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
New York: Published for the Author by Edward H. Fletcher, 1853. First edition. Original wrappers, 7.25 x 4.75 inches, 48 pages, stitched. A prophetic interpretation of the seventh chapter of Daniel; thought this Fowler does not seem to be claiming any Adventist affiliation, the 1853 publication year and the association... More
Providence: Printed by Brown & Danforth, 1821. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, stitched as issued, 9.25 x 6 inches, 32 pages, untrimmed. "That the Africans and their descendants are not only capable of acquiring the common rudiments of education, but the higher branches of science, the most plenary evidence could be... 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
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
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
Harrisburg, Pa. Gedruckt und zu haben bey Gustav S. Peters, 1832. A later edition. 12mo, original black sheep spine, decorated paper boards, 58 pages. Illus. One of the great visual works of Protestant religious persuasion, derived from an 1812 German adaptation of an earlier emblem book, and which appeared in... More
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
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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
[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
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: [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
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
Baltimore: Edward J. Coale & Co., 1835. First Breckinridge edition. Original printed yellow wrappers, 7.13 x 4.63 inches, 103, [1] pages, stitched as issued. Conspiracy theory squarely in the American grain: the Kentucky Old School Presbyterian here recirculates the popular libel against the Jesuits, typical of his anti-Catholic efforts in... More
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
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
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
