[N.p. N.d.]. Horn engraving, 2 inches round. Mounted in a dark wooden frame 3.75 inches square. Small squares of horn with small metal stars in each corner of the frame. Light wear and some scuffing to frame. Wire for hanging on verso. An incredibly charming folk art engraving of Founding..... More
Albany: Packard & Van Benthuysen, 1825. 112pp., plus five engraved plates and folding table. Original printed boards, sympathetically rebacked. Light dampstaining and wear to boards. Some foxing and toning internally, heavier to initial leaves. A rare and pioneering, if evidently fanciful, work on air travel by Edmund Charles Genet, the..... More
New York: G. & R. Waite, 1804. 78pp. Dbd. Trimmed close at lower edge, occasionally affecting last line of text; light damage at lower edge of initial two leaves. Light tanning and foxing. An important record of speeches before an upstate New York court in a landmark First Amendment case..... More
Cambridge: Printed for the University, by William Hilliard, 1802. viii,187pp. Contemporary calf; rebacked preserving original label. Boards moderately worn. Bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf, later ink stamp on title page. Minor foxing, but generally quite clean internally. First American edition of this Hebrew lexicon originally..... More
[Princeton? 1796]. [25],[419]pp. Modern calf, gilt leather label. Some chipping and wear to a few leaves, light scattered foxing. Manuscript volume of eighty-three 18th-century university theology lectures written in Taylor shorthand. Picking up at the start of the semester in January 1796, the book contains lecture notes through late February..... More
Richmond: Samuel Pleasants, 1803. 43pp. Modern half blue calf and marbled boards, original leather label retained. Moderate wear and soiling to text, title page with contemporary ownership inscription heavily inked over. One or two other ink notations to text. A solid copy. An anonymous collection of travel notices written by..... More