1840rif. 14460Washington: Gideon 1840. Caption title as issued disbound. 16pp. Scattered foxing pinhole knocks out one letter. Good. A very scarce Whig campaign document producing official messages and correspondence exposing the militaristic tendencies of the incumbent Martin Van Buren. Joel Poinsett was Secretary of War at the time. Another issue is entitled 'Plan of the Standing Army.' Not in AI Sabin Eberstadt Decker. 624 NUC 0263455 1. Gideon unknown
1864rif. 40032New York: For sale by all News Agents. Price $1 per 100. 1864. Broadside 9 1/2" x 11 1/4". Printed in two columns. Light foxing Old white tape remnants at upper margin of blank verso. Very Good. The broadside prints Judge Mills's report of his interview with President Lincoln who strongly defends the use of black troops in the war effort. General Grant's letter to E.B. Washbourne sic reports "The Rebels have now in their ranks their last man. The little boys and old men are guarding prisoners guarding railroad bridges and forming a good part of their garrisons for entrenched positions." Bayard Taylor's poem on the Democrats' presidential nominating convention 'On the Chicago Surrender' is also printed. "Judge Mills" was Joseph T. Mills of Wisconsin an attorney and judge who had also been a State Assemblyman. Bartlett 2725. Sabin 41157. Weinstein Against the Tide 141. Not in Monaghan. For sale by all News Agents. Price, $1 per 100. unknown
1828rif. 28332Richmond: Printed by Samuel Shepherd & Co. 1828. 38 2 blanks pp. Stitched untrimmed partly uncut. Browned and lightly to moderately foxed. Good in its unsophisticated state. This Virginia Convention of more than 200 delegates listed by County "feared the most pernicious consequences from the election of General Jackson and we have come to consult about the means of averting this calamity from our country." Although "many of you strongly disapprove some of the leading measures of the present Administration" President Adams's faults and errors are as nothing against the defects of Jackson's character which render him "altogether unfit for the presidency." An Appendix prints correspondence from Jackson's Florida military adventure demonstrating his disregard for civilian authority and his arbitrary exercise of power. Swem 137. Sabin 100496. Not in Wise & Cronin or Miles. Printed by Samuel Shepherd & Co. unknown
1840rif. 28873Albany: Rough-Hewer Extra 1840. 8pp folio Extra of this short-lived New York Democratic periodical. Untrimmed and uncut generously margined. A couple of short margin fold splits light foxing. Good or so. A bombastic essay charging that the Whig Party is like the wolf in sheep's clothing in reality the old Hartford Convention Federalists a bunch of Anglophiles in disguise. Their policies and their conspiratorial "scheme" with England are "dangerous to the purity of legislation hostile to the genius of a free government and directly at war with our constitution." Not in Sabin or American Imprints. OCLC 37969403 3- NYHS LCP OH Hist. Soc. as of 5/12. Rough-Hewer Extra unknown
1852rif. 17434np 1852. 15pp caption title as issued bound in modern wrappers dusted Good. An 1852 pamphlet defending the Whigs and Scott against Democrats' charges of extravagance; and rebutting their charge of corruption in settling the Galphin case in which the Taylor administration made payment to the heirs of a Georgia revolutionary war figure who had expended money in support of that struggle. The Democrats are the Party of extravagance and corruption: "He who shouted STOP THE THIEF most lustily was found with the Stolen Pig under his own cloak!" Not in Sabin or evidently NUC. unknown
1856rif. 40431np 1856. 16pp caption title as issued. Disbound first leaf toned. Good. This wild anti-Fremont attack charges the Republicans with violating "the most solemn treaties of the United States with the Indians" attempting "to stop the wheels of government stir up strife and discord in the country and produce anarchy and violence in Kansas." This Democratic pamphlet asserts that "The last and only hope of the Fremont men consists in blood violence and murder in Kansas." Sabin 68197. unknown
1856rif. 14821np 1856. Folded old binder holes in blank inner margin. 16pp. Light wear and tan. Good to Very Good. A wild anti-Fremont attack charging that Republicans have violated "the most solemn treaties of the United States with the Indians" and have sought "to stop the wheels of government stir up strife and discord in the country and produce anarchy and violence in Kansas." This Democratic pamphlet asserts "The last and only hope of the Fremont men consists in blood violence and murder in Kansas." FIRST EDITION. Sabin 68197. unknown
1872rif. 15684np 1872. 4 pp. Caption title as issued printed in double columns folded. Very Good. Unlike its northern rival the breakaway Liberal Republicans led by Horace Greeley the Republican Party will not overlook the continuing "violence of the stronger race over the feebler race" in order to achieve harmony and reconciliation. Nor will Republicans paper over their differences with the Democrats though "hand-shakings are certainly beautiful manifestations of personal regard by the owners of the extended dexters." Democrats justified slavery before the War; after the War they continue to champion State Rights and oppression of the Negro race. Republicans comprise the Party of principle: re-elect Grant. 484 NUC 0099291 1- DLC. unknown
1876rif. 14342np Des Moines 1876. Caption title as issued folded folio leaf untrimmed and uncut. Last leaf with some wear Good to Good. The Hayes and Wheeler Club of Des Moines rejoices in the defection of General Tuttle an old War Democrat to the Republican team. His renunciation of the Democratic Party "and its two-faced ticket" occurred "in response to a serenade by" the Club. Tuttle's speech re-fights the Civil War charging that Democrats have never accepted the War's results. Wheeler the Vice Presidential nominee warns of the evil designs of the former Slave States. FIRST EDITION. 605 NUC 0402645 2. unknown
1832rif. 19544Albany: Printed by Packard and Van Benthuysen 1832. 24pp. Disbound light fox and wear Good. Jackson and his first Vice President John C. Calhoun had become enemies in the Nullification Crisis their polar opposition bringing them into conflict. New York's Martin Van Buren leader of Northern Democrats and a skilled political manipulator was the easy choice. These Proceedings record the Delegates by State the balloting and its result and the "Address of the Republican Delegates of the State of New-York" defending the President's record tracing Jacksonians' roots to Thomas Jefferson and warmly endorsing their Favorite Son. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 93603. AI 13888 1. Not in Eberstadt or Decker. Printed by Packard and Van Benthuysen unknown
1844rif. 15877Washington: Whig Executive Cong. Committee 1844. 16pp. Disbound. Good. A Whig argument for protection from foreign competition explaining the ruinous effects of Free Trade and the necessity to protect mechanics and industrialists alike from the dumping of foreign goods on the United States. The Whig ticket from Clay on down must be supported. FIRST EDITION. AI 44-6587 4. Not in Sabin. Whig Executive Cong. Committee unknown
1848rif. 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
1880rif. 197421880. Caption title as issued. 8pp with light wear and old folds. 'No. 86.' printed at top of first page. Good. A Republican campaign pamphlet arguing that the triumph of the 'Solid South' would impoverish the country. Southerners have "the conceit of political sagacity. It is their boast that this country will never be properly governed until Southern statesmanship shall again bear sway." But when the numbers are crunched the South has lagged behind the North in every index of economic prosperity. The Solid South's share of the "commercial industrial financial and educational interests of the country" is disproportionately small. Its pretensions to "dictate the course of the National Government" is absurd. OCLC locates 12 under two accession numbers. unknown
1872rif. 31779np 1872. 4pp caption title as issued disbound. Printed in double columns. Disbound else Very Good. The Republican Party has been the force behind the drive for an eight-hour workday law. President Grant Vice President Wilson and the Republicans established an eight-hour day for federal employees with no reduction in their pay. OCLC 54350146 10 as of January 2015. unknown
1848rif. 38209Boston: Eastburn's Press 1848. 4 pp. Folded bifolium. Very Good. A scarce Whig 1848 campaign pamphlet prints Taylor's letters assuring wary northerners that this Louisiana planter and slaveowner could be trusted with the Nation's destiny. Taylor says he is "not engaged to lay violent hands indiscriminately upon public officers good or bad who may differ in opinion with me. I am not expected to force Congress by the coercion of the veto to pass laws to suit me or pass none. I would not be a partisan President." He says "I am a Whig but not an ultra Whig." Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker Miles. OCLC records four locations under several accession numbers as of April 2022. Eastburn's Press unknown
1852rif. 26314Boston: Beals Greene & Co. 1852. Disbound 24pp printed in double columns. Light wear Very Good. The 1852 presidential campaign pitting the Democrat Pierce against the Whig Scott featured an unseemly competition for the votes of Irish Catholic immigrants. Whigs who were at a disadvantage in this contest charged Pierce with being an anti-Catholic bigot. "The object of the Scott politicians in making the charge of intolerance at this time against General Pierce is to obtain the Catholic vote. It is an appeal to a SECT IN RELIGION to get its members to vote a certain way in POLITICS." This pamphlet rebuts the charge demonstrating that Pierce supported extending equal rights to Catholics in New Hampshire via constitutional amendment. Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker. OCLC lists a number of institutional copies. Beals, Greene & Co. unknown
1852rif. 18550np. 1852. Disbound with some loosening 8pp. Printed in double columns. Caption title as issued. Light tan and wear Good. An attempt to tar General Winfield Scott the Whigs' 1852 presidential candidate with abolitionism; and to promote Franklin Pierce who by contrast is "devoted to the constitution and defended the rights guarantied by that sacred instrument." The Whigs have pandered to the extreme abolitionists the Liberty Party crew and seek to "absorb the friends and followers of James G. Birney and Wendall sic Phillips into the bosom of the whig party which is now under the leadership of Wm. H. Seward who will be the controlling spirit of the government should General Scott be elected." Birney Phillips and Seward were of course anathema to southerners and indeed to many northern Whigs and Democrats who did not wish the slavery issue to threaten the maintenance of the Union. FIRST EDITION. LCP 11125. Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker. unknown
1876rif. 20530Cincinnati 1876. 16pp caption title as issued. Disbound lightly tanned Good or Very Good. A Democratic rally in this Republican State whose Favorite Son Rutherford B. Hayes would defeat Tilden in a very tight presidential election unmatched until the year 2000. Democrats ran on racism Republican corruption profligate public expenditures opposition to high tariffs and intrusive Radical Reconstruction and support for Jeffersonian limited government. Scarce OCLC locating copies only at the Western Reserve and Ohio Historical Societies. FIRST EDITION. OCLC 37877427 2. unknown
1856rif. 40822New York: New York Tribune 1856. Caption title as issued 16pp. Disbound and wear. Good. After the Whig Party collapsed under the weight of the Sectional Crisis keen competition emerged among Democrats Republicans and Know-Nothings Americans for the support of its erstwhile members. This pamphlet urges anti-slavery Whigs to vote for the new Republican Party which fielded its first presidential candidate this year. A close examination of Fillmore's record particularly as Zachary Taylor's vice president reveals that he was no friend of that Whig President. Political expediency has caused him to trim his anti-slavery views: he is now a reliable ally of the South. Although standard bibliographies have failed to include this pamphlet it appears in OCLC under several accession numbers. FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker Miles. New York Tribune unknown
1713rif. 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 books
1995rif. 2090502126803112New Japan Hoki Publishing 1995. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 1567 pages Size: A5 size New Japan Hoki Publishing paperback
1713rif. 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
1820rif. 703Caldwell New York 1820. Folio broadside. 465 x 280mm. 18" x 11 inches. Folded in quarters couple of tiny separations along folds. Lightly toned moderately foxing. An attractive untrimmed copy. Signed in type by David Alden and Frederick Miller Chairman and Sec'y of the meeting respectively as well as by members of the Republican Central Committee at conclusion. A handsome broadside utilizing a good deal of large bold type. Warren County is situated north of Glens Falls on the eastern border of New York encompassing almost all of Lake George. Caldwell N.Y. now the village of Lake George at the foot of the lake was for a time the county seat of Warren Co. It had a newspaper from the eighteen-teens and separate imprints from as early as 1820. The Lake George Coffee House served as the first county court and the Republican i.e. Democratic Central Committee had its office in Caldwell. Not in OCLC or American Imprints for 1820. unknown books
1820rif. 703Caldwell New York 1820. Folio broadside. 465 x 280mm. 18" x 11 inches. Folded in quarters couple of tiny separations along folds. Lightly toned moderately foxing. An attractive untrimmed copy. Signed in type by David Alden and Frederick Miller Chairman and Sec'y of the meeting respectively as well as by members of the Republican Central Committee at conclusion. A handsome broadside utilizing a good deal of large bold type. Warren County is situated north of Glens Falls on the eastern border of New York encompassing almost all of Lake George. Caldwell N.Y. now the village of Lake George at the foot of the lake was for a time the county seat of Warren Co. It had a newspaper from the eighteen-teens and separate imprints from as early as 1820. The Lake George Coffee House served as the first county court and the Republican i.e. Democratic Central Committee had its office in Caldwell. Not in OCLC or American Imprints for 1820. unknown
1969rif. 2090502113703423Not Available 1969. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback