Boston: Green & Russell, and Edes & Gill, 1761. 31pp. Dbd. Moderately dampstained. Good. Memorial sermon for King George II, preached by Henry Caner, minister at King's Chapel in Boston.
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1792. [4],[181]-248pp. 20th-century three-quarter morocco and cloth, gilt. Titlepage and later typed sheet tipped in at front of text. Text lightly tanned. Very good. May issue for the last year of the AMERICAN MUSEUM..., containing an account of "Western Discoveries" in the "interior regions of America." The.....
Philadelphia: Printed by the author, Nov. 23, 1793. 103,[9]pp. Contemporary wrappers. Contemporary manuscript title on front wrapper. Heavy foxing on first two leaves, otherwise internally very clean and bright. Near fine, unopened. Noted second edition on the titlepage, printed soon after the first edition of the same year. "This pamphlet.....
Philadelphia: Printed by the author, Nov. 23, 1793. 103,[9]pp. Modern plain wrappers. Occasional light stains, else near fine, with James Kent's signature on the titlepage. Second edition of a vivid eyewitness account of the famous 1793 yellow fever epidemic that "doomed the supremacy of Philadelphia among American cities" (DAH). Carey.....
Philadelphia: From the Press of R. Folwell, 1800. 32pp. Later marbled wrappers with handwritten paper label. Leaves detached. Internally near fine. "Read before the American Philosophical Society, on the 20th of June, 1800" - page 3. Cathrall was a Philadelphia physician trained in London, Edinburgh, and Paris. A personal survivor.....
New-York: H. Gaine, 1774. xx,28pp. Contemporary blue paper wrappers. Very minor toning and foxing. Very good plus. A separately issued "Appendix" to the American edition of the biography of Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury. Attributed by Evans to Thomas Chandler.
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1789. 15pp. Dbd. Tanned, some soiling. Final leaf torn with no loss. Good. Anna Strong died March 22, 1789, aged 30 years.
Boston: Printed and Sold by John Draper, 1762. [2],viii,50pp. Half title. Dbd. Ink inscription on half title. Very good. Chauncy (1705-87) was the minister of the First Church in Boston for sixty years and the most influential clergyman in Boston. The present sermon concerns the missionary activity among western Indians.....
Boston: Printed by Kneeland and Adams, 1768. 205,[1]pp. Half title. Modern blue cloth, spine gilt. Light, even tanning. Very good. Inscribed on the half title, almost certainly from Chauncy, "To the Hon. William Smith Jun. Esq. in New York." William Smith, Jr., was a prominent New York lawyer and son.....
Boston: Kneeland and Adams, 1767. 56pp. Stitched as issued. Light wear and loss to lower left corner, light staining. About very good. Untrimmed. Chauncy's reply to criticisms levied in England that the people of the American colonies had not been rigorous in upholding and promoting the tenets of their faith.....
Boston: Printed by Rogers and Fowle, for S. Eliot, 1744. 45pp. Dbd. Light toning and foxing, heavier to titlepage. Just about very good. Installation sermon preached by Rev. Charles Chauncy, an influential and important Congregational minister in colonial New England.
Boston. 1743. xxx,18,424pp. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Blindstamp on titlepage. Very minor toning and foxing. Else very good. Chauncy (1705-87) was the minister of the First Church in Boston for sixty years, and the most influential clergyman in Boston. The author of several books on religious controversy, this.....
Boston: Rogers and Fowle, 1741. [3]-30pp. Lacks half title. Tipped into Gaylord binder. Later ownership inscription on verso of titlepage. Moderate wear and soiling. Lower portion of fore edge torn away on p.13, affecting last letters in nine lines of text. About good. Chauncy, great-grandson of the second president of.....
Philadelphia. 1794. [4],48pp. Dbd. Tanned, some dampstaining and foxing. Good. American translation of a French work for children on political philosophy. The translator hoped "that this little treatise...may assist in counteracting any unfavourable sentiments which the lovers of royalty and aristocracy, those haters of equality, are endeavoring to inspire in.....
Philadelphia. 1779. 256pp. Contemporary calf, raised bands, handwritten paper label affixed to front board. Head of spine and outer hinges chipped. Endpapers and first few leaves lightly mildewed. Good. Churchman was a Quaker minister from Nottingham, Pennsylvania, who visited Quaker meetings in Virginia, Maryland, and New Jersey, as well. Reprinted.....
Boston: Printed and Sold by S. Kneeland, 1752. [2],vi,453,[6]pp. Contemporary speckled calf. Head of spine a bit worn. Early ownership signature on titlepage. Text with light, even tanning. Very good. The question of whether an infant could, and should, be baptized, was a major controversy in mid-eighteenth century Anglo-American theology.....
Philadelphia: Printed for the Purchasers, 1795. v,[1],66pp. [page 2 misnumbered 42]; viii,66,[2]pp. Modern blue cloth, leather label. Some scattered foxing, else a very good copy. Second edition of the first issue of Part I and the first issue of Part II. An early Cobbett work, the first part of A......
Philadelphia: Thomas Bradford, 1795. v,[1],66pp. Dbd. Minor toning and spotting. Contemporary annotations throughout. Ownership signature. Good. Second issue of the second edition of the first part of Cobbett's A BONE TO GNAW.... An early Cobbett work, the first part of A BONE TO GNAW... was written in response to the.....
Philadelphia. 1796. 31pp. 19th-century three quarter morocco and marbled boards. Spine chipped and worn. Some light foxing. Good. The second edition, as styled on the titlepage, issued the same year as the first, of this reply to a review of Cobbett's "A Bone to Gnaw." This is a savage attack.....
Philadelphia: Published by Thomas Bradford, 1795. 8,111pp. Half title. Modern half morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Early ink notes to half title and titlepage. Leaves tanned. Very good. One of three states, according to Gaines, of the first edition of this Cobbett work, with the last word on page 89.....
Philadelphia. 1796. 78pp. Dbd. Foxed titlepage. Good. Cobbett lashes out at the representative of the French Directorate.
Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Bradford, 1796. 71pp. Dbd. A bit tanned, else very good. Second edition, printed same year as the first, of Cobbett's attack on Edmund Randolph's VINDICATION, variously described as an "outburst of Cobbett's vulgar malice" (Moncure Conway) and "handled with much satirical scurrility" (James Madison to Jefferson).....
New York. 1795. 184pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, leather label. Calf worn, chipped at top of spine. Front free endsheet excised. Some light foxing, a couple small holes in one leaf not affecting text. Else internally good. The first American edition, with the preface which was suppressed in many copies. The.....
Boston: Printed for Samuel Gerrish, 1724. [2],25pp. Dbd. Tanned and worn, with some spotting. Good. Colman, a Boston pastor, uses the occasion of Leverett's death to stress the importance of education, especially in producing future leaders in the church and the community. According to the North American Imprints Project, this.....
[Philadelphia. 1797]. [7]pp. Dbd. Printed self-wrappers. Very good. This report raises the issue of the arming of merchant vessels. The harassment of American commerce by European powers was a chronic problem in the Adams, Jefferson, and Madison administrations.
