![A. W. Sijthoff's Uitgevers-Maatschappij Leiden [wrapper title].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/872/080/1615080872.0.l.jpg)
A. W. Sijthoff's Uitgevers-Maatschappij Leiden [wrapper title].
by A. W. Sijthoff's Uitgevers-Maatschappij.
[Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff's Uitgevers-Maatschappij, 1913]. First edition.. Somewhat soiled and toned, with a light stain to the upper wrapper; in good to very good condition.. Oblong pamphlet (5.38 x 7.75 inches), original printed wrappers, [32] pages. Illus. A promotional pamphlet from the important Leiden printing and publishing house, "Ter Herinnering aan de Internationale Grafische Tentoonstelling in het Paleis voor Volksvlijt te Amsterdam, gehouden van 22 Juli --15 September 1913." Illustrated throughout from photographs of various stages of... Read More
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Nine Sermons on Important Doctrinal and Practical Subjects, Delivered in Philadelphia, November, 1834 . . . Taken in Short Hand. With a Brief Memoir of the Author, and an Appendix.
by Ballou, Hosea.
Philadelphia: Published by Abel C. Thomas, John Richards, Printer, 1835. First edition.. Spine head and corners just a trifle frayed; spine and board edges sunning; some light general soiling; a very good copy.. 12mo (7.13 x 4.38 inches), original watered rose cloth, printed paper spine label, 180 pages. Eddy, Universalism in America, 812; American Imprints 30185.
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Our New West. Records of Travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean . . . including a full description of the Pacific Railroad; and of the Life of the Mormons, Indians, and Chinese.
by Bowles, Samuel.
Hartford, Conn.: Published by Subscription Only, Hartford Publishing Co., 1869. First edition. Light damp-stain to the lower corners of the leaves in the latter quarter of the book, some light soiling; in very good condition. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), recent half leather and marbled sides, 524 pages. Frontis, 13 plates (including a map). An account of travel in the West subsequent to the opening of the Transcontinental Railroad from the editor of the Springfield Republican, an expanded follow-up to... Read More
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Lectures on Moral Philosophy: Delivered before the "Edinburgh Philosophical Society," and Reported for the "Edinburgh Chronicle.
by Combe, George.
Boston: Marsh, Capen & Lyon; New-York: Daniel Appleton & Co., 1836. First edition.. Spine and board edges faded to tan; lightly foxed; a very good copy.. Small 8vo (7.63 x 4.75), original ribbon embossed violet cloth, printed paper spine label, iv, 183, [1], 4 pages. From the pioneering Scottish phrenologist and then professor at the University of Edinburgh; these lectures were not collected in a Scottish edition until 1840. Contemporary pencil ownership signature on the front free endpaper.... Read More
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A Narrative of the Affair Between Mr. Creswell, and Miss Sc--e [Scrope], Address'd to G----v----e Sc------e, Esq. By which may be Discover'd the Falsities, Misrepresentations, &c. in a Letter in the General Evening-Post, October 31; Signed Lancelot Lee.
by [Creswell, Thomas Estcourt].
London: Printed for Charles Green, [1747]. First edition. Wrappers sunned; first and last page somewhat dust-soiled, with a little scattered internal soiling; in very good condition. Removed pamphlet glued into later wrappers, 7.5 x 4.88 inches, [4], 78, [2] pages. An object lesson in affairs of the heart, the public and at times fairly explicit defense of a rather sordid affair that led to charge of bigamy against the Member of Parliament Creswell, who had been accused by Gervase Scrope of abandoning his... Read More
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Medical Reports on the Effects of Water, Cold and Warm, as a Remedy in Fever and Other Diseases, Whether Applied to the Surface of the Body, or used Internally . . . from the Fourth London Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.
by Currie, James, M. D.
Philadelphia: Printed for James Humphreys, and for Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1808. First American edition.. Front joint cracked but holding; rubbed; some foxing; a good, sound copy.. 8vo (8.5 x 5.13 inches), two volumes in one (as published, pagination continuous), original sheep, black morocco spine label, gilt lettering, 430 pages. Five gallons of salt water, of the temperature of 44 deg. were poured over her naked body, at five o'clock in the afternoon, and after being hastily dried... Read More
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Tale of a Physician: or, The Seeds and Fruits of Crime.
by Davis, Andrew Jackson.
Boston: William White & Company, 1869. First edition. Cloth sunned, with boards and spine nearly completely turned tan; some light wear, with fraying at the head and foot of the spine; a little light foxing; in very good condition. 8vo (7.5 x 5.13 inches), original blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt lettering on the spine, 325, [1], 8 pages. "Moreover, finally, and in short: he found that, by this mysterious and immutable law of phreno-electrotyping, so to call it, which is outwrought... Read More
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Butler's Ghost: or, Hudibras. The Fourth Part. With Reflections upon these Times.
by [D'Urfey, Thomas].
London: Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh, at the Black-Bull in Corn-hill, over against the Royal-Exchange, 1682. First edition.. Traces of an early bookplate to the front pastedown; foot of the spine a little chipped, some general light wear and bumping, with a little dust-soiling; in very good condition.. 8vo (6.88 x 4.63 inches), original sheep, red leather label, gilt lettering, [viii], 188, [4] pages. A sympathetic continuation of Butler's Hudibras from the Restoration wit and playwright, here satirizing in... Read More
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![The History of Williamson County, Illinois. From the Earliest Times, Down to the Present, with an Accurate Account of the Secession Movement, Ordinances, Raids, etc., also a Complete History of its "Bloody Vendetta," Includding [sic] all its Recondite Causes, etc., etc.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/178/471/1571471178.0.l.jpg)
The History of Williamson County, Illinois. From the Earliest Times, Down to the Present, with an Accurate Account of the Secession Movement, Ordinances, Raids, etc., also a Complete History of its "Bloody Vendetta," Includding [sic] all its Recondite Causes, etc., etc.
by Erwin, Milo.
Marion, Illinois: n. p., 1876. First edition. Some small spots of abrasion to the cloth; some light browning in the endpapers from the binder's glue; in very good condition, quite tight and bright. Small 8vo (6.63 x 4.63 inches), original blind-stamped black cloth, gilt lettering, viii, 286 pages. "Here 'Big Jep,' 'Yaller Bill,' and Samuel R. were arrested. The Sherifff then went with a few men to 'Black Bill's,' and arrested him." This county history "is especially important because of its account of the... Read More
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Selections from the Writings of the Late Thomas Hedges Genin. With a Biographical Sketch. A Memorial Work.
by Genin, Thomas Hedges.
New York: Edward O. Jenkins, Printer, 1869. First edition. Light damp-stain along the upper edge of the frontispiece and text block; some general wear and soiling; in good condition. 8vo (9/38 x 6.25 inches), original blind-stamped brown cloth neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down, gilt lettering, [i-ii], [1-4], [3]-615, [1] pages. Lithograph frontis portrait, inserted engraved plate. Midland Notes 96: "He arrived in St Clairsville, Ohio, in 1817, and became closely associated with Benjamin Lundy, in the Union... Read More
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Selections from the Writings of the Late Thomas Hedges Genin. With a Biographical Sketch. A Memorial Work.
by Genin, Thomas Hedges.
New York: Edward O. Jenkins, Printer, 1869. First edition. A little rubbed and bumped, with the head of the spine a little frayed; in very good condition. 8vo (9/38 x 6.25 inches), original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering, [i-ii], [1-4], [3]-615, [1] pages. Lithograph frontis portrait, inserted engraved plate. Midland Notes 96: "He arrived in St Clairsville, Ohio, in 1817, and became closely associated with Benjamin Lundy, in the Union Humane Society; one of the country's first anti-slavery societies; later... Read More
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An Answer to Fools and a Word to the Wise, Addressed to the Reverend Maria de Fleury, John Ryland and Co.
by Huntington, William.
London: Printed for G. Terry, Bookseller [et al.] . . . Sold also, at Providence Chapel; at Monkwell Street Meeting, every Tuesday Evening; and at Horsleydown, every Thursday Evening 1792. First edition. Some light foxing and toning; in very good condition. 8vo, recent boards with covered with older white paper stock, 103 pages. "Maria has labored hard, I believe, almost five years, against my licentious life and doctrines, and without proving one just charge against me of immorality; and, on the other hand,... Read More
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The Old Brewery, and the New Mission House at the Five Points.
by Ladies of the Mission.
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First edition. Spine and board edges sunned and faded; a trifle worn, some light foxing; a very good copy. 12mo (7.38 x 5 inches), original gilt pictorial blind-stamped lilac cloth, gilt lettering, 304 pages. Frontispiece view of the new mission building. Women's mission work in the Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan, with some background on the brutal conditions of life there for the poor. The Old Brewery of the title had long been a... Read More
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A Selection from the Writings of the Late . . .
by Lawrence, Jonathan, Jr.
New York: n. p., 1833. First edition. Cloth somewhat sunned, boards a little bumped; cloth frayed at the head of the spine; some light dust-soiling; in good condition. 12mo (8 x 5 inches), original cloth, spine stamped in gilt, [viii], 172 pages. A private publication of short literary pieces (criticism, an account of a dream, imaginary dialogues) and verses, collected for the friends and family of a New York lawyer who died in April, 1833 at the age of 25. Printed... Read More
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West of Powder River: Tales of the Far West Told in Narrative Verse by "Powder River" Jack H. Lee.
by Lee, Jack H.
New York: Huntington Press, (1933). First edition. Some foxing and light wear; in very good condition.. 8vo, original pictorial buckram, 204 pages. Illus. by Paul Honore. No dust jacket. A presentation copy, with a characteristic ink drawing by Lee, signed both by Lee and his wife (with a sentiment) on the front free endpaper. A collection of much cowboy verse; as Courtney Riley Cooper notes in the preface, "With his wife, Kittie Lee, strumming a chorded obligato to their original songs of the... Read More
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Remarks on the Relation between Education and Crime, in a Letter to the Right Rev. William White . . . to which are added, Some Observations by N. H. Julius, M. D. of Hamburg, a Corresponding Member of the Society.
by Lieber, Francis.
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 1835. First edition. Some soiling and foxing and light staining and wear; a good to very good copy. Original printed blue wrappers (8.75 x 5.38 inches), 24 pages. A presentation copy, with a semi-legible inscription in ink on the front wrapper, "To Jos. Ficher [?] with the regards of his frnd. & srvt. Francis Lieber." "The mere absence of crime, therefore, is neither a proof of a state of morality--for it may originate from... Read More
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The Cause and Cure of Infidelity: with an Account of the Author's Conversion. By the Rev. David Nelson, of Quincy, Illinois; late of Marion County, Missouri.
by Nelson, David.
New-York: Published by John S. Taylor, Brick Church Chapel, 1837. First edition. Spine just a trifle sunned; some light rubbing; some light foxing throughout; a very good copy. 8vo (7.75 x 4.88 inches), original blind-stamped ribbon-embossed blue cloth, gilt lettering, 348, 8 pages. "Is not the age of Infidelity approaching, along with the time of terrible judgments?" A detailed argument against various "scoffers," along with an account of Nelson's own conversion, published shortly after he had arrived in Quincy as an agent for the... Read More
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The Book of Niagara Falls . . . Third Edition. Carefully Revised, and Enlarged. Accompanied by Maps.
by [Niagara Falls]. Parsons, Horatio A.
Buffalo: Oliver G. Steele, 1836. Stated third edition.. Spine and board edges somewhat sunned; lightly foxed throughout; a very good copy.. 12mo, original embossed deep purple or brown cloth, gilt lettering, 111, [1] pages. Folding map tipped in before the title page, approx. 12.5 x 14 inches, A discursive guidebook to the falls, evidently expanded over the 96-page edition of 1835, and first published anonymously in 1834 under the title A guide to travelers visiting the falls of Niagara. Includes... Read More
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Selections of Juvenile and Miscellaneous Poems, Written or Translated by . . .
by Park, Roswell.
Philadelphia: Desilver, Thomas & Co., 1836. First edition. Cloth sunned and a bit spotted, label somewhat rubbed; some light foxing; in good to very good condition. 12mo (7.38 x 4.75 inches), original patterned rose cloth, gilt lettered leather spine label, 153, [1] pages. Many of these examples of youthful verses were written while the author was a student at West Point (including an anecdote of a classmate with a dislocated jaw), where he graduated in 1831.
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Propositions Concerning Protection and Free Trade.
by Phillips, Willard.
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1850. First edition.. Spine a trifle sunned, fragile label a little darkened and rubbed; some light wear and dust-soiling; some foxing the endpapers; a very good copy.. 12mo (7.56 x 4.75 inches), original ribbed blue cloth, printed paper spine label, xv, [1], 233, [1] pages. I should be happy to believe that there is little at stake, and that the doctrines of free trade do not tend directly to the distress,... Read More
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The Traveller; or, Meditations on Various Subjects. Written on Board a Man of War, to which is Added, Converse with the World Unseen.
by [PITTSBURGH IMPRINTS]. Meikle, James.
Pittsburgh: Published by R. Patterson & Lambdin, 1818. An early Pittsburgh edition and a later American edition of this 18th century account of a Scottish surgeon's meditations aboard a British man of war. Small flaw in one leaf, with loss of several letters. Some chipping and cracking at the head of the spine, with some wear to the label and corners; foxing; a very good copy. 12mo, contemporary tree calf, red leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 254, [8] pages.... Read More
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![The Tangletown Letters: Being the Reminiscences, Observations, and Opinions of Timotheus Trapp [pseud], Esq. Including a Report of the Great Mammothic Reform Convention.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/602/415/1298415602.0.l.jpg)
The Tangletown Letters: Being the Reminiscences, Observations, and Opinions of Timotheus Trapp [pseud], Esq. Including a Report of the Great Mammothic Reform Convention.
by [Reynolds, Elhanan Winchester].
Buffalo: Wanzer, McKim, 1856 First edition.. Spine sunned, with a spot of fading or staining to the rear board and some light sunning and bumping to the edges and corners; a couple of gatherings just a bit sprung, some light soiling and spotting; a very good copy.. 8vo, original blind-stamped blue-green cloth, gilt spine, 300, 12, 48 pages. Frontis, five plates by Frederick M. Coffin. A satirical novel poking fun at abolitionists and suffragists, with digressive attacks on... Read More
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Poems on Various Subjects.
by Roseboom, Jane.
Hillsdale, Mich.: Published by the Author, 1871. Second edition; the first appeared in 1869. Front free endpaper excised. Light foxing throughout, cloth a bit bumped and rubbed; a very good copy. 8vo (8 x 5.5 inches), original green cloth, gilt lettering, 216 pages. This edition printed in Lansing by W. S. George & Co. Generally verses of piety and sentiment, with several on rural life and a few in general terms on the Civil War. Cf. Davis & Joyce 4662.
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The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher, Containing his Complete Masterpiece, and Family Physician; His Experienced Midwife, His Book of Problems, and His Remarks on Physiognomy.
by [Salmon, William].
London: Camden Publishing Company, Upper Street, N., [ca. 1900]. A little soiled and worn; a trifle foxed; in very good condition. 12mo (5.13 x 3.63 inches), original red cloth stamped in black and gilt, [1-4], [5]-474 pages. Two colored plates inserted before the title page (included in the pagination), illustrations in the text. A handsome little cheap edition of the Master-Piece, etc., printed from moderately battered plates and in all some measure of the enduring popularity of this folk sex and medicine manual.
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![Constitution of the Sandbornton [sic] Society for the Reformation of Morals, Instituted December 29, 1814 [caption title].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/134/471/1571471134.0.l.jpg)
Constitution of the Sandbornton [sic] Society for the Reformation of Morals, Instituted December 29, 1814 [caption title].
by Sandbornton Society for the Reformation of Morals.
[Sanbornton, N. H.: n. p., 1815?]. First edition. Nearly split along the conjugate fold (but just hanging on at the head of the spine), old folds and some light browning and dust-soiling; in good to very good condition. Two formerly conjugate leaves (9.25 x 5.88 inches) on wove paper, [2] facing pages of text. "It shall be the duty of all the members to exert their influence to suppress immorality of every description, particularly Sabbath-breaking, Intemperance, Profaneness, and Falsehood; to endeavor to reclaim... Read More
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