Columbia, S.C. Printed and Published at the Telescope Office, 1832. Original publisher's cloth [paper spine label worn away]. [5], [1 blank], [5]-110, [1 errata] pp [as issued]. Scattered foxing, Good+. This first edition was republished in 1860. It is quite scarce, with OCLC recording only a few locations under... More
[Washington: Towers, (1859?)]. Caption title [as issued]. 16pp, printed in double columns. Disbound with scattered foxing, Good+. Howes and Sabin record 1859 Baltimore printings only. Johnson was an authoritative voice on the issue of Popular Sovereignty: he was counsel for the slaveowners in the Dred Scott case, which held... More
Baltimore: Murphy & Co., 1859. 40pp, disbound and lightly foxed, Good+. Johnson was an authoritative voice on the issue of Popular Sovereignty: he was counsel for the slaveowners in the Dred Scott case, which held that Congress could not bar slavery from the territories. Douglas's opponents immediately noted that... More
London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1775. [2], 91, [1 blank] pp. Disbound and lacking the half title, title page lightly dusted, else Very Good Printed in the same year as the first edition, this pamphlet rebuts the "loud clamours" and "wild affections" of ingrates "who have denied... More
New York: 1865. Original printed wrappers [old tape, institutional marks] bound into attractive modern plain wrappers. 133, [1]pp. Light wear, clean text. Good+. Kingsley reviews "sectional contention" from "early in our history." The issues all revolved around the "question of the exact limitation of local and federal authority." He... More
Boston: Edes and Gill, 1767. 107, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, uniformly tanned, short closed tear [no loss] to title leaf. Good+. This is the first American edition, printed in the same year as the London first. Authorship is generally attributed to Charles Lloyd, George Grenville's Secretary. "Famous defense of... More
San Francisco, Cal. 1852. 48pp, bound in period half calf and marbled boards. Scattered foxing, Good+. "These speeches of Lockwood are required reading for anyone wishing to understand the dark and cruel side of the activities of the Vigilance Committee. Lockwood was a man of great courage and unusual ability... More
[New Orleans]: 1827. 28pp. Stitched, untrimmed, light fox, small tear on title leaf not affecting text. At head of title: "Let every man lend this to his neighbour." Very Good. Contemporary signature at top margin: John S. Barrows. A Louisiana State Senator, Louaillier opposed Andrew Jackson's decision to perpetuate martial... More
[Boston: 1809]. 55pp, untrimmed with wide margins, caption title [as issued], attractive modern plain wrappers. Inner margin remnants of previous wrapper, light institutional stamps, light tan, scattered light fox, Good+. Issued in two Boston printings this year, this is a critique of the Madisonian tilt against England. "Mr. Madison's Gallic... More
Richmond, Va. West & Johnston, 1862. 192pp, stitched in original printed wrappers [wraps worn, with spotting]. Text unusually clean and Very Good. Signed on the front wrapper, 'Wm. M. Burwell.' Presentation inscription on front free endpaper: 'Hon. W.M. Burwell with the sincere esteem of the Author. Richmond April 23d '..... More
Alexandria: Printed for the Author, 1812. 56pp, but without the half title. Disbound. Untrimmed. Very Good. Supporting De Witt Clinton for President, the author attacks "the crooked and weak policy of Mr. Madison's administration" for abandoning Jeffersonian principles, and assails the incumbent's "weak and jealous disposition." Madison's "political turpitude... More
[Baltimore, MD: Printed by John Murphy & Co. for the Maryland Historical Society, 1851]. [2], 86, [1 errata], [1 blank] pp. Disbound, with the half title, minor chipping to blank corners of some leaves. Small institutional blindstamping of last few leaves. Manuscript presentation at head of half title: 'Horatio G.... More
[Washington: 1829. 48pp. Disbound, lightly toned with occasional light spotting, rubberstamp at blank portion of title page. Good+. "Written after a personal tour of inspection of the country proposed" [Howes]. "In March, 1828 McCoy was appointed to 'accompany an exploring party of Indians west of the Mississippi.' Pages 6-24 contain... More
Montgomery: 1904. 142pp, original printed wrappers [light spine wear] and staples. Deckled edges, Fine. "He served first at Pensacola, was transferred to the Mississippi, traveled by rail from Mobile to Corinth and Memphis, and by boat to Island No. 10, where he was captured and taken to Camp Butler... More
Mexico: American Star Print. 1848. Oblong 4to. [24]pp. Errata slip pasted to verso of title page, listing "Names Accidentally Omitted," including that of 2d Lt. G.B. McClellan. Map, entitled 'Battles of Mexico... Made by Major Turnbull, Captain McClellan..." Slip laid in concerning "1st Lieut. Andrew I. Williamson, 3d Infantry." Original... More
Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring. Feb. 1798. [-June, 1803]. Vol. I: viii, [1 blank], 10-304 pp; Vol. II: vii, [1 blank], [9]]-222pp. Bound in pale blue paper- covered boards [quite worn, most paper removed from Vol. I, front covers of both volumes detached]. First few leaves detached on each... More
Boston: James W. Burditt, 1810. iv, [5]-192 pp. Disbound, light rubberstamp, else Very Good. The second edition of the definitive work on Shays' Rebellion, a signal event in creating support for the Constitution's promise of a stronger national government. In August and September 1786 financially strapped western Massachusetts farmers... More
London: Printed for J. Almon, 1777. [3], 28, 28 pp, with the half title. Bound in modern mottled calf by the Atelier Bindery in New York, with gilt-lettered spine label on black morocco. Light scattered foxing, Very Good. The Frank C. Deering copy, with that well-known collector's small morocco bookplate... More
New York: Printed by L. Nichols & Co.. for John Tiebout, Bookseller & Stationer, No. 246 Water-Street, 1801. 63, [1] pp. Disbound. Light edge wear, a couple of inoffensive old institutional rubberstamps. Good+. This document prints the so-called 'Montgomerie Charter' of 1730, printed by Peter Zenger in New York in... More
San Francisco: Bacon & Company, 1881. Original printed front wrapper [worn, wrapper lettering faded], later plain rear wrapper. ix, [1 blank], 254 pp. A clean and Very Good text. "The best and most graphic account of this remarkable state of affairs which for a decade engaged the most able... More
Philadelphia: Printed by Charles Cist, 1805. [1-title], [1 blank], 167, [1 blank] pp. Contemporary signature of Elizabeth Steiner on front free endpaper. Modern quarter calf over paper-covered boards [rubbed]. Light tan and fox, Good+. The second edition, after the 1800 Philadelphia. "Includes a short narration of the massacre of... More
Washington: 1855. 33d Cong., 1st Sess. HED129. 43pp, disbound with a bit of loosening and edge wear to title page. Good+. This is the introductory report by War Secretary Jefferson Davis ONLY, and does not include the full three-volume set. FIRST EDITION. Wagner-Camp 261:1. Howes P3. More
London: W.T. Sherman, 1817. 46, [2 blanks] pp. Spine reinforced, scattered foxing, Good+. Paine's "attack on the British government...Paine here makes a brazen call for a revolution in England and outlines a plan for calling together a convention for the purpose of reviewing the whole mass of English laws... More
London: Symonds, 1792. iv, 78, [1 advt], [1 blank]; vii, [1], [9]-90, [4], [1 blank], [1 advt] pp. Occasional close trimming at the foremargin, but text unaffected. Very Good, in modern cloth. With tasteful bookplate and 'withdrawn' stamp [from Clements Library] on front pastedown On the first printing of Rights... More
Jacksonville [IL]: R. Goudy, 1834. viii, 376pp. Lightly age-toned, with a couple of margin rubberstamps, but a Very Good text in its original sheep, with a rather brittle and chipped spine, gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Byrd notes, "Much of the information for this work was gathered as a result... More