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1992No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 289pp. Prepared in the build-up to the 1992 election campaign, this study examines the record of the 12 years of the Thatcher government and on the other parties hoping to unseat the Tories.
191516 pages. Features: The Neutral Vote and the Chicago Election, by George Sylvester Viereck; The Germanization of the United States; American Independence Union; Ireland's Chant of Hate, by Charales J. O'Neill; The German University League; Austro-Hungary and the War, by Ernest Ludwig; England, Russia, and Drink - by Dr. Edmund von Mach; Stop the Shipment of Arms says the Pope; Germans do not Surrender; John Bull has lost his Grip; Count von Bernstorff's Note; Apropos of Maurice Leon; News from Germany, by Louis Viereck; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Small chip from top edge of back cover. A sound copy. Magazine
191516 pages. Features: German Love of Peace, by Houston Stewart Chamberlain; The German Women of Today, by Frank Koester; The Pathetic Case of Professor Eliot of Harvard University; The English Chancellor's Bookkeeping - When Liars Figure; The Chicago Election, by Horace L. Brand; The Man Who Never Sailed under False Colors, by Captain K. Boy-Ed, of the German Navy; Why the Nefarious traffic in arms should Cease, by Dr. Edmund von Mach; One German Equal to 16 Englishmen; To Bolster Up Russian Loans; Acts of German Barbarians; American Militarism; Dr. Dernburg and Dr. Butler; Has Oklahoma Joined the Allies?; The American Truth Society; The Military Situation; J.P. Morgan, Jr., Chip off the Old Block; News from Germany; and more. Advertisement on back cover for "The Peace and America" by Prof. Hugo Munsterberg is adorned by two swastikas. Unmarked. Average wear. Covers and last two pages detached but present. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
1972Best.-Nr. 004074New York, Norton, 1972. -- Leinen -- 8°
1864Best.-Nr. 40557New York: Bromley & Company 1864. 19" x 24" lithograph broadside cartoon. Old tears repaired with tape on verso. Long horizontal tear at center has been reinforced by tape on verso. Light wrinkling and toning. The cartoon remains bold solid and intact. Good. "The first in a series of four harsh anti-Lincoln satires published by Bromley & Co. in New York. An imaginary dream of Jack Downing a comic Yankee character created in the 1830s by Seba Smith has Lincoln and some of his supporters and cabinet members as a band of undertakers about to inter the Constitution. "In 1862 displeased by Attorney General Edward Bates's slowness in enforcing the Conspiracies Act the President took matters into his own hands and issued a proclamation 'directing trial by court martial or military commissions of all persons who impeded the draft discouraged enlistments or committed other disloyal acts.' Around thirty-eight thousand people were arrested denied the right of habeas corpus and held in jail until brought to trial. This heavy-handed act provides the fuel for the artist's attack here. "Secretary Stanton is shown driving a hearse 'War Democracy' drawn by four horses with the heads of War Democrats left to right: John Cochrane Benjamin F. Butler Thomas Francis Meagher and Daniel S. Dickinson. Secretary Stanton says 'My jackasses had a load but they pull'd it through bravely. Cochrane: 'I pull for the side that pays the best always.' Butler: 'A million of dollars from New-Orleans'. . . "At right journalist Horace Greeley and Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner bury a casket labeled 'Constitution. Three other caskets 'Union' 'Habeas Corpus' and 'Free Speech Charge Express' wait nearby. Greeley: 'I guess we'll bury it so deep that it will never get up again.' Sumner: 'Be still you old fool. Let us first be sure that it is all under.' "A sober Lincoln watches with folded arms asking 'Chase will it stay down" Beside him treasury secretary Salmon P. Chase responds '. . . It must stay down. Or we shall all go up!' . . . "Abolitionist clergyman Henry Ward Beecher presides over the ceremony with a black child in his arms praying 'Not thy will oh Lord! But mine be done.' Above them Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton who has the legs and tail of a demon and holds a dagger flies off crying 'If it were done when 'tis done'." Reilly Reilly 1864-37. Weitenkampf 141. OCLC 647912979 2- AAS Clements 299947771 1- DLC as of December 2024. Bromley & Company unknown
1864Best.-Nr. 40557New York: Bromley & Company 1864. 19" x 24" lithograph broadside cartoon. Old tears repaired with tape on verso. Long horizontal tear at center has been reinforced by tape on verso. Light wrinkling and toning. The cartoon remains bold solid and intact. Good. "The first in a series of four harsh anti-Lincoln satires published by Bromley & Co. in New York. An imaginary dream of Jack Downing a comic Yankee character created in the 1830s by Seba Smith has Lincoln and some of his supporters and cabinet members as a band of undertakers about to inter the Constitution. "In 1862 displeased by Attorney General Edward Bates's slowness in enforcing the Conspiracies Act the President took matters into his own hands and issued a proclamation 'directing trial by court martial or military commissions of all persons who impeded the draft discouraged enlistments or committed other disloyal acts.' Around thirty-eight thousand people were arrested denied the right of habeas corpus and held in jail until brought to trial. This heavy-handed act provides the fuel for the artist's attack here. "Secretary Stanton is shown driving a hearse 'War Democracy' drawn by four horses with the heads of War Democrats left to right: John Cochrane Benjamin F. Butler Thomas Francis Meagher and Daniel S. Dickinson. Secretary Stanton says 'My jackasses had a load but they pull'd it through bravely. Cochrane: 'I pull for the side that pays the best always.' Butler: 'A million of dollars from New-Orleans'. . . "At right journalist Horace Greeley and Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner bury a casket labeled 'Constitution. Three other caskets 'Union' 'Habeas Corpus' and 'Free Speech Charge Express' wait nearby. Greeley: 'I guess we'll bury it so deep that it will never get up again.' Sumner: 'Be still you old fool. Let us first be sure that it is all under.' "A sober Lincoln watches with folded arms asking 'Chase will it stay down" Beside him treasury secretary Salmon P. Chase responds '. . . It must stay down. Or we shall all go up!' . . . "Abolitionist clergyman Henry Ward Beecher presides over the ceremony with a black child in his arms praying 'Not thy will oh Lord! But mine be done.' Above them Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton who has the legs and tail of a demon and holds a dagger flies off crying 'If it were done when 'tis done'." Reilly Reilly 1864-37. Weitenkampf 141. OCLC 647912979 2- AAS Clements 299947771 1- DLC as of December 2024. Bromley & Company unknown books
1868Best.-Nr. 36501New York: Currier & Ives 1868. Lithograph illustrated broadside by Currier & Ives oblong 11" x 15-1/2". Matted. Light dusting Near Fine. Cartoon characters identified by name; in lower right corner "on Stone by Cameron." John Cameron was a talented artist employed at Currier & Ives. In lower left corner "Thos. Worth. Sketch." Worth designed many cartoon broadsides for Currier & Ives. "An election-year cartoon invoking both Grant's humble beginnings as a tanner and his successful Civil War military career. Popular New York governor John Thompson Hoffman dressed as an Indian the 'Great Sachem of Tammany' presents Democratic candidates Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair Jr. to Grant. He addresses Grant 'Here General is a couple more hides to be tanned when will they be done' Grant smokes a cigar and wears the leather apron of a tanner rolled-up sleeves exposing his muscular arms. He replies 'Well I'll finish them off early in November.' "At right corner former Confederate generals Robert E. Lee Simon Bolivar Buckner and John C. Pemberton hold their rumps and hop about in pain. They announce 'This is to Certify that we have had our hides tanned and that the work was by him thoroughly done." Reilly AAS's entry asserts "Issued well before 1868 election." Reilly 1868-11. Weitenkampf 159. OCLC 191119896 1- Villanova 1136555720 1- AAS as of October 2024. Currier & Ives unknown
1868Best.-Nr. 36501New York: Currier & Ives 1868. Lithograph illustrated broadside by Currier & Ives oblong 11" x 15-1/2". Matted. Light dusting Near Fine. Cartoon characters identified by name; in lower right corner "on Stone by Cameron." John Cameron was a talented artist employed at Currier & Ives. In lower left corner "Thos. Worth. Sketch." Worth designed many cartoon broadsides for Currier & Ives. "An election-year cartoon invoking both Grant's humble beginnings as a tanner and his successful Civil War military career. Popular New York governor John Thompson Hoffman dressed as an Indian the 'Great Sachem of Tammany' presents Democratic candidates Horatio Seymour and Francis P. Blair Jr. to Grant. He addresses Grant 'Here General is a couple more hides to be tanned when will they be done' Grant smokes a cigar and wears the leather apron of a tanner rolled-up sleeves exposing his muscular arms. He replies 'Well I'll finish them off early in November.' "At right corner former Confederate generals Robert E. Lee Simon Bolivar Buckner and John C. Pemberton hold their rumps and hop about in pain. They announce 'This is to Certify that we have had our hides tanned and that the work was by him thoroughly done." Reilly AAS's entry asserts "Issued well before 1868 election." Reilly 1868-11. Weitenkampf 159. OCLC 191119896 1- Villanova 1136555720 1- AAS as of October 2024. Currier & Ives unknown books
1807Best.-Nr. 42326London: Pubd May 1807 by Walker No. 7 Cornhill 1807. Broadside 9-5/8" x 13-1/2". Hand-colored satirical etching. Minimal edgewear with the bottom left blank corner chipped minor toning and dustsoiling. Very Good. The scene is Covent Garden a satire of the 1807 Westminster election. A rowdy political gathering with crowds of spectators and in the foreground the "Wimbledon Showman" stands to the right holding a stilt with his right hand representing John Horne Tooke a radical British politician and philologist who lived in Wimbledon. The "Puppet" to the left balancing on the stilt inscribed "Divisions of Purley" is Sir Francis Burdett a wealthy radical politician running for Parliament. Burdett shouts "Huzza - Liberty and Independence!!!" Tooke acts as the puppet master steering the election and looks sideways towards the spectator saying "The finest puppet in the world Gentlemen - entirely of my own formation I have only to say the word and he'll do anything." He holds his hat in his left hand and a letter sticking out of his coat pocket reads "To the Editor of the Times" a reference to his actual letter to the Times in 1807 which went on to be printed in London by Wood and Innes highlighting the heavy media manipulation surrounding the early 19th-century British elections. Burdett balancing atop the stilt symbolizes that his political platform is precarious and supported entirely by Tooke's orchestration. The print satirizes the 1807 Westminster election. George M. Dorothy: CATALOGUE OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM: DIVISION I. POLITICAL AND PERSONAL SATIRES VOLUME VIII British Museum: 1947 No. 10733; Grego Joseph: A HISTORY OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS AND ELECTIONEERING IN THE OLD DAYS. . . 1886 pp. 322-323. Sir Francis Burdett 5th Baronet 1770-1844 was an English politician and Member of Parliament who gained notoriety as a proponent of universal male suffrage equal electoral districts vote by ballot and annual parliaments. His commitment to reform resulted in legal proceedings and brief confinement to the Tower of London. John Horne Tooke 1736-1812 known as John Horne until 1782 when he added the surname of his friend William Tooke to his own was an English clergyman politician and philologist. Associated with radical proponents of parliamentary reform he stood trial for treason in 1794. Wikipedia website accessed July 2026. "The general election ran from 4 May until 9 June 1807. Of the 380 constituencies 102 27 per cent were contested. The slogan of 'No Popery' was widely used by supporters of the Portland ministry against the friends of the late government who failed to find an effective riposte. The most eye-catching election occurred in Westminster where the patrician radical Sir Francis Burdett backed by local tradesmen activists under the direction of the Charing Cross tailor Francis Place was returned at the head of the poll on a 'purity of election' platform." "The 4th Parliament of the United Kingdom" The History of Parliament Online website accessed July 2026. Two days before the general election on 2 May 1807 a bitter duel took place between Burdett and James Paull his opponent who was up for reelection. Paull won the duel but neither man was fatally injured and Burdett went on to win with 5134 votes to Paull's 269. Tooke's letter to the Times had set out the events before the duel and condemned the men's public behavior. British Museum retains two copies. Pubd May, 1807 by Walker No. 7 Cornhill unknown
1807Best.-Nr. 42326London: Pubd May 1807 by Walker No. 7 Cornhill 1807. Broadside 9-5/8" x 13-1/2". Hand-colored satirical etching. Minimal edgewear with the bottom left blank corner chipped minor toning and dustsoiling. Very Good. The scene is Covent Garden a satire of the 1807 Westminster election. A rowdy political gathering with crowds of spectators and in the foreground the "Wimbledon Showman" stands to the right holding a stilt with his right hand representing John Horne Tooke a radical British politician and philologist who lived in Wimbledon. The "Puppet" to the left balancing on the stilt inscribed "Divisions of Purley" is Sir Francis Burdett a wealthy radical politician running for Parliament. Burdett shouts "Huzza - Liberty and Independence!!!" Tooke acts as the puppet master steering the election and looks sideways towards the spectator saying "The finest puppet in the world Gentlemen - entirely of my own formation I have only to say the word and he'll do anything." He holds his hat in his left hand and a letter sticking out of his coat pocket reads "To the Editor of the Times" a reference to his actual letter to the Times in 1807 which went on to be printed in London by Wood and Innes highlighting the heavy media manipulation surrounding the early 19th-century British elections. Burdett balancing atop the stilt symbolizes that his political platform is precarious and supported entirely by Tooke's orchestration. The print satirizes the 1807 Westminster election. George M. Dorothy: CATALOGUE OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM: DIVISION I. POLITICAL AND PERSONAL SATIRES VOLUME VIII British Museum: 1947 No. 10733; Grego Joseph: A HISTORY OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS AND ELECTIONEERING IN THE OLD DAYS. . . 1886 pp. 322-323. Sir Francis Burdett 5th Baronet 1770-1844 was an English politician and Member of Parliament who gained notoriety as a proponent of universal male suffrage equal electoral districts vote by ballot and annual parliaments. His commitment to reform resulted in legal proceedings and brief confinement to the Tower of London. John Horne Tooke 1736-1812 known as John Horne until 1782 when he added the surname of his friend William Tooke to his own was an English clergyman politician and philologist. Associated with radical proponents of parliamentary reform he stood trial for treason in 1794. Wikipedia website accessed July 2026. "The general election ran from 4 May until 9 June 1807. Of the 380 constituencies 102 27 per cent were contested. The slogan of 'No Popery' was widely used by supporters of the Portland ministry against the friends of the late government who failed to find an effective riposte. The most eye-catching election occurred in Westminster where the patrician radical Sir Francis Burdett backed by local tradesmen activists under the direction of the Charing Cross tailor Francis Place was returned at the head of the poll on a 'purity of election' platform." "The 4th Parliament of the United Kingdom" The History of Parliament Online website accessed July 2026. Two days before the general election on 2 May 1807 a bitter duel took place between Burdett and James Paull his opponent who was up for reelection. Paull won the duel but neither man was fatally injured and Burdett went on to win with 5134 votes to Paull's 269. Tooke's letter to the Times had set out the events before the duel and condemned the men's public behavior. British Museum retains two copies. Pubd May, 1807 by Walker No. 7 Cornhill unknown books
1951Pages 273 - 312. Features: Lovely colour ad for the De Havilland Comet used by British Overseas Airways Corporation shows plane in flight; Photos of avalanche terror in the Alps - engulfed villages; Great two-page photo of the start of the famous Tasman Ocean Yacht Race; Wow - two illustrated pages describe the Alberta tar sands "containing four times the rest of the world's known oil reserves"; Photos of personalities of the week, including Spain's first ambassador to Britain since 1946, Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, and his wife; Two pages of photos of the marriage of the Shah of Iran (Persia) to his new Empress, formerly Miss Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari; Photo-illustrated article on the Life of John Maynard Keynes; The Gold Coast's first steps in democracy - election photos; Two pages of photos of U.N. troops in winter war action in central Korea; Centerfold photo of incredible devastation caused by the Mount Lamington eruption; Mice demonstrate road safety in Glasgow!; Photo of huge B 36 Bomber; Restoration of St. George's Hall, King's Lynn - believed to be England's largest medieval guildhall; photos of new French and British weapons; Photos illustrated how bulky files of newspapers are transfered to tiny rolls of microfilm; Amazing photos of lying squirrels in flight; Swedish ballets; Nice colour ad for Imperial Leather toilet powder inside back cover; Nice colour ad for Jacob & Co's Cream Crackers on back cover; and more. Cover holding by one staple. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
1964Features/Photos: Prince Edward's Debut!; A dull but close election; the Beatles' world tour; Gold Burials of Ingombe Ilede, Northern Rhodesia; Lord Beaverbrook; Photo of Nelson Mandela "Convicted of Sabotage, Sentenced for Life; Trent Bridge Cricket; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
1958Features: Remembrance Day; Donald Campbell breaks the world water speed record aboard his jetboat Bluebird; Aftermath of the Revolution in Iraq; The Nuclear Navy of the U.S. - A Pictorial Survey of Ships of Outstanding Ingenuity; Trinity College; Democratic Election Landslide in the U.S.; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1959Features: Khrushchev at the U.N.; Princess Alexandra's tour; Khrushchev's American Tour; Labour Party Election Posters; The Sacred Bull of Tchoga Zanbil - destroyed in 640 B.C. and now repaired; Cutaway diagram of H.M. Cruiser Tiger; Nylon rifle needs no lubrication; The Royal Grammar School, Guildford; Attractive Spode China colour advertisement; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1964Features/Photos: King Constantine and his Danish bride beneath the nuptial crowns - several pages; Stony statues of Eastern Nigeria; Beginning of election campaign; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
1966Features: The British Election 1966; George IV and the arts of France; New Bankside town on the Erith marshes; France tears a hole in the NATO net; Missiles wait in readiness as NATO keeps watch over the Arctic wastes - GREAT PHOTOS!; Persia's new island superterminal for supertankers - Kharg Island; Roger Fry; The first untouched Royal burial found in Crete; A deep frozen 'mermaid' travels from bahrain to the British museum; The Queen meets the stars of the movie Born Free; and more. Great full-page colour Jaguar ad on page 8 features the hood ornament. Photo of US operation to clean up after loss of an H-bomb (!). Full-page colour ad for a Riley automobile. Average wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
1969Features: Fears over the barricades/where will the violence end - Norther Ireland; UN attempts at arms limitation; Aims of young Israelis; Crime fascinates television audiences; Germany decides - general election; A Swedish naturalist (Sigvard Berggren) has a new plan to save wildlife; spotlight on the little theatres; The House of Augustus - Archaeology 2319; Scimitar 3-litre; Rembrandt in Amsterdam; What Rembrandt taught; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
1945Pages 113-140. Features: Cover photo of smiling Churchill leaving Downing St. for Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation; Four photos of France's Marshall Petain in court, and two photos of the crowded courtroom; One page Karsh photo portrait of Mr. Attlee; Photos of Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, Sir Stafford Cripps, and Hugh Dalton; Nice page of head-shot photos of 23 women members of the new Parliament; One-page descriptive map of the general election shows results at a glance; One-page illustration depicts the rise of the Labour Party in Parliament during 45 years; Photo of rear admiral E. J. B. Brind hoisted between ships by a breaches buoy; Six photos of new prime minister Attlee at the palace and in Potsdam; Mitchell bomber strikes Empire State Building - photo of smoke pouring from the building plus excellent photo of gaping hole in the 78th and 79th floors; Amazing aerial photo of many dozens of Flying Fortresses on airfield near Munich; Two-page monotone reproduction of long-lost painting,"A night at the old Vauxhall Gardens in 1784" by Thomas Rowlandson - found in village shop and sold for 2600 guineas; Photos of personalities of the week include Arthur Greenwood, Alfred Dobbs, Lady Oxford and Asquith, Mr. A. E. Hemming, Sir William Jowitt, and Yugoslavia's King Peter with his newborn son; Excellent two-page aerial photo entitled "The first permitted aerial view of the City of London's immense devastated areas - St. Paul's Cathedral largely isolated by huge ruined sectors on three sides"; Photo of Gen. DeGaulle addressing crowds at the French port of Brittany; Photo of E. J. S. Woolley, commanding officer of the lonely island of Tristan Da Kunha in the South Atlantic, commissioning a small craft; Photo of living room scene inside massive flying boat "Hawaii Mars"; Unusual photo of Japanese prisoners lined up for roll-call on Okinawa (unusual in that Japanese soldiers rarely surrendered); Photo of German POWs observing atrocities of German torture camps at film showing in a New York hospital; Too large photos of US battleships on their way to bombard Japanese installations; Three photos of Field Marshal Montgomery being honoured; Three photos of the Guards Armoured Division, the liberators of Brussels, being honoured by the city; Amazing one-page photo of the liner "Queen Elizabeth" stuffed with thousands of servicemen being repatriated to North America; Colour back cover add for Kia-Ora drink; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1964Features/Photos: Large feature on Mexico; Belfast Troubles - several photos; The election; Oil and gas search in the North Sea; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Magazine
1948Pages 505-532. Features: Cover photo of statesmen charged with reconstructing and uniting Europe - Bevin, Marshall, and Schuman; Photos f minority candidates for the US presidency Include John G. Scott of the Greenback Party, Claude A. Watson of the California Prohibition Party, and Dr. John Maxwell of the Vegetarian Party; Photos illustrate the French coal strike and the government's bold measures; Photos of personalities of the week include King Frederick of Denmark, Dr. William T. S. Stallybrass, Mr. Justice Lynskey, Miss Mary Lucy Cartwright, Russell Vick, Ivor Thomas, Gerald Upjohn, the 'Itma' players; Photo of Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, who was in Paris for the Security Council debate; photo of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rieder of Cape Town who picked up a television program transmitted from Alexandra Palace; Article on the Commonwealth Conference; Two large photos of the New Territorial Army on parade - the King reviews 8000 Troops in Hyde Park; Photo of the King opening the new power station at Kingston-on-Thames; Photos of acceptance of the Berlin plan at the UN; Photos of the first State opening of Parliament with full ceremonial for 10 years; Six photos of huge crowds and outstanding exhibits at the Motor Show; Full-page photo portrait of Thomas E. Dewey; Full-page photo portrait of Harry S Truman; Centrefold illustration of Sulgrave Manor, birthplace of George Washington's ancestors; Six photos of dairy show exhibits at Olympia; Sudan's first election, with nine photos including Sayed Sir Abdul Rahman Pasha El Mahdi, and Sir Robert G. Howe; Aerial photos of Khartoum and Omdurman in Sudan; Three large photos of the Royal Command Variety Performance at the London Palladium; Seven excellent photos illustrate the Egyptian debacle in South Palestine where Israel scored a decisive victory in the Negev; 300 men of the Scots Guards and Coldstream Guards Marched through Singapore; Photos of demonstration parachute drop of Jeep from Halifax aircraft; Photos celebrate the 75th birthday of the typewriter and its inventor Christopher Latham Sholes; Photo of "Autoblast" orchard sprayer, the first of its kind in this country; Photo of scallops or Mr. Haseltine beside his recently unveiled statue of a racehorse Man 'O War. Centrefold holding by one staple. Outer advertising pages not included. Above average wear and soiling. A worthy reference copy Magazine
1856Best.-Nr. 40839Washington 1856. 30 2 blank pp. Disbound else Very Good. This campaign document charges Republicans with stirring up "wild excitement" in Kansas. Democrats refuse "to undertake to determine why the God of nature made the African inferior to the white man; or why He permitted England to fasten the institution of slavery upon the colonies against their repeated and earnest remonstrances. Nor can we tell what Heaven in its wisdom may intend to work out of the relations of master and slave." This item supports Pierce Administration policies in the Kansas-Nebraska struggle and urges the decisive defeat of Republicans. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 35271. unknown
1856Best.-Nr. 40839Washington 1856. 30 2 blank pp. Disbound else Very Good. This campaign document charges Republicans with stirring up "wild excitement" in Kansas. Democrats refuse "to undertake to determine why the God of nature made the African inferior to the white man; or why He permitted England to fasten the institution of slavery upon the colonies against their repeated and earnest remonstrances. Nor can we tell what Heaven in its wisdom may intend to work out of the relations of master and slave." This item supports Pierce Administration policies in the Kansas-Nebraska struggle and urges the decisive defeat of Republicans. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 35271. unknown books
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
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 books
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