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: n. p. 1851. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, stitched as issued, approx. 9 x 6 inches, 19 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink at the head of the title page, "C. C. Cabinet, from the Author. April 25, 1851." "What I propose then, is: that the government of every... More
London: Longman and Co. 1878, First edition. 8vo, original brown cloth over card stock, gilt lettering, [4], viii, 91, [1], 2 pages. From the lawyer and publisher Cox (1809-1879) comes this hybrid mystic-scientific examination of sleep and dreaming. "Cox was also a believer in spiritualism and published his ideas in... More
Philadelphia: n. p., June, 1835. First edition. Broadside, approx. 12.13 x 7.75 inches. “In all the relations of an extensive mercantile business, where as in the City of Philadelphia, is concentrated the trade of a vast extent of country, nothing serves more to impair confidence, and weaken those relations which... More
[N. p., but United States], ca. 1843. Unlined bifolium, approx. 12.25 x 7.5 inches, 4 pages in blue ink autograph. Characteristic of the genre and period: 15 numbered receipts, beginning with a recipe for Oxford sausage, followed by compression of wood to improve the hardiness of axe handles and hammer... More
London: Printed for G. Terry, Bookseller [et al.] . . . Sold also, at Providence Chapel; at Monkwell Street Meeting, every Tuesday Evening; and at Horsleydown, every Thursday Evening, 1792. First edition. 8vo, recent boards with covered with older white paper stock, 103 pages. "Maria has labored hard, I believe... More
Hartford: Printed by J. Gaylord Wells, 1843. First edition thus. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 40 pages. "From this hasty view of the laws of motion, it appears evident that calorific motion is the primary cause of all effects in the material world. There could be no motion without it. 'God... More
Venezia: Antonio Graziosi, 1774. Third Italian edition. 8vo, contemporary vellum spine, sprinkled boards, [2], 164 pages. A nice early Italian edition of this critical work in the pathologization of masturbation. Perhaps an obversation might be made on the spread of a fundamentally Protestant approach to the idea of a “solitary... More
Salem, Mass. [William Cook], January, 1860. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, stitched, [9]-16 pages as issued. Two plates (included in the pagination) of views of Broad Street in Salem, and of the District Schoolhouse in South Danvers, Mass. Another lively and striking example of the self-published and self-printed verses... More
![Just-ass Will o’the Wisp and The Pedestrian [caption title]. Pedestrians, Captain Robert Allardyce Barclay, artist Williams.](/pictures/thumb/17874.jpg?v=1488307466)
Westminster: Printed and Published by G. Smeeton, St. Martin’s Lane, [ca. 1809]. First edition. Broadside, hand colored etching with letterpress dialogue below, approx. 16 x 9.75 inches. A caricature judge as an owl in a judicial wig and green glasses harangues an unnamed “Pedestrian” about his means of support and... More
[Case: Florence, Mass. Littlefield, Parsons & Co. ca. 1855]. Case measures approx. 4.75 x 6 inches. With an ambrotype portrait of a mustachioed man and child. A fine sentimental molded Union case, manufactured by the successors to Critchlow, the design taken from a Currier lithograph after an illustration by Frances... More
Rochester, Mass., September 15, 1732. Single leaf, approx. 12.25 x 7.5 inches, 2 pp. John Clap conveys to Benjamin Clap a tract of upland swamp and salt meadow "known by the name of The Great Neck being the homestead where the sd. Benjamin Clap now liveth." Details of buildings, boundaries... More
N. p., but England, 1863. Lined pocket ledger, approx. 6.25 x 3.75 inches, original plaid wrappers, 13 pages of closely-written manuscript. Chesterfield redivivus: from the first section title, “Good Advice” on down through the final piece of “Advice for Boys,” a remarkable compilation of proverbial gems ranging from “Do not... More
New York: May 26, 1869. 2 pages on a bifolium of 8 x 5 inches, approx. 135 words, the bifolium including on page [3] a printed series of quotations gathered by professional indexer Allibone under the caption title, “Let no Book lack and Alphabetical Index,” touting the value of indices... More
Washington, D. C., January 4 and January 31, 1868. 2 letters: January 4/January 11, 1868 letter, 4 pp. approx. 9.75 x 7.5 inches plus a 1 pp. penciled addendum on lined 8 x 5 inch paper. January 31, 1868 letter: 4 pp., lined bifolium, approx. 8 x 5 inches. Good... More
New York: Chas. Eisenmann, [ca. 1880]. 5.63 x 3.88 inches on a printed mount measuring approx. 6.5 x 4.25 inches. Annotated on the verso in pencil in a contemporary hand, "Shields Bros. Texas Giants. Hight [sic] 7-10 8 8-2 8-2 Weight 274 265 236 304." Shade, Guss, Frank and Jack... More
