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Americana - Pre1800:

Scott, Job. JOURNAL OF THE LIFE TRAVELS AND GOSPEL LABOURS OF THAT FAITHFUL SERVANT AND MINISTER OF CHRIST
NY 1797 Isaac Collins. Octavo hardcove. 360pp., full leather. Boards present but detached. Mounted red leather spine label present but rubbed so that it is readable but only barely. Contemporary owner signed (Henry Mitchell) Text light - moderately foxed throughout; binding secure. (a23409)
$80.00 Whiting, Joseph . MANUSCRIPT RECEIPT BOOK
Octavo, 10 leaves (first leaf torn out), ink mss., handmade book, string bound with cover. 2 pages blank. Records services and items purchased in 1798, 1799, 1800 and part of 1801. Messy but legible. (a23894)
$190.00Wilson, Jasper. A LETTER COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL ADDRESSED TO THE RT. HONORABLE WILLIAM PITT
London 1793 3rd ed. "In which the real interests of Britain are considered and some observations are offered on the General State of Europe." Removed from binding, now in later plain wraps. Small puncture hole in top margin throughout. Small piece of paper glued to bottom margin of title page. Good Plus, no tears, no chips, no owner marks. (a28896)
$65.00 (u.s. government) . PETITIONS, MEMORIALS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF CONGRESS MARCH 4, 1789 TO DECEMBER 14, 1795
Washington 1986 GPO. 8vo., 432pp., wraps. Good, light wear and soiling. (a53778)
$45.00 Garzia , R. P. M. Ignacio (de al Compania de Jesus) . DESENGANO CONSEJERO EN EL RETIRO DE LOS EXERCICIOS DE SAN IGNACIO SOBRE AQUELLO DEL PSALMO 26 MEDITATUS SUM NOCTE CUM CORDE MEO & EXERCITABAR & SCOPEHAM SPRITIUM.
Lima 1754 Imprenta de la Calle de la Barranca. 12mo., (24pp.), ) 287pp., (3p., full vellum with ties (two of 4 ties missing.) Four pages have small bit of ink initialing or writing. Good, hinges cracked, vellum a bit worn. Scarce. (a59236)
$395.00 Low, Nathanael . AN ASTRONOMICAL DIARY OR ALMANACK FOR...1792
Boston 1792 T and J Fleet. 12mo., 12 leaves, stringbound wraps. Drake 3469. Lists eclipses expected in 1792; has a poem for each month of year; one page essay on meaning of patriotism. Good, worn, a few ink doodles on front page. (a5985)
$89.00 Edwards, Jonathan . FAITH, AND A GOOD CONSCIENCE : ILLUSTRATED IN A SERMON, DELIVERED AT THE ORDINATION OF THE REVEREND WILLIAM BROWN, TO THE PASTORAL OFFICE IN THE FIRST CHURCH IN GLASTENBURY [SIC], ON THE 27TH OF JUNE, 1792, AND PRINTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE HEARERS
New-Haven MDCCXII (sic) Printed by A. Morse. Octavo, 33pp., original string binding. Good, edges a bit frayed, cover lightly but unevenly browned, lower corner of front detaching. (a64677)
$250.00 Barnard, Thomas . A SERMON DELIVERED ON THE DAY OF NATIONAL THANKSGIVING, FEBRUARY 19, 1795 : ISAIAH V. 3-7
Salem 1795 Thomas C. Cushing. Octavo, 25pp., removed from volume and rebound in wraps. Signature at top of front. Good, (a66575)
$125.00 Kirkland, John Thornton . A SERMON DELIVERED ON 9TH MAY 1798 BEING THE DAY OF A NATIONAL FAST: ISAIAH XXVI.9
Boston 1798 John Russell. Octavo, 23pp., removed and rebound in later wraps. Good, occasional light spotting (a66576)
$145.00 Hazlett, William . A THANKSGIVING DISCOURSE PREACHED AT HALLOWELL 15 DECEMBER 1785 : PSALMS CVII. 8
Boston 1786 Samuel Hall. Octavo, 19pp., stringbound wraps. Ink inscription on top of titlepage reads: For Cap.n W D Cheever from his friend & Servant, S. Howard. Good. (a66578)
$135.00 Sampson, Ezra . A DISCOURSE DELIVERED FEBRUARY 19, 1795 BEING THE DAY OF NATIONAL THANKSGIVING : DEUTERONOMY XXXII
Boston (1795) Samuel Hall. Octavo, 21pp., tail vignette, wraps. Signature of Rev. Charles Brooks,1850 on top of title page. Good, lightly browned. (a66579)
$95.00 Seabury, Samuel, Bishop of Connecticut . A SERMON DELIVERED BEFORE THE BOSTON EPISCOPAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY...MARCH 25, 1788 - A CHARITY SERMON TIM VI
Boston 1788 Thomas and John Fleet. Octavo, 24pp., 6pp. (appendix), removed from volume and rebound in later wraps. Good, stain on titlepage. (a66582)
$150.00Mason, John M.. THE ADDRESS AND CONSTITUTION OF THE NEW-YORK MISSIONARY SOCIETY
New York 1796 T. and J. Swords. Octavo, 19pp., removed and rebound in later wraps. Good. (a66588)
$39.00 Osgood, David . THE SIGNAL ADVANTAGES DERIVED TO THE NATIONS OF CHRISTENDOM FROM THEIR RELIGION..A DISCOURSE....1798
Boston 1798 Samuel Hall. Octavo, 32pp., original wraps. Good, frayed on edges. (a66589)
$125.00 Harris, Thaddeus Mason . A DISCOURSE ADDRESSED TO THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF YOUNG MEN IN DORCHESTER ON THE TERMINATION OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS FROM THE TIME OF ITS ESTABLISHMENT
Charlestown 1799 Samuel Etheridge. Octavo, 24pp., stringbound wraps. Contemporary ink signature of Elizabeth Howe on top margin of title page. Good. (a66590)
$125.00 Thacher, Peter . A SERMON PREACHED TO THE SOCIETY IN BRATTLE STREET...1790 AND OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF THE HON. JAMES BOWDOIN...LATELY GOVERNOR OF ...MASSACHUSETTS
Boston 1791. I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews. Octavo, 31pp., vignette, removed and rebound in later wraps. Good. (a66592)
$55.00Boyd, William. AN ORATION ON THE DEATH OF MR. JOHN RUSSELL, SENIOR SOPHISTER AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY DELIVERED NOVEMBER 25 IN THE COLLEGE CHAPEL
Boston 1795 John W Folsom. Includes alphabetical list of The present Senior Sophisters at Harvard University. Octavo, 18pp., removed with later backstrip. VG, light wear. (a66594)
$125.00 Osgood, David . THE UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE, ILLUSTRATED IN A DISCOURSE DELIVERED ...1797...AFTER THE FUNERAL OF A CHILD WHOSE DEATH HAD BEEN OCCASIONED BY THE ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE OF A GUN
Boston 1797 Samuel Hall. The dead child's name was Joseph Teel. Octavo, 22pp., removed and rebound in later wraps. Good. (a66600)
$90.00 Reed, George B. . SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF HONORABLE JOHN READ OF BOSTON 1722-1749
Boston 1879 first edition Privately printed. John Read was a Boston lawyer. Octavo, 18pp., original wraps bound in later hardcover. Small label of Geo. B. Reed, Boston, on title page. VG plus, slight spotting on cover. (a66816)
$65.00Fisher, George. THE INSTRUCTOR: OR, AMERICAN YOUNG MAN'S BEST COMPANION
Worcester 1785 thirtieth edition, revised, corrected, enlarged and improved. Isaiah Thomas. Hardcover. Small octavo, 384pp., frontis enraving of teacher, 5 fullpage illustrations of alphabets; one foldout plate of geometric shapes, one text illustration of mariner's compass; one text illustration of quadrant, two full page illustrations of needlepoint alphabet, full leather. Several owner signatures: Horace Henry Morse, August, 1898; Mrs. Adams at Newton, N. H.; G B. Currier, South Hampton. Fairly Good, front hinge cracked in and out, leaves browned, spotted and worn (feels like they were often fingered), lacks rear free blank, leather rubbed. Collated complete, binding secure. (a67949)
$140.00Strong, Cyprian. A SECOND INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND DESIGN OF CHRISTIAN BAPTISM
Hartford 1796 Hudson and Goodwin. Evans 31244. Octavo, 117pp., original stringbound printed wraps with wide margins. Good, front cover mostly detached, final two pages have some chips but no loss, some staining on lower corner throughou, edges frayed and corners gently rounded. (a68591)
$120.00 Thacher, Peter . A SERMON PREACHED AT EXETER IN NEW HAMPSHIRE JUNE 2, 1790, AT THE ORDINATION OF THE REV. MR. WILLIAM FREDERICK ROWLAND
Exeter 1790 Printed by Henry Ranlet. Sermon demands that ministers be especially law abiding and good. Octavo, 44pp., later wraps without half title. VG. (a68642)
$55.00 Griswold, Ezra . LETTER IN ANSWER TO THE REV. DAVID PERRY'S SHORT VIEW AND DEFENCE OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL RIGHTS OF MAN
Hartford 1796 Hudson & Goodwin. Octavo, 27pp., removed and rebound in later wraps. Fair, lightly browned, corner of several leaves chipped. (a73259)
$65.00 Marsh, Ebenezer Grant . AN ORATION ON THE TRUTH OF THE MOSAIC HISTORY OF THE CREATION; DELIVERED AT NEW HAVEN ON THE PUBLIC COMMENCEMENT SEPTEMBER A. D. 1798
Hartford 1798 Hudson and Goodwin. Octavo, 59pp., small vignette of lyre, horn and book on title page, original stringbound wraps. Lacks front wrap but rear grey panel present. Good, lightly frayed on edges. (a73341)
$115.00 Murray, John . THE DILIGENT SERVANT EXCITED A SERMON PREACHED IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN NEWBURYPORT JANUARY 23, 1791
Newburyport 1791 1st John Mycall. Octavo, 42pp., stringbound wraps. Has skull and bones vignette on top of text. Lacks the 10 page appendix, portrait and half title. Good, lightly toned, edges lightlty frayed. (a73342)
$50.00 Linn, William . THE BLESSINGS OF AMERICA, A SERMON PREACHED IN THE MIDDLE DUTCH CHURCH ON THE FOURTH JULY 1791 BEING THE ANNIVERSARYOF THE INDEPENDENCE OF AMERICA AT THE REQUEST OF THE TAMMANY SOCIETY OR COLUMBIAN ORDER
NY 1791 1st Thomas Greenleaf. Octavo, 39pp., original stringbound wraps. Signed on front by John Croes, who was a Protestant Episcopal Bishop. Good, small stain on rear panel, lightly toned, light fraying of edges. Scarce. (a73352)
$275.00 (sermons) . SERMONS ON VARIOUS IMPORTANT DOCTRINES AND DUTIES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION SELECTED FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS OF SEVERAL MINISTERS , MEMBERS OF THE NORTHERN ASSOCIATION IN THE COUNTY OF HAMPSHIRE
Northampton (Massachusetts) 1799 William Butler. Sermons by Mr. Strong of Williamsburgh, Mr. Forward of Belcherstow, Mr. Emerson of Conway, Mr. Newton Of Greenfield and many others. Octavo, viii, 448pp., errata page, later wraps Tiny institute discard stamp on title page. Good, slightly toned and a bit rippled. (a77185)
$140.00 Kegel, Philipp (Nicodemus) . EVANGELIUM NICODEMI ODER: HISTORISCHER BERICHT VON DEM LEBEN JESU CHRISTI WELCHES NICODEMUS EIN RABBI UND OBERSTER DER JUDEN; TESTAMENT UND ABSCHRIFFT DER ZWOLFF PATRIARCHEN DER GOHNEN-JACEBOS; DAS TESTAMENT JOSEPHS
Lancaster 1784 Jacob Bailey. In German. Hardcover. 12mo., 247pp., half leather with papercovered boards. Handpainted color Pennsylvania Dutch bookplate (no words or names on bookplate- just a sundial-type starburst. Fair, leaves toned but legible, corners bumped, boards very worn, board corners rounded, almost all marbled paper worn off boards, endpapers worn and quite stained. Binding secure. No ownership marks. Rare. (a77805)
$2000.00 Porcupine, Peter (William Cobbett 1763-1835) . DIE BLUT-FAHNE AUSGESTECKET ZUR WARNUNG POLITISCHER WEGWEISER IN AMERICA ODER EINE GETREUE ERZAHLUNG EINER GROSSEN ANZAHL HANDLUNGEN DER ABSCHEULICHFTEN FGRAUSAMKEITEN, SOLCHE ALS NIE EIN AUGE GESEHEN...EHE DIE FRANZOSISCHE REVOLUTION ...WELCHEM EIN UNTERRICHTENDER BERSUCH
Reading 1797 Gottlob Jungermann. Translation for the Pennsylvania Dutch community of Cobbett's The Bloody Bouy. Anti-Jacobin tract. Small octavo, (10), 198pp.,1 plate (of 4), original paper covered boards with leather spine. Signed by Peter Spang Jr. Febuary (sic) 18th 1842. The plate shows "Shooting of men, women and chidren, Drowning men and women tied naked together called republican marriages" is Good with toning/staining on margins but image good, not foxed, not ton. Book overall is fair to poor, one internal leaf has large chip at lower corner with loss of several lines, one of the preface pages has a one-inch square cut from the text, corners bumped and worn, spine ends frayed, paper on cover chipped, leaves a bit worn and toned, some staining in text, one small puncture in final two leaves (taking out only a tiny number of letters). Sold as is. (a77809)
$95.00(hymnal). DAS KLEINE DAVIDISCHE PSALTERSPIEL DER KINDER ZIONS, VON ALTEN UND NEUEN AUSERLESSENEN GEISTES GES �NGEN, ALLEN WAHREN HEILS-BERGIE-RIGEN GAUGLINGEN DER WEISHEIT
Chestnut Hill 1791 Samuel Saur. In German. 12mo., (4), 572pp., (22), full leather with later leather melded to spine in repair. Bound with Die Kleine Harpe..Liedern Oder Lob-Gesangen, Chestnut Hill 1792 Samuel Saur, 55pp. (1). Good, original leather clasps gone, front hinge crudely repaired, spine somewhat tilted, a few pages have tiny marginal tears, some toning and staining in text. (a77810)
$375.00Piercy, Henry R (ed). THE CABINET OF INSTRUCTION, LITERATURE AND AMUSEMENT 1828 - 1830 (44 ISSUES) (later becomes THE NEW YORK CABINET )
New York 1829 Published by Theodore Burling and Henry R. Piercy. Volume I, II, III. 44 issues of this weekly journal bound in 3 hardcover volumes. Issues from December 16, 1828 to June 26, 1830, not a complete run, but no issues have been removed; apparently some issues just were not bound in. Octavo, illustrated with portraits and woodcuts, original paper-covered boards with later paper spine. Contains: Bedford Mineral Springs with halfpage woodcut illustration; Explosion of Steam Frigate Fulton with half page woodcut; Sketches of Andrew Jackson with engraved portrait; etc. Fair, worn, some soiling and foxing in text, boards worn. Backstrips reinforced. Three volumes: (a77847)
$145.00 Murray, John . THE DILIGENT SERVANT EXCITED A SERMON PREACHED IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN NEWBURYPORT JANUARY 23, 1791
Newburyport 1791 1st John Mycall. Octavo, 42pp. (10pp. Apendix.), removed from larger binding. Has skull and bones vignette on top of text. Tiny contemporary owner signature in ink on top of title page. Lacks portrait and half title. Good, later wraps, some soiling and toning throughout. (a80436)
$90.00 Haven, Samuel . THE VANITY OF PRESBYTERIAN ORDINATION AND THE IMPORTANCE OF CANDOR AND UNION AMONG CHRISTIANS OF DIFFERENT PERSUASIONS WHO AGREE IN THE ESSENTIALS OF CHRISTIANITY ILLUSTRATED IN A DISCOURSE DELIVERED AT THE DUDLEIAN LECTURE OF HARVARD COLLEGE SEPTEMBER 5, 1798 (ORIGINAL PRINTING, NOT A REPRINT)
Boston 1798 1st Manning & Loring. Octavo, 24pp., original stringbound wraps. Good plus, light edge fraying, slight toning. (a80497)
$150.00Searle, George. GEORGE SEARLE HIS BOOK 1791
Fully legible manuscript. Mostly arithmetic, interest calculations and mathematical word problems. A few morally uplifting copied short stories (school work.) Handwritten note on first page reads: "This book was given Edward Bruce Searle by his father George Searle". Sm.4to., 44pp., wraps. A bit of pencil doodling. Good, cover quite worn but intact and binding secure. True bit of early Americana. (a81737)
$350.00 (Adams, John) "An American Citizen" . DISCOURSES ON DAVILA. A SERIES OF PAPERS, ON POLITICAL HISTORY WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1790 AND THEN PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES (1805)
Boston 1805 1st edition. Russell and Cutler. Hardcover. Large octavo, 248pp., wide margins in text, deckled edges, rebound in red buckram with gilt spine lettering. Contemporary owner signature (T. M. Baxter). Binding very secure and cover Fine. Text is Good with light foxing and spotting on all pages and some toning in text block. Pages slightly different sizes and page edges a bit ruffled. A few pages have short closed marginal tears with no effect on text. A few pages have one or two small wormholes in top margin, again not in text block. Very scarce indeed. (a82439)
$7000.00 (newspaper) . THE TRIBUNE NO XII SATURDAY 30th MAY 1795
Octavo wraps. Single issue of this journal. pp. 261-284 Lead article: " Lecture on the system of terror and persecution adopted by the present military; with animadversions on the treatment of Joseph Gerrald" (16p.); then a short poem "The Invasion: or Credulous Spiders" by "A Looker-on". No authors or editors named. No place of publication given. Handwritten note on front cover says "poem perhaps by Coleridge" but we found no connection. Good, has contemporary plain paper cover which is frayed and age-soiled. (a87401)
$190.00 Thacher, Peter . A SERMON PREACHED TO THE CHURCH AND SOCIETY IN BRATTLE-STREET , BOSTON, DEC. 29, 1799 ...AND OCCASIONED BY THE COMPLETION OF A CENTURY FROM ITS FIRST ESTABLISHMENT
Boston 1800 first edition. Young & Minns. 12mo . Removed from larger binding and rebound in later plain wraps. 18p. Slight corpping of lower blank margins. Good plus, no ownership marks. A "Century Sermon" based on Acts II. 42. "And they continued stedfastly in the Apostles' Doctrine." (a90681)
$45.00 . THE WESTMINSTER MAGAZINE OR, THE PANTHEON OF TASTE FOR JANUARY 1773
London. 1773 first edition. W. Goldsmith. Octavo. later plain wraps. One fullpage engraving of Ghost of Omichund and fullpage woodcut of Guy Faux (lacks one engraving.) paginated 59-116. Many articles on current events and culture as "Necessary Thougts on the present alarming state of Public Credit"; A Comparative View of Bolts' and Verelst's different Representations of the State of India"; "Original Poetry". etc. VG. (a91560)
$25.00 (new york state) . JOURNAL OF THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - NINTH SESSION 1786
New York 1786 first edition. Samuel and John Loudon. 4to. wraps. 104p. Ninth session of Senate held 16 January in New York city. Complete text of meeting. Stringbound. Contemporary signature of Philip Nagel on titlepage. Near Good, binding secure; curling of page tips, final 4 pages have been worn down at top tip just to text affecting just a few words with small loss of text. (a92104)
$600.00 (new york state) . JOURNAL OF THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - SIXTEENTH SESSION 1792
New York 1792 first edition. Francis Childs and John Swaine. Sm folio. Stringbound wraps. 247p. complete. First 16 pages and titlepage lack top margin and outer corner with very little loss of text. Binding secure. Fair. (a92105)
$550.00 (new york state) . JOURNAL OF THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - TWENTY-SECOND SESSION 1799
Albany 1799 first edition. Loring Andrews. Session held in Albany Jan 21, 1799. Stringbound wraps. small folio. 236p. plus 3 page Index. The text is securely bound; the index is detached. The text lacks pp. 237-292. Contemporary signature of Jared Landon on front cover in top margin. Fair. all page edges somewhat frayed. (a92106)
$500.00 (new york state) . JOURNAL OF THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - THIRTEENTH SESSION 1789
New York 1789. first edition. Samuel and John Loudon. small folio wraps. stringbound. Thirteen session held in Albany July 6, 1789. 78p. Disbound but complete. Final page has a big chip removing less than a quarter of page text on both sides of just that page. Rest of text is a bit toned, faint stain on a few pages; worn. Fair. (a92107)
$500.00 (new york state) . JOURNAL OF THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - TWENTY-THIRD SESSION 1800
1800 first edition. small folio. stringbound wraps. 299 pages plus 4 pg index. Cover and first 4 pages are missing except for top corners. Binding secure. All edges frayed and somewhat worn. (a92108)
$450.00 (new york state) . JOURNAL OF THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - TWENTY- FIRST SESSION 1798
Albany 1798 first edition. Loring Andrews. sm folio. string bound wraps. Twenty-first session held in Albany, January 2, 1798. 144p. complete. Pages 116 to 144 lack some text due to damage and chipping. Fair. (a92109)
$450.00 (new york state) . JOURNAL OF THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - TWENTIETH SESSION 1796 and 1797
Albany 1797 first edition. Charles R. & George Webster. sm folio, stringbound wraps. Twentieth session of New York Senate was held on November 1, 1796 and second part held January 3, 1797. 130p. text (complete) and 6 pages of Index (index not complete-lacks final leaf.) Initial 18 pages are damaged, worn and chipped with only small loss of text. (a92111)
$500.00 Boyd, William . AN ORATION ON THE DEATH OF MR. JOHN RUSSELL, SENIOR SOPHISTER AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Boston 1795 John W. Folsom. 12mo. later plain wraps. 18p. Presentation copy signed "The Author" but part of inscription cropped off on top margin. Tailpiece vignette. Original printing, not modern copy. Good. (a92488)
$45.00