New York: David Denniston, 1801. 40pp. Dbd, some leaves loose. Small tear to top of titlepage, not affecting text, ink notation above title. Light foxing to first and last leaf. Internally very clean. Good. Scarce pamphlet by poet and diplomat Joel Barlow, proposing actions for the United States at the.....
New Haven: From Sidney's Press, 1806. 119pp. 12mo. Contemporary gray wrappers. Ownership inscription dated 1808 on front blank. Light tanning and foxing, wrappers stained. About very good. A later Connecticut edition after the first Philadelphia edition of 1799 and other interim editions. Barlow, notable poet, "Hartford Wit" and outspoken political.....
New York: Printed for Berry and Rogers, and John Reid, 1792. 312,[12]pp. 16mo. Contemporary calf. Binding bit chipped along extremities. Front free endpaper torn, with about one third loss. Scattered soiling and foxing. Good. The Psalms of David as imitated by Isaac Watts and revised by Joel Barlow, for the.....
Portsmouth. 1810. 148pp. Half title. 12mo. Original three quarter calf and boards. Edges rubbed, scattered foxing, else very good. The author's dedication, "To All My Enemies," is alone worth the price: "I...rest assured that your most vigorous opposition, your most virulent slander and most inveterate malice, will be duly appreciated.....
Boston. 1814. 24pp. Loose gatherings, stitching perished. Small chip at foot of titlepage. Tanned. Good. Uncut and untrimmed. Short history of Charlestown, with a focus on medical aspects, written and delivered as a speech by Josiah Bartlett, son of the New Hampshire Governor and Declaration signer.
Buffalo. 1848. 69pp. Later three quarter morocco and marbled boards. Bookplate, bit tanned. Very good. A history of the early settlement of the Niagara region, between lakes Ontario and Erie, with material on the Indians, the Revolution, War of 1812, etc.
Paris. [ 1801]. Two volumes. 457pp. plus folding map, two folding plates, frontispiece, and errata; 436pp. plus folding plate and errata. Half titles. Contemporary gilt mottled calf, spines gilt, leather labels. First volume expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down and labels preserved. Hinges of second volume bit rubbed. A......
New-York: T. and J. Swords, 1796. [1],160pp. Half title. Original paper boards, spine manuscript title. Front hinge cracked, rear hinge starting. Spine extremities chipped, boards lightly dampstained. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown, ink stamps on front pastedown and half title. Very good, in original condition. Untrimmed and partially unopened. A.....
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1792-1794. 224,[3];iv,338,[6]pp. Two volumes. Half calf and marbled boards, bound in antique style, spine gilt. Edges lightly word, boards rubbed. Text tanned, corners rounded. Very good. First American edition of James Beattie's overarching treatise on various philosophical subjects, originally printed in Edinburgh. Beattie was a professor of.....
London. 1814. xx,363pp., plus folding map, handcolored in outline, and seventeen folding tables, with [14]pp. of printer's advertisements and printer's notice. Original plain wrappers, slightly chipped, paper spine label. Verso of folding map reinforced on center fold at gutter margin. Advertisements bound at rear, printer's notice laid it between titlepage.....
Paris: L.G. Michaud, 1814. 274pp., plus partially colored folding map and 17 folding tables. Half title. Original three-quarter sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt. Ex-library, with stamp on half title recto, bookplate on front pastedown, Chinese character stamped in red on front endpaper recto. Spine rubbed, hinges starting, boards lightly.....
Danbury. [1799]. 36pp., including a woodcut on the second page. Stitched. Untrimmed. Title and last pages soiled, dampstain on top left corner of several leaves; not affecting text. Text tanned. Good. An early Connecticut almanac with many anecdotes and joke. Notable is an anecdote about Voltaire's punishment for writing an.....
New York: Printed and Sold by H. Gaine, [1793]. [32]pp., including a woodcut on the second page. Stitched. Damp-stained throughout. Else, good. Includes a five page essay on the cultivation of hops by Samuel Russel of the Agricultural Society of the State of New York. Other essays address religious issues.....
New York: Printed and Sold by H. Gaine, [1794]. [36]pp., including a woodcut on the second page. Dbd. Minor tears repaired with tape on first leaf. Last page soiled, rubbed. Manuscript notes on first page and in some margins of the calendar. A good copy. Includes many anecdotes and maxims.....
New York: Printed and Sold by Ming and Young, [1803]. [36]pp., including a woodcut on the second page. Dbd. Minor foxing to exterior, very good. Includes many short essays on agriculture, health, and house-keeping. The woodcut shows the anatomy of a man as governed by the astrological signs.
Boston. 1795. v,[1],267,[8],344pp. Thick 16mo. Contemporary calf. Front board detached, binding scuffed and worn. Tanned, titlepage bit dusty. Lower forecorner of titlepage torn with no loss of text. Old stamp of American Antiquarian Society on page 1. Rough but unsophisticated. The author was a determined antiquarian and founder of the.....
Philadelphia, printed; London, reprinted. 1767. 46pp. Plain blue wrappers, stitched. Very good. First British printing. Anthony Benezet was a prominent Quaker educator, philanthropist, and early abolitionist. "A Caution to Great Britain...," first published in 1766, was a seminal anti-slavery work, distributed on both sides of the Atlantic. It includes numerous.....
Greenfield: Thomas Dickman, 1800. [36]pp. plus thirty-five (of thirty-eight) plates, one folding. Lacks frontispiece and plates 25 and 32. Small quarto. Contemporary calf, remnants of leather label. Binding moderately worn, but sound. Moderate toning and foxing to titlepage. Scattered offsetting from plates, foxing and soiling. Light wear. Plate 29 torn.....
Philadelphia. Nov. [i.e. Dec.] 14, 1790. [2]pp. on recto and verso of a single sheet. Very good. In a half morocco clamshell case. An intriguing letter from Egbert Benson, New York's first attorney general after independence, a leading New York jurist, prime mover in the push for a new federal.....
New York. 1806. viii,181pp. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked in modern red cloth. Corners heavily worn. Bookplate on front pastedown, ownership signatures on titlepage. Lightly foxed. Light dampstaining to upper corner of last half of text. Pp.179-180 provided in photographic facsimile. Fair. In a red morocco solander box. The only English.....
Philadelphia. 1811. Five volumes. Quarto. Contemporary calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Boards a bit scuffed, corners lightly worn. Spines slightly scuffed and slightly chipped on some volumes. Light scattered foxing and toning. Information about the Storer family inscribed in the first volume. About very good. An impressive early American Bible.....
New Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, [1789]. 23pp. Dbd. Tanning and light foxing. Very good. A funeral oration given for a late 18th century Yale tutor, delivered by Barnabas Bidwell, author and later Massachusetts attorney general and Congressional representative. With particular address to Newton's students, whom he warns not to.....
Catskill: Mackay Croswell, 1796. 115pp. 12mo. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Lightly toned. Very good. Bidwell defends Connecticut's claim to the contested lands in the Wyoming Valley, which were also claimed by Pennsylvania. This pamphlet was "especially worthwhile for its discussion of the decision by.....
New York: Published by John Fenno, June 13, 1789. [4]pp. folio newspaper (the pages numbered [69]-72), printed on a single folded sheet. Three small stab-holes in the margin. Lightly toned, stained around the edges. Some small paper repairs at edges. Very good. The second printed appearance of the first draft.....
Springland, Pa. [ 1808?]. Single-sheet engraving, 6 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches. Very good. This plate, here in black and white, appeared in colored state in Birch's well-known color plate book on country houses, THE COUNTRY SEATS OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH-AMERICA WITH SOME SCENES CONNECTED WITH THEM (Springland.....
