New Albany [Ind.]: Printed by Norman, Morrison, & Matthews, 1856. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 47 pages. An important if now somewhat forgotten Ohio Valley address: the Presbyterian clergyman, anti-slavery advocate, and then-president of the New Albany Theological Seminary here returns to his old stomping grounds at Miami..... More

Boston: Printed by T. Fleet, for Daniel Henchman, over-against the Brick Meeting-House in Cornhill, 1738. First edition. 20th century full red cloth, 7.5 x 4.38 inches, [8], [xii], 116 [i.e., 216] pages. Woodcut tailpieces. “Now considering these Things; and considering withal, what an *honorable,* as well as vastly beneficial, *Addition..... More

New York: Published by Lane & Scott, 1851. A later printing of the 1849 revised edition of the standard edition of the Methodist hymnal. 16mo, contemporary (likely original) gilt-stamped full green roan, 736, 48 pages. More

[Washington, D. C.]: Blair & Rives, Printers, [1841]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, stitched, 9.75 x 6.25 inches, 47, [1] pages, untrimmed and partially unopened. "Sampson Avard, a witness produced, sworn, and examined on behalf of the State, deposeth and saith: That about four months since, a band, called the Daughters..... More

Chicago: E. B. Myers and Chandler, 1867. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, viii, 458, [7] pages. The Harvard law professor here takes a New Church or Swedenborgian approach to the divinity of the human Jesus. Despite the attractive Chicago ante-fire imprint, this title was printed in Cambridge..... More

Pittsburgh: Published by Henry Smith. Printed by Johnston and Stockton, 1833. First American edition. 12mo, original calf, red leather label, gilt lettering, 312 pages. Imaginary dialogues on Biblical history, and a relatively early Pittsburgh imprint. Abraham Clemens noted as the copyright holder; whether this is also the translator is unclear..... More

Stockbridge [Mass.]: Printed by H. Willard, for the Author, 1813. First edition. Original printed blue wrappers, 9.25 x 6 inches, 15, [1] pages, untrimmed. An attractive Stockbridge imprint, a tabular account of the fulfilment of prophecies (with a few corrections in the text in contemporary autograph ink). A Boston edition..... More

Washington, Pa. Printed by John Grayson, 1825. Second edition, expanded. 12mo, original calf, 300 pages. Though copyrighted May 18, 1825, Ralston’s final epistolary piece addressed to Walker is dated in type at the foot Mingo-Creek, December 1825. An attack on Campbell and the nascent Restoration Movement, first published in 1823..... More

Middlebury, Vt. Printed by J. W. Copeland, 1830. Stated third edition; the first appeared in 1824 (perhaps printed in Hebron, Connecticut), followed by an 1826 Schenectady edition. Contemporary calf spine, marbled boards, 6.94 x 4.25 inches, gilt rules, 268 pages, all edges stained yellow. “*This really is one of the..... More

Battle Creek, Mich. Steam Press of the Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association, 1872. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt pictorial spine, 160, [4] pages. A prophetic work of Americana (or a peculiarly American work of prophecy) from the significant Seventh-Day Adventist theologian, published at the SDA steam press in..... More

Albany: Printed by C. Van Benthuysen, 1848. Second edition. 8vo, original sheep, black leather spine label, gilt rules and lettering, vii, [1], 384 pages. An account meant to explain the views and practices of the Shakers to the world at large, with a section omitted from the 1823 first edition..... More

Salem: Published by Henry Whipple & Son; Boston: B. H. Greene, 1854. First edition. 8vo, original printed buff wrappers, 26 pages. An attack on the radical Unitarian Frothingham's controversial sermon against the rendition of Anthony Burns (and the complicity of Christianity in slavery), the anonymous author here citing the various..... More

London: Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick Lane, 1737. First edition. 8vo, recent half calf and marbled sides, leather label on the upper board lettered in gilt (Farmer on Demoniacks), viii, 116 pages. “The Reader will find every Passage both in the Old Testament and the New, (except those of..... More