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UNITED STATES CONSULATE, LIVERPOOL, 18TH OCTOBER, 1864. SIR, THE ENGLISH SCREW STEAMER "SEA...

[Blockade Runner] "CSS Shenandoah":

UNITED STATES CONSULATE, LIVERPOOL, 18TH OCTOBER, 1864. SIR, THE ENGLISH SCREW STEAMER "SEA KING", BUILT AT GLASGOW IN 1863, CLEARED FOR BOMBAY, AND SAILED FROM LONDON ON THE EIGHTH INSTANT... MR. SISCO, UNITED STATES CONSULAR AGENT AT DOVER, SAYS HE HAS RELIABLE INFORMATION THAT CAPTAIN SEMMES IS TO HAVE THIS VESSEL... I HAVE NOT THE LEAST DOUBT SHE IS THE VESSEL THE STEAMER "LAUREL" IS TO MEET, AND THAT CAPTAIN SEMMES, WITH THE OFFICERS, MEN AND GUNS, TAKEN OUT IN THE "LAUREL," WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO HER. THEIR PLACE OF MEETING IS NOT KNOWN TO ME. THE "SEA KING" IS A VERY FAST, STRONG BUILT, AND FINE LOOKING SCREW STEAMER, BUILT OF WOOD WITH IRON FRAME, AND COPPERED, ABOUT ONE THOUSAND TONS BURTHEN, AND TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO FEET LONG, ONE FUNNEL, THREE BRIGHT MASTS, SHIP RIGGED, WITH WIRE RIGGING, HEAVILY SPARRED; MACHINERY ABAFT THE MAIN-MAST. NO DOUBT HER NAME WILL BE CHANGED. I AM SIR, VERY RESPECTFULLY, YOUR OBEDIENT SERVANT, THOMAS H. DUDLEY, CONSUL.

Liverpool: 1864. Pale blue folio printed sheet, folded to 8-1/4" x 10-1/2". [1], [3 blanks] pp. Signed in type at the end. Old horizontal folds, some discoloration at blank lower corner and along edge of first page. Very Good. The Civil War launched Confederate Captain Raphael Semmes's "brilliant career as..... More

Price: $1,750.00

[Burn, Richard; and Joseph Greenleaf]:

AN ABRIDGMENT OF BURN'S JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND PARISH OFFICER. TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING SOME GENERAL RULES AND DIRECTIONS NECESSARY TO BE KNOWN AND OBSERVED BY ALL JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

Boston: Printed for, and sold by Joseph Greenleaf, at his printing-office... 1773. Original tooled calf, raised spine bands. Rebacked. [8], 386, [2- printer's advertisement] pp [as issued]. Contemporary inscription at upper margin of title page: "Ezekl Price | Tho's Greenleaf Junr." Very Good. The first edition of the first..... More

Price: $1,500.00

THE AMERICAN MUSEUM, OR UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE: CONTAINING ESSAYS ON AGRICULTURE- COMMERCE-...

[Carey, Matthew]:

THE AMERICAN MUSEUM, OR UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE: CONTAINING ESSAYS ON AGRICULTURE- COMMERCE- MANUFACTURES- POLITICS- MORALS- AND MANNERS... VOL. VII. FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, 1790.

Philadelphia: Carey, Stewart and Co., 1790. Volume VII, Numbers I-VI [January 1790 - June 1790]. 344, 44 [Appendix I- Poetry], 44 [Appendix II- Public Papers], 44 [i.e., 40; Appendix III- Proceedings of Congress], 40 [Appendix IV- Foreign Intelligence], iv [Index] pp. Mild foxing and toning. Appendix IV [Foreign Intelligence] is..... More

Price: $1,500.00

GROUP OF THREE LOYALTY OATHS SIGNED BY FORMER CONFEDERATES. [1] WHEREAS, ANDREW JOHNSON,...

Civil War:

GROUP OF THREE LOYALTY OATHS SIGNED BY FORMER CONFEDERATES. [1] WHEREAS, ANDREW JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DID, ON THE 7TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, A.D., 1867, ISSUE A PROCLAMATION PROCLAIMING FULL PARDON TO CERTAIN PERSONS ENGAGED IN THE LATE REBELLION, CONDITIONED UPON TAKING AND SUBSCRIBING A CERTAIN OATH THEREIN SET FORTH AND HERETO ATTACHED AND HEREIN INSERTED...'I THOMAS K. DAVIS DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR, [OR AFFIRM,] ..." [At head: Printed and Sold by R.A. Waters, Penn. Ave. Cor. 13th Street. With a postal stamp and Washington DC cancel]. [2] "AMNESTY OATH. I, ARTHUR MCMURTRY, DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR IN THE PRESENCE OF ALMIGHTY GOD THAT I WILL HEREAFTER FAITHFULLY DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNION OF STATES THEREUNDER; AND THAT I WILL IN LIKE MANNER ABIDE BY AND SUPPORT ALL LAWS AND PROCLAMATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN MADE DURING THE EXISTING REBELLION WITH REFERENCE TO THE EMANCIPATION OF SLAVERY; SO HELP ME GOD. SWORN AND SUBSCRIBED TO BEFORE ME THIS 5 DAY OF JULY, 1865, AT GALVESTON, TEXAS." SIGNED BY ARTHUR MCMURTRY AND WITNESSED BY H. BEARD, CAPT. AND PRO. MARSHAL.; [3] "OFFICE OF PROVOST MARSHAL, EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LA. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, JANUARY 30, 1864. I, EDWARD COUSINARD| EAST BATON ROUGE, DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR IN PRESENCE OF ALMIGHTY GOD..." WITNESSED BY DON A. PARDEE, LT. COL. 42ND OHIO VOL. INF'Y & PROVOST MARSHAL AND R.O. WARREN, CLK.

Partly printed documents, completed in manuscript, varying sizes, measuring in the range of 7-7.5" x 9-9.75". Matted and mounted behind glass in a 17" x 34" gilt decorative frame. Very Good. Former Confederates were required to sign oaths of loyalty before regaining citizenship and voting rights. The language of these..... More

Price: $2,850.00

GOD SAVE THE SOUTH. OUR NATIONAL CONFEDERATE ANTHEM. THE TEXT BY ERNEST HALPIN. COMPOSED BY C.T....

[Confederate Sheet Music]:

GOD SAVE THE SOUTH. OUR NATIONAL CONFEDERATE ANTHEM. THE TEXT BY ERNEST HALPIN. COMPOSED BY C.T. DE COENIEL RICHMOND VA. PUBLISHED BY THE COMPOSER AND MAY BE HAD AT HIS RESIDENCE GRACE ST. COR 1ST & OF ALL THE PRINCIPAL BOOK & MUSIC STORES IN THE CONFEDERACY. LITH BY E. GREHEN 146 MAIN ST.

Richmond: [1863]. [5], [1 blank] pp. Folio, 13-1/4" x 10" on 2 unbound, folded sheets. Light dusting, Very Good. With words and music; lithograph title leaf depicting a kneeling soldier, sword drawn, holding aloft the Confederate flag with the legend, 'GOD SAVE THE SOUTH.' The figure '2' is enclosed within..... More

Price: $1,500.00

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENT FOR LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF THE NEW SYNAGOGUE OF THE...

Congregation Mickve Israel:

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENT FOR LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF THE NEW SYNAGOGUE OF THE PORTUGUESE CONGREGATION "MICKVE ISRAEL," MADE TO THE BUILDING COMMITTEE. TOGETHER WITH THE ADDRESS DELIVERED ON THAT OCCASION, BY THE REV. S. MORAIS, MINISTER OF THE CONGREGATION.

Philadelphia: Collins, Printer, 705 Jayne Street, 1859 - 5619. 15, [1 blank] pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers [blindstamp and 'withdrawn' rubberstamp in blank upper portion of front wrapper]. Else Very Good. Mickve Israel [Hope of Israel], one of the oldest Philadelphia synagogues, was founded in the 1740s..... More

Price: $1,750.00

DEBENTURE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OCTOBER SESSION 1791. N2229 THIS DEBENTURE REGISTERED...

[Connecticut]:

DEBENTURE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OCTOBER SESSION 1791. N2229 THIS DEBENTURE REGISTERED IN THE COMPTROLLERS OFFICE FOR ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FORTY ONE POUNDS FOUR SHILLINGS. J.A. KINGSBURY COMPTR. NOV. 8, 1791.

[11] manuscript pages, [5] blanks. Stitched, 7" x 12-1/4". Very Good. This unusual, perhaps unique, manuscript document is signed in ink at page [11] by the members of the House Committee: Jonth. Bull, Eph[rai]m Kirby, [in pencil] David Daggett; and by Clerk Uriah Tracy, who writes, "In the House of..... More

Price: $2,000.00

THE WORCESTER MAGAZINE. FOR THE FOURTH WEEK IN SEPTEMBER, 1787. VOL. III. NUMB. XXVI....

[Constitution] Thomas, Isaiah:

THE WORCESTER MAGAZINE. FOR THE FOURTH WEEK IN SEPTEMBER, 1787. VOL. III. NUMB. XXVI.

[Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1787]. Pages 335-352, with caption title as issued. Upper margins of several leaves trimmed closely, shaving portions of several page numbers, a couple of printer flaws with effect on a few letters. Good+, in modern pale grey paper over boards. This early, rare printing of the proposed..... More

Price: $2,500.00

REPORTS OF CASES RULED AND ADJUDGED IN THE COURTS OF PENNSYLVANIA BEFORE AND SINCE THE...

Dallas, A[lexander] J[ames]:

REPORTS OF CASES RULED AND ADJUDGED IN THE COURTS OF PENNSYLVANIA BEFORE AND SINCE THE REVOLUTION.

Philadelphia: Printed for P. Byrne, 1798-1807. Four volumes. Second edition of the first volume, first editions of the other three. Vol. I [1806]: x, [1], [1 blank], 502, xxiv, [25]-26pp; Vol. II [1798]: [2], iv, 480, xix pp; Vol. III [1799]: [8], 519, [1 blank], xiii pp; Vol. IV [1807]..... More

Price: $1,250.00

FIRST IN WAR. FIRST IN PEACE. AND FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN. PANORAMA OF WASHINGTON....

[District of Columbia]:

FIRST IN WAR. FIRST IN PEACE. AND FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN. PANORAMA OF WASHINGTON.

New York: Chas. Magnus, [1861?]. Folio broadside, 8-3/4" x 31-1/2", hand colored steel engraving on wove paper. Uniform moderate toning, bottom blank edge with some chipping. several fold separations repaired with tape on blank verso [no loss]; closed tears at upper corners [partly repaired with archival tape, no loss], mount..... More

Price: $1,500.00

THE FOUR TRAITORS, WHO MOST INFAMOUSLY SOLD THEMSELVES TO THE DORRITES, FOR OFFICE AND POLITICAL...

[Dorr Rebellion]:

THE FOUR TRAITORS, WHO MOST INFAMOUSLY SOLD THEMSELVES TO THE DORRITES, FOR OFFICE AND POLITICAL POWER. LET US NOT REWARD TRAITORS, BUT WITH JUST INDIGNATION ABANDON THEM AS "SCAPE-GOATS," TO THEIR DESTINY- FOREVER.

[np: 1845]. Illustrated broadside, 9-3/8" x 13". Attractively framed. Near Fine. "An illustrated broadside reviling four Rhode Island Whigs who broke party ranks to support a popular movement to free imprisoned radical Thomas Wilson Dorr... The broadside's author alleges political opportunism in the alliance of [left to right] Charles Jackson..... More

Price: $1,250.00

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, 7 AUGUST 1882, TO GEORGE BLISS, REGARDING THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG....

Doubleday, Abner:

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, 7 AUGUST 1882, TO GEORGE BLISS, REGARDING THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.

Mendham, Morris County NJ: August 7, 1882. Single leaf, folded to [4] pp. First two pages with Doubleday's letter and signature in ink manuscript. Page [3] is blank. Docketed on page [4], "Major General Abner Doubleday U.S. Army." Very Good, with old folds. A career military officer, Doubleday was a...... More

Price: $2,500.00

First Congress, Third Session:

JOURNAL OF THE THIRD SESSION OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 6TH, 1790. AND IN THE FIFTEENTH YEAR OF THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE SAID UNITED STATES.

Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1791. 203pp. Folio. Modern leatherette, minor toning and light scattered foxing, Very Good. This was an eventful Session of the first Senate. In late December 1790, the Journal records the receipt from Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, of a report "containing a plan for a...... More

Price: $3,500.00

PURSUANT TO PREVIOUS NOTICE, A MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF FREE SOIL, CONVENED AT THE TOWN HALL, IN...

[Free Soil Party in Connecticut]:

PURSUANT TO PREVIOUS NOTICE, A MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF FREE SOIL, CONVENED AT THE TOWN HALL, IN SUFFIELD, ON THE 8TH DAY OF JULY, 1848... TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT.

[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

Price: $1,500.00

SCRAPS FOR THE YEAR 1830. DESIGNED, ETCHED AND PUBLISHED BY D.C. JOHNSTON. David Claypool Johnston

Johnston, David Claypool:

SCRAPS FOR THE YEAR 1830. DESIGNED, ETCHED AND PUBLISHED BY D.C. JOHNSTON.

Boston: [1830]. Oblong 4to, 12-1/4" x 9-3/4." Original printed and illustrated title wrappers, stitched. Title as part of an elaborate, humorous etching of a human face, 'Scraps' written as a curly head of hair; eyes flanked by a gargoyle-like character. Four full-page etchings, each containing nine humorous designs, each page..... More

Price: $3,000.00

ELEGANTLY WRITTEN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO NEW YORK ATTORNEY FRANCIS H. UPTON, REGARDING...

Jouett, Lieutenant Commander James E.:

ELEGANTLY WRITTEN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO NEW YORK ATTORNEY FRANCIS H. UPTON, REGARDING JOUETT'S CAPTURE OF A REBEL BLOCKADE RUNNER AND HIS ENTITLEMENT TO PRIZE MONEY.

U.S.S. 'Metacomet' off Mobile: May 16, 1864. [4]pp, folio sheet folded to 12-1/2" x 8", printed on rectos only. Fine. Signed at the end, "Very Respectfully &c | Your obdt Servt | Jas. E. Jouett | Lieut Comdr | U.S.N." Jouett, known as "Fightin Jim" Jouett, ended his illustrious career..... More

Price: $1,500.00

THE ARISTOCRACY UNMASKED. CHANCELLOR KENT AND JUDGE SPENCER IN FAVOR OF DISFRANCHISING 75,000...

[Kent, Chancellor James]:

THE ARISTOCRACY UNMASKED. CHANCELLOR KENT AND JUDGE SPENCER IN FAVOR OF DISFRANCHISING 75,000 FREEMEN.

[Albany]: By order of the Republican General Committee, [1827]. Broadside, 12" x 17". Old folds, spotted, Good+. Signed in bold type at the end by P. Wendell, Chairman, and A. Blanchard, Secretary, of the Albany Republican General Committee. This broadside is an uninhibited attack on James Kent and his judicial..... More

Price: $2,500.00

THE POLITICAL GYMNASIUM. Abraham Lincoln

[Lincoln, Abraham]:

THE POLITICAL GYMNASIUM.

New York: Currier & Ives, 1860. Lithograph broadside, 13-1/2" x 18." Several closed tears, two of them repaired with old tape on verso [tear line affecting Seward's midsection]. Good+. This scarce lithograph is a detailed, humorous "parody on the field of presidential candidates and their supporters in the 1860 campaign."..... More

Price: $1,500.00

Mallory, Stephen:

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED AS SECRETARY OF THE NAVY TO CONFEDERATE PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS, 7 FEBRUARY 1865, CONCERNING THE BATTLE OF NEW BERN AND THE GALLANT CONDUCT OF COMMANDER JOHN TAYLOR WOOD AND LIEUTENANT LOYALL.

Richmond: 1865 [February 7]. Single leaf, printed on recto only, in neat ink manuscript [light fading, but easily legible]. Blank verso with mounting remnants at the four corners. Very Good. Formerly a United States Senator from Florida, and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, Mallory became the Confederacy's..... More

Price: $1,000.00

TWENTY-NINE ISSUES OF 'THE NEW-HAVEN GAZETTE, AND THE CONNECTICUT MAGAZINE,' VOLUME I, MARCH 2,...

[Meigs, Josiah; Eleutheros Dana]:

TWENTY-NINE ISSUES OF 'THE NEW-HAVEN GAZETTE, AND THE CONNECTICUT MAGAZINE,' VOLUME I, MARCH 2, 1786 THROUGH NOVEMBER 23, 1786.

New Haven: Printed and Published by Meigs & Dana, in Chapel-Street, 1786. The following issues from Volume I [all 1786]: Nos. 3 [March 2], 4 [March 9], 5 [March 16], 6 [March 23], 8 [April 6], 10 [April 20], 11 [April 27], 12 [May 4], 13 [May 11], 14 [May..... More

Price: $1,500.00

DEAR SIR, WE BEG LEAVE TO INTRODUCE TO YOUR ACQUAINTANCE THE BEARER, L.H. CLARKE, ESQ. WHO HAS...

[New York Colonization Society]:

DEAR SIR, WE BEG LEAVE TO INTRODUCE TO YOUR ACQUAINTANCE THE BEARER, L.H. CLARKE, ESQ. WHO HAS BEEN APPOINTED AGENT OF THE NEW=YORK COLONIZATION SOCIETY. WE ALSO SOLICIT YOUR CO=OPERATION WITH HIM, IN THE ADOPTION OF SUCH MEASURES IN YOUR CHURCH AND CONGREGATION AS MAY BE DEEMED ADVISABLE FOR THE RAISING OF NECESSARY FUNDS TO CARRY INTO EFFECT THE GREAT OBJECT OF COLONIZATION...

New York: 1831. Quarto sheet, folded. [4] pp. Printed on rectos only. First page printed in typescript, page [3] in type, dated December 10, 1831; and signed in type by W.A. Duer and Ira B. Underhill. Some separation along spine, Very Good. Signed in ink at bottom of page [1]..... More

Price: $1,000.00

FREE DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. New York State Convention of the...

New York State Convention of the Free Democracy:

FREE DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

New York: October, 1854. Broadside, 9" x 14 3/4". Printed in three columns. Lightly margin-spotted, old folds, else Very Good. A rare broadside, issued by Northern Democrats opposed to the Kansas- Nebraska Act, which authorized the entry of slaves into that Territory and, its opponents feared, would nationalize slavery. The..... More

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JOURNAL OF THE VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COLONY OF NEW-YORK. BEGAN THE...

New York:

JOURNAL OF THE VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COLONY OF NEW-YORK. BEGAN THE 9TH DAY OF APRIL, 1691; AND ENDED THE 27TH OF SEPTEMBER, 1743. VOL. I. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. [and] JOURNAL OF THE VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS...BEGAN THE 8TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1743; AND ENDED THE 23D OF DECEMBER, 1765. VOL. II.

New York: Hugh Gaine, 1764 and 1766. Volume I: iv, 840, [2] pp. Folio, printed in double columns. Text generally clean, occasional foxing or tanning. Several errors in page numbering but text consecutive and complete, Very Good. Volume II: [2] 811, [1 blank], viii pp. Folio, printed in double..... More

Price: $2,500.00

DIXIE. SOUTHRONS, HEAR YOUR COUNTRY CALL YOU! BY ALBERT PIKE, OF ARKANSAS. Albert Pike

Pike, Albert:

DIXIE. SOUTHRONS, HEAR YOUR COUNTRY CALL YOU! BY ALBERT PIKE, OF ARKANSAS.

Memphis: R.C. Hite, Printer, 43 Jefferson Street, [1861?]. Broadside, 5" x 8", printed in blue with a vignette of Jefferson Davis ("Our First President"), surrounded by Confederate flags. Old folds, several fold separations but without loss. Light foxing. Fragile. Good+. On the otherwise blank verso, in pencil, an early owner..... More

Price: $2,000.00

HEAD QUARTERS OF VOLUNTEER AND CONSCRIPT BUREAU. FAYETTEVILLE JAN. 17, 1863. CIRCULAR. YOU HAVE...

[Pillow, Gideon J.]:

HEAD QUARTERS OF VOLUNTEER AND CONSCRIPT BUREAU. FAYETTEVILLE JAN. 17, 1863. CIRCULAR. YOU HAVE BEEN DETAILED TO PROCEED TO THAT SECTION OF THE STATE FROM WHICH YOUR REGIMENT WAS RAISED, FOR THE PURPOSE OF RECRUITING VOLUNTEERS, ENROLLING CONSCRIPTS AND CONDUCTING THEM TO YOUR COMMAND...

Fayetteville [NC]: 1863. Broadside, 7" x 7." Tanned and lightly worn, Very Good. With Pillow's secretarial signature as "Brig. Gen. C.S.A. and Chief of Bureau," reflecting his demotion after having been charged with abandoning his post at Fort Donelson in early 1862. Also manuscript signature, 'H.C. Lockhart,' assistant adjutant general..... More

Price: $2,800.00

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