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185640839Washington 1856. 30 2 blank pp. Disbound else Very Good. <br /> <br /> This campaign document charges Republicans with stirring up "wild excitement" in Kansas. <br /> 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." <br /> This item supports Pierce Administration policies in the Kansas-Nebraska struggle and urges the decisive defeat of Republicans. <br /> FIRST EDITION. Sabin 35271. unknown
184041247Albany N.Y.: Thomas M. Burt. 1840. Caption title 8 pages pages 249-256. The 24 September 1840 issue. No. 32 of this short-lived periodical. Caption title printed in three columns per page 8 pages. Old folds chips at upper margin with a pinhole affecting two letters in the running title at page 250. Else Very Good. <br /> <br /> This Democratic periodical supports the Democratic Presidential ticket of Martin Van Buren and Richard Johnson. For State offices the Rough-Hewer favors William Bouck for Governor and Deniel Dickinson for Lieut. Governor. Presidential electors are listed by district.<br /> The Whig candidate William Henry Harrison is excoriated as are Whig banking and other public policies. <br /> AI 40-5891 5. Thomas M. Burt. unknown
184028849Albany N.Y. 1840. Folio issue of this short-lived periodical: October 15 1840. Caption title printed in three columns per page 8 pages. Untrimmed and uncut widely margined light fox and wear. A few tiny holes in the October issue affecting a couple of letters. Good. <br /> <br /> This Democratic periodical supports the Jackson-Van Buren credit and banking program and blasts the Whig William Henry Harrison. Its motto: "New-York must be redeemed." The Rough-Hewer warns of "The great money conspiracy between the British Whigs in England and America. The British Press and the British Fund Mongers are electioneering for Harrison." <br /> AI 40-5891 5. unknown
185243708Boston: Beals Greene & Co 1852. First edition. Stitched self wrappers. A very good copy scant foxing to wrappers vertical mail fold. 24 pp. Two columns. 8vo. At head of title: From the Boston post. Written in response to rumors and allegations from the Whig party that Franklin Pierce was religiously intolerant especially aimed at Irish Catholics. "in American political contests the searching questions ought to be ever as to a candidate ’Is he honest is he capable Is He Faithful to the Constitution’ while an approach to any thing like the popery cry of the British Tory party or an appeal to a sect as such ought to be severely denounced as violative of the spirit of our institutions." Also includes "vote of the towns" the convention of 1850 and the religious test amendments of the Constitution concerning religion Catholic sentiment and more. Not in Miles. Not in Sabin. Beals, Greene, & Co unknown
186411025Washington: Towers for the Union Congressional Committee 1864. 7 1pp. Loosened caption title as issued. Light wear and soil Good. <br /> <br /> An appeal for the votes of the troops "the working hands by which the nation's honor and manhood have been vindicated" in the upcoming presidential election. "Through four years of dread war in bright and dark days you have carried the Union in your hearts and on your bayonets." Opposing the Democrat-Copperhead platform as treasonous this pamphlet exhorts "If ever there was a time when Union bayonets were called on to think it is now. The crisis of the war when our armies have the rebellion in their grasp and are preparing to deal its death-blow finds the country precipitated into the turmoil of a Presidential election." FIRST EDITION. Sabin 24237. Towers for the Union Congressional Committee unknown
185618521Indianapolis 1856. 16pp disbound. Scattered foxing. Good. <br /> <br /> A Democratic presidential campaign pamphlet. It charges that during the brief time that Fremont "the Black Republican candidate for the Presidency" was a U.S. Senator his votes-- opposing the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia-- showed him "to be a most ultra pro-slavery man." The hypocritical Republicans "use the language of patriotism and of love for the Union.whilst their votes their acts and their organization lead only to a dissolution and all the evils that must follow." The Know-Nothings are just as bad: they "have waged a cruel and relentless war upon foreigners and members of the Roman Catholic church. These classes have been proscribed." Moreover "Abolitionism and Know-nothingism were allies." <br /> FIRST EDITION. LCP 3837. 112 Eberstadt 150d. Not in Sabin Decker Miles. unknown
187240016np. 1872. 8pp. Disbound loosened with caption title as issued. Good. <br /> <br /> An anti-Greeley presidential campaign pamphlet. Running as a Liberal Republican in 1872 against Grant Administration corruption and incompetence Greeley unfortunately had a detailed public record demonstrating a mercurial inconsistency on public issues. <br /> As this pamphlet says "Sudden changes of opinion always excite distrust unless they are accompanied by causes so adequate and apparent that the metamorphosis is at once explained." This item shows that Greeley's shifts flunk the test.<br /> Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker. Not uncommon in institutional holdings according to OCLC. unknown
185217434np 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
185614821np 1856. Folded old binder holes in blank inner margin. 16pp. Light wear and tan. Good to Very Good. <br /> <br /> 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." <br /> FIRST EDITION. Sabin 68197. unknown
19662110502150311587Aichi County Election Administration Commission 1966. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Aichi County Election Administration Commission paperback
19962092902143701502Kyoto City Election Administration Commission 1996. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 1 book Size: 26-30cm Kyoto City Election Administration Commission paperback
19852092902143701509Kyoto City Election Administration Commission 1985. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 1 book Size: 26-30cm Kyoto City Election Administration Commission paperback
19682091502135402933Not Available 1968. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Not Available paperback
19602110502150303419Aichi County Election Administration Commission 1960. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Aichi County Election Administration Commission paperback
19562110502150301849Aichi County Election Administration Commission 1956. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Aichi County Election Administration Commission paperback
186033068Washington City: Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee 1860. 8pp caption title as issued. Disbound with light wear Good.<br /> <br /> Breckinridge Buchanan's Vice President was the 1860 presidential standard-bearer of the Southern Rights branch of the Democratic Party which had split with Stephen Douglas supporters during the 1860 nominating convention. Douglas had defied Buchanan and broken with him over the Kansas issue. This campaign piece demonstrating Northern support for the Breckinridge-Lane ticket charges the Douglas faction with unfairness hypocrisy and illegal attempts to silence the Southern Democrats at the abortive Democratic Convention at Baltimore. <br /> LCP 4504. Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee unknown
182836782Providence 1828. Elephant folio sheet folded to 4 pp each 15-1/4" x 22-1/2." Old folds toned several small holes and a fold split affecting a few letters. Good<br /> <br /> Issued only a month before the presidential election this paper leaves no doubt about where it stands. The Jackson-Calhoun ticket is the "BLOOD AND CARNAGE TICKET" condemning Jackson's duel with Dickinson his attempt "to assassinate" Senator Benton charging that he "he sheltered and caressed the infamous BURR at his house in 1806 and noting as well his tyranny in New Orleans and his butchery in Florida. Calhoun is "the head of the attempted rebellion in the South in 1828" a reference to Nullification.<br /> The paper endorses John Quincy Adams for a second term his first having been "singularly prosperous. unknown
186432264Albany: Weed Parsons and Company 1864. 81-96 pages as issued. Each page printed in two columns. Disbound and lightly foxed Good. <br /> <br /> Emphasizing Lincoln's support among all lovers of the Union regardless of Party this campaign pamphlet paints the Democrats as treasonous followers of the Copperhead Congressman Clement Vallandigham. "The Vallandigham platform is merely an attempt of the Richmond authorities to run the blockade of Northern ballot boxes Montgomery Constitution in hand."<br /> Not in Sabin Monaghan or Bartlett. OCLC records eleven locations as of July 2015 under two accession numbers. Weed, Parsons and Company unknown
1713539311713. 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
184819816Washington: Published Under Authority of the National and Jackson Democratic Association Committee 1848. 16pp untrimmed and folded blank top edge chipped. Toned. Good or so. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> 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. <br /> Sabin 91633n. 111 Eberstadt 113. Published Under Authority of the National and Jackson Democratic Association Committee unknown
184840827Washington: Gideon 1848. 8pp caption title as issued. Disbound and lightly foxed. Good. <br /> <br /> 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." <br /> FIRST EDITION. Wise & Cronin Taylor 27. Not in Sabin Miles Eberstadt Decker LCP. Gideon unknown
186815098Washington: Union Republican Congressional Committee 1868. 8pp Disbound caption title as issued. Printed in double columns. Good or so. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> FIRST EDITION. Sabin 51020. 396 NUC 0804998 1- DLC. Not in Eberstadt Decker. Union Republican Congressional Committee unknown
18486729Washington: Towers 1848. 8pp disbound else Very Good with caption title as issued. <br /> <br /> 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." <br /> 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. <br /> Sabin 11350. Streeter MI 612. Towers unknown
19332092902137405948police training school 1933. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 police training school paperback
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
