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
Buffalo: n. p., [ca. 1920]. Folding card, 2.5 x 4 inches folded, printed in black ink on cream card stock. Illus. "My Prices are So Low The Everyone Can Afford My Services. Small Weekly Payments." A promotional palm card for a storefront physician in Buffalo, who promises to treat all..... 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
London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills, [n. d.]. Stated seventh edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, [16] pages, untrimmed. Small ink number in a contemporary hand at the foot of the title page. The register of the final leaf a trifle high; the pagination may have been trimmed from the upper..... More
London: Printed by H. Hills, 1708. 2 vols in 1, 8vo, extracted from a larger nonce collection, 15 [i.e. 16] + 16 pages, untrimmed. Black-ruled border to the title page of the first item, which was published the year of Beveridge's death; Hills does not refer to Beveridge as "late"..... More
[N. p. n. p., ca. 1910?]. Approx. 3.5 x 5.5 inches, postally unused, divided back, no stamp box. An evocative image of the trio atop their various cycles--a man in evening dress on a unicycle, an ingenue upon a bicycle that would do credit to any contemporary fixie-hipster, and a...... More
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(Middlebury, Vt. Printed by William Slade, 1816). First Middlebury edition. 16mo, unbound pamphlet stitched, 16, 8 pages, untrimmed. Biddulph's evergreen tract occupies the first 16 pages; the balance is taken up with the caption-titled Ubjects [sic] for Consideration. Extracted from Reynold's Compassionate Addresses. (Each has the Slade imprint at the..... More
London: Printed by G. Scott for J. Robson and B. Law, 1770. First edition in English of Bielfeld's Les premiers traits de l'erudition universelle, first published in French in Leyden in 1767. 3 vols, 8vo, contemporary calf, red morocco labels, gilt lettering, [xvi], 445; [2], ii, 443, [2] plus folding..... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1858. First edition. 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth stamped in gilt, with additional contemporary lettering stamped in gilt to the upper board, “Metropolitan Hotel,” [i-ii], [7], iii-xvi, 439, 4, 16 pages. Frontis, four inserted plates, illus. An important work from the English gunsmith and inventor Greener..... More
Bethlehem, Penn. Lehigh University, 1931. First edition. 8vo, original printed tan wrappers, 59 pages. Issued as vol. 5, no. 3 in the Lehigh University Publications. An addition to the literature of Shakespeariana, over 50 contemporary parallels and allusions, assembled by an independent scholar and edited by a professor at Lehigh..... More
