Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1842. First edition. 12mo, original ribbed green cloth, printed paper label. A collection of essays and criticism from this Baltimore physician, though only one piece is given over to his native American literature and that examined rather abstractly in comparison to the literature of England; Collins... 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
Indianapolis: Nature Publishing Company, 1906. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 230 pages. Frontis, nine plates. Astute and thoughtful essays on nature and life in Indiana (with references to Thoreau). Besides the expected reveries on woodland flora and fauna, includes a look at the Indiana dunes. Blatchley wrote... More
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(Hanover, N.H. T. Mann, Printer, 1835). First edition of the second and third number of this Dartmouth literary journal (which ran to four numbers). 2 vols, 8vo, unbound as issued, [17]-32 & [33]-48 pages, untrimmed, unstitched. The second and third numbers of a short-lived literary journal, with an essay on... More
London: Hutchinson, (1959). First edition. Large 8vo, original brown linen, printed dust jacket, 287 pages. More
London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by Trübner & Co., 1870. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 139 pages. Partially unopened. Middle English pieces, with glossary, etc. More
Dublin, London: Maurice Fridberg, (1947). First edition. 8vo, original pink and green wrappers, 50 pages. Frontis by Louis le Brocquy. Three lectures. More
New Haven: Herrick & Noyes, 1838. First edition. 12mo, original ribbon embossed green cloth, printed paper spine label, 200 pages. From the president of Yale; per Schneider’s History of American Philosophy, “As the new three-faculty psychology became familiar during the 1830s, being expounded in both American and Scottish texts, and..... More
Philadelphia: Private Edition, 1870. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 108 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in pencil on the front blank, "Ephraim M. Huntington from his affectionate friend the Author." A series of analytic-lyric essays tending to reconcile science to the Gospel (the book commences with a.... More
London: James Brown, [1868]. Stated second edition; the first appeared in Glasgow in 1857, perhaps without the second essay. 8vo, unbound as issued, 30 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink at the head of the title, "To Geo. Cruikshank Esq., with the Author's kind regards." The Scottish attorney and... More
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Adriani Wyngaerden, 1656. First edition. 4to, 18th century calf, gilt spine, [8], LXX, 294, [4], 77, [1], 67, [1] pages. Engraved portrait of Saumaise. A posthumous work of the French Protestant critic and scholar Saumaise (1588-1653), collecting previously published epistles and a new life of Saumaise by... More
New York: Israel Publishing Company, 1909. First edition. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt lettering, 162 pages. "There is no Jewish people, but there exists a multitude of Jews." The New York attorney and playwright (in both Yiddish and English) here lays out (in English) his theories on antisemitism and his... More
London: Printed for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., 1871. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, xlvii, [1], 100 pages. NCBEL I, 413. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1877. First edition. 8vo, original violet cloth, ix, [3], 471, [1], [4] pages. A presentation copy, inscribed on the verso of the front free endpaper, "To Fred'k Billings Esq. With the compliments of Geo. Wilkes." From Wilkes (1817-1885), the American journalist and founder of... More
