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[New York]. November 25, 1870. [3]pp. on a folded octavo sheet. Old folds. Very faint adhesive remains at left corners of first page. Near fine. A brief letter in which John Jacob Astor III modestly declines to join the board of directors of the Southern Transcontinental Railway Company. Astor writes.....
New York and Paris: Goupil & Co., 1856. Handcolored aquatint line and mezzotint engraving, 28 1/4 x 36 inches, on thick paper. Noticeable chips at three corners, small gouge at top right corner (all outside the plate mark and none of these affecting the image). Minor mat burn from earlier.....
New York: Goupil & Co., 1854. Mezzotint engraving by John Sartain, 23 3/4 x 30 1/2 inches (sight under mat). Minor surface wear near top edge. Excellent tonality. Very good. Matted and framed to 31 x 38 inches. A striking political scene from one of the greatest American Realist painters.....
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[Oakland. 1912]. Handbill, 9 x 6 inches. Tanned, small chips to top edge, glue and paper residue to blank verso. Good plus. A vitriolic political attack from the midst of Oakland, California's first ever recall election. The recall was initiated by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the.....
New York: Currier & Ives, 1864. Lithograph, 12 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches. Light foxing and edge wear. Very good. An uncommon Currier & Ives lithograph about Grant's siege of Richmond at the end of the Civil War, satirizing the presidential ambitions and courage of George McClellan and highlighting the.....
[N.p., likely Richmond. 1861]. Broadside, 6 1/4 x 4 inches. Light edge wear and minor spotting. Very good. A scarce Confederate election ticket for the state of Virginia. The handbill announces the candidacy of Jefferson Davis for president of the Confederate States, and Alexander Stephens for his vice president. It.....
[N.p., likely Richmond. Late 1861]. Broadside, matted to 7 x 11 inches, framed to 12 x 15 inches overall. Small marginal adhesive stain at top and bottom center, some wrinkling, small chip to lower right corner, contemporary ink signature in bottom margin. Very good. Matted and framed. An intriguing and.....
New York: Printed by Hopkins & Seymour, for Thomas S. Arden, 1805. vi,156pp. Contemporary paper boards, manuscript paper label. Spine largely perished, boards worn and dampstained. Ink ownership inscription, dated 1823, on front free endpaper; contemporary marginal annotation on p.[1]. Internally near fine. Overall very good. Untrimmed. After reviewing the.....
Washington City [D.C.]: Printed by Samuel Harrison Smith, November 8, 1808. [4]pp. Folio newspaper. Slightly tanned and foxed, subscriber's name written on titlepage. Very good. A significant issue of an important early Washington newspaper, and the earliest appearance of Jefferson's final State of the Union Address, printed the same day.....
Washington: William Duane & Son, 1805. 30pp. Gathered signatures, string-tied as issued. Light, even toning, titlepage and foredges of a few leaves a bit soiled. Ex-New-York Historical Society, with their small discreet ink stamps on the final two leaves. Overall very good. Untrimmed. A most important petition relative to the.....
[Boston: Various publishers, 1858-1888]. Forty-two party tickets, seven single-issue ballot slips, and one illustrated printer's advertisement. Most in very good condition with only old folds or short closed tears. A few with longer tears or splitting along folds, one ticket split completely along lower fold. Each piece dated on verso.....
[Boston. 1792]. 12pp. Dbd. Early ink inscription on title-leaf. Very good. A rare pair of handbills. The NUC and OCLC together locate only five copies of the two resolutions bound together with continuous pagination, as here. The document deals with the knotty question of creating districts for representatives from Massachusetts.....
[N.p., but likely Boston: Printed by Thomas Adams, February 15, 1793; June 30, 1792]. Two separate texts printed on one folio sheet, 13 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. Paper seal affixed to upper left corner. Original folds, minor edge wear. Near fine. An apparently unrecorded pair of election documents recording.....
[St. Louis?]: Published originally in the Missouri Republican, 1826. vi,[blank leaf],88pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Old stamp on titlepage and a few other pages. Overall very good, untrimmed. A rare compilation of eight articles, apparently printed in Missouri, mostly relating to the controversy surrounding the presidential.....
[Exeter, N.H. 1780]. Broadside, 12 x 8 inches. Soft creasing. Small tears at edges and a few small holes, not affecting text, and small tear along fold in text block, affecting three words. Contemporary manuscript inscription on verso: "Tryons Letter to Govr Trumbull / Trumbull [?]." Overall very good, untrimmed.....
[N.p., likely New York. 1884]. Broadside, 24 x 19 inches. Minor chipping and small closed tears to edges, otherwise in excellent condition. Very good plus. A scarce campaign broadside seeking to undermine 1884 Republican presidential nominee James G. Blaine's support among Irish- American voters by printing critical excerpts from THE.....
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[Winchester? 1863]. Broadside, 5 x 3 3/4 inches. Toned, minor soiling and wrinkling. Very good. An exceedingly rare Confederate Tennessee state election ticket from 1863, nominating Robert L. Caruthers for governor and eleven others as state senators. In 1863, state elections were due in Tennessee. The state was fractured by.....
Mexico City. May 23, 1835. [1]p., 9 1/4 x 8 inches, on a folded folio sheet, with integral blank. Old horizontal fold, mild edge wear. Near fine. A rare decree from a tumultuous time in the history of Mexican Texas, issued during the period when Santa Anna resigned his presidency.....
[Philadelphia. 1800]. 12pp. Dbd. Slight age-toning, else very good. A detailed report by a House committee responding to a Senate bill intended to resolve disputed elections of the president and vice president of the United States. Essentially rewriting the Senate's proposed version, this House version recommends the appointment of a......
New York: Ward & Gould, 1803. 118,[1]pp. Half title. Bound to style in antique half calf and marbled boards. Minor soiling. Very good. Unopened. Van Ness' pseudonymous work is a reply to James Cheetham's published attack on Aaron Burr for his activities in state politics and in the presidential election.....
[Various locations. 1888-1920]. Hundreds of magazine extracts, book and newspaper clippings, and citations, as well as forty-two pamphlets and ephemeral items. Housed in four cardstock folders, manuscript titles on front cover and spine, Hart's name and address stamped in ink on the front of each folder. Moderate wear. Creasing and.....
Madison: Beriah Brown, 1847. 506pp. 19th-century half sheep over boards, gilt leather labels. Upper hinge split (cords sound), contemporary inscription on top board. Internally very clean. A good copy. The convention to create Wisconsin's state constitution first assembled on October 5, 1846 and adjourned December 16, 1846. The printing of.....
