Haverhill, Mass. Printed by William B. Allen, for Subscribers, 1809. First edition. 8vo, unbound (old stab holes, stitching perished), 17 pages, untrimmed. An anti-Jefferson and anti-Embargo attack on the Congregational minister Aiken, with much on party factionalism and the questionable merit of a clergyman's support of the heterodox Jefferson. Includes... More about An Answer to the Letter, Addressed by the Rev. Solomon Aiken, of Dracutt, to the Rev. Dr. Spring,...

London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1735. First edition, one of two variants, this with the imprint date corrected from 1725. 8vo, removed, 60 pages. An entertaining and evidently hastily-produced attack on the recently-published anonymous biography of Sir Robert Cochrane, a combative 15th century architect whose rather spectacular rise and fall... More about A Detection of the Falshood [sic Falsehood], Abuse, and Misrepresentations in a Late Libel,...

Boston: American Tract Society, 28 Cornhill, [ca. 1869]. Perhaps a later American edition with a notice on the verso of the title page "Reprinted from the London Religious Tract Society," though the relationship to the American Sunday-School Union work of 1834 with the same title is unclear. 16mo, original purple... More about The Little Story Book

Salem: Printed at the Office of "To-Day," Oct. 31, 1870. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial glazed white wrappers, 15 pages. Pictorial title page, illus. "If you ask the touris why he visits Salem, he will tell you that he has four reasons: to see the old houses, to feel the... More about Old Houses of Salem

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 about A Plain Word, Concerning the Late Circular of the Rt. Rev. Manton Eastburn to the Clergy of...

London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1796. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, [iv] + 90 pages. An extensive look at the state of the two nations' economies, perceived morale, colonial holdings, etc. The author concludes that the "external situation of Great Britain at this moment is unquestionably such, as to justify... More about A View of the Relative State of Great Britain and France, at the Commencement of the Year 1796

St. Louis: Published by B. Herder, 1884. First edition. Small 8vo, original maroon cloth, gilt lettering, 81 pages. Ex-library copy from the Fathers' Library of the Society of the Divine Word in Techny, Illinois, with their occasional ink stamp, circulation pocket on the rear paste-down, and attractice pictorial bookplate on... More about The Future of Foreign-Born Catholics; and Fears and Hopes for the Catholic Church and Schools in...

London: Printed and sold by J. Evans and Son, No. 42, Long-lane, [between 1814-1820]. Likely a later edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, 8 pages. Wood-engraved title page vignette of a woman leaning out of a window with flames burning around her and a ladder just out of reach. With the additional... More about Some Account of the Great Fire, Which has already destroyed so much, and is Now Burning; With...

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut Streeet, [after 1857, likely ca. 1857-1865?]. A later printing. 16mo, original pictorial wrappers, approx. 4.13 x 2.75 inches, 16 pages. Illus. "'O my child,' said her mother, 'because you have told a lie; a wicked lie. Do you know that God cannot love you... More about The First Lie. Written for the Am. S. S. U. and Revised by the Committee of Publication

In 's Graven-Hage [The Hague]: D. H. van Walldorp [i.e. Antwerp: H. Verdussen], 1650. First edition. Small 4to, removed, 24 pages. Title-page device. The imprint supplied by Knuttel, per STCN. A moderately complicated political pamphlet during the turmoil prior to the death of William II, of interest perhaps for the... More about Extract eens briefs uyt Vlissingen, Inhoudende een Roef-Praatje, t'scheep voor-gevallen,...

[N. p. n. p.], 1789. 8vo, removed, [ii], 29 pages. Small early ink spot to the title. Martin & Walker IV:2, 7690. More about Injustice des Pretensions de Clergé et de la Noblesse

(Boston: n. p., 1857). First edition. 8vo, unbound pamphlet removed from a nonce volume, 12 pages. A lively, vituperative and uncommon attack on the financial policies that led to the Panic of 1857, with much in the way of sectional attacks on the South. Includes flings against former Mississippi senator... More about A Few Thoughts on the Hard Times by an Observer [caption title

Philadelphia: Henry H. Porter, Publisher, 1832. First edition. 8vo, original purple linen spine (sunned), blue-green boards, large printed orange label to the upper board, 4, 80 pages. “A man of business walks about in wet streets, and amid showers of rain, with impunity—protected as he is by thick-soled boots or... More about An Account of the Origin, Symptoms, and Cure of the Influenza or Epidemic Catarrh; with some...