Oxford: J. Fletcher and D. Prince, 1776. [4],36pp. Modern boards, paper label. Word blotted out on page 7, as in every copy. Internally clean. Very good. Written by the Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford. "Occasioned by the sarcastic observations on the conduct of the University of Oxford respecting their.....
Philadelphia. 1872. xvi,[25]-557pp. Contemporary publisher's cloth, gilt. Cloth spotted, extremities worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. About good. History written by the pastor of the St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wilmington, N.C.
Amsterdam: Thomas Lombrail, 1707. [6],432,[16]pp. plus folding table and fourteen copper plates. Frontis. 12mo. 18th-century calf, spine gilt with raised bands and tan morocco gilt label. Some wear and light soiling to boards, corners bumped, spine creased from cracked textblock (textblock expertly and discreetly repaired), front hinge starting to separate.....
London. 1722. [8],284,[28]pp. plus fifteen engraved plates including frontis. Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt, edges sprinkled red. Front board detached, rear hinge cracking, spine scuffed and slightly chipped at extremities. Corners and edges worn, boards lightly rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary manuscript annotation on p.31. Light tanning, scattered foxing.....
New Haven; Bryn Mawr; New York. 2012. 20; 20pp. text in both English and German, plus twenty-five original leaves tipped into accompanying folders. Large folio. Fine. In a cloth clamshell box. The German Bible in America has a long and significant history, reflective of the European culture which gave it.....
New Haven; Bryn Mawr; New York. 2012. 20; 20pp. text in both English and German, plus twenty-five original leaves and six additional illustrated leaves tipped into accompanying folders. Large folio. Fine. In a clamshell box. The German Bible in America has a long and significant history, reflective of the European.....
Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1776. [4],992,277,[3]pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, clasps lacking. Hinges cracked but solid, extremities worn. Light foxing and soiling, moderate wear to first and last few leaves. Good. In a custom cloth box, gilt leather label. The third edition of the first European- language Bible printed.....
Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1763. [4],992,277,[3]pp. printed in double columns. Quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, metal clasps lacking. Dampstaining and wear to edges of first and last few leaves. Some light soiling to text. Contemporary manuscript notations on endpapers. Very good to near fine. In a cloth box, gilt leather.....
Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1763. [4],992,277,[3]pp., with errors in pagination as issued, printed in two columns. Quarto. Handsomely bound in antique-style calf, tooled in blind and gilt, spine gilt with raised bands, a.e.g. New endpapers. Edges and joints lightly rubbed and worn. Evenly tanned, light scattered staining. Small closed tear in.....
New York. 1982. xlviii,954pp. Thick quarto. Cloth. As new. A continuation of this indispensable resource, describing books about the Americas printed in Europe in the first half of the seventeenth century.
New Haven: Associated Publishers of American Records, 1908. 195,[10]pp. plus illustrations. Portrait frontis. Original green cloth, gilt- lettered spine and cover, t.e.g. Minor wear to covers, small tear in spine. Dampstained throughout. Good. Bookplate of noted Americana collector Frank Cutter Deering on front pastedown. An amateur history of Barrington, Rhode.....
London: Printed and Sold by T. Sowle, 1703/1702. Two parts bound in one volume. [8],498,212,[11],[3]pp. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original calf laid down, later gilt morocco label. Spine ends worn, cracked down center of spine. One signature loose, scattered foxing and tanning. Good. In a folding cloth box, gilt leather.....
London: Printed and Sold by T. Sowle, 1703/1702. [8],498,212,[12]pp. (lacking the [2]pp. publisher's advertisement leaf at end). Modern calf in handsome antique style, retaining original leather label. Old institutional blindstamp on first and final pages of text. Early ink signature on titlepage. Titlepage rebacked, some marginal loss to original title.....
[Durham]. 1954. [5],243pp. carbon typescript, with bibliography. Pebbled cloth. Very good. PhD dissertation upon the American Tories and whether they had a distinctive and consistent political theory.
London. 1729. [4],28pp. Half title. Later plain paper boards, paper spine, manuscript spine label. Minor foxing. Ex-Huntington Library. Very good. The present pamphlet is written in the form of a letter to the publisher Nicolas Amhurst, the famous political writer, who disguised his identity under the pseudonym of "Caleb D'Anvers.".....
London. 1729. [2],66pp. plus errata leaf with advertisement on verso. Dbd. Very minor soiling. Very good. Classic statement of Bolingbroke's political theories. Bolingbroke's opinions were important influences on the American revolutionary statesmen. Includes comments on commerce in the West Indies.
Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1914. Two volumes. 351; 392pp., including illustrations and folding map. Frontispiece in each volume. Red cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Slight wear to covers, corners bumped. Very good. Prints important documents for the history of the Southwest never before published.
Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, Printers to the University, 1769. [206] leaves (printed in double columns) plus fifty-nine full-page engraved plates. Extra- illustrated with fifty-nine full-page engraved plates. Tall quarto. Contemporary black morocco, almost imperceptibly rebacked with original backstrip laid down, elaborately gilt, spine gilt with raised.....
Boston: Mein and Fleming, Oct. 10, 1768. 8pp. newspaper. Somewhat soiled and slightly browned, else good. An interesting issue of this Boston newspaper, mostly devoted to the actions of Gov. Hutchinson and the Council with regard to a riot against Custom House officers and unrest over shipping in and out.....
Boston: Printed by Order of the City Council, 1882. 175pp. plus plates (including a few photogravures). Tall octavo. Original gilt cloth. Light fraying to head of spine. Else very good. Nicely illustrated guide to the old state house in Boston. Illustrated with beautiful photogravures of the interior as it looked.....
Providence. 1989. xxi,122pp. Illus. Stiff wrappers. New. Printed in an edition of 1200 copies for the John Carter Brown Library, with a foreword by the librarian, Norman Fiering.
Boston: Printed by B. Green, and sold at the booksellers shops, 1729 [i.e. 1728]. [16]pp. including booksellers' advertisements on p.[16]. 12mo. Later stitching with reinforcement to first and last leaves. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on titlepage. Moderately agetoned. Edges worn and slightly chipped. Bottom and fore-edge of third leaf torn, with.....
Boston: Printed and sold by B. Green, and sold at the booksellers shops, 1726 [i.e. 1725]. [16]pp. Dbd. Moderately age-toned. Edges worn and slightly chipped. Contemporary inscriptions on titlepage and pp.[10,11,16]. A good copy. An early 18th-century New England almanac by Nathan Bowen, who issued a series of almanacs published.....
Boston: Printed by B. Green, and sold at the booksellers shops, 1732 [i.e. 1731]. [16]pp. Sewn with later stitching, old stab holes in inner margin. Moderate browning, minor wear at edges. A good copy. An early 18th-century New England almanac by Nathan Bowen, who issued a series of almanacs published.....
Boston: Published by B. Green, and sold at the booksellers shops, 1733 [i.e. 1732]. [16]pp. Later sewing along spine. Old stab holes in inner margin. Moderate browning, minor wear at edges. Good. A scarce 18th-century New England almanac by Nathan Bowen, who issued a series of almanacs published in Boston.....
