Cambridge, [MA]: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1893. First edition. Large paper copy. No. 160 of 250 copies. Two volumes. 22 cm. frontis. portrait, vi, 387 pp., folding map in pocket (a few separations at folds); frontis. portrait, vi, 373 pp. White cloth spine with gray paper boards. Paper labels..... More
NP: np, 1864. Broadside, 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 in., printed in two columns. Some toning and scattered foxing and uneven edges with shallow chipping, not affecting text. The platforms of the Union (Democratic) Party and the Republicans for what would become Lincoln's re-election. Some of the resolutions in his..... More
New York: Smith & Jenkins; printed by F. Michelin, 1853. Hand-colored lithograph, 20 x 13 inches. Features the statue of Jackson in military uniform on his rearing horse, tipping his hat, with a crowd of well-dressed people taking in the scene, city buildings in the background. The image was printed..... More
New York, [NY]: R. Worthington, 770 Broadway, 1884. First edition. 22cm. [viii], [1], p.8, - 331pp. Original red cloth, paper spine label (rubbed). Spine ends and corners worn, cloth moderately soiled and flecked. Prev. owner's name on a sticker on front endpaper. The author a lawyer states the design of..... More
NP [New York?]: Journal Office, November 7, 1811. Broadside, 45 x 28 cm., text printed in three columns. Signed in type by James Madison, Washington, Nov. 5, 1811. Paper toned, old fold lines, with rubbing and a few small holes along the folds, some shallow chipping to edges of the..... More
Washington City: Roger C. Weightman, 1813. Disbound pamphlet. 8vo.; 16pp. Madison's assessment of the events of the war. Foxing throughout. More
Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jr., 1839. First edition. 8vo. x, 216pp. Facsimile letter. Publishers brown cloth, edgeworn and soiled. Hand done paper spine label chipped. Part one only (all that was published) of Mayo's work, which is a "virulent attack on Jackson's administration." --Howes M454. More
[Princeton, NJ]: Princeton Univ. Pr. (c1976). . First edition. 8vo. xv, 462 pp. Maps, tables. The story of Lilburne and Isham Lewis, accused of murder in Kentucky in 1811. Very good. Charcoal cloth, decorated dust jacket. (10830). More
Fort Laramie, WT: 1882. 4to. Three pages, approximately 275 words, in part: "There is not to my mind, outside of Divine Writ, so convincing an evidence of the immortality of the soul, as is furnished by the growth and development of the mind and character of this greatest of American..... More
NY: The Free Press, (c1977). First edition. 8vo. xii, (2), 319 pp. Illustrated from old art, portraits, title pages, a plan, plates. “Jefferson opposed slavery his whole life, yet he never freed his slaves.” Black cloth, decorated dust jacket (rubbed). Very good. More
Washington, DC: 1823. Partly printed document on vellum, 9 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches, countersigned by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, George Graham (1772-1830; acting Secretary of War, 1816-1817, Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1823-1830), seal attached. A little soiled, but very good. Folded. (7224). More
(Washington City: 1818). 4to. Three-pages, approximately 600 words; the Monroe response approximately 80 words (in full below). Folded for mailing; otherwise fine in all respects. Lt. Jones, a Naval officer, prefaces his case with a reminder to President Monroe that they had met in July when Jones reported on "the..... More
New-York: 1804. First edition. Disbound pamphlet. 8vo. 32 pp. Published anonymously but authored by Clement Moore (also author of "Twas the Night Before Christmas"). Sabin 50336. American Imprints 6812. Haynes 12477. Howes R416 wrongly states the author as Nicholas Rogers. Gaines 342. Streeter sale 1722: "Moore's animadversions on the Notes..... More
[New York: Rode & Brand, ca.1915]. Later edition. 25cm. 42 pp. Frontis. portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and two other portrait plates. Limp leather over paper boards, gilt stamped title on front cover, with gilt stamp "Compliments of Wm. A. Pinkerton, Allan Pinkerton" in lower left corner. Leather worn through on..... More
Washington, DC: The newspaper (edited by Theophilus Fiske and Jesse E. Dow), December 13, 1845. Vol. 1, No. 23 [this issue only]. 8vo. [353]-368 pp. [printed double-column]. Polk's first Annual Message to Congress covers pp. [353]-367 of this issue of the newspaper, preceded by short reports on the opening two..... More
New York: Lith & Pub by N Currier, 2 Spruce St., NY, nd [late 1840s]. Color lithograph portrait of James K. Polk framed by a bold rule, 11 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches on a larger sheet, 14 x 10 inches, the president seated in his office, a government building..... More
![Item #49824 James K. Polk. Nominated for Eleventh President of the United States. [and] George M....](/pictures/thumb/49824.jpg?v=1640730248)
NY: Lith. & Pub. By N. Currier, nd [1844]. Two-color lithographic portraits, 14 1/4 x 10 inches. Portrays the candidates victorious in the 1844 campaign for the United States presidency, both waist-length portraits of the men in formal attire. Removed from frames, browned, some edgewear. Good copies. For the pair..... More
Washington [DC]: Government Printing Office, 1871, 1869, and 1867. Each directory a second edition. 8vo. 3 volumes: 128, 116; 81 pp. Extra illustrated with 16 original mounted photographs (six portraits and 10 architectural images of Washington buildings), all about 6 x 4 inches, including three signed photographs of President Ulysses..... More
![Item #60960 FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS. [Second Session] CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY compiled for the use...](/pictures/thumb/60960.jpg?v=1652038694)
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875. Octavo. Frontis. (iv), 5 -158pp., folded map of Washington, D.C.. Burgundy cloth faded. Front cover title stamped in gilt, including owner's name Hannibal Hamlin (Lincoln's first Vice-President), also bears his bookstamp on front pastedown. More
![Item #60173 HISTORY OF THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF 1844. [manuscript cover title on a paper label]....](/pictures/thumb/60173.jpg?v=1611894643)
Bound volume of newspapers. Double-folio, 79 issues, plus one prospectus, and two extras, approximately 440 pages, representing the “Albany Argus (Daily, Semi-Weekly, and Weekly),” “The Sober Second Thought, for the Presidential Campaign of 1844,” “Clay Tribune,” “New-York Weekly Tribune,” and the “Freeman’s Journal.” The newspapers represented different sides of the..... More
[Washington, DC: Mathew Brady or an assistant], nd. [ca. 1890]. For a similar photograph, see plate 411 in Mathew Brady, Historian with a Camera by James Horan (NY, 1955). "Copyright Secured" in image, slightly faded in places, but very good. More
Fine. The photograph, 8 x 10 inches, is accompanied by Mrs. Reagan's printed card of presentation and White House envelopes for both the card and the photograph. Hewitt (1931-2003) had a long career in Washington, DC, first as a speech writer for John F. Kennedy and an assistant to U.N...... More
Paris and Monticello, VA: Henri Lefebvre and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1947. First edition, 1/500 copies. 4to. 25 pp. Illustrated, plates, plans, elevations, portraits. Text in English and French. Shuffelton Thomas Jefferson … Writings about Him 1826-1980, 1019: "Bi-lingual description with drawings and engravings of Jefferson's residence for most..... More
![Item #63114 Who'll Have the Specie? [printed title below image]. Henry R. Robinson](/pictures/thumb/63114.jpg?v=1640121495)
New York: Printed & Publd. by H. R. Robinson, 1837. First edition. Hand-colored lithograph, 12 x 17 7/8 inches (image size: 10 x 14 3/4 inches). President Van Buren (presented as a monkey) taunts British Prime Minister Lord Woodbury (a bulldog chained to his dog house) while French King Louis..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, the Riverside Press Cambridge, 1921. First edition. 8vo. xlvii, 295pp. Burgundy cloth, gilt stamped spine. Some edgewear. else very good. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. More
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