Mechanic Falls, Maine: O. C. Bridges, [after 1886]. Scant 5 x 3.75-inch print on a 6.5 x 4.25-inch mount, photographer’s stamp at the foot of the mount. A fine image of a presumed street evangelist, very much in the American grain. Per an 1891 history of Androscoggin County, Bridge took..... More
West Chester, Pa. Printed at the Office of the “Village Record,”, [1845]. Broadside, approx. 12 x 12 inches on laid paper, roughly trimmed. A striking broadside, advertising eight weekly lectures at “the Cabinet” beginning on Thursday the 23rd of January with tickets available at Wm. P. Townsend’s Temperance Hotel, the..... More
[Canton, O. Peter Kaufmann and E. Luft, 1868]. First edition. Broadside, 12.13 x 9.88 inches, printed in two columns in a decorative border. A rare carrier’s address from editor and publisher Kaufmann (1800-1869), was known for his involvement at Harmony and then as a founding member of Teutonia; he later..... More
New York: Pruden & Roberts, Printers, 51 Beekman street, [1855]. First edition. Single leaf printed recto and verso, 13.75 x 7.88 inches. Benton (b. 1808) here advertises his recent relocation of his medical offices from Brooklyn to Manhattan, as well as a series of lectures and demonstrations on the powers..... More
[St. Louis? n. p., ca. 1863-1869?]. Unbound sheet, 12 x 8.75 inches, [4] pages. Woodcut portrait of Cushman signed in the image W. Mackwitz, St. Louis. Promotional newspaper puffing the performances of Le Grand B. Cushman, touted as the first lecturer and humorist to have toured Kansas; there is much..... More
London: Printed by H. Goreham in Fleet-street; and sold by T. Cooper, [1741?]. First edition. 8vo, recent period half calf and marbled boards by Philip Dusel, 40 pages. Engraved frontispiece, “The Murder of Jane Mew, by Hen. Smyth whom she was with Child by.”. A sensationalist and no doubt highly..... More
Eben-Ezer bei Buffalo im St. N.Y. [Die Gemeinde der wahren Inspiration], 1854. First edition. 12mo, original black sheep spine and tips, marbled boards, 244 pages. At the head of the title, “J. J. J.” An uncommon relic of the communal colonies that evolved into the Amana Society in Iowa; the..... More
Mauritius, August 3, 1798. 3 pages on a folded sheet, plus integral address, 12.5 x 8 inches, approx. 480 words. Scandal and affairs of the heart from the remote outposts of American commerce. The American consul to the French colony in the Indian Ocean here writes back to New York..... More
Harrisburg, Pa. n. p., 1843. An early (stated third) edition, but see below. 12mo, original black morocco spine, marbled boards, 84 pages. An early edition of Hohman’s well-known folk magic and remedy book, first published in Reading in 1820 and with scattered Pennsylvania editions following throughout the 1820s and 1830s..... More
Harrisburg, Pa. n. p., 1840. An early (stated third) edition, but see below. 12mo, contemporary sheep spine, patterned paper over boards, 84 pages. An early edition of Hohman’s well-known folk magic and remedy book, first published in Reading in 1820 and with scattered Pennsylvania editions following throughout the 1820s and..... More
Williamsburgh [Mass.]: Printed by Ephraim Whitman, 1817. First edition. 12mo, original tree sheep, brown leather spine label, gilt lettering, iv, 300 pages, all edges sprinkled. The Bard of the Berkshires, Bodman (1766-1850) was perhaps the last great efflorescence of the New England Puritan poets in the lineage of Michael Wigglesworth;..... More
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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
Fayetteville, T. [Tennessee]: Printed for the Cumberland Presbyterian Synod, by E. and J. B. Hill, 1827. First edition. 12mo, original tree calf, black leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 222, [1] pages. An early Tennessee imprint from the important early Cumberland Presbyterian figure and active anti-Mormon agitator in Missouri. By..... More
Reading: Gedruckt für Charles M’Williams, 1820. First American edition? 12mo, original quarter calf and decorated boards, 142 pages. Striking woodcut frontispiece. An interesting work of apocalyptic exegesis, this edition including a striking wood engraved frontispiece of the seven-headed dragon rising from the sea. First published in Germany under Armbrüster’s name..... 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
Mattoon [Illinois]: T. E. Woods, [ca. 1871]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet (stitching evidently renewed), 7.63 x 5.25 inches, [8] pages. Full page woodcut of an unnamed rose variety. OCLC notes two 1871 examples of Montgomery price lists in the Gilbert Seed Catalog Collection at the National Agricultural Library but not..... More
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[Boston]: E. Bailey, 1836. First edition thus. Broadside on white glazed heavy card stock, 6.5 x 4.88 inches. Vignette portrait of Jackson (in spectacles), decorative border, text entirely engraved. A scarce Jacksonian keepsake evidently produced by Ebenezer Bailey, an attractive engraved decorative version of Jackson’s first inaugural address, with a...... More
Lancaster: Gedruckt für den Verfasser, von Johann Bär, 1831. 12mo, original calf, 118 pages. A characteristic German-American remedy book, with evidently much in the way of herbal compounds and a few maladies and remedies rendered in English. With a nice early gift inscription in ink autograph on the front free..... More
Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Merrihew & Gunn, 1837. First edition. 12mo, original rose linen spine, printed drab boards, 84 pages. Poe enthusiast Joseph Jackson was fresh off his triumphant 1920 attribution to Poe of the uncommon pseudonymous anti-Dickens English Notes (Boston, 1842) by “Quarles Quickens,” when, in Jackson’s own..... More
Dedham [Mass.]: Abel D. Allene, Printer, 1817. First edition. Original blue sugar-paper wrappers, 8.38 x 5.5 inches, 22, [2] pages. Williams decries the long custom of a “prevailing inattention and ignorance respecting the proper design and performance of psalmody, the most painful and pernicious abuse and perversion, in this part..... More
Boston: Re-printed by Rogers and Fowle, for J. Edwards in Cornhill, 1746. Removed from an 18th century calf binding (with traces of the calf to the spine), 176 pages. 1746 was an unusually bad year for the “bloody flux” or dysentery in Massachusetts (see both Nash, Historical Sketch of the..... More
New York: Adlard & Saunders, 1838. First edition. Large 8vo, diapered blue-green cloth stamped in blind and gilt, 80 pages. The poet and editor’s first book, known for the line “Woodman, spare that tree!” This copy from the library of clergyman and Transcendentalist Sylvester Judd, with his signature dated 1851..... More
New York: Garret & Company; London: Clarke, Beeton & Company, (1856). First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt lettering, [6], iv, [2], 356, [4] pages. With the spine title, “Tit for Tat A Reply to Dred.” A curious novel of English life and reform, attacking the English response to..... More
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New-York: G. & C. Carvill, and Elam Bliss, 1828. Stated second edition of the first volume. 2 vols in 1, large 8vo, publisher’s rose half cloth, pink boards, printed spine label, 192; [iv], 188 pages. Frontis engraved view of Trenton Falls inserted before vol. 1. “Let then Americans labour to..... More
New York: T. and J. Swords, 1828. First edition. 12mo, original pink linen spine, drab boards, printed paper label, x, 196 pages, untrimmed. An important early American horticultural manual from William Prince the younger, a member of the early nursery family in Flushing. Early institutional bookplate partially removed from the..... More
