[Boston: 1852]. Broadside, 5-3/4" x 9-1/2." Some spotting at right lower half, mostly in the blank margin; torn at blank lower corner. Text complete. Iconic Screaming Eagle, holding olive branch and arrows in its talons, and carrying "E Pluribus Unum" banner, within the title. Good+. John Hale of New Hampshire..... More
Crown Point, Indiana: John Millikan, Printer, 1878. Terms- - Sixty cents per year, in advance. Original printed wrappers [chipped at blank upper corner of front wrapper; rubberstamp at its outer margin]. Library pencil notation on verso of front wrap. Stitched, 20 clean pages. Except as noted, Very Good. The first..... More
Washington, D.C. Printed and Bound at the National Republican Printing House, [1876]. Original printed wrappers with wrapper title and caption title [as issued]. Stitched, 17pp. Folding map sketch of the area in question. Wrappers moderately worn, Good+. After his War service in the Union army, Barnard settled down to a...... More
Cleveland: Fairbanks, Benedict & Co., 1863. Stitched in original printed wrappers. 33, [1 blank] pp + folding table. Wrappers with extremity chipping and old rubberstamp. Rear wrap detached but present. Title page with rubberstamp. Old bookplate. Good plus. This is a joint report of the Bellefontaine & Indiana Rail Road..... More
Washington: Geo. S. Gideon, Printer, 1858. Original printed pink wrappers [some discoloration], stitched. vii, [1 blank], 132pp. A few pages with a bit of inner margin spotting. Very Good. Inscribed above the title, "J.G. Woodbury Per J.D. Bright." The question was whether the State of Indiana had legally returned Senators..... More
Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 1962. Two matching volumes as issued, in original cloth with gilt-lettered title on red spine backing. In original slipcase. Fine. First published in 1950. More
Washington: Printed at the Madisonian Office, 1839. 8pp, a folded folio leaf, untrimmed and uncut. Lightly foxed, else Very Good. This is the first edition, reprinted in 1840 for the presidential campaign. Burnett had been a Senator from Ohio, having succeeded Harrison in that office. He was an authority on..... More
Washington, D.C. V.G. Fischer, 1885. Engraved, illustrated broadside, 7" x 9-1/2". With portraits of Cleveland and Hendricks, their facsimile signatures, and statue of Lady Liberty flanked by American flags, maidens of Education and Science, and the names in elegant typescript of the chairmen and committee members. Fine. The Washington Monument..... More
Washington: Blair & Rives, 1840. Folio, 8 3/4" x 12". 416pp. Nos. 1-27 of Volume VI; May 16, 1840 - October 26, 1840, plus No. 27, the final issue recording detailed election results, from January 1841. Boards detached, endpapers filled with local political tickets. Scattered foxing, light wear, Good+. A...... More
[Washington: Gideon, 1848]. 8pp, caption title [as issued]. Disbound and lightly foxed. Good+. Letters from Whigs Caleb Smith of Indiana and Schenck of Ohio tell their fellows that they better vote the Whigs' 1848 presidential ticket, despite their dismay at the nomination of Zachary Taylor. The alternative is the Democrat..... More
[vp: 1880]. The cards are in Very Good to Fine condition, with various measurements around 3" x 5," more or less. There are three photographic cards and nine printed cards. The merchants are located in Charleston, San Francisco, Greenfield MA, Philadelphia, Providence, and Boston, offering clothing, dining, jewelry, clocks, diamonds..... More
Corydon, Indiana: 1857. Broadsheet, 6 3/4" x 21". Old horizontal folds, contemporary docketing, signature of County Auditor Samuel Douglass, and other contemporary notations. Good+. The list of names is from the following Townships: Harrison, Boone, Heth, Posey, Franklin, Morgan, Blue River, Washington, Taylor, Webster, Jackson, Spencer, and Scott. Well over..... More
New York: Published by T. & C. Wood, Stationers, 1835. 31, [1] pp. Disbound without wrappers, scattered light foxing. Good+. "Based in part on the sketch of Harrison which appeared in the Port Folio, 1814" [Miles]. A campaign biography for Harrison's first run against Van Buren and the Jacksonians, dedicated..... More
New York: J.P. Giffing, Successor to Samuel Colman, [1840]. 18 leaves [as issued], title vignette of Harrison plowing his field, the Angel of the Union looking down on him [stereotyped by R.C. Valentine]. Stitched. Light spotting, else Very Good. With decorative private owner rubberstamp of Elisha G. Cook in blank..... More
[Cohoes, N.Y. 1859]. 4pp. [bound with] A COPY OF A LETTER WRITTEN FROM BUFFALO, STATE OF N.Y., DECEMBER 21ST, 1860. [Buffalo? 1861?]. 8pp. [bound with] THIS IS THE SECOND EDITION OF A PAMPHLET WRITTEN ON THESE WORDS... [np: September 19]. pp 5-8 [as issued]. [bound with] CHAPTER XXVIII. WRITTEN ON..... More
[Indianapolis? 1864]. Folio, 8 ½" x 14". [16] pp, folded. Poll Book preprinted with introduction, columns and headings, names of candidates, etc. First [5] pages and final [4] pages completed in neat ink manuscript. The first page contains an introduction at the top half, followed by names of voters up..... More
1862. Consisting of the Journals for 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, and 1867. Printed in Evansville, Fort Wayne, and Indianapolis. Original printed wrappers, bound together in a later binding but covers absent. Light wear and soil, Very Good. The primary source for the Protestant Episcopal Church during and just after..... More
25th Cong., 2d Sess. HD455. [Washington, D.C. Printed by Thomas Allen], 1838. 122 pp. One folding map of the Vincennes District, @6" x 9", showing its abutment with the Wabash River and noting ownership strips bounded by The Elm Road. Disbound, minor foxing widely scattered, Very Good+. An effort to..... More
26th Cong., 1st Sess. Senate. 1840. No. 244. 3pp. disbound. Very Good. More
Indianapolis: W.R. Holloway, State Printer, 1865. [289] - 364, [4 blank] pp. [as issued]. Stitched. Missing front wrapper, rear wrapper attached [chipped]. Text quite clean. Very Good. OCLC 17779542 [4]. More
Indianapolis, Ind. Baker & Randolph, 1882. Original printed and illustrated wrappers, stitched, 76pp. Wrappers lightly worn, text clean, Very Good. An admirably detailed record of the year's commercial activities in Indianapolis. Each commodity, mode of transportation, and type of manufacture is analyzed. An essay on the origin and progress of..... More
Indianapolis: 1871. Original printed wrappers, stitched. 80, [1], [1 blank] pp. Wrappers excessively ex-library, with rear wrap torn. One rubberstamp on title page, else a clean and attractive text. Good+. A detailed record of the City's activities, manufacturing and agricultural, with 35 pages of advertisements, some attractively illustrated. FIRST EDITION..... More
[Indiana: 1899]. Large broadside, 19" x 23-1/2". Black and white printed document completed in ink manuscript. Elegant typesettings, large decorative education related emblems with a picture at the center depicting an oil lamp atop a pile of books with a globe in the background, with ribbons, ivy and birds interwoven..... More
Chicago: Brant & Fuller, 1887. 4to. 883pp. Inner hinges reinforced. Half sheep and pebbled paper over boards. Rubbed, spine chip, decorative title on front cover. Very Good. "A small number of books have been published about the history of Huntington County, the first being History of Huntington County, Indiana originally..... More
Harrisburg, Pa. George Bergner, Printer, 1863. 32pp. Disbound, small rubberstamp in blank margin, else a clean text. Good+. In this pre-Gettysburg debate, Copperheads in the Pennsylvania legislature object to Andrew Johnson's speaking at the Capitol. Republicans justly state that Johnson's "counsel and his voice were ever against secession. His efforts..... More