The official report on the first of two trials of Sarah Jane Robinson, the “Massachusetts Borgia,” who murdered her landlord and seven of her own family members, with a brazen letter from the murderer herself to Massachusetts Justice Waldbridge A. Field, requesting a private meeting. After the death of her.....
First edition of this defense of female intelligence and virtue by an Irish-born slave trader and overseer turned abolitionist, Methodist preacher, and author. Branagan wrote prolifically on a range of subjects, and his works had “tremendous influence” (Dumond, p. 80). This volume aims “to inform the mind and establish the.....
First edition of the first women's suffrage cookbook published in America, featuring recipes and household tips contributed by Boston Brahmins, activists, and pioneering female professionals—including the doctor who owned and annotated this volume—to raise money for the Woman Suffrage Association. The Woman Suffrage Cook Book was first published for the.....
First edition of this photo-illustrated and rather sassy guide book to North Carolina’s Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains, written by an Asheville woman. Distributed throughout this guide are five albumen prints showing a “Birds-eye View of W.N.C.R.R. [Western North Carolina Rail Road,” “Asheville from Beaucatcher,” the view “From Black.....
An account of St. Martins, an Anglican chapel in Denver, Colorado, with illustrations after photographs by Laura Gilpin taken early in her career. Inscribed by Gilpin on a leaf preceding the title page.
First edition. Cover design by Sarah Wyman Whitman. REFERENCE: BAL 10898.
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First edition, later printing. Inscribed by Jewett in pencil on the flyleaf: “A Red Cover for Mr. Emerson from his friend the writer.” REFERENCE: BAL 10914.
A remarkably well-preserved example of the first edition of the first translation of the entire Bible by a woman. Julia Evelina Smith (1792–1886), a suffragist and abolitionist from Glastonbury, Connecticut, translated the Bible in the 1850s in an overt attempt to aid the cause of women’s rights by demonstrating what.....
A scarce cookbook published by the Springfield, Vermont chapter of an international women’s philanthropical association, here with numerous manuscript additions. All of the printed recipes are credited to women in the community. Among the many recipes in manuscript is a “chocolate sponge” for which one had to “Beat 4 eggs.....
A delightful unpublished manuscript of illustrated children's poetry by a noted Florida woman artist and arts-organizer centering on “what-you-may-call-ems”—fantastical creatures with names like the Wip-an-gee, Tottle-Ott, Go-Go Bird, Mug-Wumpus, and so forth. Each page of this book is devoted to one creature and features a short, whimsical poem followed by.....
First abridged edition of the first historical atlas of the United States by pioneering educator Emma Willard, who, in promoting the power of visual learning, became the country’s first female map maker. The first map in this volume, designated the “Introductory Map,” presents the “Locations and Wanderings of the Aboriginal.....