Cincinnati: Enquirer Company Steam Printing Establishment, 1856. 78, [2] blanks] pp. Disbound. Title page foxed, otherwise light scattered foxing with some doodling on final blank light to moderate foxing, Good+. The Kansas-Nebraska Act had begun to unravel the Democratic Party; this platform adopts the extreme Southern Rights view, holding that..... More
[Germantown, PA]: Printed at the Office of the Germantown Telegraph, by P.R. Freas & Co., 1841. 12 x 12, broadside. Printed using several different typesettings. Dampstained. Some chipping of blank edges, a few fold splits [repaired on verso with archival tape]. Signed in type with the names of 24 local..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1877. Original printed wrappers, stitched. 22, [1], [1 blank] pp. Fine. Field was one of the 19th century's great lawyers and the principal advocate in New York for codification of the common law, a project to which he devoted the bulk of his career..... 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
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[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