Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1856. Original publisher's cloth. Frontis illustration of Marshal's Posse; illustration of the Night Attack on the Court House after page 42 illustration of the Church of the Fugitive Slaves after page 208. 15-295, [1 blank] pp. Binding sunned and rubbed. Light foxing, toned illustrations..... More
Portland, Maine: 1886. Original publisher's cloth, with gilt decoration on front cover [Lincoln freeing a kneeling slave, caption 'GO FREE.'] Gilt-stamped spine title, light cover wear. Endpapers lightly damped. [2], xii, 503 pp, with frontis portrait and full page plates. Scattered spotting, Good+ or Very Good. FIRST EDITION. LCP 11227. More
New York: W.I. Pooley, 1864. Original cloth [chipped at head and foot of spine]. [2], vii, [1 blank], [3]-376pp. Clean text, Very Good. Hopkins was the first Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont. Writing after the Emancipation Proclamation had turned the sectional conflict into a war against slavery..... More
[New York]: 1848. Oblong folio, with original printed wrappers [chipped, loosened]. 11, [1 blank], pp, plus six full-page line drawings plates on rectos. Scattered foxing, loosened. Each text page printed in two columns. Good+. More
Baltimore: Kelly, Hedian & Piet, 1863. 89pp, stitched in original printed wrappers. Front wrapper calls this the "Third Edition." Spotting and scattered wear, Good+. The pamphlet chronicles the arrest and detention, at the beginning of the War, of Francis Scott Key's grandson and other prominent Marylanders whose loyalty to the..... More
Boston: Printed by Samuel Etheridge, 1798. 24pp, with the half title. Stitched as issued. Early and late leaves foxed, otherwise a clean text. Good. Inscribed by "the author" to Mrs. Martha Tufts. Reverend Harris gives a lesson, applicable to the crisis with France, on "the manly firmness, the patriotism, and..... More
[New York: 1849]. Oblong folio, with original printed wrappers [chipped, loosened]. 16pp of text; plus six leaves each with full-page sketches on rectos only. Scattered light spotting. Each text page printed in two columns. Good+. More
Boston: Printed by S. Kneeland & T. Green, for D. Henchman in Cornhill, 1734. [4], 19, [1 blank] pp, as issued. With the half title ["Mr. Chauncy's Artillery-Election Sermon, June 3. 1734"]. Stitched, untrimmed. Moderately spotted, Good+. With the contemporary ownership signature of James Cushing, probably the New England Congregational..... More
Boston: Draper. Half title [with a light blindstamp], 1738. [4], 39, [3 blanks] pp [as issued]. Attractive type ornamentation. Stitched, light scattered foxing and light dusting. Very Good. An early American imprint expressing the colonial hatred of tyranny and distrust of man's exercise of power. "As Christ is the Lord..... More
Philadelphia: Printed for the Convention, by Hall & Atkinson, 53, Market-Street, 1818. 68, iv pp, as issued. Clipped signature of 'W. Rawle' above the title. Disbound with widely scattered light foxing. Else Very Good. William Rawle [1759-1836], owner of this copy and a delegate to this Convention, was a prominent..... More
Boston: J.H. Bufford, [1864?]. Hand-colored lithograph card, 3-3/4" x 2-1/4." Mount remnants on blank verso; two small ink marks in blank margins. Very Good. An expression of someone's wishful thinking: a top-hatted Lincoln leaves the White House, his umbrella and satchel in hand. Bufford was an accomplished Boston lithographer. He..... More
[Hartford? 1844]. Folio broadside, 12-1/4" x 18." Printed in a variety of fonts and styles, in two columns separated by a rule. Old folds, slight fold crimp, fold splits repaired archivally. Else Very Good. This rare, evidently unrecorded broadside bitterly attacks Henry Clay, the Whig candidate for President, as "a..... More
New York: Will. H. Coleman, 1885. [4], 324 pp, plus 14 illustrated plates, including frontis, on thick card stock. Original printed wrappers. "Marche narien lazambes qui bisoin. - Creole Proverb," at head of title. Frontis illustration of the dueling grounds of New Orleans. Spine wrapper is shorn, and the front..... More
Hartford: The Connecticut Magazine, Volume XI, Number 1, 1907. Connecticut Magazine, First Quarter 1907. [6], 184, [28] pp. Original printed and illustrated wrappers, original staples. Front wrapper detached but present, with its lower corner torn away. Else Very Good. Reverend Lewis's article appears at pages 125-[129], with the iconic full-page..... More
London: James Ridgway, 169, Piccadilly [verso of half title: Henry Baylis, Johnson's-Court, Fleet-Street, 1831. 24pp, with the half title, as issued. Mild occasional foxing, Very Good. Bound in modern marbled paper over boards. Vindex, whoever he is, is angry with the British government for parroting the "silly, sounding, worn-out falsehood"..... More
New York: J.H. Hingley, 1861. Five postal covers, each oblong 3-3/8" x 5-7/8." The recto of each is filled with an engraving of a Round of the boxing match. Light toning, minor wear to a blank flap. Near Fine. From the U VA description: "Five envelopes in the Champion Prize..... More
[Harrisburg PA? 1856]. Folio printed broadside on cloth. 10-1/2" x 17-1/2" on cream color fabric. Designed like a ballot and printed in several bold, large fonts. Beneath the names of Ingersoll and Stewart, the names of 25 electors are boldly printed in a single column. A few light fox spots..... More
Cambridge: Published by John Owen, 1842. 31, [1 blank], [7- publ. advts.], [1 blank] pp. With the half title, as issued. Half title preceded by two free endpapers. Glossy plain rear wrapper present, lacking the front wrapper. Stitched. Clean text. One advertisement leaf with a short blank margin repair. Very..... More
San Francisco: Phillips & Van Orden Co., 1910. Original green title wrappers. [10], 261, [3 blanks], xxxv, [1 blank] pp, as issued. Text on glossy paper. Mild wrapper wear, Near Fine. Ruef was indicted and convicted of offering a bribe to a San Francisco Supervisor in order to grant the..... More
Boston: Massachusetts Abolition Society, 1840. [4] pp. Folded folio sheet, each leaf 12" x 18." Text in four columns per page, each column separated by a rule. Toned and foxed. Good. A weekly published from February 1839 to February 1841, the Massachusetts Abolitionist, was published every Thursday for the Massachusetts..... More
Boston: Massachusetts Abolition Society, 1840. [4] pp. Folded folio sheet, each leaf 12" x 18." Text in four columns per page, each column separated by a rule. Occasional light foxing, Very Good. A weekly published from February 1839 to February 1841, the Massachusetts Abolitionist, was published every Thursday for the..... More
Boston: 1860. Elephant folio sheet, folded to [4] pp. Each page 18" x 25," containing six ruled columns of text. Old folds, occasional shallow chipping at blank margins, a bit of spotting. Very Good. The Masthead depicts a slave auction, a family of slaves looking forward to Emancipation, and Christ..... More
Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 1962. Two matching volumes as issued, in original cloth with gilt-lettered title on red spine backing. In original slipcase. Fine. First published in 1950. More
[np: New York? 1840]. 8pp. Folded leaves, untrimmed with some separations along spine. Lightly to moderately Foxed. Good+. AAS calls Upton's Address "An anecdotal attack on Amos Kendall, Martin Van Buren, and Democratic policies in general." Upton was a Louisiana Whig and Harvard-educated lawyer who wrote the State's Civil Code..... More
Washington: Printed at the Madisonian Office, 1839. 8pp, a folded folio leaf, untrimmed and uncut. Lightly foxed, else Very Good. This is the first edition, reprinted in 1840 for the presidential campaign. Burnett had been a Senator from Ohio, having succeeded Harrison in that office. He was an authority on..... More