Wilcox County, Alabama: 1859. Folio, 15-1/2" x 12-1/2", folded to 7-3/4" x 12-1/2". Completely in manuscript on blue paper with lined columns. A full accounting: credits on the left side of the ledger sheet, debits on the right. Docketed on verso: "Estate of Levi H. Seltzer, Dec'd, Acct. Current, Partial..... More
Reading, PA: Von Carl Friederich Egelmann, [1848]. 32pp. Stitched. Original printed wrappers [margin-chipped, dustsoiled]. Front wrapper with black and white illustration. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Light uniform tanning, scattered foxing. Some chipping and wear to edges. Pencil and ink markings in margins throughout text. Good. Printed in German..... More
[Washington: Buell & Blanchard, 1850]. 8pp. Caption title [as issued]. Printed in double columns. Folded, untrimmed, and uncut. Very Good. Sabin 5637. Dumond 28. More
Printed 1850-1859. The bindings are generally tight, with some inner hinges reinforced. Binding styles and paginations vary: some legal buckram, others sheep; some with morocco spine labels, others issued without spine labels. Several volumes include folding tables. The majority have the usual institutional marks, which are rarely obtrusive. Occasional text..... More
[California. 10pp, disbound, outer two leaves partly detached at top and bottom. Tanned, minor dustsoiling and wear of outer leaves. Good+. "From the organization of the State government of California, the city of San Francisco has contended that there was a pueblo, or town, under the Mexican Government, at..... More
Van Buren [Arkansas]: June 12, 1847. Elephant folio sheet, folded to [4] pp. Each page 17-1/2" x 24", and printed in six columns. Some spotting. Complete, Good+. This weekly began publishing January 22, 1842, and ceased in September 1859. It became a Democratic Party organ, espousing the pro-slavery position under..... More
[Washington: 1848]. 16pp, disbound, caption title (as issued). Some blank margin-chipping, Good+. Clayton of Delaware defends the Whigs' nomination of political cypher Taylor for President. He is "a Whig, but not an ultra Whig." Sabin 13576n. More
[Mexico]: 1866. The first item on lined paper folded to 5" x 7-1/2"; the second, 4" x 8-1/2". Both in ink manuscript, written on rectos only. Old folds, a few shallow edge splits. Else Very Good. After the Civil War some diehard southerners moved to Mexico and South America..... More
San Francisco: W.A. Slocum, 1882. xiii, [5], [17] - 710 pp, as issued. With photo illustration frontis and numerous other plates, all as listed, some with facsimile signatures. Occasional minor spotting. Attractive modern quarter calf and marbled paper over boards. Raised spine bands and gilt spine title. Very Good plus..... More
Single leaf, in neat ink manuscript on recto and half the verso. Signed, "JJ Crittenden." Very Good plus. Crittenden held nearly every office Kentucky could bestow upon him: State legislator, Governor, Congressman, U.S. Senator; he was also U.S. Attorney General in the Harrison, Tyler, and Fillmore Administrations. As an influential..... More
Philadelphia: 1849. 29pp. Original printed front wrapper. Disbound and lacking the rear wrapper, else Very Good. Inscribed on the front wrapper to "Col. Page with Wm. W. Chew's respects". Dallas's printed Letter is addressed in type, at the bottom of page 29, to William White Chew of Germantown. Polk's Vice..... More
[Newburgh, N.Y. 1848]. Broadside, 6 1/2" x 12". Printed in two columns. Several old horizontal folds, Very Good. The Town Committee presents nine Resolutions expressing concern at the divisive effects of slavery. They deplore "the efforts that are being made to destroy the old land-marks of party destinction [sic] and..... More
Mexico: Impreso por Santiago Perez, Calle del Angel, numero 2, 1839. 23, [1 blank] pp, disbound. Light tanning, light scattered foxing. Good+ to Very Good. OCLC 13975454 [3] [as of October, 2014]. More
[np: 1848]. 16pp, caption title [as issued]. Tanned, several leaves trimmed closely at the fore-edge, with slight loss. Good. A rare 1848 campaign pamphlet, attacking Taylor and sketching the biography of Lewis Cass, a man "of the highest order of talent" who has filled "almost every grade of office, from..... More
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[Washington: 1848]. 8pp, printed in double columns, caption title [as issued]. Disbound, else Very Good. A scarce 1848 campaign pamphlet, attacking Whig presidential candidate Zachary Taylor, who "has no political principles, and is perfectly ignorant upon political matters." On the burning issue of the Wilmot Proviso-- whether slavery ought..... More
[Washington]: Published Under Authority of the National and Jackson Democratic Association Committee, [1848]. 16pp, untrimmed and folded, blank top edge chipped. Toned. Good+ or so. Stewart, a Whig, had charged that Cass, the Democrats' 1848 presidential nominee, had picked the taxpayers' pockets while Governor of the Michigan Territory and..... More
[np: nd but 1848]. 16pp, disbound and stitched, minor scattered spotting. Very Good. NUC attributes authorship to Adams, identified here only as "a Whig of the Free States." He is appalled at his Party's impending nomination of Zachary Taylor for the presidency. Taylor, a Louisiana slaveholder, had never voted..... More
[Newport? 1848]. 24pp. Disbound, printed in two columns per page. Light wear, faint blindstamp on final leaf. Good+ On "the wisdom and good policy" of the Whigs' 1848 nomination of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore for the presidency. The pamphlet soothes the wounds of the failed candidates and their supporters..... More
[np: 1852]. 15pp, caption title [as issued], bound in modern wrappers, dusted, Good+. An 1852 pamphlet defending the Whigs and Scott against Democrats' charges of extravagance; and rebutting their charge of corruption in settling the Galphin case, in which the Taylor administration made payment to the heirs of a Georgia..... More
Washington: 1856. 14, [2 blank] pp. Disbound, partly loosened. Tanned with some foxing and light wear. Good+. "Principally of his frauds in the purchase of horses in 1846 and 1847, while disbursing officer in California." Cowan. "Carelessness, recklessness, favoritism, and connivance with the claimants." That's the verdict on Fremont..... More
[Hartford?]: 1848. Broadside, 8-1/4" x 13-5/8. Light margin wear. 'Released' rubberstamp of Connecticut Historical Society on blank verso. Very Good. The Meeting voted to offer these Proceedings "for publication to the Hartford Courant, the Hartford Times and the Charter Oak." Dated and signed in type at the end, "Samuel..... More
30th Cong., 1st Sess. SED33. 1848. 447pp, disbound and lightly foxed, else Very Good. Fremont was court martialed because he informed Brigadier General Kearny, his commanding officer, that he would not obey orders. Fremont was found guilty of mutiny, and sentenced to dismissal from the service. FIRST EDITION. Howes..... More
[Providence? 1846 or 1847]. Broadside, 9-1/2" x 16", printed in two columns separated by a rule. Lightly toned, Near Fine. This rare Rhode Island broadside denounces Congressman Lemuel Arnold for supporting the hated War with Mexico. "We all know that it was provoked for the purpose of extending the horrors..... More
New York: Wm C Bryant. Boston: Mussey, 1848. 176pp. Disbound, light title page dust, else Very Good. A campaign booklet supporting the Martin Van Buren-Charles Francis Adams presidential candidacy on the Free Soil ticket. Much detail is provided on the split of the Democratic Party in New York State..... More
Benicia [Boston, Mass.]: Published by S. Garfielde [Press of the Franklin Printing House]. 1853. 4to. xix, [1 blank], 1071, [1 blank] pp. Bound in modern institutional buckram. A couple of institutional marks, a few leaves toned, else a clean text. Near Fine. This is the first compilation of the laws..... More