[Forsyth, Isaac]Biblio.com
31 788 résultats
1813réf. 7225Edinburgh: Printed by Michael Anderson for I. Forsyth 1813. FIRST EDITION 12mo pp. iii-viii 94 folding frontispiece and folding map. Bound with: Rosslyn Chapel. Picture of Rosslyn Chapel & Castle. Edinburgh: Published by Oliver & Boyd & J.&J. Johnstone 12th Sept. 1825. 12mo pp. 15 1 engraved title-page and 7 further plates. And: Waldie George A Sketch of the History of the Town and Palace of Linlithgow. Linlithggow: Printed and published by A. Waldie 1843. FIRST EDITION 12mo pp. 36 frontispiece. The three works bound together in 19th century quarter red roan tan boards edges sprinkled red. A touch of spotting a few small tears to folds of map. Spine rubbed boards somewhat soiled. Slip of card identifying the author of the first work loosely inserted. Three small local history titles bound together. The first has a small piece of card with a clipped address and stamp to the reverse postmarked 1902 the slip identifies the author as Elgin Bookseller Isaac Forsyth and claims ‘This edition is known as ‘the little Isaac’ to distinguish it from a larger edition’ - Forsyth’s 1798 octavo publication ‘A Survey of the Province of Moray Historical Geographical and Political’. Library Hub records 4 locations holding this edition: BL Glasgow NMS and Aberdeen the last of which implausibly attributes it to Cosmo Innes who would have been 15 at the time of publication. Following this is a small illustrated history of Rosslyn Chapel without a letterpress title-page but apparently as issued - some libraries catalogue it with the drop-head title ‘Description of Rosslyn Chapel & Castle’ from page 1 while the NLS catalogue describes it as A set of engraved plates with a descriptive text. The final work trimmed slightly smaller than the other two is the first edition of a Linlithgow guidebook which reached a 4th edition in 1894. Library Hub records 2 locations for this printing: the BL and Glasgow. Printed by Michael Anderson, for I. Forsyth hardcover
réf. 1890S.E.D.L.I / Jacky Goupil éditeur, 1982. In-4, cartonnage illustré. Cartonnage jauni (comme très souvent hélas), 2 infimes chocs en bords (voir photo).
1885réf. 8890New York: Robert Macoy Publisher 1885. First edition. 8vo 3 219pp plus 10 illustrated ads at rear. Ownership signature and stamp of Edwin A. Quick to front pastedown. Publisher's purple cloth stamped in black blind and gilt. Spine and top edge heavily sunned clean internally and very good. Uncommon 19th century Masonic directory with an interesting provenance. This copy owned by prominent architect from Yonkers Edwin A. Quick 1841-1913 who designed the Colgate Library Yonkers Public Library and City Hall Messiah Baptist Church among many others. He is listed in the directory on pg 211. Robert Macoy, Publisher unknown
1927réf. 67937Electra TX: Printed by Smith Electra 1927. Rare Firsthand Account of the Chisum Pecos Range War Isaac "Ike" Fridge's firsthand account of the Chisum war as told to author Jodie Smith detailing the harsh realities of 1870s cowboy life along the Pecos River in New Mexico during the range war between cattle baron John Chisum and neighboring ranchers farmers and Mescalero Apaches all of whom Chisum accused of stealing his cattle or using his grazing land and depleting its resources. The book also includes stories of Billy the Kid William H. Bonney and his involvement in the range war as a Chisum ally and of Bonney's death at the hands of Sheriff Pat Garret. "Dobie said of this book that it is 'as compact as jerked beef and as laconic as conversation in alkali dust.' Fridge went to New Mexico with Chisum in 1869. Later he returned to Texas; the narrative goes through 1880" - Reese SIX SCORE. Adams and Dykes assess Fridge's recollections of Billy the Kid's raids against the Chisum Ranch and the Kid's death. Dobie notes that the book is virtually "unprocurable" though Adams says he later found a small remainder which was quickly exhausted. Original pictorial wrappers stapled. Light soiling short tear to spine else near fine. SIX SCORE 44. ADAMS HERD 851. DOBIE p.125. HOWES F384 "aa." ADAMS SIX-GUNS 775. DYKES KID 120. unknown
1927réf. 67937Electra TX: Printed by Smith Electra 1927. Rare Firsthand Account of the Chisum Pecos Range War Isaac "Ike" Fridge's firsthand account of the Chisum war as told to author Jodie Smith detailing the harsh realities of 1870s cowboy life along the Pecos River in New Mexico during the range war between cattle baron John Chisum and neighboring ranchers farmers and Mescalero Apaches all of whom Chisum accused of stealing his cattle or using his grazing land and depleting its resources. The book also includes stories of Billy the Kid William H. Bonney and his involvement in the range war as a Chisum ally and of Bonney's death at the hands of Sheriff Pat Garret. "Dobie said of this book that it is 'as compact as jerked beef and as laconic as conversation in alkali dust.' Fridge went to New Mexico with Chisum in 1869. Later he returned to Texas; the narrative goes through 1880" - Reese SIX SCORE. Adams and Dykes assess Fridge's recollections of Billy the Kid's raids against the Chisum Ranch and the Kid's death. Dobie notes that the book is virtually "unprocurable" though Adams says he later found a small remainder which was quickly exhausted. Original pictorial wrappers stapled. Light soiling short tear to spine else near fine. SIX SCORE 44. ADAMS HERD 851. DOBIE p.125. HOWES F384 "aa." ADAMS SIX-GUNS 775. DYKES KID 120. unknown books
1916réf. 55737Fort Wayne IN: Weil Bros. & Co. Nov. 27 1916. Folio. 12 x 18 in. 4 pp unpaginated. printed in red & black w/ illustrations state map diagrams diagrams. Self-printed softcovers minor fold creases as issued couple very slight closed tears minor shelfwear NF. First edition of this scarce price list from the storied Weil Bros. fur trading company in Fort Wayne Indiana. During the opening decades of the 20th century there were skyrocketing prices for furs driven by the fashion market especially the more affordable ones such as mink skunk raccoon muskrat opossum and wild cat. Premiums were paid for mink beaver and especially otter. The Weil Bros. had initially established their business in 1870 and continued to operate for decades often issuing Trappers’ Guide books advertising in trapping and taxidermy magazines and issuing catalogues. No copies located in Worldcat. Weil Bros. & Co., paperback
réf. 6144EUROPE, n° 370-371, février mars 1960. In-8, broché.
réf. 109039London Morrice Phillips printer 1831. . Small 4to; contemporary blue marbled calf-backed boards with gilt title in english to spine quite rubbed front cover detached; marbled edges rubbed; wine staining to leaves as expected small marginal tears to few block cracked but holding; half-title in Hebrew and two separate titles in Hebrew and English; old signature of previous owners to front endpapers; 1 40 6 ll. Ashkenazic Passover Haggadah edited by Isaac Levi Professor and Teacher of Hebrew Language. Hebrew text and English translation on opposing pages. The copperplate frontispiece in this Haggadah was originally published in the 1807 London Machzor but a pastedown with the Haggadah title was placed in the middle of the page covering the original title. According to Yudlov this pastedown-altered frontispiece does not appear in all copies. Vinograd London 292; Yaari 516; Yudlov 717; Not in Yerushalmi. London, Morrice Phillips (printer), 1831. hardcover
1860réf. 14804Charleston: Evans & Cogswell 1860. 23 1 pp. Disbound light spotting and some pages tanned. Good. This 1860 Association Tract contrasts the New York Tribune's ugly distorted view of the South with the "cool-headed sensible unimpassioned" views of South Carolina's Senator Hammond. Tracing the intractable conflict between North and South to the country's birth the author asserts "It is a great mistake to assign the election of Lincoln as the CAUSE for a disruption of the Federal Government. It is but the occasion." Secession and a separate Southern slave-holding Confederacy are passionately urged. The last page unnumbered prints the 'Constitution of 1860 Association' whose purpose is "promoting resistance by the slaveholding States to the aggressions of the non-slaveholding States." This is one of two 1860 Charleston issues. III Turnbull 306 different imprint. Not in LCP. Evans & Cogswell unknown
1860réf. 14804Charleston: Evans & Cogswell 1860. 23 1 pp. Disbound light spotting and some pages tanned. Good. This 1860 Association Tract contrasts the New York Tribune's ugly distorted view of the South with the "cool-headed sensible unimpassioned" views of South Carolina's Senator Hammond. Tracing the intractable conflict between North and South to the country's birth the author asserts "It is a great mistake to assign the election of Lincoln as the CAUSE for a disruption of the Federal Government. It is but the occasion." Secession and a separate Southern slave-holding Confederacy are passionately urged. The last page unnumbered prints the 'Constitution of 1860 Association' whose purpose is "promoting resistance by the slaveholding States to the aggressions of the non-slaveholding States." This is one of two 1860 Charleston issues. III Turnbull 306 different imprint. Not in LCP. Evans & Cogswell unknown books
réf. 51236PITTSBURGH. HARRIS Isaac Harris' Pittsburgh Business Directory for the Year 1837: Including the Names of All the Merchants Manufacturers Mechanics Professionals & Men of Business of Pittsburgh and Its Vicinity. Pittsburgh: Published by Isaac Harris. 1st ed. 340 2 126 pp. Illus. advertisements. Later cloth. Outside of paper block scorched else a very good copy. Spear p.295. unknown
1836réf. 13412New York: Harper & Brothers 1836. First Edition First Printing. Original wraps. Near fine. First appearance of A Sketch of the Life and Public Services of William Henry Harrison published in New York in 1836. Octavo 32pp. Original green printed wrappers bound with string. A touch of wear to corners faint foxing to leaves vertical crease in center. A near fine copy of a campaign pamphlet printed during Harrison's first run for president. Sabin 30594 Howes J20 Thomson 152 A scarce work in the original wrappers. Harper & Brothers unknown
1836réf. 13411Albany: Hoffman & White 1836. First Edition Early Issue. Original wraps. Very good. First edition of A Sketch of the Life and Public Services of William H. Harrison published in Albany in 1836. Octavo 32pp. Original green printed wrappers pamphlet bound with string. A touch of wear to corners occasional toning. A very good copy of a campaign pamphlet printed during Harrison's first and unsuccessful run for president. This Albany imprint is not listed in Howes or Sabin but similar copies are listed. Sabin 30594 Howes J20. Attributed to Isaac R. Jackson by Howes. Hoffman & White unknown
1840réf. 13406Hartford: John B. Eldredge 1840. First Edition Early Issue. Original wraps. Very good. A Sketch of the Life and Public Services of William H. Harrison published in 1840 in Hartford. Octavo 32pp. Original printed wrappers bound with string. Faint soiling to covers small archival repairs to front cover and top of page 32. A scarce example of a campaign pamphlet printed during Harrison's second run for president. Martin 3131 Sabin 30594 Howes J20 Thomson 152. John B. Eldredge unknown
1840réf. 13399Columbus: I.N. Whiting 1840. First Edition Early Issue. Hardcover. Very good. A Sketch of the Life and Public Services of William Henry Harrison published in 1840. Includes a fold-out portrait of Harrison. Octavo 50pp. Marbled paper boards with green cloth spine. Original green printed wrappers solid text block light wear to spine ends corners and inner hinges. A touch of foxing to edges of leaves. Fold-out portrait of Harrison dated 1861 affixed to front free endpaper. Sabin 81524 Howes J20 Thomson 152 A unique example of a popular presidential campaign pamphlet. I.N. Whiting hardcover
1836réf. 13412New York: Harper & Brothers 1836. First Edition First Printing. Original wraps. Near fine. First appearance of A Sketch of the Life and Public Services of William Henry Harrison published in New York in 1836. Octavo 32pp. Original green printed wrappers bound with string. A touch of wear to corners faint foxing to leaves vertical crease in center. A near fine copy of a campaign pamphlet printed during Harrison's first run for president. Sabin 30594 Howes J20 Thomson 152 A scarce work in the original wrappers. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1836réf. 13411Albany: Hoffman & White 1836. First Edition Early Issue. Original wraps. Very good. First edition of A Sketch of the Life and Public Services of William H. Harrison published in Albany in 1836. Octavo 32pp. Original green printed wrappers pamphlet bound with string. A touch of wear to corners occasional toning. A very good copy of a campaign pamphlet printed during Harrison's first and unsuccessful run for president. This Albany imprint is not listed in Howes or Sabin but similar copies are listed. Sabin 30594 Howes J20. Attributed to Isaac R. Jackson by Howes. Hoffman & White unknown books
1840réf. 13406Hartford: John B. Eldredge 1840. First Edition Early Issue. Original wraps. Very good. A Sketch of the Life and Public Services of William H. Harrison published in 1840 in Hartford. Octavo 32pp. Original printed wrappers bound with string. Faint soiling to covers small archival repairs to front cover and top of page 32. A scarce example of a campaign pamphlet printed during Harrison's second run for president. Martin 3131 Sabin 30594 Howes J20 Thomson 152. John B. Eldredge unknown books
1840réf. 13399Columbus: I.N. Whiting 1840. First Edition Early Issue. Hardcover. Very good. A Sketch of the Life and Public Services of William Henry Harrison published in 1840. Includes a fold-out portrait of Harrison. Octavo 50pp. Marbled paper boards with green cloth spine. Original green printed wrappers solid text block light wear to spine ends corners and inner hinges. A touch of foxing to edges of leaves. Fold-out portrait of Harrison dated 1861 affixed to front free endpaper. Sabin 81524 Howes J20 Thomson 152 A unique example of a popular presidential campaign pamphlet. I.N. Whiting hardcover books
1963réf. 200240AB1963. 64 Issues Duplicates: 1964 1968 Oct & Dec 1979 1984. Boston The Horn Book 1963 1967-70 1973 1975-81 1983-1989. 15.3 cm x 22.8 cm. Circa 7500 pages. Featuring black and white frontispieces by book illustrators. With many black and white illustrations throughout by famous illustrators taken from various children's books. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only minor discoloration to covers and edges. Some covers have minor pen markings. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Christian Haugaard. Includes for example the following articles: Two Heroes. Dietrich of Berne and Hakon of Rogen's Saga Reviewd by Ruth Hill Viguers / Dark Corners of the Mind: Dicken's Childhood Reading Volume XXXIX 1963 / My Goals as an Illustrator by Marcia Brown / Writing a Book by Phillipa Pearce / A Writer Comments by Erik Christian Haugaard / Keep the Bough Green by Carol Ryrie Brink Volume XLIII 1967 / On the Writing of Ghost Stories by Madeleine A. Polland / Centenary of "Little Women" 1868-1968 Articles by Cornelia Meigs Lavinia Russ Aileen Fisher and Olive Rabe Frank T. Merill Illustrations Volume XLIV 1968 / Report on a Thousand Cranes by Betty Jean Lifton / The Centipede and the Creative Spirit by Madeleine L'Engle / Poetry for Children by Leonard Clark / The Part Played By Boston Publishers of 1860-1900 In The Field Of Children's Books by Helen L. Jones / In Transylvania Poem by Elizabeth Jamison Hodges Volume XLV 1969 / No Laughter in Heaven by Lloyd Alexander / The Art of Elizabeth Enright. Conclusion. By Eleanor Cameron / Mrs Trimmer-Guardian of Education by Judith St. John Volume XLVI 1970 / "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory": A Reply by Roald Dahl / A Collage: Eight Women Who Write Books in Swedish for Children by Mary Orvig Volume XLIX 1973 / A Short Talk with a Prospective Children's Writer by Astrid Lindgren/ Old Words and New: Anti-Feminism in "Watership Down" Volume L 1974 / The Poet Who Lives By Erik Christian Haugaard / A Second Look: "The Mouse and His Child". By John Rowe Townsend Volume LI 1975 / Laughter and Children's Literature by Sid Fleishchman / Early Children's Books and Their Illustration Volume LII 1976 / Through the Looking Glass: Notes on an Antiquarian Children's Bookshop / The Bookshop for Boy's and Girls / Letters from England: Bookselling in Schools Volume LIII 1977 / Children and The Art of Memory / The Infernal City: The Arcadian Lament in Children's Picture Books by Jane Resh Thomas / Characters and Other Clues by Ellen Raskin Volume LIV 1978 / Recommended Paperbacks / "Before I Was Born": History and the Child. Part II by Aidan Chambers Volume LV 1979 "Poetry Issue 1979" / Laura Ingalls Wilder Award Acceptance by Dr.Seuss / Joan W. Blos by Betty Miles Volume LVI 1980 / Editorial: Babies Need Books by Dorothy Butler / Paperbacks in the Classroom Volume LVII 1981 / Perspectives on Criticism by Mary Kingsbury / Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Acceptance by Virginia Hamilton Daniel S. Davis and Vera B. Williams / Conflict in Children's Fiction by Nancy Bond / Poem by Myrna Haugaard / Norma H. Faber 1909-1984 by Barbara Harrison Volume LX 1984 / A Lion in the Room by Meredith Ann Pierce / Caldecott Medal Acceptance by John Schoenherr Volume LXIV 1988 etc. A truly remarkable and special magazine collection colouring the timeless world of children's books and reading. Founded in 1924 by Bertha Mahony Miller each magazine features a unique illustration as the frontispiece borrowed from a well-known illustrator. The magazines also feature spring summer fall and winter booklists reviews poems recommendations views on science books advertisements and classifieds as well as notes on contributors and letters to the editor providing a plethora of wisdom and knowledge on the art of children's book writing and reading. Erik C. Haugaard and his wife Myrna who once owned this personal collection both made valuable contributions to numerous volumes. _____________________________________________________________________________________ The Horn Book Magazine founded in Boston in 1924 is the oldest bimonthly magazine dedicated to reviewing children's literature. It began as a "suggestive purchase list" prepared by Bertha Mahony Miller and Elinor Whitney Field proprietresses of the country's first bookstore for children The Bookshop for Boys and Girls. Opened in 1916 in Boston as a project of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union the bookshop closed in 1936 but The Horn Book Magazine continues in its mission to "blow the horn for fine books for boys and girls" as Mahony wrote in her first editorial. In each bimonthly issue The Horn Book Magazine includes articles about issues and trends in children's literature essays by artists and authors and reviews of new books and paperback reprints for children. Articles are written by the staff and guest reviewers including librarians teachers historians and booksellers. The January issue includes the speeches of the winners of the Boston GlobeHorn Book Award and each July issue includes the same from the winners of the year's Newbery Medal and Caldecott Medal. The Fanfare list published in December is the editors' selection of the best children's and young adult books of the year.3 No lists were published from 1941 to 1945 or 1955 to 1958. Wikipedia paperback
1852réf. 21535Columbia S.C.: R.W. Gibbes State Printer 1852. 24pp stitched. Untrimmed minor edgewear generously margined light toning and foxing. Very Good. A rare early informative Report on prisons and South Carolina's criminal law. The Report recommends changes in the penal law; not Hayne assures from "sympathy with the spirit of indiscriminate and sweeping innovation which to some extent is the characteristic of the age and which absolutely runs riot in many of the States of this Confederacy." South Carolina has a low crime rate: "more than half of our population and the portion amongst whom from their position crime would naturally most abound are slaves who are kept in order without a resort to the Courts." But he fears an "alarming" rise in crime in Charleston. Urging greater efficiency "in detecting crime" he recommends employing prosecutors in each district and "physicians for post mortem examinations in murder cases." Hayne wants to streamline outmoded judicial procedures allow appeals "in cases not capital only on cause shown" to curtail the power of pardon with standards to guide issuance of pardons to curb the most wretched prison conditions particularly housing "the arrested debtor and the innocent witness" with "the convicted felon"; and to provide separate cells at night and employ prisoners in shoemaking and other useful tasks. An Appendix prints valuable data on the prison population of South Carolina. III Turnbull 143. Cohen 4567. Not in Harv. Law Cat. or Marke. OCLC 8348549 3- Harvard U Chi. U SC 8348544 2- AAS U SC as of September 2024. R.W. Gibbes, State Printer unknown
1852réf. 21535Columbia S.C.: R.W. Gibbes State Printer 1852. 24pp stitched. Untrimmed minor edgewear generously margined light toning and foxing. Very Good. A rare early informative Report on prisons and South Carolina's criminal law. The Report recommends changes in the penal law; not Hayne assures from "sympathy with the spirit of indiscriminate and sweeping innovation which to some extent is the characteristic of the age and which absolutely runs riot in many of the States of this Confederacy." South Carolina has a low crime rate: "more than half of our population and the portion amongst whom from their position crime would naturally most abound are slaves who are kept in order without a resort to the Courts." But he fears an "alarming" rise in crime in Charleston. Urging greater efficiency "in detecting crime" he recommends employing prosecutors in each district and "physicians for post mortem examinations in murder cases." Hayne wants to streamline outmoded judicial procedures allow appeals "in cases not capital only on cause shown" to curtail the power of pardon with standards to guide issuance of pardons to curb the most wretched prison conditions particularly housing "the arrested debtor and the innocent witness" with "the convicted felon"; and to provide separate cells at night and employ prisoners in shoemaking and other useful tasks. An Appendix prints valuable data on the prison population of South Carolina. III Turnbull 143. Cohen 4567. Not in Harv. Law Cat. or Marke. OCLC 8348549 3- Harvard U Chi. U SC 8348544 2- AAS U SC as of September 2024. R.W. Gibbes, State Printer unknown books
réf. 200912995Paris, Librairie hachette, s.d. ; in-12, 208 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Troisième année. dos froté.
1828réf. 57516Concord NH. March 3 1828. Fighting the "Base and Malignant Falsehoods" of the Federalists Against Andrew Jackson A venomously anti-Federalist supplementary issue of the New Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette issued in support of the Jacksonians in the weeks leading up to the 1828 election. The paper was founded by Isaac Hill called a "profligate liar" by John Quincy Adams in 1809 and continued until 1829 when Hill was appointed second Comptroller of the United States Treasury by Jackson as a reward for his meritorious service to the cause. He was considered a member of Jackson's "Kitchen Cabinet" and became a U.S. Senator and eventually Governor of New Hampshire. In this supplement he uses an aggressive mixture of forceful rhetoric and outright lies to attack the entire Federalist base but none so strongly as his brother-in-law and former collaborator Jacob B. Moore now editor of the pro-Federalist New Hampshire Journal. The first article titled "Murder Will Out" sets the tone for the entire publication: "The mails of Wednesday brought us from an unknown correspondent the following COMPLETE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLANS OF THE WASHINGTON CAUCUS AGENTS in regard to this State: and a more base and foul plot to cheat the people of their rights has never been dragged before the light of day. A more canting hypocritical and malicious attempt to deceive the people was never conceived in the breast of a midnight assassin than is disclosed in the following SECRET circular from JACOB B. MOORE." The supposed circular claims that the Jacksonians were fomenting revolution in New Hampshire and that a vigilance committee should be organized to gauge the strength of support for Jackson locally and combat it if necessary. "Republicans what think you" Hill continues "of having a 'federal Committee of Vigilance' established in every School District to watch your movements - to serve as spies upon your actions - to hunt you down like wild beasts of the forest" The remaining articles are scarcely less confrontational. The second continues Hill's career-long vendetta against Dartmouth College a full nine years after the school's Supreme Court case was settled. In 1816 New Hampshire attempted to alter Dartmouth's charter and effectively convert it into a state institution declaring the original charter granted by the British Crown void. The Marshall Court decided in favor of Dartmouth declaring that states had no power to interfere with private contracts. Hill did not let that slow him down however and he spins a conspiracy that Federalists plan to use the college to hoard the state's entire literary fund and that if allowed to grow it would "establish the Sectarian religion" and "be used as an engine to batter down the bulwark of Republicanism. Our young men would receive their Collegiate degrees after they had imbibed the political sentiments of the federalists and the religious tenets of Hopkins and Edwards." Other articles attempt to discredit the recently published pamphlet An Impartial and True History of the Life and Services of Major-General Jackson defend Jackson's conduct in the 1806 Dickinson duel a major focus of the aforementioned pamphlet attack other federal candidates and complain about the underhanded tactics of the "coffin handbills." The coffin handbills were a series of anti-Jackson broadsides printed with images of coffins and emphasizing the candidate's violent history. Hill goes so far as to accuse his brother-in-law of producing them although by all accounts Moore appears to have been uninvolved: "However adroitly Jacob may manage the six coffins it will not be easy to rid himself of a much more formidable Coffin which will stare him in the face at the polls on Tuesday next week." An interesting and forceful political attack from the contentious election of 1828 issued by one of Jackson's firmest supporters with an unusual focus on the issuer's brother-in-law and chief rival. Folio. Tanned. Light edge wear a few small holes paper flaw in lower right corner. Overall very good. unknown
1828réf. 57516Concord NH. March 3 1828. Fighting the "Base and Malignant Falsehoods" of the Federalists Against Andrew Jackson A venomously anti-Federalist supplementary issue of the New Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette issued in support of the Jacksonians in the weeks leading up to the 1828 election. The paper was founded by Isaac Hill called a "profligate liar" by John Quincy Adams in 1809 and continued until 1829 when Hill was appointed second Comptroller of the United States Treasury by Jackson as a reward for his meritorious service to the cause. He was considered a member of Jackson's "Kitchen Cabinet" and became a U.S. Senator and eventually Governor of New Hampshire. In this supplement he uses an aggressive mixture of forceful rhetoric and outright lies to attack the entire Federalist base but none so strongly as his brother-in-law and former collaborator Jacob B. Moore now editor of the pro-Federalist New Hampshire Journal. The first article titled "Murder Will Out" sets the tone for the entire publication: "The mails of Wednesday brought us from an unknown correspondent the following COMPLETE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLANS OF THE WASHINGTON CAUCUS AGENTS in regard to this State: and a more base and foul plot to cheat the people of their rights has never been dragged before the light of day. A more canting hypocritical and malicious attempt to deceive the people was never conceived in the breast of a midnight assassin than is disclosed in the following SECRET circular from JACOB B. MOORE." The supposed circular claims that the Jacksonians were fomenting revolution in New Hampshire and that a vigilance committee should be organized to gauge the strength of support for Jackson locally and combat it if necessary. "Republicans what think you" Hill continues "of having a 'federal Committee of Vigilance' established in every School District to watch your movements - to serve as spies upon your actions - to hunt you down like wild beasts of the forest" The remaining articles are scarcely less confrontational. The second continues Hill's career-long vendetta against Dartmouth College a full nine years after the school's Supreme Court case was settled. In 1816 New Hampshire attempted to alter Dartmouth's charter and effectively convert it into a state institution declaring the original charter granted by the British Crown void. The Marshall Court decided in favor of Dartmouth declaring that states had no power to interfere with private contracts. Hill did not let that slow him down however and he spins a conspiracy that Federalists plan to use the college to hoard the state's entire literary fund and that if allowed to grow it would "establish the Sectarian religion" and "be used as an engine to batter down the bulwark of Republicanism. Our young men would receive their Collegiate degrees after they had imbibed the political sentiments of the federalists and the religious tenets of Hopkins and Edwards." Other articles attempt to discredit the recently published pamphlet An Impartial and True History of the Life and Services of Major-General Jackson defend Jackson's conduct in the 1806 Dickinson duel a major focus of the aforementioned pamphlet attack other federal candidates and complain about the underhanded tactics of the "coffin handbills." The coffin handbills were a series of anti-Jackson broadsides printed with images of coffins and emphasizing the candidate's violent history. Hill goes so far as to accuse his brother-in-law of producing them although by all accounts Moore appears to have been uninvolved: "However adroitly Jacob may manage the six coffins it will not be easy to rid himself of a much more formidable Coffin which will stare him in the face at the polls on Tuesday next week." An interesting and forceful political attack from the contentious election of 1828 issued by one of Jackson's firmest supporters with an unusual focus on the issuer's brother-in-law and chief rival. Folio. Tanned. Light edge wear a few small holes paper flaw in lower right corner. Overall very good. unknown books
