Madisonville [Tennessee]: Printed at the Office of Henderson & Johnston, Edwards & Henderson--Printers, 1834. Fourth edition. Large 8vo, contemporary (likely original) sheep, brown leather label, gilt rules and lettering, xv, [1], 604 pages. The great populist domestic medical guide of Jacksonian America, with much on herbal remedies as well as..... More

New York: Published by George F. Cooledge & Brother, (1846). First edition. 8vo, original publisher’s gilt pictorial rose calf stamped in blind, gilt spine, 379, [1] pages. Frontis portrait, engraved title page, 12 pages. The life of John Smith cast as something of an adventure story from perhaps the leading..... More

Charleston, S. C. Printed by B. Jenkins, 1846. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, 32 pages. An anti-Catholic argument against Mariolatry, with a coda addressed to women that argues that virginity (as such) is no especial virtue when compared with marriage. The Belfast-born Smyth (1808-1873) was a moderate slavery reformer and..... More

Ouachita, Arkansas, March 26, 1849. Stampless cover, 1 page on a double sheet,9.88 x 7.5 inches, approx. 200 words. Hamilton thanks Dawson for a consignment of hay, powder and shot, and asks how Dawson wants to settle up accounts; Hamilton then sends a few sentences of sympathy for a William..... More

Wheeling, Va. Printed and Published by A. & E. Picket, 1831. First edition. 12mo, original black sheep spine, gray boards, gilt lettering, 140, [4] pages. A nice Wheeling, [West] Virginia imprint, and according to the preliminary advertisement in “strict conformity with the revised code of laws for 1830 & 1831.”..... More