New York: John P. Haven; Boston: William Peirce; Philadelphia: Henry Perkins, [1834-1836?]. Likely a later printing published sometime before 1836 (Peirce published an edition dated 1836), this copy without a date on the title and imprint order slightly changed from the 1834 printing. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 360... More about The Corner-Stone, or A Familiar Illustration of the Principles of Christian Truth

London: Printed by Henry Hills, 1708. Second edition, a likely piracy of Moxon's Manchester Daemoniack (1703). Small 8vo, removed pamphlet, 16 pages. "We would account it an horrid thing for one to take the *Body of Christ,* and tread it in the dirt under his feet, and tumble it up... More about The Character, Praise and Commendation, of a Chaste and Virtuous Woman: in a Learned and Pious...

Northampton: Printed by William Butler, 1788. First edition. 8vo, unbound pamphlet, stitched, 48 pages. An early imprint from the press of long-time Northampton printer William Butler, who had come to Northampton in 1786 to establish a newspaper; in 1795 he established a paper-mill there. Allen, Chesterfield's Congregational minister, here attacks... More about An Essay on Outward Christian Baptism

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 about Select Discourses on Practical Subjects

London: Printed for Scatcherd and Letterman [et al.], 1824. 12mo, later 19th century pebbled brown half calf, marbled boards, gilt decorated spine, 260 pages, untrimmed. Frontis portrait. Ink ownership signature at the head of the title for Theodore F. Field, with the additional ink inscription on a front blank from... More about The Koran; Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mahomet. Translated from the Original Arabic, with...

Boston in New-England: Printed for Samuel Gerrish, 1728. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, stitched, 8.25 x 5.5 inches, [2], 24, [2] pages, rather wildly untrimmed. The early American clergyman, historian, and amateur natural philosopher Prince here delivers the sermon to welcome new governor William Burnet, who was said to have been... More about Civil Rulers Raised up by God to Feed His People. A Sermon at the Publick Lecture in Boston, July...

[Philadelphia]: Uriah Hunt.—101 Market Street; Nathan Kite.—Appletree Alley, 1838. First edition. 12mo, contemporary (publisher’s?) ribbon embossed cloth, black morocco label, gilt lettering, 100 pages. On oaths, from the Chester County Friend and mathematician, in an early cloth binding that is both attractive and curious. (The morocco label pushes it into..... More about A Dissertation on Oaths

Philadelphia [etc.]: Ziegler & McCurdy, 1871. First edition. Large 8vo, publisher’s heavily-stamped dark brown roan, gilt decorations, embossed spine, 566 pages, a.e.g. Frontis, 30 plates (including mezzotints by Sartain), one illustration in the text. A fine example of the deluxe publisher’s binding doorstop of a book, a popular work of..... More about Science and the Bible; or, The Mosaic Creation and Modern Discoveries

Boston: [n. p.], 1834. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, stitched as issued, 9.25 x 5.5 inches, 14, [2] pages, untrimmed. The anarchist reformer’s first book, with the expected iconoclastic themes against Christianity, the Gospel, and the divinity of Jesus. Includes the final blank. American Imprints 26898. More about The Deist’s Immortality; and, An Essay on Man’s Accountability for his Belief

Chicago: North-Western Pulpit, 1860. First edition. 8vo, original printed yellow wrappers, 13 pages. “The substance of the following Sermon was first preached as an Introductory Sermon, at an Annual Meeting of the Cleveland, or Rocky River Association, in Ohio. . . . The Sermon has since been revised and materially... More about The Three Witnesses; or, The Spirit, the Water, and the Blood

Boston: Printed by Perkins & Marvin, 1840. First edition. Original printed yellow wrappers, 7.5 x 4.75 inches, The longtime New Hampshire abolitionist and clergyman suggests a constitutional solution for slavery does not exist, but that moral persuasion must effectively change the views of those who support slavery—and that while denunciation... More about American Slavery and the Means of its Abolition

Boston: Published by Cummings and Hilliard, 1818. First American edition, printed by Flagg & Gould in Andover; Cummings and Hilliard issued two later editions in 1818 and 1819. 8vo, original blue boards, white paper spine, viii, [13]-196 pages, untrimmed. Includes a warning on the proper treatment of a governess: "I... More about A Practical View of Christian Education in its Earliest Stages . . . First American from the...

New Haven: Printed by B. L. Hamlen, 1846. First edition. 8vo, original printed yellow wrappers, 28 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in pencil at the head of the front wrapper to the Hartford State Supreme Court justice, "Hon. Thos. S. Williams, With respects of A.C.B." Moderately sordid charges and counter-charges... More about Review of a Pamphlet Purporting to be "A Statement of Facts in Relation to the Howe Street...