Miscellaneous Americana February 2023

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Item #67586 DEFENCE OF JUDGE DANIEL H. WHITNEY, Worshipful Master of Belvidere Lodge, No. 60....

DEFENCE OF JUDGE DANIEL H. WHITNEY, Worshipful Master of Belvidere Lodge, No. 60. Before the Grand Lodge of Illinois, October 1851. ON CHARGE OF UNMASONIC CONDUCT, IN BRINGING SAMUEL L. KEITH, the Murder of Elen Slade, and a member of his Lodge to Justice, with Judge Whitney's subsequent renunciation of Masonry.; Also Judge Whitney's Remarks on the Female Masonic Degrees and Stephen A. Hurlbut, as a Swindling Officer in the Union Army.

Chicago, Illinois: Ezra A. Cook, Publisher, 1900. 18 cm. [3], 4- 48pp. Printed orange paper wrappers. Chipping to edges. Printed on poor quality paper. Stamped "For sale by National Christian Association," on front wrapper and title page. OCLC lists a single copy each of the 1851 and 1852 editions, none..... More

Price: $85.00

Item #67595 EXPLANATION OF THE VIEWS OF THE SOCIETY FOR EMPLOYING THE POOR; with the Constitution...

EXPLANATION OF THE VIEWS OF THE SOCIETY FOR EMPLOYING THE POOR; with the Constitution and By-Laws; and an extract from the report of the managers, for the first three months, and a list of the subscribers' names.

Boston: np, July, 1820. 23 cm. [3], 4-14 pp. Contemporary plain blue paper wrappers, stitched. Old library stamp on front wrapper and title page. Small v-shaped chip to upper margin of title page, with no loss of text. Not in Kress. The committee included William Ellery Channing and Lewis Tappan..... More

Price: $100.00

Item #67565 EXPOSITION AND PROTEST, REPORTED BY THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF...

EXPOSITION AND PROTEST, REPORTED BY THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ON THE TARIFF; READ AND ORDERED TO BE PRINTED, Dec. 19th, 1828

Columbia, S.C. D.W. Sims, State Printer, 1829. Stitched sheets, untrimmed. 24.5 cm. [5]. 6-43pp. Protesting the "unconstitutionality and oppressive operation of the system of protecting duties...." OCLC: AAS, Columbia, Huntington, Boston Athenaeum, Boston Pub., Harvard, Off. of Commonwealth PA, VA Hist. Soc. More

Price: $275.00

Item #67560 ON THE COLLECTION OF REVENUE. Edward ATKINSON

ATKINSON, Edward

ON THE COLLECTION OF REVENUE

Boston: Published by A. Williams & Co., 100 Washington St. 1867. First edition. 22 cm. [5], 6-70pp. Disbound. An economist, inventor and activist, Atkinson was appalled by the colonialist and imperialist policies of the McKinley and Roosevelt administrations in the wake of the Spanish–American War and was a founder of..... More

Price: $125.00

Item #67562 RECORDS OF TRANSACTIONS FOR THE SUFFOLK BANK OF BOSTON, 1857 - 1858. Banking

[Banking]

RECORDS OF TRANSACTIONS FOR THE SUFFOLK BANK OF BOSTON, 1857 - 1858

Manuscript ledger for the Suffolk Bank, June 29, 1857 - Feb. 20, 1858. Contemporary leather backed marbled boards. 20 cm. 126 pp., near daily entries, with multiple items per page, in a legible hand. Entries are listed by date, giving the customer's name, and a record of the note they..... More

Price: $600.00

Item #67554 ORATION, IN HONOR OF THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT JEFFERSON, AND THE PEACEABLE...

BISHOP, Abraham

ORATION, IN HONOR OF THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT JEFFERSON, AND THE PEACEABLE ACQUISITION OF LOUISIANA, Delivered at the National Festival in Hartford, on the 11th of May, 1804

[New Haven]: Printed for the General Committee of Republicans. From Sidney's Press, 1804. Disbound. 21 cm. [3], 4-24pp. Previous owner's inscription at head of title page. Howes B472. More

Price: $150.00

Item #67597 CASE OF JOHN BRAHAN VS. YOUNG A. GRAY. Court Document, March 19, 1831. Interrogatory...

BRAHAN, John

CASE OF JOHN BRAHAN VS. YOUNG A. GRAY. Court Document, March 19, 1831. Interrogatory of a Witness.

[Fayetteville, Tennessee: 1831]. 31 cm. 4 pp., approx. 1000 words. Manuscript document, torn at fold no loss, browned. The case concerned a dispute over the worth of property as advertised in a land sale. The circuit court for the County of Lawrence, Alabama directed a commission to the Court house..... More

Price: $225.00

Item #67589 INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS ON INDEPENDENCE OF INTELLECT. Charles CALDWELL

CALDWELL, Charles

INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS ON INDEPENDENCE OF INTELLECT

Lexington, [KY]: Printed at the Office of the Kentucky Whig, 1825. First edition. 20.5 cm. [5], 6- 49pp. Disbound. Text browned and foxed. Jillson, Rare Kentucky Books, p. 73. Not in Austin. Caldwell declares that independent Americans should not be subject to intellectual vassalage, and gives examples in all fields..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #67564 THE HIERARCHICAL DESPOTISM. Third Lecture on the Mixture of Civil and Ecclesiastical...

CHEEVER, Rev. George B.

THE HIERARCHICAL DESPOTISM. Third Lecture on the Mixture of Civil and Ecclesiastical Power in the Governments of the Middle Ages. In Illustration of the Nature and Progress of Depotism in the Romish Church. [cover title]

New York: Published by Saxton & Miles, 205 Broadway. Boston: Saxton, Peirce & Co., 1844. 18.5 cm. [3], 122-190pp. Printed gray paper wrappers. Previous owner's name on half-title. OCLC: Yale, AAS, Bowdoin. More

Price: $100.00

Item #67568 ADDRESSES AND PROCEEDINGS AT THE WOODBURY SOLDIERS' RECEPTION, Held at the Town Hall,...

[Civil War]

ADDRESSES AND PROCEEDINGS AT THE WOODBURY SOLDIERS' RECEPTION, Held at the Town Hall, Woodbury, Wednesday Evening, August 16th, 1865: reported for and published as a supplement to Waterbury American [caption title]

[Waterbury, CT]: Waterbury American, 1865. Broadside. 49 x 33.5 cm. Printed in five columns. Old fold lines, splitting along the vertical fold, with loss of a few letters. A tender copy. Contains speeches to the returning soldiers by Rev. John Purves, P. M. Trowbridge, Wm. Cothren (at whose bunting-draped house..... More

Price: $250.00

Item #67593 AN ABSTRACT OF THE EVIDENCE LATELY TAKEN IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, Against the Orders...

[Commerce]

AN ABSTRACT OF THE EVIDENCE LATELY TAKEN IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, Against the Orders in Council, Being a Summary of the Facts There Proved, Respecting the Present State of the Commerce and Manufactures of the Country.

New York: Reprinted and Published by Wm. Elliot, at the Tontine Coffee House, 1812. First American edition. 23 cm. [5], 6-36 pp. Sewn, as issued, untrimmed. Two corners torn off (likely taking a signature), affecting two or three letters. Some wrinkling. Browned. Kress B.5950. Relative to the Non-Importation Act of..... More

Price: $125.00

Item #67574 TANNHAUSER; or, The Battle of the Bards, a Poem. Confederate Imprint, pseudonyms for...

[Confederate Imprint] TEMPLE, Neville, and Edward Trevor (pseudonyms for Julian H. C. Fane and Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton).

TANNHAUSER; or, The Battle of the Bards, a Poem

Mobile, (AL): S. H. Goetzel & Co., 33 Dauphin Street, 1863. First edition. Original printed tan stiff paper wrappers, stapled (some old staining and toning). 8vo. 125 pp. A book length poem. Contemporary ownership signature at head of title page. Text evenly browned, as usual, a very good copy. Parrish..... More

Price: $100.00

Item #67572 ELECTION, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6th, 1861. For President, Jefferson Davis, of...

[Confederate Imprint] [Virginia]

ELECTION, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6th, 1861. For President, Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi. For Vice-President, Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia. Electoral Ticket, for the State at Large...for Congress, Roger A. Pryor. [Caption title & partial text]

[Richmond, VA? np, 1861]. Small broadside, 16 x 10 cm., text within a typographical border. A few small stains in the margins. An original campaign broadside for Jefferson Davis for Confederate President and Alexander Stephens for Vice-President. It also lists the Electoral Ticket for all the Virginia district representatives, and..... More

Price: $850.00

Item #67605 THE MODERN: A FRAGMENT. Charles H. DIMMOCK

DIMMOCK, Charles H.

THE MODERN: A FRAGMENT

Richmond, [VA]: Published by J. W. Davies & Sons. Printed by L. J. Laughton, 1866. 22 cm. [7], 8-24pp. Original gray printed paperwraps soiled, chipping along spine. Verse on science and artistic taste, no mention of the recent war. Dimmock was a practicing lawyer. More

Price: $150.00

Item #67583 POLITICS FOR AMERICAN FARMERS; Being a Series of Tracts, Exhibiting the Blessings of...

[DUANE, William John]

POLITICS FOR AMERICAN FARMERS; Being a Series of Tracts, Exhibiting the Blessings of Free Government, as it is Administered in the United States, Compared with the Boasted Stupendous Fabric of British Monarchy; Originally written for, and published in the Aurora of Philadelphia, in the beginning of 1807

Washington City: Printed by R.C. Weightman for W. Duane, Philadelphia, 1807. 23 cm. 96pp. Disbound. Scattered foxing. Howes D519. Political Works of Concealed Authorship... Gaines 40. More

Price: $100.00

Item #67555 A HIGH CIVILIZATION THE MORAL DUTY OF GEORGIANS. A Discourse Delivered Before the...

ELLIOTT, Jr., Rev. Stephen

A HIGH CIVILIZATION THE MORAL DUTY OF GEORGIANS. A Discourse Delivered Before the Georgia Historical Society, on the Occasion of its Fifth Anniversary, on Monday, 12th February, 1844

Savannah: Published by a Resolution of the Society, 1844. Stitched sheets. 25 cm. [5], 6-21pp. Foxed. Covering the history of Georgia and touching on relationships with the Cherokees, including their removal from the state. DeRenne Vol.2 page 491. More

Price: $100.00

Item #67587 A SERMON, UPON THE WORD AMEN. Revelation, XXII. 21. Delivered in St. Michael's...

FOWLER, Andrew. Rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Edisto Island

A SERMON, UPON THE WORD AMEN. Revelation, XXII. 21. Delivered in St. Michael's Church, Charleston, Feb. 7th, 1813

Charleston, [SC]: Printed by D.J. Dowling N.W. Corner Church and Queen Streets, 1835. 22cm. 12 pp. Untrimmed sheets, with later unsophisticated stitching along spine edge. OCLC: Gen. Theog Sem, Harriet Beecher Stowe Ctr. Lib., Trinity, Emory, Harvard, Brown, College of Charleston, SC Hist. Lib., Univ. of SC, AAS, Huntington. More

Price: $150.00

Item #67573 THE OLD SOUTH. ADDRESSES DELIVERED BEFORE THE CONFEDERATE SURVIVORS' ASSOCIATION IN...

GORDON, John B. and Charles C. Jones Jr.

THE OLD SOUTH. ADDRESSES DELIVERED BEFORE THE CONFEDERATE SURVIVORS' ASSOCIATION IN AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, on the Occasion of its Ninth Annual Reunion, on Memorial Day, April 26th, 1887

Augusta, GA: Chronicle Publishing Company, 1887. 21.5 cm. [3]. 4-23pp. Original printed gray paper wrappers. Disbound. Inscribed by Charles C. Jones Jr. to Wm. Bayard? Inscription trimmed, small chip from wrapper loses part of inscription and signature. More

Price: $65.00

Item #67569 SPEECH OF ROBERT GOODLOE HARPER, ESQ. AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE RECENT TRIUMPHS OF...

HARPER, Robert Goodloe

SPEECH OF ROBERT GOODLOE HARPER, ESQ. AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE RECENT TRIUMPHS OF THE CAUSE OF MANKIND, IN GERMANY; Delivered at Annapolis, January 20, 1814, at the request of the Committee of Arrangements for the Festival, and published by their order.

Alexandria, [VA]: Printed by S. Snowden and J.D. Simms, [1814]. 20.5 cm. [3], 4- 68pp. Disbound, chipping to margins no text loss. On Napoleon and other interactions of U.S. with foreign nations. More

Price: $45.00

Item #67581 OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE, ADDRESSED TO HIS...

HARPER, Robert Goodloe.

OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE, ADDRESSED TO HIS CONSTITUENTS, IN MAY 1797.

London: Philadelphia printed. London: reprinted, by direction of the editor, at the Philanthropic Press, London-Road, St. George’s Fields; and sold by Stockdale, Debrett, and Wright, Piccadilly; Hookham and Carpenter, Old Bond-Street; Egerton, Whitehall; Kearsley, Fleet-street; Vernor and Hood, Poultry; and Richardson, Royal-Exchange, 1798. Second edition (printed in Philadelphia and London..... More

Price: $75.00

Item #67601 REMARKS UPON THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES, Being an Examination of the Report of the...

[HENSHAW, David]

REMARKS UPON THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES, Being an Examination of the Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, Made to Congress, April, 1830. By a Merchant

Boston: Printed by True and Greene, February, 1831. 22cm. [3], 4- 47 pp. Disbound. Kress C.2829. David Henshaw (1791-1852) was a Massachusetts politician, editor and capitalist. More

Price: $45.00

Item #67598 A RETALIATION: Containing Some Strictures, on Doctor Parish's Infamous Sermon;...

HILLARD, Isaac

A RETALIATION: Containing Some Strictures, on Doctor Parish's Infamous Sermon; Preached Last May to the General Assembly Convened at Boston

Somers Village, N.Y: Printed for the Author, 1810. 21.5 cm. [3], 4- 36 pp. Disbound. Untrimmed, one signature loose, some (ink?) speckling on title page. Hillard objects to Parish's sermon for its deliverance before the Massachusetts General Assembly as it is supportive of England, and anti-Catholic. Hillard points out that..... More

Price: $150.00

Item #67604 ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE CITY AUTHORITIES AT BOSTON, on the Eighty-Seventh...

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell

ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE CITY AUTHORITIES AT BOSTON, on the Eighty-Seventh Anniversary of the National Independence of America

Philadelphia: Printed for Gratuitous Distribution, 1863. 22 cm. [3], 30pp. Remnants of grey paper along spine, lacks the original yellow or buff wrappers according to BAL 8826. Several earlier Boston printings. Holmes oration, reflecting on the American Revolution, also focuses on the causes of the new conflict the country found..... More

Price: $35.00

Item #67607 ORDER OF EXERCISES. Howe Family Gathering at Harmony Grove, South Framingham, [Mass.]...

(HOWE, Julia Ward)

ORDER OF EXERCISES. Howe Family Gathering at Harmony Grove, South Framingham, [Mass.] August 31, 1871. [Caption title]

Boston: C.T. Evans & Son, Printers, 106 Washington St. [1871]. First edition. Single sheet, folded to 28 x 23 cm., [4] pp. Old folds, one small hole. For the program of events Julia Ward Howe offered a song and an address. Her song is printed with music on p. [2]..... More

Price: $450.00

Item #67592 AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE, at Chatham-Street Chapel in the...

KENNEDY, John P.

AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE, at Chatham-Street Chapel in the City of New York, October 17, 1833

New York: George F. Hopkins & Son, No. 44 Nassau Street, 1833. 22.5 cm. [5], 6-34pp. Printed original blue paper wrappers, stitched. Kennedy characteristically advocates protectionism to promote the domestic industry. BAL 11042A. Not in Kress. More

Price: $125.00

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