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1860Best.-Nr. 69456NP: np 1860. Narrow printed broadside 26 x 10 cm. Edge tears repaired on verso with Japanese paper. Claiborne F. Jackson won the Governorship of Missouri and began his term of office in January 1861. The debate over whether Missouri would secede from the Union began shortly after he took office and he aligned himself with the Confederacy. The state legislature vacated his election and a provisional governor was appointed to replace him. Jackson and his supporters removed to Arkansas after the Battle of Pea Ridge. see: his brief biography on the Missouri State Archives Digital Heritage site. np unknown
1713Best.-Nr. 539311713. London 1713. 2d ed. London 1713. 2d ed. Scarce Eighteenth-Century English Treatise on Election Law Election Law. Great Britain. The Law of Elections: Being an Abstract of All the Statutes Now in Force Relating to the Election of Members to Serve in the House of Commons: In Three Sections Viz. The Duties &c. of the Electors The Elected And the Officers Returning. London: Printed for J. Nutt Assignee of Ed. Sayer Esq. for Jacob Tonson 1713. vi 126 6 21 3 pp. Half-title lacking. Octavo 6-1/2" x 4". Contemporary sheep blind frames and fillets to boards raised bands to spine rebacked retaining original backstrip hinges mended. Some rubbing with wear to corners a few large scuffs to boards. Toning to portions of text light foxing to a few leaves internally clean. $150. Second edition "continued to the end of the last session of Parliament 1713" which adds an addenda to the first edition of 1708. It was one of the earliest books on the subject. According to Sweet & Maxwell the first studies were Freedom of Elections to Parliament 1680 and Observations Concerning the Regulation of Elections for Parliament 1689 a work attributed to the Earl of Shaftsbury. OCLC locates 6 copies 3 in North America at the Library of Congress Harvard Law School and Stanford University. The ESTC locates 9 copies 8 in Great Britain 1 in North America at the University of Indiana. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:151 20. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC T108633. unknown
1848Best.-Nr. 19816Washington: Published Under Authority of the National and Jackson Democratic Association Committee 1848. 16pp untrimmed and folded blank top edge chipped. Toned. Good or so. Stewart a Whig had charged that Cass the Democrats' 1848 presidential nominee had picked the taxpayers' pockets while Governor of the Michigan Territory and Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Stewart issued a pamphlet that included Cass's expense accounts and other documents to back up his charges. Defending Cass this pamphlet accuses the Whigs and Stewart of "making up a gross statement against General Cass and suppressing the truth in regard to the accounts of General Taylor." Taylor say the Democrats is guilty of even greater malfeasance than that which has been falsely charged against Cass. Sabin 91633n. 111 Eberstadt 113. Published Under Authority of the National and Jackson Democratic Association Committee unknown
1848Best.-Nr. 40827Washington: Gideon 1848. 8pp caption title as issued. Disbound and lightly foxed. Good. Letters from Whigs Caleb Smith of Indiana and Schenck of Ohio tell their fellows that they better vote the Whigs' 1848 presidential ticket despite their dismay at the nomination of Zachary Taylor. The alternative is the Democrat Cass whose election will "lead to large acquisitions of territory upon our Southern borders no restriction upon the extension of slavery.this mad career of conquest. The election of Gen. Cass will secure the complete triumph of the most ultra views of Slavery propagandists." FIRST EDITION. Wise & Cronin Taylor 27. Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker LCP. Gideon unknown
1868Best.-Nr. 15098Washington: Union Republican Congressional Committee 1868. 8pp Disbound caption title as issued. Printed in double columns. Good or so. Democrats are accused of rejecting reconstruction "except upon the condition of the triumph of those who have been in rebellion." The Democratic ticket led by Blair and Seymour and its platform "are a declaration of renewal of the rebellion" resisting any attempt to protect the newly-won rights of freedmen and seeking to nullify the Acts of Reconstruction. Scarce NUC recording only the Library of Congress copy. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 51020. 396 NUC 0804998 1- DLC. Not in Eberstadt Decker. Union Republican Congressional Committee unknown
1848Best.-Nr. 6729Washington: Towers 1848. 8pp disbound else Very Good with caption title as issued. A Whig attack on Michigan Senator Cass the Democrats' 1848 presidential nominee. His "love of the people's money" is evidenced by his expense vouchers-- printed here-- as Secretary of Indian Affairs. The failure of the Seminole campaign resulted from his "incompetency" as Secretary of War. He is "an old Federalist who denies his ancestry." The pamphlet attacks his 'Nicholson Letter' in which for the first time the concept of Popular Sovereignty-- permitting Territorial inhabitants rather than Congress to determine whether slavery should exist there-- was articulated. Sabin 11350. Streeter MI 612. Towers unknown
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1933Best.-Nr. 2092902137405948police training school 1933. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 police training school paperback
Best.-Nr. 10916Watermark 1818; Circa 1820. The original printed by 'Fleet Printer Brighton'. Folio 1 p. On paper watermarked 'J WHATMAN 1818'. Written out in a very neat hand over thirty lines over the 'signature' 'Edward Thunder.' and with the printer's slug reproduced in the bottom left-hand corner.Begins 'How I Mourn For the Blindness of my Countrymen!' The writer expresses outrage that the electors are 'endeavouring to send those to form the next Parliament who are likely to increase instead of diminish this never-to-be discharged National Debt.' The text of this poster is reproduced without the line breaks or the printer's slug in 'An Account of the Sussex election held at Chichester March 13 1820' Chichester: W. Mason 1820 pp.159-160. [Watermark 1818; Circa 1820.] The original printed by 'Fleet, Printer, Brighton'. unknown
Best.-Nr. AQ21433Alnwick: Printed by M. Smith s.d. c.1882 Single leaf broadside. Lightly creased very short tear to one edge central horizontal fold. An apparently unrecorded notice by the Alnwick Board of Health calling on the support of the ratepayers of the area in an upcoming election. The Board makes clear their invaluable contribution in securing authorisation for the construction of a railway branch line between the town and nearby Cornhill. The line was begun in 1884 and completed in 1887. . Dimensions 290 x 440 mm. Printed by M. Smith, [s.d., c.1882] unknown
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1840Best.-Nr. 339182Boston: Published by a committee of the Boston Harrison Club 1840. 24pp. 8vo. Disbound. Tear to the upper outer corner of the title not affecting text. 24pp. 8vo. A defence against allegations made by the Democratic Party in Oct. 1840 that James B. Glentworth acting as an agent for the Whig Party attempted to bring individuals from Philadelphia to fraudulently vote in New York during the 1838 and 1839 elections with warnings by a pro-Harrison group over the 1840 election. Published by a committee of the Boston Harrison Club unknown
Best.-Nr. 179321First Edition. 20pp. 8vo disbound; browning to text. Philadelphia: John Binns 1812. The Committee of Correspondence consisted of Republican Pennsylvanian state legislators. Address is for the re-election of James Madison and against the candidacy of De Witt Clinton. Last page lists the names of the Pennsylvania Electoral Ticket. S&S 25254. unknown
1832Best.-Nr. 29452Baltimore: Printed by Samuel Harker Republican Office. 1832. 10pp disbound light to moderate foxing Good. Contemporary ink correction to the imprint '1831' to '1832'. "Convention held May 21-23 1832 resulting in the nomination of Martin Van Buren." Wise & Cronin Martin Van Buren The names of a couple of hundred delegates are listed. Van Buren was nominated on the first ballot as Andrew Jackson's running mate with minimal competition from Richard Johnson and Philip R. Barbour. Wise & Cronin 53. AI 12123 4. Printed by Samuel Harker, Republican Office... unknown
1848Best.-Nr. 17436Boston: Eastburn's Press 1848. Stitched 11pp. Scattered foxing blank top margin of title page cut down with no text affected upper blank forecorner chewed. Good. Massachusetts Whigs put forth a valiant but unsuccessful effort in behalf of Daniel Webster's candidacy for the Whig presidential nomination in He is "A man who respecting all the 'arrangements and compromises of the Constitution' and the rights of all under them will yet never suffer them to be extended or increased to the destruction of our political equality." FIRST EDITION. 4 NUC 0070701 2. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker Miles. Eastburn's Press unknown