[Connecticut. 1843].. Broadside, 19 x 8 1/4 inches. Old folds, foxed, dampstained, right edge ragged. A good copy. An unrecorded illustrated broadside urging the reelection in 1843 of Chauncey Fitch Cleveland as governor of Connecticut: "Cleveland the poor man's friend, must be reelected by the popular vote. Come to the rescue!!!" Cleveland was a lawyer who served several years in the Connecticut House of Representatives between 1826 and 1838 before serving as governor of that state. "Elected... (more information)

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Oahu: Na Na Misionari, 1834-1837.. 360pp. Separate titlepage on p.57, with continuous pagination. 12mo. Contemporary blue-green cloth boards, rebacked with later calf, spine gilt. Boards rubbed and edgeworn. Bookplate on front pastedown. Foxing. Good. This is the first work printed in Hawaii that includes musical scoring, and a rare Hawaiian hymnal and manual. The first part is comprised of a musical and singing instructional manual, while the final three hundred pages are a hymnal, including some 194 relig... (more information)

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[Philadelphia]: William Dickson, 1807.. 12pp. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Lightly tanned, else near fine, untrimmed and unopened. The Philadelphia Domestic Society was formed with an interest in encouraging the domestic production of manufactures, and sought an official charter from the Pennsylvania legislature. In this pamphlet the anonymous author refutes the arguments made against the society, including the belief that charters are inherently undemocratic. We can locate three copies, at the ... (more information)

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London: Printed for J. Wilkie, 1765.. 20pp. Quarto. Modern cloth boards, spine gilt. A very good copy. First edition of this defense of the Stamp Act, arguing in favor of the right to tax the colonists and rejecting various claims against British taxation. The pamphlet produced several strong responses by colonial sympathizers, including James Otis' CONSIDERATIONS ON BEHALF OF THE COLONISTS, also printed in 1765. SABIN 35835, 36053. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 65-13a. AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 16Aa. ... (more information)

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London: Printed for J. Wilkie, 1765.. 23pp. Small quarto. Early 20th-century three quarter morocco and marbled boards, gilt leather label, expertly rebacked. Huntington Library duplicate, with a small ink stamp on the rear pastdown. Internally clean, neat, and near fine. Second edition, printed the same year as the first, of this defense of the Stamp Act. Jenyns, a poet and member of Parliament, argues in favor of the right to tax the colonists and rejects various claims against British taxation. In a rathe... (more information)

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La Paz. 1842.. 10pp. Self-wrappers, stitched. Very good. A highly moral tract on the evils of AGUARDIENTE, and the public stands and houses that encourage the vices of drink, prostitution and crime. Calls on the legislative assembly to prohibit public drinking stands in order to restore humanity and justice to the land. ... (more information)

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Mexico. 1839.. 24pp. Dbd. Faint foxing, else fine. Escudero (1801-62), a prominent historian, lawyer, and politician, discusses the defenses of the state of Chihuahua, reaching into present-day New Mexico. The region was under constant threat from internal Mexican revolutionaries, as well as Americans emigrating to Texas and beyond, and Apaches and other Indians raiding southward into Mexico. Howes and Sabin list several other titles by Escudero, but not the present scarce report. An important work, one of ... (more information)

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Philadelphia. 1829.. 13pp. Dbd. Very good. Bache comments on the ideas advanced by the Philadelphia millionaire and advocate of prison reform, largely on Vaux's ideas on the separate confinement of prisoners. Franklin Bache was the physician to the Philadelphia penitentiary. This essay was published in the same year as the opening of Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, which adopted solitary confinement (known also as the "Pennsylvania System") as the preferred method of incarceration. AMER... (more information)

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Richmond. 1865.. 142pp. Original printed wrappers, disbound from larger volume and lacking spine. Faint contemporary signature on front wrapper, foxing, tiny perforations in gutter. Good. Generally considered to be the last Confederate imprint, this memoir was published in Richmond in March 1865, and many copies must have been destroyed in the burning of the city at the end of the war. Pollard was a journalist, best known for his southern history of the war. He was captured when the blockade runner he was o... (more information)

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Cincinnati. 1901.. [6],260pp. Original green cloth. Some bleach spots on covers, binding bit cocked, title-leaf mounted on silk. Overall a good copy. First American edition, after the first British edition printed in London in 1898. A scarce account of an English woman's quest for good health and happiness raising alfalfa and other crops in southern New Mexico. Includes chapters on "the Mexican in New Mexico," the climate and soil, irrigation, mineral resources, and "Politics and Sectionalism... (more information)

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Philadelphia. 1783.. 28pp. plus [4]pp. of ads. Dbd. Somewhat tanned, titlepage a trifle soiled, else good. This copy is interesting in a book publishing sense. The ads are made up of titlepages of other publications by Robert Bell, the printer. This pamphlet defending the Society of the Cincinnati was probably written by Stephen Moylan, one of the founders of the Society. He calls a free press "the PILLAR that supports the whole fabric of freedom"; but, he observes, "The fairest blossom is th... (more information)

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London: E. Wilson, 1827.. iv,145,[1]pp. Contemporary black calf. Front board detached, slightly rubbed. Internally clean. Very good. The second edition, published the same year as the first. In 1824, F.B. Head was commissioned to manage the Rio Plata Mining Association, formed in London in December of the previous year to mine for gold and silver throughout the fertile Argentinean region. Given numerous attractive concessions by the United Provinces of La Plata, the Association and its principals were plann... (more information)

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Plymouth, Ma.: Published by Joseph Avery, 1812.. 301,[1]pp. plus colored plate. Contemporary calf, gilt morocco label. Boards lightly worn. Titlepage and advertisement page with some insect damage around the edges. Tanning and foxing. A good copy. A notable early American work, being an extensive examination of the nature and treatment of rabies. Thacher discusses the symptoms of the disease in dogs, the symptoms in humans, theories of the nature of the disease, and proposed cures. Fourteen case studies are... (more information)

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London. 1794.. [2],ii,34pp. Quarto. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Titlepage and final page a trifle soiled, else a near fine copy, untrimmed. Clinton defends his own conduct, as he feels it is misrepresented by Stedman. An important addition to one of the basic histories of the Revolution. HOWES C498. SABIN 13753. ... (more information)

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London. 1819.. iv,179,144pp. plus two folding tables and [8]pp. of publisher's advertisements. Original paper-backed boards, printed paper label. Boards, joints, and label slightly chipped and worn. Faint early ink inscription on front cover. A very good copy, untrimmed. An early work on alternative modes of incarceration, by the celebrated author, historian, and liberal reformer from Liverpool, William Roscoe (1753-1831). With an interest in rehabilitation over mere punishment, Roscoe advocated more humane... (more information)

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London. 1808.. [4],2,[2],75,[1]pp. Half title. Modern half vellum and marbled boards, black gilt morocco label. Internally clean. Very good. As stated on the titlepage, reprinted from the SUN newspaper, where Courtenay used the pseudonym, "Decius." A series of critical letters, castigating the British negotiators and President Thomas Jefferson, over an aborted U.S.-British treaty. The treaty, negotiated by James Monroe and William Pinkney with the British Lords Holland and Auckland, was signed in ... (more information)

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London. 1731.. 31pp. Later marbled wrappers. Some foxing, title soiled, ink signature. Good. "A vindication of the Sugar Act, then pending in Parliament. This act prohibited the Northern Colonies from trading for sugar, etc., with the French West Indies, and required them to obtain these articles from the British West Indies or from England" - Sabin. SABIN 56510. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 731/153. GOLDSMITHS 6865. KRESS 3956. ... (more information)

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Philadelphia. 1811.. 260,[4]pp. Full contemporary calf, leather label. Extremities and outer front hinge worn, chipped at spine ends, some worming at spine, lower edge of front board gnawed. Some light tanning or foxing, else internally very nice. The first American edition, and the first to include the supplementary material by Benjamin Rush. "Previously published in London in 1759, with a second edition in 1766. The Philadelphia edition retains the uncorrected errata of the second London edition, but... (more information)

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New York. 1811.. viii,199pp. plus two plates Modern half morocco and marbled boards. A not too obtrusive library perforation stamp on titlepage. Light scattered foxing, else very good. A rather interesting and variegated work, ranging from considerations of climate to a discussion of the nature and properties of heat, to speculation on the origins of man, specifically the American Indian (aimed, we suppose, toward establishing some of the premises for the author's HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA, which was publis... (more information)

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London. 1784.. 8,[6],287,[1]pp. plus eleven tables, many folding, some occupying more than one page. Original boards, rebacked in paper at an early date. Boards worn, split at outer hinges. Lacks free endsheets and one table, chip in one table with some loss of text, one table detached, some foxing. Good. Third edition, enlarged, first published the previous year. This report led to a bitter post-Revolutionary situation as England tried to constrain American trade. "Pointed out superciliously the helpl... (more information)

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