Boston: Joseph Bumstead, for Ebeneezer Larkin, 1793. 322,[18]pp. 12mo. Half calf and marbled boards, bound in antique style, spine gilt. Minor shelf wear. Several small chips and closed tears. Tanned, occasional foxing. Very good. Later American edition of a tract on oratory by the noted British politician James Burgh, originally.....
[Various locations, including Massachusetts, Florida, Alabama, and New York. May 1861 to March 1888]. Twenty-one autograph letters, signed, and manuscript documents, totaling approximately fifty-one pages. Old folds, many with slight tears and slight separations along folds and at cross folds. Overall, in good plus condition. An interesting collection of manuscript.....
Paris. 1767. Two volumes. [2],xviii,389; [2],352pp. plus two folding maps. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Extremities rubbed, some light staining to rear board of each volume. Internally clean. Very good. First published in England in 1757, this is an important contemporary account of the European colonies in America.....
Boston. 1854. 86pp. plus [12]pp. of advertisements. Early 20-century buckram, leather label. Cloth somewhat dust soiled, spine label slightly chipped. Remnants of paper shelf label on spine, institutional ink stamp on titlepage. An occasional fox mark. Lacking original pictorial wrappers. Good. Burns was an educated African American who fled from.....
London. 1689. 20pp. Small quarto. 20th-century brown morocco, spine gilt. Modern bookplate of Frederick B. Adams, Jr. on front pastedown. Internally clean. Near fine. A most important work for the history of New England. Sir Edmund Andros, the governor of Massachusetts appointed by Charles II, was overthrown in the spring.....
Boston: Printed and sold at No.53, Cornhill, by Lincoln & Edmands, 1807. iv,[5]-123,5pp. 24mo. Contemporary wastepaper wrappers printed with text from another work. Spine perished, wrappers rubbed, corners worn. Minor scattered foxing, most corners creased. Very good. A scarce early American children's book presented as a series of allegorical texts.....
Washington: Press of Gibson Bros. 1913. xiii,509pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered. Wear to spine ends and corners, gilt fading. Front hinge cracking, text block a bit cocked. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Internally clean. About very good. One hundred copies printed. "Perhaps the best of personal reminiscences".....
Charlestown, Ma. Printed by Samuel Etheridge, 1802. xvi,[7]-312pp. Contemporary calf, red leather label. Front hinge cracked but holding by cords. Foxing. Overall very good. Contemporary ownership inscription on front endpaper. The fourth American edition (the first American was printed in Philadelphia in 1784), of Carver's TRAVELS..., originally published in London.....
Columbus, Oh. 1842. 192pp. Original half cloth. Hinges cracked. Stained and foxed. Near good. Champlin was no more than twenty-one years old when he published this autobiography. He had already been licensed as a "public exhorter" in the Methodist church, and his work is full of religious admonitions and warnings.....
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.....
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Boston. 1739-1762. Six pamphlets, detailed below. Stitched together in gutter margin with contemporary string. Light soiling. Title and half title of one sermon with some loss at bottom edge, affecting part of imprint. A few contemporary ownership markings. Final leaf of last pamphlet lacking. Still, very good and in unsophisticated.....
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.....
London: Printed for J. Marshall, 1734. 219,[3],42pp. 12mo. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Bottom portion of spine darkened. Bookplates on front endpapers, foxed, tanned, a few old dampstains. Small chip at bottom of titlepage, not affecting text. Good. The "fourth edition, corrected." A shipwreck narrative with Americana.....
[Various places. ca. 1875-1905]. Approximately 1100 pieces, both loose and in four albums. Most pieces pasted into albums. Albums are quarto and folio in size. Largest album lacking spine and front board, spine deteriorated on second album, leaves loose in both. Some light wear to leaves in all four albums.....
Camp Chase, Lowell, Ma. Dec. 31, 1861. Large broadsheet, 21 x 30 3/4 inches. Old folds. Almost entirely separated at central horizontal fold, chipping and wear along that fold with minor loss of text. Separation at several other folds. Light soiling and staining. Fair. Printed, government-issue muster roll form, listing.....
[Manchester, N.H., Boston, Ma., Ship Island (off the coast of Mississippi) and locations in Louisiana, as detailed below]. January 22 - December 10, 1862. Eleven autograph letters, signed, (ten with envelopes), totaling [36]pp. Later transcriptions accompany the letters. Old folds, occasional light staining and/or tanning, one letter with small tears.....
[N.p., likely Boston. ca. 1865]. Albumen photograph, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, mounted on card. Moderate fading, a bit of spotting in the image. Verso darkened from exposure to wooden backing, now removed from backing and period frame, backing tape still attached to verso along top edge. Remnants from.....
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.....
Boston. 1839. [2],179,8pp. plus frontispiece. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Extremities rubbed, front hinge tender. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Light scattered foxing. About very good. An interesting work on early American technology, the autobiography of Timothy Claxton, English mechanic and inventor. Claxton spent several years in America, during.....
Camp at Dorchester, near Boston. Jan. 5, 1776. [1]p. Old fold lines. Minor soiling. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt. A letter written by Rev. Ebenezer Cleaveland from the Continental Army's encampment at Dorchester Heights, outside of Boston, requesting that General John Thomas allow.....
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.....
