SPEECH OF HON. WILLIAM D. KELLEY, OF PENNSYLVANIA, ON PROTECTION TO AMERICAN LABOR; DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JANUARY 31, 1866.
Washington: Congressional Globe Office, 1866. 31pp, disbound. Very Good. More
Washington: Congressional Globe Office, 1866. 31pp, disbound. Very Good. More
[Harrisburg PA? 1856]. Folio printed broadside on cloth. 10-1/2" x 17-1/2" on cream color fabric. Designed like a ballot and printed in several bold, large fonts. Beneath the names of Ingersoll and Stewart, the names of 25 electors are boldly printed in a single column. Fine. Ours is only the..... More
Philadelphia: Daily News Office, [1856]. Caption title [as issued]. Disbound. 8pp, lightly worn. Good+. At head of title: 'Read This, And Then Hand It To Your Neighbor. Tracts For The People. No. 3.' A scarce survival of the chaotic, three-way 1856 presidential campaign. This pamphlet, from the anti-immigrant American or..... More
Easton, Pa. Cole & Morwitz, Publishers, 1876. [6], 245, [1 blank] pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers. Very Good. Inscribed on front wrapper: "Compliments of W.S. Kirkpatrick," who represented Laros at the trial. "In Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Laros, a twenty-two-year-old teacher, put four and one-half ounces [equal to over two..... More
Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, 1784. [7, [1 blank], 26, [2 blanks] pp. With the half title and final blank, as issued. Bound in contemporary marbled wrappers, with contemporary paper title label. Light to moderate foxing, Good+. An early, perhaps the earliest, American book on Physics. Ledyard, after whose family..... More
Philadelphia: C. Sherman, Printer, [1851]. Original front title wrapper, stitched. [2], 19, [1 blank] pp, lacking the rear wrapper. Toned, some shallow blank edge chipping and light wear. Good+, with some Hebrew printing in text. The caption title reads: 'An Address, Delivered at the Schoolhouse of the Hebrew Education Society..... More
Philadelphia: Emmor Kimber; Solomon W. Conrad, Printer, [1804]. 12mo. [48] pp., stitched, partly untrimmed. Toned, some spotting, complete. AI 6594 [3]. Drake 10673. More
Franklin County, PA: 1844. Large sheet, folded to folio 8" x 12-1/4". [2], [2 blank] pp. Entirely in blue ink manuscript. Folded for mailing, integral blank leaf addressed to Mr. James Ewing, Burgettstown, Washington, County, Pa., with Shippensburgh postal cancel. Wax seal remnants, minimal wear, light toning. Very Good. Other..... More
Oblong, 4" x 6.5". 90 pp in manuscript [remaining pages blank], pages lined. Original brushed leather, decorative tooled borders and spine [rubbed and worn, spine eroded, covers detached]. First few leaves loose [one torn, then neatly sewn together]. A couple of small clipped articles on cures for hydrophobia, recipe for..... More
Lancaster: 1803. 14, 154pp. Untrimmed, lightly worn. Disbound, else Very Good. Addison, a Pennsylvania Federalist, was presiding judge of its Court of Common Pleas. He had defended the Alien and Sedition Acts and denounced the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. Jeffersonians got their revenge after they assumed power in Pennsylvania. Addison's..... More
Lancaster: Printed by George Helmbold, Junior, for Lloyd and Helmbold, Jun. 1803. [1]-115, [1 blank], 101-154, 14 pp [as issued]. Contemporary calf [rubbed, heavily chipped at spine] with 'House of Representatives' stamped in gilt on the front cover. Scattered light foxing. Very Good. Addison, a Pennsylvania Federalist, was presiding judge..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: 1828. Broadside, 8" x 9.75". Entirely in ink manuscript. A couple of small blank corner chips, reinforced at inner margin on verso. Very Good. Walter Lowrie [1784-1868] was born in Scotland and came to Butler County, Pennsylvania, with his parents in 1791. He was active in politics and..... More
Philadelphia: Herausgegeben von G.W. Mentz und Sohn, Buchhändler... Stereotypirt bey J. Howe, 1836. 12mo. 144pp. Frontispiece woodcut illustration of Martin Luther. Bound in contemporary decorated paper over boards [rubbed] with cloth spine [some fraying and wear]. Text with light to moderate foxing, endpapers tanned. An attractive 19th century decorative binding..... More
Philadelphia: Ormrod & Conrad, 41 Chesnut-Street, [1797]. vii, [1 blank], [9]-47, [1 blank] pp, as issued. Disbound [some loosening]. Presentation on verso of front wrap: "Mr. Thomas Rowland from his friend The Author." Light dusting and mild foxing, Good+. Mackenzie dedicates his Dissertation to Dr. George Brown of Baltimore. The..... More
Philadelphia: Printed for the Institution, by Anderson & Meehan, 1817. 12mo. 12pp. Disbound without wraps, else Very Good. The Association sought to educate young men privately; its evening classes suggest that many of its students were in the work force. Evidently free public education was not introduced in Pennsylvania until..... More
[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 by..... More
Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliot, 1832. xii, [13]-360pp [lacks half title]. Original half leather with marbled boards [corners and edges worn, front board detached], rubbed spine with raised bands and gilt lettered spine label. Tanned, minimal spotting and foxing. Good+. The sheets for this issue were printed in Maysville, Kentucky, and..... More
Philadelphia: E.C. & J. Biddle, 508 Minor Street, 1858. Original printed wrappers, stitched. 20pp plus color folding frontis entitled "Geological Cross Section in Western Warrants. McKean Cy. Pa." Light dusting. Circular rubberstamp on front wrapper: "Blood's Penny Post. Mar. 18 Philada." Verso of front wrapper has the bookseller stamp of..... More
Philadelphia: Orrin Rogers ... 1841. Original printed brown wrappers [ownership signature of Chauncey Bulkley]. Stitched, 48pp. Moderately foxed, Good+. The federal Bankruptcy Act of 1841, enacted in response to the Panic of 1837, was the first to permit voluntary bankruptcies. More than a generation had passed since enactment of the..... More
Philadelphia: J. Crissy, 1842. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 12pp. 12mo. Light foxing, Good+. Signature, 'David S. Brown Esq' on title page. The Association was formed as the Panic of 1837 receded, "for the amelioration of...frequent revulsions, and incidental vicissitudes" of trade; "to spare sensitive and honest poverty the humiliation of..... More
Philadelphia: J. Crissy, 1844. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 16pp. 12mo. Lightly dusted Very Good. Signature, 'D. [S.?] Brown' on title page. [offered with] PROPOSED ALTERATIONS AND AMENDMENTS TO THE PREAMBLE, CHARTER AND CONSTITUTION OF THE...JANUARY 26TH, 1850. [ 1850]. 12pp, stitched, caption title [as issued]. 12mo, Very Good. The Association--..... More
[Philadelphia? 1868?]. 12mo, original plain wrappers, stitched. Lightly folded, else Near Fine. The founding document of an accident and casualty insurance compmany. FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin, Eberstadt, Decker, or, evidently, NUC. More
Philadelphia: 1854. Original printed wrappers [closed tear to blank rear wrap]. 16pp, stitched. About Very Good. "The object of this Corporation is to furnish relief to indigent merchants of the City of Philadelphia, especially such as are aged and infirm." Its incorporation occurred in January The pamphlet lists Officers, Managers..... More
Oblong 20" X 11 1/2". On parchment. In typescript, completed in manuscript. With elaborate typography. Metes and bounds described. Seal in upper left corner of recto, docketed on verso, also with seal. Very attractive. Old folds, Near Fine. During the Revolution, Mifflin had been quartermaster general of the Continental Army..... More
[Philadelphia]: 1856. 4pp, folded sheet, original printed self wrappers with wrapper title. Light edge wear, Very Good. The Statement says the Company can "not be surpassed by any similar one in the state with its facilities for getting coal, agricultural produce, and the means of sending their productions to the..... More