Author: Freeman Hunt, ed
Title: Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review: Volume 35 (July-December 1856)
Description: New York, Freeman Hunt, 1856. 1st Edition. Leather. 784p. Ex-library hardcover book bound in full golden-brown leather. FAIR condition. Boards chafed; spine chipped and crackly-looking. The bottom spine label is missing, and the remaining top one is held on with clear tape. Pages toned and foxed with age. Library stamp on title page, but otherwise, text unmarked and binding tight. A good reading copy. Volume 35 of this journal of commerce, agriculture, banking, and business in 19th-century America. The monthly issues span July through December 1856. This copy contains the small bookplate of Lorenzo Bull, a distinguished early citizen of Quincy, Illinois. This volume of the magazine features articles on the efficacy of quarantine in pandemics and the nascent Transcontinental Railroad ("The Pacific Railway"). There is also an essay by a committee of unnamed Southerners who argue for the creation of a "Southern Rights and Union Congress," designed to protect Southern commercial interests and states' rights. They include a proposed constitution for such an organization. At the end of each issue is a section of book reviews -- included are short reviews of THE PIAZZA TALES by Herman Melville and ENGLISH TRAITS by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fair .

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