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[New Orleans]:

IN THE RICHMOND ENQUIRER, OF THE 24TH AND 25TH INSTANTS, APPEAR TWO LONG AND CAREFULLY PREPARED ARTICLES, THE CHIEF AIMS OF WHICH ARE TO DEFEND THE PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS FROM THE CHARGE, WHICH IT ASSERTED WAS MADE BY GEN. LOVELL, THAT THE ABANDONMENT OF THEIR CITY WAS MADE AT THE URGENT SOLICITATION BOTH OF CITIZENS AND AUTHORITIES, AND TO ATTACK THAT OFFICER FOR PURSUING THE COURSE WHICH HE IS ALLEGED TO HAVE DONE IN MISREPRESENTING TO THE PEOPLE THE REAL CAUSES FOR THE EVACUATION...

[Richmond? New Orleans? 1864?]. Broadside, 8-1/4" x 12-3/8", printed without caption title [as issued] in three columns. This rare broadside begins with the sentence quoted above. It defends General Lovell, who had been tasked with the defense of New Orleans, from charges that his poor leadership caused the City's capture..... More

Price: $2,000.00

[Grant, Ulysses S.] [Election of 1868]:

THE GREAT AMERICAN TANNER.

New York: Currier & Ives, [1868]. Lithograph illustrated broadside by Currier & Ives, oblong 11" x 15-1/2". Matted. Light dusting, Near Fine. Cartoon characters identified by name; in lower right corner, "on Stone by Cameron." John Cameron was a talented artist employed at Currier & Ives. In lower left corner..... More

Price: $2,750.00

[Democratic Party in 1860]:

THE GREAT MATCH AT BALTIMORE, BETWEEN THE "ILLINOIS BANTAM," AND THE "OLD COCK" OF THE WHITE HOUSE.

New York: Currier & Ives, 1860. Illustrated broadside, lithograph on wove paper. 17-1/2" x 13-1/4". Light toning at blank margins from prior matting, else Fine. The 1860 presidential nominating competition split the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern branches, paving the way for the election of Abraham Lincoln. Southern Democrats..... More

Price: $3,000.00

Moore, Rev. T[homas] V[erner]:

GOD OUR REFUGE AND STRENGTH IN THIS WAR. A DISCOURSE BEFORE THE CONGREGATIONS OF THE FIRST AND SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES, ON THE DAY OF HUMILIATION, FASTING AND PRAYER, APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT DAVIS, FRIDAY, NOV. 15, 1861.

Richmond, Va. Published by Hargrave White. 1861. 24pp. Disbound, scattered foxing, Good+. A Panglossian sermon in which Moore recalls "that fatal election which opened Pandora's box in our land." He gives "thanks to Almighty God for that wonderful triumph of Manassas, where the destinies of our young Republic hung..... More

Price: $450.00

[Louisiana]:

OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, HELD IN NEW ORLEANS, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1879.

New Orleans: Jas. S. Cosgrove, Convention Printer, 1879. 337, [1 blank], 156 pp, plus two folding tables. Each page printed in two columns. Bound in buckram with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, light rubberstamp on title page. Clean text. Very Good. Last leaf with a tear affecting about five letters of..... More

Price: $500.00

["Jew Bill"] Brackenridge, H[enry] M[arie]:

SPEECHES ON THE JEW BILL, IN THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES OF MARYLAND, H. M. BRACKENRIDGE, COL. W. G. D. WORTHINGTON, AND JOHN S. TYSON, PHILADELPHIA.

Philadelphia: 1829. [4], 236 pp. Untrimmed and generously margined. Early leaves margin-spotted; otherwise lightly foxed or dusted, generally in the margins. Else Very Good in modern quarter calf and speckled pale boards, with gilt-lettered spine title on black morocco. Brackenridge had a remarkable career-- as a lawyer in Maryland and..... More

Price: $20,000.00

IS THE WAR A FAILURE? THE CHICAGO CONVENTION DECLARED THAT THE WAR AGAINST THE REBELLION HAD...

[National Union Executive Committee]:

IS THE WAR A FAILURE? THE CHICAGO CONVENTION DECLARED THAT THE WAR AGAINST THE REBELLION HAD PROVED A FAILURE...

New York: Published by the National Union Executive Committee, Astor House, [1864]. Broadside, 8-3/4" x 11-1/4". Light wear and a bit of foxing. Very Good. This scarce broadside rebuts Copperhead claims that the War is a disastrous mistake, requiring that "immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." Issued..... More

Price: $850.00

DUTIES OF MASTERS TO SERVANTS: THREE PREMIUM ESSAYS. I. BY THE REV. H.N. McTYEIRE. II. BY THE...

McTyeire, Rev. H.N., et al.:

DUTIES OF MASTERS TO SERVANTS: THREE PREMIUM ESSAYS. I. BY THE REV. H.N. McTYEIRE. II. BY THE REV. C.F. STURGIS. III. BY THE REV. A.T. HOLMES.

Charleston, S.C. Southern Baptist Publication Society, 1851. 12mo. Original publisher's cloth with gilt-lettered spine title [spine sunned]. 151, [1] pp. Text lightly foxed, Very Good. The Essays, which "contain matter worthy of the profound and prayerful consideration of the owners of slaves," won the prize offered by the Baptist..... More

Price: $500.00

Raguet, Condy:

THE BANNER OF THE CONSTITUTION. DEVOTED TO GENERAL POLITICS, POLITICAL ECONOMY, STATE PAPERS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS, &C. EDITED BY CONDY RAGUET, MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. VOLUME I., NOS. 1-73, DECEMBER 5, 1829 THROUGH NOVEMBER 24, 1830. FIRST OF THREE VOLUMES PUBLISHED.

Washington City: Rothwell and Ustick, 1829-1830. Folio, 582pp plus general title leaf. Volume I comprises 73 issues, from December 5, 1829 through November 24, 1830. Beginning as a weekly, The Banner would appear on Wednesdays and Saturdays starting in January 1830. The final six pages of our copy are bound..... More

Price: $600.00

IN ASSEMBLY, FEB. 10, 1821. MESSAGE FROM HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR. TO THE ASSEMBLY. GENTLEMEN-...

[Ohio] [Eleventh Amendment]:

IN ASSEMBLY, FEB. 10, 1821. MESSAGE FROM HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR. TO THE ASSEMBLY. GENTLEMEN- AT THE REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR OF OHIO, I COMMUNICATE TO YOU, CERTAIN PROCEEDINGS OF THE GOVERNOR OF THAT STATE. DE WITT CLINTON.

Albany: 1821. Folio, stitched with caption title as issued, 'No. 64' at head of title. 24pp. Untrimmed. First six leaves with a light but persistent spot. Some toning. Else Very Good. New York Governor Clinton transmits Ohio's Report, dated 22 January 1821, protesting a federal court decision favoring the..... More

Price: $1,000.00

[Jackson, Andrew]:

MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS, TRANSMITTING COPIES OF THE ORDINANCE AND OTHER DOCUMENTS, AND HIS PROCLAMATION IN RELATION TO SOUTH CAROLINA. In: SUPPLEMENT TO THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.

Washington: Friday, January 18, 1833. Elephant folio broadsheet, 15-1/2" x 17-1/2". Printed in five columns on each page. Lightly toned, Very Good. Except for the last 1-1/2 columns, the entire Supplement prints President Andrew Jackson's Address of January 16, 1833, the most outspoken defense-- until Abraham Lincoln-- of the supremacy..... More

Price: $850.00

Wood, N.H:

TO THE HONOURABLE: THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED. YOUR PETITIONER, IN A FORMER PETITION "TO RETARD THE COINAGE OF SILVER," EXPRESSED HIS CONVICTION THAT GOLD ONLY AS A "LEGAL TENDER" SHOULD BE THE STANDARD OF VALUE...

[Wisconsin? @1878-1880]. Broadsheet, 5 1/2" x 15 1/2". Docketed on verso in type, "Petition of N.H. Wood, of, Wisconsin." Very narrow area of blank margin singeing; a split in an old fold has been expertly repaired on the verso, without loss. Otherwise, Very Good. Wood's former broadside, to which..... More

Price: $500.00

King, T. Butler:

LETTER FROM THE HON. T. BUTLER KING TO THE HON. WM. C. DAWSON.

New York: Holman & Gray, 1855. Original printed wrappers stitched, 20pp. Light upper blank margin spotting, Very Good. The Georgian King puts his spin on his disaster-filled tenure as Collector of the Port of San Francisco. "The custom-house was destroyed in the fire of May 4, 1851, and it..... More

Price: $450.00

[Locke, D.R.]:

ANDROO JOHNSON, HIS LIFE, INCLUDIN' HIS INFANCY, HIS BOYHOOD, AND HIS DIMOCRISY AND ABOLITIONISM, SEPARATE AND MIXED. BY PETROLEUM V. NASBY, A DIMOCRAT UV THIRTY YEAR'S STANDIN', WHO NEVER SKRATCHED HIS TICKET AND ALLAZ TOOK HIS LIKKER STRATS.

New York: J.C. Haney & Co., 1866. [12-illustrations], [3], 16-38, [6- publisher advts.] pp. Stitched, lacks printed wrappers. Many plates and illustrations by Mulken (Johnson, Seward, Grant, political scenes of the tumultuous year of 1866). One advertisement leaf chipped at blank margins. Else Very Good. A satire of Johnson's..... More

Price: $350.00

[Hammond, Charles]:

VIEW OF GENERAL JACKSON'S DOMESTIC RELATIONS, IN REFERENCE TO HIS FITNESS FOR THE PRESIDENCY.

[Cincinnati? 1828]. 20pp. Caption title, as issued. Disbound, moderate foxing, Good+. At head of title: "[From 'Truth's Advocate,' Cincinnati, Ohio, January, 1828.]" Hammond signs this attack on Andrew Jackson at the bottom of page 14. It is dated 1828, from Washington. An inveterate opponent of Jackson, he evidently originated the..... More

Price: $375.00

Blair, Francis P.:

A VOICE FROM THE GRAVE OF JACKSON! LETTER FROM FRANCIS P. BLAIR, ESQ., TO A PUBLIC MEETING IN NEW YORK, HELD APRIL 29, 1856.

[Washington: Buell & Blanchard, 1856]. 15, [1] pp. Disbound, else Very Good. Caption title [as issued]. The Meeting supported the new Republican Party, opposing slavery in the National Territories. Writing from his home in Silver Spring, Maryland, the venerable member of President Jackson's Kitchen Cabinet denounces his Democratic Party..... More

Price: $350.00

Cass, Lewis:

A DISCOURSE, DELIVERED AT THE FIRST MEETING OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN. SEPTEMBER 18, 1829. PUBLISHED AT THEIR REQUEST.

Detroit: Geo. L. Whitney, 1830. 52pp. Disbound with scattered foxing, else Very Good. Contemporary ownership signature of L.W. Pease on the title page. "Governor Cass was the first president of the Society" [111 Eberstadt]. "Few were better qualified to write the history of the Indians and their wars in Michigan..... More

Price: $750.00

[Southern Rights]:

THE ADDRESS OF SOUTHERN DELEGATES IN CONGRESS, TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS.

[Washington: 1849]. 15, [1 blank] pp. Disbound and lightly foxed, Good+. An early attempt, after the close of the Mexican War and just before Zachary Taylor's inauguration, to organize the South with a single pro-slavery voice. Drafted initially by John C. Calhoun, the Address was deemed by some Southern congressman..... More

Price: $350.00

Hart, William:

REMARKS ON A LATE PAMPHLET, WROTE BY MR. HOBART, ENTITLED, THE PRINCIPLES OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES, RELATING TO THE CONSTITUTION AND AUTHORITY OF ECCLESIASTICAL COUNCILS; CONSIDERED, AND APPLIED TO THE CASE OF THE LATE ORDINATION AT WALLINGFORD. AND A FURTHER VINDICATION OF THE COUNCIL THAT ACTED IN THAT ORDINATION. BY...PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN SAY-BROOK.

New-Haven: Printed by J. Parker, and Company, 1760. 59, iii, [5], [1 blank] pp. Stitched, untrimmed [forecorners rounded down, light edgewear]. Tanned. Some ink spots on title page involving several letters. Good+. On the 'Wallingford Controversy'. Suspected of 'Old Light' tendencies, James Dana became minister of the Congregational Church..... More

Price: $375.00

Smith, John Y.:

REVIEW OF SENATOR DOOLITTLE'S SPEECH AT THE ASSEMBLY CHAMBER, MADISON, SEPT. 30, 1865, ON THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE REBEL STATES.

Madison, WI: Atwood & Rublee, 1865. 24pp, stitched in original blue printed wrappers. Very Good. A Democrat who, because he opposed slavery, became a Republican in 1856, Doolittle had ardently supported President Lincoln. After War's end, however, he came into "sharp collision" [DAB] with Radical Republicans, and supported President..... More

Price: $350.00

Marie, Jane:

THE CASE OF JANE MARIE, EXHIBITING THE CRUELTY AND BARBAROUS CONDUCT OF JAMES ROSS, TO A DEFENCELESS WOMAN. WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED BY THE OBJECT OF HIS CRUELTY AND VENGEANCE, AND ADDRESSED TO THE PUBLIC OF PHILADELPHIA AND THE WHOLE OF PENNSYLVANIA.

[Philadelphia]: Sep. 1808. 28pp, disbound, lightly tanned. Else Very Good. Ms. Marie claims that Ross, formerly U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, by subtle legal artifices wrested title to her home from her. Ross was running for governor in the year of this publication; the pamphlet may have been a set-up..... More

Price: $250.00

Citizens' Association of New York:

FIVE PAMPHLETS PUBLISHED BY THE CITIZENS' ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK.

New York: 1866. Disbound without wraps, clean texts. Except as noted, Very Good. (1) Report of the Executive Council to the Honorary Council of the Citizens' Association of New York. 64pp. (2) Items of Abuse in the Government of the City of New-York. Tax-Payers, Citizens, Read! Read!! Read!!! 22pp..... More

Price: $250.00

Henry, C.S.:

AMERICAN ADVOCATE OF PEACE. CONDUCTED BY C.S. HENRY. VOL. I. - NO. I. JUNE, 1834.

Hartford: William Watson. For the Connecticut Peace Society, 1834. Original printed wrappers [lightly foxed], stitched. 56pp. Scattered foxing, Good+. Included is Thomas Grimke's argument, in the South Carolina Court of Appeals, that the test oath requiring primary allegiance to the State of South Carolina is unconstitutional. Sabin 31385... More

Price: $100.00

LETTER UPON THE POLICY OF THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT, THE PENDING REVOLUTION, ITS OBJECTS, ITS...

Holt, Joseph:

LETTER UPON THE POLICY OF THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT, THE PENDING REVOLUTION, ITS OBJECTS, ITS PROBABLE RESULTS IF SUCCESSFUL, AND THE DUTY OF KENTUCKY IN THE CRISIS.

Louisville, Ky. Bradley & Gilbert. 1861. 15, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, lightly foxed [generally in the margins]. Portrait of Holt laid down on inner margin of title page [no text affected]. Very Good. A loyal Border State lawyer and Buchanan's last Secretary of War, Holt helped hold Kentucky in..... More

Price: $350.00

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