Lancaster: 1796. 12mo, 332pp, scattered spotting. Original leather (chipped along spine). Good+. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Evans 29965. Arndt 1037. More about JOSEPH ALLEINS GRUNDLEGUNG ZUM THATIGEN CHRISTENTHUM AUS DEM ENGLISCHEN UBERSETZT
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 about AMES' ALPHABETS, ADAPTED TO THE USE OF ARCHITECTS, ENGRAVERS, ENGINEERS, ARTISTS, SIGN PAINTERS,...
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 about A COMPLETE GERMAN GRAMMAR, IN TWO PARTS. THE FIRST PART CONTAINING THE THEORY OF THE LANGUAGE...
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 about DISSERTATIO PHYSIOLOGICA INAUGURALIS, DE CAUSIS RESPIRATIONIS EJUSDEMQUE EFFECTIBUS; QUAM, SUB...
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 about A GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE; ORIGINALLY COMPOSED FOR THE COLLEGE-SCHOOL, AT...
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 about YR AMERICAN, YR HWN SYDD YN CYNNWYS NODAU AR DAITH O DDYFFRYN OHIO
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 about Y RHYFEL CARTREFOL YN AMERICA. HANES BRWYDR Y BULL RUN, Y GYNTAF O'R YMLADDFEYDD GWAEDLYD A FUL...
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 about CARTAS CRITICAS SOBRE VARIAS QUESTIONES ERUDITAS, CIENTIFICAS, PHYSICAS, Y MORALES, A LA MODA Y...
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 about ESPOSICION PRESENTADA AL EXMO. SR. PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA MEXICANA, DE LOS SERVICIOS...
London: Printed for the Author; Philadelphia: Reprinted for his son, Isaac Edrehi, 1853. xvi, [17]-290, [30-List of subscribers] pp, frontis portrait of the author with protective tissue. Bound in original blue blind embossed cloth [light rubbing, light wear to corners], gilt lettered spine [spine ends bumped, gilt rubbed]. Portrait and... More about AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE TEN TRIBES, SETTLED BEYOND THE RIVER SAMBATYON, IN THE EAST; WITH...
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 about ZIONITISCHER WEYRAUCHS-HUAJGEL ODER: MYRRHEN BERG, WORINNEN ALLERLEY LIEBLICHES UND WOHL...
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 7889. Hildeburn 1525. More about SOME GOSPEL TREASURES, OR THE HOLIEST OF ALL UNVAILING; DISCOVERING YET MORE THE RICHES OF GRACE...
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 about DER GESCHWINDE RECHNER ODER: DES HAENDLERS NUETZLICHER GEHUELFE; IN KAUFFUNG UND VERKAUFFUNG...
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 about DIE GEFAHR IN DEN STRASSEN. NEBST EINIGEN ANDERN ERZAHLUNGEN
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 about ELEMENTS OF THE CHALDEE LANGUAGE, INTENDED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE HEBREW GRAMMARS, AND AS A...
Cincinnati and Chicago: American Hebrew Printing House. The Bloch Printing Company, [1891 or 1892]. 13, [3 blanks] pp. Disbound [bit of loosening]. Hebrew characters in title for 'Kol Nidre'. Hebrew printing in portions of text. Light wear, else Very Good. Singerman 4204. Not in Goldman. OCLC records eleven locations as of January 2018. More about MANLINESS IN ATONEMENT. A [KOL NIDRE] SERMON DELIVERED BEFORE THE CONGREGATION 'TEMPLE SINAI,'...
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 about SELECTAE E VETERI TESTAMENTO ET E PROFANIS SCRIPTORIBUS HISTORIAE
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 about EINE ADDRESSE AN DIE FREYEN LEUTE VON PENNSYLVANIEN, VON DER CORRESPONDENZ-COMMITTEE DIE FUR DIE...
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 about A PICTURE BOOK FOR LITTLE CHILDREN
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 about THE YOUNG CHILD'S A, B, C; OR, FIRST BOOK
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 about ANDROO JOHNSON, HIS LIFE, INCLUDIN' HIS INFANCY, HIS BOYHOOD, AND HIS DIMOCRISY AND ABOLITIONISM,...
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 about AN ORATION, DELIVERED BEFORE THE PBK SOCIETY, AT THEIR ANNIVERSARY MEETING, IN NEW-HAVEN, ON THE...
Mexico: J.M. Lara, 1851. Contemporary dark marbled boards and gilt- decorated quarter leather spine [edge-rubbed]. pp vii, [1 blank], 39, [1 blank], 41-72, 53, [1 blank] + 2 folding charts, 14, 34 + 6 folding charts, 31, [1 blank] + 2 folding charts, 53, [1 blank] + 3 folding charts... More about DOCUMENTOS RELATIVOS A LA REUNION EN ESTA CAPITAL DE LOS GOBERNADORES DE LOS ESTADOS, CONVOCADOS...
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 about A CRITICAL GRAMMAR OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I
[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 about MENIGHEDS DRONING FOR DEN NORSTE EVANGELISCH-LUTHERIFE TREFOLDIGHEDS-MENIGHED I CHICAGO