New Haven: Printed by Hezekiah Howe, 1829. First edition. 12mo, original printed orange wrappers, 52 pages, untrimmed. Four pseudonymous anti-Baptist arguments. This copy includes a contemporary pencil notation on the title page and at the foot of the final page, "David L. Ogden," who was then serving as a Congregational... More about Thoughts on the Baptist Controversy in Four Letters to a Friend. By C. A
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
New York: Published for the Author, 1870. First edition. 12mo, original green cloth, gilt lettering. Frontis, three plates. The misadventures of a homoeopathic doctor turned serial bigamist and his life on the run in upstate New York and New England. Despite Wright's classification of this work as fiction, the recurrent... More about Seven Wives and Seven Prisons: Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. A True...
Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1841. First edition. 8vo, unbound, 12 pages, untrimmed. Adams weighs in on the complicated point of international law surrounding an incident in the wake of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837; McLeod had been arrested in New York after bragging he had been among those... More about Speech of Mr. John Quincy Adams, on the Case of Alexander McLeod. Delivered in the House of...
London: Printed for J. Hatchard, 1807. First edition. 8vo, removed, 28 pages. A speech delivered in the wake of the dismissal of Grenville's "All the Talents" ministry, with mention made of Catholic relief. With the half-title. More about Substance of the Speech of Lord Viscount Sidmouth, upon the Motion of the Marquis of Stafford, in...
Philadelphia: (Russell & Martien, Printers), Jan. 2, 1828. 8vo, removed, 16 pages. The first number of a short-lived missionary magazine, published for the first seven weekly numbers under this title, subsequently as The Christian Magazine and Clerical Review, publishing weekly through mid-April, then monthly until it ceased publication with issue... More about The Christian Warrior. Vol. I, No. I [caption title
New York: John A. Gray, Printer, 1862. First edition. 8vo, removed, retaining original printed front wrapper, 32 pages. Map on the verso of the title. "There are educated young men, who can no longer tolerate the absurdities of Hindu philosophy, and who regard Mohammedism, Parsiism and the Gospel as standing... More about Historical Sketch of the Mission to the Mahrattas of Western India
Boston: Crocker & Brewster [which becomes: Published by the Board], 1838-1853. 20 nos., 8vo, original printed wrappers on all numbers. A small broken run of the board's monthly serial, with much of interest regarding missions around the world. 1838: May. 1840: January. 1846: January. 1847: January, April, July, September. 1848... More about The Missionary Herald
London: John S. Levey, 1876. First edition. 8vo, unbound, 8 pages. Data no doubt supplied in the service of the criminal and penological reforms of the period, a report from the former Union officer-turned-diplomat Andrews on the criminal systems of Norway and Sweden; Andrews commends such features as detailed annual... More about Report from Mr. Andrews, Minister Resident of the United States at Stockholm, on Criminal...
Haverhill, Mass. Printed by William B. Allen, for Subscribers, 1809. First edition. 8vo, unbound (old stab holes, stitching perished), 17 pages, untrimmed. An anti-Jefferson and anti-Embargo attack on the Congregational minister Aiken, with much on party factionalism and the questionable merit of a clergyman's support of the heterodox Jefferson. Includes... More about An Answer to the Letter, Addressed by the Rev. Solomon Aiken, of Dracutt, to the Rev. Dr. Spring,...
London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1735. First edition, one of two variants, this with the imprint date corrected from 1725. 8vo, removed, 60 pages. An entertaining and evidently hastily-produced attack on the recently-published anonymous biography of Sir Robert Cochrane, a combative 15th century architect whose rather spectacular rise and fall... More about A Detection of the Falshood [sic Falsehood], Abuse, and Misrepresentations in a Late Libel,...
London: Published by James Piper, 1807. First edition. 8vo, removed, 34 pages. A satirical and incisive attack on the conjugal mores of Frederick, the Duke of York. The delicate inquiry alludes to the contemporary investigations into what might with some justice be called complications regarding whether the Prince of Wales... More about The Duke of York. A Letter to His Royal Highness, or, A Delicate Inquiry into the Doubt Whether...
Boston: American Tract Society, 28 Cornhill, [ca. 1869]. Perhaps a later American edition with a notice on the verso of the title page "Reprinted from the London Religious Tract Society," though the relationship to the American Sunday-School Union work of 1834 with the same title is unclear. 16mo, original purple... More about The Little Story Book
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...
London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1796. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, [iv] + 90 pages. An extensive look at the state of the two nations' economies, perceived morale, colonial holdings, etc. The author concludes that the "external situation of Great Britain at this moment is unquestionably such, as to justify... More about A View of the Relative State of Great Britain and France, at the Commencement of the Year 1796
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...
Boston: T. R. Marvin, Printer, 1827. First edition. 8vo, removed, 38 pages. Aside from information on the general aims of the missionary society, the report includes much detail on members and donors, broken down by city, with names and amounts given. American Imprints 27906. More about Proceedings at the Sixteenth Anniversary of the Auxiliary Foreign Mission Society of Boston and...
[Edinburgh: n. p., 1875]. First edition. 8vo, removed, 16 pages. Criticism of the health implications of a proposed Edinburgh drainage scheme from the Scottish physician who had done much to reform the sanitary condition of the British armed forces (cf. the DNB). He here touches on the varied compositions of... More about The Infirmary Drainage Scheme. To the Right Honourable the Lord Provost, the Magistrates, and...
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,...
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 about The Ordinances as They Are, or Six Questions Answered; with the Baptist Articles of Faith: to...
Andover: Published by Flagg and Gould, and Sold by Henry Whipple, Salem, 1819. First edition. 8vo, unbound, stitched, untrimmed, 54 pages. Unopened. "The progress of society from the pastoral to the agricultural and commercial state, amalgamated tribes and constituted nations. By these changes, and the reduction of human life to... More about The Design, Rights, and Duties of Local Churches. A Sermon Delivered at the Installation of the...
[Washington, D. C. n. p., 1850]. 8vo, removed, 15 pages. Benton argues against the Compromise of 1850, which included the Fugitive Slave bill: "No sir! no more slavery compromises. Stick to those we have in the Constitution, and they will be stuck to!" With much detail on the topography of... More about Mr. Benton's Anti-Compromise Speech. Speech of Mr. Benton, of Missouri, in the Senate of the...
Dayton, O. Published by B. F. Ells, 1848. First Dayton edition of this evergreen Romantic French tale of sensibility. Small 4to, original gilt-stamped brown cloth, 112 pages. Frontis and full-page wood engravings (with decorative borders) in the text. An uncommon Ohio imprint, unusual for its illustrations. The anti-slavery theme likely... More about Paul and Virginia: Translated from the French of Bernardin St. Pierre . . . Embellished with...
Fort Wayne, Ind. The Old Time Religion Tabernacle, (1936). First edition. 24mo, original printed self wrappers, 15, [1] pages. A typically eschatological sermon from this converted Orthodox Jew, here delivered at the radio evangelist Howard Paschal's Fort Wayne Tabernacle. A little penciling to the front wrapper. More about When Will Christ Return; or: How to Measure Prophetic Time. Sermon by . . . Delivered at The Old...
[Belvedere, California]: Gordon Blanding, 1908. First edition. 8vo, original printed brown wrappers, wire stitched, 13 pages. The wealthy San Francisco lawyer Blanding (whose home was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake) turns his attention to amateur seismology, with mixed results; he also somewhat self-consciously turns his attention to the question of... More about Notes on Earthquakes Along the California Coast Line
