[Boston: 1848]. 31, [1]pp. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched, outer leaves loose. Light wear, Very Good. This pamphlet reflects the alarm of anti-slavery Whigs at the possibility of Taylor's nomination. A Louisiana slaveholder and political cipher, he would surely oppose the Wilmot Proviso barring slavery from the conquered Mexican Cession..... More
Wilcox County, Alabama: 1859. Folio, 15-1/2" x 12-1/2", folded to 7-3/4" x 12-1/2". Completely in manuscript on blue paper with lined columns. A full accounting: credits on the left side of the ledger sheet, debits on the right. Docketed on verso: "Estate of Levi H. Seltzer, Dec'd, Acct. Current, Partial..... More
Reading, PA: Von Carl Friederich Egelmann, [1848]. 32pp. Stitched. Original printed wrappers [margin-chipped, dustsoiled]. Front wrapper with black and white illustration. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Light uniform tanning, scattered foxing. Some chipping and wear to edges. Pencil and ink markings in margins throughout text. Good. Printed in German..... More
[Sacramento, CA: O.M. Clayes, State Printer, 1866]. 6, [2 blank] pp, disbound, paper tape added to spine. Light age toning, else quite clean. Very Good. Beginning in early 1849, American citizens began squatting on lands located in Amador, Sacramento, and San Joaquin counties. In 1856, settlers learned of an..... More
[New York & San Diego: International Land Company of Mexico, 1887]. Elephant folio sheet, uncut, folded to 24 panels. Illustrations. Folds expertly reinforced with archival tape, affecting a couple of letters; lightly toned. Else Very Good. Housed in an attractive morocco box with gilt-lettered spine title. An interesting promotional by..... More
[Washington: Buell & Blanchard, 1850]. 8pp. Caption title [as issued]. Printed in double columns. Folded, untrimmed, and uncut. Very Good. Sabin 5637. Dumond 28. More
[Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1848]. Caption title [as issued], 8pp, printed in double columns. Disbound, Very Good. A St. Louis lawyer and Democrat, Bowlin blasts the Whigs on a variety of issues: "the financial condition of the country-- a condition brought about by the corruption of their..... More
30th Cong., 1st Sess. HR817. 1848. 39pp, dbd, scattered foxing. Good+. On claims arising from Fremont's military operations in California. More
Printed 1850-1859. The bindings are generally tight, with some inner hinges reinforced. Binding styles and paginations vary: some legal buckram, others sheep; some with morocco spine labels, others issued without spine labels. Several volumes include folding tables. The majority have the usual institutional marks, which are rarely obtrusive. Occasional text..... More
46th Cong., 3d Sess. HR29. 1880. 54pp, dbd, light wear. Very Good. More
California: B.B. Redding. [, 1855]. 24pp. Disbound. Light foxing, light stains in bottom margins. Good+. 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..... More
[Washington: Congressional Globe Office, 1850]. 15, [1 blank] pp, disbound, printed in double columns. Scattered spotting, else Good+. More
[Washington: Congressional Globe Office, 1850]. 16pp, disbound, first and last leaves are loose, printed in double columns. Light scattered foxing, some old paper clip stains in margins. Bottom edge of some pages trimmed a bit closely [no text loss]. Good+. More
Washington: 1878. 20pp, stitched. Light foxing and wear, Very Good. More
Van Buren [Arkansas]: June 12, 1847. Elephant folio sheet, folded to [4] pp. Each page 17-1/2" x 24", and printed in six columns. Some spotting. Complete, Good+. This weekly began publishing January 22, 1842, and ceased in September 1859. It became a Democratic Party organ, espousing the pro-slavery position under..... More
[Washington: 1848]. 16pp, disbound, caption title (as issued). Some blank margin-chipping, Good+. Clayton of Delaware defends the Whigs' nomination of political cypher Taylor for President. He is "a Whig, but not an ultra Whig." Sabin 13576n. More
Washington: 1839-1851. A bound volume of forty-two speeches and reports, each a separate imprint, delivered almost entirely in Congress by Representatives and Senators, on the array of issues facing the national government during the decade of the 1840s. Bound together in half sheep and marbled boards, lightly rubbed, with a...... More
[Washington]: J.& G.S. Gideon, Printers, 1847. 15, [1 blank] pp. Caption title [as issued]. Disbound, partly uncut. Light scattered foxing. Small child's pencil drawing of soldier on last blank page, else Very Good. Sabin 17871. More
Philadelphia: 1849. 29pp. Original printed front wrapper. Disbound and lacking the rear wrapper, else Very Good. Inscribed on the front wrapper to "Col. Page with Wm. W. Chew's respects". Dallas's printed Letter is addressed in type, at the bottom of page 29, to William White Chew of Germantown. Polk's Vice..... More
[Newburgh, N.Y. 1848]. Broadside, 6 1/2" x 12". Printed in two columns. Several old horizontal folds, Very Good. The Town Committee presents nine Resolutions. These express concern at the divisive effects of slavery, deploring "the efforts that are being made to destroy the old land-marks of party destinction [sic] and..... More
Washington: Printed by J.& G. Gideon, 1847. 16pp. Disbound. Light scattered foxing. Very Good. Sabin 20368n. More
Mexico: Impreso por Santiago Perez, Calle del Angel, numero 2, 1839. 23, [1 blank] pp, disbound. Light tanning, light scattered foxing. Good+ to Very Good. OCLC 13975454 [3] [as of October, 2014]. More
[np: 1848]. 16pp, caption title [as issued]. Tanned, several leaves trimmed closely at the fore-edge, with slight loss. Good. A rare 1848 campaign pamphlet, attacking Taylor and sketching the biography of Lewis Cass, a man "of the highest order of talent" who has filled "almost every grade of office, from..... More
[Washington]: Published Under Authority of the National and Jackson Democratic Association Committee, [1848]. 16pp, untrimmed and folded, blank top edge chipped. Toned. Good+ or so. Stewart, a Whig, had charged that Cass, the Democrats' 1848 presidential nominee, had picked the taxpayers' pockets while Governor of the Michigan Territory and..... More