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London: Grant Richards [New Century Press], [1899-1900]. First edition. 2 vols, 12 unnumbered parts (complete), 8vo (9 x 5.88 inches), full brown crushed pigskin, brown leather spine labels, gilt decorations, a.e.g. General title leaf and contents leaf in each volume, 278, 294 pages, irregularly numbered. Inserted plates. Three sample wrappers..... More
Bolton, (Mass.): Re-Published by Daniel Cooledge, 10th mo. 1807. Evidently a reissue of the sheets of the 1783 American edition. 8vo (8.13 x 5.13 inches), contemporary tooled leather cover mounted over the boards and secured with pasted-down free endpapers, red morocco spine label visible through cut window, [2], vi, 236..... More
Philadelphia: Printed [by Lydia Bailey] for Johnson and Warner, no. 147 Market Street, 1811. First edition thus. 12mo (6 x 3.75 inches), contemporary orange boards, 72 pages. Frontispiece, engraved by B. Tanner after Stothard. A pleasant example of a Johnson and Warner juvenile production and a relatively early work from..... More
[Philadelphia]: (G. W. Morton, 1860) [but 1866?]. First edition? Original printed peach wrappers, 4.38 x 2.88 inches, 64 pages. Woodcut vignette illustrations. “If compelled to mingle in company, their manner is restrained, and impatient of particular attention. They seem to be aware of their peculiarities, and apprehensive of discovery. In..... More
Lancaster: Gedruckt für den Verfasser, von Johann Bär, 1831. First edition. 12mo (7.13 x 4.25 inches), original calf, brown leather spine label, gilt lettering and spine ornaments, 118 pages. A characteristic German-American remedy book, with evidently much in the way of herbal compounds and a few maladies and remedies rendered..... More
Boston: Printed by the Author by J. T. Buckingham, 1806. First edition. Oblong 8vo (5.63 x 8.88 inches), original sheep spine, blue sugar paper over scaleboard, 151, [1] pages. Typographically printed music. Errata slip mounted to the rear pastedown. A lovely and uncommon tune book from the Framingham farmer and..... More
Reading [Penna.]: Gedruckt [bey Carl Augustus Bruckman?] für den Verfasser, 1820. First edition. 12mo (7 x 4.25 inches), contemporary sheep spine, patterned paste paper over pasteboards, 84 pages. The first edition of Hohman’s famed “pow-wow book,” the popular collection of German folk magic and recipes that went through numerous editions..... More
Arcade, N. Y. Pearson, [ca. 1890-1900]. Albumen print on a cabinet photo mount, photographer imprint stamped in silver in the lower margin. An entertaining if contrived portrait of four young men. More
New-York: Printed by Mott & Lyon, for the Author, [1796]. First edition. 12mo (6.38 x 3.88 inches), contemporary acid sheep, morocco spine label, xxxix, [1], 104 pages. “The sure preventive to the pest of love, / Alkali lotions, when emission shoots / The semen forth, let copulation cease, / And..... More
Charleston: Ewd. Perry, Printer, Stationer, and Bookseller, 155 Meeting Street, 1870. 8vo (7.75 x 5 inches), black full sheep presentation binding lettered in gilt, 120 pages interleaved with binder’s blanks through page 57. Frontispiece. Upper board stamped in gilt with the name of Charleston planter McMillan C. King (or perhaps..... More
[N. p.]: In der Europaeischen Curiositaets-Societaet benahmt [benamt] Rarino, 1720. 4to (8 x 6.75 inches) on rough paper, 19th century pebbled cloth spine and marbled boards, autograph label to the upper board, [40] pages. Woodcut ornaments. Evidently a critical account of occult lore for a popular market, published under the..... More
North Hills, Pa. Bird & Bull Press, 1976. First edition. 8vo (9.25 inches), original black quarter morocco, marbled sides, 68, [4] pages. 11 mounted samples of marbled papers, illustrations in the text. Sumner’s account of marbling paper had first been published in 1854; it is here republished with notes and..... More
London: Printed for John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall, 1710. First edition. 8vo (7.25 x 4.25 inches), contemporary Cambridge panelled calf, [16], 319, 332-380, [4] pages. A popular novel from Delariviere Manley, “ostensibly the story of Europe in the time of Charlemagne, but once again a series of scandalous political narratives.... More
Chicago: Tryckt å “Chicago-Bladets” tryckteri, 269 North Market Street, [1878]. First American edition. 8vo (6.88 x 4.88 inches), original red sheep spine, pebbled red boards, 217 pages. With a contemporary stenciled ink ownership note on the front free endpaper, “C. A. Larson, Bishop Hill, Henry Co. Ill’s. Sörbo.” This note..... More
Philadelphia: Published by Anthony Finley, 1834. Hand-colored engraved map on banknote paper, 18.25 x 12.75 inches mounted in a gilt-stamped tooled black calf portfolio meauring 5 x 3 inches. Label advertising Finley’s Map Establishment mounted to the front pastedown. With an inset “Map of the Lead Mine Region” around Joe..... More
Ballymena: J. Camlin, Photographic Artist, 17, Wellington St. (1875). Albumen print measuring 3.75 x 2.38 inches on a slightly larger plain mount, with a few hand-tinted highlights in red ink. Camlin backstamp. Copyright date of 1875 printed in the image. Orange political propaganda: under the legend “the Ballykilbeg Star,” a...... More
Norwich [Conn.]: Printed by R. Hubbard, for the Author, 1813. First edition. 24mo (6.38 x 3.75 inches), original marbled wrappers, 24, [1] pages. Diagrams in the text. Masonic ceremonies for the use of American Lodges, here published by the Connecticut Mason and mathematician Sterry (1761-1817). American Imprints 29867; Sabin 91363..... More
Concord [N. H.]: Printed for Nathaniel K. Hardy, June, 1812. Second edition. Pamphlet restitched into later early drab wrappers, scant 6 x 3.5 inches, 12 pages. “On the 19th of February, at evening, she was in great distress of mind, so that she screamed, not uttering words that could be..... More
Boston: Marden & Co. Printers, 32 Congress Street, 1840. First edition of this occasional report of this early charitable organization. 24mo (6.13 x 3.81 inches), original marbled wrappers, 53 pages. A token of the importance of maritime commerce in New England, a charitable organization founded as an association of sea..... More
Boston: Allen and Ticknor, 1834. First American edition. 8vo (7.63 x 4.88 inches), original rose cloth, 264 pages. Publisher’s spine label neatly removed. Taking together the letters from Combe and Spurzheim to Levison noted in the University of Edinburgh Archives with London directories and English census information, this would most..... More
New York: Fowlers and Wells, Phrenological Cabinet, 131 Nassau Street, 1849. Stated fifth edition. 8vo (7.5 x 4.88 inches), original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt pictorial spine, [1-6], [i]-xii, [19]-312, [4] pages. Illus. A popular physiology on phrenological principles, but also touching on water cure principles, ventilation reform, rational dress, meatless..... More
Brighton: The Brighton Phrenological Institution, [ca. 1907]. First edition. 8vo (8.75 x 5.88 inches), original rose moiré cloth, gilt lettering, [2], [1]-54, [16], 55-64, [2] pages. Illustrations. An attractive standard promotional book for this English phrenological husband and wife team, replete with testimonials, an interview of J. Millott Severn, and..... More
New York: Derby & Jackson, 119 Nassau Street, 1859. First edition. 8vo (7.5 x 5.25 inches), original brown cloth, gilt lettering, 329, [1] pages. Double frontispiece: two lithographic portraits by Sarony inserted before the title page. A popular account of travel among the Acadians of the Maritimes in eastern Canada;..... More
New-York: Published by Harper & Brothers, 1835. First edition. 2 vols, 12mo (7.75 x 4.75 inches), original textured green cloth, gilt lettering, [iv], 337; [iv], 356 pages. “The population of Michigan generally,—as I believe I have before observed,—is much superior to the ordinary settlers of a new country.” Travels through..... More
(Wooster, O. Press of Clipper Printing Co., 1899.). First edition. 8vo (7.75 x 5.38 inches), original green cloth, gilt lettering, 308 pages. Frontis, 13 plates. A sensational murder trial: George Saxton, husband of President William McKinley’s sister, was known as a something of a bounder and a cad; he had..... More
