sentence in part two, as intended by the printer..... More
Memphis, (TN): S.C. Toof & Co., Steam Printers, Lithographers and Blank Book Manufacturers, 1878. First edition. 22.5cm. 29pp. Original printed gray wrappers, slightly soiled. Stamp of economist Henry B. Gardner who taught at Brown University in the early twentieth century, at head of title page. Unable to locate in OCLC..... More
[Hartford, CT: Hudson and Goodwin, 1806. First edition. 21 cm. 16 pp. Later plain tan wrappers. Federalist pamphlet denounces the demonstration for Selleck Osborn and urges the freemen to vote against any change of government and the authority of the state manager. It is assumed Tapping Reeve who founded the..... More
(Philadelphia, PA): Press of the Society, 1855. First edition. Disbound pamphlet. 24 cm. 52 pp., illustration of facsimiles of Mason and Dixon's signatures. HOWES L-129. More
Charleston: Printed by Burges & James, East Bay Street, 1839. First edition. 22 cm. 31pp. Sewn, lacking wrappers. Title page trimmed top and bottom, no loss of text. Thomas Lee was nominated by President James Monroe to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of South..... More
Yonkers, N.Y: Printed at the Office of the Semi-Weekly Clarion, 1862. Sewn, lacking wrappers. 23 cm. 32 pp. Fremont's Republican party campaign document. Previously published in No. 3 of the Crisis Papers. More
New York, (NY): Printed by Mahlon Day, No. 372, Pearl Street, 1823. First edition. Disbound pamphlet. 21cm. 26pp, (1). Toning to text block, some old staining. Ex-library, Presbyterian Historical Society, stamped withdrawn. Griscom founded New York's first anti-poverty organization, the New York Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, he also..... More
Philadelphia, (PA): Printed by J. Crissy and G. Goodman, 4 Minor Street, 1835. First edition. Disbound. Lacks half-title. 22 cm. 70 pp. A eulogy for the first chief justice, delivered at the request of the Councils of Philadelphia. on the 24th September, 1835. Signature clipped from upper right corner of..... More
Cambridge, [MA]: Printed at the University Press, by Hilliard & Metcalf, 1822. First edition. Disbound pamphlet. 21 cm. 28pp. Rear page with closed tear, slightly affecting one word of text. Inscription on title page "from the author" closely trimmed, recipient's name has been trimmed away. "Here, as a judge of..... More
Philadelphia, (PA): B. Wright, Printer, Harrison Hall, 64, South Fourth Street, 1825. First edition. Disbound pamphlet. 21 cm. 36pp. Some chipping to edges of several back pages, not affecting text. A Swiss economist whose works on the the risks of limitless competition, overproduction, and underconsumption were of use to John..... More
Np [New Bedford, MA?]: np, 1862. Self wraps. 19.5 cm. 12pp. Text consists entirely of a "Catalogue" list, with brief descriptions of more than 240 numbered lots under various headings (Machinery and Tools in Machine-Shop; Rivet Room; Skinners' room; Blacksmith shop, etc.). More
Portland, Oregon: Himes & Bachelder, Book and Job Printers, No. 93 Front Street, 1872. Beige printed wrappers. 23 cm. 20pp. Signature on cover and title page of Eugene L. Ware. Typographically well done. The University was founded by Congregational Ministers. Included are lists of faculty, alumni, male and female students..... More
New York, (NY): Printed and published by C. N. Baldwin, corner of Chatham and Chamber Streets, 1818. Disbound. 22.5 cm. 124pp. Old Worcester Co. Law Library stamp on title page. A few neat ink annotations in margins. The jury deliberated only 15 minutes before acquitting Baldwin, whose charges were supported..... More
London: Printed for R. Faulder, New Bond Street, 1791. Disbound pamphlet. 21 cm. xv, 60pp. OCLC: NY Pub. LIb., Univ. of CA at LA, Yale, Harvard, Univ. of MN Law Lib., Washington Univ., Duke Univ., Princeton Univ., Univ. of Sydney, Queens Univ., McGill Univ. More
New York, (NY): J. Winchester, 30 Ann Street, 1842. Original buff printed stiff wrappers, worn, chipped and soiled. 25 cm. 40 pp. Closed tear to title page, foxing. BAL 1008. More
The Hague: A. H. Bakhuyzen, 1857. Disbound pamphlet. 21 cm. 4pp., 2 colored plates of Cyclas done by J. Lewis. OCLC notes a single copy in the US at Harvard Ernst Mayr Lib. Prime was a member of the Boston Society of Natural History, an amateur conchologist who had studied..... More
New York, (NY), 1827. First edition. 8vo. 60 pp. Original printed front wrapper (detached, brittle but serviceable, small library duplicate stamp on cover and title page; rear wrapper lacking). Stitching perished, title page loose. American Imprints 30700 (one copy of this 60 page edition). A 54-page edition is also listed..... More
New Haven, [CT]: T.J. Stafford, Printer, 1855. First edition. 8vo. 22 pp. Folding plate. Lacks front cover, retains contemporary plain rear wrap. Romaine, p. 355, for an 1855 price list of this company. Includes testimonials for the system as used in a number of Connecticut buildings. Gold's device was a...... More
Boston, [MA]: Published by Henry Bowen, Province House Row, Washington-Street, 1829. 16cm. 36 pp. Sewn & uncut, as issued. Period signature of A. Wardner, Windsor. Allen Wardner was a Vermont banker, businessman and politician. Howes J-29: "One of the earliest treatises on the subject, issued prior to the completion of..... More