Antique Books from Tannery Books

New York: Macmillan, 1902. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Edward McCrady, The History of South Carolina in the Revolution (4-volume set), New York, The Macmillan Company, 1897-1902, First Printing [Howes, M-73]. Volumes include The History of South Carolina Under the Proprietary Government, 1670-1719, published in 1897; The History of South Carolina Under the Royal Goverment, 1719-1776, 1899; The… Read more

Philadelphia: Tract Association of Friends, ca. 1888. Reprint. Leather_bound. Fair. Bound collection of 43 tracts, Philadelphia, Tract Association of Friends, undated reprints [ca. 1887-1888]. Leather hc with gilt-stamped 'Friends' Tracts' in black title box on spine, 8vo (18 cm), individually paginated. Forty-three selections from the first 97 tracts published by the Tract Association, memoirs of John Woolman, Caroline… Read more

Philadelphia: William H. Pile, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Joseph Edgerton, Some Account of the Life and Religious Services of Joseph Edgerton, a Minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends. With Extracts from His Correspondence. Compiled from original manuscripts by his daughter Eunice Thomasson. Philadelphia, William H. Pile, 1885, First Edition. Brown cloth hc with gilt-stamped… Read more

Philadelphia: Thomas Kite, 1831. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. John Kendall, Letters on Religious Subjects, Written By Divers Friends, Deceased. Philadelphia, Thomas Kite, 1831, Two volumes in one [Second Edition - Smith Vol. 2, p. 55]. Smith: "The Letters in this Collection are by John Rutty, Catharine Payton, Samuel Forthergill, Sophia Hume, John Churchman, Dr. John Fothergill, Richard Shackleton,… Read more

London: Harvey and Darton, 1829. Hardcover. Fair. John Churchman, An Account of the Gospel Labours and Christian Experiences of John Churchman, London, Harvey and Darton, 1829, later edition [Smith, p. 408]. Plain brown paper boards, 12mo (19 cm), viii, 316 uneven cut pp. Fair: front board detached and spine missing, interior good, no markings.

Philadelphia: Friends' Book-Store. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Isaac Penington, Letters of Isaac Penington - An Eminent Minister of the Gospel in The Society of Friends Which He Joined About the Year 1658. Philadelphia, Friends' Book-Store, from the Second London Edition [after 1828 - Smith, p. 359]. Brown cloth hc with simple blind-stamped borders and gilt titling on spine,… Read more

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888, First American Edition. Red cloth hc with gilt lettering on spine, 8vo (19 cm), dark gray endpapers, xiv, 322 pp, 8 pp ads, 12 illustrated plates including frontispiece. Good/no… Read more

Warrington: Thomas Hurst, 1840. Leather_bound. Fair. John Woolman, James Cropper, Bernard Barton, A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman, Late of Mount-Holly, in the Province of New Jersey, North America, To Which Are Added, His Last Epistle, and Other Writings. Warrington, Thomas Hurst, 1840, later edition… Read more

Paris: Ernest Flammarion. Hardcover. Good. [Giacomo Casanova] Memoires de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, ecrits par lui-meme, Tome Troisieme (volume 3), Paris, Ernest Flammarion [ca. 1912-1930]. Quarter leather over marbled boards, 8vo (18 cm), 508 pp with TOC at end, French language. Good/no DJ: covers scuffed and worn with boards showing at edges, po name in ink on title… Read more

Washington, D.C.: George W. Bowman, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Colonel R. Delafield. Report on the Art of War in Europe in 1854, 1855, and 1856 ... From His Notes and Observations Made as a Member of a "Military Commission to the Theater of War in Europe," under the orders of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War.… Read more

Houghton Mifflin & Co,, 1888. First Thus. Hardcover. Ex-library. Charles Dudley Warner, On Horseback - A Tour in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee With Notes of Travel in Mexico and California. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin & Co., First Thus [previous version in The Atlantic Monthly, 1885]. Brown cloth hc with black-stamped cover illustration and gilt spine… Read more

Philadelphia: Ferris & Leach, 1902. First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-library. Sally Wister, edited by Albert Cook Myers. Sally Wister's Journal, A True Narrative, Being a Quaker Maiden's Account of Her Experiences with Officers of the Continental Army, 1777-1778. With Reproductions of Portraits, Manuscripts, Relics and Views. Philadelphia, Ferris & Leach, 1902, First Printing. Yellow cloth hc with dark-blue cover… Read more

New York: Paine and Burgess, 1846. Second Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Thomas L. M'Kenney [McKenney], Memoirs, Official and Personal; with Sketches of Travels Among the Northern and Southern Indians; Embracing a War Excursion, and Descriptions of Scenes Along the Western Borders. New York, Paine and Burgess, 1846, Two Volumes in One, Second Edition [Howes M-130]. Brown cloth hc with… Read more

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. First Printing. Hardcover. Good. [Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson] Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, The Cruise of the "Janet Nichol" Among the South Sea Islands: A Diary by Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, October, 1914, First Printing. Red cloth hc with gold tiltling, 8vo (21 cm), xii, 190 pp,… Read more

New York: Newson & Company, 1916. Revised. Hardcover. Good. Margaret Ely Webb. Catherine T. Bryce, Frank E. Spaulding (Yale University), illustrated by Margaret Ely Webb, Aldine Readers Primer, New York, Newson & Company, 1916, Revised Edition. Gray-brown cloth hc with black-and-blue stamped wreath image on front, small 8vo (19 cm), 160 pp with vocabulary. Two-tone illustrations throughout. Good-:… Read more

Trenton: Isaac Collins, 1795. Leather_bound. Poor. [ed. Lindley Murray] Some Account of the Life and Religious Labours of Sarah Grubb. With an Appendix Containing an Account of the Schools at Ackworth and York, Observations on Christian Discipline, and Extracts from many of her Letters. Trenton, Isaac Collins, 1795, first American edition (Smith pp 876-877 and supplement p. 168).… Read more

Philadelphia, 1849. Later printing. Leather_bound. Good. Thomas Evans. An Exposition of the Faith of the Religious Society of Friends, in Some of the Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Religion: To Which Is Prefixed A Brief Account of the Rise of the Society. Philadelphia, for sale at Friends' Book Store, 1849, later printing. Full leather hc with black leather… Read more

Philadelphia: Thomas Kite, 1831. First American Edition. Leather_bound. Good. Joseph Gurney Bevan, Memoirs of the Life of Isaac Penington; to Which is Added A Review of His Writings, Philadelphia, Thomas Kite, 1831, third state (first American – Smith, p. 261). Biographies of early Friend and prolific writer Isaac Penington and his wife Mary, followed by reprinted selections of… Read more

Philadelphia: Thomas Kite, 1829. Leather_bound. Good. A Journal of the Life and Religious Labours of Richard Jordan, A Minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends, Late of Newton, in Gloucester County, New Jersey. Philadelphia, Thomas Kite, 1829 [probable first American, this edition missing in Smith]. Full leather hc with black leather title block on spine, 12mo… Read more

Philadelphia: Kimber & Sharpless, 1828. Second Edition. Leather_bound. Good. Thomas Evans. An Exposition of the Faith of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, in the Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Religion, Principally Selected from their Early Writings. Philadelphia, Kimber & Sharpless and Thomas Kite, 1828, Second Edition (Smith, p. 579). Full leather hc with red leather… Read more