Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1834. 28pp. Original printed wrappers bound into antique half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Inscription from author on front wrapper. Library stamps on titlepage. Minor dampstaining. Very good. Presentation copy, inscribed to James Kent, professor of Law at Columbia College and Chancellor of New.....
[Philadelphia. 1792]. 32pp. Bound with ten other titles (detailed below). Contemporary marbled boards, neatly rebacked in antique-style half calf, gilt, leather label. Contemporary manuscript contents list on front pastedown, contemporary ownership inscription on fly leaf. Light foxing throughout. Very good. Fourth edition, with notes and an appendix extracted from authentic.....
New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1834. Two volumes. 209; 206pp. Half title in both volumes. Original publisher's brown cloth, gilt burgundy morocco spine labels. First volume expertly rebacked, retaining original backstrip, second volume with neat repairs to spine ends. Multiple early ownership inscriptions of Elizabeth Alice Gill.....
Boston: Printed by Russell and Cutler, 1805. 21pp. 16mo. Dbd. Some early ink cross-outs to the text on page 20. Ink number at foot of titlepage. About very good. In 1805 Boston-area citizens (including John Adams and John Quincy Adams) raised more than $30,000 to establish the "Massachusetts Professorship of.....
Amherst. 1841. Two volumes. xii,831pp. plus numerous plates and maps, many folding. Large quarto. Modern black cloth, gilt black cloth labels on covers and spines. Lightly toned. Very good, untrimmed and largely unopened. This copy bears a presentation inscription on the front free endpaper from the eminent orator, Edward Everett.....
Northampton: Published by Butler & Bridgman, 1850. 160pp. Engraved frontispiece plus plates and in text illustrations. 12mo. Original blindstamped cloth. Head of spine lightly frayed. Some sunning to binding. Pasted picture on front endpaper. Bookplate. Overall very good. A humorous allegory intended to support the temperance cause, with many illustrations.....
New York. 1903. Two volumes. ix,434;viii,493pp. Portrait. Original cloth, t.e.g. Bookplate. Very good. Memoirs of this noted Massachusetts lawyer, representative, and senator, relating his experiences at Harvard and in politics.
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London: Printed for Robt. Sayer and John Bennett, August 17, 1776. Engraved map consisting of eight folio sheets backed on linen (54 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches), with contemporary color outlining and shading of some boundaries and geographic features. Slightly soiled, occasional minor stains, a few old repairs (no loss.....
Chicago. 1881. 246pp. Original cloth, stamped in gilt. Cloth a bit sunned and slightly rubbed, 1/4-inch stain on spine, else fine. First American edition, after the London edition of the same year. Holyoake was a Chartist and Owenite in early life. He visited America for four months with a view.....
Boston: Printed by Bartholomew Green, for the booksellers and sold at their shops, 1715 [i.e. 1714]. [16]pp., including a single woodcut anatomical illustration with astrological references on p.[2]. Dbd. Contemporary ownership inscription of "Abraham Harding" on p.[8]. Moderately age-toned and soiled. Edges worn. A very good copy. A rare early.....
Norwich, Ct. [ 1802]. 228pp. 12mo. Original half sheep and paper boards. Rear board detached, spine and edges rather worn, boards scuffed. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Moderate tanning and foxing, occasional dampstaining. Good, in original condition. In a half morocco and cloth slipcase with chemise. A scarce.....
London. 1765. [6],iv,566pp. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked. Corners worn. Minor foxing. Very good. Second edition of Hutchinson's history of the Bay Colony. Hutchinson later wrote three additional volumes, but they were not issued as a set.
Boston: Thomas & John Fleet, 1767. [4],iv,539pp. Contemporary calf. Spine worn, foot of spine chipped. Boards rubbed and scuffed, worn at extremities. Early 19th-century ownership inscriptions on pastedown and titlepage. Minor soiling and toning to text. About very good. First edition of the second volume of Hutchinson's history of Massachusetts.....
Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill... 1773. 126pp. Original plain blue-grey wrappers, stitched as issued. Half of front wrapper lacking, wrapper chipped along the spine, wrappers very lightly stained. Occasional light tanning. Very good. Untrimmed. Fine evidence of the growing schism between crown and colonies with regard to the nature.....
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Boston: Printed by Thomas and John Fleet, 1769. [2],ii,576pp. Contemporary calf, spine gilt ruled. Spine chipped and rubbed, hinges cracked, boards scuffed, edges and corners somewhat worn. Ownership inscription on titlepage. 2 3/4-inch tear from fore-edge of leaf B5. Text block edges dust soiled, text toned and lightly foxed. Good.....
[New York: Printed by John Holt, May 20, 1774]. Folio broadsheet, printed in two columns. Approximately 12 1/2 x 8 inches. Lightly silked. Inscribed in later ink in lower margin of p.[2]: "Printed by John Holt." Very good. In a half brown morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt. A.....
Boston. June 27, 1812. [4]pp., with integral address, on a bifolium. Previously folded. Some paper loss along fold, affecting first two lines of text body. Tanned and dampstained. About good. A letter from John Iverson to his friend John Carnes in New York City, informing him of his arrival in.....
[Boston. 1828]. 28pp. Dbd. Previously stitched. Titlepage detaching. Scattered pencil annotations. Dust soiling and light foxing. Good plus. A printing of various critical statements made by the MASSACHUSETTS JOURNAL against Andrew Jackson, his relations, and his supporters, intended to demonstrate the bias and untrustworthiness of the paper, and perhaps newspapers.....
Boston: Printed for Caleb Bingham, 1802. 108pp. 16mo. Contemporary half calf and drab paper boards. Front joint chipped and a bit tender, slight chipping and rubbing to boards, minor edge wear. Old library bookplate on front pastedown. Minor foxing. Very good. A later edition of this influential religious juvenile, first.....
Philadelphia, printed; Boston, re-printed. [1779]. 15pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Portion of titlepage clipped away at upper margin, not affecting text. Uniform light tanning. Very good. One of five total printings of this work in 1779, following the official edition, done in Philadelphia. Herein John Jay outlines the.....
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[Mainly New York, Philadelphia, & Boston. ca. 1795-1810]. [38]pp. Folio. Modern backstrip over contemporary marbled boards, spine label and endpapers renewed. Corners worn, boards rubbed. Minor foxing and toning, some dampstaining. The second page of "The Moment is Sad" is lacking, otherwise complete. Good. A wonderful collection of early American.....
London: Printed and sold by R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 1782. Letterpress title and index leaf, otherwise engraved throughout. Twenty-three engraved maps on thirty-one sheets (eighteen folding, eleven double-page), all handcolored in outline. Half speckled calf and marbled boards, spine with raised bands, bands and ornaments tooled in gilt, leather.....
Pittsfield, Ma. 1864. 391pp. plus frontispiece and plates. Original publisher's cloth, gilt and blind stamped.Spine sunned, some tanning. Very good. First edition of a scarce regimental history of this Civil War unit from Massachusetts. Well-written, with great detail on the regiment's service in the South. "Because of Johns' descriptive powers.....
Boston: Printed by Alfred Mudge & Son, 1854. 24,4pp. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Faint vertical crease. A few singular spots of foxing. Near fine. Third edition, with additions. "The Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company was one of a number of organizations formed in the New England states to foster settlement.....
Cambridge. 1813. 60pp. Dbd. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Some faint dampstaining to small portions of text. Minor soiling else. About very good. Sermon celebrating the centennial of Weston, Massachusetts, now a suburb of Boston, and giving a history of the town. This copy with the ownership inscription of Dr.....
