Andover [Massachusetts]: Flagg and Gould, 1829. First Edition. First edition. Contains rather interesting content, including an entire chapter on witchcraft in Massachusetts. Small 8vo. [4], [5]-204pp. Sabin 32127.
![Item #34 Pardners [signed]. Rex E. Beach](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/34.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600532604)
New York: McClure Phillips, 1905. First Edition. First edition. Signed and inscribed by author Rex Beach on the flyleaf in the year of publication. A scarce book which preceded his first novel, particularly as inscribed.
New York: B. Waugh and T. Mason, 1833. Revised Edition. Number 41 of the Sunday School and Youth’s Library. An apparently uplifting, but rather disturbing, work about two pious siblings who died young and within a year of each other. One of many warnings in the book, “when.....
![Item #126 The Age of Chivalry [Signed and inscribed]. Thomas Bulfinch](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/126.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600455818)
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1859. First Edition. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the original endpaper to “Rev. Charles Hammond, / with the respects of / T. Bulfinch.” Below that in ink is written twice, apparently by Hammond’s son, “Charlie A. Hammond.”. 8vo. viii, [1], 414pp., [2];.....
Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1862. First edition and apparently only edition. Important account of the Army of the Potomac, in which Civil War Books states "Cook, a prolific writer, was a reporter for the Philadelphia Press during McClellan's spring, 1862 campaign; his account is excellent as a commentary on.....
![Item #55 Prue and I [Signed]. George William Curtis](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600477777)
New York: Dix, Edwards, 1858. First Edition. First edition (BAL 4270, binding variant A). ALS pasted on rear pastedown to a D.W. Fiske (possibly a fellow Cornell professor elected to professorship in the same year as Curtis). A desirable copy given the provenance.
Bridgeton [NJ]: James M. Newell, 1838. First Edition. Felcone notes that this book compiled all of New Jersey’s laws in force, but for the first time arranged them by topic, along with relevant court opinions. Large 8vo. xxiv, 728pp. Felcone 629.
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.....
Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1786. An Early American imprint. Sabin 39326; Evans 19755. Small 8vo. [1], viii, 132 pp.
New York: Appleton and Company, 1854. First Edition. Scarce work of a minor nineteenth-century American author, set in upstate New York. Among the odd plot lines present is the heroine’s scoundrelous father uses her in a money counterfeiting scheme. The Western Literary Messenger in 1855 called it “a genial.....
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1871. First Edition. First edition of a scarce work. Worldcat reflects only a handful of nstitutional holdings of the first edition. 12mo. [viii], 424pp.
![Item #50 The Imperial Epistle from Kien Long, to George the Third [and] The Shade of Alexander...](https://nelsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/50.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600532604)
Philadelphia: Maxwell, 1800. First American Edition. First American Edition of these two satires that were bound in a single volume. Each work separately paginated, with their own title-pages; leaf of ads at the rear. Tall 8vo. [6], 3-49, [4], 5-59, [2]. Evans 37937.
New York: G. Hillson for Wm. Randall, 1823. First Edition. Contains the purported memoirs of Miss Perkins (as well as anonymous prefatory matter and commentary), of whom there appears to be little information available apart from this book. The contents contain letters, poems, addresses, and quotes attributed to Miss Perkins.....
Philadelphia: Philobiblon Club, 1904. Limited to 150 copies, presumably for club members. Features the preface of Samuel Pennypacker who served as President of The Philobiblon Club when this volume was published, and perhaps a bit more noteworthy, was also serving as Governor of Pennsylvania at the time. 4to.....
Boston: William S. Damrell, 1842. Scarce temperance work for children. Part 1 of Damrell’s three “Picnic Tale” of temperance. Features 16 woodcuts, a few charming, one much more disturbing. 12vo. [viii], 112pp.
Baltimore, MD: A. Vogeler & Co., 1881. A scarce advertising booklet filled with outlandish testimonials and even cartoons with rhyming captions. 32pp. in publisher's pictorial wraps. Worldcat locates 6 copies. Perhaps little more than snake oil, The Wood Library Museum of Anesthesiology, describes the product as “a turpentine-ether-alcohol tincture”.....
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857-1859. First Edition. First edition in the original 24 parts as issued. First issue, with “actresses” for “ancestresses” on p. 207, No. 7, line 15 from the bottom, in part 12, chapters XLVII-XLVIII misnumbered XLVIII-XLIX, and including the explanatory slip in part 20. While.....
Chicago, Ill; Philadelphia, Pa. International Publishing Co., [1898]. Scarce salesman's sample/dummy, consisting of three pages of notices, title page, preliminaries, sample pages and illustrations of various paginations, followed by one page of publisher's description and six unnumbered, ruled pages for recording subscribers' names. Sample backstrip mounted inside front cover.
