Greenfield, Ma. 1825. 108pp. Publisher's advertisements on rear board. 16mo. Original printed paper-covered boards. Moderate staining to boards, minor chipping to spine ends, minor edge wear. Moderate scattered foxing. Very good, and wholly unsophisticated. Untrimmed. The first American printing of the first American furniture finisher's manual, reprinted from the original.....

Nantucket. [ 1930]. 149,[7]pp. plus plates. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled with minor chipping at extremities; contemporary ink notation on rear cover. Very minor scattered soiling internally. Good. An interesting work, photographically illustrated, chronologically listing shipwrecks around Nantucket Island. This is the revised edition, with additional records to 1930.....

Boston. 1831. 24pp. Original tan printed wrappers, stitched as issued. Minor chips and tears to wrappers, lightly foxed, spine obliterated. Minimal scattered foxing, tanning to first and last leaf. Very good. The third edition. In this speech, Garrison exhorts free people of color to stay in America and not be.....

Newburyport: Printed and sold by John Mycall, [ 1781]. [24]pp. including bookseller's advertisement on pp.[23-24]. 12mo. Later stitching, earlier stab holes in margin, bifolium for pp.[3-6] loose. Titlepage slightly age-toned and soiled, small tissue repair at foredge and small portion of text. Third leaf torn at foredge, with loss of.....

Newburyport: Printed & sold by J. Mycall, [ 1779]. [24]pp. 12mo. Dbd. Some light foxing. Very good. A Revolutionary-era Massachusetts almanac compiled by Daniel George, a former student of astronomy at Haverhill who issued New England almanacs published in various Massachusetts towns between 1776 and 1787. In addition to the.....

Newburyport: Printed and sold by John Mycall, [ 1777]. [24]pp. including large woodcut vignette of solar system on titlepage and printer's advertisement on final printed page to purchase rags or exchange rags for paper. 12mo. Titlepage moderately agetoned and dampstained, spine reinforced. Moderate agetoning, dampstaining, and soiling throughout. A good.....

Boston: Printed and sold by Draper and Phillips, [ 1776]. [24]pp. 12mo. Dbd. Light foxing and toning. Very good. A Revolutionary-era Massachusetts almanac, with "all things necessary, useful, and fit for such a work," including the assertion that the planets are aligned "for the good of America." The "Draper" named.....

Salem: Printed and sold by E. Russell, [ 1775]. [16]pp. Later stitching. Contemporary inscriptions on titlepage and four additional pages. Moderate age-toning and soiling. A good copy. A Revolutionary-era Massachusetts almanac with an account of the Battle of Concord, "a narrative of the excursion and ravages of the King's troops.....

Washington. Feb. 21, 1814. [3]pp. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Some separation at central fold. Minor soiling. Trimmed closely at bottom, with loss of a line of text. Good. Elbridge Gerry writes to an unidentified recipient - likely a son-in-law or another close male relative -.....

Northampton: The Hampshire Bookshop, 1942. xi,104pp. Original half leather and boards. Spine ends a bit worn. Very good. Inscribed by the compiler on the front free endpaper. A useful reference.

London. 1775. [4],36pp. Modern buckram, spine gilt. Contemporary ink ownership signature and small ink stain on first leaf, minor foxing. Very good. Untrimmed. A fiery sermon on the "distressing and alarming" state of affairs in the American colonies by William Gordon, pastor of the Third Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Gordon.....

Goteborg: C.F. Arwidsson, 1862. [4],476pp. 12mo. Contemporary three quarter calf and pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Scattered foxing and tanning. Overall very good. A scarce account of the travels of the Swedish frigate, Norrköping, to Swedish possessions in the West Indies and visits to North American cities. The Norrköping was sent.....

[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.....