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A list, set forth below, of Alabama laws from 1859, through the Civil War and early Reconstruction, in various bindings and conditions. Overall Good+ to Very Good. ACTS OF THE SEVENTH BIENNIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF ALABAMA, HELD IN THE CITY OF MONTGOMERY, COMMENCING ON THE SECOND MONDAY..... More
[Atlanta: Printed for the Author, by Wood, Hanleiter, Rice & Co.], 1861. viii, [9]-336, 339-464, [2 blanks], xii [Index] pp, as issued [the text is continuous]. Modern half morocco and marbled paper over boards, with raised spine banks and gilt-lettered morocco spine title. Clean text. Very Good plus. This early..... More
New York: H.R. Robinson, 1838. Oblong lithograph broadside, 11-1/2" x 18-3/4." Lightly foxed, minor blank margin wear. Else Very Good. "The major figures in American national politics in 1838 are gently satirized, each characterized as riding a favorite issue of 'hobbyhorse'." [Reilly]. Van Buren's horse is "Sub-Treasury." He calls it..... More
![Item #36742 [A PICTURESQUE VIEW OF THE STATE OF THE NATION FOR FEBRUARY 1778]. American Revolution](https://lesserbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/36742.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1710781109)
[Netherlands? 1780?]. Oblong cartoon engraving, 7-1/4" x 11-1/4." Matted on paper backing. Minor dusting, Very Good. The engraving, which initially appeared in Westminster Magazine in February 1778, was frequently re-engraved. Our version, offered here, was issued without a date or credit line. It is thought to have been printed in..... More
Cincinnati: Lodge, L'Hommedieu, and Hammond, Printers, 1828. [4], 400 pp. The ten issues, from January through October 1828, are the entire output of this engaging monthly. Contemporary cloth-backed boards [front hinge detaching] with gilt-lettered black morocco spine label. The first four pages are the general title and an Index. Light..... More
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Boston: Printed and Sold by Kneeland and Adams, next to the Treasurer's Office in Milk-Street, 1771. 24pp, but lacking the half title. Death's Head ornamentation on title page. Disbound and uniformly toned. Closed tear to title leaf [no loss] repaired; evidence of repair at outer margin]. Inner margin of title..... More
New York: H.R. Robinson, 52 Courtlandt St. [1837]. Oblong folio broadside, 17-1/2" x 14." Hand-colored lithograph. Short closed tear and a few light fox spots at blank margins. Mounted to a thin board. Very Good. At upper margin: "N. Tom O' Logical Studies." "Tumblebugs roll manure into balls as large..... More
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London: Printed and Sold by T. Sowle, 1703. [10], 113, 112-141, 152-498, [1]-212, [11 Index], [1 errata], [10 publ. advt] pp. Bound in contemporary tooled calf, rebacked in modern calf. Early leaves with some dusting and foxing, else a clean text. Very Good. "The pagination is irregular. With an index..... More
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Amsterdam: Blaeu, [mid-1600's]. Engraved map with good early hand coloring, 22-1/2" x 18." French text on verso. Published in Le Theatre du Monde between 1638-1658. Very Good. The original plate, by Jodocus Hondius, is derived from John Smith's Map of Virginia of 1612. When Hondius died in 1629, Blaeu, who..... More
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[Boston: Printed by Edward Eveleth Powars, 1787]. Folio broadside, @11"x 17", printed in two columns. Signed at the end in type by Bowdoin. Untrimmed with generous margins. Several tanned old folds, light wear. Else Very Good. Governor Bowdoin's rare broadside attempts to limit the power of popularly elected legislative majorities..... More
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Providence: E.L. Freeman & Co., Printers to the State, 1878. [2], v, [4], 138 pp. Portrait frontis of General Shaw, with original tissue guard. Preface signed in type, 'J.M.C.' Stitched in original printed wrappers [chipped at head of spine]. Minor dusting or spotting, Very Good. "A detailed and valuable account..... 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
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[Charlestown MA]: Printed, for the Proprietors, 1800. iv, [3], 34, [4 blanks] pp. Stitched in original marbled wrappers. Spotted. Stitching loosened. Upper corners turned. Signed in ink by Thomas Stutson, the Secretary. "With the names of the committee of twenty-one who drew up the rules, p. [v], and a blank..... More
New York: Peter Smith [Currier & Ives], 1848. Folio lithograph broadside, oblong 14" x 19." Copyright information in manuscript at blank lower margin. Mounted to a thin board [chip at top right corner of board], light dusting. Very Good. Though little known today, Cass was a leader of the Democratic..... More
![Item #25188 THREE LOYALTY OATHS SIGNED BY FORMER CONFEDERATES. [1] WHEREAS, ANDREW JOHNSON,...](https://lesserbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25188(2).jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1711388850)
Partly printed documents, completed in manuscript, varying sizes, measuring in the range of 7-7.5" x 9-9.75". Matted and mounted behind glass in a 17" x 34" gilt decorative frame. Very Good. Former Confederates were required to sign oaths of loyalty before regaining citizenship and voting rights. The language of these..... More
[New York: Elias Dexter; one by L. Prang, c.1862-1863?]. Forty-eight handsome portrait engravings of important Civil War figures, including Lincoln and Cabinet members, Union Army and Navy leaders, Jefferson Davis, and others. Each mounted within a decorative stiff card frame with gilt border. Portraits are clear and clean, most with..... More
![Item #37368 INTERVIEW BETWEEN SHERMAN & JOHNSON [sic]. Civil War](https://lesserbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/37368.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1620654157)
Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Son, Lith. [1865]. Broadside lithograph, oblong 10-1/8" x 6-3/4." Some foxing at the margins, else Very Good. This is Duval's extremely rare lithograph depicting General Joe Johnston's surrender of his army to General Sherman on April 18. "Peter Stephen Duval, the most prominent Philadelphia lithographer of..... More
London: January 17, 1811. One page, 7" x 9," written on recto in neat ink manuscript. With a four-line ink manuscript note on verso, signed by the activist Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan: "This letter was addressed to my father William Frend who had worked with Thomas Clarkson some years before..... More
New Orleans: Printed at the Job Office of "The Daily Delta." 1851. [36- advertisements], [xvi], 232 pp + unpaginated advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled red boards [front cover stamped in gilt], rebacked. Leaf 225-226 spotted and worn. Many advertisements from local establishments. Except as noted, Very Good. The title page is preceded..... More
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[Guthrie, Oklahoma]: Engravings by Southwestern Engraving Company Fort Worth Dallas Houston. Printing by Co-Operative Publishing Co. Guthrie, Okla. [1927]. Original decorated dark cloth, title stamped on front cover with Seal of the University. 142, [5] pp. The numbered pages with decorative borders. Light wear, Very Good. The Colored Agricultural and..... More
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[11] manuscript pages, [5] blanks. Stitched, 7" x 12-1/4". Very Good. This unusual, perhaps unique, manuscript document is signed in ink at page [11] by the members of the House Committee: Jonth. Bull, Eph[rai]m Kirby, [in pencil] David Daggett; and by Clerk Uriah Tracy, who writes, "In the House of..... More
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Philadelphia: Seddon, Spotswood, Cist, and Trenchard. 1787. Pages 615-674 pp, as issued. The U.S. Constitution is printed at pages 659-665, in Very Good condition. Frontis folding meteorological table; folding plate of the Virginia Natural Bridge; full-page plate after page 654. Disbound, a few fox spots, else Very Good. This exceptionally..... More
New-York: Printed by John Patterson, [1788?]. 603, [1 blank], xxii pp. Bound in original pale paper-covered boards [spine worn, covers detached but present]. Pages 207 and 408 are misnumbered as 107, 480, respectively, as issued. Text untrimmed and clean. Very Good. "Date of publication suggested by Evans. Patterson is not..... More
Camp Williams Near New Orleans: 1862. Folded folio leaf, written in elegant ink manuscript on recto and verso of first leaf, docketed on final blank ["Capt. Mannings | Mannings Battery," and "copied" written in a different hand]. Old folds, Near Fine. More
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[Philadelphia? 1864?]. Lithograph broadside, 12-3/4" x 13-1/2." Signed Harley Del. in small letters at the lower left of the cartoon. A few spots at the blank upper margin, mounting remnants on the verso. Very Good. "An emotionally charged condemnation of the Copperheads or Peace Democrats and their support of reconciliation..... More