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Little Cos.

By: N/A

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York: Cosmopolitan Magazine, March 1909-February 1910.:

Seller ID: 1583

Small octavo. 12 issues, each running about 16 pages. Printed in black and colors. Red sheep over cloth. Most of spine gone, hinges weak. OCLC does not record any copies. The only comment in OCLC comes from a March 1918 issue, explaining that it is: "Published by the advertising department of Cosmopolitan ..." It is indeed a tool for advertising in Cosmopolitan Magazine. Very early example of an ephemeral item.
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[EARLY MICHIGAN BANKING EPHEMERA] The State Savings.

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Detroit: February, 1891.:

Seller ID: 1777

Large quarto. 4pp. Volume III, Number 8. Illustrated. With trivia, stories and pithy sayings about money, morals, and ethics, and advertisements.
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First Impressions. Printing in Cambridge, 1639-1989. An Exhibition at the Houghton Library and at the Harvard Law School.

By: Amory, Hugh.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University, 1989.:

Seller ID: 1854

Small quarto. 64pp. First edition. Original printed stiff paper wrappers. Illustrated.
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Steven Day’s First Type.

By: Amory, Hugh.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Lunenburg, Vermont: Printed at The Meriden-Stinehour Press for The Houghton Library, 1989.:

Seller ID: 1855

Large quarto. [8]pp. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. Blue wrappers.
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Observations on the inslaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes with some advice thereon extracted form [sic] the Yearly Meeting epistle of London for the present year also some remarks on the absolute necessity of self-denial, renouncing the world, and true charity for all such as sincerely desire to be our blessed Saviour's disciples.

By: Benezet, Anthony. [PROBABLY ONLY COPY IN PRIVATE HANDS].

Price: $45,000.00

Publisher: Germantown [Pa.]: Printed by Christopher Sower, 1759.:

Seller ID: 2532

Octavo. 15, [i]pp. First edition. Disbound. Evans 8298; Sabin 4676; ESTC W1272. Attributed to Anthony Benezet by Evans. This first edition of Benezet's has not been seen in auction rooms for well over one hundred years.
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Oration at Valley Forge June 19th, 1878.

By: Brown, Henry Armitt.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: n.p.: n.p., 1940.:

Seller ID: 75

Octavo. 60 pages. Limited to 2,000 copies. Cream spine over brown boards. Spine slightly soiled. Illustrated.
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Familiar Letters to a Gentleman upon a Variety of Seasonable and Important Subjects in Religion. By. Minister of the Gospel in Elizabeth-Town, New Jersey.

By: Dickinson, Jonathan.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Boston: Printed and sold by Rogers and Fowle in Queen-Street, next to the prison: and by J. Blanchard at the Bible and Crown in Dock-Square, 1745:

Seller ID: 1311

Octavo. [2], v, [1], 424 [i.e., 426], [2]pp. A4, B8-Z8, AA8-CC8, DD6 (DD6 blank). First edition. Errors in paging: page numbers 239-240 repeated; p. 350 misnumbered 150. Contemporary sheep, quite worn. Top of spine chipped. Front free endpaper missing. Evans 25024; [Evans 5572]; Felcone 65 note. Not in Jenkins.
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Two Thousand Miles on Horseback - Santa Fe & Back.

By: Meline, James F.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Published By Hurd and Houghton, 1867.:

Seller ID: 578

Octavo. x, 317 pages. First edition. Half roan over boards. Covers loose, spine chipped. Lacks frontispiece map. Ex-library copy. A poor copy, good for a poor scholar.
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Reisen in die Felsengebirge Nord-Amerikas bis zum Hoch-Plateau van Neu-Mexico, unternommen als Mitglied der im Auftrage der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten Ausgesandten Colorado=Expedition.

By: Mollhausen, Heinrich Balduin.

Price: $1,100.00

Publisher: Leipzig: Hermann Costenoble, 1861.:

Seller ID: 1816

Octavo. 2 volumes. I: [16], 455, 1pp.; II: [10], 406pp. First edition. With the half-titles present. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. With 10 plates in tint, 2 facsimilies, one woodcut map in text, and one folding map. Wagner-Camp 362:1; Howes M712; Rader 2419; Sabin 44913.
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Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific with a United States Government Expedition.

By: Mollhausen, Heinrich Balduin.

Price: $1,400.00

Publisher: London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858.:

Seller ID: 1817

Octavo. 2 volumes. I: xxx, [i], 352pp.; II: x, [ii], 397, [i]pp. First English edition. Blue cloth. With a folding map outlined in color, 11 chromolithograph plates and 12 woodcuts. Ex-library copy, with call number on spine. All the plates and map either perforated or stamped with the name of the institution that used to hold this book. Map torn very neatly, but intact. Howes M-713. Farquhar, Colorado River, 19 ('Mollhausen's sketches are often admirable). Sabin 49915. Wagner-Camp 305. Wheat, Transmississippi West, 4: map 956.
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Comic Strips.

By: Pellerin, Jean-Charles [EARLIEST AMERICAN COMIC STRIPS BY IMAGERIE D'EPINAL]

Price: $4,000.00

Publisher: Missouri: Humoristic Publishing Company, c. 1880s.:

Seller ID: 2772

Folio. 60 hand-colored lithographs. Printed and hand-colored in France for the Humoristic Publishing Company of Kansas City, Missouri by Jean-Charles Perrin's Imagerie d'Epinal printing house, founded in 1796. The earliest printed comic strips in the US (it predates 'The Yellow Kid' which made its first appearance on February 16, 1896 in the Hearst New York American), they presage the format used by Hal Foster in his Prince Valiant strips by some fifty years, and are the forefunners of the modern-day comic book. In a green cloth box. A few leaves have been repaired, and there is the slightes...
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Three treatises, in which the fundamental principle, doctrines, worship, ministry and discipline of the people called Quakers, are plainly declared. The first, by William Penn, in England; the second, by Robert Barclay, in Scotland; the third, by Joseph P

By: Penn, William, Robert Barclay, & Joseph Pike.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: Re-printed by Joseph Crukshank, 1770.:

Seller ID: 1071

Octavo. [A]8, B8-F8; [A]8, B8-I8, K8. [8], 88, vii, [1], 111, [1], 24 pages. Booksellers' advertisements from Wilmington, Delaware at the end. In a contemporary calf binding, rebacked. Evans, Early American imprints. First series; 11661; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania 2598. Each treatise has separate title page and pagination. The first is signed separately, the second and third continuously. "The three treatises are sometimes found in separate issues. When collected, a list of books to be sold by Benjamin Ferriss, in Wilmington, pp. (4), is generally found added."--Evans.
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Discourses on Several Public Occasions During the War in America.

By: Smith, William.

Price: $3,800.00

Publisher: London: Printed for A. Millar, et. al., 1759.:

Seller ID: 1655

Octavo. xii, 246pp. A6, B8-Q8, R2-S2 (- S2 blank). First edition. Contemporary sheep, worn and rubbed. Upper corner bumped. Front hinge cracked. Top (1/8 inch) and bottom (1/4 inch) of spine missing. Howes S688; Sabin 84601. From the library of William R. Smith, a descendant of the author. Presentation copy from the author (founder of the University of Pennsylvania) to an Alea (?) Barclay, dated 11 January 1769. Further presented by Horace W. Smith (the author's grandson [?]) to William R. Smith, one of the founders of the Wisconsin Historical Society. A great assocation item from ...
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The Unconstitutionality of Slavery.

By: Spooner, Lysander.

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Boston: Published By Bela Marsh, 1846.:

Seller ID: 128

Octavo. 156 pages. Second edition, designated "Cheap Edition." Original printed wrappers. Most of spine gone, gutter stained. Lower foreedge missing a triangular area, first few leaves with corners of the pages turned over.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

By: Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]. [WITH ALMOST ALL FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE POINTS].

Price: $5,000.00

Publisher: New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.:

Seller ID: 2151

Octavo. 366pp. First edition. Earliest issue, with almost all first issue points: page 13: the illustration captioned 'Him and another Man' listed at p. 88 (BAL first state); the eleventh line from the bottom of p. 57 reads '...with the was...' (BAL first state); page 155 with final 5 "stamped in" by hand, and matching the original font in the setting of the page number (no priority, occurring randomly in all three states independent of other major signs of first printing sheets, but this setting seems to appear least often); the portrait frontispiece is in BAL's first state, "heliotype" impri...
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Einige Glaubens-Bekentnisse und göttliche Erfahrungs-Proben,: in einem Send-Schreiben von Elisabetha Webb an Anton Wilhelm Böhm, Capellan zum Prinzen Georg von Dänemark, im Jahr 1712.

By: Webb, Elizabeth.

Price: $900.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: Gedruckt bey Carl Cist, in der Markt-Strasse, 1783.:

Seller ID: 2567

Octavo and duodecimo. iv, [i], 6-55, [i], 22pp. [A]4, B4-G4; A6, B6. Contemporary grey wrappers. ESTC W18579 ; Evans 18296; Evans 17837; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4408; Sabin, 102211. Translation of: A letter from Elizabeth Webb, to Anthony William Boehm, with his answer. "Branntewein und Verderben," 22pp., is recorded separately by Evans (17837), who attributes it to Anthony Benezet. Not present in all copies.
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Poetical meditations, being the improvement of some vacant hours; with a preface by the Reverend Mr. Bulkley of Colchester.

By: Wolcott, Roger.

Price: $6,000.00

Publisher: New London: Printed and Sold by L. Green, 1725.:

Seller ID: 2748

Octavo. [iv], lvi, I, 78, [iv - 1 of errata and 3 of advertisements]. Lacks half-title. First edition. Contemporary sheep. The first book of poetry printed in Connecticut and one of the earliest in North America. ESTC W28923; Evans 2722; Trumbull 1696; Johnson 207; Wegelin 465.
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Category: Americana