The second edition of this catechism and collection of moralistic tales designed for the benefit of children and printed by a Connecticut Baptist Minister. It was assembled “by the ministers of the blessed Redeemer,” likely in Norwich, with the hope that those who read it would be “a blessing to your.....
With Wood engravings by Alexander Anderson, the “father of American wood-engraving.” Alexander Anderson (1775-1870) was born in New York, the son of Sarah Lockwood and John Anderson, the publisher of the rebel newspaper The Constitutional Gazette. His artistic ability became evident at an early age and he soon developed a......
The 1831 edition of this elaborate and charming German-English penmanship book by important German-American engraver and almanac astronomist Carl Friederich Egelmann. Enclosed within an ornamental frame with a figure of Justice, a globe, and tools of mathematics and agriculture at each corner, short original poems on either side of the.....
Scarce first edition of this Massachusetts Sabbath School Society publication—an edited selection of Cotton Mather’s Ecclesiastical History of New England centering a Maine woman’s captivity narrative and impressing upon readers the importance of maintaining their Puritan standing and spreading “the true religion” among the Wabanaki in Maine. The narrative of.....
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A scarce and brightly-illustrated German translation and adaptation for children of Stowe’s classic. This abridged edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which we find announced as a new publication in an 1899 issue of the Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel (German Book Trade Gazette), is illustrated with a scene of the.....
Stated first edition. Dust jacket priced “$2.00” and 10-5 and I-U on copyright pg.