SALES OF GOLD. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, TRANSMITTING STATEMENTS OF SALES OF GOLD, COMMISSIONS PAID, &C., SINCE MARCH, 1861.
40th Cong., 2d Sess. HED265. 1868. 166pp, Disbound, persistent light dampstain. Good+. More
40th Cong., 2d Sess. HED265. 1868. 166pp, Disbound, persistent light dampstain. Good+. More
Philadelphia: 1833. xii, 140, 240 pp, as issued. Scattered foxing with occasional marginalia from a knowledgeable reader. Modern quarter brown morocco and marbled paper over boards. Six spine panels, gilt spine rules, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. "The first part of this work, 140 pages, is a general essay on..... More
New York: Printed by E. Conrad, 4 Frankfort-Street, 1822. 52pp. Disbound with light scattered foxing. Title page with some spotting. Good+. Charles Glidden Haines (1793 - 1825), attorney and author, became Governor Clinton's private secretary. Admitted to the New York bar in 1821, he wrote political pamphlets, newspaper articles, and..... More
Philadelphia: Printed for the Proprietors, by William Young, 1792. 79, [1] pp. Disbound, else Very Good. This, along with the American Museum's January 1792 issue, is one of the earliest printings of Hamilton's foundation report on manufactures, One of them is its earliest magazine printing. Hamilton issued his report on..... More
Philadelphia: Printed for the Proprietors of William Young, Bookseller, 1792. Pages 421-429, signed in type by Hamilton in several places, and dated November 30, 1792. The entire issue is [361]- 432 pp. Disbound, else Very Good. This is certainly one of the very earliest printings of Hamilton's ground-breaking Treasury Department..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by John C. Clark, 1837. 29, [3 blank] pp. Untrimmed and generously margined, stitched. Institutional rubberstamp on front wrap, light to moderate dusting, Good+. Robert Hare, professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania from 1818 to 1847, wrote a number of economic tracts and generally, as here..... More
[Washington: 1840]. 35, [1 blank] pp. Stitched with caption title, as issued. Untrimmed. Lightly toned and spotted. Good+. Fendall, a lawyer and a Whig, became U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia by appointment of President Tyler after the death of Whig President William Henry Harrison. Fendall was well-connected politically..... More
Helena, MT: 1866-1874. Ten engraved bank notes, completed in manuscript, from the "Banking House of L.H. Hershfield," "Banking House of L.H. Hershfield & Co.," and "Banking House of L.H. Hershfield & Bro." All signed by Hershfield or his brother and partner Aaron. All with U.S. Revenue Stamps and endorsements. A...... More
[Washington: 1840]. Caption title [as issued]. 32pp, a pristine text, untrimmed, generously margined, partly uncut. Disbound, else Fine. One of two different Washington printings, the Letter explains why Hopkins, a Virginia Democratic Congressman, continues to support Martin Van Buren. Though Hopkins had vigorously opposed Van Buren's banking policies, most particularly..... More
Written on stationery with letterhead, PENNSYLVANIA SYSTEM THE ST. LOUISAN THE NEW YORKER ['PENNSYLVANIA SYSTEM' is crossed out and 'House' is written above it in blue pencil]. 5" x 6.5". Octavo leaf, folded to four pages, printed on rectos only. Light mark left from paperclip at head of letter. Old..... More
[Springfield: December 14, 1841]. Caption title, as issued. 16pp. Disbound, very spotted but a complete copy of a rare Illinois imprint. Good. "The text of this address appeared in the Illinois State Register, Springfield, December 24, 1841. It explained the system of apportionment for convention delegates, denounced the Whigs [the..... More
[Springfield]: January 16, 1841. 4pp. Caption title, as issued. Disbound, loose. Else Very Good. Illinois Legis. H.R. 12th Assem. 2d Session. A member of the Sangamon County delegation in the Illinois House of Representatives since 1837, and a Whig Party leader, Abraham Lincoln "fought hard to save the state bank..... More
[Springfield? 1860?]. 8pp, original printed wrappers [some wear, some separation along spine]. Stitched. Good+ or so. A victory for government-sponsored internal improvements: the Illinois Supreme Court decides that the State Constitution allows "counties and cities to become share-holders in Rail Road Companies." "The text of the important decision declaring that..... More
New York: Amerman, 1856. 44 [of 64] pp, stitched in original printed wrappers. Outline Map, and double-page map frontis. Some leaves foxed, light edge wear. INCOMPLETE. "The work is, in effect, a guidebook to Illinois." Eberstadt. Byrd records an 1855 Chicago imprint offering 2,500,000 acres, and notes that [in 1855]..... More
Springfield: Lanphier & Walker, 1852. Original quarter leather and plain boards [extremities chipped, hinges starting]. 268, [1], [1 blank], xvi pp. Clean text with widely scattered light foxing. Good+. Much material on banking, railroads, corporations, civil and criminal procedure, internal improvements, turnpikes, education, taxation. FIRST EDITION. Byrd 1850. Buck 1249..... More
[Indianapolis? 1872]. 4pp, Disbound with some loosening, caption title [as issued]. Printed in double columns. Good+. An exposure of profligacy and corruption by Indiana's Democratic Party and its administration of the State. "It is safe to say that there is not much in the State Treasurer's head when he shakes..... More
[1] page, twenty lines of manuscript. Reinforced and spotted at inner edge, else Very Good. Born in New Haven, Ingersoll attended Yale and practiced law in New Haven. He became Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives and then was elected to Congress in 1824 as a Democrat. He served..... More
Boston: Printed by William S. Damrell, 1844. 24pp, Disbound. Light tan, Good+. A rare item, authorship unattributed, examining the boom-bust cycle through which the American economy has just passed, with emphasis on the widespread issuance of paper obligations which have flooded the marketplace. The author insists upon the moral and..... More
Philadelphia: Collins, 1846. Rubberstamp of the newspaper publisher James Gordon Bennett. Disbound, 16pp, light tanning Very Good Jack criticises the Court's holding that the Bank of Kentucky had the power to make the Schuylkill Bank its agent for the transfer of the Kentucky Bank's stock, the issuance of which resulted..... More
New York: H.R. Robinson, [1837]. Oblong 13-1/2" x 21". Light dusting, a couple of closed tears and shallow extremity chips to blank margins. Else Very Good. The Library of Congress entry: "A satire attributing the dire fiscal straits of the nation to Andrew Jackson's banking policies, with specific reference to..... More
Philadelphia: 1834. 15, [1 blank] pp. Stitched, untrimmed. Lightly foxed and worn [old horizontal folds], Good+. The "Great Meeting of the People" sought "relief from the present pecuniary distress" about a year into Jackson's second term. It blames the country's financial upheavals on his removal of the federal deposits and..... More
Philadelphia: 1832. 66pp. Plain brown front wrapper [spotted, light wear], lacks rear wrap, stitched. Tanned, scattered foxing. Bottom inside corner of last three leaves torn with loss of one letter from one page. Good. This attack, also printed in Washington during this year, on the constitutional legitimacy of Jackson's veto..... More
New York: Lith. & Pub. by H.R. Robinson, [1840]. Oblong broadside, 17-1/8" x 12-3/4." Mounted to a board. A few light fox spots, a couple of short closed tears laid down without loss. Blank verso with three mounting remnants and the ghost of a contemporary, macabre political broadside. Very Good..... More
[Washington: 1805]. 237, [1 blank] pp. Disbound and lightly foxed. Good+. More
[Harrisburg]: February, 1838. 7, [1 blank] pp. Folded folio leaf, partly uncut and untrimmed. Light wear, Very Good. Armstrong County is about fifty miles northeast of Pittsburgh. A lawyer and a future governor of Pennsylvania, Johnston explains in this rare pamphlet his opposition to the "untried experiment of the Sub-treasury,"..... More