[New York?]: For sale by all News Agents. Price, $1 per 100, [1864]. Broadside, 9-1/4" x 12". Printed in two columns: the left column headed 'BALTIMORE' and reciting the Republican platform; the first two-thirds of the right column headed 'CHICAGO' and reciting the Democrats' platform; the rest of the right... More about THE PLATFORMS. BALTIMORE. CHICAGO
[np: 1864]. Broadside wood engraving, 8-1/2" x 10-3/4". Fine. This rare, sympathetic wood engraving of 1864 Democratic presidential candidate McClellan depicts him, weary from battle, sitting outdoors, wearing his military uniform, his hat and coat removed. In the lower margin is printed the following text: "McClellan.---After the first Battle of... More about THE MODERN BELISARIUS
[Boston? 1848]. 8pp, each page printed in two columns. Caption title as issued. Disbound, Good+. The forerunner of Martin Van Buren's 1848 Free Soil Party and of the Republican Party in 1854, the Liberty Party was the first national political organization to oppose slavery. It was sufficiently powerful in 1844... More about MASSACHUSETTS LIBERTY CONVENTION AND SPEECH OF HON. JOHN P. HALE, LETTER ACCEPTING HIS NOMINATION...
[Concord?]: Given at the Council-Chamber in Concord, this twelfth day of June... 1800. Broadside, 7-1/4" x 12-1/4". Old folds, a short fold split at blank left margin. Scattered foxing. Good+. With the typed signature of John Taylor Gilman, Governor; and the manuscript signature of Joseph Pearson, Secretary. Gordon was a.... More about STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. TO THE SELECTMEN OF [Acworth]. GREETING. THE HONORABLE WILLIAM GORDON...
Philadelphia Printed. London: Reprinted for J. Almon, 1774. [2], 82 pp. Lacking the half title and final advertising leaf, title page lightly spotted. Else Very Good. Bound in modern marbled cloth. "One of the most important documents of the American Revolution, condensing the most important proceedings of the First Continental... More about EXTRACTS FROM THE VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, HELD AT...
London: J. Almon, 1775. 66, [1], [1 publ. advt.] pp, without the half title. Modern marbled cloth. Title leaf lightly dusted. Except as noted, Very Good. The Journal lists the delegates from each State, and prints proceedings from September 5 to October 26, 1774. The credentials certifying the appointment... More about JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONGRESS, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, SEPTEMBER 5TH, 1774....
Boston: Sold wholesale and retail by L. Deming, No. 62, Hanover Street, 2d door from Friend Street, [1830s]. Broadside poem, printed in three columns separated by rules. 8-1/4" x 9-3/4". Old folds with slight effect on text. Some spotting. About Good+. The poem was printed in several locations at several... More about OLD ENGLAND FORTY YEARS AGO
Raleigh, N.C. Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., [1920]. Broadside, 8" x 12". Text in two columns beneath caption title. A variety of type sizes and styles. About Fine. "Wake up and fight Suffrage in order to protect Southern Women from having jury duty forced upon them." The "Susan B. Anthony... More about REJECT THE SUSAN B. ANTHONY AMENDMENT. WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN ACTION! WOULD SOUTHERN MEN APPROVE OF...
Philadelphia: Merrihew & Son, 1866. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 27pp. Mildly toned, Very Good. The exclusion was an early post-Civil War Jim Crow initiative. The pamphlet recounts efforts to reverse the denial of Negroes' access to streetcars, and the stubborn resistance to those efforts. The Mayor did not want... More about WHY COLORED PEOPLE IN PHILADELPHIA ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE STREET CARS
[Boston: 1846]. 8pp, uncut and untrimmed folio leaf printed in two columns per page. Near Fine. The Liberty Party, the first to campaign nationally for emancipation of the slaves and the precursor to the Free Soil and Republican Parties, opposes the Mexican War and President Polk's deceitful and unilateral... More about ADDRESS OF THE LIBERTY STATE COMMITTEE. TO THE VOTING FRIENDS OF FREEDOM AND EMANCIPATION IN...
Rochester, Boston, MA: 1822-1834. A collection of six letters ranging in size from 8-1/2" x 11" to 8-1/2" x 12-3/4", five complete and one partial letter. All in ink manuscript on unlined paper. Old folds, light toning, occasional light foxing, two on untrimmed paper. Most are addressed on final blank... More about LOT OF SIX LETTERS FROM ABRAHAM HOLMES TO WILLIAM BAYLIES AND FRANCIS BAYLIES, JANUARY 19, 1822 -...
New York: 1784. Manuscript legal complaint in a secretarial hand, signed by Burr in ink, 9 August 1784. Old folds, with splits along folds expertly repaired without loss. Very Good. By the 1780's Burr had a thriving legal practice. He handled the variety of commercial, criminal, and civil matters characteristic... More about MANUSCRIPT LEGAL COMPLAINT ON BEHALF OF AARON BURR'S CLIENT THOMAS STEVENSON, IN A SECRETARIAL...
Philadelphia: `, 1866. 31, [1 blank] pp. Broken stitching. Dampstain running through top outer corner of text, light toning and foxing. Old rubberstamp on title page. Good+. "In his Observations on Reconstruction [1866], Henry Flanders challenged the motives of Republican politicians. They cared little for the black man, he... More about OBSERVATIONS ON RECONSTRUCTION
[Springfield]: January 16, 1841. 4pp. Caption title, as issued. Disbound, loose. Else Very Good. Illinois Legis. H.R. 12th Assem. 2d Session. A member of the Sangamon County delegation in the Illinois House of Representatives since 1837, and a Whig Party leader, Abraham Lincoln "fought hard to save the state... More about REPORT IN RELATION TO AN INCREASE OF DIRECTORS IN THE STATE BANK OF ILLINOIS
New-York: Published at the Depository of the Society, 1847. 39, [1] pp. Stitched. Scattered foxing. Good+. The Society was devoted to attacking Roman Catholicism, or, as called here, "Popery," and "Romanism." It was founded as the power of the Know-Nothing Movement was growing exponentially, especially in eastern cities to... More about FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AMERICAN PROTESTANT SOCIETY, PRESENTED AT THEIR ANNIVERSARY, HELD ON...
Auburn, N.Y. 1863. Broadside, 8" x 12-1/4". Very Good. Congressman Pomeroy of Auburn, who represented New York in Congress during the Civil War years and early Reconstruction, has high praise for Colonel Clark, serving on the staff of General Banks and recently wounded in the advance on Port Hudson. In... More about PRINTED LETTER FROM POMEROY TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN, JUNE 29, 1863, RECOMMENDING THAT COLONEL JOHN S....
[New York? Ives, Blakeslee & Williams Company ? 1881?]. Six brightly colored cards printed on thick cardboard. Each full card measures 7" x 9"; each individual section measures 3" x 9". Six cards in all, a total of 18 sections. Light wear and spotting, all with copyright of March 22... More about SIX CHILDREN'S CARDS, IN COLOR, EACH DEPICTING A WELL-KNOWN CONTEMPORARY PERSON: ULYSSES S....
[New York: Currier & Ives, 1871]. Lithograph, oblong 16-1/2" x 12". Light dusting, Very Good. This rare illustration is an extremely negative take-- complete with severed heads-- on Boss Tweed's hijacking of New York City's finances. "The 1870 New York City charter, written by Tammany Hall political boss William Marcy... More about THE JACK KNIFE WAR
[New Orleans: Bradford & Anderson, 1807]. 47, [1 blank] pp. English and French on facing pages. Foxed and toned. Rubberstamp in blank lower margin of pages 46 and 47. Good+, in two-toned modern cloth with title printed on spine. A scarce New Orleans imprint. Jumonville advises that it is often... More about FAREWELL ADDRESS, OF GEN. GEO. WASHINGTON, TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. SEPTEMBER 17,...