Cincinnati: Published by N. & G. Guilford. T. Surguy, Printer, [1837]. First edition. Original pictorial blue wrappers, stitched, 8.13 x 4.88 inches, [36] pages, untrimmed. Woodcut illustrations throughout. With the wrapper title and imprint, The Freeman’s Almanac for the Year 1838: Edited by Solomon Thrifty. Cincinnati: Published by Guilford and..... More
Leominster, Massachusetts: Printed by John Prentiss & Co. for Thomas Thacher, Princeton [Mass.], 1798. First edition. 12mo, original sheep, red leather label, gilt lettering, 114 pages. A posthumous selection of sermons from Rev. Peter Thacher (1716-1785) of Attleboro, one of a long line of Congregationalist Peter Thachers, this collection put..... More
Boston: Published by Wells & Lilly, 1816. First edition thus. 12mo, contemporary full sheep with multiple decorative blind-rolled ornaments, 72 pages. "Twin Carolinas, through your forests green, / In sixteen hundred sixty three began, / Where none but savage foot had ever been, / The new-born empire of the cultur'd..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839. First regularly published edition of Sargent's second book. 12mo, original floral-embossed brown cloth, gilt lettering, 110 pages. A play, revised from the preceding privately printed edition. Front free endpaper neatly excised. BAL 17201. More
Boston: Rowe & Hooper, 1816. First edition. 8vo, contemporary calf, tan morocco spine label, gilt rules and lettering, 271, [1] pages. From a Methodist itinerant and intimate of Lorenzo Dow comes this New England novel of manners, partially epistolary. (With such characters and Jack Upstart and Tim Ignoramus appearing in..... More
![Item #19577 Das Leben des Georg Waschington [George Washington], mit Sonderbaren Anecdoten,...](/pictures/thumb/19577.jpg?v=1580763983)
Libanon, (Penn.): J. Schnee für M. Carey in Philadelphia, 1810. First edition in German. 12mo, contemporary full calf, brown leather spine label, gilt rules and lettering, 210 pages. Engraved frontis and six engraved plates (including a portrait of Washington). The Weems life of Washington (cherry tree anecdote and all) here..... More
![Item #19439 The Manuscript . . . Vol. I. Second Edition. [Bound with, as published:] The...](/pictures/thumb/19439.jpg?v=1575314232)
New-York: G. & C. Carvill, and Elam Bliss, 1828. Stated second edition of the first volume. 2 vols in 1, large 8vo, publisher's rose half cloth, pink boards, printed spine label, 192; [iv], 188 pages. Frontis engraved view of Trenton Falls inserted before vol. 1. "Let then Americans labour to..... More
Providence: George H. Whitney, 1868. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 297 pages. A unique augmented copy of this detailed local theatre history, with the pencil ownership signature of Samuel W. Brown—presumably Providence worthy Samuel Welch Brown (1824-1907)—and the semi-legible pencil signature of perhaps his son Arthur Brown;..... More
Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1858. First edition. 12mo, original gilt-stamped red morocco, 538 pages, a.e.g. Two folding charts (diagrams of the Assembly Chamber and the Senate Chamber) tipped in. Everything a legislator needs to know, from Agricultural Society, Officers of, to Villages, General provisions for erecting. The real attraction..... More
Philadelphia: Printed from the London Edition by John Humphreys, 1799. First American edition. 8vo, mid-19th century blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt lettering, 196, [2] pages. In a curious later binding that appears almost as a remainder binding (though may well be a well-executed private binding), this volume in Robertson’s History was..... More
Salem: Printed at the Office of "To-Day," Oct. 31, 1870. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial glazed white wrappers, 15 pages. Pictorial title page, illus. "If you ask the touris why he visits Salem, he will tell you that he has four reasons: to see the old houses, to feel the..... More
Chicago: Published by Root & Cady, 67 Washington Street, 1866. First edition of the first number of this juvenile musical quarterly. Small 8vo, contemporary marbled boards, cloth spine and tips, [ii], 5-61, [2] pages (lacks wrappers; this may be an issue sold in boards). Illus. Each number of this quarterly..... More
Chicago: S. S. Boyden, Publisher, 1868. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 200, [3] pages. Verses from a resident of Bostwick Lake, Michigan (outside Grand Rapids), with much occasional verse (Independence Day celebrations, an address to the Progressive Lyceum), as well as the lengthy narrative title poem recounting..... More
Northampton, Mass. Steam Press of Gazette Printing Company, 1876. First edition. Original pictorial wrappers, 8.75 x 5.75 inches, 24 pages. Illus., including a diagram of the cashier's home. The definitive contemporary account of one the biggest bank robberies in U.S. history. The robbers--who according to witnesses referred to each other..... More
Williamsburgh [Mass.]: Printed by Ephraim Whitman, 1817. First edition. 12mo, original tree sheep, brown leather spine label, gilt lettering, iv, 300 pages, all edges sprinkled. The Bard of the Berkshires, Bodman (1766-1850) was perhaps the last great efflorescence of the New England Puritan poets in the lineage of Michael Wigglesworth;..... 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
Boston: Printed by Ezra Lincoln, 1821. First edition. 12mo, original blue boards, printed paper label, 156 pages, untrimmed. Frontispiece (woodcut of the Old State House), folding map. Besides directions and distances, the appendix includes a look at recent improvements in the area and suggests further drainage and reclamation projects. With..... More
(Washington: Buell & Blanchard, Printers), [1856]. One of two editions issued in 1856, this likely the second. 8vo, unbound, 7 pages + 1 page of ads for anti-slavery publications, untrimmed. With a contemporary pencil notation at the head of the first page, "For the pleasure of the million." A fiery..... More
Lowell: A. E. Newton and A. O. Ordway, 1843. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 20 pages. A rather tepid attack on slavery (amounting to an apologetic work) from the long-time Lowell minister: the Bible allows slavery but none of the Southern slaveholders are adequately observing its precepts. "With..... More
New York: Derby & Jackson, 119 Nassau Street, 1859. First edition. 8vo (7.5 x 5.25 inches), original brown cloth, gilt lettering, 329, [1] pages. Double frontispiece: two lithographic portraits by Sarony inserted before the title page. A popular account of travel among the Acadians of the Maritimes in eastern Canada;..... More
[Salem, Mass. Published by J. Chapman & C.W. Palfray, 1868 or 1869]. First edition. Single sheet French folded to make a title leaf and 7 numbered pages, unopened. A carrier's address covering the usual range of local japes, political events, the fame of local ice, etc. No doubt printed in..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by M. Steiner, in Race-street, for C. Talbot, late of Dublin, Printer and Bookseller, 1784. First American edition. 8vo (7.88 x 5.25 inches), original plain calf, vi, [2], 536 [i.e., 436] pages. Bibliographia Catholica Americana includes a note from John Gilmary Shea, "in my opinion the first book..... More
![Item #14180 Broadside of Masonic songs, "Waubansia Lodge, No. 160" [caption title]. Chicago...](/pictures/thumb/14180.jpg?v=1524605899)
Chicago: Democratic Press Print, 45 Clark Street, [ca. 1855-1857]. First edition. Broadside on heavy stock white coated paper, approx. 10-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. An evidently unrecorded bit of Chicago ante-fire printing, the lyrics to four songs for Masonic brethren of Waubansia Lodge in Chicago. The imprint date seems probable: according..... More
[Washington, D. C.]: Blair & Rives, printers, [1840]. First edition. Removed unbound pamphlet, scant 9 x 5.75 inches, 4 pages. With the accompanying map, a sketch chart of Chicago Harbor, “showing changing shore line of Lake Michigan, 1821, 1838, and 1839” (Claussen & Friis), scant 9 x 11.75 inches, engraved..... More
Chicago: Tribune Company’s Book and Job Printing Office, 1863. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 30 pages. The Board of Trade and associated men of Chicago stand against the jealous guardians of the Upper Mississippi trade to call for an easy means of shipping its grain to..... More
