(Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railway Company)

Circular. To the Bondholders and Stockholders of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railway Company

(New York), n.p. 1864. First edition. Self wrappers. 7 pp. 8vo. Proposed bond issue, letters, telegrams, and court documents pertaining to lease agreement with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway (1862) was the reoganized Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail Road which failed in 1859 and was sold at foreclosure on October 24, 1861. Very good, light browning to edges.

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Keywords: Transportation, Economics & Finance, , Americana, Transportation, Economics & Finance, Pennsylania railroad Railroads, Pamphlet

[New Hampshire. Election of 1810]

[Manuscript Document Signed] Letter of Election Results of Concord Nh for the 13th Congress, Addressed to Samuel Spanhawk, Secretary of State Nh

Concord [NH], 1810. 1 sheet. 8 x 12.5 inches. Election Results from Concord, New Hampshire, for the Representatives of the 13th Congress, 1810, a true copy from the record attested to by John Odlin and signed by the three Selectmen of Concord, Nathaniel Abbot, Edmond Leavitt, and Therburn Wiggin. Addressed to Samuel Sparhawk, Secretary of State for New Hampshire. The most votes went to the incumbent, Daniel Blaisdell, but he lost statewide to Josiah Bartlett Jr. and Samuel Dinsmoor, who had come in 7th and 6th respectively in Concord. Votes returns are uncommon. We have located only one other similar item, the 1823 vote return from New Castle, N.H, in the Library of Congress. Very good, old tape repair to chip where seal was opened affecting one word, edges lightly browned, small tears along margins and folds.

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Book number: 44269

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Railroad Strike or Federal Inquiry? Public and Press Demand Peaceful Settlement of Railway Wage Controversy by the Interstate Commerce Commission or by Arbitration

n.p. n.p. 1916. Center stapled green paper wrappers. 32 pp. 8vo. Propaganda pamphlet with reprints of editorials from July 1916 in support of the Railroads against the Brotherhood of Train Service Employees. Good+ or better with wrappers a bit soiled and edges with a few tiny nicks and chips; crease to rear wrapper, otherwise quite clean. Uncommon.

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Book number: 14948

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Keywords: Transportation, , Americana, Transportation, Labor, Transportation, Railroads, Strikes, Interstate Commerce Commission, Unions,

[War of 1812]

Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on So Much of the President's Message As Relates to the Finances of the United States. October 10, 1814. Read and Referred to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday Next

Washington [D.C.], Printed by Roger C. Weightman, 1814. First edition. Removed. 8 pp. 8vo. Contains an estimate of the amount of the proposed 50 per cent tax increase and of the new duties in order to offset the cost of the war. Line items in addition to direct taxes, distilled spirits, tobacco, leather, lotteries and more, all of which would amount to additional revenue of an extra $10 million for 1815. American Imprints 33437. A very good copy, dampstain on top edge, light soiling on margins.

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[Election of 1888]

The Temple of Justice a Sink of Injustice.

n.p. n.p. 1888. First edition. Self wrappers. 4 pp. 8vo. First section title reads "Exorbitant Charge of Special Counsel in Bell Telephone Case - $75 per day - $100 while Sleeping en Route to Cincinnati." Goes on to accuse the Department of Justice of rights violations and cronyism. "The Citizen and his rights trampled upon in every direction through processes of law." Extensively quotes Samuel Jackson Randall (1828-1890), Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania whose power was waning at the time. OCLC locates only two copies: Library of Michigan and the Wisconsin Historical Society. A very good copy.

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Book number: 37352

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[Republican Party. Free Trade. Election of 1894]

[Three Pamphlets Issues by the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee on Free Trade]

[n.p.], [Hartman & Cadick?], 1894. First editions. Self wrappers. 8 pp. 8 pp. 8 pp. 8vo. The mid-term elections of 1884 were a disaster for the Democrats led by Grover Cleveland. Republicans and Populists, in large part due to the efforts of Joseph Weeks Babcock (1850-1909), a Republican Congressman from Wisconsin, who helped organize the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee in 1893 and was a major force in routing the Democrats in the 1894 House elections which cost the Democrats 113 of their 218 seats. They are most likely printed by Hartman & Cadick, Republican printers. All follow the same format of quoting leading figures and using bold face type. 1: [Caption title] "If the Laboring Class be to Perish, I Say, the Whole Nation." A the head of the title: [No. 1 - From the Congressional Record]. The caption title is from the English Reformer William Cobbett followed by "You cannot reduce the laborer to a state of starvation and degradation without also destroying national prosperity," a quote from Joseph Norton Dolph (1835-1897), Senator from Oregon, from one of his many speeches quoted here. OCLC locates only a single copy at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. A very good copy docketed on front wrapper, mail fold. 2: [Caption title] "The industrial side of the tariff controversy must not be overlooked. The four millions of people who work in our factory system are the most potent factors outside of agriculture in our civilization." - Hon. J. W. Babcock, Wisconsin. A the head of the title: [Record No. 3.]. Apparently unrecorded. We could find no copies in OCLC, NUC, or other reference sources. Chip to front wrapper else very good, with docketing stamp. 3: [Caption title] "When you Rob the Laboring Men of their Employment, you Rob the Farmers of their Customers." The quote from the caption title belongs to Charles Curtis (1860-1936), Republican from Kansas who would go on to become Hoover's Vice President. OCLC locates one copy at the Western Reserve Historical Society Library. A good copy, browned, some minor chipping, docketing stamp on front wrapper. Good to very good.

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Book number: 43553

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[Election of 1876]

Visitors Ticket for Congressional Vote Count in Bitterly Contested 1876 Presidential Election

1877. 3 x 4 3/4 inch card on mustard-colored stock. A rare ticket of admission for the congressional vote counting after the election of 1876. "Counting the Vote for President and Vice-President. Admit Bearer. To Gallery of the House of Representatives." # 732. February 19, 1877. Signed in facsimile by T[homas] W. Ferry, President pro tempore of the Senate, and Sam[uel] J. Randall, Speaker of the House. The highly disputed election between New York Governor Samuel J. Tilden, who won the popular vote, and led in the electoral count, and Republican nominee, Rutherford B. Hayes, led to a constitutional crisis. On the first count in the electoral college, Tilden had 184 electoral votes, Hayes 165, and 20 votes were disputed. Many of the disputes had to do with certification of the electoral votes. On January 29, 1877, the US Congress passed a law forming a 15 member Electoral Commission to settle the result, which led to the compromise of 1877 in which all 20 disputed votes were awarded to Hayes supposedly in exchange for troops being withdrawn from the South, and thus effectively ending Reconstruction. It should be noted that in the election of 2020 several Republican Senators mistakenly cited the bipartisan Electoral Commission of 1877 as a historical precedent for Congress to appoint an electoral commission to adjudicate the 2020 election despite the fact that there were no states in which the electoral vote was legitimately in dispute. and unlike 2021 there was no violence in the halls of Congress in the 1877. Cards were issued for various days and in different colors. The Library of Congress has one dated March 2, 1877 in blue. A very good copy, faint pencil rule to center.

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Book number: 45338

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Who's Who in State Politics 1910

Boston, Practical Politics, 1910. First printing. Limp Cloth. 310 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 24mo. Photographs and biographies of the Governor, Senate, and House Members (plus a few others) in Massachusetts in 1910. From the Library of Lynde Sullivan, a House Member from a prominent family (stretching back to before the revolutionary war and including a General, Governor, and Author among others). A very good copy with corners creased.

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Book number: 19988

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Seddon, James A. and Trenholm, G.A. Confederate States of America

Correspondence between the Secretaries of War and the Treasury, on the Subject of a Deficiency of Funds. Confederate States of America, War Department, Richmond, Va. , Dec. 29, 1864

Richmond, 1864. First edition. 1 leaf folded. 3 pp. 8vo. "I am satisfied that the discredit of the government has arisen, in a measure, from the delay that has been made in the liquidation of the pressing, urgent and meritorious claims. I am aware of the many strong considerations that induce the restriction of issue as far as practicable, but I venture to suggest, that the current itself probably suffers more discredit from the failure to meet the engagements of the government, than could result from inflation by the issue necessary to redeem them. You can scarcely realize to what extent.. [it] has been the occasion or excuse for desertion, marauding, sale of clothing and equipments, among soldiers," Seddon to Trenholm, 29 Dec. 1864; Secretary of the Treasury Trenholm's response is dated 31 Dec. 1864. Provenance: from the "Record Division, War Department, Rebel Archives" (rubber stamp). OCLC locates 11 copies. Not at AAS. Crandall: Confederate Imprints 1330. Parrish & Willingham 2315. A very good copy, faint rubber stamp mark on first page.

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Liebig, Gustav A. and Rohé, George H.

Practical Electricity in Medicine and Surgery

Philadelphia, F.A. Davis, 1890. First edition. Cloth. viii, 383, 32 pp. Illus. with 252 in-text b/w drawings and 6 photos. Sm. 4to. "In its heyday in the late Victorian era, electrotherapy was utilized for a myriad of neurological and psychiatric disorders. By exploiting the prestige of science and the numinous quality of technology, medical electricians translated the protean forces of nature into an emblem of medical modernity. Later on, however, the spread of urban networks of power and the introduction of electrical appliances into the home had lent an aura of mundanity to the speciality. The discovery of radiation and X-rays towards the turn of the century was a watershed in electrotherapy's disaggregation as other modalities of the electromagnetic spectrum began to be deployed in the physician's armentarium and electrotherapy began to be challenged by psychoanalysis in the treatment of shell shock in WW1," (John Senior, Electrotherapy - a case study in nineteenth- and twentieth-century science, technology and medicine, Oxford Univ. Course Notes). Cordesco claims the publication date was really 1900, not 1890 as stated on the title page. Cordesco 00-2170. A very good copy, wear at spine ends and joints, rear endpapers split at hinge, binding tight and leaves clean.

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Book number: 35220

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Abbott, John S.C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Lives of the Presidents of the United States of America, from Washington to the Present Time. Containing a Narrative of the Most Interesting Events in the Career of Each President; Thus Constituting a Graphic History of the United States

Boston, B.B. Russell & Co. 1868. Second printing. Cloth. 480 pp. Illus. with 7 steel engravings with tissue guards. 8vo. First published a year earlier in 1867. Rebacked in modern brown cloth, some soiling on boards, front hinge starting, light scattered foxing, faint dampstain to lower fore-edge, otherwise contents quite clean, good or better.

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Book number: 32744

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Abert, J.J. [John James]. Marcy, W.L.

Report of the Secretary of War, in Answer to a Resolution of the 18th December, in Relation to the Removal of the Raft in Red River, in Louisiana. December 29, 1845. Read, Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and Ordered to Be Printed

[Washington, D.C.], Ritchie & Heiss, printers, 1845. First edition. Removed. 13 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w drawing. 8vo. 29th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Doc. no. 26. Rfats were a contlinual problem for navigation. OCLC locates onlt 4 hard copies: Tulane, Historic New Orleans, LSU, NSU Louisiana. Inked numeral on title else a very good copy.

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[Whig Party]. Adams, Charles Francis

The Charles F. Adams Platform, or a Looking Glass for the Worthies of the Buffalo Convention

[Washington, D.C.], J. & G.S. Gideon, Printers, 1848. First edition. Self wrappers. 8 pp. (1 sheet folded). 8vo. An anti-Van Buren item by the Whigs, attacking former President and now Free Soil party candidate Martin Van Buren for his running on the Free Soil Platform after having been rejected twice by the Democrats. It is composed largely of the Charles Francis Adams' former criticisms of his now presidential running mate. Sabin 12029 (& 189). A very good unopened (uncut) and untrimmed copy, some soiling mainly at the edges.

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Adams, James Truslow, ed. [Nevins, Allan]

Dictionary of American History [Six Volumes]

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition. Blue cloth with gilt titles. xi, 444; 430; 432; 512; 515; 258 pp. Sm. 4to. R.V. Coleman, ed. Signed by Allan Nevins, one of the advisors, on the third volume. Allan Nevins would later title his biography of Adams: "James Truslow Adams: Historian of the American Dream". Provenance: Samuel Flagg Bemis (Yale historian and two time Pulitzer Prize winner), his blind stamp on title page of volume 1. A very good set, top edge dusty, some rubbing and blind stamp to title on volume 1, a few rear leaves roughly opened on index.

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Book number: 40812

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Adams, Alexander B.

The Disputed Lands

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1981. First edition. Cloth. 470 pp. 8vo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

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Book number: 37729

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