Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1799. 16pp. Disbound, light foxing, some shallow chips to blank lower margin, short closed tear [no loss] at blank portion of title leaf.. Good+. A scarce July 4th Oration by the Harvard graduate, clergyman, and formerly a teacher at Phillips Exeter. "Nothing is wanted in the..... More
[New Haven, CT: 1913, 1914]. 1913: 2-3/4" 3-5/8". Original blue dyed suede cover, blindstamped with Hebrew text "Achevah" and "1913", textured tissue endpapers, printed interior card, tied at spine with blue tasseled cord, small pencil attached to cord. Printed interior card has [4] pages: title page, two pages with printed..... More
[Philadelphia: 1800]. 8pp. Disbound, with original plain rear wrapper. Very Good. Robbins had joined a mutiny aboard the British frigate Hermione. He was jailed in South Carolina; England sought his extradition. But Robbins claimed he had been impressed into British service; that he was in reality an American citizen..... More
Hartford: 1800. 23pp, disbound, scattered foxing. Good+. DAB calls Alsop "the most gifted of the 'Hartford Wits.'" He dedicates this poem to Martha Washington. FIRST EDITION. Evans 36806. Wegelin 846. I DAB 229. Trumbull 265. More
New London: Printed and Sold by T. Green, [1768]. 12 leaves (complete), stitched. Tanning, light to moderate wear, one leaf trimmed closely [touching but not costing text]. Good+. With a paper-maker's advertisement at page [20], and an advertisement for a ferry and tavern at page [24]. An article is included..... More
Boston: Printed and Sold by the Printers and Booksellers, [1769]. 12mo. 12 leaves (complete), tanned, untrimmed, stitched. Some dusting and darkening, Good+. "This is the only known Boston edition of Ames for 1770, and presumably the one advertised in the Boston Evening Post, Dec. 4, 1769..." NAIP. New London..... More
New Haven [CT]: Printed by B.L. Hamlen, 1845. 20pp, disbound. Scattered spotting, else Very Good. Roger Sherman was a Superior Court Judge for the state of Connecticut. "He was among the earliest and most powerful advocates of the temperance cause. He was deeply interested in the welfare of the colored..... More
Willimantic [CT]: Weaver & Curtiss, Printers, 1865. 12mo. 24pp. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Scattered light foxing. Very Good. Avery explains that he wants the poem to "serve as a mirror in which the magnitude and atrocity of treason may be the more clearly seen by all of every class,"..... More
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1798. 54pp, disbound without the half title. Scattered foxing, dark brown stain running through bottom blank margin of last several pages. Good+. This is the first of four 1798 printings. The sermon is an attack on Jefferson, and a Federalist warning against utopian theories of..... More
Litchfield: Collier and Buel, [1792]. 26pp, disbound, lightly spotted. Good+. "Rev. Charles Backus was graduated from Yale College in 1769 and after studying theology under Rev. Levi Hart, became pastor of the church in Somers, Connecticut, from 1774 until his death. He maintained a theological school in his house..... More
Boston: Samuel Hall, 1796. Half title, 31pp, untrimmed and partly uncut. Wide margins, light foxing, stitched. Very Good. "The whole government of God proclaims the worth of the soul ...High earthly attainments are so far from affording complete satisfaction, that they involve in greater cares and perplexities. To the uncertainty..... More
New Haven: 1833. 24pp. Disbound, scattered foxing. Good+. The only edition recorded by American Imprints, NUC, the Library Company, Dumond, and Sabin, despite its stated description. "Bacon was a strong colonizationist, and bitter opponent of immediate emancipation. He was equally opposed to slavery and to organized antislavery effort." Dumond..... More
New Haven: Printed by B.L. Hamlen, Printer to Yale College, 1846. 28pp, disbound, title page loosening, light wear. Numerical reference in pen at head of title page. Good+. Pastor Baldwin relates a sad tale of unseemly behavior by his erstwhile Congregation, the Howe Street Society, which stiffed him on his..... More
Hartford: B. Gleason & Co., Printers, 1824. 36pp, untrimmed, stitched. Light tanning, scattered foxing. Very Good. This pamphlet argues against the establishment of Washington College, now Trinity College, and questions the need for a second college "in a State so small as Connecticut." Those who petitioned for the incorporation..... More
Hartford: Barlow and Babcock, 1785. 12mo. 300, [15], 302-348 pp [as issued]. Leaf 177-178, as the references note, is a cancel, with stanza 4 on page 177 reading, 'least you fall.' The 'S' on page 178 is inverted. Contemporary sheep, rubbed, front cover detached but present. Raised spine bands. Scattered..... More
Hartford: Barlow and Babcock, 1785. pp 300, [10 index] [bound with] Watts, I[saac]: HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS, IN THREE BOOKS. Boston: 1787 252, xi pp Expertly repaired closed tear to title and another leaf [no loss] Contemporary full leather [wooden boards exposed, hinges weak] Scattered foxing Good+... More
Hartford: Printed by Case, Tiffany & Burnham, 1842. 4, 52, 32pp. Disbound, first two leaves detached, foxed. Light chipping and edge wear to outer leaves. Signed in type on page 2: "Henry Barnard, 2d. Secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Common Schools. Hartford, May 3, 1842." Good+. Barnard "presents..... More
Hartford, Conn. March, 1852. Broadsheet, 10-1/2" x 15". Recto and verso printed in four columns. Light old folds. Title printed in large, bold type. Very Good. In 1849 the State of Maine enacted a Liquor Law authorizing "the destruction of intoxicating liquors when they may be found in the possession..... More
Bridgeport [CT]: 1867. Large folio, folded to 7 3/4" x 9 3/4". [4] pp, lined paper. Completely in ink manuscript. Very Good. P.T. Barnum had executed a bond as principal guaranteeing William Howard Barnum's honest and faithful performance of his duties. "At the time the bond was executed Wm..... More
Hartford: 1807. 34, [2 blanks] pp, with the half title. Light wear, Very Good. More
New London: Timothy Green, 1769. 108pp, with errata at bottom of page 108. Disbound, with remnant of later wrapper on spine. Untrimmed at the fore-margin and lower margin. Trimmed closely at the top margin, sometimes affecting part of a page number. Else Very Good. Beckwith's 'Advertisement' explains "Why any..... More
Andover: Flagg and Gould, 1815. 34pp, dbd, scattered spotting. Good+ or so. Published also in New London in 1815; there were no 1814 printings. AI 34021 [5]. Sabin 4344n. More
Boston: Re-printed and Sold by S. Kneeland [New-Haven: Printed 1760], 1761. 24pp. Untrimmed, loose. Toned, some blank extremity chips, closed tear to title page [no text loss]. Occasional contemporary marginalia. Signed in type on p.24, 'Paulinus.' Good+. This piece originally appeared under the pseudonym 'Paulinus' in the Connecticut Gazette..... More
New Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, [1789?]. 23, [1 blank] pp. Bound in modern card boards and half cloth, with gum label at base of front cover. Very Good. A scarce Oration, mourning the loss of Newton, a young man of "strong and capacious understanding, a judgment sound and..... More
New Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, [1789]. 23, [1 blank] pp. Disbound with some foxing. Contemporary signature at top of page [3]: 'Mary Perkins No. 16 June 1796'. Good+. Variations on the theme that only the good die young. Bidwell says, "There is a genuine dignity in the death..... More