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New York: Published by Samuel Whiting & Co., 1811. 12mo. 165 x 105 mm., [6 ½ x 4 inches]. 46 pp. Disbound. Tidemarks on preliminary leaves, otherwise a good copy. Dissenter’s sermon on the depravity of mankind and the way to salvation through contrition and the subjugation of the self..... More
New York: Benj. R. Tucker’s Unique Book Shop, 1906, 1907. Together two catalogues. 12mo. 180 x 115 mm., [6 ¾ x 5 ¾ inches]. 8pp.; 126 pp. Original printed wrappers; upper margin of 1907 catalogue with a tear and minor loss of paper. Benjamin Tucker was an American anarchist, Jeffersonian..... More
Hamburg: [s.n.], 1759. 8vo. 177 x 121 mm. (7 x 4 3/4 inches). 103 pp. Woodcut vignette on title-page. Printing flaw on page 26 with first few words at the beginning of each line are faintly printed. Text lightly soiled. Original paste-paper wrappers, orange paper back strip with paper label..... More
Waynesville, North Carolina: United Methodist Church, [1979]. 8vo. 220 x 150 mm., [9 x 5 3/4 inches]. [iv], 138 pp. Illustrated with a map of Sicily and half tone photos of the Sicilian landscape. Original cloth, dust jacket; some staining to front wrapper. This copy with an inscription reading "..... More
Boston: Printed by Rogers and Fowle for Samuel Eliot in Cornhill, 1743. 8vo. 195 x 120 mm., [7 ¾ x 4 ¾ inches]. xxx, 18, 424 pp. Bound in contemporary mottled calf, raised bands, red leather label. The binding shows minor rubbing at joints, some discoloration due to age, but..... More
![Item #1337 [COOKERY & VITICULTURE] Enologia: ovvero a’Arte de Fare, Conservare e far viaggiare...](https://desimonecompanybooksellers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1337.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1739913328)
Milano: Dalla Tipografia Giambattista Sonzongo, 1820. Two volumes. 8vo., 210 x 125 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 inches]. xxxv [1] pp., 283 pp.; 268 pp. Illustrated by 5 engraved plates. Bound in publisher’s printed wrappers; small hole on upper wrapper of volume II, some minor soiling do to dust and..... More
Germantown: Printed by Christopher Sower, 1760. 8vo. 180 x 120 mm., [7 ¼ x 4 ¾ inches]. [Pp. 73]- 168. Modern calf backed marbled paper boards. Textblock a bit toned, a few leaves slightly brittle at extremities else a very good copy in a sympathetic modern binding; probably bound by..... More
Boston, New England: Printed by S. Kneeland & T. Green for D. Henchman, 1733. Bound with: (Thomas Foxcroft). Eusebius inermatus: Just remarks on a late book intitled Eleutherius Enervatus, or an Answer to a Pamphlet, Intituled, The Divine Right of Presbyterian Ordination ... / by Phileluth Bangor, V.E.B. Boston: Printed..... More
![Item #1054 [ITALIAN LITERATURE]. Dell’origine de dell’ ufficio della letteratura. Ugo Foscolo](https://desimonecompanybooksellers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1054.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1668112458)
Milano: Dall Stamperia Reale, 1809. 8vo. 220 x 145 mm., [8 ¾ x 6 inches]. 104 pp. Original marbled paper wrappers, some light foxing in the text. Excellent copy, printed in an edition of 1,300 copies, some on fine paper. Rare first edition of Foscolo’s controversial essay celebrating his..... More
Boston: Temperance Press, Ford & Damrell, 1833. 8vo. 213 x 135 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ½ inches]. 79, [1] pp. Stitched as issued, wanting printed wrappers; Title-page and final leaf lightly soiled, otherwise a good copy. First Edition. The evils of the lottery system are explained, both from a...... More
New York: Robert Craighead, Printer, 1840. 8vo. 235 x 150 mm., [9 ¼ x 6 inches]. 46, [1] pp. Original printed wrappers, detached from text block but present. Paper soiled at margins, otherwise a good copy. This copy is inscribed to “The Rev. John Richards with cordial regards, C. S...... More
New York: Reasons why the Present System of Auction ought to be Abolished. New York: Printed by Alexander Ming, Jr., 1828. 8vo. 215 x 140 mm., [8 ½ x 5 ½ inches]. 16 pp. Stitched as issued in original printed wrappers; wrappers chipped at spine and a bit soiled. Stamp..... More
London: De l’imprimerie de W. et C. Spilsbury . . . 1798-1800. 36 numbers in 34 parts, 8vo (227 × 140 mm) in half-sheets; the earlier numbers printed on tinted paper; entirely uncut in the original printed wrappers; some misbinding in No. XIII, wrappers to Nos. VII, XXVIII, XXIX, and..... More
Boston: Printed by Richard Graper, 1755. 8vo. 205 x 133 mm., [8 x 5 ¼ inches]. [2], iv, [2] 510, [2] pp. Bound in contemporary mottled sheep, raised bands and red title label on spine; binding rubbed at joints, edge of label missing, text block browned at fore edge and..... More
Hartford: From the Press of Beach and Jones, 1795. 8vo. 205 x 120 mm., [8 x 4 ½ inches]. [vi], [7]-328 viii pp. Contemporary mottled calf, red leather label on spine; head of spine a bit chipped, some minor staining to the spine, boards slightly bowed. Stamped “Ex Libris Wilson..... More
Boston: William Ticknor, 1844. 12mo. 180 x 115 mm., [7 x 4 ½ inches]. 42 pp. Original blue printed paper wrappers. Charles Northend was the Principal of the Aborn Street School in Salem Massachusetts. His essay outlines his reaction to new theories of education that were circulating in the public..... More
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Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1769. 8vo. 170 x 110 mm. (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches). [4], 279, [1], 24 pp. 18th century Dutch decorative paper boards; spine and joints rubbed, otherwise a sound copy.First edition in French, originally appearing in Villafranca (i.e. Venice) in 1767. Educated in the law..... More
Stitched sheets. 155 x 100 mm., [6 x 4 inches]. [12] pp., in a neat, minute hand. Place and date in manuscript at head of the first leaf. Solomon Reed (1719-1785), graduated from Harvard in 1739. He served as minister of the North Congregational Church of North Middleborough from 1757..... More
Boston: Printed by Nathan Hale, 1827. 8vo. 210 x 135 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches]. 30 pp. Disbound. Boston School Board, organized originally in 1798, issued updated regulations which show the improvements and innovations of the educational system in the city. The text begins with the rules of..... More
Boston: Published by Gray and Bowen, 1831. 8vo. 200 x 130 mm., [8 x 5 ½ inches]. 64 pp. Stitched as issued, uncut; edges with a few minor tears. Very good copy. First edition, with the printer’s name on verso of the title-page; a second edition was published the same..... More
