Boston: Light & Stearns, 1836. 40pp, stitched. Original printed half-title wrappers [some edge chipping], light scattered fox, contemporary ink inscription on wrap, Good+. "In our time, and peculiarly in our country, the predominant idea, which invigorates every breast, is the sentiment of freedom." FIRST EDITION. Sabin 18095n. AI 36988 [5]..... More
Boston: Eastburn, 1840. Large 8vo, 24pp, dbd, minor foxing. Very Good. Cushing, the Massachusetts Whig whom Henry Clay would soon expel from the Party in a dispute over the Bank of the United States, demonstrates Harrison's qualifications for the Presidency by illuminating his "character and acts of an able..... More
Washington: Nicholson, 1856. 30pp, stitched [but loosened] in original printed wrappers [a bit of edge chipping to the wraps]. Text clean and Very Good. President Pierce's Attorney General pronounces illegal England's efforts to recruit American citizens to serve in the British army in its war against Russia. Protecting American..... More
Boston: 1855. 11, [1 blank] pp. Stitched without wrappers. First and last pages a bit dusted, Good+. Originally printed in the Monthly Law Reporter for September 1855, by President Pierce's Attorney General. A British man-of-war had hauled the Russian ship Sitka to San Francisco Bay, when a state of..... More
[Washington: 1841]. 12pp. Caption title [as issued], folded folio sheet, uncut, untrimmed. Signed in type at end, "C. Cushing, Washington, 27th September, 1841." Light wear, Very Good. Cushing, a Massachusetts Whig, advocates a national bank, a pet project of the Whigs ever since Andrew Jackson dismantled it. He warns of..... More
Boston: Thomas and John Fleet, 1771. 30pp, with the half title but lacking the final blank. Disbound, light rubberstamp at blank portion of half title, chip to upper blank corner of half title. Good+. Evans 12023. Sabin 18105. More
Boston, New-England: Richard and Samuel Draper, 1766. Half title, 39, [1 blank] pp Disbound with some loosening, light to moderate foxing, a closed tear [no loss] at one leaf Good+ The Charge is by Reverend Balch, and the Right Hand of Fellowship by Reverend Barnard FIRST EDITION Evans 10275 NAIP..... More
Boston: Thomas and John Fleet, 1788. 42, [2 blanks] pp, but lacking the half title. Disbound, light rubberstamp in blank corner of title page. Last several leaves with light to moderate foxing. Good+. Page 37 misnumbered '39' [as issued]. Very Good. The Right Hand of Fellowship was given by..... More
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth's Print, 1843. xvi, 84pp, disbound. Scattered spotting. Good+ to Very Good. A record of the "extraordinary" deadlock between Whigs and Democrats in AI 43-1400 [5]. OCLC 33402812 [6]. More
Salem: Published by Thomas C. Cushing, in the Main-Street, 1789. Folio, [4]pp. Folded along spine to 11" x 17". Several folds cause a bit of text loss. Good+. This issue prints two Addresses to President Washington: one from "inhabitants of the town of Newburyport," the other from "the inhabitants of..... More
[Washington: 1840]. Caption title [as issued]. 23pp. Disbound. Very Good. More