Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 5606 [1845]. First edition, first printing; there was a second printing dated 1846. Singerman, Judaica Americana, 881; not in Rosenbach; OCLC records six copies of this first printing and three of the second. A seminal document of the American Jewish Publication Society, a pioneering organization dedicated to.....

Firenze: Nella Stamp. De Pietro Allegrini, 1788. First edition. Sabin 10704; Palou 42410. A treatise by Florentine historian and mathematician, Stanislao Canovai (1740-1811), that attempts to restore the reputation of Amerigo Vespucci as the founder of the new world, which was named for him, but he was not generally credited.....

Austin: Wind River Press, (1979). First edition, number 37 of 50 numbered copies, signed by David Holman. ¶ A handsome work on the evolution of frontier clothing in 19th century Texas in its deluxe issue with the cloth samples. Prospectus laid in. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie.....

Newburyport: From the Press of Ephraim W. Allen, (1810). First edition. American Bibliography 20505. A spirited 4th of July oration by one of the more interesting and colorful literary figures of his time, Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (1783-1838), who praises Washington and Hamilton, but not Jefferson. See the DAB.

Philadelphia: Printed for P. Byrne, 1803. First American edition. American Bibliography 4914; see under Sabin 65514. 71 lectures on history by Joseph Priestley, a work previously published in England, but issued here in its first American edition, with the addition of the first appearance of his 20-page lecture on the.....

Lichfield: Printed and Sold by J. Jackson, for the Author; Sold also by Robinson, Cadell and Evans, [et al.], 1781. First edition. ESTC T41382; Sabin 79477; Adams, American Controversy, 81-65a; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 291; NCBEL II, 682. The second published work by poet and writer Anna Seward.....

Boston: Published by D. C. Johnston, 1831. A famous portrait by Chester Harding (1792-1866) of American statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852), "drawn on stone by D. C. Johnston" and printed by Pendleton's Lithography, Boston.