Boston: Gray and Bowen; Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown, 1831. First edition. 12mo, original deep purple muslin spine, drab boards, printed paper spine label, viii, 175, [1] pages. Nice early orange book ticket for bookseller C. Whipple, Newburyport, on the front paste-down, with a small later Newburyport ownership label mounted just... More about On the Formation of the Christian Character, Addressed to those who are Seeking to Lead a...

[N. p. n. p., 1816]. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, lower edges untrimmed, 24 pages. With an early ink correction in the text, perhaps authorial. An instance of the religious ferment of the period, a young Associate Reformed Presbyterian seminarian's defense against his expulsion, this pamphlet largely the text (with... More about Documents Relative to the Dismission of Loring D. Dewey from the Theological Seminary in...

[Casey, Illinois? n. p.], (1910). First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, red lettering, [92] unnumbered pages. 10 inserted plates. An account of the life of a woman usually considered something of a Methodist saint, Lizzie Louvira Johnson (1869-1909), confined to bed in the family home in Casey, Illinois since age... More about From Pillow to Throne. Miss Lizzie L. Johnson, Invalid Missionary Worker. ‘Go Work in My...

Utica: Office of the Church Eclectic, 1877. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 16 pages. Frontispiece view of the elaborate. An address delivered at the dedication of the elaborate Gothic altar and reredos designed by architect Frederick Clarke Withers (see Appletons') with much on the symbolism of the altar in... More about The Christian Altar. The Address Delivered at the Service of Benediction for the New Altar and...

Thompson [Conn.]: Printed by George Roberts, 1834. First edition. 8vo, removed (no wrappers), 56 pages. "Should the reader find the style of these extracts, in some instances, painfully obscure, and be under the necessity of reading a period several times over to discover the true meaning, I would only remind... More about New Haven Theology, alias Taylorism, alias Neology; in its Own Language, with Notes Appended

London: James Nisbet & Co.; Liverpool: Smith & Co., 1852. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 46 pages. A curious and uncommon work of prophecy, arguing the chronology of the Gentile age and suggesting Louis Napoleon is the Antichrist whose defeat will usher in the Age of Restoration in... More about The Transition Between the Christian and Millennial Dispensations. A. D. 1848 proved to be A. M....

(Cincinnati: Wm. J. Ferris, Printer, 1830). First edition. 8vo, unbound, 8 pages. A fairly early Ferris imprint, and a handy overview of the ebb and flow of Baptist life in the Ohio Valley, with bare-bones reports from such locales as Duck Creek and 1st Stone Lick. Early ink ownership signature... More about Minutes of the East Fork of the Litile-Miami [sic] Baptist Association, Held at the Bethel...

Chicago: Alfred C. Clark, Publisher, 1897. First edition. Small 8vo, original blue cloth, 86 pages. Frontispiece of various cycles and circles of eternity. Amateur philosophy seeking to tear down both Darwin and religious orthodoxy; Wright appears to posit matter’s descent from a single atom. With syncretic religion, hints of new... More about On the Outer Rim; Studies in Wider Evolution

Reading [Penna.]: Gedruckt bey Carl A. Bruckman, fur Carl M'Williams und comp. 1822. Evidently the first American edition of Eckartshausen's work of mystical devotion. 12mo, original calf, morocco spine label, gilt lettering, 300 pages. Arndt 2565; American Imprints 8591. More about Gott ist die reinste liebe, oder Morgen- und abend-opfer, in gebeten, betrachtungen und gesangen....

Boston: Printed by T. R. Marvin, 1826. First edition. 8vo, removed, 27, [1] pages. A detailed sermon on the good works of this rescue mission for prostitutes in Boston, with much in the way of anecdote and first-hand accounts of conversions. "One came to the Refuge who was led astray... More about Joy in Heaven over the Penitent. A Sermon, Delivered in Park Street Church, Before the Penitent...

Boston: James W. Burditt, 1833. First edition. 8vo, removed, 32 pages. This pamphlet includes Emerson's hymn (beginning "We love the venerable house"), which had earlier appeared as a broadside; this marks an early book appearance by Emerson, preceding Nature by three years. American Imprints 22536; cf. Myerson D3. More about A Sermon Delievered at the Ordination of Rev. Chandler Robbins, Over the Second Congregational...

[San Francisco: n. p., 1896?]. 8vo, unbound, four pages. A fund-raising circular for a recently-established mission "south of the Slot" in San Francisco. "Much is being done in the way of reform work--so much needed in a district honey-combed with saloons." Under the care of Rev. William Ingraham Kip, the... More about The Mission of the Good Samaritan. Second Street, near Folsom [caption title

[Bellevue, O.?]: Chamberlin Photo, 1915. Real photo postcard, approx. 3.5 x 5.5 inches, postally unused. A fine interior view of the revival tabernacle erected by the Indiana-based traveling revivalist George T. Stephens. The hall is draped in bunting and the dais includes a piano and a printed sign reading "Business Women for Christ." More about Real photo postcard, captioned in the image, "Geo. T. Stephens Tabernacle, Bellevue, Ohio,...