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Skippacksville, Pa. gedruckt bei A. Puwelle, 1837. 12mo, contemporary black calf spine, marbled boards, 123, [1] pages. An early edition of Hohman’s well-known folk magic and remedy book, first published in Reading in 1820, this edition predating the English translation. This copy includes the evidence of a contemporary ink autograph..... More
Harrisburg, Pa. Gedruckt und zu haben bey Gustav S. Peters, 1832. A later edition. 12mo, original black sheep spine, decorated paper boards, 58 pages. Illus. One of the great visual works of Protestant religious persuasion, derived from an 1812 German adaptation of an earlier emblem book, and which appeared in..... More
Harrisburg, Pa. Gedruckt und zu haben bey G. S. Peters, [ca. 1835-1839?]. Original printed pictorial glazed orange wrappers, 5.88 x 3.5 inches, 16 leaves printed on one side only. Fifteen color-printed illustrations. A nice copy of an early edition of the Peters edition of the Joseph story (the first evidently..... More
Firenze [Florence]: Per Gaetano Cambiai Stamp. Granducale, 1779. First edition in Italian of Cavallo’s first book. 8vo, contemporary decorated paper boards, backed with contrasting block-printed paper and an autograph spine label, xx, 511, [1] pages, untrimmed. From this Italian-born English physicist, the Italian translation of a work first published in..... More
[Nice? Monte Carlo?], n. d., but ca. 1920s. 2 pages on a single leaf of blue stock, 10.5 x 8.25 inches, approx. 145 words. A breezy letter redolent of fashionable Bohemian wealth living slightly beyond her own means, a presumably English woman on the Riviera thanking one Sir James for..... 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
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
[N. p. n. p., 1840]. Colored lithograph portrait of Van Buren, approx. 5 x 3 inches plus moveable printed tab. A handsome moveable piece of political ephemera: a smiling Van Buren holds a cup that, when captioned “A beautiful goblet of White-House champagne,” bears the initials “M.V.B.” Upon sliding the..... More
[N. p., but New Hampshire, February, 1834]. Stitched fascicle with one inserted leaf laid in, approx. 10 x 8.5 inches, 20 pages of text. Approx. 6000 words, with corrections, deletions, and additions. “An old gentleman in my immediate neighbourhood was for years habitually intemperate. He was troubled with liver complaint..... More
