Boston / New York / Philadelphia: Published by David H. Williams. New York: Collins, Keese, and Company. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait, and Company. 1839. viii, pp.65-312, many tables (shipping tonnages etc) and lists (government offices and the like), and a few diagrams ('how mirages form' being the most nearly pictorial), 7.5x4.6... More
Cat.No: 177346
New York: Amerikanischen Traktat-Gesellschaft [American Tract Society], 1833. 20p. (including cover), the cover loose but intact, save a split up the lower portion of the spine. No. 81. The story of a Long Island man misled into infidelity, and his restoration of faith, rendered in German for an immigrant audience... More
Cat.No: 191420
's-Gravenhage: Staatsuigeverij, 1978. 112p., captioned period photography throughout, amidst text, 11x8 inch cardstock wraps, mild edgewear and rubbing, a good copy. More
Cat.No: 162923
Washington DC: GPO, 1838. Pamphlet. 101p., terminal blank, disbound 9x6 inch self-wraps held with old binder's cord sunk into the textblock (old stab-holes are empty), quite sound but heavily foxed and has a mild marginal dampstain. Cover leaf is so thickly foxed it is hard to read, mere splotchiness thereafter... More
Cat.No: 194126
[Boston?]: n.pub. [1838?]. 15p., self-wraps edge worn, paper foxed, small tear in rear page in blank area, string bound. Defense of free speech, Abner Kneeland and an attack on Samuel Kirkland Lothrop for refusing to sign a petition requesting a pardon for Kneeland. The pardon petition was signed by a.... More
Cat.No: 173379
Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1838. 131p., disbound, sewn, slightly edge worn, foxing. More
Cat.No: 124799
San Francisco: produced by Lewis and Dorothy Allen at The Allen Press for The Book Club of California, 1955. Hardcover. 79p., frontis-map, introduction, footnotes, very good first limited edition thus (originally printed in 1830) limited to 350 copies bound in 10x6.5 inch grey-blue paper boards decorated with minuscule Cyrillic texts... More
Cat.No: 211973
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1964. xxxii, 246p., folded map, illustrations from old prints; one of 1550 copies, dj. Special publication number 39. More
Cat.No: 43259
London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1830. 80p., title and "Note" leaves, untrimmed 8.5x5.5 inch sewn signatures. Original thread partially absent, holding withal, externally quite dust-soiled and foxed with pressure-marks to textblock; small chip at the head (not affecting print) and Roman numerals in sepia nib which repeat publishing date. A.... More
Cat.No: 173427
Berkeley Heights, NJ: The Oriole Press, 1965. 9p., wraps, 4.5x7.5 inches. One of 75 copies. Reprints an 1839 editorial by Bryant. More
Cat.No: 35074
Philadelphia: Young, printer, 1832. Pamphlet. 32p., disbound, foxing, 5.25x8.25 inches, tables. This copy lacks the two maps and illustrations called for. Second edition. More
Cat.No: 197388
[London]: Teape and Son, [1832]. 24p., slight chipping of corners, paper generally supple and clean, several pages uncut. Discusses a slave rebellion around Christmas of 1831, known as the Baptist War; included are testimony from prisoners of the rebels, the captured leader of the revolt, and contemporary Jamaican news accounts... More
Cat.No: 21337
Washington DC: s.n., 1837. Single 9.5x6 inch leaf, about 120 words printed recto; some edgewear and corner-creasing, scattered large blots of foxing, a good-only copy. 24th Congress, 2d session. 183. We find a Gersham Wakeman who traces to Fairfield CT, married in 1757. More
Cat.No: 174799
Manchester: Neil Richardson, 1985. 82p., foreword, postscript, illustrated with maps and photos, very good in original pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 98717
Washington DC: s.n., 1837. Single folio leaf printed and folded to present a 13p. text, 9.5x6.2 inch self-wraps; some partial tearing of fold-lines, some crumpling of untrimmed edges, scattered light foxing, good copy. Regards "ten sections of land granted to said Territory (of Arkansas) for the erection of a public... More
Cat.No: 174798
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1838. xii, 388p., engraved plates as called for (inserted yellow stock) , two engraved title pages (versions by each artist) and printed title leaf with presswork credit verso; first American illustrated edition cased into modern half calf boards over homemade marbling. Textblock was printed on... More
Cat.No: 177655
London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1833. Hardcover. xi, 302p., publisher's ad leaf, hardbound item in 7x4.2 inch grey papered boards. Poor copy missing upper cover, lower nearly detached, spine label is handwritten in old sepia nib, textblock badly cracked and held only by one cord; first blank and titlepage are detached... More
Cat.No: 194272
Boston: Printed for the publisher, 1834. 134p., disbound, old stab holes, period previous owner's name on title page, last leaf detached or nearly so. "An eloquent address in behalf of Abner Kneeland, delivered by his attorney..." *McCoy D282. More
Cat.No: 169168
Paris: Gallimard/Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1980. Hardcover. xiii, 1534p., 4.5x7 inches, text in French, very good in goatskin, gilt, dj and glassine. Plain slipcase. Attractive edition. More
Cat.No: 129328
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963. Hardcover. x+293p., personal inscription signed by the author, preface, introduction, footnotes, bibliography, index, maps, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped but sunned dj. The inscription is to Dean E. McHenry, American professor of political science, and the founding chancellor of the... More
Cat.No: 109237
New York: Random House, 1973. xxii, 257p., preface, introduction, extensive footnotes, illustrations, bibliographical essay, index, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 16938
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1984. Paperback. 60p., wraps, very good condition, 4.25x6.75 inches. Young America series no. 1. More
Cat.No: 232290
Boston: Starr King Press, no date [1958]. ix, 256p., dj. very good, Lovejoy was an abolitionist newspaper editor, murdered by a mob in 1837 while defending a newly purchased printing press (his fourth). More
Cat.No: 15887
Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833. Leather Bound. iv, 163 p., small hardcover, half-calf marbled boards, leather spine and corners somewhat scuffed; ownership signature in pencil on title page dated 1846, another early penned signature on front endpaper, both front and rear endsheets are quite good, as are the hinges. Textblock... More
Cat.No: 216324
Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. Hardcover. xi, 231p., very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 35138
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