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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? 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

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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. Henry Carey, Earl of Monmouth, 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

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State Street: A Satire. William Adolphus Clark.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Guia del Conquistador (Segonda part del Art de Festejar) per C. Guma [pseud] . . . Segona Edicio. Spanish, C. Guma, pseud of Juli Francesc Guibernau.

Guia del Conquistador (Segonda part del Art de Festejar) per C. Guma [pseud] . . . Segona Edicio.

Barcelona: Antoni Lopez, [ca. 1882-1886]. Stated second edition. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 32 pages. Illus. by Manuel Moline. Humorous verses in Catalan, evidently on the practice and perils of fashionable courtship, from this prolific author of ephemeral verse and theatre. "Fecha seguin Palau: entre 1882 y 1886" (CCPB). More

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The Intelligencer. Jonathan and Thomas Sheridan Swift.

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

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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. 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

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

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

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Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte, and Historic Certainties Respecting the Early History of America. Richard and William Fitzgerald Whately.

Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte, and Historic Certainties Respecting the Early History of America.

New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1856. A later edition; the first combined edition appeared in 1853. 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering, 184 pages. From the eventual Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and philosopher Whately (1787-1863), the first part is an elaborate satire meant as an attack... More

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