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Programme for the Aqueduct Meeting, at Mechanic Hall, Saturday Evening, January 4, 1868 and Other...

[Anonymous].

Programme for the Aqueduct Meeting, at Mechanic Hall, Saturday Evening, January 4, 1868 and Other Matters. This is the Elephant which the City is Still Expected to Purchase. Do You Want to Buy?

[Salem, Mass.? n. p., 1868]. First edition. 8vo, unbound pamphlet, [7] pages. Title-page vignette of a booted elephant draped with a blanket reading "Only $600,000" and bearing aloft a banner with the strange device, "Old Aqueduct." An obscure (but amusing) satirical political work, aimed against the sale of the Salem..... More

Price: $100.00

I Ragguagli di Parnasso: or Advertisements from Parnassus in Two Centuries with the Politick...

[Carey, Henry, Earl of Monmouth, translator]. Traiano Boccalini.

I Ragguagli di Parnasso: or Advertisements from Parnassus in Two Centuries with the Politick Touch-Stone. Written Originally in Italian by that Famous Roman Trajano Bocalini; And now Put into English by the Right Honourable Henry, Early of Monmouth.

London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and Thomas Heath, 1656. First edition of the Carey translation. Small folio, early calf rebacked with a new spine and recornered, gilt morocco spine label, [20], 176, 167-201, 200-214, 217-452 pages. LACKS the frontis portrait. A translation of portions of Boccalini's satirical De' ragguagli di..... More

Price: $700.00

State Street: A Satire. William Adolphus Clark

[Clark, William Adolphus].

State Street: A Satire.

[Boston]: A. W. Lovering, (1874). First edition. 12mo, original printed blue wrappers, 29 pages. "To fall into a hole of snakes, / 'Mong briery and bewildering brakes, / Should be preferred to askin aid / Where daily's done so foul a trade." One of Clark's verse satires, this on the..... More

Price: $75.00

The Greatest Sermon, That Ever Was Preached. By Demens Egomet . . . Second Edition. Demons...

Demons Egomet [pseud].

The Greatest Sermon, That Ever Was Preached. By Demens Egomet . . . Second Edition.

New-England [Providence?]: Printed for the Publishers, 1825. Second edition, greatly expanded over the 12-page first edition of 1822. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 32 pages. "But other persons, who were of an Epicurean rather than a Stoical temperament, being unwilling to admit that every thing is nothing, lest they should..... More

Price: $125.00

La Sottisiade, ou le Siége de l'Institut, Poème Epi-Satiri-Burlesque en Six Chants. French,...

(French). [Anonymous].

La Sottisiade, ou le Siége de l'Institut, Poème Epi-Satiri-Burlesque en Six Chants.

Paris: P. Mongie aîné, 1812. First edition. 8vo, removed (lacks wrappers), 78 pages. An anonymous satire on French literary figures (including some dramatic figures) in Alexandrines, owing an obvious debt to the Dunciad. Includes the half-title. Unattributed in Brunet and all the expected places. CCFr notes three copies at BNF..... More

Price: $125.00

Eux: Drame Contemporain en un Acte et en Prose par Moi. Gaston Lavalley

[Lavalley, Gaston].

Eux: Drame Contemporain en un Acte et en Prose par Moi.

Caen: Le Gost-Clérisse, Libraire, 1860. First edition. Small 8vo, original wrappers, 51, [1] pages. An altogether pleasing provincial dramatic parody from a Norman author that capitalizes on the contemporary literary sensation that swirled around the pubication of Louise Colet's novel Lui: Roman Contemporain (Paris 1860), which dealt in part with..... More

Price: $225.00

Latherum Dum, Latherum De, or Words to that Effect. Vide Tyne Mercury Report of young Mister...

[Northumberland].

Latherum Dum, Latherum De, or Words to that Effect. Vide Tyne Mercury Report of young Mister Ord's Speech [caption title].

Newcastle: Hernaman & Perring, Journal-Office, Pilgrim Street, [1832]. Broadside, 12-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches. A satirical verse attack in four stanzas on William Ord, Jr., known as "Orator Ord," who had been stumping for his leftist Whig father (forced to run as a candidate for Parliament for South Northumberland after his..... More

Price: $125.00

The Tangletown Letters: Being the Reminiscences, Observations, and Opinions of Timotheus Trapp...

[Reynolds, Elhanan Winchester].

The Tangletown Letters: Being the Reminiscences, Observations, and Opinions of Timotheus Trapp [pseud], Esq. Including a Report of the Great Mammothic Reform Convention.

Buffalo: Wanzer, McKim, 1856. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped blue-green cloth, gilt spine, 300, 12, 48 pages. Frontis, five plates by Frederick M. Coffin. A satirical novel that pokes fun at abolitionists and suffragettes, with digressive attacks on progressive authors, spiritualists and domestic upheaval of all stripes. Wright II, 2020..... More

Price: $40.00

Adventures of Elder Triptolemus Tub; Comprising Important and Startling Disclosures Concerning...

[Rogers, George].

Adventures of Elder Triptolemus Tub; Comprising Important and Startling Disclosures Concerning Hell; its Magnitude, Morals, Employments, Climate, &c. all very satisfactorily authenticated. To which is added, The Old Man of the Hill-Side.

Boston: Printed by Abel Tompkins, 1848. Second printing, the first appearing with an 1846 publication date. 12mo, original embossed brown cloth, gilt spine, 197, [1] pages. Frontis, two plates. Two humorous Universalist satirical novellas; the pious and bigoted slaveholder Elder Tub enjoys a colloquy with the ghost of Shadrach Paddle..... More

Price: $125.00

The Trollopiad; or, Travelling Gentlemen in America. A Satire, by Nil Admirari [pseud], Esq....

[Shelton, Frederick William].

The Trollopiad; or, Travelling Gentlemen in America. A Satire, by Nil Admirari [pseud], Esq.

New-York: C. Shepard; Providence: Shepard, Tingley & Co., 1837. First edition. 12mo, original ribbon-embossed brown cloth, gilt lettering, 151, [1] pages. “What! must I always hear, nor e’er reply, / And shall John Bull for ever rend the sky? / Shall Owen, in a voice as thunder loud, / Shout..... More

Price: $150.00

The Intelligencer. Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan

[Swift, Jonathan and Thomas Sheridan].

The Intelligencer.

Printed at Dublin. London: Reprinted [by William Bowyer] and sold by A. Moor, 1729. First collected edition. 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt rules, red morocco label, gilt lettering, [6], 217, [1] pages. “Tear out the Tale, and wipe your A---, / I know you love to act a Farce.” Satirical Dublin..... More

Price: $375.00

An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting; with Proper Rules for the Exercise of that...

[Tormenting]. [Jane Collier].

An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting; with Proper Rules for the Exercise of that Pleasant Art . . . with General Instructions for Plaguing all your Acquaintance. . . . The Second Edition, Corrected.

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1757. Second edition. 8vo, original polished calf, red leather label, gilt lettering, [1-2], [i]-iii, [1], 233-234, [1]-232 pages. Frontispiece of a cat tormenting a mouse. “Must not this love of Tormenting therefore be cultivated and cherished? There are many tastes, as that of the olive..... More

Price: $450.00

M'Fingal: A Modern Epic Poem, in Four Cantos. John Trumbull

Trumbull, John.

M'Fingal: A Modern Epic Poem, in Four Cantos.

Albany: Printed by E. & E. Hosford, 1813. A later edition, the first complete edition having appeared in 1782. 12mo, removed, 112 pages, untrimmed. A mock epic on the American Revolution from the Hartford Wit John Trumbull (1750-1831), no doubt here republished due to anti-English sentiment fanned by the War..... More

Price: $45.00

The Brawnville Papers: Being Memorials of the Brawnville Athletic Club. Edited by . . Moses Coit...

Tyler, Moses Coit.

The Brawnville Papers: Being Memorials of the Brawnville Athletic Club. Edited by . . .

Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1869. First edition. 8vo, original gilt-stamped green cloth, gilt lettering, 215, [1] pages. A lightly-veiled satire on the contemporary controversies around physical culture, a supposed debate over the construction of a gymnasium in a New England town from an advocate for physical education, published while Tyler was..... More

Price: $25.00

E . . . . n Triumphant! An Inspirational Rhapsody in Seven Cantos. Translated from the Johnsonese...

[Whitman]. [Edison]. Edison Electric Light Co.

E . . . . n Triumphant! An Inspirational Rhapsody in Seven Cantos. Translated from the Johnsonese by W. W. Poet Lariat with Carefully Selected Illustrations. To be Copyrighted in the United States, and if Necessary, in Samoa, New Jersey, and Other Foreign Countries.

[New York]: Press of Gutenberg, Faust & Schoffer, 1889. First edition. Original printed stiff red wrappers, 9.63 x 6.88 inches, [9] pages. Frontis, illustrations from comical stock cuts. A wonderful and uncommon jeu d’esprit celebrating an Edison patent legal victory, executed as a pastiche of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”..... More

Price: $350.00

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