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 about Remarks of the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas on Kansas, Utah, and the Dred Scott Decision. Delivered at...

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 about Letters from the Illinois, 1820. 1821. Containing an Account of the English Settlement at Albion...

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 about Friderici Nauseae Blancicampiani inclytae ecclesiae Moguntinae ecclesiastis in gloriosissimam...

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 about An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting; with Proper Rules for the Exercise of that...