MAINE
MAINE
Jews,
Mohometans, &
Popery —
For American Schools — 1806
[Gillet, Eliphalet]. History of the Bible and Jews, with remarks upon the rise and progress of Mahometanism and Popery. Adapted to the use of schools. 
Hallowell
[ME]: Ezekiel Goodale (pr. by Benjamin Edes), 1806. 12mo (17.7 cm, 7"). 312 pp.
Gillet,
who also published a number of sermons and discourses, was a founding member
of the First Congregational Church in Pittston, Maine, as well as a member
of the Maine Missionary Society. At back is a list of Goodale’s other publications, to be had at the “Sign of the Bible.”
• Shaw & Shoemaker 10485. Contemporary speckled sheep, worn and abraded; back cover with slices to leather, title label on spine almost entirely rubbed away. One leaf torn; pages age-toned throughout, with staining/spotting. Back pastedown with calligraphy practice inked in an early hand.
“Cupid Befriend Me!” Ingraham, Joseph Holt. American lounger. Or, tales, sketches, and legends gathered in sundry journeyings by the author of “Lafitte,” &c. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1839. 12mo. [10], 15-41, [5], 59-273 pp.
a story about General Washington entering a leaping contest and another involving the love affair between an illegitimate son of Charles I and a young maiden from a Native American tribe in Maine. 
Washburn
Memorial Library —
MAINE, 1885Presentation
CopyWashburn
Memorial Library, Livermore, Me.
Dedicatory exercises of the Washburn Memorial Library, Wednesday, August
5, 1885, at “The Norlands,” Livermore, Maine.... Chicago: Fergus Printing
Co., 1885. 8vo (21.3 cm, 8.375"). 48 pp.; 2 plts (incl. frontis.). 
Presentation copy: Inked presentation inscription of E.B. Washburne on p. 1.
• Recent speckled brown wrappers. Some shallow chipping and tears. Neat, handsome old library rubber-stamps.
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