Germantaun [Germantown]: M. Billmeyer, 1826. Stated eleventh edition. 12mo, original calf spine, decorated paste paper boards, [6], 127, [1] pages. Frontis portrait. Ex-library from the Lebanon County Historical Society, with their neat ink stamp and early autograph ink number to the front free endpaper, but no other evident library marks... More
Germantaun [Germantown]: M. Billmeyer, 1815. Stated tenth edition. 12mo, original calf spine, decorated paste paper boards, [4], 127, [1] pages. Text block edges decorated with red ink. Ex-Lebanon County Historical Society, with their neat ink stamp to the front paste-down and their withdrawn stamp across that. An attractive German-American catechism... More
Germantaun [Germantown]: M. Billmeyer, 1826. Stated eleventh edition. 12mo, original calf spine, decorated paste paper boards, [6], 127, [1] pages. Frontis portrait. An attractive German-American catechism, in characteristically attractive boards. German inscription dated 1838 in the rear endpapers. More
![The Philosophy of Denial [wrapper title; caption title:] The Philosophy of Denial or The Eighth Lesson in Practical Christianity. By Leo Virgo [pseud]. Unity School, Charles Fillmore.](/pictures/thumb/18638.jpg?v=1533832747)
Kansas City, Mo. Unity Tract Society, 1908. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 7.25 x 4.75 inches, 36 pages, wire stitched. An uncommon and fairly early tract from one of the founders of the Unity School of Christianity, something of a hybrid Christian Science-Metaphysical sect that espouses a vegetarian diet, silent... More
New York: Harold P. Brown, (1889). First edition. 8vo, original printed green wrappers (neatly reattached), 61, [1] pages. Illus. The best-known attack on alternating current, the first salvo in the “War of the Currents” between Edison’s direct current system and the Westinghouse alternating current system. (Several deaths in New York... More
![Osteopathy [wrapper title]. Osteopathy, Alternative Medicine, D. O. Joseph H. Sullivan.](/pictures/thumb/18636.jpg?v=1533832747)
Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, Printers, [ca. 1898]. First edition. Original white self-wrappers, 6.5 x 4.5 inches, [32] pages, wire stitched. Illus. Early detailed promotional pamphlet for a Chicago osteopath, who had trained under Still at the Kirksville institute; the pamphlet includes press extracts of addresses delivered by Sullivan in Chicago... More
![Important: This Booklet was written for you. Please read it! [self-wrapper title]. Hormones, Cosmetics, De Kama.](/pictures/thumb/18635.jpg?v=1533833039)
(Hollywood: De Kama Co. 1933). First edition. Self-wrappered pamphlet on blue paper stock, 6 x 3 inches, 11, [1] pages. Illus. “After many years of research and the expenditure of thousands of dollars, De Kama achieved his ORIGINAL ACTIVE GLAND EXTRACT. This extract was not at first used in beauty... More
Boston, n. d. [ca. 1903]. 3 leaves printed rectos only, 11 x 8.38 inches, text in green ink, printed letterhead and testimonials on the first lead in red and blue ink. An entertaining and extensive (likely canned) horoscope that predicts in part, “The profession you should follow is that of... More
(Belleville, Illinois: Printed by B. H. Perryman and H. L. Davidson), 1855. First edition. 8vo, later half calf, marbled boards, gilt lettering, 600, xxiii, [1] pages. Lithograph frontispiece portrait. Perhaps the best firsthand account of the pioneer years of the state from an important early public figure. The imprint information... More
Chicago: Published by S. C. Griggs; New York: Iveson & Phinney, 1854. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt spine, [1-2], [v]-xvii, [1], [19]-447, [1], [8] pages. Includes a detailed contemporary account of the mob attacks on Nauvoo and the death of the prophet. Ante-Fire Imprints 91; Flake, Mormon... More
Chicago, Ill. Keen and Lee; Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1857. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped and gilt-stamped red cloth, 451, [5] pages, all edges marbled. Frontis, two plates. Three inserted folding color maps. Illus. Detailed description of Illinois, intended as a lure and a guide to immigrants. Includes a catalog of... More
Chicago: Clarke and Company; New York: Oakley and Mason, 1867. First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering, 460 pages. Frontis portrait, 14 plates (including maps), illus. in text. Detailed history of the Midwest, with much on conflict between Europeans and Native populations; also includes much detail on contemporary shipping... More
New York: J. S. Redfield, Publisher, 1870. State fifth edition. 8vo, original terra-cotta printed wrappers, 240. [12] pages. “The means used for preventing conception, more particularly affecting women, together with the more bodily injurious, more nervously exhausting and more sinfully demoralizing procedures, for the purpose of destroying and making away... More
![The Ruins Revisited and the World-Story Retold. By an Americainist [sic]. Samuel Frye Walker.](/pictures/thumb/18626.jpg?v=1533231704)
[Lamoni, Iowa: n. p.], (1887). First edition. 8vo, original maroon cloth, gilt lettering, 240 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in pencil on a front blank, “C. P. Frease, from the Author Fry Walker, Aug. 1888.” From the husband of prominent RLDS figure Marietta Walker comes this rather eccentric archeological and... More
New York: J. S. Redfield, Publisher, 1870. First edition. 8vo, original terra-cotta cloth, gilt lettering, 240 pages. “The means used for preventing conception, more particularly affecting women, together with the more bodily injurious, more nervously exhausting and more sinfully demoralizing procedures, for the purpose of destroying and making away with... More
New York: Fowler and Wells, Publishers, 1862. First edition? 8vo, original blind-stamped black cloth, gilt lettering, 276, [2], [4] pages. Also published with the R. T. Trall & Co. imprint bearing the copyright date of 1862, this Fowler & Wells edition perhaps with priority. Per the Atwater catalog, perhaps Trall’s... More
Rochester, N. Y. D. M. Dewey, Publisher, Arcade, 1877. A later printing of a popular manual. Small 8vo, original blind-stamped black cloth, gilt lettering, 128 pages. Illus. On growing fruit, with an addendum on roses. Neat early ink ownership inscription for a Toronto nursery on the front paste-down; blue-pencil inscription... More
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833. First edition or perhaps first American edition (see below). Large 8vo, original quarter rose linen, drab boards, printed paper label, 460, [12] pages, untrimmed. Sabin 74264; Howes R-522: “Above [1833 edition] constituted the first series, covering the years 1817 to 1819. For second [1845]... More
Chicago: Surrealist Editions, (1968). First edition. Original pictorial white wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 64 pages. Illus. Poetry from the Chicago surrealist and sometime collaborator with Paul Garon. More
London: Printed For John Clarke at the Bible, 1724. Stated third edition. 8vo, recent polished quarter calf, brown cloth sides, xlii, 344 pages. Engraved folding table inserted, approx. 16 x 10.5 inches. Cockburn made his fortune curing the diarrhea of the Royal Navy. (He was also Swift’s physician in London.)... More
[N. p. n. p.], (1881). First edition. Original printed blue-gray wrappers, 6.63 x 4.88 inches, 52 pages, stitched. “Beautiful voices abound in America, and I have found some of the best order among people in the highest society, but the emission was frightfully guttural, thus marring the beauty conferred by... More
Pittsburgh: Published by Henry Smith. Printed by Johnston and Stockton, 1833. First American edition. 12mo, original calf, red leather label, gilt lettering, 312 pages. Imaginary dialogues on Biblical history, and a relatively early Pittsburgh imprint. Abraham Clemens noted as the copyright holder; whether this is also the translator is unclear... More
New-York: Published by the Author. G. F. Bunce, Printer, 1831. Second edition. 12mo, original red straight-grained sheep, marbled boards, gilt lettering, 214 pages. Frontis portrait. “I thought it disgraceful to be called an Indian; it was considered as a slur upon an oppressed and scattered nation, and I have often... More
[Chicago: Apyrotropher Publishing and Supply House], 1924. First edition. Original self wrappers, 8.88 x 6 inches, [20] pages. Illus. A wonderful look at alternative living in Roaring Twenties Chicago, essentially an extended advertisement for Drews’s concern: raw foods, sunlight baths, uplifting publications on vegetarian raw diets, food mills, carrot graters... More
Boston: Printed and Published by S. N. Dickinson, [1839]. First edition. 8vo, original self-wrappers stitched, 32, [4] pages, partially unopened. An excellent sensationalist popular almanac, including full page woodcut illustrations of such exciting episodes as “Scenes in a Mad House” (to accompany a likely fictional account of a Boston asylum)... More
