(New Philadelphia, O.): New Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, 1939. First edition, the only printing. 8vo, original printed orange wrappers, 119, [1] pages. Folding map, illus. A scarce local guide from the Federal Writers' Project. Includes material on Zoar and Schoenbrunn, as well as local customs, the history of the Erie..... More
![Item #19577 Das Leben des Georg Waschington [George Washington], mit Sonderbaren Anecdoten,...](/pictures/thumb/19577.jpg?v=1580763983)
Libanon, (Penn.): J. Schnee für M. Carey in Philadelphia, 1810. First edition in German. 12mo, contemporary full calf, brown leather spine label, gilt rules and lettering, 210 pages. Engraved frontis and six engraved plates (including a portrait of Washington). The Weems life of Washington (cherry tree anecdote and all) here..... More
Boston: Re-printed by Rogers and Fowle, for J. Edwards in Cornhill, 1746. Removed from an 18th century calf binding (with traces of the calf to the spine), 176 pages. 1746 was an unusually bad year for the "bloody flux" or dysentery in Massachusetts (see both Nash, Historical Sketch of the..... More
N. p. n. p., ca. 1950s. Black and white print on paper roughly trimmed to 3.38 x 4 inches. A pip, a nonpareil, a keeper—a portrait of man cut from the Liebling mold, who here faces the camera in a genial manner. His shirt is open at the collar and..... More
N. p., ca. 1930? Black and white print on paper, 5.5 x 3.5 inches. More
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New-York: G. & C. Carvill, and Elam Bliss, 1828. Stated second edition of the first volume. 2 vols in 1, large 8vo, publisher's rose half cloth, pink boards, printed spine label, 192; [iv], 188 pages. Frontis engraved view of Trenton Falls inserted before vol. 1. "Let then Americans labour to..... More
New York: W. B. Taylor, Printer, 16 Spruce-st. [ca. 1850-1851]. First edition. Broadside, scant 16.25 x 11.75 inches. List of muscial publications in four columns. Decorative border. With an advertisement at the foot of the broadsheet for The Message Bird: A National Journal of Music and Literature, published by M...... More
[Milford, Otsego County, New York, ca. 1817 to mid-1840s]. Two saddle-stitched gatherings bound together with stab-stitched soft doeskin thongs, approx. 13.13 x 8 inches, 40 leaves in autograph ink (with evidence of leaves extracted and a few portions of leaves and text torn out). A few ink diagrams in the..... More
Providence: Marshall, Brown and Company, 1834. First edition. 8vo, original rose diaper grain cloth, gilt lettering, 48 pages. A Phi Beta Kappa poem, delivered in Rhode Island. Neat contemporary gift inscription (to the lovely lilac endpapers), "E. C. Sigourney from the attached & devoted Self." More
Cornish, Maine: Published and Sold by the Author, 1827. First edition. 12mo (gathered in nines), contemporary full calf, dark blue morocco label, gilt lettering, 216 pages. A pleasantly crudely-made anthology, largely of English poems, though Key's "Star-Spangled Banner" does make an early appearance here. Even the poems on patriotic and..... More
New York: (The Bradford Club), 1860. First edition thus, one of 100 (of 250) copies. Large 8vo, contemporary green half morocco (perhaps the Club binding), marbled sides, gilt spine, viii, 191, [1] pages. Double frontispiece portraits. With a specimen sheet (folded to make four leaves) laid in. The limited edition..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1869. First edition, trade issue. 8vo, contemporary blue half morocco, spine elaborately gilt, blue cloth sides, 607, [1], [4] pages, t.e.g. Frontis portrait, engraved title page (as published). This copy from the library of Halleck’s biographer James Grant Wilson himself, with a small ink..... More
Philadelphia: Desilver, Thomas & Co., 1836. First edition. 12mo, original green cloth, gilt lettered leather spine label, 153, [1] pages. Many of these examples of youthful verses written while the author was a student at West Point (including an anecdote of a classmate with a dislocated jaw), where he graduated..... More
![Item #18724 Substantial autograph letter fragment, signed, to Reuben Shattock [i.e., Shattuck],...](/pictures/thumb/18724.jpg?v=1539033071)
Barnardston [i.e., Bernardston, Franklin County, Mass.]: Sept. 8th, [1775]. Single leaf, 12.5 x 7.63 inches, approx. 240 words. With the integral address to Reuben Shattock, “Cambredg under Capt. Wells,” Col. Whitcomb’s regiment. A primary text conveying the patriotic sense of Providence in the earliest days of the Revolutionary War in..... More
Boston in New-England: Printed for Samuel Gerrish, 1728. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, stitched, 8.25 x 5.5 inches, [2], 24, [2] pages, rather wildly untrimmed. The early American clergyman, historian, and amateur natural philosopher Prince here delivers the sermon to welcome new governor William Burnet, who was said to have been..... More
Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, No. 146 Chesnut [sic] Street, 1830. A later edition. Original black morocco spine titled in gilt, “S. Farmer,” scant 6 x 3.5 inches, 143, [1] pages. Wood engraved frontispiece by George Gilbert. Contemporary ink Sabbath School ownership inscription on the rear paste-down. More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, [ca. 1833-1845?]. First edition, but presumably a later printing. Original black roan spine, marbled boards, 5.88 x 3.75 inches, 195, [1] pages. Frontispiece, illus. An account of missionary work and the eradication of native culture in Tahiti. Separately published as one of a series of three..... More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, [n. d., but 1833?]. Evidently a later printing of this tract. 12mo, original printed wrappers, 24 pages. A comprehensive plan on the proposed spread and regulation of Sabbath schools through the west and the rural areas. Apparently first published under the pseudonym "Owen"..... More
[New York: n. p., 1834]. First edition. Ticket of admission on white coated card stock, 3 x 4.13 inches, printed in black and tan ink. “In 1834 the 28-year-old star sailed for Europe, sent off by the elite of New York, who feted him as a symbol of American culture”..... More
Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 1854. A later American edition. 8vo, publisher’s blind-stamped polished brown calf, raised bands, 429 pages, a.e.g. A nice example of a deluxe publisher’s binding. More
[Philadelphia]: Uriah Hunt.—101 Market Street; Nathan Kite.—Appletree Alley, 1838. First edition. 12mo, contemporary (publisher’s?) ribbon embossed cloth, black morocco label, gilt lettering, 100 pages. On oaths, from the Chester County Friend and mathematician, in an early cloth binding that is both attractive and curious. (The morocco label pushes it into..... More
New York: American Bible Society, 1859. 8vo, publisher’s elaborately embossed brown leather, gilt lettering, 112 pages. A lovely example of an American embossed publisher’s calf binding, the Pica Octavo edition of the Testaments, and just a little too late for Wolf’s From Gothic Windows to Peacocks. Early ink and pencil..... More
Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1858. First edition. 12mo, original gilt-stamped red morocco, 538 pages, a.e.g. Two folding charts (diagrams of the Assembly Chamber and the Senate Chamber) tipped in. Everything a legislator needs to know, from Agricultural Society, Officers of, to Villages, General provisions for erecting. The real attraction..... More
Paris, Sunday, June 18, 1882. Unlined bifolium with an attractive novelty embossed device, approx. 7 x 4.5 inches. [3] pages. "Dear Charlie." To an unnamed correspondent in America, Sarah A. Smith writes at some length and entertainingly about her extended visit to Paris. She includes observations on attending the Salon..... More
Newton Centre [Mass.], Jan. 22, 1894. Autograph note signed S. F. Smith, 6.88 x 4.38 inches, 3 pages, approx. 150 words. With original autograph cover addressed to D. Lothrop Co., For Mrs. Lothrop, Purchase St., Boston, Mass., marked “Personal.”. The Baptist minister and author best remembered for the hymn “America”..... More
