Lisbon: Publicações Europa-América, (1952). First edition. Original pictorial wrappers, 8.25 x 6 inches, 184, [5], [1] pages, unopened. Illus. Mounted errata slip. A presentation copy, inscribed in blue ink to the polar explorer, “Para o Exmo. Sr. Richard Evelyn Byrd, com os meus respeitosos cumprimentos e o maoir respeito. H.... More
Huntingdon, Pa., July 10, 1879. 1 page, letterhead in green and pink, 9 x 5.5 inches, approx. 45 words. What this country needs is a good machine to punch holes in sermons for tape binding—or such anyway is what Robinson seeks from an unnamed correspondent, preferably one able to do... More
(New York: Chas. Eisenmann), [ca. 1870?]. Albumen photograph measures approx. 3.5 x 2.25 inches, flowers highlighted by hand in pink ink, gilt border on a slightly larger mount. Eisenmann imprint in gilt on the verso. An attractive sideshow studio portrait of a popular Barnum attraction, sold under the Eisenmann name... More
Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliot, 1837. Stated second edition. 12mo, original embossed purple cloth, printed green label to the upper board, xi, [1], 328 pages. Includes brief descriptions of the mounds and Native American antiquities of Illinois. Per Byrd 191 (describing the 1834 Jacksonville, Ill., first edition): “Much of the information... More
Printed at Dublin. London: Reprinted [by William Bowyer] and sold by A. Moor, 1729. First collected edition. 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt rules, red morocco label, gilt lettering, [6], 217, [1] pages. “Tear out the Tale, and wipe your A---, / I know you love to act a Farce.” Satirical Dublin... More
![Patriotic Poems [wrapper title]. May Margaretta Duffee.](/images/noimage.png)
(Washington Court House, Ohio: Old Reliable Book Co., 1942). First edition. Original pictorial stiff white wrappers, 5.75 x 4 inches, [24] pages. A late work from the famed Sweet Singer of Fayette County, Ohio, with much here in the way of doggerel calculated to stir martial ardor and/or address the... More
![[Pocket map:] Vermont. Vermont, publisher Anthony Finley.](/pictures/thumb/18730.jpg?v=1539033072)
Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1831. First edition. Original tooled sheep portfolio, gilt lettering, mounted publisher’s label to the inside front cover, 3.5 x 2.25 inches. Hand-colored map of Vermont measures 11 x 8.63 inches. An attractive pocket map from the Philadelphia map and atlas publisher, dated on the label Philadelphia, 1831. More
Portland [Maine]: Bailey & Noyes, [not before 1860?]. A later edition. 16mo, original pictorial wrappers, 3.63 x 2.37 inches, 16 pages. Illus. Originally published in Concord, N. H. in 1831 and reissued often as a Concord Picture Books. AAS notes, “According to extant directories, Bailey & Noyes published in Portland... More
Wooster, Ohio: G. S. Schmutz Print, 1902. First edition. Original gilt-printed blue stiff wrappers, scant 6 x 4.5 inches, [12] pages. Evidently the only published book from this Wooster sweet swinger, Elizabeth A. Lusk (1825-10/13/1902), who notes at the foot of the text here, “I have manuscript music to the... More
![Manners and Customs [self-wrapper title]. Children’s Books, Wilcox, publishers Brown.](/pictures/thumb/18727.jpg?v=1539090517)
Newport, N. H. Wilcox & Brown, 1835. 24mo, original pictorial self-wrappers, 3.75 x 2.25 inches, [12] pages. Illus. Various issues of chapbooks and primers appeared under this title (with various or varied contents) and under different publisher’s imprints, including White & Wilcox (in Vermont) and John Wilcox in Newport in... More
![Substantial autograph letter fragment, signed, to Reuben Shattock [i.e., Shattuck], then serving at the siege of Boston during the American Revolutionary War. American Revolution, Cephas Sheldon.](/pictures/thumb/18724.jpg?v=1539033071)
Barnardston [i.e., Bernardston, Franklin County, Mass.]: Sept. 8th, [1775]. Single leaf, 12.5 x 7.63 inches, approx. 240 words. With the integral address to Reuben Shattock, “Cambredg under Capt. Wells,” Col. Whitcomb’s regiment. A primary text conveying the patriotic sense of Providence in the earliest days of the Revolutionary War in... More
Buffalo: Courier Co., Show Printers, (1890). First Buffalo edition. Original color chromolithograph wrappers, 8.88 x 6.13 inches, [19], [1] pages. Fold-out color lithograph frontispiece, approx. 24 inches long. Ads printed on the interior wrappers. A wonderful example of a souvenir booklet promoting one of the Kiralfy brothers’ spectacular tableaux, this... More
[Boston: n. p., 1941]. First edition. White card stock printed in red and blue ink, 3.5 x 5.5 inches. The speakers advertised on this attractive ticket include Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, Maury Maverick of Texas, and the detective author (and vocal Roosevelt supporter) Rex Stout. The Boston Glove of... More
Philadelphia: Published by Kimber & Conrad, [1812?]. First edition. Original stiff unprinted yellow wrappers, 5.75 x 2.63 inches, [24] pages. Illus. with woodcuts throughout. A curious compendium of woodcut vignettes, assembled seemingly at random (Welch notes a few seem reworked from an 1810 Hosford Robinson Crusoe) and captioned as though... More
![Karmenia; or, What the Spirit Told Me. “Truth Stranger than Fiction.” A Series of Short Occult Stories, Real Experiences During the Life of a Man 72 Years of Age, Garnished in the Clothes of Fiction. [Bound with, as published:] The Cosmos . . Spiritualism, Lyman E. Stowe.](/pictures/thumb/18718.jpg?v=1537892632)
Detroit: Lyman E. Stowe, 1915. First edition. 8vo, original gray cloth over limp boards, black lettering, 253, [1], 55, [3], 10 pages (including ads and testimonials for Stowe’s works). Extensively illus. “So common was it for men to have presentiments of their own death, that nearly every old soldier can... More
Chicago: Printed by R. L. Wilson, Daily Journal Office, 1847. First edition. 8vo, bound without wrappers into later blue cloth, 79 pages. Contemporary manuscript contents leaf bound in after the title page. “Mr. Lincoln, being called upon addressed the Convention briefly.” The uncommon proceedings of a national meeting in Chicago... More
Boston: n. p., 1876. First edition. Large 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 391 pages. Frontis. “The following revelations of the second advent of Jesus, the Saviour of man, give a statement of his labors among the spirits of the dark sphere, where order has been established [etc. etc.]... More
Philadelphia: Printed by William Young, No. 52, Second Street, 1794. Second Philadelphia edition in English; a London edition appeared in 1793. 12mo, 19th century half calf, marbled boards, black morocco label, gilt lettering, 96 pages. A popular work meant to demonstrate the divinely foretold and anti-Papal origins of the French... More
![Nonce volume of material relating to the Roupell case: The Great Forgeries of William Roupell, Late M. P. for Lambeth. Official Report of the Trial at Guildford, in the Case of Roupell v. Waite . . . from the shorthand notes of Mr. G. Blagrave Snell. London: G. Vickers, 1862. [With:] 98 pages of pasted-in newspaper accounts of the Roupell trials. [With:] A Friend of the Family [pseud]. A Public Protest Against the Severe Sentence passed upon Mr. Roupell, the Forger . . . with an account of his Private Life from the Cradle to his Father’s Death, Revealing Great Secrets of his Crimes. . . . His Fate was Sealed from Birth! [London]: Published by G. Abington, [ca. 1863]. [With:] 4 pages of supplemental pasted-in newspaper accounts. Forgery, William Roupell, G. Blagrave Snell.](/pictures/thumb/18711.jpg?v=1537892629)
First edition of each title. 2 volumes, 8vo, bound with leaves from an extracted scrapbook, 19th century full linen, leather spine labels, gilt lettering, 117, [2] (Great Forgeries) & 16 pages (Public Protest). Frontis portrait to Great Forgeries. The illegitimate son of a prosperous scrap metal dealer, Roupell (1831-1909) evidently... More
A Londres [i.e., Paris?]: n. p., 1786. First edition. 8vo, contemporary sheep, gilt spine, xxii, 255. The author’s case study of a magnetic treatment of a woman (for headaches, etc.) and her episodes of slipping into a trance state under treatment; Tardy de Montravel attempts in part to explain accounts... More
Boston: Published by Bradford & Read, 1815. First American edition. 8vo, original tree calf, red morocco label, gilt rules and lettering, 442, [2] pages. The detailed clinical descriptions of fevers from the Scottish physician and moderate eccentric (see the DNB), here with corrections for the American edition. Nice early book... More
Various places: various publishers, ca. 1941-1970. Black leatherette file binder decorated with clear-taped bits clipped from the Landon Foundation Brain Magic program, approx. 11.25 x 9.25 inches. 35 items of various paginations and configurations. The raw materials of any number of Lieblingesque promoters, ranging from personality tests and courses to... More
London: F. Pitman; Birmingham: Robert Roberts, 1876. First edition. Original printed glazed yellow wrappers, 9.5 x 6 inches, [2], viii, 161, [1], [1] pages. An extensive debate between the Free Thought reformer Bradlaugh and the Christadelphian Roberts, who rather puts his thumb on the scale in the conclusion. (Though in... More
Paris: Chez Jacques Barois, 1744. First edition. 12mo, contemporary half calf, subdued paste paper boards, xviii, [4], 293, [1], 96 pages. Frontis. An extensive auction catalog from one of the leading Parisian art dealers of the period, this copy priced fairly extensively in an early hand. Besides the paintings, prints... More
New York: Knickerbocker Press, (1895). First edition. 12mo, original tan cloth, black lettering, ix, [1], 79 pages. Frontis, four plates, illus. Folding map. A late work from the Maine historian—petroglyphs as possible evidence of Phoenicians in Maine, plus the evidences of oyster middens in Lincoln County, Thorvald’s death in battle... More
