Chicago: Printed at the Daily Times Book and Job Office, 1857. First Chicago edition. Original self-wrappers, 10.25 x 6 inches, 15 pages, untrimmed. Unopened. Per Byrd, "This speech was the first public expression of his views on the Dred Scott decision. In it he accepted the decision and insisted that..... More
Paris: Aux Frais de l’Auteur, 1857. Second edition under this title; the first appeared in 1840. 8vo, contemporary pebbled morocco gilt spine, green vellum tips, marbled boards, 259, [1] pages. Lithographic frontispiece portrait. On solving substitution ciphers, with tables of frequency for letters in different languages, lists of words of..... More
London: Printed for James Ridgway, 1822. First edition. 8vo, original blue sugar paper wrappers, [i]-xi, [1], [9]-76 pages, untrimmed. A particularly nice copy in the original condition, published after Flower’s split with Birkbeck, letters touting the myriad benefits of his Albion settlement in southern Illinois even as enthusiasm over the..... 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
Koln: Peter Quentel, 1529. First edition of each title. 2 vols in 1, recent quarter parchment and linen boards, [28], 167, [1], 63, [1] pages; [66] leaves. Woodcut Schoeffer device in the colophon of the first title. Woodcut armorial device to the title page of the Ferber. Two works from..... More
New-England: Printed for the Publishers, 1821. 12mo, original sheep, red leather label, gilt lettering, 286 pages. Woodcut illus. (monstrosities, fetus in the womb) in the text. “Neither should these amorous engagements be too often reiterated, till the conception be confirmed; and even then the bridegroom should remember, that it is..... More
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1757. Second edition. 8vo, original polished calf, red leather label, gilt lettering, [1-2], [i]-iii, [1], 233-234, [1]-232 pages. Frontispiece of a cat tormenting a mouse. “Must not this love of Tormenting therefore be cultivated and cherished? There are many tastes, as that of the olive..... More
