JOSEPH ALLEINS GRUNDLEGUNG ZUM THATIGEN CHRISTENTHUM AUS DEM ENGLISCHEN UBERSETZT.
Lancaster: 1796. 12mo, 332pp, scattered spotting. Original leather (chipped along spine). Good+. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Evans 29965. Arndt 1037. More
Lancaster: 1796. 12mo, 332pp, scattered spotting. Original leather (chipped along spine). Good+. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Evans 29965. Arndt 1037. More
New York: Bicknell & Comstock, [1879]. Oblong 4to, original cloth [a bit flecked, rubbed at extremities] with gilt-stamped title on front cover. Attractive, decorative title page. [2], 33 plates printed on rectos only, [2 advt.] pp. Light scattered soil, endpapers a bit worn. Very Good. The first edition under..... 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 sheep, rebacked, new endpapers. Good+. A very scarce German grammar, OCLC locating seven copies only. The first American edition..... 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
Boston: Thomas & Andrews. April, 1800. 12mo, contemporary full leather [rubbed, front board detached, rear joint cracked but holding]. [iv], 123, [i.e., 223], [1]pp [lacks pages 219-222]. Scattered foxing, inner cords broken. Good only. "Edited by John Snelling Popkin." Evans. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Evans 37085. Not in Sabin, Jenkins..... 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..... 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 records only one location, at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. Another issue, with two locations, has a caption title and..... 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: Gedruckt bey Christoph Sauer, 1739. [12], 792, [14] pp, with pages 791-792 bound after the final 14 pages, as recorded by Sabin. Signature B is correctly reset, as in most copies. Toned, lightly spotted. Original calf binding [front cover detached but present, spine leather rubbed], housed in a modern..... 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..... More
Germantown: Christopher Saur, 1774. Contemporary sheep, raised spine bands. [280] pp. Generally light foxing. Good+. A scarce 'ready reckoner' in German, Fraktur script. Evans 13275. Arndt 434. Hildeburn 3017. ESTC W19354 [10 locations]. More
Philadelphia: Jacob Meyer for Johnson and Warner, 1810. 12mo. 36pp. Stiff salmon wrappers [some glue staining from endpapers pasted to the wraps], stitched. Woodcut illustrated title page depicting man and child waving their arms at the family dog as it runs by and topples the contents from the dinner table..... 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..... More
Philadelphia: Benjamini Franklin Bache, 1787. [4], 170, [6] pp, as issued. First two leaves with small rectangular portion cut, not affecting the title but several other words; and a tear affecting several words on the second leaf. Bound in contemporary boards, with crudely sewn half-sheep. Endpapers absent. Good. This is..... More
Philadelphia: Gedruckt bey Carl Cist, 1799. 24pp. Stitched, untrimmed, uncut. Tanned with scattered spotting, Very Good. "Translation of: An Address to the freemen of Pennsylvania, from the committee of correspondence for the city of Philadelphia, appointed, by the friends of James Ross, to correspond with their fellow citizens on..... More
Philadelphia: Re-printed by James Humphreys, From the London Copy of 1799, 1800. 12mo. v, [1 blank] , [7]-101, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, lacks the bookseller advertisement at page [103]. Except as noted, Very Good. The text includes both Hebrew and Greek lettering. Horsley was the Bishop of Rochester, whose life..... 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
New-York: Published by Samuel Wood & Sons, No. 261, Pearl-Street; and Samuel S. Wood & Co. No. 212, Market-st. Baltimore, [1816?]. 16mo. 16pp plus original printed tan wrappers, with front wrapper vignette of old man followed by a dog, and rear wrapper vignette of an animal [fox?] looking at an..... More
New York: J.C. Haney & Co., 1866. [12-illustrations], [3], 16-38, [6- publisher advts.] pp. Stitched, lacks printed wrappers. Many plates and illustrations by Mulken (Johnson, Seward, Grant, political scenes of the tumultuous year of 1866). One advertisement leaf chipped at blank margins. Else Very Good. A satire of Johnson's..... More
Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1798. 32pp, later plain wraps. Minor scattered foxing, Very Good. This learned Oration is a rebuttal of 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..... 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..... More
[Chicago: 1878]. 4" x 5.5" in original printed wrappers. Stitched. 15, [1] pp. Lightly worn and dusted wrappers, Good+. On the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. 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