Baltimore: n. p., 1860. First edition. 8vo, original purple cloth, gilt lettering, [i-ii], [5]-232 pages, as published. An extensive account of the author’s conversion to Spiritualist practice and beliefs (his orthodoxy is overturned after an experience in 1854 with table-tipping in Washington, D. C.), with extensive accounts here taken from..... 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
Portland, Oregon: (Multnomah Printing Company, 1929). First edition. 8vo, original gilt decorated green cloth, 223 pages. Plexus Centers, the Universal Soul, the Kosmic Mind—a mystic attempt to overthrow the current capitalist system through both the mystic I AM and by study groups (encouraged to take up this book as the..... More
York: Printed by W. Alexander and Son, Castlegate, [et al.], 1828. First English edition. 8vo, early dark plum-brown straight grained morocco, red leather label, gilt decorations to the boards and spine, iv, 372 pages, all edges marbled. The memoirs of a well-read, thoughtful, and pious American woman, Susan Mansfield Huntington..... More
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Franckfurt und Leipzig: [Oetinger], 1765. First edition of the second part, and likely the first (but unestablished) edition of two contemporary editions of the first part. 2 vols in 1, 8vo (scant 7 x 4.38 inches), contemporary half sheep and sprinkled boards, [8], 248; [i-vi], [3]-397, [1] pages, edges of..... More
Fayetteville, T. [Tennessee]: Printed for the Cumberland Presbyterian Synod, by E. and J. B. Hill, 1827. First edition. 12mo, original tree calf, black leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 222, [1] pages. An early Tennessee imprint from the important early Cumberland Presbyterian figure and active anti-Mormon agitator in Missouri. By..... More
Boston: Printed by E. C. Beals, for R. Lothian, Jun., No. 75, State-Street, 1807. First American edition. Contemporary calf spine, marbled sides, black spine label, gilt rules and lettering, 7.13 x 4 inches, 151, [1] pages. “Perjury in religion is worse than perjury in the market; but unhappily for the..... More
New Haven: Published by L. H. Young, 1834. A later American edition, with a new introduction and a new appendix of forms of prayer. 12mo, original green cloth, yellow paper spine label, 188 pages. From the English dissenting minister Thornton, whose church in Billericay had been the source of five..... More
New-York: Printed and Sold by S. Wood, 1813. Second Wood edition. 32mo (2.06 x 1.31 inches), original green morocco, spine stamped in gilt, boards ruled in gilt, 254 pages. Frontis, illus. A handsome little Thumb Bible. Welch 856.3; Adomeit, Three Centuries of Thumb Bibles, A26: "Illustrations as in A17 [Wood..... More
Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1805. Second edition; the first appeared in 1799. 12mo, original tree calf, red morocco label, gilt lettering, x, 290 pages. Ink ownership inscription on the front blank, "Philip R. Kincaid's Book, Pittsburgh, Nov. 6th 1847." Nice early bookseller's ticket on the front paste-down, "From..... More
Boston: Waite, Peirce, & Co., 1846. First edition. 16mo, original gilt pictorial blue cloth, 160 pages. A pseudonymous devotional book that went through two subsequent editions. Neat contemporary pencil gift inscription on the front free endpaper; considerably less neat violet pencil hash marks in the endpapers, across the front board..... More
Boston: Published by Gray and Bowen, 1831. First edition. 8vo, original rose cloth, printed paper label, xv, [1], 260 pages. Inscribed in ink at the head of the title page, "L. Saltonsall with the editor's affectionate respects. 4th Feb.," presumably from the Unitarian professor and sometime editor of the North..... More
Boston: Published by Crocker & Brewster, 1838. Stated fourth edition. 12mo, original ribbon-embossed purple cloth, printed yellow paper label to the upper board, 126 pages. "Universalist preachers are *vulgar.* Their coarse habits, their cultivated scurrility, their groveling tastes, their deficient education, and above all--their corrupting doctrine, associate them with all..... More
[Hallowell, Maine:]: Printed for the Publishers, 1819. A later edition of this evergreen 18th century title. 12mo, original blue wrappers, 72 pages. To judge from ESTC, evidently extracted from a larger early 18th-century life of the Scottish Covenanter and sometime prophetic fugitive Alexander Peden, who while evading the persecution of..... More
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
Zarephath, New Jersey: Pillar of Fire, 1943. First edition. 8vo, original gilt pictorial blue cloth, 184 pages. Frontis portrait, four plates. Illus. Arguments political and biblical for women's rights from the racist feminist Pillar of Fire Church leader Alma White, whose religious colony at Zarephath sat at the center of..... More
Boston: Published by Otis Clapp, 1859. Third edition. Square 12mo, original brown cloth, gilt lettering, 96 pages. First published in 1837, a children’s book for Swedenborgian Sunday School; in addition to the expected Bible lessons on behavior, encomia on the printing press as a boon to missionaries, etc., Wilkins includes..... More
Paris: Chez Briasson, 1735. First French edition. 4to, contemporary full calf, gilt spine, tan morocco label, gilt lettering, xiv, 389, [2] pages. Folding plate. The French edition of Woodward’s celebrated Essay Toward a Natural History of the Earth, first published in English in 1695. “Much of Woodward’s theory was inspired..... More
