Saco [Maine]: Printed for the Author, by William J. Condon, 1832. First edition. 12mo, original plain drab wrappers, stitched, 80 pages. "It is therefor principally by a careful perusal of the scriptures, that I have been led to renounce the horrid, gloomy, soul-chilling doctrine of eternal torments in a future..... More

Providence [R. I.]: Printed for the Author, by Brown & Danforth, 1822. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 8 pages. “When I first was solicited to publish the following, I had not the most distant thought that I should comply with the request: but after mature deliberation, I...... More

Boston: William A. Hall & Co., Printers, 1845. First edition. 8vo, unbound, 27 pages. His arrangements, and modes of worship, combine in teaching a false doctrine. A detailed attack on the Episcopal clergyman William Croswell, who had been reproved by Massachusetts bishop Manton Eastburn for introducing Romish elements into worship..... More

Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1840. First edition. 8vo, removed, 24 pages. The Harvard-trained Unitarian here turns his formidable powers of logic and wide reading to the support of miracles as a foundation of Christianity. Faint offset from an old ink inscription to the final page. More

Covington, Ky. Printed for the Author at the Office of the "Licking Valley Register," 1846. First edition. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, red leather label, gilt lettering, 480 pages. "Is it therefore unreasonable to conclude, that in former times, in that warm country where the passions are known to be strong..... More

New-England [Providence?]: Printed for the Publishers, 1825. Second edition, greatly expanded over the 12-page first edition of 1822. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 32 pages. "But other persons, who were of an Epicurean rather than a Stoical temperament, being unwilling to admit that every thing is nothing, lest they should..... 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

[Boston?]: National Divorce League, 1893. First edition of this extract from the Minutes of the Association. On how to combat the decline of family life, the increase in divorce, and the prevalence of sexual vice in contemporary society. Blame in part is laid to the absence of men on business..... More

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

[Washington, O.]: Published by Joshua Martin, Printed by John B. Wolff, Wheeling, Va. 1848. A later edition of the collected Journals and polemical writings, one of two issues of this Joshua Martin edition (the other bears Washington, Ohio, imprint--see Morgan 10186). 8vo, original full calf, red sheep label, gilt lettering..... More

(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

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

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