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POETRY in a
Frankly Magnificent Embossed Binding
Rogers, Samuel; Thomas Campbell; James Montgomery; et al. The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White. Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliot, 1841. 8vo (22.4 cm, 8.8"). Frontis., vii, [1], 98, [2], [v]–viii, 66, [2], [v]–viii, 195, [1], v, [1], 29, [1], xxiii, [1], 56 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Signed binding by Gaskill: Oxblood calf ornately embossed with a central medallion of Aurora in her chariot, surrounded by foliate designs, within a framing roll of drawer-handles and tulips; spine with gilt-stamped authors' names and embossed foliate designs; board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls. All edges gilt.
• American Imprints 41-4210; Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks, 190. Binding as above, corners and spine extremities showing faint traces of wear. Moderate foxing throughout. 
A beautiful example of Philadelphia Victorian high book culture and of a classic Gaskill binding in particular. (25994)
Dr. Rush in
NON-Medical Mode Rush, Benjamin. An account of the manners of the German inhabitants of Pennsylvania, written in 1789...notes added by Prof. I. Daniel Rupp. Philadelphia: Samuel P. Town, 1875. 12mo. Frontis. (port.), 72 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Pencilled ownership inscriptions of James A. Hoffman, Kutztown (PA), 1877. “Thou shalt not steal.”
• Sabin 74200; Howes R516. Contemporary green publisher's cloth with light wear and one spot to back cover. An article, “A Lesson in Pronunciation for Germans” has been affixed to the rear pastedown. A nice clean copy. (3043)
The Trent Affair
Rush, Benjamin. Letter on the rebellion, to a citizen of Washington from a citizen of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: John Campbell, 1862. 8vo. 23, [1 (blank)] pp.
• Sewn as issued. Once folded in six parts. Long 2 1/2 inch tears extending from fore-edges, to first three leaves. Two dog-eared corners, a few short tears to final leaf, two small holes with loss of a few words of text. (557)
Sad Tales ofOrphans, Widows, & Mistreated Stepchildren Rush, Caroline E. Robert Morton, or the step-mother: A book founded on fact. Containing Edmund and Ione, Letters from the South, &c. &c. Philadelphia: Pub. for the author by Crissy & Markley, 1850. 12mo (19.4 cm, 7.6"). Frontis., vi, [2], 191, [1] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. pro-slavery stance and defense
of Southern culture. The title piece and “Edmund and Ione” are moral tales encouraging (broadly speaking) kindness to children and the poor. In “Letters from the South,” the author describes her visits to Charleston and Savannah; she says of Charleston, “The blacks are very kindly treated, so far as I am able to judge. In no instance have I been a witness to the slightest cruelty . . . In the cities of Philadelphia and New York, I have been witness to misery and wretchedness far exceeding even what I have heard of the South” (p.
123).
The frontispiece lithograph was printed by P.S. Duval's firm after a design by W. Croome.
• Wright, I, 2260; Sabin 74247. Not in Clark, Travels in the Old South. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, spine embossed, with gilt-stamped title; binding slightly cocked, cloth faded and discolored, extremities rubbed. Front free endpaper with two gift inscriptions, one inked and dated 1888, one pencilled and dated 1891. Frontispiece guard-leaf and title-page foxed; a few leaves spotted or stained (not many). Occasional traces of pencilled underlining. (24418)
EstablishingSt.
Paul's — Agreements
Rules
Rents
St. Paul's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.). Articles of agreement, &c. for raising a sum of money, to purchase a lot of ground, and erecting thereon a church, (since known by the name of St. Paul's church.) in the city of Philadelphia...to which is added, the Act for incorporating St. Paul's church in the city of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Pr. by John Ormrod, 1798. 8vo (21 cm, 8.375"). 16 pp.
Also printed here the church's act of incorporation and its rules and regulations, as established in 1783. This last section contains an important manuscript addition concerning pew rental that was left out of the first printing of 1794 and was also omitted in this edition because the 1794 printing was too closely followed by Ormrod, the printer of this second edition.
• Evans 34359. Modern boards covered with marbled paper and with a paper label on front cover. Faint, old stamps of defunct library. A very good copy of a scarce pamphlet detailing economic aspects of American religious life in the 18th century.
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An
Edition with
Barton’s
AdditionsSaint-Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernardin de. Studies of nature...translated by Henry Hunter. Philadelphia: Abraham Small, 1808. 3 vols. I: Frontis., [4], xliii, [1 (blank)], 417, [3] pp.; 1 fold. map. II: [2], vii, [1 (blank)], 504 pp.; 3 fold. plts. III: [4], 493, [3 (2 blank)] pp.
four plates including a map of the Atlantic hemisphere and illustrations of various flora.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 16129. Contemporary mottled sheep, rubbed, joints on vols. I and II open; spines with heads and gilt-stamped leather title labels chipped, and remnants of paper shelving labels. Front pastedowns with bookplates of a now-defunct institution; front pastedowns and free endpapers with pencilled gift inscriptions. Pages foxed throughout, with some leaves notably browned.
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Written & Published
Here in Philadelphia English Version
Salazar, J[osé] M[aría]. Observations
on the political reforms of Colombia. Tr. from the manuscript by Edward Barry.
Philadelphia: Pr. by William Stavely, 1828. 8vo. 47, [1 (blank)] pp.
Writing in hopes of influencing the congress of Grand Colombia, which in 1826 was considering revising the constitution, Salazar offers his noteworthy, extended thoughts on what political organization would be best.
This is a very scarce book. Palau did not know of this English translation, and fewer than eight U.S. libraries report owning a copy of it.
• Palau 286648 (for the Spanish-language edition); Sabin 75576; Shoemaker 35093a. Recent quarter dark green morocco with marbled paper sides. Pages 3 through 6 are supplied in xerographic facsimile. Browning and foxing.
When
CEMETERIES
Were PARKS
with
Great Landscape Gardening
& Sculpture
Smith, R. A. Smith's illustrated guide to and through
Laurel Hill cemetery, with a glance at celebrated tombs and burying places, ancient and modern,
an historical sketch of the cemeteries of Philadelphia, an essay on monumental architecture, and a
tour up the Schuylkill. Philadelphia: W.P. Hazard, 1852. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). Frontis., [1] f., 147, [1
(blank) pp., [1] f., 53, [1 (blank)] pp., 16 plts.
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heavily illustrated with in-text
wood engravings and with 16 engraved plates. All illustrations are identified
as to artist. The layout of the burial park is detailed in a colored plan
at the front of the volume.
Binding: Publisher's green cloth with textured covers; spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Front cover stamped in gilt with a frame with corner brackets; a very large oval center medallion shows an angel with harp posed between a broken pediment and an hour glass on a closed book, all flanked by weeping willows. Rear cover stamped in blind with same decorative elements. All edges gilt.
• Sabin 83734. Binding modestly rubbed, with spine faded and its gilt dimmed; cover gilt in parts “gone to copper” rather attractively. Scattered foxing; several sorts of spotting/staining, darkest stains in upper margins. Overall, a beautiful book in a better than decent copy. (26863)
For
German-AMERICANS
Wanting
to
Learn
English
Sower (a.k.a. Saur), Christopher, comp. Eine nuetzliche Anweisung oder Beyhuelffe vor Deutsche um Englisch zu lernen.... Nebst einer Grammatic.... Vierte und vermehrte Auflage. Germantaun: Gedruckt und zu bekommen bey Peter Leibert, 1792. 8vo (16.8 cm, 6.6"). [4], 282 (i.e., 284) pp. 
Click the images for enlargements. In addition to the lessons it includes short German–English and English–German lexicons. First published in 1751, it is printed here in both fraktur and roman type, with a woodcut headpiece of the all-seeing eye above the preface. This is the fourth of four 18th-century editions.
Provenance: Front fly-leaf with early inked inscription “Sebastian Keller jnr.” Sebastian Keller the second was the son of Catharine Hummer of White Oak, Pennsylvania; Hummer was the first woman to preach among the German Baptist Brethren of Pennsylvania, and famed for her visions of dead people being baptized in Heaven.
• ESTC W21002; Evans 24771; Arndt & Eck, German Language Printing in the U.S., 853. Contemporary mottled sheep, covers framed in blind double fillets; binding scuffed and rubbed, spine and front cover with insect damage. Pages browned and intermittently stained as usual with German American imprints; edges of front free endpaper, first few leaves, and back free endpaper tattered. Front fly-leaf with inscription as above. (26180)
Presentation
Copy — Sole Edition — A PhiladelphianumStruthers, William. Lyric moods & tenses. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1910. 12mo. 101, [1] pp. 
• Clean, crisp copy in publisher's red cloth, slightly darkened, gilt-stamping on front cover still bright. Front free endpaper with number stamped in upper right corner, also with author's gift inscription as described above; pages clean. (4898)
Private & Limited Printing Thompson, Lawrence. Emerson and Frost, critics of their times. Philadelphia: The Philobiblon Club, 1940. Small 8vo. 44 pp.
Click the image for enlargement. • Publisher's cloth-backed orange-marbled paper covered boards; with the original slipcase. (16882)
Privately
Printed for thePhilobiblon
ClubThorp, Williard. Lost tradition of American
letters. Philadelphia: Privately printed for the Philobiblon Club, 1945. 8vo.
[2], 26, [2] pp. 
• Quarter cloth and marbled paper sides, spine gilt-stamped with title. Pages crisp and binding clean; the whole very nearly pristine. (4925)
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