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
Boston: William D. Ticknor and Company, 1847. First edition. 8vo, removed, 15 pages. On the anticipated completion of the Cochituate Aqueduct. Adams in part draws comparisons to the technical language of the Water Commissioners and the subtleties of the language of the Bible, as well as much on the wondrous... More
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
Boston: J. H. Eastburn's Press, 1861. First edition, apparently a duplicate from Harvard's library, with an early pencil gift notation noting receipt from an alumnus on the verso of the title page (but no other evident library marks). 8vo, original wrappers. A moderately complex sermon on the issues of the... More
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
Booneville, Mississippi: Joe K. Alley, (1953). First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering, [vi], 79, [1] pages. Illus. A strangely compelling and fairly comprehensive look at the state of the Church of Christ in Mississippi, with a paragraph or two on nearly all of the churches then active in... 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
New-York: Printed by Isaac Collins and Son, 1801 [and 1802]. First edition in English. 2 vols in 1, 8vo, contemporary calf, red morocco label, gilt spine, gilt decorated red morocco ownership label to the upper board, 328, 248 pages. The second volume with a separate title page dated 1802, as... More
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
![Plans and Motives for the Extension of Sabbath-Schools, Addressed to Clergymen [caption title]. American Sunday-School Union.](/pictures/thumb/15697.jpg?v=1465913978)
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, [n. d., but 1833?]. Evidently a later printing of this tract. 12mo, original printed wrappers, 24 pages. A comprehensive plan on the proposed spread and regulation of Sabbath schools through the west and the rural areas. Apparently first published under the pseudonym "Owen"... More
New York: American Bible Society, 1859. 8vo, publisher’s elaborately embossed brown leather, gilt lettering, 112 pages. A lovely example of an American embossed publisher’s calf binding, the Pica Octavo edition of the Testaments, and just a little too late for Wolf’s From Gothic Windows to Peacocks. Early ink and pencil... More
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
Crockett, Kentucky: Rod and Staff Publishers, Inc., (1984). 8vo, original pictorial glazed cloth, 398 pages. Illus. "James and Rhonda cheerfully labored in the hot sun, helping Mother weed carrots. The carrots were planted in wide beds. Together they were able to weed 24 square feet of carrots each hour. At... More
Boston: Printed by S. N. Dickinson & Co., 1846. First edition. 12mo, unbound, 12 pages. The war-cry of Popery and Puseyism has long resounded in our ears. . . . Our Rt. Rev. Bishop has thrown the gauntlet into the face of one of the most beloved and respected of... More
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
Poughkeepsie: Printed for the Author, 1812. First edition. 12mo, original wrappers, 119, [1] pages. “And so important did I conceive these things to be in the Christian world, that when taken ill last fall in New-York, and apprehensive that I should not live, it was on my mind to commit... More
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
Pittsburgh, Pa. Printed by Johnston & Stockton, 1843. First edition. 8vo, contemporary (original?) blue wrappers, twine stitching, 48 pages. The former Unitarian clergyman, a native of England who had of late been the head of the Pittsburgh Unitarian society, outlines at length his reasons for leaving his church for the... More
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
Concord [N.H.]: Published by George Hough, Sold at his Bookstore, 1822. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (lacking wrappers), 26 pages. The longtime Congregationalist minister warns Universalists of the follies of their doctrines; a typical salvo against some of the principal works of early Unitarian-Universalist (and then New Hampshire resident) Hosea... More
Portsmouth, N.H. W. Weeks -- Printer, 1813. First edition. 12mo, contemporary calf spine, marbled boards, 179 pages. An uncommon and relatively early controversial work from one of the fathers of American Universalism, and a nice example of a Portsmouth imprint. Neat gift inscription dated 1905 on the front free endpaper. American Imprints 27777. More
Cortland [N.Y.]: S. C. Clisbe & Co. Printers, 1847. First edition. 12mo, contemporary black morocco spine, marbled boards, 166 pages. The Baptist pastor from McGrawville argues for immersion and against loose communion churches; includes some hint of the alliance of religious sentiment and Jacksonian populism: “I am a Republican, a.... More
New York: Printed by Samuel Wood and Sons, for the Trustees of Obadiah Brown's Benevolent Fund, 1827. Stated first stereotype edition of this evergreen classic of Quaker apologetics. 8vo, contemporary (likely publisher's) calf, red leather label, gilt lettering, 587 pages. Some penciled sums to the verso of the rear free... More
![Rev. Anthony Verren, Pastor of the French Episcopal Church of the Saint-Esprit, at New York. Judged by his Works. [Bound with, as issued:] Rev. Antoine Verren, Pasteur . . Peter Barthelemy.](/pictures/thumb/18758.jpg?v=1543288798)
New York: Sold by the Booksellers [Chez les Libraires], 1840. First edition. 2 vols in 1, 12mo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering. Title page vignettes of a viper; one folding facsimile plate. A scurrilous libel accusing Rev. Verren of poor manners, gross language and attempted seduction: "The word *libertine* burst... More
New York [etc.]: Fleming H. Revell Company, (1895). First edition. 12mo, original orange- and yellow-stamped pictorial brown cloth, 108, [5] pages. A fairly comprehensive overview of contemporary culture in India and the peculiar requirements and expectations of missionaries, intended for those who plan missionary work. More
