Newark, N. J.?, ca. early 1840s? Sixth plate image in a leather case with a subdued pebbled octagon mat and no preserver (case lacks upper cover). With a small ink autograph slip inserted into the case, “Brother Frankie died with Croup Newark, N. J.”. More
Nyköping: Tryckt hos Petter Winge, 1797. First edition. Small 8vo, contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards, [2], 150, [2] pages. An uncommon handy medical remedy book from the Swedish clergyman-physician Segerstedt (1763-1815). OCLC locates a single copy, at the Swedish National Library (and two locations for an 1809 edition; NUC notes... More
New York: May 26, 1869. 2 pages on a bifolium of 8 x 5 inches, approx. 135 words, the bifolium including on page [3] a printed series of quotations gathered by professional indexer Allibone under the caption title, “Let no Book lack and Alphabetical Index,” touting the value of indices... More
Carlisle, Pa. Printed at the Carlise Herald Office, 1856. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 16 pages. “Let us, my friends, ever deprecate the horrid monster of domestic strife or civil war—worse in its prosecution and results than foreign war—and patriotically avoid whatever would tend to produce it.” Largely a.... More
Stockholm: Tryckt hos P.A. Norstedt & söner, med stående styl, 1827. 12mo, contemporary (original?) calf, each board fully stamped with an elaborate pictorial motif of Moses with the tablets and a cloud overhead, amid a border of leaves and mottos (with traces of gilt to the upper board), [8], 421... More
Lima: Imp. de “El Nacional,” Melchomalo, 139, 1869. First edition. 8vo, original printed peach wrappers, 47 pages. Folding plate bound in the rear. An uncommon detailed contemporary review of the Austrian science writer Rudolf Falb’s 1869 lunisolar flood theory of earthquakes (since discredited) from a locale with good reason to... More
![Praktische Anleitung auf eine neue, von anderen abweichende Manier einfachen, conzentrierten und Doppel-Essig in wenigen Stunden nach der Schnellbereitungsmethode, eben so auch fuselfreyen Kartoffel- und anderen Branntwein mittelst einer neuen wohlfeilen Einrichtung, dann Hefen, Liquere und Würzen zu bereiten . . . von August Clauer, practischem Essig-Fabrikanten und Brantweinbrenner [sic]. Strong Drink, August Clauer.](/pictures/thumb/18116.jpg?v=1502828957)
Heilbronn: T. D. Classische Buchhandlung, 1834. First edition. 8vo, somewhat later blue wrappers, iv, 68 pages, untrimmed. Large folding plate (which includes six lithographic illustrations—the “6 Steinzeichnungen” noted on the title page) tipped in the rear. A method of making concentrated vinegars and brandies from this “practical vinegar manufacturer and... More
Groton Junction [Mass.] and Boston, 17th Nov. [before 1871]. 4-page bifolium, autograph ink in Stuart’s hand, 7.83 x 5.13 inches, approx. 500 words. “Enclosed you will find what Mrs Bruce said this day respecting your disease. I taking note [sic] at the time for she was in trance while speaking... More
Vetero-Pragae [Prague]: Typis Wolffgangi Wickhart, 1716. First edition. 8vo, contemporary calf with clasps, [32], 832 pages, spine fully hand-painted with author and short-title in black, with a decorative motif in red and green on a white field. A moderately uncommon key to ritual from this Archepiscopal Vicar, in German and... More
![de Laurence’s “Secret Hindu Method of Hypnotizing.” Prepared for the exclusive use of de Laurence’s Chelas (Disciples) in Hypnotism and East Indian Occultism . . . [caption title]. Hypnotism, Lauren William, de Laurence.](/pictures/thumb/18108.jpg?v=1502828955)
(Chicago: The de Laurence Co., 179 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago 1, Illinois), [ca. 1940s]. First edition? Unbound pamphlet, approx. 7.5 x 8 inches, [4] pages. Illus. “And why, and how, have the Hindus, who are the greatest and most subtle of the Aryan races, developed such marvelous Spiritual and Occult... More
![Grimalkin, and Little Fido. [Bound with, as published:] Charles’ Journey to France and Other Tales. By Mrs. Barbauld. Anna Letitia Barbauld,](/pictures/thumb/18104.jpg?v=1502225690)
Worcester [Mass.]: Edward Livermore, 1847. First Livermore edition of each title. 12mo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth, 72, 72 pages. Illus. Published here in the series “Uncle Thomas’ Stories for Good Children,” an early series from the Worcester publisher Livermore (who had the book printed by Merriam & Mirick in Greenfield... More
Lexington (K.): Published by Joseph Charless. Printed by John W. Scott, Philadelphia, 1804. One of two evident Charless editions published in 1804 (see below). 12mo, original calf, red morocco label, gilt rules and lettering, 287 pages. Per the Imprints Inventory (Kentucky) 218, this title was also published with the imprint... More
Lexington [Kentucky]: Printed and Published by T. T. Skillman, 1815. First Lexington edition. 12mo, original calf, brown leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 308 pages. A nice imprint for one of the great missionary accounts, the posthumous memoirs of this first-wave missionary to India. The Dwight sermon has a separate... More
![The Language and Symbology of Digital Computers. [Wrapper title: The Language and Symbology of Digital Computer Systems.]. Dictionaries, Information Sciences, RCA Service Company.](/pictures/thumb/18101.jpg?v=1501103015)
Camden, New Jersey: Prepared for Air Force Cambridge Research Center, May, 1958. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, v, [1], 114 pages. Evidently the first edition, prior to the edition published in 1959, prepared under an Air Force research contract. See Cortada, Second Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computing... More
![Autobiography of Rev. George Donnocker, the Blind Preacher. Written Entirely from Memory. Bear Lake, Penn. [wrapper title]. Disability, Free Will Baptist, Rev. George Donnocker.](/pictures/thumb/18100.jpg?v=1502828955)
(Jamestown, N. Y. Press of Chas. M. Brown, 1891). First edition. 12mo, original printed peach wrappers, 18 pages. Born in Germany a Lutheran in 1825, struck in the face with a broom by a drunkard at age five, family arrives in Buffalo in time for a cholera outbreak, settles in... More
[Cincinnati?:]: (Bantu Press, 1975). First edition of the African American poet's first book. 8vo, original pictorial glazed white wrappers, 20 pages. Illus. OCLC notes four locations. More
Boston: Charles Crocker, Printer, 1823. First edition. 12mo, contemporary gilt-tooled calf, [384] pages. A schismatic hymnal, published the year Paul Dean (ecumenical, Trinitarian, embroiled with Hosea Ballou in Restorationist controversies) separated from the First Universalist Society in Boston and began building the Central Universalist church on Bulfinch Street. This characteristically... More
![“Got a Bite.” [Novelty carte de visite (CDV) photo.]. Angling, Risqué.](/pictures/thumb/18094.jpg?v=1502828954)
Boston: [publisher illegible], 1864. First edition. Original photograph from a drawing, approx. 3.5 x 2.38 inches on a slightly larger printed mount. A lively and moderately salacious CDV image of a woman angler who has caught her skirt on her back-cast, exposing her stockinged legs. The imprint on the mount... More
Foreston, Illinois: Published by J. M. Stevenson and H. Collings, 1859. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 124 pages. Printed by Henry R. Boss, Book and Job Printer, at the Advertiser Office in Polo, Illinois. An uncommon Ogle County imprint and Adventist-related publication, evangelism and debate from the early... More
Amsterdam: Chez Marc-Michel Rey, Librarie, 1778. Third Rey edition. 12mo, contemporary calf, gilt spine, red morocco label, gilt lettering, xxii, [2], 179 pages. “Elle commence par un délire mélancolique, dont on trouve la cause dans le vice de la matrice [i.e., the womb]; ensuite elle se tourne en délire maniaque... More
Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1835. First edition. 12mo, original rose cloth, gilt lettering, 130 pages. Frontis., illus. A relatively early attempt at a concise popular summary of the science of phrenology. With an attractive and unusual frontispiece view of the phrenological bust, done in white on a black background... More
Stonington Port, Connecticut: Printed by Samuel Trumbull, 1800. First Stonington Port edition. 12mo, contemporary (likely original) calf, 144 pages gathered in alternating twos and fours. Verses from the English Quaker and father of the creator of the modern chocolate bar, J. S. Fry, and a nice example of a Stonington... More
New York: American Bible Society, 1859. 8vo, publisher’s elaborately embossed brown leather, gilt lettering, 112 pages. A lovely example of an American embossed publisher’s calf binding, the Pica Octavo edition of the Testaments, and just a little too late for Wolf’s From Gothic Windows to Peacocks. Early ink and pencil... More
Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1858. First edition. 12mo, original gilt-stamped red morocco, 538 pages, a.e.g. Two folding charts (diagrams of the Assembly Chamber and the Senate Chamber) tipped in. Everything a legislator needs to know, from Agricultural Society, Officers of, to Villages, General provisions for erecting. The real attraction... More
[Los Angeles and New York?]: The Film Daily, 1934. First edition of this annual publication. 8vo, original gilt cloth spine, coated paper pictorial boards, 368 pages on coated paper. Extensively illustrated. The annual trade guide to motion picture professionals, with numerous ads and directories for production and talent, all done... More
