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The American Safeguard or the Constitution of the United States with its Political History. Also containing a Brief Treatise on Political Economy

1867réf. 376703Salem OR: W.A. McPherson & Co 1867. First edition. 381 pp. 1 full-page illustration. 8vo. Contemporary three quarter roan over cloth gilt title to spine. Some rubbing and wear to extremities rear joint cracked front board detaching interior unevenly toned but clean. Housed in tan slipcase with leather spine labels. Provenance: C.C. Went 1897 signature. First edition. 381 pp. 1 full-page illustration. 8vo. The state legislator's second book The American Safeguard was principally intended as a manual for politicians particularly the sections on parliamentary practice which were probably targeted at Cox's more indecorous colleagues but also designed to be used in classrooms and as a layman's guide. As was sometimes the case for Cox himself given his Democratic political leanings news of the work's publication received a frosty reception in the local press including the Oregon Sentinel: "Give us the constitution and tell us what the big words mean; but.spare us the marginal notes especially if they are Confederate Currency." The text of the U.S. Constitution featuring the newly ratified Thirteenth Amendment is indeed accompanied by an "analytical index" and a series of "political definitions." But Cox surprised audiences with the work's "Treatise upon the Government and History of the United States" and "Manual of Political Economy" both of which contradicted Democratic orthodoxies on slavery and protective tariffs. "We must congratulate Mr. Cox on the breadth of his views and the justness of his sentiments" writes a contemporary reviewer in the Portland Oregonian. "He has completely vindicated the course of his political opponents and exposed the errors of his own party." The work was reissued in California in 1893; both editions are scarce. Maloney Alice Bay. "The Distressingly Virtuous Isaac: Biographical Notes on Isaac Cox Author of 'The Annals of Trinity County.'" California Historical Society Quarterly vol. 21 no. 2 1942 pp. 127-40 W.A. McPherson & Co unknown books

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(West, CE; Macgowan, DJ; Hayes, Isaac L; Towbridge, WP; Weinland, DF; and Lyell, Charles). Silliman, Benjamin; Silliman, B Jr; aBiblio.com

THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. Conducted by Professors B. Silliman B. Silliman Jr. and James D. Dana in Connection with Prof. Asa Gray of Cambridge Prof. Louis Agassiz of Cambridge Dr. Wolcott Gibbs of New York. SECOND SERIES VOL. XXVI.-November 1858.

1858réf. 96770New Haven: E. Hayes Printer 1858. 1858. Good. - Octavo 9-7/8 inches high by 6 inches wide. Softcover light grey printed wraps. The edges of the covers are chipped with a few short tears. There is dampstaining along the front edge of the front cover and bottom inner corners of both covers. viii & 456 pages illustrated with 2 folding charts.Both are charts of the "U.S. Coast Survey / A.D. Bache superintendent" the first being "Sketches Nos. 1 to 5 / Showing the set of currents in Sandy Hook Bay". The other is a folding chart depicting the "Curves Illustrating the Descent of the Sounding Weight and Line in Deep Sea Soundings 1858". There is dampstaining to the front edge of the first 74 pages and the top corner of several other pages. Good. Included is an article "On an Earthquake in Western New York" by C.E. West pages 177 through 182; an article "On Chinese Poisons" by D.J. Macgowan M.D.; "Observations upon the Practicability of reaching the North Pole - with a map" by Isaac L. Hayes M.D. no map was published pages 305 through 323; an article on "The Atlantic Cable" pages 285 through 288; an article on "Photography - Sensitiveness of Photographic Reagents" page 397; W.P. Towbridge "On Deep Sea Explorations" pages 386-391; G.C. Swallow of Missouri on "The Rocks of Kansas" pages 182 through 186; "Sixth Supplement to Dana's Mineralogy" by the author pages 345 through 364; D.F. Weinland on the "Zoology of Hayti" i.e. Haiti pages 210 through 214; and Charles Lyell "On the Formation of Volcanic Cones" pages 214 through 219. New Haven: E. Hayes, Printer, 1858. paperback