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
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
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
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Halifax. N. S. MacNab and Shaffer, 15 Prince St. 1863. First edition. 8vo (7.5 x 5 inches), original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt lettering, viii, 294 pages. Frontis portrait of the couple. Posthumous memoirs drawn in part from letters and reports of this missionary and native of Prince Edward Island, who..... More
Boston: various publishers, 1783-, 1792. First editions. 5 vols in 1, 8vo (8 x 5.13 inches), contemporary full calf, 21, [3]; 60; 32; 24; 23, [1] pages. The Gospel Considered; and the Manner in which it should be Preached; with an Endeavor to shew from the Scriptures, that Election doth..... More
New-York: Re-published by Wm. Cobbett, 1800. First American edition. 12mo (6.13 x 3.88 inches), original deep blue paper boards, [i]-vi; [3]-68 pages, untrimmed. “To smother, in dissipation, her passion for Fuseli, Miss W. had fled to France. There she met with a paramour responsive to her sighs, a Mr. Imlay..... More
New York: Printed for O. Taylor & Co., 1826. A later edition of this popular herbal materia medica; the first appeared in 1811. Removed unbound pamphlet, 6.63 x 4 inches, 23, [1] pages. A moderately early edition of this popular herbal (it was republished at least through 1842), which owed..... More
Cincinnati: Published by Corey and Fairbank, 1835. First edition. 8vo (7.69 x 5 inches), original ribbed blue cloth, printed orange paper label, [6], [2], 160 pages. “The following lectures, delivered in Boston, in the year 1831, and in Cincinnati, in the year 1833, are now presented for the patronage of..... More
Boston: Published by Crocker & Brewster, 47, Washington Street, New York: J. Leavitt, 182, Broadway, 1829. First American edition. 12mo (8 x 5 inches), original rose cloth spine to an adhered-boards binding, drab boards, printed paper label, [i-iv], [13]-344 pages, untrimmed. Lithograph frontispiece portrait. “This edition of the Memoirs of..... More
Buffalo: Breed, Butler & Co., 1860. First edition. 8vo (7.73 x 5.38 inches), original cloth, gilt lettering, 354, [6] pages. “Ham, you and your descendants will enjoy the poorest portion of the earth. I see it; I see trouble. You will seek to rule, but you will be slaves; for..... More
