8vo. 210pp, [4]. With a mounted albumen portrait frontispiece and a terminal leaf of advertisements. Original publisher's black cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Extremities marked, lightly rubbed. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, scattered spotting. Signed by the author beneath albumen portrait: 'C. Bruchhausen / 1869'.

The sole edition of homeopathist physician Caspar Bruchhausen's (1806-1891) only published collection of poetry, which includes, under the heading 'Echoes of Late Events', several compositions relating to the period of reconstruction following the American Civil War, including 'Emancipation, January 1, 1863':

'The die is cast and broken is the spell,
Of Slavery is rung the funeral knell,
Of Liberty begun the jubilee,
Lincoln at last proclaiming God's decree,
That men of any color should be free.'