Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First edition. 8vo (7.88 x 5.13 inches), original blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt lettering, 360 pages. Illus. in the text. Atwater 2242: "Lewis discusses the causes of consumption (e.g., impure air, dust, atmospheric moisture, etc.); the much exaggerated influence of climate in the production or amelioration..... More
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, Printers, 1829. First edition. Original printed green-gray wrappers (spine reinforced with library cloth tape), 8.75 x 5.38 inches, 119, [1] pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink autograph, "Amos Lawrence Esquire with the respects of D. K. Child" at the head of the title page. "This..... More
Buckingham: Printed and Sold by J. Seeley, 1804. First edition. Removed pamphlet, 7.94 x 5.13 inches, 132 pages. "The following Trial, with the Papers which accompany it, require no comment from Rear Admiral Berkeley. He has published them with a view of shewing his Brother Officers and the Navy, that..... More
Salem [Mass.]: John W. Archer, 1836. Original printed blue wrappers (stitching renewed), 7.5 x 4.5 inches, 28 pages. The reformer Cheever had been appointed the pastor of Howard Street Congregational Church in Salem in 1833, and "two years later he attained national prominence with his enormously popular temperance tract, Enquire..... More
Chicago: Printed by R. L. Wilson, Daily Journal Office, 1847. First edition. 8vo, bound without wrappers into later blue cloth, 79 pages. Contemporary manuscript contents leaf bound in after the title page. “Mr. Lincoln, being called upon addressed the Convention briefly.” The uncommon proceedings of a national meeting in Chicago..... More
New-York: Printed and Sold by Collins and Perkins, No. 189 Pearl-Street, 1810. Second edition. Original white paper spine, marbled boards, 7.5 x 4.5 inches, 164, [1] pages, untrimmed. Three plates. “How many years will roll away before the sheep of Europe and America are converted into Merinos? . .... More
New York: Published by the Order of the "Union Safety Committee," 1851. One of two editions published in 1851, the other a 32-page pamphlet with a Buffalo imprint. 8vo, likely lacking wrappers, 16 pages. Lord argues for Northern compliance with the Fugitive Slave Law; he makes claims both for the..... More
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1911. A new edition; the first appeared under a Lamson, Wolff, imprint in 1896. Small 8vo, attractive pictorial paper boards, 126 pages. Frontis, three plates, illus. Original glassine jacket. Adventure and archaeology in Peru, here reissued in an attractive semi-Arts and Crafts format. Cf..... More
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
New-London [Conn.]: Printed by Samuel Green, 1821. First edition. 12mo, contemporary calf, red leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 260, 40 pages. An autobiography and poetical miscellany from the popular Irish-born itinerant Methodist preacher Maffitt (1794-1850), a “charismatic preacher of the first order” (ANB) sometimes called “the Beau Brummel of..... More
New York: Knickerbocker Press, (1895). First edition. 12mo, original tan cloth, black lettering, ix, [1], 79 pages. Frontis, four plates, illus. Folding map. A late work from the Maine historian—petroglyphs as possible evidence of Phoenicians in Maine, plus the evidences of oyster middens in Lincoln County, Thorvald’s death in battle..... More
North Hills, Pa. Bird & Bull Press, 1976. First edition. 8vo (9.25 inches), original black quarter morocco, marbled sides, 68, [4] pages. 11 mounted samples of marbled papers, illustrations in the text. Sumner’s account of marbling paper had first been published in 1854; it is here republished with notes and..... More
Philadelphia: Published and Sold by J. Grigg [et al.], 1824. Later American edition. 12mo, original tree calf, red leather label, gilt lettering, 236 pages. 23 plates. First published in London in 1819, with the first American edition appearing in 1820. An important and innovative work of popular science education, a...... More
New-York: Published by the American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-Street, [1832-1848]. Contemporary sheep spine, marbled boards, [2], 94 pages. Inserted frontispiece and one plate. Temperance tracts; Marsh’s “Putnam and the Wolf” being perhaps the best known. With separate section titles for each story. With the American Tract Society address suggesting pubilcation..... More
Venezia: Antonio Graziosi, 1774. Third Italian edition. 8vo, contemporary vellum spine, sprinkled boards, [2], 164 pages. A nice early Italian edition of this critical work in the pathologization of masturbation. Perhaps an obversation might be made on the spread of a fundamentally Protestant approach to the idea of a “solitary..... More
New York: Published by M'Elrath, Bangs, & Co., 1834. Evidently an early reprint, the first appearing in 1833. 8vo, original printed tan boards, 129, [1] pages. A handsome book in printed boards, the key to Ostrander's Complete System of Mensuration text book. American Imprints 26093; see Karpinski, page 353. Ink..... 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
Providence: Printed by B. Wheeler, 1802. First edition. Original marbled wrappers, 6.88 x 4.5 inches, 13, [1], [1], [1] pages, stitched. “In this assembly, I behold hearts throbbing with sensibility, and countenances brightening with benevolence.” The president of Union College here outlines (in fairly lush language for the pulpit) the..... More
London: Morgan and Scott, 1907. First edition. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt lettering. Printed in Dublin, and evidently McCurry's first book, a collection of formal verses in such forms as the triolet, the rondeau, the sonnet, etc. More
Chicago: Daniel Y. McMullen, (1900). First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 138, [2] pages. Frontis portrait, illus. An anecdotal memoir from the surprisingly even-tempered newspaper reporter, banker, amateur cyclist and all-around ladies man McMullen—who because of an illness as a small child had stopped growing somewhere well south..... More
Selins-Grove, Penna. Amos Stroh, 1830. 8vo, contemporary (original?) tree calf, brown leather label, gilt lettering, xxxvi, 192, [8] pages. A German translation of The Almost Christian Discovered. Includes “Anhang. Ode von Heinrich Jung Stilling” on pages 185-192 and four leaves of “Familie-Register,” with room for recording births, marriages, deaths, etc...... More
London: Printed by G. Taylor, 1834. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 109, [2] pages. A sterling and entrepreneurial example of taking legal lemons and transforming them into marketing lemonade, the account of a trial of Joseph Webb, a self-styled "hygeist" who prescribed for an ailing Richard Richardson a...... More
Boston: Published by Bradford & Read, 1815. First American edition. 8vo, original tree calf, red morocco label, gilt rules and lettering, 442, [2] pages. The detailed clinical descriptions of fevers from the Scottish physician and moderate eccentric (see the DNB), here with corrections for the American edition. Nice early book..... More
[Norwich, Conn.]: Chas. C. Haskell & Son, 1898. First edition. Original self-wrappers, 6.13 x 3.5 inches, 60 pages on newsprint, wire stitched. A promotional piece for Haskell and Son’s 1898 republication of the combined edition of Dewey’s True Science of Living: The Gospel of Health and for the republication of..... 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
