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A SERIES OF LECTURES ON THE SCIENCE OF GOVERNMENT; INTENDED TO PREPARE THE STUDENT FOR THE STUDY...

Tucker, N[athaniel] Beverley:

A SERIES OF LECTURES ON THE SCIENCE OF GOVERNMENT; INTENDED TO PREPARE THE STUDENT FOR THE STUDY OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. BY N. BEVERLEY TUCKER, PROFESSOR OF LAW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF WILLIAM AND MARY, AT WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA.

Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1845. 464pp. Scattered toning and light spotting. Very Good in modern cloth. Tucker insisted that sovereignty resided only in "the people": "governments are but creatures, and the people the creator." When Virginia decided to join the Union, that sovereignty is "no less sacred." "Tucker's books... More

Price: $650.00

HISTORY AND ANECDOTES OF THE ELEPHANT. WITH BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS. Children's Book

[Children's Book]:

HISTORY AND ANECDOTES OF THE ELEPHANT. WITH BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS.

New Haven: Printed and Published by S. Babcock, [@1830]. Original printed wrappers [blank margins reinforced, repair to lower corner of rear wrapper, not affecting text or image]. Light toning, stitched, 16pp. Seven full-page engravings, plus engraving on each wrapper. Inner rear wrapper advertises the publisher's offerings. Good+. "The largest, the... More

Price: $175.00

SATIRICAL AND PANEGYRICAL INSTRUCTIONS TO MR. WILLIAM HOGARTH, PAINTER, ON ADMIRAL VERNON'S...

Marvell, A., Junior [pseud.]:

SATIRICAL AND PANEGYRICAL INSTRUCTIONS TO MR. WILLIAM HOGARTH, PAINTER, ON ADMIRAL VERNON'S TAKING PORTO BELLO WITH SIX SHIPS OF WAR ONLY.

London: Printed for H. Goreham at the King's-Arms, 1740. Folio. 20pp. Disbound, else Very Good with attractive typographic ornamentation. The Battle of Porto Bello on November 22, 1739, in modern Panama resulted in an English naval victory over Spain, during the early stages of the War of Jenkins' Ear. England... More

Price: $750.00

SIX TYPED MIMEOGRAPHED DOCUMENTS OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY....

National Jewish Committee of the Communist Party:

SIX TYPED MIMEOGRAPHED DOCUMENTS OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY.

[London? c.1943-1945]. Typed mimeographed documents on unlined paper, each 8" x 13." Light wear and some dustsoiling of edges. Overall, Very Good. The lot includes: [1] THE JEWISH QUESTION/ STATEMENT BY THE NATIONAL JEWISH COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY. 7, [1 blank] pp, some underlining and handwritten notes on... More

Price: $1,750.00

LUNCHES FOR COLORED. Pix Publishing

Pix Publishing:

LUNCHES FOR COLORED.

New York: Pix Publishing, Inc. 250 Park Avenue, [1940s?]. Photograph, oblong 7-1/4" x 9-1/2". Fine. Stamped on blank verso: "Photo by: Pix Publishing Inc. 250 Park Avenue New York City... Please credit Houck & Hollem-Pix. This picture is sold to you for our publication only and must not be loaned... More

Price: $350.00

ARGUMENT FOR THE INNOCENCE OF CHARLES HUSSEY, WITH REMARKS UPON THE DANGER OF GIVING TOO MUCH...

[Hussey, Charles]:

ARGUMENT FOR THE INNOCENCE OF CHARLES HUSSEY, WITH REMARKS UPON THE DANGER OF GIVING TOO MUCH CREDIT TO PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE.

London: Printed & Published by A. Christie, [1818]. 24pp. Disbound, Good+. Charles Hussey was tried, convicted, and executed for murdering George Bird of Greenwich and his housekeeper in February 1818. This analysis of the evidence calls the trial "the case of a man accused and convicted of a most atrocious... More

Price: $250.00

VIRGINIA CONTRACT AVERTING A DUEL BETWEEN TWO RICHMOND GENTLEMEN: ALEXANDER MOSELEY, EDITOR OF...

[Contract Averting a Duel] Daniel, William Jr. and Alexander Moseley:

VIRGINIA CONTRACT AVERTING A DUEL BETWEEN TWO RICHMOND GENTLEMEN: ALEXANDER MOSELEY, EDITOR OF THE RICHMOND DAILY WHIG, AND JUDGE WILLIAM DANIEL, JR., OF THE VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS, OCTOBER 20, 1849.

Folio sheet folded to 7-3/4" x 10". [1], [3 blanks] pp. Neat ink manuscript on lined paper. Final page lightly dusted. The agreement is a contemporary copy, with the entire document and signatures in the same handwriting. Very Good. A war of words erupted between Editor Moseley and Judge... More

Price: $750.00

JUDICIAL ELECTION. READ AND CIRCULATE. TO THE PUBLIC. Edmunds Jr., eorge

Edmunds, G[eorge] Jr.:

JUDICIAL ELECTION. READ AND CIRCULATE. TO THE PUBLIC.

Quincy, Illinois: 1855. Broadside, 6-3/4" x 13-7/8", printed in two columns. Two horizontal folds. Very Good. George Edmunds Jr., born in Lockport NY in 1822, migrated to Illinois. He settled in Carthage, about forty miles north of Quincy, established a successful law practice, and was elected as a local judge... More

Price: $750.00

YANKEE NOTIONS. NO. 12. DECEMBER. VOL. XVI. ANDY J. COCK-A-HOOP AFTER THE LATE ELECTIONS. THE...

[Strong, Thomas W.; John McLenan]:

YANKEE NOTIONS. NO. 12. DECEMBER. VOL. XVI. ANDY J. COCK-A-HOOP AFTER THE LATE ELECTIONS. THE RECONSTRUCTION EGG, IS IT HEN OR CHALK? WILL IT HATCH OR NOT?

New York: American News Company, [1867]. Pages [353]-384. 4to. Illustrated title page, more than two dozen illustrations, including one double page illustration. Untrimmed, light wear, Very Good. "The not so highly regarded but longest running humor periodical of its time" [Lomazow]. Strong was its editor; the talented illustrator John McLenan... More

Price: $350.00

THE PRODIGAL SON. A LECTURE, PREACH'D ON FRYDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 11TH 1741. IN THE...

Whitefield, George:

THE PRODIGAL SON. A LECTURE, PREACH'D ON FRYDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 11TH 1741. IN THE HIGH-CHURCH-YARD OF GLASGOW. UPON LUKE XV. BY THE REVEREND MR. GEORGE WHITEFIELD. TAKEN FROM HIS OWN MOUTH, AND PUBLISHED AT THE EARNEST DESIRE OF MANY OF THE HEARERS. NOTE. THE SUBSTANCE OF THE FOLLOWING LECTURE WAS DELIVERED ON THE COMMON IN BOSTON, SEPT. 27. 1740.

Boston: Printed & Sold by S. Kneeland and T. Green, in Queenstreet over against the Prison, 1742. 20pp. Original plain wrappers [front wrapper cut down. Toned, moderately spotted, closed tears without loss of text. Good or so. Whitefield, the founder of Methodism, stimulated widespread enthusiasm for the Great Awakening during... More

Price: $2,500.00

"RICHMOND STRAIGHT CUT NO. 1 CIGARETTES. CIGARETTE SMOKERS WHO ARE WILLING TO PAY A LITTLE MORE...

[Allen & Ginter]:

"RICHMOND STRAIGHT CUT NO. 1 CIGARETTES. CIGARETTE SMOKERS WHO ARE WILLING TO PAY A LITTLE MORE THAN THE PRICE CHARGED FOR THE ORDINARY TRADE CIGARETTES, WILL FIND THIS BRAND SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHERS. "THE RICHMOND STRAIGHT CUT NO. 1 CIGARETTES ARE MADE FROM THE BRIGHTEST, MOST DELICATELY FLAVORED AND HIGHEST COST GOLD LEAF GROWN IN VIRGINIA. THIS IS THE OLD AND ORIGINAL BRAND OF STRAIGHT CUT CIGARETTES, AND WAS BROUGHT OUT BY US IN THE YEAR 1875. "BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, AND OBSERVE THAT THE FIRM NAME AS BELOW IS ON EVERY PACKAGE. ALLEN & GINTER, MANUFACTURERS, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA."

Richmond: Allen & Ginter, [c.1880s]. Broadside, printed and illustrated on silk, 6-1/4" x 9-1/4." The top half advertises "Richmond Straight Cut No. 1 Cigarettes" with a lithographic portrait of a Virginia Cavalier wearing a hat and smoking a cigarette; the bottom half is a lithographic bust illustration of George H.... More

Price: $150.00

DER KLEINE CATECHISMUS DES SELIGEN D. MARTIN LUTHERS. Martin Luther

Luther, Martin:

DER KLEINE CATECHISMUS DES SELIGEN D. MARTIN LUTHERS...

Philadelphia: Herausgegeben von G.W. Mentz und Sohn, Buchhändler... Stereotypirt bey J. Howe, 1836. 12mo. 144pp. Frontispiece woodcut illustration of Martin Luther. Bound in contemporary decorated paper over boards [rubbed] with cloth spine [some fraying and wear]. Text with light to moderate foxing, endpapers tanned. An attractive 19th century decorative binding..... More

Price: $125.00

Dake, Dumont C[harles], M.D.:

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY THE PROMINENT HOMEOPATH AND CIVIL WAR VETERAN, 20 AUGUST 1878, AT ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, TO HIS FRIEND "BOWEN", DESCRIBING THE GROWING SUCCESS OF HIS HOMEOPATHIC PRACTICE AND VARIOUS PERSONAL MATTERS.

5" x 8". [3], [1 blank] pp, folded, lined paper. Completely in neat ink manuscript. Very Good. [offered with] DUMONT C. DAKE, M.D., 130 WEST 45TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY, OFFICE HOURS... Small trade booklet, 4-1/4" x 5-1/4". [20] pp. Printed glossy wrappers with portrait illustration of Dr. Dake... More

Price: $150.00

FROM THE NEW YORK EVENING POST, OF NOVEMBER 28, 1850. JOHN HOWARD PAYNE'S REPLY TO SENATOR...

Payne, John Howard; Benton, Thomas Hart:

FROM THE NEW YORK EVENING POST, OF NOVEMBER 28, 1850. JOHN HOWARD PAYNE'S REPLY TO SENATOR BENTON. NEW YORK, NOV. 26, 1850. SIR: SENATOR BENTON, IN HIS LATE SPEECH AT ST. LOUIS, WHICH HAS BEEN WIDELY CIRCULATED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, AND HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN THE COLUMNS OF YOUR JOURNAL, HAS ATTACKED THE ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT FILLMORE, ON THE GROUND OF ALLEGED PARTY PROSCRIPTION...

[New York: 1850]. Folio, 15-1/2" x 12-3/4" sheet folded to 7-3/4" x 12-3/4". [1], [2 blank] [1] pp. Caption title [as issued]. The final page begins with caption title: FROM THE NEW YORK EVENING POST OF NOVEMBER 19, 1850. EXTRACT FROM SENATOR BENTON'S SPEECH, DELIVERED IN ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING... More

Price: $600.00

TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF ILLINOIS. Richard M. Young

[Young, Richard M.]:

TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF ILLINOIS.

[np: 1843]. Caption title [as issued], untrimmed, uncut. 14, [2 blanks] pp. Light soil, Very Good. Signed by Young in type at the bottom of page 8, and dated January 16, 1843. A rare pamphlet, not found in the standard references. Young became a U.S. Senator from Illinois in 1836... More

Price: $500.00

Urban, Sylvanus:

THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE: FOR JULY 1764.

London: Printed for D. Henry, 1764. [2], [307]-351, [1]pp. Each page printed in two columns. Illustration of St. John's Gate at head of title page. Plate illustration of the dimensions of "the giant, cut out on the side of a very steep hill near Cerne in Dorsetshire" which accompanies an... More

Price: $75.00

Cevallos, Don Pedro:

EXPOSITION OF THE PRACTICES AND MACHINATIONS WHICH LED TO THE USURPATION OF THE CROWN OF SPAIN, AND THE MEANS ADOPTED BY BUONAPARTE TO CARRY IT INTO EXECUTION. BY DON PEDRO CEVALLOS. FIRST SECRETARY OF STATE AND DISPATCHES TO HIS CATHOLIC MAJESTY FERDINAND VII. TO WHICH IS ADDED AN IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS WHICH HAVE OCCURRED IN ARANJUEZ, MADRID AND BAYONNE, FROM THE 17TH OF MARCH UNTIL THE 15TH OF MAY, 1808. TREATING OF THE FALL OF THE PRINCE OF PEACE, AND THE TERMINATION OF THE FRIENDSHIP AND ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE FRENCH AND SPANISH NATION. TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH.

New York: Published and sold by E. Sargeant, 1808. [1- general title], [1 blank], 47, [1 blank], 46, [2 blanks] pp. Broken stitching. Widely scattered foxing. Good+. Usually only the first part of this pamphlet is encountered, without the general title page or the second part. Cevallos was minister... More

Price: $250.00

LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. HIS EARLY LIFE AS A SLAVE, HIS ESCAPE...

Douglass, Frederick:

LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. HIS EARLY LIFE AS A SLAVE, HIS ESCAPE FROM BONDAGE, AND HIS COMPLETE HISTORY TO THE PRESENT TIME, INCLUDING HIS CONNECTION WITH THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT...

Hartford, Conn. Park Publishing Co., 1883. Original publisher's cloth [rear cover spotted, light spotting to front cover], front cover stamped with a gilt illustration. Spine title stamped in gilt. Engraved frontis portrait with original tissue guard. 618 clean pages, including full-page illustrations. Except as noted, Very Good. "Enlarged from the... More

Price: $250.00

Steele, Silas S.:

LIBERTY AND UNION FOREVER/ NEW PATRIOTIC AND COMIC SONG, ON THE SINKING OF THE PIRATE ALABAMA BY THE U.S. GUNBOAT KEARSARGE, CAPTAIN WINSLOW. JUNE 19TH, 1864. WRITTEN BY.../ I SING THE DOOM AND DARK CAREER OF THE REBEL PIRATE, MADE TO STEER AND PLUNDER OUR SHIPS, BOTH FAR AND NEAR, THE TERRIBLE "ALABAMA! SHE WAS BUILT BY "NEUTRAL JOHNNY BULL," WHO THREATENED YANKEE EARS TO PULL, BECAUSE THEY DEALT IN NIGGER WOOL; TH' COTTON FILLED HIS POCKETS FULL...

[Philadelphia: J. Magee, 1864?]. Color broadside, 5" x 8". Caption title with song printed below in double columns. Five stanzas of 12 lines each with four line choruses after each. Printed in red and black inks. Song printed within blue borders with a flag at each top corner. At head... More

Price: $75.00

[Altrop, Philander D.]:

CUMBERLAND'S CREW/ OH, SHIPMATES COME GATHER AND JOIN IN MY DITTY; IT'S OF A TERRIBLE BATTLE THAT HAPPENED OF LATE. LET'S EACH GOOD UNION TAR SHED A TEAR OF PITY, WHEN HE THINKS OF THE ONES GALLANT CUMBERLAND'S FATE...

San Francisco: Bell & Company, [1872]. Broadside, 4" x 9". The text is printed within a decorative border. Seven verses of 8 lines each. Trimmed closely to border at left edge. Very Good. The USS Cumberland was rammed by the CSS Virginia [Merrimac] and sank on March 8, 1862. This... More

Price: $50.00

[West, Benjamin?]:

BICKERSTAFF'S MASSACHUSETTS, CONNECTICUT, RHODE ISLAND, NEWHAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT ALMANAC FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1799... FITTED TO THE LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON, BUT WILL SERVE WITHOUT ESSENTIAL VARIATION FOR THE ADJACENT STATES.

Salem: Nathaniel & John Coverly, [1798]. 24pp. Stitched, untrimmed, spotted and light wear. Good+ "Evans attributes the almanac, as he does most of those issued under the Bickerstaff pseudonym, to Benjamin West. Most of these can be shown to have been definitely or probably the work of other calculators. Previous... More

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[Riley, James Whitcomb; Dodd, Robert Leonard]:

"THE PASSING OF THE BACKHOUSE" WHEN MEMORY KEEPS ME COMPANY AND MOVES TO SMILES OR TEARS/ A WEATHER-BEATEN OBJECT LOOMS THROUGH THE MIST OF YEARS,/ BEHIND THE HOUSE AND BARN IT STOOD, A HALF A MILE OR MORE,/ AND HURRYING FEET A PATH HAD MADE, STRAIGHT TO ITS SWINGING DOOR...

[n.p. c.1899-1900]. Broadside poem, 5" x 10-1/4". 48 lines, Very Good. A humorous poem, attributed to James Whitcomb Riley, Robert Leonard Dodd, and others. An early printing in leaflet form carries the statement: "An Unpublished Poem by James Whitcomb Riley found among his manuscripts after his death." BAL attributes... More

Price: $50.00

Hoburg, William A.:

THE HOME FORMULARY. THE LATEST AND MOST VALUABLE TOILET AND MISCELLANEOUS FORMULAS FOR HOME USE.

Cincinnati: 1900. Original staples and printed, illustrated wrappers. 30, [2] pp. Very Good. Hoburg was an instructor in theoretical and applied pharmacy at the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. His formulae cover 170 common ailments including, for example, "Sweating Feet," of which he says, "This very... More

Price: $35.00

UNCLE SAM SICK WITH LA GRIPPE. Andrew Jackson, H. R. Robinson

[Jackson, Andrew] Robinson, H.R.:

UNCLE SAM SICK WITH LA GRIPPE.

New York: H.R. Robinson, [1837]. Oblong 13-1/2" x 21". Light dusting, a couple of closed tears and shallow extremity chips to blank margins. Else Very Good. The Library of Congress entry: "A satire attributing the dire fiscal straits of the nation to Andrew Jackson's banking policies, with specific reference... More

Price: $2,500.00

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE DESTRUCTION OF CHURCHES, IN THE DIOCESE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, DURING...

[South Carolina]:

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE DESTRUCTION OF CHURCHES, IN THE DIOCESE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, DURING THE LATE WAR. PRESENTED TO THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CONVENTION, MAY, 1868.

Charleston: Joseph Walker, Stationer and Printer, 1868. Original printed wrappers [chipped at extremities, loosening]. Stitched, 16pp. Light toning, mild foxing. Good+. C.C. Pinckney, Peter J. Shand, Paul Trapier sign the Committee report in type at the end. They chronicle the "fierce tornado which swept over our State from its south-western... More

Price: $275.00

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