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 [Justinian I]; [Baptista de Tortis]; [Torti, Battista], [Leaf of Incunabula] from Justinian I. "Codex de Tortis," by Baptista de Tortis in the Late 15th Century
[Justinian I]; [Baptista de Tortis]; [Torti, Battista]
[Leaf of Incunabula] from Justinian I. "Codex de Tortis," by Baptista de Tortis in the Late 15th Century
[Venice], 1496. Removed. 1 leaf. [2 pp]. 11.5 x 17 inches. Leaf removed from an edition of Baptista de Tortis's late 15th century printing of "Codex de Tortis," (Venice: 1496), a set of laws codified by Justinian I. Though the rule of Justinian I (482-565), or Justinian the Great, was marked by a series of territorial gains for the Byzantine Empire, his legacy was sealed by his efforts to codify Roman law. Originally printed between 529 and 533 A.D. this code endured, in part, because of its pliability and its relevance to a population that reached beyond its territorial borders. This leaf Numbered 37*, printed in black & red, and initials in blue supplied by hand on the verso. "The printer, Baptista de Tortis, was one of the first printers to specialize in the jurisprudence. His reputation for accuracy of texts enabled him to dispose of edition after edition of 2000 or more copies, folio size, of his various publications, while many another 15th century printer went into bankruptcy after printing only one or two volumes in editions of 500 copies or less. "Tortis's round, gothic type found such favor with the early Spanish printers that they copied it for several centuries under the name "letra de Tortis." The typographical problem of planning a certain amount of text to correspond exactly with related glosses complete on the same page was successfully handled in this unit." (See Donald Jackson Collection of Original Leaves: Colorado Springs, CO. 1981). Very good, folded, edge wear & tear, light soiling and staining, primarily along margins.
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 Tucker, Samuel, [Als] Commodore Samuel Tucker Explains to Samuel Thatcher That He Has Promised the Materials for the Biographical Sketch of His Life to Moses Shaw
Tucker, Samuel
[Als] Commodore Samuel Tucker Explains to Samuel Thatcher That He Has Promised the Materials for the Biographical Sketch of His Life to Moses Shaw
Bremen [ME], 1829. 1 sheet. 7.5 x 8.5 inches. Dated and signed August 12th, 1829. by [Commodore] Samuel Tucker who writes to Samuel Thatcher, following a visit from Thatcher's sons, George and Benjamin, who had expressed interest in writing a biography on Tucker's life. Tucker tells Thatcher, "I must say I am heartily sorry, I gave them any encouragement but the moment must be alleged to my imbecility, as I had heretofore declared ever having any such manuscript, go to the press, for such a thing if ever it was to be done, Doctor Moses Shaw has a great claim on me for it.." Tucker had, at some point, submitted a series of papers to Doctor Shaw, of Wiscasset, Maine,; however they had been destroyed in a fire before anything was published. Fortunately, Tucker's grandson, Colonel Samuel Tucker Hinds was in possession of copies of Tucker's logs, journals, and letters, and left them to Harvard Library. Harvard released them to John Hannibal Sheppard, who, published "The Life of Samuel Tucker: Commodore in the American Revolution" in 1868. Samuel Tucker (1747-1833), naval officer and merchant mariner from Marblehead, "who never learned the social graces..first went to sea in the summer of 1760 at the age of twelve, during the Seven Years' War.".. In 1776 George Washington appointed Tucker captain and commander of the Franklin ..an armed schooner commissioned in the Continental army "to prey on transports supplying the Royal Army at Boston. A few months later Tucker transferred to the schooner Hancock.. the two schooners participated in the capture of fourteen enemy vessels." He transported John Adams to France and Adams judged Tucker to be "a brave, active, vigilant officer" but of "no great Erudition" .. In his ship "Boston" and others he participated in the capture of at least forty-one vessels and was captured and paroled twice. After the war, he lost his money and moved to Maine, in 1792 living as a farmer. He was representative for Bristol in the Massachusetts legislature in 1798-1800 and 1814-1818. During the war of 1812I he commanded "a makeshift privateer, a coasting sloop called Increase, manned by forty-seven volunteers, which they fitted out to get rid of an armed British schooner that had been raiding in the neighborhood. On the third day out, in Muscongus Bay, the Increase encountered the Crown, an armed schooner of one carriage gun and thirty-five men, which surrendered after an exchange of gunfire" (American National Biography). Samuel Thatcher (1776-1872) graduated from Harvard University in 1793, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1797, was member of the Massachusetts House, 1801-1811, was elected as a Federalist to the Seventh Congress, reelected to the Eighth Congress, and member of the Maine House in 1824. (See Biographical Dictionary of Congress) Moses Shaw (1785-1847) of Wiscasset, Maine, a graduate of Bowdoin College (1818), a member of the their Athenaean Society, was a doctor, and also a lecturer at the College and later at Harvard (1836); he was later appointed collector of the port. References: John Hannibal Sheppard: "The Life of Samuel Tucker: Commodore in the American Revolution" (Boston: Alfred Mudge, 1868); ANB: doi.org/10.1093/anb/ 9780198606697. article.0300503; Biographical Dictionary of Congress: bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/T000143; Philip Chadwick Foster Smith: "Captain Samuel Tucker (1747-1833), Continental Navy" (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1976). Very good, folded, minor punctures and soiling along margins, remnants to verso, contents clean.
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 Turney, L. Jay S. [Leander Jay Sharpe Turney, 1819-1881] /, Illinois Contested Election - Ninth District. Memorial of L. Jay S. Turney, Contesting the Election of Hon. Samuel S. Marshall, As Representative of the Ninth Congressional District, Illinois. February 18, 1856. Referred to the Committee on Elections, and Ordered to Be Printed. 34th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Mis. Doc. No. 11
Turney, L. Jay S. [Leander Jay Sharpe Turney, 1819-1881] /
Illinois Contested Election - Ninth District. Memorial of L. Jay S. Turney, Contesting the Election of Hon. Samuel S. Marshall, As Representative of the Ninth Congressional District, Illinois. February 18, 1856. Referred to the Committee on Elections, and Ordered to Be Printed. 34th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Mis. Doc. No. 11
[Washington, D.C.], n.p. 1856. First edition. Removed. 8 pp. 8vo. An important case about states' rights. Turney, who came in second in an election to Congress, argues that the states set the rules for who can run for office and that the state constitution of Illinois prohibited former judges from running for office for a period of one year after their term expired and that Marshall should have been disqualified from being seated by the Congress because he had been a judge in the 12th district and ran for office during the exclusion period. Turney states: "The constitution of the United States provides that "each house shall be the judge of the election, returns, and qualifications of its own members." In so judging, and before you can rightfully decide, your honorable body must regard the constitutions and laws of the States sending contestants; for members of Congress are elected under and in persuance of State constitutions' and laws! And there is no provision in the constitution of the United States, and no law of Congress, prohibiting the people of each State from declaring, by constitutional provision, who shall, and who shall not be legal voters! The right of suffrage is exclusively under the control of the lawmaking power of the different States; and the people of Illinois did not transcend their power in providing that all votes cast for a certain class of citizens, within her limits, should be void..If either house of Congress has the right to disregard a plain, wholesome, and necessary provision of the constitution of a sovereign State, regulating and defining the elective franchise within that sovereignty, then, indeed, the States are but creatures of the general government, and the federal government, instead of being a government of delegated, defined, and limited powers, becomes a great central political monster, uncontroled and uncontrolable by the weaker reserved powers of the States." The House wisely turned down Turney's request and seated Marshall. The appendix includes "An act to establish the twelfth district court." Leander Jay Sharpe Turney (1819-1881) was later the acting Governor of the Washington Territory for 1861-1862. OCLC locates only a copy, at Harvard Law (OCLC: 78246617). .
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 Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, Historical Sketch of Ann Pamela Cunningham. "the Southern Matron," Founder of "the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union
Historical Sketch of Ann Pamela Cunningham. "the Southern Matron," Founder of "the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.
Jamaica, NY, Printed for the Association, 1911. First edition. Paper wrappers. 49 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w photo. 8vo. Very good, wrappers edge worn and browned, date stamped to top margin of front wrapper, few penciled notations to contents, else fine.
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 Valentine, David T. (pseud: Paulding, William I.), History of the City of New York
Valentine, David T. (pseud: Paulding, William I.)
History of the City of New York
New York, G.P. Putnam, 1853. First edition. Original publisher's cloth stamped and ruled in blind, with gilt title. vi, 404 pp. Illus. with 15 plates, maps, views, many folding, plus 2 intext illustrations. 8vo. Sabin 59219. A good copy, head piece lacking, head and tail of spine and small part of boards with white residue where tape most most likely removed, front joint just starting, some old repairs to the maps .
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 [Varas, Antonio], La Acusación a la Corte Suprema de Justicia
[Varas, Antonio]
La Acusación a la Corte Suprema de Justicia
Santiago, Imprenta del Ferrocarril, 1868. First edition (?). Green printed paper wrappers. 90 pp. dbl. col. Sm. 4to. An important document concerning the independence of the judiciary in Chile and a reply to the accusations made by the Cámara de diputados against the Supreme Court, whose President was Manuel Montt. Montt, who had served as President of Chile, was an authoritarian leader who represented the conservative oligarchy. The impeachment against the Supreme Court alleged that the Conservatives and the Church had promoted the civil war in 1859 during Montt's administration. While this document opposing the impeachment is unsigned, it is most likely the work of Antonio Varas who had been Montt's Minister of the Interior and whose commentary,"Discourses del señor Varas en las sessions del 27 y 28 de Octobre de la Cámara de diputados," on pages 67-90, follows the main document. This is an apparently unrecorded issue. OCLC lists three copies of a different issue: Univ. Texas, Univ. Conn. and BN Chile, both paginated 79, 20; Staatsbibliothek Berlin has only "La acusasion," 79 pp. Medina, Diccionario de anónimos y seudónimos hispanoamericanos, v. 1, p. 4. A very good unopened (uncut) and untrimmed wide-margined copy, untrimmed edges ragged, chips and tears to original wrappers, bookseller's sticker on half-title.
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 Vattemare, Alexandre, Communication from M. Vattemare
Vattemare, Alexandre
Communication from M. Vattemare
[Hartford], n.p. 1849. First edition. Self wrappers. 4 pp. 8vo. In this Senate Document, Hartford, Connecticut, June 19th, 1849, Alexandre Vattemare thanks the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, of the State of Connecticut, for the adoption of the Central Agency for International Literary Exchanges and details specific work yet to be accomplished. After Nicolas Marie Alexandre Vattemare (1796-1864) grew rich from a successful stint as a ventriloquist, he spent 25 years promoting free libraries, developing a system of cultural exchanges of artifacts among libraries and museums in the process [échanges internationaux pour l' Amérique]. Though ignored in France, he found the USA and Canada to be more receptive; it was his suggestion of combining all the libraries in Boston that eventually led to the establishment of the Boston Public Library. "Vattemare's Enlightenment dream of establishing publicly sanctioned and subsidized institutions for the universal dissemination of culture would consume his energies for the next twenty-five years of his life. It would not be fully realized, however, until after his death, with the establishment of free public libraries in every major city in the U.S. and Europe, with legislation passed by individual countries authorizing cultural exchange between nations, and, ultimately, with a global institution like UNESCO, founded nearly 100 years after his death..the United States and Canada were eager to participate in such a project, and all of the thirteen former colonies that Vattemare visited in the next two years, from Maine to Florida, pledged money, books, maps, and objects representing the habitat, civil affairs, inventions and culture of their regions. (Suzanne Nash: 'Alexandre Vattemare: A 19th-Century Story', [2004], Society of Dix-Neuviémistes). One location on OCLC: Trinity College. [With] an extract from the appendix to Massachusetts House Document. No. 151 (1849).Moreau, G. House. No. 151. International Exchanges. From the Members of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts April 30, 1849 [to] M. Alexandre Vattemare. [Massachusetts] [45-52] pp. 4to. Very good, unopened (uncut), stitch holes, faint scattered foxing. Includes: G. Moreau, "Report of the Proceedings of the Central Agency in Paris, during the year 1848, rendered to Mr. Alexander Vattemare, January 23rd, 1849." After a note of thanks from the Massachusetts Senate and House, the remaining seven pages are taken up with a report by Vattemare's son-in-law, G. Moreau, on his herculean efforts in Paris to implement this program and gain support from sometimes changing government ministers during the political turmoil and violence of the Revolution of 1848 which ended with Louis Napoléon Bonaparte's election as President of the Second Republic. Very good, creased, browned edges.
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 Velazquez, Lorena, Exit. Yo, Aqui, Ahora
Velazquez, Lorena
Exit. Yo, Aqui, Ahora
México, Bindu Impresion de Arte, 2019. First edition. Aluminum boards with inset photo illustration, green cloth spine, in illuminated electronic translucent clamshell display case. 31 leaves. Illus. with 21 b/w photos of which 7 are double page panoramas, one inset kodachrome slide, five colored translucent sheets, one white lace paper leaf. 20.4 x 22.3 cm. Artists' book. Signed by the author. 1 of 12 copies. Photographs by Lorena Velazquez. Text by Francisco Segovia. Translation by Fionn Petch. Printed by Carme Yael Diaz, Carolina M. Escobar y Francisco Lara on Hahnemuhle 200 gr. paper. Green translucent illuminated box stamped in red made by Corona Display. Velazquez's briliant creation - a mix of metal and lace paper, photographs and translucent papers, illuminated case- play with the shifting perspective of reality that matches and incorporates Segovia's powerful poem of the coordinates that define our life, our relation to the world, and our death, the three axis that are: I, Here, Now : Yo, aqui, ahora. Lorena Velázquez is a Franco-Mexican artist, photographer, and book artist with work held by many museums, the Bancroft Library, and the Library of Congress among others. Francisco Segovia is a renowned Mexican poet, essayist and translator. Fionn Petch is a Scottish translator. Each of the ten pages of text contains both the Spanish and English versions. Copies at Brown, Berkeley, Stanford, and Amherst. A fine copy. As new.
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 Vigodet, Gaspar. Montevideo (Uruguay), Bases de Pacificacion Propuestas Por El Gobierno de Montevideo
Vigodet, Gaspar. Montevideo (Uruguay)
Bases de Pacificacion Propuestas Por El Gobierno de Montevideo
Buenos Ayres, Imprenta de Niños Expòsitos, 1814. First edition. Broadside. [1] pp. 4to. Dated Montevideo, 12 de Abril de 1814. This is the proposal for the peace by the government in Montevideo, which requires the oath of allegience to Fernando VII and the constitution. Furthermore: "the previous divisions are instantly buried. Consequently, no one will be disturbed or persecuted for the opinions that he may have had, defended, or written: and the power not residing in any other magistrate to guarantee this promise but in the Captain General of these provinces, he solemnly offers in the name of the king Mr. D. Fernando VII, in accordance with the high and extensive powers that the regency of the kingdom has conferred on him, keep, fulfill, and ensure that the treaty that is stipulated is kept and fulfilled, which has in this part the same validation as if was agreed upon before the national government, whose authority is exercised by the Captain General exclusively in the Provinces of the Rio de la Plata." The plan was rejected by the Provincias Unidas de la Plata. OCLC shows two copies: JCB and BN Chile. Furlong: IV, 3045-6. Zinny: Bibliografía histórica p.113 No. 8. Old horizontal fold with a few thin tears, a few minor chips at the margins; lightly toned, a good copy.
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 [Catholic Church]. Pius VII, Letaniae de Venerabili Sacramento. Concesae a Santissimo Papa Nostro Pio VII. Ano de 1804
[Catholic Church]. Pius VII
Letaniae de Venerabili Sacramento. Concesae a Santissimo Papa Nostro Pio VII. Ano de 1804
n.p. n.p. 1804. One leaf folded. [4 pp.]. Bifolium. 8vo. Pope Pius VII (1742 - 1823) presided over the Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris on 2 Dec 1804. He had signed a conditional abdication before setting out for France, to take effect only if he were imprisoned. On paper watermarked with the initial S.P No copies located in OCLC, Copac, European nor South American Libraries. A document of the same title without the date 1804 is listed in Ramón Briseño: Estadística bibliográfica de la literatura chilena, p. 44. as published in Santiago in 1833. A very good copy, minor foxing.
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 [Reconstruction][Florida] Voorhees, H.M., [Als] Northern Woman Loves the Climate in Florida, But Laments Reconstruction
[Reconstruction][Florida] Voorhees, H.M.
[Als] Northern Woman Loves the Climate in Florida, But Laments Reconstruction
Palatka, FL, 1874. [6] pp. w. envelope. 8 x 5 inches. While much of the letter concerns the "loveliness of the climate," "the glory of Southern life and the beautiful scenery," and the sweetness of the fruit, it ultimately serves as a platform for a northerner's unsavory views. "The soil is in most places very barren needing constant fertilization and the State of the Society most wretched. The sudden change from the System of Slavery has impoverished the Planters and they are in the main incapable of retrieving their fortunes. The Negroes most ignorant and unprepared for Citizenship are making sad work with the politics of this state. It will require a generation of time to overcome the Evil influences of the present and unless there is a great influx of Northern people (which seems quite improbable) the residents of this state will suffer for some time from unjust lawmakers." Dated and signed February 7th, 1874, H.M. Voorhees, with stamped envelope to John Babcock, M.D. Cedar Hill, Albany County, NY. Dr. John Babcock (1814-1879), born in Bethlehem New York, was the town's best known doctor having trained at the Vermont Academy of Medicine in the early 1840s. He kept an office at Beckers Corners. The Voorhees family was from the Albany County area. Very good, folded, faint soiling.
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 [Connecticut] Waldo, A. [Albigence], [Als] Surgeon General of the Revolutionary Army Who Recorded His Sufferings at Valley Forge Needs Help with His Well
[Connecticut] Waldo, A. [Albigence]
[Als] Surgeon General of the Revolutionary Army Who Recorded His Sufferings at Valley Forge Needs Help with His Well
[Connecticut], 1793. 1 sheet. 7 x 12 inches. November 18, 1793, signed by A. Waldo, to Mr. Phillip Richmond, of Killingly [Phillip Richmond (1771-1824) son of Abilene Cady and Phillip Richmond]. Waldo tells Richmond that, "Mr. Carpenter of Abington [a small village in Pomfret where Waldo had his practice], has brought us a great stone with a hole in it, to put over one of our wells. Now we cannot get this huge stone with a hole in it, over the well, and handsomely placed there, without your assistance. Mr. Carpenter promised my wife , that he would positively come on Fryday, this week, to assist in the business. Therefore I beseech you come & help him & take your pay.." Address on verso. Albigence Waldo (1750-1794) "was a surgeon with the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He practiced medicine in Pomfret, Connecticut, and was a founder of the Medical Society of Windham County, Connecticut. He studied medicine under John Spalding of Canterbury, Connecticut. After the commencement of hostilities with Great Britain, he served as a clerk before he was commissioned as surgeon's mate of the 8th Connecticut Regiment in 1775; he was discharged a year later due to poor health, and he was appointed chief surgeon on the armed ship Oliver Cromwell in 1776. In 1777, he was commissioned as surgeon of the 1st Connecticut Infantry Regiment. He resigned his commission in 1779, again due to his health. Waldo subsequently returned to his hometown of Pomfret and established his practice. Waldo's regiment joined the main Continental Army in the fall of 1777, and he kept a detailed diary of his life as an army surgeon and conditions of the soldiers during the winter of 1777 to 1778 at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, which was published in The Historical Magazine in 1861." (See Albigence Waldo papers, 1768-1793 in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. Online at Colonial North America at Harvard Library, colonialnorthamerica.library.harvard. edu /spotlight /cna /catalog /990006035590203941 and "Valley Forge, 1777-1778. Diary of Surgeon Albigence Waldo, of the Connecticut Line" in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 21, No. 3 (1897), pp. 299-323.) Signed documents by Waldo are exceedingly rare. We could locate only two at auction. Very good, extremities worn, small tears along folds, light soiling.
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 Walker, R. [Robert J.], [Autograph Letter Signed] R. Walker to A.D. Bache Concerning Newport & Rhode Island
Walker, R. [Robert J.]
[Autograph Letter Signed] R. Walker to A.D. Bache Concerning Newport & Rhode Island
New York, 1852. 1 sheet. 4.5 x 7.5 inches. Nov. 12, 1852. Robert J. Walker wrote to Alexander Dallas Bache from Irving House in New York, commenting on the "triumph of Democracy" in Rhode Island, referring to the just held presidential elections, in which the democratic candidate, Franklin Pierce won,and the status of the Newport and Glasgow steamers. "Irving House-New York-Nov. 12, 1852 Dear Dallas, My health improves rapidly, and in ten days I will be able to start for Princeton and Washington. Congratulate dear Evey [Nancy Clarke Fowler Bache, wife of A.D. Bache] on the triumph of democracy in R. Island. Little Rhody has covered herself with glory - now for the Massachusetts steamers for Newport- they are building one of iron 600 feet long in Glasgow for the Australia trade. It could enter none of our harbors except Newport. We are all well.. R. Walker." Robert John Walker (1801-1869), lawyer, economist, Senator from Mississippi (1835-1845) when Bache was confirmed, Secretary of the Treasury (1845-1849) during the administration of President James K. Polk, and later Territorial Governor of Kansas (1857). He was married to Bache's sister. Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was an American physicist and surveyor who was appointed Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey in 1843. Very good, folded, faint soiling, contents crisp.
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 Washburn, Henry S., [Autograph Manuscript Signed] Copy of "the Vacant Chair", CIVIL War Song, Written and Signed by Henry S. Washburn
Washburn, Henry S.
[Autograph Manuscript Signed] Copy of "the Vacant Chair", CIVIL War Song, Written and Signed by Henry S. Washburn
Newton Centre, MA, 1891. [2] pp. Bifolium. 4 x 6.75 inches. Later copy written and signed by Washburn of his Union poem, "The Vacant Chair", signed in Newton Centre on March 14, 1892. Written above Washburn's signature is the poem's original date and location: Worcester, November 16, 1861. Henry S. Washburn (1813-1903) "wrote 'The Vacant Chair' in 1861 during the first year of the American Civil War, to memorialize the death of John William Grout, known as Willie, an eighteen-year-old lieutenant in the Union Army from Massachusetts. In his book, The Vacant Chair and Other Poems, Washburn tells the story of how Grout lost his life, selflessly helping his men retreat across the Potomac river under heavy enemy fire at the battle of Ball's Bluff, Virginia, on October 21st in that first year of war. Mortally wounded, his body, and those of the men who fell with him, floated down river. He was not found until November 5th, identified by his clothing and the letters in his pockets. He was returned to his family, and was buried on November 12th, shortly before the nation, and Willie's own family, observed Thanksgiving on the 28th. The song became popular throughout the remainder of the war, as many families would experience a 'vacant chair'." (blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/tag/henry-stevenson-washburn/). Very good, folded, toned, scattered remnants on verso, contents clean.
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 [Washington, George]. Angle, Paul M.;, First in the Hearts of His Countrymen
[Washington, George]. Angle, Paul M.;
First in the Hearts of His Countrymen
[Chicago], R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company; The Lakeside Press, 1972. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. [7] pp. + facsimile. 4to. Caption title: "Having concluded to obey the important & flattering call of my country .. "A demonstration of fine printing from R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, the Lakeside Press." Introduction written by Paul M. Angle. Facsimile [1 pp. bifolium] of signed letter, from George Washington to John Langdon, dated at Mount Vernon April 14, 1789, in which he accepts his election as the President of the United States. A fine copy.
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