Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Charles Dillingham, 1883. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (retaining the front wrapper), 38 pages. "The classic tongues were far more remote from our world than they had been from the world our fathers lived in. They are much more remote from the world of..... More
Baltimore: Published by D. Brunner, Woods & Crane, Printers, 1844. First edition. "Let a whole people go to utter destruction; but, for heaven's sake, do not interfere, on any account, with a gambling, avaricious, profligate, cock-gihting priesthood!" In large part an anti-Catholic pamphlet and one piece of a small but..... More
Saco [Maine]: Printed for the Author, by William J. Condon, 1832. First edition. 12mo, original plain drab wrappers, stitched, 80 pages. "It is therefor principally by a careful perusal of the scriptures, that I have been led to renounce the horrid, gloomy, soul-chilling doctrine of eternal torments in a future..... More
Boston: Gray and Bowen; Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown, 1831. First edition. 12mo, original deep purple muslin spine, drab boards, printed paper spine label, viii, 175, [1] pages. Nice early orange book ticket for bookseller C. Whipple, Newburyport, on the front paste-down, with a small later Newburyport ownership label mounted just..... More
Washington, D.C. [n. p.], 1896. First edition. 8vo, unbound, 16 pages. Arguing against the free coinage of silver, with reference to redemption of treasury bonds. More
New-York: Published by G. & C. Carvill, 1828. Third edition. 12mo, contemporary black half morocco, gilt spine, 403 pages. 19 maps (including one double-leaf map) and 11 plates. A detailed guide of a nation in transition, this revised and expanded guide includes a moderately lengthy account of the Mauch Chunk..... More
Springfield: Published by G. and C. Merriam, 1835. Stated second edition. 12mo, original diaper grain purple cloth, gilt lettering, 212, [4] pages. Frontis. A fairly progressive and reform-minded guide to early childhood education, including hints on sports, exercise, and educational toys. Evidently expanded over the 199-page edition of 1834. American..... More
Philadelphia: n. p., 1853. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, contemporary (original?) blue paper spine reinforcement, 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 20 pages. “We visited the house of an astrologer in Small Street, below Seventh. ‘Crazy Nancy’ is the soubriquet borne by an old Negro woman who professes to ‘read the stars,’ and..... More
New-York: Press of Mahlon Day & Co., 1843. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 8.37 x 5.25 inches, 34 pages. “We would remark in the first place, that the Indians who have been removed from the east to the west side of the Mississippi River, appear to be in an unsettled..... More
Sandy-Hill, Washington Co., N.Y. Printed at the Sun Office, May, 1827. One of two editions published in 1827, the other an Albany imprint. 8vo, removed pamphlet , 34 pages. An attractive title page and a curious imprint. Sandy Hill, New York changed its name in 1910 to Hudson Falls; the..... More
