Boston: Printed by S. N. Dickinson & Co., 1846. First edition. 12mo, unbound, 12 pages. The war-cry of Popery and Puseyism has long resounded in our ears. . . . Our Rt. Rev. Bishop has thrown the gauntlet into the face of one of the most beloved and respected of..... More
[Salem, Mass.? n. p., 1868]. First edition. 8vo, unbound pamphlet, [7] pages. Title-page vignette of a booted elephant draped with a blanket reading "Only $600,000" and bearing aloft a banner with the strange device, "Old Aqueduct." An obscure (but amusing) satirical political work, aimed against the sale of the Salem..... More
Chicago: Published by Root & Cady, 67 Washington Street, 1866. First edition of the first number of this juvenile musical quarterly. Small 8vo, contemporary marbled boards, cloth spine and tips, [ii], 5-61, [2] pages (lacks wrappers; this may be an issue sold in boards). Illus. Each number of this quarterly..... More
[Chicago: Rounseville & Co.; later, John J. Moon, 1845-1846]. 11 issues (of 12 published) bound into contemporary half roan and embossed cloth, gilt lettering, 352 pages (plus 48 pages [pp. 49-96] extracted from Godkin’s History of Hungary, 1853 & 3 numbers and front matter for the 1854 American edition of..... More
Washington, D. C. n. p., [ca. 1925]. First edition. Unbound brochure, approx. 5.5 x 3.5 inches, [4] pages. "The purpose of the Susan B. Anthony Foundation is: First, to create and maintain an interest in the Pioneers of woman suffrage and other reform movements which occupied the attention of the..... More
Philadelphia: C. W. Alexander, 1869. First edition in German. 8vo, later cloth spine and marbled boards, [1-4], 21-78 pages (evidently complete; this nearly matches the similarly erratic pagination of the English-language edition). Illus. A fugitive German-language edition of the uncommon sensationalist anti-Catholic tract, Convent Horror; or The true narrative of..... More
New-York: Published by Maria Monk, and Sold by Booksellers Generally, 1836. First edition thus. 12mo, original embossed rose cloth, printed paper label, 376 pages. Folding frontis plan and view of the nunnery. An expanded edition of this best-selling piece of anti-Catholic scurrility, purporting to give a first-hand account of the..... More
New-York: Re-published by Wm. Cobbett, 1800. First American edition. 12mo (6.13 x 3.88 inches), original deep blue paper boards, [i]-vi; [3]-68 pages, untrimmed. “To smother, in dissipation, her passion for Fuseli, Miss W. had fled to France. There she met with a paramour responsive to her sighs, a Mr. Imlay..... More
[Bloomington, Illinois, ca. 2010-2018]. 20 signs on card stock measuring 40 x 28 inches; 20 signs on card stock measuring 28 x 20 inches. Additional signs on foam board, cardboard, and an example on corrugated wax box stock with a wooden handle attached. The signs measuring 40 x 28 generally..... More
Fairhaven, Mass., March 5, 1829. Unlined folio in autograph ink, 13 x 7.75 inches, 1 page. Approx. 140 words. An early instance of primary evidence behind the grassroots political organization of the first third-part populist political movement in the United States, a public here statement signed by 25 men of..... More
New York: Published by Request, 1836. First edition. Original printed pink wrappers, 8.5 x 5.25 inches, 22, [2] pages. “American slavery is a system of fraud, adultery, and murder.” The abolitionist educator here lays out concrete steps that Northern anti-slavery activists might take. Dumond, page 61; American Imprints 33780; Lib..... More
Boston: Printed by Perkins & Marvin, 1840. First edition. Original printed yellow wrappers, 7.5 x 4.75 inches, The longtime New Hampshire abolitionist and clergyman suggests a constitutional solution for slavery does not exist, but that moral persuasion must effectively change the views of those who support slavery—and that while denunciation..... More
Boston: Published by John Marsh, 1830. First edition. 8vo (9.25 x 5.63 inches), original printed blue-green wrappers, 48, 32 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front wrapper, “Philip Caragan [sic] Esqr. With the Respects of the State Anti-Masonic Committee,” with Carrigain’s signature in ink below that and..... More
Fredonia, N.Y. W. B. Archibald, Author and Publisher, 1892. Likely a reissue of the first edition; the publication copyright date is a pasted-on cancel slip. Large 8vo, original black pebbled half cloth, blue cloth sides, printed paper label, 228 pages. Mounted leaf of index key on the title page. A..... More
[Waltham, Mass., ca. 1900-1915?]. Oblong 8vo, quarter calf, pebbled cloth sides, 52 pp. autograph notes on Greek and Roman architectue, 63 pp. autograph notes on mechanical drawing. Illus. throughout (esp. the mechanical drawing lectures), with an additional 14 inserted plates of mechanical drawing examples. The detailed notes on two courses..... More
(Bay City, Michigan: The Aladdin Company, 1920). Stated second edition. 8vo, original decorated red leatherette over flexible boards, 160 pages (including fold-out double page illustrations) plus inserted order leaf. Illus. An early catalog (the first was 1908) from this pioneer in pre-fabricated kit homes. Includes floorplans of the different styles..... More
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[Philadelphia: Starkey & Palen, ca. 1880]. First edition? 16mo, unbound pamphlet, [8] pages. A promotional brochure from one of the better-known home oxygen treatment cures, this with two testimonial letters from temperance author and editor T. S. Arthur, who notes here in a letter dated January 1, 1878, "At that..... More
Paris: Chez Jacques Barois, 1744. First edition. 12mo, contemporary half calf, subdued paste paper boards, xviii, [4], 293, [1], 96 pages. Frontis. An extensive auction catalog from one of the leading Parisian art dealers of the period, this copy priced fairly extensively in an early hand. Besides the paintings, prints..... More
Paris: Aux Librairies Protestantes, 1890. First edition. 16mo, original printed blue wrappers, 78, [1] pages. Small map. Evidently an annual report on the work of the pioneering Protestant asylums founded by Calvinist pastor John Bost in La Force in the Dordogne, which took in abandoned and orphaned children, the mentally..... More
[London: J. Sewell? 1792-1793]. Perhaps first edition of each number. 5 numbers extracted together from a nonce volume, still bound together with traces of calf along the spine, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16 pages. General title lacking, presumably not printed (along with the prelims) until the completion of the first..... More
[Philadelphia? n. p.], October 6, 1842. Printed check measuring approx. 2.13 x 6.13 inches, signed “J. Fenimore Cooper.”. A check perhaps cashed to settle up accounts after Cooper’s return home from an extended stay in Philadelphia, where he had been at work completing his naval novel Wing-and-Wing; or Le Feu-Follet..... More
Boston: James Means, 193 Beacon St. 1913. First edition. 12mo, original self-wrappers, [12] pages. Illus. "Mental automatism in balancing may be illustrated by the experience of the novice learning to ride the bicycle." From this aeronautical pioneer (best remembered for his Aeronautical Annuals, published from 1895 to 1897) comes this..... More
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New York: Captain Thomas S. Baldwin, [ca. 1906]. First edition. Originsl pictorial pink wrappers, scant 6 x 3.25 inches, 16 pages. “I have no secrets, but am anxious to promote and give to the world my knowledge of aeronautics and airshipping. I manufacture and have for sale balloons and airships..... More
Ooroomiah [Urmia, West Azerbaijan, Iran], March 3rd, 1837. 3.5 pages in autograph ink in English on an unlined foolscap folio, 13.75 x 8.75 inches, approx. 850 words, no cover. Docketed in autograph ink, “Letter from Priest Abraham to Prof. Tyler, March 2, 1837.”. “Permit me to inform you, that the..... More
