Boston: E.P. Peabody, 1840. 111, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, a couple of rubberstamps in margins. Else Very Good. The first edition. Channing urges emancipation, but warns the Free States that they do not have the power to abolish slavery in the Slave States. Moreover, he does not wish "to give... More
[Boston: 1839]. 30pp. Disbound. Light scattered foxing. Very Good. [offered with] REPORT RELATING TO EXPENSES OF WARREN BRIDGE. HD29. 7, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, loosening. Light scattered foxing. Good+ to Very Good. Reports on the bridges that were the subject of the Supreme Court's landmark opinion in the Charles River Bridge Case. AI 57166 [2]. More
[Boston? 1839?]. 30pp. Disbound. Light scattered foxing. Inscribed in top margin "K.H.T. [?] from Stedman Bullrick of Concord Mass." Very Good. Report on the two bridges that were the subject of the Supreme Court's landmark opinion in the Charles River Bridge Case. AI 57166 [2]. More
[np: 1868]. Folio sheet, folded to 4pp. Caption title, as issued. A few fox spots, Very Good. Even after President Lincoln appointed him Chief Justice of the United States, Chase hankered after the Presidency. Lincoln had thwarted Chase's scheme to win the 1864 presidential nomination. He then appointed him to... More
[3]pp, docketed on page [4]: "Petition of Lawson Clark of Montgomery County. Presented by Archibald Van Horn. Recorded 5 June 1815." Very Good. Jeremiah Chase was a prominent Maryland jurist, though not as famous [or notorious] as his cousin, Samuel Chase of the U.S. Supreme Court. He responds to the... More
[Peoria, IL? 1848]. Small 4to broadside, printed on the recto of the first page of a folded leaf, the other three pages blank. Toned, lightly spotted, one short closed margin tear [no loss]. Good+. Addressed on final blank with postal cancel to Robert Patterson, Maj. Genl U.S. Army, at Philadelphia... More
New York: Stanford and Swords, 1847. Original printed yellow front wrapper. Stitched. 47, [1 blank] pp. Lightly foxed, Good+. The author, Samuel Chase, Bishop Philander Chase's nephew, dedicates his pamphlet "to the Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States." Someone had written a nasty, anonymous attack ["even... More
Baltimore: Samuel Butler and George Keatings, 1805. pp [6], 12, [3]-244, 237-268, 68 [as issued, no repetition of text]. Original calf, possibly rebacked at an early date [light wear to corners, small chips to spine, spine label worn]. Foxed; dark stain runs through top margin [enters first few lines of... More
[Boston]: 1733. Half title, 35pp. Spotted, untrimmed with a bit of worming to blank outer margin. Title leaf contemporary signatures, 'J. Cotton's' and 'Nevinson Stones Book.' Good or so. "Contains a preface by Thomas Foxcroft and a biography of Byfield" [Jenkins], who "was the first Judge under our present... More
New York: Thomas Hamilton, 1859. [2], 16pp. Frontis engraving plus other illustrations. Trimmed closely throughout, shaving portions of letters on page 6. Disbound. Good+. Cheever was an anti-slavery and pro-temperance minister, whose enthusiasm for the reform movements of the time frequently embroiled him in controversy. In the mid-1830's "there appeared... More
New York: American News Company, 1866. 36pp, stitched. Last blank loose, lightly foxed. Good+. Cheever attacks the Republican Congress for failing, in the proposed Fourteenth Amendment, to guarantee to freedmen the right to vote. "The right to vote belongs to the people, and can neither be withheld nor bestowed by... More
29th Cong., 1st Sess. SD408. 1846. 24pp, dbd, minor loosening and wear. Very Good. More
Parsons, KS: Foley R'Y Printing Co. 1892 [i.e., 1893]. 425, VII pp. Loose textblock, early leaves chipped at blank fore-edge, covers worn and detached. One index page with large chip to corner [repaired on verso, no loss]. Good Rader 714. Hargrett 71. Gilcrease-Hargrett p.73. More
Baltimore: John Murphy, 1860. 24pp, disbound. Very Good. In a deliberate scheme to bar Northern Democrats like Stephen Douglas from the Party's 1860 nomination, Jefferson Davis proposed Slave Code Resolutions which would prohibit, not merely Congress, but a territorial legislature as well, from restricting slavery; and require Congress to... More
New York: Benjamin Corlies, 1858. Original printed glossy wrappers [light fading to lettering]. Stitched. 10, [2 blanks] pp. Near Fine. Founded in 1847 as the Rock Island and LaSalle Rail Road Company, the Chicago and Rock Island reincorporated in 1851 and adopted these bylaws in 1858. In 1880, the Company... More
[Chicago? 1857?]. Caption title [as issued], disbound without wrappers, 8pp. Very Good. This is the legal memorandum prepared by the law firm of Gilbert, Kearney & Nelson. The firm represents Chicago auctioneers who challenge a Chicago ordinance "imposing a duty of one per cent on the sale of all... More
Chicago: Chicago Times Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1862. Original printed front wrapper, disbound. 20pp. Good+. A rare Chicago imprint. The proposed 1862 Illinois Constitution provided for changes in Chicago's Board of Police and for home rule. However, the Constitutional Convention did not require submission of that Section "to... More
[Boston: 1838]. 12pp. Loosened stitching, lightly worn. A couple of closed tears in inner margin but text intact. Good+. Signed in type at the end, 'L. Child.' Josiah Dunham Jr., a Boston Alderman, was running for re-election. A Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature, of which Child was Chair, issued a.... More
Rutland: Printed by Anthony Haswell, 1793. [9], 10-296pp. Bound in modern quarter calf and marbled boards, with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Title page margins browned, light scattered foxing. Signature of "T. Baldwin, 1795" at head of title page. Very Good. Born in Connecticut, a Yale graduate and Revolutionary War... More
Boston: William White, Printer to the State, 1854. 67, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, loosened, moderately worn, old institutional stamps. Minor text loss at leaf 63-64. Good only. OCLC 12218246 [4]. Not in Sabin, Eberstadt, or Decker. More
27TH Cong., 2d Sess. SD188. 1842. 13pp, dbd, light fox. Very Good. More
[Concord? February 1804]. Caption title as issued. Stitched. 11, [1 blank] pp. Untrimmed, Very Good. A Jeffersonian plea to defeat the Federalists in upcoming State elections. The choice for Governor is John Langdon, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and one of New Hampshire's two first U.S. Senators. According to... More
London: Published by Randal Taylor, 1682. 4to. [2], 31 [i.e., 35], [1 blank] pp. Title and last leaf dusted, else Very Good, in modern quarter morocco and green cloth, with spine title stamped in gilt. The Plea expresses the Corporation of London's determination to retain and, if possible, expand, its... More
London: Printed for T.D. and B.T. and are to be sold by S. Keble... 1696. 4to. [4], 35, [1 blank], 22, 16, 25-55, [1 blank], 55, [1], 65-126 pp. First leaf strengthened at margins, light rubberstamp to title page, light dusting and wear. Hole at one leaf affects several words... More
[np: 1855-1864]. Broadside, 3-3/4" x 6". Toned, archival repair on blank verso. Old folds. About Good+. A scarce, ephemeral Republican Party broadside. It charges that Democrats, despite their claims that Republicans are the party "of negro equality," have themselves been the chief supporters of measures to enfranchise Negroes. "Who... More