London: Printed for J. Wright, No. 169, Piccadilly, 1798. First Edition. First edition of a British patriotic screed against a potential French invasion and the threat of “Gallic oppression.” Scarce. 12mo. 20pp. ESTC T59443.
Stourbridge: Heming and Tallis, [n.d., ca. 1814-15]. The rare sole edition of the separately printed pamphlet, containing excerpts of Banck’s A Short Critical Review of the Political Life of Oliver Cromwell. . ., originally published in 1739 (though many of the passages in the instant work are lifted verbatim not.....
London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by G. Robinson, in Pater-noster-Row; W. Charnley, and T. Slack, in Newcastle, 1775. First Edition. First edition polemic satire in Hudibrastic verse on a corrupt Newcastle election. Down with the corporations. 8vo. vii, [9]-35pp. ESTC T185203. Goldsmiths’ 11364. Higgs 6497. RBH shows.....
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London: M. Cooper, 1751. First Edition. London: , 1751. First edition. Purportedly the first English novel about a dog. Grolier notes this work is “one of the earliest examples of that type of satirical novel in which abuse is hurled at real persons through the medium of animals or inanimate.....
New York: Printed for the Subscribers, 1846. First Edition. First edition and interesting association copy. Volume I inscribed by Abbott Lawrence to William Cabell Rives. Lawrence was noted as an ambassador to Britain while Rives was a senator and ambassador to France. Notably, this important friendship was the subject to.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees . . . 1815. Quadruple decker second edition of the anonymously published polemical novel. Affectionally referred to as the “brave-hearted lady” by Carlyle, the republication of this work in 2003 brought renewed, and deserved, attention to the long-neglected proto-feminist author. In his introduction to.....
New York: Sears Publishing Company, 1932. First Edition. First edition of this post-crash guide to beating the stock market. Kelly was a well-known author, biographer, and business speculator. “Kelly and Burgess have cut through to the heart of the matter in their development of market rules and in their.....
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1715. Signed by Leslie at the conclusion. Leslie was the leading Jacobite propagandist after the 1688 Glorious Revolution and is best remembered today for his role in publicizing the 1692 Massacre of Glencoe 16pp. ESTC T113238.
Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825. First American Edition. Scarce American printing the same year as printed in London. 12mo. Vol. 1: iv, 306pp.; Vol. 2: vi [i.e. iv], 303pp., [1, blank].
