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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935. x, 291, [1 blank] pp. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown, gum label at spine base. Else Very Good in original publisher's cloth. 43 Decker 190. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935. x, 291, [1 blank] pp. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown, gum label at spine base. Else Very Good in original publisher's cloth. 43 Decker 190. More
[np: 1872?]. 8pp, each in two columns, entirely printed in German Fraktur. Light spotting, printer error obscures portions of the last line of text on two pages. Translation: THE INVESTIGATION OF WEAPONS DEALING: A CONCISE COMPLETE COMPILATION OF THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY REPORTS OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE). Good This pamphlet..... More
[Boston: 1846]. 8pp, uncut and untrimmed folio leaf printed in two columns per page. Chipped unevenly at bottom edge of outer leaves with no text affected. Very Good. The Liberty Party, the first to campaign nationally for emancipation of the slaves and the precursor to the Free Soil and Republican..... More
[Washington: 1862]. 37th Cong., 2d Sess. SED65. Broadsheet, octavo. [2]pp. Disbound, else Very Good. Lincoln refuses to mess with the currency, believing that the proposed legislation would result in "the serious injury of honest trade and honest labor." Not in Monaghan. More
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
Washington: GPO, 1867. xxx, 930 pp, as issued. Covers absent, text block split. Minor soiling. Good. Monaghan 881. More
Boston: J.H. Bufford, [1864?]. Hand-colored lithograph card, 3-3/4" x 2-1/4." Mount remnants on blank verso; two small ink marks in blank margins. Very Good. An expression of someone's wishful thinking: a top-hatted Lincoln leaves the White House, his umbrella and satchel in hand. Bufford was an accomplished Boston lithographer. He..... More
Philadelphia: Published by Mason & Co., 1864. 16pp, 2 7/8" x 4 1/4". Stitched in original printed wrappers with portrait of an unshaven Lincoln on the front wrap. Rear wrap, a publisher's advertisement, is shaved at the fore-edge, costing a few letters [such has been the case with the several..... More
[New York: Sold at 13 Park Row, and at all Democratic Newspaper Offices, 1864]. 8pp, caption title, disbound, a bit of blank margin wear, Good+. At head of title: 'Document No. 12.' This Democratic Party campaign pamphlet portrays President Lincoln as an incompetent military strategist who perpetually "interfered with General..... More
New York: Johnson, Fry & Co., Publishers, 1862. Broadside, 7-1/4" x 10-1/2", portrait area 5-1/2" x 7-1/2". Handcolored line and stipple lithograph depicting a full length portrait of a bearded Abraham Lincoln seated beside a table in front of a heavy drape, holding a book of the Constitution with both..... More
[Ohio: 1864]. Broadside ticket listing Union Ticket candidates for elections in 1864, beneath illustration of the American Flag. Several candidates are listed for "Supreme Judge," plus candidates for Secretary of State, Attorney General, Comptroller of the Treasury, Board of Public Works; and, for Congress, John A. Bingham. Some edge wear..... 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
New Orleans: Printed by Benjamin Levy, 1825. Folio. 263pp. [bound with] [Livingston, Edward:] DEFINITIONS OF ALL THE TECHNICAL WORDS USED IN THE SYSTEM OF PENAL LAW PREPARED FOR THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. [New Orleans: Benjamin Levy. 1826]. 27, [1 blank] pp. Bound together in contemporary marbled boards [rubbed], rebacked in..... More
Providence: Knowles, Vose & Company, 1838. 24pp. Disbound without wraps, some spotting, Good+. Contemporary owner's signature at upper margin of title leaf. Renowned for his groundbreaking work in establishing penal codes, Livingston explains why capital punishment should be banished from the criminal justice system. "The exalted standing and character of..... More
New Orleans: Printed by Benjamin Levy, 1824. Folio. 164pp. Bound in attractive modern quarter calf with marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco title label on spine. Rubberstamp on title page, else a clean text and Very Good. The author, a disciple of Bentham, presents the philosophical underpinnings of his penal system. "No..... More
[Augusta, Maine]: 1862. Folio broadside, 6-1/2" x 31." Printed in two columns. Old folds, a few fox spots at the bottom, Very Good. This rare Song emphasizes McClellan's [and the Union's] military achievements in the West, against the "Merrimac," "old Beaury," Stonewall Jackson, and in New Orleans. McClellan, Foote, Ericsson..... More
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1807. Inscribed on front flypaper: "The Family Bible of John Welland Blake | Then of his daughter Anna Sophia (Blake) Cabot | Then of Anna Cabot Lodge." Bookplate of Henry Cabot Lodge. 9-1/2" x 11". [2], 1080, 72 [Concordance] pp. Folding frontis, several illustrated plates and maps..... More
New York: Hodge & Campbell, 1792. Original sheep [rubbed], rebacked. xvi, [25]-376, [8] pp. Toned, scattered light and occasionally moderate foxing. Good+. "This work has been held in high estimation from its first publication, and still holds a distinguished place... De Lolme was a native of Switzerland, and it is..... More
Cambridge: Published by John Owen, 1842. 31, [1 blank], [7- publ. advts.], [1 blank] pp. With the half title, as issued. Half title preceded by two free endpapers. Glossy plain rear wrapper present, lacking the front wrapper. Stitched. Clean text. One advertisement leaf with a short blank margin repair. Very..... More
New Orleans [one Donaldson: 1819-1840. The Acts are in both English and French on facing pages. Bindings vary: disbound, modern buckram, modern cloth, or contemporary sheep. The usual institutional marks and occasional light wear. Overall, Very Good. a. ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FOURTH LEGISLATURE OF THE..... More
New Orleans: City Item Publishing Company, 1884. Original printed wrappers, stitched. 15, [1 blank] pp. Text clean. Wrappers loosened, with a couple of old institutional stamps, shallow wrapper edge wear. Good+. A committee of sugar planters arranged the Convention. Delegates are listed. Its purpose was "to defend the Louisiana protected..... More
New Orleans: Printed at the Crescent Office, 1852. 100pp. Toned with some foxing, light rubberstamp on title page. Upper blank corners of last two leaves renewed, couple of small holes in last leaf affecting about five letters. Good+ in modern boards. The new Constitution mandated that "the Legislature shall apportion..... More
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
West Minot, Maine: 1867 [Jany 18th]. 3, [1 blank] pp on a lightly lined , folded sheet of stationery. Old folds, Very Good. This incisive Letter brilliantly expresses Republican anger at President Johnson and the erstwhile Rebels. Lowell and Burpee had been Whig colleagues in the 1854 Maine Legislature. After..... More
New York and Philadelphia: Appleton, 1843. 100pp, disbound. Lacks printed wraps and 22pp of advertisements at end. Foxed, final leaf dustsoiled. Good. No one seems to know who 'Lowndes' is. None of the cited bibliographies collates the publisher's ads. American Imprints alone records a second New York printing from this..... More