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

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

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

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

Philadelphia: Published at 23 N. Second st. [1844]. First edition. Original printed pictorial yellow wrappers, scant 7 x 4 inches, 24 pages. Illus. "Out of the windows of nearly every Native American and Protestant Irishman in the district, hung the American and tri-colored flags. This was regarded as sufficient protection..... More

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

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

[New York]: American Tract Society, [1832]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, 6.75 x 4.25 inches, 8 pages. “Many and awful are the national sins that may have drawn down upon us this visitation. The highest privileges ever granted to a people have been by multitudes neglected and scorned. Obscene impurities, drunkenness..... More

New York: P. S. Wynkoop & Son, 1868. First edition. 8vo, original gilt-stamped green cloth, 53, [1], [4] pages. “Dolby was alive, to begin with.” A satire on Dickens, with much seemingly intended to settle obscure scores on behalf of American literature. With four pages of publisher’s ads in the..... More

[N. p. n. p.], 1789. 8vo, removed, [ii], 29 pages. Small early ink spot to the title. Martin & Walker IV:2, 7690. More

(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

Dover [N. H.]: Published by the Trustees of the F. W. Baptist Printing Establishment, William Burr, Printer, 1846. First edition. 12mo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering, 142, [1], [1] pages. American medical reform here pressed into the service of Free Will Baptist doctrine, with reference to Graham, educator William..... More

N.p., ca. 1895]. 17 pages on 17 leaves, generally 13 x 8 inches (though a few trimmed short, say to six or seven inches long), fastened in one corner with a brad, oages numbered a, 1-16. Two mounted cancellanda slips. Eschatological verse of one view of the prophetic arrival of..... More