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JAMES MONROE 5TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
by [Currier, Nathaniel?]
[np, nd]. An undated [but contemporary], unattributed lithograph half length portrait of a seated James Monroe, with his hands on documents resting on a table in front of him. Draperies and portion of a column in the background. Very Good. The Currier firm produced a similar item but this one, like the copy at the National Museum of American History, was issued without an imprint. National Museum of American History Catalog No. 60.3189.
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$450.00
THE WAR CANDIDATE ON A PEACE PLATFORM
by [Election of 1864]
New York: For Sale by the AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY, (Agents for the Publishers.) 121 Nassau St., 1864. Oblong broadside, 8" x 9-3/8." Couple of light fox spots, not affecting illustration. Very Good. The broadside mocks the dissonance in the Democrats' 1864 presidential campaign. Candidate McClellan's acceptance speech supported a continued War Effort; but his Party's platform called for an end to the War. McClellan, sitting backward on a jackass, says, "I am happy to say that -- the record of my public...
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$950.00
A SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF GEN. ZACHARY TAYLOR, THE PEOPLE'S CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY, WITH CONSIDERATIONS IN FAVOR OF HIS ELECTION
by [Election of 1848]
Augusta [GA]: Printed at the Office of the Chronicle and Sentinel, 1848. 32pp. Light toning and foxing. Frontis portrait of Taylor, with facsimile inscription, "Your obt Servt Z. Taylor." Good+ or better, in later quarter morocco and modern marbled paper over boards. No consulted source records this Georgia printing among the several issues of this item, with several variations in title. The Chronicle & Sentinel published at Augusta during the years 1837-1876. This Whig campaign document presents...
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$1,500.00
FREEDOM TO THE SLAVES. PROCLAIMED JANUARY 1ST. 1863, BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. "PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND UNTO ALL THE INHABITANTS THEREOF." LEV. XXV. 10
by [Lincoln, Abraham]
New York: Currier & Ives, 1865. Color print, 11-3/4" x 15-1/2" [by sight]. A black man, newly freed from slavery, kneels at Lincoln's feet, his shackles broken. He kisses Lincoln's hand. His wife and babies stand behind him. Lincoln's right arm is raised and pointing heavenward. Light uniform toning, but brightly colored. Two blank margin tears at lower right corner, one blank margin tear at upper left corner. Framed in wood [a few small dings] to overall size 16" x 20." Very Good. "This commemorative...
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CIRCULAR. TOWN OF NEWBURGH. AT A MEETING OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS OF THE TOWN OF NEWBURGH, HELD AT THE HOUSE OF WM. CLEARY, ON THE 24TH OF FEBRUARY, 1848, PURSUANT TO A CALL OF THE TOWN COMMITTEE..
by Democratic Republicans of the Town of Newburgh
[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 expressing concern at the divisive effects of slavery. They deplore "the efforts that are being made to destroy the old land-marks of party destinction [sic] and to form new political divisions." David Wilmot of Pennsylvania had introduced a bill [The 'Wilmot Proviso'] prohibiting slavery in the Territories acquired in the War with Mexico. The...
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$650.00
THE POLITICAL SITUATION
by Prentiss, Geo. L
New York: Printed by F. Somers, 1866. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 39pp + final blank. Shallow corner chips, Good+. Reprinted from the American Presbyterian Review for 1866, this pamphlet is a window on Reconstruction. Prentiss was intelligent and insightful, and brother of the renowned Mississippi lawyer Sargent Smith Prentiss. Before the War "the champions of slavery not only gained complete possession of political power and opinion at the South, but they succeeded in spreading their...
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$350.00
ADDRESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, TO THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA
by Democratic State Central Committee of Pennsylvania
[Harrisburg?, 1856. 14, [2 blanks] pp. Bound into modern plain wrappers, light foxing. Good+. This pamphlet was issued during the 1856 presidential campaign, urging election of Pennsylvania's favorite son, James Buchanan. Warning that the new Republican Party threatens the Union, the Committee argues, "Let a President of the United States be elected exclusively by the votes of one section, and on a principle of avowed hostility to the men, the measures, the domestic institutions, the feelings and the...
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OLD ZACK'S QUICK STEP. ARRANGED FROM THE POPULAR MELODY OF ROSA LEE
by White, Edward L
Boston [MA]: Published by Oliver Ditson, 115 Washington Street, 1848. 10" x 13". 2pp, folded. Caption title [as issued]. Disbound, split at fold with leaves detached. Minor dustsoiling, light foxing. Good or so. OCLC 35175734 [5].
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$30.00
THE CRISIS: ON THE ORIGIN AND CONSEQUENCES OF OUR POLITICAL DISSENSIONS. TO WHICH IS ANNEXED, THE LATE TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN. BY A CITIZEN OF VERMONT
by Vermont, A Citizen of
Albany: Hosford, 1815. Disbound. 96pp, lightly toned and foxed, a couple of closed tears [no loss]. Good+ or so. Fearful of "the spirit of party," which "for twenty-five years has raged in this country," the author battles these "seeds of dissolution of our republic." The problem is "this hopeless and ruinous war," which has brought with it a "formidable array of evils." The cause of the current distress is the Virginia Dynasty, which has captured the presidency and "persists in proscribing and...
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$375.00
THE OLD ROUGH AND READY ALMANAC. 1849
by [Taylor, Zachary]
Philadelphia and New York: Turner and Fisher, Publishers, 1848. Stitched in original printed and illustrated wrappers. [36] pp. Engraving frontis of Captain Drum's victory at the Battle of Contreras. Rear wrapper illustration of "The Skirmish Between a Mexican Guerilla Party and the United States Dragoons, at the National Bridge." Other illustrations profusely scattered throughout. Some blank margin chipping, untrimmed. Else Very Good. A scarce almanac, popular Mexican War history, and laudatory...
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$650.00
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS
by Van Buren, Martin
[Washington, 1837. Elephant folio broadside printed in seven columns. 18-1/2" x 24-1/2." Light foxing, light wear, Good+. Dated and signed in type at the end: "Washington 4th September, 1837. M. Van Buren." A rare broadside printing of Van Buren's Address, devoted entirely to the catastrophic Panic of 1837, which he calls "the revulsion through which we have just passed." Issues of bank failures, specie payments, the question of a National Bank and other political reforms are reviewed in the first six...
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$750.00
TWO SPEECHES, DELIVERED IN THE NEW-YORK STATE CONVENTION, SEPTEMBER, 1824, WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION
by [Clinton, De Witt]
New York: G.F. Hopkins, 1824. v, [6]-88 pp. Light margin spotting and occasional light inner margin wear, occasional tanning. Good+ or so, in modern cloth [bookplate on front pastedown, bit of lower spine discoloration]. Light numerical rubberstamp in blank margin of page [iii]. Political "cabals," "King Caucus," and Clinton's other enemies sought to deny him the gubernatorial nomination in 1824, with arguments and speeches "in language of pointed reprehension." Here, "the friends of Mr. Clinton"...
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$350.00
THE GREAT MATCH AT BALTIMORE, BETWEEN THE "ILLINOIS BANTAM," AND THE "OLD COCK" OF THE WHITE HOUSE
by [Democratic Party in 1860]
New York: Currier & Ives, 1860. Illustrated broadside, lithograph on wove paper. 17-1/2" x 13-1/4". Light toning at blank margins from prior matting, else Fine. The 1860 presidential nominating competition split the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern branches, paving the way for the election of Abraham Lincoln. Southern Democrats refused to support Stephen A. Douglas, the nominee at the Baltimore Convention. His Popular Sovereignty doctrine had rendered him anathema to Southerners and had...
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$3,000.00
FEDERALISM AND ITS ALLIES EXPOSED! IS HE A TRAITOR TO LIBERTY
by [Slavery] [Election of 1852]
[New London CT, 1852. Broadsheet, 8-3/8" x 16". Each side printed in two columns. The verso is headed, "THE LAST GUN! REV. S.W. COGGSHALL, WILL ADDRESS THE FREE DEMOCRACY AT BART'S HALL, THIS MONDAY EVENING." Bold and large type faces. Old folds and a few crimps which do not affect the text. Good+. A passionate, evidently unrecorded attack on traitors to the anti-slavery cause. John Van Buren, son of the President, has deserted the Liberty and Free Soil cause. He supports the dough-face Franklin Pierce...
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SKETCH OF THE ADDRESS OF HON. R.H. GILLET, OF WASHINGTON, D.C., AT THE MASS MEETING OF THE CITIZENS OF LEBANON, NEW YORK
by Gillet, Ransom H
Washington: Printed at the Union Office, 1856. 13, [3 blank] pp., [page 13 misnumbered as page 12]. Disbound, minor wear, Very Good. This scarce campaign pamphlet reviews the qualifications of the three 1856 presidential candidates-- Buchanan the Democrat, Fillmore the Know-Nothing, Fremont the Republican-- and pronounces for Buchanan, who "is ripe in years, and his character is without a blemish." He is eminently qualified by experience for the job. Fillmore always opposes democratic reforms, like...
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THE PEOPLE'S CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT. GRAND NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC BANNER. PRESS ONWARD
by Currier, Nathaniel [James K. Polk]
New York: Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier, 1844. Handcolored lithograph, 10" x 14". Light toning, brightly colored, Very Good. Attractive wood frame. "In the center of the banner are the portraits of presidential candidate James K. Polk and vice presidential candidate George M. Dallas both surrounded by decorative oval borders. Above Polk's portrait within the border are the words 'Polk the Young Hickory.' Above the portrait of Dallas within the border are the words 'Dallas and Victory.' Centered above the...
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$850.00
LETTER OF HON. WILEY P. HARRIS, TO COLONEL J.F.H. CLAIBORNE, OF MISSISSIPPI, ON FOREIGN IMMIGRATION, THE NATURALIZATION LAWS, AND THE SECRET ORDER OF KNOW-NOTHINGS
by Harris, Wiley P
[Washington: Office of the Congressional Globe, 1855. 8pp, disbound, caption title [as issued], printed in double columns. Some loosening and light foxing, else Very Good. The Mississippi Congressman makes his position crystal clear on the increasingly powerful American, or Know-Nothing Party, whose anti-Catholic, anti-immigration message attracted support from Whigs and Democrats. It would field its own presidential candidate, former president Millard Fillmore, in the upcoming presidential election....
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THE WHIG-ABOLITIONIST ATTACK! WHIGS AND ABOLITIONISTS AGAINST GENERAL PIERCE
by Election of 1852
[np., 1852. Disbound with some loosening, 8pp. Printed in double columns. Caption title [as issued]. Light tan and wear, Good+. An attempt to tar General Winfield Scott, the Whigs' 1852 presidential candidate, with abolitionism; and to promote Franklin Pierce, who by contrast is "devoted to the constitution, and defended the rights guarantied by that sacred instrument." The Whigs have pandered to the extreme abolitionists, the Liberty Party crew, and seek to "absorb the friends and followers of James...
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A SIGNED AND WITNESSED WAGER BETWEEN ROBERT H. WATKINS AND JACOB K. SWOOPE ON THE OUTCOME OF THE 1840 PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST BETWEEN INCUMBENT PRESIDENT MARTIN VAN BUREN AND WHIG CHALLENGER WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
by [Election of 1840]
[Courtland, Lawrence Cty., Alabama, 1840. Single page, 7-3/4" x 12-3/4." Entirely in ink manuscript. Dated June 20, 1840, and signed at the end by Watkins and Swoope, with Jno. J. McMahon as witness. Inner edge is irregular. Closed tear [no loss] repaired expertly at blank bottom margin. Very Good. This documents records the terms of a wager on the outcome of the 1840 presidential election. "Watkins betts Swoope Ten Bales Cotton of Best quality weighing Five Hundred Pounds Each, on each State in the...
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$750.00
AN APPEAL TO THE DEMOCRATS OF LUZERNE COUNTY
by Democratic Party in Pennsylvania
Luzerne County, 1847. Folio sheet printed on pale blue paper, folded to [4] pp. 8" x 10". [1], [3 blanks] pp, the last page addressed, with postal cancel and wax seal remnant, to four people in Plainsville PA [which is part of Luzerne County]: Samuel Saylor, Peter Winter, John Black, William Lobar. Their names are also written in ink on page [1]. Light wear, chip to final blank, Very Good. This evidently unrecorded Circular is a war cry mobilizing the Democratic troops for the upcoming State elections,...
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$450.00
THE CORRECTOR, OR, INDEPENDENT AMERICAN
by [New York Politics]
New York, 1816. Number 1. 45, [3 blanks] pp, disbound. Lightly tanned, Good+ or so. [offered with] THE CORRECTOR, OR, INDEPENDENT AMERICAN. NO. 2. New York: 1816. 50pp, stitched, untrimmed. Original printed wrappers [lightly worn and soiled]. Scattered spotting. Very Good. This scarce Democratic publication ended after the 1817 issue, its third. The first issue opens with an essay on the Fourth of July, noting, "It is not only astonishing, but really humiliating, to observe with what veneration a...
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NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY AND STATES' - RIGHTS COMPARED; WITH THE FATAL CONSEQUENCES OF BEING DISREGARDED
by Union, A Friend of the
[Washington, 1861. Folio sheet, folded to 7-3/4" x 9-5/8." [4] pp bifolium. Printed on first page only. Old folds, Very Good. The seceding States have acted "in contravention of all Delegated Powers of National Sovereignty, and in total disregard of the explicit negations of the same to the States." Nevertheless the author, an anonymous 'Friend of the Union', urges the President to proclaim "an Amnesty to all the People and Citizens within the limits of said Rebel States, or elsewhere, conditioned...
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$1,250.00
In The Arena
by Richard Nixon
1990 leather bound hardcover as pictured. Binding is firm. Gray boards with gold stamping and raised bands on spine are clean and show only slight shelf wear. Patterned endpapers. Owner's bookplate inside front cover. Gilt edge of text block, ribbon marker. Text clean and unmarked. would be as new aside from slight shelf wear. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR
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$18.00
CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY FOR THE SECOND SESSION OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. COMPILED AND PRINTED FOR THE USE OF CONGRESS
by [Congress]
Washington: Peter Force, Printer, 1841. 62, [6] pp, plus full-page diagram and folding diagram of Congressional chamber. Disbound, light foxing, Good+. This scarce Directory lists the "places of abode in Washington, of the members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: together with their post offices, counties and Congressional Districts." These were primarily boarding houses. For example, Congressman Millard Fillmore lived at Mrs. Pitman's on 3d Street; Senator James Buchanan lived at...
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NATIONAL CONVENTION OF UNION SOLDIERS AND SAILORS HELD AT COOPER INSTITUTE, NEW YORK CITY, JULY 4, 1868:- WITH THE ADDRESS OF GEN. THOMAS EWING JR. PREPARED PURSUANT TO A RESOLUTION OF THE CONVENTION - BY COL. JAMES A. O'BEIRNE SECY NAT. EX. COMMITTEE
by National Convention of Union Soldiers and Sailors
[New York, 1868. [1], 28, [6] manuscript leaves, 12-1/4" x 8",plus a 6-page manuscript telegram addressed to Thomas Ewing, plus a 16-page printed pamphlet [some blue crayon lines over text, but still legible]. Bound with a bit of rope; curled, outer leaves loose and chipped without loss of text. New York, 4 and 6 July 1868. Except as noted, Very Good. This 1868 Convention, whose proceedings were never published, was held at the time of the Democrats' New York Convention. These minutes are thus a...
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$3,500.00
