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Roberts Isaac PhillipsABAA

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FARM BOY

Wistar Isaac JonesABAA

Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar 1827-1905: Half Century in War and Peace

19374725Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology 1937. 528pp. Quarto 26 cm Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Spine of jacket sunned. Former owner's blind stamp on the endsheets. "When one not inordinately addicted to discoursing of himself begins to contemplate a lapse from such negative virtue." Isaac J. Wistar who never confused modesty with self-repression opens his autobiography in this forbidding Victorian language. But he soon shifts to easily written easily read narrative reflecting Dana's 'Two Years Before the Mast' in its salt-tanged sea tales; twinkling here and there with a roguish humor not unworthy of Mark Twain his contemporary; and pausing at the end of blood-and-thunder passages for Wistar the adventurer to allow the scientific-minded Wistar to relate some wound treatment or psychological observation. For Wistar lived through remarkable times and made the most of them. He traveled across the continent with the vanguard of the Forty-Niners in a journey almost epic in itself. he earned and lost small fortunes as a miner trapper muleteer speculator and lawyer before he was thirty such was his versatility. He never hesitated to pistol club or butt anyone who crossed him; yet the Governor of California singled him out to suppress the Vigilante rioters of 1856. He stood armed to fight Abolitionists and believed ardently in states rights; yet his privately raised regiment is credited with saving the Union at Gettysburg and in the Seven Days Battles. All these seeming inconsistencies become an orderly part of the picture of the day in Isaac J. Wistar's forceful writing of his autobiography. It is the last word from a leader of a vanished American generation." - from the jacket. Graff 4724. Howes W598. The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology unknown books

Tschanz Rare Books · États-Unis35,00 $US≈ 29,61 €

Fowler Isaac VanderbeckABAA

Autograph Letter Signed of New York City Post Master and Tammany Hall Grand Sachem Isaac Vanderbeck Fowler to another Post Master concerning the founding of the newspaper â€œWashington Unionâ€ to be used as political organ for the Democratic Party 1858

30857Quarto 1 page dated 12 May 1858 written by New York City Post-Master Isaac V. Fowler to a fellow Post Master requesting his help is promoting and signing subscribers to a new Democratic newspaper the Washington Union.Isaac Vanderbeck Fowler 1818-1869Isaac Vanderbeck Fowler 1818-1869 was thrice the Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society better known as Tammany Hall from 1848â€“1850 1857â€“1858 and 1858â€“1859 the last term shared with William M. "Boss" Tweed. He was appointed Postmaster of New York City by President Franklin Pierce on April 1 1853 and was also a delegate from New York to the 1860 Democratic National Convention. Fowler was an unusual leader of the Tammany Society as he was a college graduate. He also moved in the better social circles and convinced a number of rich young men to join the organization. However Fowler had long lived beyond his means and on 10 May 1860 was removed from his office as Postmaster and a warrant was issued for his arrest accusing him of embezzling $155554. Fowler who had also produced the $2500 to buy off the Republican Peter P. Voorhis on the city's Board of Supervisors was staying at a hotel when the warrant for his arrest was issued. The responsibility for Fowler's arrest was given to Isaiah Rynders another Tammany operative who was serving as a United States marshal at the time. Rynders made enough ruckus upon entering the hotel where Fowler was staying that Fowler was able to escape to Mexico. Fowler eluded capture and traveled to Mexico and Cuba. On July 5 1866 the District Attorney filed a nolle prosequi saying that he no longer intended to prosecute Fowler for his misdeeds. Sometime after that Fowler returned to the United States.Fowler died on 29 September 1869 in Chicago Illinois and was at the time planning to return to New York City."Post Office New YorkMay 12th 1858To the Post MasterDear SirI beg leave most earnestly to call your attention to the propriety of taking immediate and effective measures to increase the circulation of the WashingtonUnion. This is a measure in which our political friends at the seat of Government may naturally take a deep interest. The importance to our party of an able firm liberal central organ which shall have a wide and general circulation cannot be too highly estimated. In a free country the Press has an influence and power which should be effectively invoked for the support of the popular party. We have been heretofore too neglectful of this point. By now attending to it with efficiency and concert of action we can more than in any other way disseminate those broad and national principles the acceptance of which will not only aid the success of our party but promote the prosperity and harmony of our country. On the fly-leaf of this letter you will find a prospectusof the Union and you are requested at once to get as many subscribers as possible & forward the same to me. And I can assure you your aid in this matter will not only be gratifying to the Administration but also to our active friends at Washington & in this city.Yours respectfully & trulyIsaac V. Fowler" books

Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC · États-Unis125,00 $US≈ 105,76 €