NP: np, nd [ca. 1830]. Printed broadside, 11 ½ x 9 1/8 inches, second line of the title in larger bold capitals. An appeal to keep the day “holy,” particularly aimed at proprietors of steam-boats, cars, and means of public conveyances: “Our Steam-boats, Rail-road Cars, Stages, and private vehicles groan..... More
Phladelphia: Published by M. Fithian, 61 North Second Street, 1842. 8vo. 251 pp. Original publishers embossed brown cloth with title gilt stamped on spine. Very good copy. More
Philadelphia, (PA): M. Fithian, 1842. First collected and separate edition. 12mo. 251 pp. A defense of Catholicism against the extreme anti-Catholic demagoguery of the day: "the documents here referred to clearly shew, that the condition of mankind has been no wise improved by the great religious revolution of the sixteenth..... More
Boston, (MA): Printed by Samuel Harris, 1842. First edition. 12mo. 36 pp. The Pine Street [Congregational] Church was founded in 1827; it merged with the Union Church in 1907. Apparently not in American Imprints. OCLC locates only an 1833 edition. Original printed self-wrappers (lacking outer wrappers?), stitched (but stitching broken)..... More
Edinburgh: Printed by James Watson, 1720. Narrow 12mo. 204 unnumbered leaves. OCLC locates four copies of this edition (Claremont, Emory, Cambridge, National Library of Wales). Contemporary morocco (rubbed), gilt ornaments on spine faded), gilt-stamped ornamented leather pastedowns, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. (mostly rubbed away). Solid copy of a handy edition. More
London: Printed by Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1743. 8vo. [152pp.] with THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS, Collected into English Metre, By Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others..... London: Printed by A. Wilde, for the Company of Stationers, 1740. [52pp.]. Closed tear in..... More
London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820. Stereotype edition. 14 cm. Full contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers paneled and decorated in gilt, spine richly gilt, with raised bands and gilt title, gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt, with a colored..... More
London: Published for John Reeves, Sold by George and William Nicol and Scatcherd and Letterman, 1812. 25 cm. Full contemporary black straight-grained morocco, covers panelled and decorated in gilt and blind, spine richly gilt, with raised bands and gilt title. All edges gilt, with a colored painting of a mother..... More
Oxford: Printed at Clarendon Press by W. Dawson, T. Bensley, J. Cooke, 1798. 22 cm. Full contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers panelled and decorated with gilt tooling, flat spine panelled and richly gilt, with gilt title, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt, with a colored painting of Henley Bridge, on Thames..... More
London: Printed by John Jarvis, 1792. 23 cm. Full contemporary red straight-grained morocco, gilt rules, gilt decorations and blind tooling on boards, flat spine with gilt rules, ornaments, and title, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers (split to front endpaper). All edges gilt, with a colored painting of the “Priory, Christchurch..... More
London: Published for John Reeves, Sold by George and William Nicol and Scatcherd and Letterman, 1807. 24 cm. Full contemporary red straight-grained morocco, single gilt rules on covers and flat spine, gilt title on spine, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt, with a colored painting of “Durham Cathedral”..... More
NP: nd [19th century]. Wood engraving, 3 x 3 7/8 inches, carved into a 7/8-inch wood block, the manuscript title on the bottom edge of the block. A charming scene, the image pictures a religious revival camp site in a forest, with an empty open outdoor meeting room with roof..... More
Littlestown, PA: "News" Print, 1876. Printed broadside, 15 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches, the text and title enclosed within an ornamental border. A local minister defends himself against perceived slanders by another minister, presenting "his side of the story" from beginning to end. The Littlestown News was published by Barton..... More
[Andover, Mass.]: Flagg & Gould, Printers, [1819]. Broadside, 47 x 29 cm. Typographical border. One blank corner torn off, slightly affecting the border, separation at horizontal center fold, with small hole in center. One name added in manuscript. The most prominent student, in the senior class, was Orville Dewey. The..... More
Selma, AL: Printed at the “Daily State Sentinel” Job Office, 1858. Printed handbill, 7 7/8 x 5 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type. Among the essays to be delivered were “The Union,” “The Rights of the South,” “Social Fabric of America,” “The Schoolboy’s Hope,” and “The Past and..... More
Buckhannon, WV: The conference, 1891. Printed broadside, 11 x 5 7/8 inches, the title bold. The Conference Seminary (now West Virginia Wesleyan) opened in 1890 as a private school affiliated with the Methodist Church offering a college preparatory course (college-level courses starting in 1900). Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Some..... More
(Springfield, MO: Gospel Publishing House), nd [1930s]. 12mo. (3)-page leaflet Original printed self-wrappers. Very good. "Evangel Tract No. 431." A moralizing tale of a Christian slave whose prayers save his cruel master from Hell. Scarce; this edition unrecorded on OCLC (which does list a Philadelphia edition published by the American..... More
[Boston, MA]: I.R. Butts & Co. printers, Congress Street, [1826]. Broadside. 25 x 19 cm. Trimmed, particularly along the left margin, but with no loss of text. Two columns under title, separated by a decorative border in the center. Removed from scrap album and still glued to sheet. Text of..... More
Halle, (Germany): In der Cansteinischen Bibel-Anhalt, 1804. "Die CVII Auflage". Tall 8vo. 14, (2), 1079, 308, (4) pp. [printed double-column]. Printed in black letter; separate title page for the New Testament. With a woman's ownership signature, that of Susanna Elizabeth Muhlenberg, daughter of G.H.E. Muhlenberg, on the front endpaper. The..... More
Birmingham, AL: Dispatch Printing Co., Printers and Binders, 1899. Annual catalogue. 8vo. 63, (1) pp. Illustrated from photographs (views of the campus), plates, frontispiece. Founded by Alabama Baptists in Marion in 1841, the school eventually moved to Birmingham (1887), changing its name to Samford University in 1965. For earlier catalogues..... More
Wheeling, WV: Prohibition Publishing Co., 1891. First edition. 8vo. 40 pp. Plate of the seminary building from a wood engraving, shorthand illustrations; laid in is a small handbill “The American System of Shorthand.” Institution affiliated with the Methodist Church. Includes lists of trustees, faculty, and students, both men and women..... More
[Moundsville or Wheeling, WV?]: The lecturer ("Reporter" Print.), 1869. Printed broadside on pink paper, 12 x 9 1/4 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, including a 2-inch display type in the head, the text enclosed within an ornamental border, printer's slug just below the lower border. Richter planned..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by W. W. Woodward, No 52, South Second, corner of Chesnut Street, 1816. 15 cm. Two pages at end of New Testament missing corner either burned or paper defect, slight loss of lettering. Period leather binding with gold rules on spine. A nice example. More
![Item #61634 In Memory of Dan Webster Lindsey [cover title]. Services Sunday, April 1, 1951, Mt....](https://bartlebysbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/61634.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1622491766)
Yazoo City, MS: The church, 1951. Program. 8vo. (2) pp. Beautiful studio photograph of Lindsey laid in (6 x 4 inches). "He had a life to give / And he gave it bravely / That freedom and truth might live." Not recorded on OCLC. Very good. Original self-wrapper, illustrated from..... More
N.P., n.p., n.d. (mid 1900's?). White paper pamphlet, with photo illustration on front cover. 12mo.; 4pp. Photo illus. A small brochure on the church, its history & mission. Rev. Neal L. Anderson, Pastor. Very good. More
