Boston: Rowe & Hooper, 1816. First edition. 8vo, contemporary calf, tan morocco spine label, gilt rules and lettering, 271, [1] pages. From a Methodist itinerant and intimate of Lorenzo Dow comes this New England novel of manners, partially epistolary. (With such characters and Jack Upstart and Tim Ignoramus appearing in..... More
Boston: Printed by Perkins & Marvin, 1840. First edition. Original printed yellow wrappers, 7.5 x 4.75 inches, The longtime New Hampshire abolitionist and clergyman suggests a constitutional solution for slavery does not exist, but that moral persuasion must effectively change the views of those who support slavery—and that while denunciation..... More
Philadelphia: Published [by Henry Porter] at No. 108 Chesnut Street [vol. 1; vol. 2:] Literary Rooms, No. 121 Chesnut Street, Office of the Journal of Health, Family Library of Health, &c. 1830-1832. First edition. 3 vols, 8vo (8.68 x 5.38 inches), vols. 1-2 in contemporary full calf with gilt lettering..... More
Boston: Marden & Co. Printers, 32 Congress Street, 1840. First edition of this occasional report of this early charitable organization. 24mo (6.13 x 3.81 inches), original marbled wrappers, 53 pages. A token of the importance of maritime commerce in New England, a charitable organization founded as an association of sea..... More
[Upstate New York]: Published by the Author, 1838. First edition. Large 8vo, original diaper grain blue cloth, brown morocco label, gilt lettering, 456, [1] pages. Copyright notice for the Northern District of the State of New York, under Merryweather’s name. Something of a black book of English royal crimes (the..... More
![Item #16459 A New Greenback Paper! The New Era, Portland, Me. . . . [caption title]. Greenback Party](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16459.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1465913986)
[Portland, Me.? New Era Publishing Co., 1878]. First edition. Broadside handbill, approx. 8.25 x 5 inches. "In politics the New Era is devoted to the interests of the new National Greenback Party, and the restoration of business and prosperity throughout our land. This paper does not believe that people who..... More
Peoria, Illinois: Published by the Author, 1910. First edition. 12mo, original green cloth, [viii], [11]-161 pages. "While it was his purpose to discredit the supernatural origin of religions in general and of Christianity in particular, the author feels that in doing so, he has done no injury to the cause..... 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
Philadelphia: Printed by William F. Geddes, August 1, 1832. Stated third edition. Original printed orange wrappers, 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 28, [4] pages. Matthew Carey’s defense of Jackson’s position against South Carolina and the ordinance of nullification. Carey seems to have had various editions of this example of his political..... More
New York: Fowler & Wells Co., 1884. Stated fourth edition. Original printed drab wrappers, 7.25 x 4.88 inches, 34, [10] pages, wire stitched. First published by the phrenological and health reform house Fowler & Wells in 1881, essentially an extended advertisement for the Health Food Company of New York—which appears..... More
Koln: Peter Quentel, 1529. First edition of each title. 2 vols in 1, recent quarter parchment and linen boards, [28], 167, [1], 63, [1] pages; [66] leaves. Woodcut Schoeffer device in the colophon of the first title. Woodcut armorial device to the title page of the Ferber. Two works from..... More
Buffalo: Wanzer, McKim, 1856. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped blue-green cloth, gilt spine, 300, 12, 48 pages. Frontis, five plates by Frederick M. Coffin. A satirical novel that pokes fun at abolitionists and suffragettes, with digressive attacks on progressive authors, spiritualists and domestic upheaval of all stripes. Wright II, 2020..... More
Detroit: Tribune Book and Job Establishment, 1869. Third edition? 8vo, original printed rose wrappers, 11 pages. An argument at length from this Detroit resident that export duties on cotton will allow the United States to redeem currency with specie payments; this will also allow for eventual abolition of other duties..... More
![Item #19885 The Closet. Vol. I, No. I [to Vol. II, nos. 11-12]. David Slie](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/19885.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1603909269)
Le Roy, Genesee County, N.Y. [followed by] Rochester, N. Y. David Slie, October 15, 1845 to September & October, 1847. First edition. Contemporary sheep spine (scant evidence of a black leather label now lacking), marbled boards, 9 x 6.13 inches, 240 pages. (Includes two leaves of Index, but seemingly no..... More
New-York: Lambert & Lane, Stationers and Printers, 1850. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 36 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink at the head of the front wrapper, "Editor Evening Post With Respects of the Author." From the Presbyterian Spear, a detailed and compelling argument against the Fugitive Slave..... More
Cincinnati: Printed by Kendall & Henry, 1841. First edition. 8vo, contemporary (original?) full purple muslin, 123, [1] pages. Brief reforming essays on popular education from an important early Ohio historian and writer and active citizen, perhaps best remembered for his account of early Wisconsin and of the Winnebego tribe, Remarks..... More
