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...
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894. A later edition. 8vo, original mustard cloth, gilt lettering, 365 pages. Frontis. More about Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out. A Sequel to "Little Men."
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894. A later edition. 8vo, original mustard cloth, gilt and black lettering, 376 pages. Frontis. More about Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
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...
Boston: The American Humane Education Society, [1908]. First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering, 114, 37, 35 pages. Two plates, illus. An excellent overview of the career of an effective reformer, with his views on topics ranging from communism to poisonous wallpapers, as well as the expected writings on... More about Autobiographical Sketches and Personal Recollections
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...
Boston: Published by Cummings and Hilliard, 1818. First American edition, printed by Flagg & Gould in Andover; Cummings and Hilliard issued two later editions in 1818 and 1819. 8vo, original blue boards, white paper spine, viii, [13]-196 pages, untrimmed. Includes a warning on the proper treatment of a governess: "I... More about A Practical View of Christian Education in its Earliest Stages . . . First American from the...
[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...
Elberfeld: R. L. Friderichs, Editeur, 1868. Stated second edition. 8vo, contemporary green pebbled quarter calf, marbled boards, 574, [1] pages. A collection of works in Provencale with an accompanying grammar and glossary from the Romance philologist and folklorist Bartsch. More about Chrestomathie Provencale Accompagne d'une Grammaire et d'un Glossaire . . . Duexieme edition,...
