New Orleans: Clark & Hofeline, 1881. 64pp. 16mo. Original pebbled cloth, printed label on front board. Cloth rubbed and stained, the label chipped at the edges. Contemporary printed advertisements mounted to pastedowns, contemporary manuscript notes on rear free endpaper. Presentation inscription on verso of front free endpaper (see below). Titlepage.....
Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong, 1812. vi,275pp. Contemporary calf. Boards detached, corners heavily worn. Lightly tanned. Good. A collection of sermons targeted specifically at sailors, including such topics as "The Guilt of Profane Cursing and Swearing," and "Fleshly Lusts Defined and Shown to Be Inexcusable."
Cincinnati: The American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1855. 117pp. plus two-page woodcut frontispiece. 12mo. Modern brown cloth, paper label. Old institutional stamp on titlepage. Moderate foxing. Very good. Much later edition of this significant anti-Slavery publication, after the first of 1791. The work provides a synopsis of the evidence.....
Cambridge, Ma. 1905. 46pp. Original printed wrappers, slightly frayed at edge of front wrapper, else fine. Presentation copy to Harvard professor Charles Eliot Norton,this essay is a critical review of Rhodes' history covering the Civil War between the months of December, 1864 and August, 1866, and was reprinted from The.....
Boston. 1814. viii,31pp. Dbd. Some light foxing and tanning. Overall very good. This pamphlet relates to a controversy that ensued over the schoolbook abridgment of Adams' A SUMMARY HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND (1799), which Jedediah Morse had anticipated by producing his own school history. Adams, whose eyesight was failing, felt.....
Boston. 1814. viii,31; 4; 42pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. Lacks wrappers. Leaves a bit tanned. Pinhole to lower margin barely affecting a few letters. Else very good. An interesting set of tracts relating to a controversy that ensued over the schoolbook abridgment of Adams's A SUMMARY HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND (1799).....
Washington. 1896. pp.17-23. Modern half cloth and marbled boards, leather label, original printed wrappers bound in. Near fine. Scarce separate printing of one of Adams' most famous essays, written while president of the American Historical Association. His search for a "science of history" is much in evidence here, more so.....
Washington: Printed by Davis and Force, 1822. 256,3pp. Original tan and blue paper boards, printed paper label, expertly rebacked retaining most of the original paper backstrip. Label a bit chipped, corners bumped, early manuscript title on front board. Contemporary presentation inscription on front free endpaper, contemporary ownership inscriptions on titlepage.....
Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1841. 12,8pp. Dbd. Foremargin trimmed a bit close, barely shaving a few words on three leaves. Adams adds his opinion to a complicated and celebrated case of international law which resulted from the Canadian Rebellion of 1837. According to McDade, "In 1837 an attempted.....
Boston. 1840. 30pp. Dbd. Slight dampstaining. Else quite good. Adams opposes a motion by Mr. Rhett to strike out the enacting clause of the bill, masterly citing the Constitution to counter Rhett.
Boston. 1829. 80pp. Contemporary plain wrapper. Wrap bit chipped at spine, light scattered foxing. Good. Prints correspondence originally published in the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER wherein Adams accused certain but unnamed citizens of Massachusetts of engaging in a design to dissolve the union, a response of some Massachusetts citizens, and Adams' reply.....
Chambersburg, Pa. Thursday, Dec. 6, 1827. Broadside, 15 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches, printed in six- column format. Folded, wear at folds with some slight loss of text, foxed, a couple stains. A serviceable copy. Prints the President's Message to the Senate and House of Dec. 4, 1827, addressing the.....
Albany. 1828. 30pp. Dbd. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage, offsetting from contemporary ink annotations on titlepage and final leaf. Light dampstaining from gutter margin, light tanning and foxing. Good plus. A scarce attack on Adams by supporters of Andrew Jackson, his rival in the presidential election of 1828. At the.....
[Baltimore]. 1827. 24pp. Dbd. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Some tanning and foxing. Good plus. A tract seeking to generate support around the candidacy of John Quincy Adams in the 1828 presidential election, published by the pro-Adams convention met in Maryland in 1827. The address principally defends Adams against the.....
Washington. 1834. 43pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. Foxed, some minor marginal dampstaining, titlepage dust soiled. A decent copy. Adams speaks against the President's use of monies taken from Massachusetts banks, calling the action a usurpation of legislative power.
[Philadelphia. 1798]. 72pp. Dbd. Titlepage tanned and chipped, with old tape residue on inner margin of titlepage, rough. Else clean. Overall just about good, untrimmed. The American reply in the famous XYZ affair, in which the French attempted to extort bribes from the American commissioners. Adams herein transmits dispatch No.....
Washington. 1800. 3pp. Dbd. Very good. Table noting that there were no expenditures on this special account for the contingent expenses of government.
Philadelphia. 1798. 41pp. Dbd. A bit tanned. Old faded stamp on upper right corner of titlepage. Otherwise quite good. Addison, a supporter of the recently enacted Sedition Act of 1798, writes about the impending war with France. He was a consistent ultra-Federalist and hater of the French Revolution.
Paris. 1850. 3pp. Plain wrappers. A very good copy, in modern folder. An extract from COMPTES RENDUS DES SEANCES DE L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES, TOME XXXI. A rare separately printed piece about a balloon trip taken by Bixio et Barral, presumably in France.
Middletown: C.H. Pelton, 1837. 32pp. Dbd. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good. A declaration of sentiments expressed by the Anti-Slavery Society of Meriden, Connecticut to their fellow citizens, expressing their views on slavery and abolition in the hope of persuading their fellows to feel likewise. This second edition was published.....
Philadelphia. 1821. 58pp. Dbd. Gatherings loose. Trimmed a bit closely, affecting some text. Lightly foxed. Good. The American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race brought together several regional and state organizations under a national umbrella group. The group was founded in.....
Philadelphia: Printed by Kite & Walton, 1849. 44pp. Original plain rear wrapper, stitched (front wrapper missing). Spine perished, rear wrapper soiled. Ex-Historical Society of Pennsylvania, with their ink stamp on the second leaf and five-digit number on the titlepage. Light soiling and foxing, particularly to outer leaves, otherwise quite clean.....
Philadelphia: Reprinted by Order of the Board of Education, 1859. 24pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers slightly soiled, chipping at extremities. Internally clean. A very good copy. The rare, expanded second edition of Benjamin Bacon's important 1856 survey, featuring additional statistics and analysis regarding incarceration rates. Conducted and published by order.....
Philadelphia: Merrihew & Son, 1866. 27pp. Original printed wrappers. Rear wrapper detached but present; wrappers lightly soiled, minor chipping. Soft vertical crease throughout, interior evenly tanned but otherwise clean. About very good. One of two apparently simultaneous editions of this forceful argument against segregation in Philadelphia in the early days.....
[New York: Readers and Writers Club of America], 1937. 11,[1]pp. Original printed self-wrappers, stapled. Light wear, soiling, and uneven tanning to wrappers, some rust residue from staples. Soft vertical fold throughout with very short fold separations at bottom edge. Internally quite clean. Very good. Only the third known copy of.....
