Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union. Early Printing. Hardcover. Copyright 1837, no date, likely 1855. Stout 8vo, black half leather over marbelized boards, 648 pages, illustrated, plus 4 maps. More
NY: Leavitt, Lord & Co, 1834. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12 mo, blind-stamped salmon cloth with gilt to spine, 237p. The book is blind-stamped Abbott series front and back. Lacking ffe and rear free endpaper, too. Moderately foxed throughout. Cloth covers unevenly sunfaded. Reference copy. More
NY: R. B. Thompson & Co., 1870. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo, publishers' brown linen, blind- ruled and stamped. Front cover just holding on, requires recasing, minor loss to cloth over spine. Internals near fine. More
Hudson NY: Abel Stoddard, 1815. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Early issue of The Columbia Magazine, published in the newly prosperous Hudson, NY, the first city to be incorporated in the United States after independence, located in Columbia County, hence the magazine name. A remarkably unsophisticated copy, as issued, printed paper..... More
NY: M. W. Dodd, 1841. 1st Edition or early edition. Hardcover. Mid-19thC American edition of this religious treatise,by Simeon Ashe first printed in London in 1853. Original binding, blind-ruled brown cloth, spine decorated in gilt. 8vo, 256 pages, foxed throughout but solidly bound. A very good unsophisticated copy, distinctive as..... More
NY: E. Steiger, 1891. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition. With lyrics by Gottlieb Conrad Berkmeier. Short 8vo, green cloth, stamped in gilt and silver, 86pp, each page with red border, many decorated capitals and vignettes throughout text. Covers moderately worn, more so at spine ends, leaves lightly foxed. Rev..... More
Boston: Manning & Loring, and Lemuel Blake, 1808. Hardcover. Old calf, red leather label spine, 8vo, 312p, lacking ffe and blank rears, torn, title page and next 3 pages torn, one of them, the dedication page missing lower right corner. More
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(London): John Rodker, 1929. 1st Edition Thus, Limited. Hardcover. Limited edition, this an unumbered copy of 1275, "bound full parchment" as stated on dustjacket spine. 8vo, li + 328. Green linen on the spine is browned. Two ownership signatures on front pastedown, one 1934, the other 1959. Only the spine..... More
Little Rock: The Arkansas Churchman's Publishing Co, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An as new copy in as new dustjacket remarkably preserved in publisher's wrap-around cardboard folder. RELIGION CHRISTIANITY RACE POLITICS. More
London: Printed by T. H. for Edward Dod, 1646. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Small folio, [xx] + 386, with decorated letters and head pieces. First edition, probable second state with the publisher's line reading in full "Printed by T.H. for Edward Dod, and are to be sold in Ivie Lane." (The..... More
Hartford: Andrus Starr & Co, 1814. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Early printing after its first publication in 1808 from publisher Starr in Hartford, printed by Hart & Lincoln. Original or old, full calf, red spine label, covers worn, still solidly bound, 8vo, 354pages. Free front endpaper and flyleaf ripped. More
NY: Board of Publication of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, 1856. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, blind-stamped decorated brown cloth, with gilt-pressed pictorial which we attribute to plate designer/engraver John Feehey (see squiggly lines on either side of figure). 8vo, xxvii, 14 - 221, illustrated. Some loss to cloth at spine..... More
St. Louis: Martin C. Barthel, 1889. Early Printing. Hardcover. Early edition of treatise attributed to Protestant theologian Phillip Hiller (1699 - 1769) published for the German Evangelical Lutheran Synode of Missouri, Ohio and and other central states. Worldcat lists only 5 collections with copies of these variously dated 1883, 1885..... More
NY: D. Appleton & Co, 1841. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo, mauve blind-pressed, ribbed cloth, gilt spine titles, 213p + 3 p publisher's lits, polished yellow endpapers. Uncommon first US edition. John Angell James (1785 - 1859) was an English Non-conformist clergyman of Congregational faith, his doctrine moderate Calvinism..... More
Hamburg: Auf Begehren hoher Personen auffs neue, 1702. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Folio, 367, double-columned text, amply illustrated with decorated capitals and devices throughout, and 7 full page engraving copper plates plates (at 112, 118, 168, 192, 230, 244, and 276. There is also a loose plate, uniform in engraved..... More
Philadelphia: E.H. Butler, 1857. Early Printing. Hardcover. Stated New Edition on title page, dated 1857. Full moroccan brown leather, elaborately decorated in gilt all around, aeg, inner dentelles, (10), 372, (16), 10 full page illustrations incl. title and frontispiebce. Minor loss head of spine, which is scruffed. Covers lightly worn..... More
Paris: Nyon, 1782. Second Edition. Hardcover. Rebound in qaurter leather, black leatehr label spine. 8vo, vi+368, sides trimmed, stained red. Internals quite nice. Second edition, with advertisement for both first and second edition, plus errata sheet, in front. CHINA JESUITS. More
Portland (Maine): Shirley & Hyde Printers, 1827. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Temperance sermon by Asa Mead, pastor of the Congregational Church in Brunswick (Maine). 20 pages, string-tied binding, lacking front and rear cover and a narrow diagonal strip bottom of page with attendant loss to a few words at the..... More
Philadelphia: Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowlledge, 1859. 1st US Edition Thus. Hardcover. Revised edition, stated on title page. 8vo, publisher's royal blue, pebbled cloth, blind-stamped and ruled front and rear, gilt to spine. xx, 21- 455, indexed. Slight lean to spine, two small spots front cover..... More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, 8vo, publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, 171 p. Inscribed by author Prime underneath the statement printed on the verso of the ffe for the subscribers of The New York Observor with the compliments of the publishers and the..... More
London (and) Cambridge: Published by A Millar, The Strand, London; W Thurlbourn and J Woodyer, Cambridge, 1762. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, contemporary full speckled calf, 5 raised bands, gilt and red leather label to spine, 203, title page printed in red and black with a quotation from Tasso. WorldCat identifies..... More
Edinburgi: Excudebat, George Mosman, Bibliopola, 1692. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, 12mo, full calf leather, (1), 364 (2), lacking prelims, last page recto index, verso errata, verso, last page with contemporary or newer financial notations, 1854 ownership signature front pastedown, other older ownership names in rear. Front hinge tender, rear..... More
Middletown CT: Thomas Spencer, Jr., 1818. Early US Printing. Hardcover. On title page stated First Middletown, from the Fifth Hartford Edition. Original full calf, 383 pages 4 illustrated plates. Covers worn and scuffed, solid binding. A nice, unsophisticated early 19thC copy, often reprinted by New England, New York and Philadelphia..... More
Amsterdam: R. en G. Wetstein, 1717. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce first edition in Low Dutch, which, afterwards was translated into English by the author - "The history of the rise, increase, and progress, of the Christian people called Quakers: intermixed with several remarkable occurrenc." - and published in London in..... More
Paris: Isidore Liseux, 1879. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Rebound in red, half leather, gte, with original printed vellum covers bound-in. 8vo, xvi, 251 (1). English text on rectos, Latin on verso. Leather a tad soiled, internals quite nice. Per Wikipedia: Ludovico Maria Sinistrari ( 1622 - 1701) "was an Italian Franciscan..... More