New York: American Tract Society, [1895]. Original decorated and illustrated publisher's cloth [lightly rubbed]. Frontis photo illustrations. 515, [1 blank] pp, with many illustrations as collated. Very Good. Much information on the Hawaiian Islands, the Marquesas, Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand, and other Pacific Islands - - all ripe for conversion..... More
Lancaster: 1796. 12mo, 332pp, scattered spotting. Original leather (chipped along spine). Good+. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Evans 29965. Arndt 1037. More
Philadelphia: Charles Cist, 1793. [ii], 285, [1 blank], [2 Index] pp. Pages 213, 266 numbered incorrectly as issued; page 59 correctly numbered. Light fox, light wear, light tan. Bound in original brown sheep, rebacked with pale leather spine, new endpapers. Good+. A scarce German grammar. The first American edition issued..... More
[Providence, RI? c. 1840]. [8] pp, written on two folded folio sheets in ink manuscript. A couple of closed tears, repaired with a few letters affected. This is likely Elton's draft of a final Report, as it has lines which have been crossed out and replaced with others. Very Good..... More
Philadelphiae: Prichard et Hall, 1789. [4], iv, 34 pp. Disbound, some toning and light foxing. Dedicated to John Ewing. Good+. Evans 21716. Austin 345. More
Llanrwst [Wales]: 1840. 12mo. 48pp. Stitched in original printed green wrappers. Generously margined, uncut, lightly toned, Very Good, in a modern cloth folding case. Thomas Streeter, who thought this piece was unrecorded, wrote: "I have not been able to learn anything about Chidlaw beyond the fact that Thomson 184 [also..... More
Caernarfon, Wales: H. Humphreys. [@, 1865]. [2], 12, [2 advt] pp. Bound in modern wrappers. Very Good. The head of the title reads 'Rhif 78. Llyfrau Ceiniog Humphreys Caernarfon...' OCLC 13367468 [1- Lincoln Pres. Lib.] as of January 2020. Not in Eberstadt, Decker, Nevins, Sabin, Dornbusch, Nicholson. More
[Hartford? 1844]. Folio broadside, 12-1/4" x 18." Printed in a variety of fonts and styles, in two columns separated by a rule. Old folds, slight fold crimp, fold splits repaired archivally. Else Very Good. This rare, evidently unrecorded broadside bitterly attacks Henry Clay, the Whig candidate for President, as "a..... More
Madrid: En la Imprenta de Blas Román, donde se hallará, 1778. 4" x 6". [6], 448 pp, with the half title. Volume 9 of a 12 volume set. Bound in contemporary vellum [light wear]. Wormed on last 12 leaves [loss of a few letters from each page], else Very Good..... More
Mexico: Impreso por Santiago Perez, Calle del Angel, numero 2, 1839. 23, [1 blank] pp, disbound. Light tanning, light scattered foxing. Good+ to Very Good. OCLC 13975454 [3] [as of October, 2014]. More
Germantown: Christopher Sower, 1757. 4to. Two volumes in one, as issued: xi, [1 blank], 268, 280 pp. Bound in original sheep [some rubbing, but a firm binding]. Light to moderate foxing, Good+. The first edition issued from London in 1657. This is its first American printing. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Evans..... More
Berks County PA: C.F. Egelmann, 1807. 12-1/2" X 15-1/2." Baptism certificate in a wooden frame, engraved by C.F. Egelmann. Light foxing to the margins. Illustrated with several religious images, as well as iconic Screaming Eagle illustration, with "E Pluribus Unum." Very Good. With the legend, in German, "Go forth in..... More
Nouvelle-Orleans: Imprimerie Franco-Americaine, rue de Chartres, 102. Eug. Antoine, Proprietaire, 1881. 46, [2 blanks], [2], 38, [2 blanks] pp. Bound in original stiff paper wrappers, with title printed on front wrapper in pink paper. Front endpapers with remnants of bookplate removal. Text entirely in French, clean and crisp. Except as..... More
New York: Printed for D.A. Borrenstein, at 94 William-Street, 1823. 23pp, disbound, lightly tanned. Very Good. Harris, professor of Hebrew at Hoxton Academy, demonstrates the differences between Chaldee and Hebrew for readers of the dialects. He states, "No such publication-- so far as the compiler's knowledge extends-- is extant in..... More
Charlottesville: Moseley & Tompkins, 1834. 68, [1]pp. Stitched. Contemporary plain wrappers [front wrap loose]. Light scattered foxing. Very Good. Harrison says this pamphlet was "printed from manuscript Lectures delivered to the Senior Greek Class in this University. They are intended to serve the purpose of a text for my own..... More
Bostoniae: Typis Edmundi Freeman, 1786. Folio broadside, 15-1/2" x 22", in three columns beneath title and names of graduates. The entire broadside bordered by a rule. Old folds, small chip from each of the blank upper corners. Very Good. The names of the approximately sixty graduates are listed in Latin..... More
Berlin: 1797. Magazin von merkwürdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen aus fremden Sprachen übersetzt und mit erläuternden Anmerkungen begleitet. Mit Kupfern. Vierzehnter Band. Berlin, 1797. In der Vossischen Buchhandlung. [Magazine of noteworthy new travel-experiences translated from foreign languages and accompanied by illuminating observations. With copperplates. Fourteenth Volume. Published in Berlin, 1797, by the..... More
Philadelphia: Published by Kimber and Conrad, [1812?]. 2 1/2" x 5 1/2", in contemporary plain yellow wrappers. Title page woodcut, and 44 additional woodcuts. [24] pp. Wraps lightly dusted, Near Fine. An attractive children's book. Rosenbach 466. AI 26465 [5]. More
[np: 1872?]. 8pp, each in two columns, entirely printed in German Fraktur. Light spotting, printer error obscures portions of the last line of text on two pages. Translation: THE INVESTIGATION OF WEAPONS DEALING: A CONCISE COMPLETE COMPILATION OF THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY REPORTS OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE). Good This pamphlet..... More
Nouvelle-Orleans: Au Secretariat General du Supreme Conseil, 1869. Original printed glazed yellow wrappers. 23, [1 blank] pp. Light wear, top edge uncut. Entirely in the French language. Not in Thompson. OCLC 4953870 [13] as of August 2022. More
Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1798. 32pp, later plain wraps. Minor scattered foxing, Very Good. This Oration rebuts the "current" notion "that a knowledge of the learned, or, as they are otherwise denominated, the dead languages, is in no way essential to the study of our own language, and, indeed, that..... More
New York: 1838. xxiv, [xxxiii]-280, [2], pp [as issued], 2 folding charts [one with large pieces missing]. Original blindstamped brown cloth [boards detached, textblock loosening]. Rubberstamps on front pastedown and endpaper. Scattered foxing. A candidate for rebinding, else Good+. This is Volume I of the first edition. The advertisement after..... More
New York: Stereotyped by C. Davison & Co., 33 Gold St. Copyright 1847 by Andrews & Boyle, [1847]. 4to broadside, 9-1/2" x 12", text and illustrations surrounded by decorative border. Lightly foxed, Very Good. The first portion of this rare broadside is divided by a rule into two columns. The..... More
Washington: 1888. Washington: 1888. 208pp, stitched in original printed wrappers [spine reinforced archivally]. Untrimmed and uncut. Very Good. 25 Decker 274. More
Washington: 1889. 114pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers [some chipping to blank edges and spine]. Untrimmed and uncut, Very Good. 25 Decker 272. More