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.....

New York: Bangs & Co., 1902. First edition. McKay, American Book Auction Catalogues, 5402; OCLC records three copies (Grolier, Yale and Bowdoin). A finely bound copy of one of the many sales conducted by Bangs & Co. of New York, one of the prominent auction houses of the day. The.....

Austin: Wind River Press, (1979). First edition, one of 450 numbered copies; this one is designated "review copy." ¶ A handsome work on the evolution of frontier clothing in 19th century Texas. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie Belch.

Boston: Printed by Russell and Cutler, 1802. First edition. American Bibliography 2490; Sabin 38076. The first book by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (1783-1838), a series of 14 literary letters fashioned after Goldsmith and Montesquieu. Knapp writes about Mary Wollstonecraft and her influence on American women, women's rights in America, American poetry.....

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.....

London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher; New York: Reprinted for the Booksellers, 1832. First American edition. NCBEL III, 769; Robinson, pages 197-98; Sabin 97028; American Imprints 15041; Clark, Travels in the Old South, vol. 3, 112; Colbert; ODNB. Frances Trollope (1780-1863) traveled to America in 1827 with several children in tow.....