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...

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 about "The Constitution and the Union." A Sermon Preached in the First Congregational Church...

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

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 about Das Herz des Menschen, ein Tempel Gottes oder eine Werksta tte des Satans. In zehn Figuren...

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 about Plans and Motives for the Extension of Sabbath-Schools, Addressed to Clergymen [caption title

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 about The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Translated out of the Original Greek

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 about Mathematics for Christian Living Series: Gaining Skill with Numbers. Grade 5

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 about A Plain Word, Concerning the Late Circular of the Rt. Rev. Manton Eastburn to the Clergy of...

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 about Secreta monita Societatis Jesu. The Secret Counsels of the Society of Jesus, in Latin and English...

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 about Truth Advocated: or the Apocalyptic Beast and Mystic Babylon, Clearly Delineated, for the Serious...

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...

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 about An Attempt, with a Soft Answer, to Turn Away Wrath, in Letters Addressed to Mr. George Forrester,...