[New York: P. G. Williams, 1902]. First edition. 8vo, original printed green wrappers, 40 pages. Extensively illustrated. Medical dry cell batteries, electrodes, accessories, Rhumkorff Induction Coils for office X-ray work, the Williams X-ray outfit, etc. (The Williams concern boasts in part of the quality of cabinet makers employed for constructing..... More
[New York: S. R. Beckwith, ca. 1896]. First edition. Small 8vo, original printed peach wrappers, 64 pages. Illus. The potential customer is asked to carefully notice “our discovery bears no relation to electricity as generally understood, which by its jars, shocks and bunching of tissue is harmful. The force we..... More
New-York: Published by the American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-Street; D. Fanshaw, Printer, [between 1832 and 1846]. A later edition. Evident publisher’s adhered boards binding of a lilac linen spine, printed spine label, marbled boards, scant 6 x 3.5 inches, 159, [1] pages. The pastedowns in this copy have evidently lifted..... More
Rivas, Nicaragua: Tipografia Comercial, 1923. First edition. 12mo, printed wrappers (spine renewed, endpapers inserted, later rear wrapper supplied), 74 pages. Inserted portrait (fore-edge neatly repaired). With a preface from Enrique Aquino and a poem from Julio Linares Cerda. More
(Birmingham, England: Press of Hudson & Son), [ca. 1899]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, approx. 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 4 pages. Promotional material (including testimonials) for this "school for young stammerers" run by Mr. and Mrs. Beasley in Brampton Park, near Huntingdon, "Where Education in all its branches, embracing the highest..... More
Mansfield, Ohio: L. D. Meyers & Brother, Book and Job Printers, 1874. Second edition. “I commenced the investigation with the confident hope of finding Mr. Beecher guiltless. Had such been the result of my examination, the verdict of acquittal would have been a pleasant one, and the task of upholding..... More
Andover: Published by Flagg and Gould, and Sold by Henry Whipple, Salem, 1819. First edition. 8vo, unbound, stitched, untrimmed, 54 pages. Unopened. "The progress of society from the pastoral to the agricultural and commercial state, amalgamated tribes and constituted nations. By these changes, and the reduction of human life to..... More
London: Printed for J. Wright, 1798. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, [ii] + 92 pages. Beeke is best remembered for his financial writings, especially for his Observations on the Produce of the Income Tax, and on its Proportion to the whole Income of Great Britain (1799). He here argues that..... More
(New York): [n. p., ca. 1940?]. First edition. 8vo, original printed yellow wrappers, 16 pages. "Do you know . . . That beer came to American with the Pilgrim Fathers? That the brewing industry purchases the crops from three million acres of farm lands? That more than a million people..... More
New York: Congdon & Lattès, Inc., (1979). First American edition. 4to, original black cloth, 253, [3] pages. Illus. Original dust jacket. Photos of the French dancer and choreographer by Colette Masson, accompanied by text in Béjart’s hand and other explanatory text. More
Philadelphia: Printed by T. Dobson, at the Stone-House, No. 41, South Second-Street, 1791. First edition of the Waters abridgment, appearing the same year as the Isaiah Thomas four-volume edition that was advertised as the first American edition. 8vo (8.13 x 5 inches), contemporary calf, raised bands, red leather label, gilt..... More
Philadelphia: Published [by Henry Porter] at No. 108 Chesnut Street [vol. 1; vol. 2:] Literary Rooms, No. 121 Chesnut Street, Office of the Journal of Health, Family Library of Health, &c. 1830-1832. First edition. 3 vols, 8vo (8.68 x 5.38 inches), vols. 1-2 in contemporary full calf with gilt lettering..... More
(Oxford): Basil Blackwell, (1985). First edition. 8vo, original black cloth, 261, [1] pages. Illus. Original pictorial dust jacket. An academic study of the psychology and conventions of photography. A few contemporary ink notes in the rear. More
New York: German Electric Agency, [ca. 1893]. Likely a later version of this quack device promotional catalog. Small 8vo, wire stitched into original color lithograph wrappers in red and black (with the wrapper title “The Electric Era”), 24 pages. Illus. “Although Electricity, properly applied, is a wonderful remedy of nearly..... More
(Cleveland, O. The Therenoid Corporation), [ca. 1929]. First edition. 12mo, original printed blue wrappers, 48 pages. Illus. The myriad benefits of this electromagnetic solenoid belt, suitable for home treatment of anything from insomnia to insanity to Bright’s Disease: “A short time ago a very good physician here in Los Angeles..... More
Boston: Printed for the Author, 1825. First edition. 8vo (8.38 x 5.13 inches), original sheep, 152 pages. A utilitarian book cast as a result of chemical study, promising these recipes “will prove useful, not only to the Chemical Student, but also to the Manufacturer, and to the Economist.” With much..... More
Lisbon: Publicações Europa-América, (1952). First edition. Original pictorial wrappers, 8.25 x 6 inches, 184, [5], [1] pages, unopened. Illus. Mounted errata slip. A presentation copy, inscribed in blue ink to the polar explorer, “Para o Exmo. Sr. Richard Evelyn Byrd, com os meus respeitosos cumprimentos e o maoir respeito. H...... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. First American edition, published the same year as the London edition. 8vo, original pink-stamped green cloth, gilt lettering, 306 pages. Travel accounts, including the author's honeymoon trip across the U.S. in a Ford automobile, from the English-born traveler and novelist who wrote much on..... More
[Washington, D. C. n. p., 1850]. 8vo, removed, 15 pages. Benton argues against the Compromise of 1850, which included the Fugitive Slave bill: "No sir! no more slavery compromises. Stick to those we have in the Constitution, and they will be stuck to!" With much detail on the topography of..... More
[Berkeley: n. p., 1969]. First edition. Single sheet printed in black ink on the recto and green ink on the verso, 11 x 8.5 inches, illus.; single sheet printed in blank ink on one side only, 11 x 8.5 inches, illus. “We have been in the streets since they put..... More
Dayton, O. Published by B. F. Ells, 1848. First Dayton edition of this evergreen Romantic French tale of sensibility. Small 4to, original gilt-stamped brown cloth, 112 pages. Frontis and full-page wood engravings (with decorative borders) in the text. An uncommon Ohio imprint, unusual for its illustrations. The anti-slavery theme likely..... More
Wocester, Mass. John M. Berry, 1892. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 32 pages. A political reform pamphlet arguing against district elections and for the more democratic proportional representation system, based on the system proposed by Salem, Mass., politician and lawyer William H. Gove. More
Bell, California: Published by the Author, 1930. Stated fourth edition, reset and expanded from the 12-page third edition. Small 8vo, original printed green wrappers, 16 pages. California poems from this Los Angeles-area author and evident amateur press operator. More
Fort Wayne, Ind. The Old Time Religion Tabernacle, (1936). First edition. 24mo, original printed self wrappers, 15, [1] pages. A typically eschatological sermon from this converted Orthodox Jew, here delivered at the radio evangelist Howard Paschal's Fort Wayne Tabernacle. A little penciling to the front wrapper. More
Berlin: C.G. Lüderitz'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Carl Habel, 1872. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 37, [1], [2] pages. From the German philosopher and editor (born Johann Heinrich Bettziech, 1813-1876) who had for a time been somewhat at the center of the exile community in London after 1850 (though Marx and..... More
