N. p., ca. 1820-1830. Autograph ink manuscript (in brown and blue ink) to a pasted-together sheet of heavy unbleached wrapping paper measuring approx. 23.75 x 12.5 inches. Approx. 550 words in two columns. Docketed on the verso, “Lines of [sic] James Bird.” With the name “Daniel” in contemporary ink in..... More
Paris: Chez Bertrandet, An XII, 1803. First edition. 3 vols, 12mo, original rose wrappers, printed paper labels, xvii, 168; [iv], 168; 200 pages, untrimmed. Wrappers reinforced by the printers with printed waste, with extracts from Linnaeus’ Caroli Linnaei botanicorum principis Systema plantarum Europae (perhaps the 1786 edition) in vol. 1;..... More
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, Printers, 1846. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 9 x 5.75 pages, 48 pages. On its face a dispute regarding Adams’ refusal to grant letters of recommendation to Fairchild’s church (with a prefatory statement signed by a church committee) but in large part an attempt by Fairchild..... More
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, Printers, 1829. First edition. Original printed green-gray wrappers (spine reinforced with library cloth tape), 8.75 x 5.38 inches, 119, [1] pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink autograph, “Amos Lawrence Esquire with the respects of D. K. Child” at the head of the title page. “This..... More
Boston: Printed for the Examination and Consideration of the Fellows of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 1873. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, stitched, 9 x 5.75 inches, 60, [1], [3] pages. On the tensions of regularizing medical practice, this collecting detailed pro-homoeopathic testimony from the affected physicians, arguing that the freedom of..... More
Northampton, Mass. Steam Press of Gazette Printing Company, 1876. First edition. Original pictorial wrappers, 8.75 x 5.75 inches, 24 pages. Illus., including a diagram of the cashier’s home. The definitive contemporary account of one the biggest bank robberies in U.S. history. The robbers—who according to witnesses referred to each other..... More
Salem [Mass.]: John W. Archer, 1836. Original printed blue wrappers (stitching renewed), 7.5 x 4.5 inches, 28 pages. The reformer Cheever had been appointed the pastor of Howard Street Congregational Church in Salem in 1833, and “two years later he attained national prominence with his enormously popular temperance tract, Enquire..... More
New York: C. G. Burgoyne, [1899?]. First edition. 8vo, early library coarse full linen, leather spine labels, 1005, [1] pages. Three inserted facsimiles (two folding). The uncommon extensive proceedings (including testimony and exhibits) of an elaborate plan to blackmail the heirs of Jay Gould with claims that Mrs. Cody had..... More
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Boston: Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf [et al.], 1834. First edition. Stitched pamphlet lacking wrappers, 8.88 x 5.38 inches, 80 pages. The notorious privateer and slave trader Pedro Gibert, operating out of Colombia, attacked the Salem brig Mexican off the coast of Florida in 1832 and set the American ship on..... More
[Rutland, Vt. n. p.], 1816. Second edition. Stab-stitched unbound pamphlet (stitching appears renewed at an early date), 7.25 x 4.5 inches, 12 pages, untrimmed. “The subject of the following letters has excited a very considerable degree of curiosity among the inhabitants of this place and its neighborhood; and as various..... More
New-York: Printed by George F. Hopkins, at Washington’s-Head, 1803. First edition. Removed pamphlet, 8.25 x 5 inches, 56 pages. The Anglo-Irish soldier-turned-revolutionary Despard had been the colonial administrator of the British Honduras from 1786 until 1790, when he returned to Britain with his African-Caribbean wife, Catherine; once home, “In pursuit..... More
Concord [N.H.]: Published by Hill and Moore, 1821. First edition. Removed pamphlet (lacks wrappers), 9.25 x 5.75 inches, 72 pages, untrimmed. “Mrs. Ayer had charged Farmer with fathering her child. He beat her to death with a cudgel and tried to burn her house” (McDade). McDade 300; American Imprints 7000..... More
Buckingham: Printed and Sold by J. Seeley, 1804. First edition. Removed pamphlet, 7.94 x 5.13 inches, 132 pages. “The following Trial, with the Papers which accompany it, require no comment from Rear Admiral Berkeley. He has published them with a view of shewing his Brother Officers and the Navy, that..... More
Philadelphia: Published for the Reporter, 1817. First edition. 12mo, modern library glazed buckram, 240 pages. “I attended their meeting in the Northern Liberties once; I believe in December late—Frederick Eberle was chairman, another man was secretary, and Christian L. Mannhardt, speaker. It was begun with a couple of verses that..... More
London: Printed for W. Clark and Sons, Law Booksellers, 1815. First edition of each title. 3 vols in 1, 8vo, bound into ca. 1908 coarse library linen with leather spine labels and a paper shelfmark label, viii, 60; viii, 251, [2]; 107, [1] pages. “In Mr. Donnellan’s Case, it surely..... More
London: Printed for J. Owen, No. 168, Piccadilly; and Symonds, Paternoster Row, 1792. First edition. 8vo, later library coarse linen and red leather spine label lettered in gilt, [2], 23, [1] pages. A trial held in front of Lord Kenyon on July 9, 1792; Rose (a minister of the exchequer..... More
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
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
