Books and Manuscripts

Weems, M.L.
God's Revenge Against Duelling: or, the Duellist's Looking-Glass...
Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, 1827. Third edition. 16mo. 96 pp. Illustrated with engraved folding frontispiece. Limp wrappers over contemporary stiff wrappers, 19th-century ownership signature on front wrapper, outer wrappers worn and soiled; ownership inscription on title-page extending to p. (3); in box.

Originally published in 1820, this third edition was largely expanded and features an engraved frontispiece of black American duelers by E.W. Clay.

Together with:

Colton, Walter
Remarks on Duelling
New-York and Boston: Jonathan Leavitt/Crocker & Brewster, 1828. First edition. 8vo. 62 pp. Modern cloth, leather spine label, stamped in gilt; top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed; scattered minor foxing; original printed wrappers bound in.

From the library of bibliographer, bookseller, and arms collector Raymond L.J. Riling (1896-1974), with his illustrated book plate on front paste-down of each volume.