N.p. n.p., nd [ca. 1830]. Stipple line engraving, hand colored in browns and blues; image 8 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches, on a sheet 14 x 16 inches. While it bears no indication of artist, engraver, or publisher, it is the version thought by scholar Robert P. Emlen likely to..... More

Nashville, TN: The convention, nd [1937]. First edition. 8vo. 16 pp. Illustrated from photographs, portraits. History of the building, with glosses on the Baptist Convention and the Sunday School Publishing Board. OCLC locates one copy (Emory). Original yellow wrappers, illustrated from a photograph of the building. (8543). More

NP: np, nd [ca. 1840?]. Printed broadside, 13 x 8 inches, the title in bold capitals. The five advantages include (1) “unrestrained communication with others,” (2) ”the best works on education [are] explained, “ (3) “they fasten the attention of every mother on the great and responsible work of educating..... More

Charlestown, [MA]: 1805. Printed broadside, 11 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type. Call for contributions to this fledgling charity to "feed the hungry and clothe the naked," to be called "The Baptist Charity Fund," signed in type by a six-member committee, including William Collier..... More

Hand sewn paper, 16 x 9.5 cm., 24 pp., approx. 8000 words, in a closely written but legible hand. Partly disbound, edges chipped, first page of first sermon is in several pieces (with some loss to text), loss to some lines on other pages, at edges. The first sermon, 14..... More

Ravenna, OH: The newspaper, September 8, 1832. Printed broadsheet newspaper extra, 15 ¼ x 10 ¼ inches, 39cm. the head printed in bold capitals. The recto of extra, under the title “More Church & State: Combination to Overawe the Press,” prints the editor’s defense of his previous printing of a...... More

Mobile, AL: July 23rd, 1855. 8vo. 29 (i.e., 28) pp. Self-wrappers, stitched; some spine erosion and soiling, else very good. Manuscript sermon by Abernethy, with a number of manuscript corrections and additions through the text and with a note on the inside of the front wrapper in the author's hand..... More

Philadelphia, (PA): David McKay, (c1932). First edition with the Pogany illustrations. 4to. xvi, 182 pp. 12 full-page black-and-white plates. Inscribed by Pogany on the half title in 1941 to arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson "this far-eastern saga for those of Ultima Thule." Original silver-stamped black cloth (one small white paint smudge..... More

Philadelphia, (PA): H. Hooker, 1849. First edition. 12mo. 105, (1) pp. Dated at the end of text "Raleigh N.C., October, 1849." The author, at the time serving in the United States Senate, argues against various powers for bishops in the Episcopal church claimed by Ives, "the rule of judgement will..... More

Hopedale, [MA]: Community Press, 1853. First edition. 16mo. 17.5cm. vii, [2],10-192p. Original blind stamped brown cloth. Some wear to corners and edges, head of spine worn down to page edges, else a tight copy. Undated pencil inscription: "L.T. & S.J. Wilkinson. Milford Mass. Presented by the Author." A memoir of..... More

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1981. First edition. Second printing. Octavo. (vi), 135pp. Brown cloth with gilt stamping on spine and front board. Near fine. More

Georgetown, D.C. Published by Joseph Milligan. (J. C. Dunn, Printer), 1822. 16.5 cm. 12mo. 492, (8, index) pp. PARSONS 729: "Written in Latin by the Rev. Nathaniel Bacon, S.J (alias Southwell; translated from his manuscript, by Rev. Edward Mico, S.J. First appeared London 1669." Baxter was an English Jesuit and..... More

Sacramento: Solomon Alter; San Francisco: Marvin & Hitchcock, 1853. First edition. 12mo. 261 pp. Six plates. With an inscription " To David R. Knox" dated in the year of publication at Sacramento City, California. Soliday II, 85: "The author arrived in California in 1849 where he founded and was pastor..... More