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Trumbull, Henry:

HISTORY OF THE INDIAN WARS: TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BY COLUMBUS, AND OF THE LANDING OF OUR FOREFATHERS AT PLYMOUTH. . . A NEW EDITION, WITH AN ENTIRE NEW ARRANGEMENT, ESSENTIAL CORRECTIONS, AND LARGE ADDITIONS.

Philadelphia: Published by James A. Bill, 1848. Original publisher's cloth [chipped along gutters and at head and foot of spine]. Handcolored map frontis: folded into three panels, titled, "A View of Col. Johnson's Engagement with the Savages (commanded by Tecumseh) near the Moravian Town, October 5th, 1812." With legend at..... More

Price: $150.00

[Thomson, Charles]:

CAUSES OF THE ALIENATION OF THE DELAWARE AND SHAWANESE INDIANS FROM THE BRITISH INTEREST.

Philadelphia: John Campbell, 1867. 12" x 9-5/8." Bound in attractive modern half calf, with gilt-lettered spine title and five spine bands. Original printed wrappers preserved. Map frontis. Wrappers with a bit of extremity wear. One of 250 copies. Very Good Plus. Campbell's reprint of the 1759 classic. Thomson 1146. Howes..... More

Price: $175.00

Mix, George A.:

REPORT GIVEN BY COL. GEO. A. MIX, DUBUQUE, OF THE EXPLORATION OF THE PROPOSED ROUTE OF THE DUBUQUE & PACIFIC RAILROAD! PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF THE DIRECTORS.

Dubuque: Printed at the Daily Tribune Office, Main Street, 1855. 8pp, Stitched in original printed green wrappers. Very Good. A scarce, early Dubuque imprint, with a detailed description of the route and project for a railroad from Dubuque to California via Fort Laramie and South Pass. "There are very few..... More

Price: $750.00

[Monroe, James]:

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.

[Boston? Boston Patriot, 1822]. Folio broadside, 10" x 31." Printed in four columns, each column separated by a rule. Lightly toned, Very Good. Signed and dated in type at the end, "James Monroe, Washington, December 3, 1822.". We infer a Boston printing of this broadside because, beneath the Message, an..... More

Price: $1,500.00

[Whig Party in New York]:

LOOK AT THIS! COPY OF A LETTER SENT TO EACH OF THE BOARD OF INSPECTORS OF ELECTION IN THE TOWN OF PAINTED POST.

[Corning NY? 1838]. Broadside, 9" x 11-7/8." Printed in three columns, each separated by a rule, and signed in type at the end by a "Committee of Correspondence:" Wm. Bonham, Jahn C. Hayt, Oliver Rouse, J.B. Pratt, Henry B. Noyes, Thos. A. Johnson. Light margin foxing, Very Good. William Seward..... More

Price: $850.00

National Association of the Loyal Women of American Liberty:

READ THIS AND KEEP IT. ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE LOYAL WOMEN OF AMERICAN LIBERTY. NATIONAL OFFICE, ROOM 10, TREMONT TEMPLE, BOSTON. "WHAT THE PAROCHIAL SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS TEACH THE FUTURE AMERICAN VOTER." . . . NO UNION OF CHURCH AND STATE! NO PAPAL RULE IN AMERICA! NO DICTATION OF POLITICS FROM THE VATICAN!

[Boston: 1890s]. Broadside, 9" x 11-3/4." Several styles and sizes of type. Old horizontal fold, Very Good. Boston's anti-Catholic sentiment during the end of the 19th century "focused on a contest over the city's public schools, largely led by two women's groups, the Loyal Women of American Liberty and the..... More

Price: $1,250.00

[Slavery]:

THE NEGRO MOTHER'S APPEAL.

London: Vizetelly, Branston & Co. 135, Fleet Street. Printed for W. Nash, [1830?]. Broadside poem, 8-3/4" x 11-3/4." Text in three columns, surrounded by decorative border. Woodcut illustration at head of title: A Negro woman, standing, pleads with an elegant white woman, seated and holding a baby, a tea service..... More

Price: $2,500.00

[Nutt, Lizzie]:

LIZZIE NUTT'S SAD EXPERIENCE. A HEART BROKEN, AND A FAMILY PLUNGED IN GRIEF. WRECK AND RUIN! THE SHOOTING AND TRAGIC DEATH OF NOBLE-HEARTED CAPTAIN NUTT, LIZZIE'S BRAVE FATHER, WHO FLINCHED NOT, LIKE A TRUE SOLDIER, TO DIE IN DEFENCE OF HIS DAUGHTER'S HONOR. THE GREAT DUKES TRIAL AT UNIONTOWN, PA. FULL ACCOUNT, AND ALL "THOSE TERRIBLE LETTERS."

Philadelphia: Barclay & Company, [1883?]. Original green printed and illustrated wrappers [some toning and inner margin wear]. Stitched, with full-page plates, Pages [17]-64, [1] [as issued]. Except as noted, Very Good. Nicholas L. Dukes, a successful attorney, called off his engagement to Lizzie Nutt; he feared that her reputation was..... More

Price: $650.00

[Ambler, Rose]:

MURDER WILL OUT! STARTLING NEWS! THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF PRETTY ROSE AMBLER, THE CONNECTICUT BEAUTY, AND AWFUL CONFESSION OF "JACK" KRANTZ. SEE THAT YOU GET THE ONLY TRUE AND FULL ACCOUNT, WHICH CONTAINS THE STARTLING CONFESSION OF JACK KRANTZ.

Philadelphia: Barclay & Co, [1883?]. Original printed and illustrated pink wrappers. Stitched. Pages [2], 19-64 [as issued], with portraits, illustrations, diagrams. German-language captions appear beneath the English captions for the illustrations. Wrappers have several closed tears to inner margins, one including blank margins through page 38 [no text affected]. Otherwise..... More

Price: $875.00

[McFarland, Daniel]:

THE RICHARDSON - McFARLAND TRAGEDY. CONTAINING ALL THE LETTERS AND OTHER INTERESTING FACTS AND DOCUMENTS NOT BEFORE PUBLISHED. BEING A FULL AND IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF THIS MOST EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., 1870. Original printed and illustrated wrappers [extremity wear, spine reinforced]. Triple folding frontis [Richardson's death-bed marriage, performed by Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, short fold chip]; plus frontis illustration, "First Attempt to Take the Life of Mr. Richardson"; [2], [19]-111, [1]. Full-page illustrations throughout. Very Good. "McFarland..... More

Price: $875.00

Garfield, James:

THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD. A FULL, GRAPHIC, AND ONLY COMPLETE ACCOUNT. WITH THE LIFE OF OUR PRESIDENT, AND THE LIFE OF GUITEAU, THE ASSASSIN...THE WHOLE COUNTRY STARTLED! THE PULSE OF FIFTY MILLION PEOPLE BEATS AS ONE.

Philadelphia: Barclay, 1881. Pages [17]-80, as issued. Stitched in original printed and illustrated wrappers [portraits of President Garfield and Mrs. Garfield]. Full-page illustration of the assassination scene at page [48]: "The cowardly shot! The office of a brave woman. A touching scene. Great presence of mind." Portrait of Guiteau at..... More

Price: $750.00

Warder, T.B. and Jas. M. Catlett:

BATTLE OF YOUNG'S BRANCH: OR, MANASSAS PLAIN, FOUGHT JULY 21, 1861. WITH MAPS OF THE BATTLE FIELD MADE BY ACTUAL SURVEY, AND THE VARIOUS POSITIONS OF THE REGIMENTS AND ARTILLERY COMPANIES PLACED THEREON, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE MOVEMENTS OF EACH, PROCURED FROM THE COMMANDING OFFICER, OR AN OFFICER OF THE REGIMENT. ALSO, AN ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE. ALSO, THE BATTLE GROUND OF THE 18TH JULY, 1861, WITH GENERAL BEAUREGARD'S REPORT OF SAID BATTLE.

Richmond: Enquirer Book and Job Press, 1862. Original printed yellow wrappers [light wear]. Stitched. 156, [3], [1 blank] pp. With the errata. Folding frontis "Map of the Country Occupied by Federal and Confederate Armies on the 18th and 21st July 1861. By Warder & Catlett, Surveyors and Publishers." After page..... More

Price: $2,000.00

Gill, John:

INFANT-BAPTISM, A PART AND PILLAR OF POPERY. . . THIRD EDITION.

Boston: London: Printed. Boston: Re-Printed for, and Sold by Philip Freeman, 1769. 32pp. Stitched as issued. Prominent and persistent blotch in inner portion of the pamphlet, resulting in persistent small holes in inner margin and some effect on text. Good only. Infant-Baptism, a "pillar of popery," is how "Antichrist has..... More

Price: $75.00

Robbins, Chandler:

A REPLY TO SOME ESSAYS LATELY PUBLISHED BY JOHN COTTON, ESQ; (OF PLYMOUTH) RELATING TO BAPTISM. . .

Boston, New-England: Printed by Thomas and John Fleet, 1773. viii, 76, [2 blanks] pp. Stitched. Half title badly damaged, title leaf spotted. Otherwise, light margin spotting and Good+. Evans 12984. ESTC W21813. More

Price: $150.00

Everett, Edward:

AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE ERECTION OF A MONUMENT TO JOHN HARVARD, SEPTEMBER 26, 1828.

Boston: Published by Nathan Hale. . . William L. Lewis, Printer, 1828. 24pp, stitched, original plain rear wrapper. Light wear, Good+. AI 33100. More

Price: $50.00

Tappan, David:

A DISCOURSE DELIVERED IN THE CHAPEL OF HARVARD COLLEGE, JUNE 19. 1798. OCCASIONED BY THE APPROACHING DEPARTURE OF THE SENIOR CLASS FROM THE UNIVERSITY. BY DAVID TAPPAN, D.D. HOLLIS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN SAID COLLEGE.

Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, 1798. 28pp. Stitched and untrimmed. Lightly toned. Very Good. Presentation inscription at head of title page: "Rev. Mr. Williams | Northampton | from the author." Like the biblical prophets, Tappan seeks "to guard the rising generation against those wrong and dangerous opinions, which would..... More

Price: $150.00

[New Jersey Slave Emancipation]:

BENJAMIN McCURRY'S MANUMISSION OF "MY BLACK WOMAN JANE, A SLAVE AGED THIRTY FIVE YEARS OR THERE ABOUTS"

Morris County, New Jersey: 1823 [December 1]. Single leaf, 5-3/4" X 8." Entirely in ink manuscript. Signed by B. McCurry on the recto, with single seal intact. "Sealed and delivered in presence of Nathl. Norton Jr., Sylvester D. Russell." The verso has the docketing information and the signed oath by..... More

Price: $2,500.00

[New Jersey Slave Emancipation]:

THE EMANCIPATION OF SAMMUEL GREEN, SET FREE BY THE WILL OF HIS LATE MASTER JOHN P. MEADE, ON NEW YEAR'S DAY 1829.

Morris Township, New Jersey: 1829. Single leaf, 7-1/8" x 7-3/4." Entirely in neat ink manuscript on recto, dated 29 December 1819; docketed in ink manuscript on verso in the Register of Manumissions. Signed by Paul B. Debow and Saml Beach as Overseers of the poor of Pequannock Township; and Isaac..... More

Price: $2,500.00

Kirkland, John Thornton:

A SERMON, PREACHED BEFORE THE ANCIENT AND HONORABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY, IN BOSTON, JUNE 1, 1795, BEING THE ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

Boston: Printed at the Apollo Press, in Boston, by Joseph Belknap, 1795. 35, [1 blank] pp, with the half title. Stitched and untrimmed. Inscription at head of title page: "Solomon Williams from Major G. Phelps ----". Early and late leaves spotted, Good+. War, despite its evils, "calls forth some of..... More

Price: $150.00

[Osborn, Sarah]:

THE NATURE, CERTAINTY AND EVIDENCE OF TRUE CHRISTIANITY: IN A LETTER FROM A GENTLEWOMAN IN RHODE-ISLAND, TO ANOTHER, HER DEAR FRIEND, IN GREAT DARKNESS, DOUBT AND CONCERN OF A RELIGIOUS NATURE.

Providence: Re-printed by J. Carter, 1793. 15, [1 blank] pp, stitched in original drab and lightly foxed wrappers. Text with light uniform toning, Very Good. For a brief history of Sarah Osborn's life and struggles, see Wikipedia. This is one of four American editions. Osborn's Letter asks: "How do I...... More

Price: $350.00

Perry, Joseph:

THE CHARACTER AND REWARD OF THE FAITHFUL AND WISE MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST: A SERMON, OCCASIONED BY THE MUCH LAMENTED DEATH OF THE REVEREND NATHANAEL HOOKER, PASTOR OF THE FOURTH CHURCH OF CHRIST IN HARTFORD. WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, JUNE 9, 1770, IN THE XXXIIId YEAR OF HIS AGE, AND XIIIth OF HIS MINISTRY. DELIVERED AT HIS MOURNFUL INTERMENT, JUNE 11TH. BY JOSEPH PERRY, A.M. AND PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST IN EAST-WINDSOR.

Hartford: Printed by Green & Watson, 1770. Small 4to. 24pp, with the original plain rear wrapper. Half title [upper blank margin of half title cut down, no text affected]. Stitched. Except as noted, Very Good. Nathaniel Hooker [1737-1770] was the great-great-grandson of Rev. Thomas Hooker [1586-1647], known as the founder..... More

Price: $275.00

[Tucker, Luther]:

THE CULTIVATOR, A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, FLORICULTURE, AND TO DOMESTIC AND RURAL ECONOMY. ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS OF FARM HOUSES AND FARM BUILDINGS. IMPROVED BREEDS OF CATTLE, HORSES, SHEEP, SWINE AND POULTRY, FARM IMPLEMENTS, DOMESTIC UTENSILS, &C. NEW SERIES - VOL. III.

Albany, New-York: Published by Luther Tucker, 1846. 8, 8, [2], [1]-72, 105-392 pp. Issues 1-2, 4-12, lacking issue No. 3. Scattered light to moderate spotting. Illustrations. Good+. Engraved bookplate of Maurice Robert Des Marais on front pastedown. The Cultivator was one of the "most prominent of the scores of periodicals..... More

Price: $350.00

Hobhouse, Benjamin:

THREE LETTERS, BY BENJAMIN HOBHOUSE, BARRISTER AT LAW.

[London? 1792?]. 18pp. Disbound, else Very Good. In ink script on title page: "From the Author." For Hobhouse's busy, distinguished career see DNB. He addresses "The several Patriotic Societies in London, and its Neighbourhood." He doesn't like "the riotous disposition which the lowest classes of people discover in many places..... More

Price: $350.00

Friends to the Liberty of the Press:

PROCEEDINGS OF THE FRIENDS TO THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS; ON DECEMBER, THE 22D, 1792. AND JANUARY 19TH, AND MARCH 9TH, 1793.

[London]: Printed by Order of the Committee, 1793. [2], 22 pp. Disbound, else Very Good. The Friends to the Liberty of the Press was formed in late 1792 to combat a zealous "right wing group" called the Association for Preservation of Liberty and Property Against Republicans and Levellers. "The aim..... More

Price: $500.00

Friends to the Liberty of the Press:

THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE FRIENDS TO THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS, DECEMBER 19TH, 1792. ALSO, THE DECLARATION OF THE SECOND MEETING, JANUARY 22ND, 1793, WRITTEN BY THE HON. THOMAS ERSKINE; TO WHICH IS ADDED, A LETTER TO MR. REEVES, CHAIRMAN OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR PRESERVING LIBERTY AND PROPERTY: BY THOMAS LAW, ESQ. LATE ONE OF THE COMMITTEE OF THAT SOCIETY.

London: Printed for J. Ridgway, 1793. 27, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, else Very Good. The Friends to the Liberty of the Press was formed in 1792 to combat a zealous "right wing group" called the Association for Preservation of Liberty and Property Against Republicans and Levellers. "The aim of the..... More

Price: $500.00

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