[n.p. c.1861]. 2 1/4" x 5". White postal cover, printed in black and red inks. Unused. Small glue remnants around flap side from earlier mounting. Very Good. Senator Douglas of Illinois was the presidential nominee of the regular Democratic Party in 1860. Realizing late in the campaign that he..... More
Atlanta, Georgia: The Library Emory University, 1954. 24pp. Original printed yellow wrappers. Very Good. This pamphlet is one of the Emory University Sources and Reprints Series. More
New York: Printed by Samuel Loudon, 1787-1788. A consecutive run of this important monthly, from December 1787 through November 1788. Each issue disbound and lightly spotted. Four plates are referred to in the text, not present here. Else Very Good in a modern cloth case. Webster's first review of..... More
Boston: Printed and Sold by William M'Alpine, [1766]. 16mo. 12 leaves (complete). Loose, light edge wear, toned, Good+. This Almanac celebrates the Stamp Act's repeal with a patriotic preface by Ames, lauding Americans' "exertion of that noble spirit of Freedom, which every thinking honest Man that has ever been..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by Mathew Carey, 1787. [3], 212-311, [1] pp. Widely scattered light foxing; final few leaves with some blank inner margin wear. Pages 276-286 print, in Very Good condition, the proposed U.S. Constitution, claimed as its first magazine printing. Overall Good+, in modern pale grey paper over boards. This..... More
Boston: Printed and published on Wednesdays and Saturdays, by Benjamin Russell, 1797. Folio. [4] pp, each page in four columns. Old folds, minor loss. Good+. The speeches of Adams and Jefferson are printed on page [2], in two-and-one-half columns. The Centinel also reports that "an indentured mulatto servant Boy, by..... More
Austin: Printed at Gazette Office, by Jo. Walker, State Printer, 1866. 53, [1 blank], [1], ix, [1 blank], 272, [2], xxvii, [1 blank] pp. Separate title page for the Laws of the Eleventh Legislature. Bound in marbled paper over boards and modern quarter morocco. Very Good. The 1866 Constitution was..... More
New York: Wilson & Company, [1842]. 4to. Original marbled paper over boards and quarter sheep. Binding rubbed and spine chipped. [4], 538 pp, as issued. Each issue 30, [2] pp [except for the final issue of December 31, which lacks page 540 and the unnumbered final leaf]. 18 weekly issues..... More
[n.p. Jacques Reich? 1883?]. Portrait, 6" x 7-5/8,", backed on stock measuring 6-3/4" x 8-3/4." Sketch bust portrait of Stephens in a suit, angled to the left, "Gov. Alexander H. Stephens, 1883" in neat ink manuscript at bottom center beneath portrait. India ink sketch versus print, as the portrait has..... More
New York: Published by the N.Y. Workingmen's Democratic Republican Association, [1863 or 1864]. Folio broadside, 12-3/8" x 19." Light foxing and minor wear, Very Good. At the bottom: "Printed also for the Loyal Publication Society, 863 Broadway, N.Y. PLEASE POST THIS UP." This dramatic signed at the end in bold..... More
[Concord: 1864]. Broadside, 8" x 11." A bit of offsetting, Very Good. Gilmore's Proclamation, dated 17 March 1864, is prompted by President Lincoln's order "for an additional draft of 200,000 men, on the 15th day of April." The Governor reviews New Hampshire's obligations under this call, and announces that an..... More
[London: 1839]. 12, [1 blank], [1 docket] pp. Folio, with caption title as issued. New stitching. Very Good. Reports are printed "on the actual state of the labouring population and sugar cultivation," with disturbing news that the local magistrate prevents "the labourers from settling and working upon the properties on..... More
[Spartanburg, S.C.? c.1839]. Folio sheet, entirely in ink manuscript, folded to four pages, each 8-1/4" x 13-1/4." A couple of fold splits which do not affect text, light soiling. Good+. A lot of people owed Dr. Smith money and wrote promissory notes to him. They are listed here, but "the..... More
New Orleans: Printed by L. Graham & Co., 73 Camp street, 1875. Original printed title wrappers [dirty]. Stitched. 36pp, with tipped-in errata slip. Good+. "The want of plain, short and Catholic instruction on great, practical truths, occasions the present alarming increase and progress of speculative views in religion, of novel..... More
Single page autograph document, entirely in ink script. Signed by Richard Leverich, Cornelius Hyatt, and David Van Wickel as witness. Very Good. Leverich sells his Negro Slave Jack to Hyatt, for $200, for a term of seven years, after which Hyatt must emancipate Jack. This early New York slavery document..... More
[Raleigh? 1861]. Caption title [as issued], stitched. 15, [1 blank] pp. Old tape binding at blank inner margins of first and last pages. Scattered light foxing. Good+. Wiley was Superintendent of Common Schools in North Carolina. He and others, signing in type at the end, represent "a large number..... More
New York: American News Co., [1864]. Broadside, 8" x 11-1/2", several type fonts, text surrounded by decorative border. Very Good plus. This scarce, pungent broadside denounces Governor Seymour's conduct during the July 1863 Draft Riots, "when arson, plunder, murder, and all the infernal passions of a brutalized mob were..... More
[London: 1791]. 3, [1]pp. Folio sheet, folded to 8-1/4" x 13-1/4." Untrimmed. Caption title [as issued]. Docketed on page [4], "The Yearly-Epistle, 1791." About Fine. "As a Christian society we have found it in our duty to promote the abolition of the Slave-trade; and, although the Legislature of this..... More
[Boston: 1771]. Folio sheet, folded to 9-1/4" x 14-5/8." [4] pp. The attractive masthead, engraved by Paul Revere, depicts a seated female figure at right with liberty cap, bird cage in center. [Brigham, Paul Revere's Engravings, p. 134.] . The female figure sets free from its cage the dove of..... More
[Charleston? 1893]. Memorial silk ribbon, 8-3/4" x 3," depicting a bust portrait of General P.G.T. Beauregard beneath crossed South Carolina and Confederate flags [in color] and bold block text reading, "In Memoriam." Below, blue script and block text reads, "Gen'l G.T. Beauregard, / Charleston's / Gallant Defender." Dusted, some fraying..... More
Annapolis: Printed by Frederick Green, Printer to the State, 1787. Folio, bound in attractive contemporary deerskin, with original gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. [458] pp, as issued. Scattered and generally light foxing, Very Good, with many contemporary ink annotations concerning the various laws, probably by a Maryland practitioner. A knowledgeable..... More
London: Printed for J. Almon, 1773. 4to. 28, xx pp. Disbound, title page lightly toned with light foxing. Else Very Good. An anonymous critique of Dalrymple's 'Memoirs of Great-Britain & Ireland from the Dissolution of the Last Parliament of Charles II,' printed as volume 1 in 1771. This is the..... More
New York: New York State Committee, Communist Party, [January, 1950]. Original printed and illustrated blue paper wrappers, with a photo portrait of Davis, "Former City Councilman of New York," on the front wrapper. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Davis was an African-American Communist who, for..... More
New York: F. and R. Lockwood. Gray & Hewitt, Printers, 1822. 80pp, stitched in original printed stiff paper wrappers [upper spine wear]. Light toning and mild foxing. Very Good. Frontis engraving [lightly foxed], "Jewish Passover." The Catechism instructs the reader about the "religion, government, manners, and customs of the Jewish..... More
Lynchburg: Virginian Power-Press Printing Office, 1865. 23, [1 blank] pp. Stitched in original printed pink title wrappers [some ink spots and extremity wear]. Else Very Good. Presentation copy: "For Lewis E. Harris, with friendly regards of C.L. Mosby." The Congressional Test Act barred from federal office any person who could..... More