SURVEY OF CRESCENT CITY HARBOR, CALIFORNIA. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, TRANSMITTING, WITH LETTER OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, REPORT OF A 53rd Cong., 3rd Sess. HED231.
[Washington: 1895]. 4pp, folding map. Disbound. Light tanning. Good+. More
[Washington: 1895]. 4pp, folding map. Disbound. Light tanning. Good+. More
0San Francisco: Bradley & Rulofson, Photographers, [1880?]. Albumen photograph, 4-1/2" x 5-3/4", reproducing an early California print, mounted on stiff 8" x 10" board. Image surrounded by gilt border. "Bradley & Rulofson, Photographers, S.F." printed beneath image, within the border. Below the border is printed "San Francisco, 1849. Drawn on..... More
[California. 10pp, disbound, outer two leaves partly detached at top and bottom. Tanned, minor dustsoiling and wear of outer leaves. Good+. "From the organization of the State government of California, the city of San Francisco has contended that there was a pueblo, or town, under the Mexican Government, at the..... More
San Francisco: Placer Times and Transcript Office, 1854. 8pp, bound in attractive modern quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt spine lettering. Very Good. A significant chapter in the epic Gwin-Broderick struggle, which split the California Democratic Party on the Kansas-Nebraska issue and ended only with Broderick's death in a duel..... More
[np: @1762]. Folio sheet, folded to 9-3/4" x 15." 3, [1 docket] pp. Old folds, with several separations expertly repaired without loss. Else Very Good, with caption title, as issued. A contemporary manuscript note in a blank margin recites English law that "no man shall be put out of his..... More
Trenton: Murphy & Bechtel, 1860. Original printed wrappers [light numerical rubberstamp, rear wrap torn], stitched, 80pp. Scattered foxing, Good+. The head of the wrapper title reads, 'Read and Hand to your Neighbor.' "A condemnation of the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company and the railroad monopoly in New Jersey. The anonymous..... More
[Middletown, PA?]: 1852. Folio sheet, folded to 7-1/2" x 9-3/4". Written on the first page in ink manuscript. Docketed on final blank, "Gen. S. Cameron Jany. 6/9 1852, Ansd. Jany 9th"; addressed to "Col. R. Frazer, Lancaster, Pa." Folded for mailing, stamped "PAID 3" with faint circular postal cancel of..... More
[Harrisburg? 1855?]. 48pp. Stitched in original printed blue title wrappers [spine-chipped]. Two stab holes in blank left margin. Light scattered foxing, old vertical fold, Very Good. This document, says Howes, was reprinted "to discredit" Cameron, a Pennsylvania kingmaking politician who stuffed his pockets with the spoils of a panoply of..... More
Baltimore: John Murphy, 1846. Original printed wrappers, stitched [loosening]. 32pp, double columns. A bit of wrinkling and light wear. Old institutional rubberstamps. Good+. Campbell concedes that Kennedy is "a respectable lawyer," as well as "a polished writer, and an agreeable speaker." But Campbell hits him hard in this piece: "His..... More
[Washington: 1850]. 8pp, folded. Caption title [as issued], printed in double columns. Light tanning, else Very Good. More
London: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court. Published for the Author, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 1809. 4to. [4], 134pp. Original tooled leather, boards detached but present. Good+. On the 1778 Wyoming Valley massacre-- Brits and their Iroquois allies killed 350 patriots, with allegations of torture. Sabin 10268... More
Butler County, PA: 1820-1828. Folio, 16" x 10" 292 pages bound in worn half leather [front board detached]. Some pages contain notes on smaller paper, affixed with straight pins, relating to cases. The disposition of each case is detailed, with names of hundreds of inhabitants. An excellent primary resource for..... More
Ottawa: Printed by MacLean, Roger & Co., 1881. Original printed salmon wrappers, stitched. [2], 10, large folding map [short closed tear], 20, 11, 3, 2, 2 pp, as issued. Vertical fold, light edgewear. Very Good. [offered with] [Booth, C.J., President]: THE CANADA ATLANTIC RAILWAY CO'Y. PROSPECTUS. [Ottawa: 1889]. [4] pp..... More
Irving, Publisher, 35 King Street West: [1880?]. [1, title page], [1 blank], [vii]-99, [1 blank] pp. Original printed wrappers [light chipping, minor foxing, faded numerical stamp on front wrap], disbound, loosened. A few minor spots of foxing, else clean. Good+. OCLC notes publishing date as 1880 and shows pages as..... More
Boston: New-England: Printed by Green & Russell, and Edes & Gill... 1761. 31, [1 blank] pp. With the half title, as issued. Disbound, mild toning. Else Very Good. Caner, who devoted much of his religious career to defending orthodox Episcopacy in opposition to his fellow New England ministers Jonathan Mayhew..... More
New York: Ezra Sergeant, 1809. 71, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, Near Fine. [offered with] THE ANTI-GALLICAN SENTINEL, SECOND PART. Philadelphia: Fry and Kammerer. 1810. 48pp, disbound, minor scattered foxing. Very Good. These are the first American editions of Capmany's widely circulated attack on Napoleon, written "to awaken the energies of..... More
Philadelphia: J.S. Skinner, 1851. 84pp. Disbound without wrappers, ink notes in title page blank margin, else Very Good. Carey, an economist, economic nationalist, and "chief advocate of protection for American manufactures" [DAB], was the son of Mathew Carey. He addresses this pamphlet to Robert Walker, "the leader of that portion..... More
Philadelphia: Collins, Printer, 1867. 79, [1 blank] pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers, couple of old rubberstamps else clean and Very Good. "In 1867, Carey wrote a series of letters to Massachusetts Senator Henry Wilson, who would become Grant's second vice president. Strongly disagreeing with Wilson's laissez-faire, free-trade politics, Carey..... More
Philadelphia: Collins, Printer, 1869. 66pp. Disbound, scattered foxing, three pinholes at spine. Very Good. A series of eleven letters addressed to newly-elected President Grant, in which Carey recommends strengthening the bonds of Union by developing "perfect industrial independence" and a system of roads and railroads to bind the Nation together..... More
Philadelphia: L.R. Bailey, Printer, 1850. 78pp. Disbound and lightly worn, else Very Good. "Carey's critical review of 'Report of commissioners appointed to investigate...,' published earlier in the year. In ten 'Letters to the people of New Jersey,' Carey charges that the report of commissioners Aaron Robertson, James S. Hulme, and..... More
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1848. 64pp. Disbound. Institutional rubberstamps on two blank portions of title page. Light wear, Good+. Sixteen letters written by Carey, whose crusade against the legislative monopoly enjoyed by the Camden & Amboy Railroad Company challenged the New Jersey establishment. He cites instance after instance of fraudulent..... More
Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & Lea, 1824. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 12pp, untrimmed. Light wear and edge chipping. Very Good. Sabin attributes authorship of this pro-tariff argument to Mathew Carey. Intellectual support for protectionism and the Whigs' American System came primarily "from a group of writers and publicists in Philadelphia and..... More
Philadelphia: Printed for H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1824. vii, [1], 36, 27, [1 blank] pp. Disbound. Separate title page and imprint for Cooper's Tract [Charleston: Printed. 1823. Philadelphia: Reprinted by Joseph R.A. Skerrett. 1824]. Each title page with a light rubberstamp number. First title page with some foxing, and..... More
Philadelphia: Nov. 25,1829. 56pp, disbound, lightly foxed. Good+. An attempt by the indefatigable Carey' to make free-trade Southerners see the error of their ways, and to embrace protectionism. He argues that the Southern States' economic distress arises, not from tariffs, but from their absence. AI 38057... More
Philadelphia: 1830. Modern plain wrappers, 72pp. Scattered light foxing. Good+. Presentation with 'M. Carey's respects.' Carey was the leading protectionist of the 19th century. He believed in trade barriers, especially "where a nation imposes high duties on our productions;" and argued that domestic production "creates a demand for such [articles]..... More