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1861List3000Boston Massachusetts: William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp 1861. Single sheet letterpress broadside measuring 18 x 24 ½ inches. Folded with small tears at folds and marginal damage; excellent to Near Fine. Offered here is a “phonographic report†i.e. it includes the audience’s reaction of a speech delivered by abolitionist Wendell Phillips 1811–1884 to the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society in Boston on April 21 1861. The report was printed in an extra of William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator newspaper. Shortly following the first Battle of Fort Sumter the speech finds Phillips throwing his full support behind the cause of war. He insists to his audience:<br /> <br /> “The anti-slavery enterprise to which I belong started with peace written on its banner. We imagined that the age of bullets was over; that the age of ideas had come; that thirty millions of people were able to stake a great question and decide it by the conflict of opinions; and without letting the ship of State founder lift four millions of men into Liberty and Justice. . Our mistake if any has been that we counted too much on the intelligence of the masses on the honesty and wisdom of statesmen as a class. . The North thinks—can appreciate argument—is in the nineteenth century—hardly any struggle left in it but that between the working class and the money kings. The South dreams—it is the thirteenth and fourteenth century—baron and serf—noble and slave. . Our struggle therefore is no struggle between different ideas but between barbarism and civilization. Such can only be settled by arms. Prolonged cheering.â€<br /> <br /> We find three copies of this newspaper in OCLC. Of interest to scholars of Phillips’ work and of abolitionism especially Boston abolitionists.<br /> <br /> 1 “Wendell Phillips Dead: The Last Hours Of One Of The Apostles Of Abolition†The New York Times February 3 1884 1. William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp unknown
1859833001859. PRINTS - BOSTON SOUTH BOSTON 1859 HANDCOLORED LITHOGRAPH BY JOSEPH FOXCROFT COLE. Boston: J. F. A. Cole ca. 1859. Image matted to 22 x 29 1/2 inches. Three spots of browning to the sky area faint arc of foxing a few more to the scenes below the main image. Main image features a main intersection of roads one signposted "G Street Ward 12". Great perspective. Very good overall. Below the title is printed: "To the citizens of South Boston this picture is most respectfully dedicated by the Artist. unknown
1868150997Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son City Printers 1868. The land of Washington has greeted the land of Confucius First edition in wrappers of this work commemorating the August 1868 visit to Boston by the first Chinese embassy to the United States. The contents includes the text of a banquet speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson articulating Confucianism's contribution to notions of human goodness. In 1867 the Qing court appointed the Bostonian Anson Burlingame 1820-1870 as its envoy extraordinary to the Western powers and the following year Burlingame led China's first official embassy to the United States and Europe. Burlingame was the ideal choice for such a task possessing "a frank noble disposition habits of industry a charming and persuasive manner and promising talents as an orator" quoted in the ANB. With the Chinese ministers Zhigang and Sun Jiagu at his side Burlingame landed on America's Pacific Coast in March 1868 before city-hopping eastwards and reaching Washington in June. There after extended negotiations the two parties concluded the landmark Burlingame-Seward Treaty the first time a foreign power explicitly recognized China's sovereignty. Following these negotiations the embassy journeyed to Boston staying between 20 August and 2 September. The present commemorative volume prints the full text of speeches given at the welcome reception and grand banquet. Other sections detail the engagements laid on for Burlingame and his party such as visits to the governor's mansion and local manufacturing sites. Burlingame's effusive and somewhat hyperbolic words at the banquet capture the historical importance of the embassy: "the presence here of my associates with the sunshine of the Orient upon their faces and the warmth of its fires in their hearts arouses more emotions than the most eloquent tongue can express. The land of Washington has greeted the land of Confucius. The great thoughts of the one have been wedded to the great deeds of the other" p. 20. Pages 52-55 contain the text of a speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson who was invited to address the welcome banquet. To attendees Emerson extolled the longevity of China's culture and its scientific technological and cultural successes achieved long before those of European countries. Discussing Chinese philosophy Emerson praised Confucius as having anticipated Jesus' teachings of goodness towards others by five hundred years - an expression of Confucianism's sustained influence on Emerson's transcendentalism. "Confucianism reinforced Emerson's emphasis on the moral imperative for every individual and. the Confucian ideal of the ethical solitary learned and decorous man certainly appealed to Emerson's sense of himself" Versluis p. 70. The speech was later reprinted in his Miscellanies 1904. Copies of the present work were also bound in cloth with no stated priority between the two bindings. Octavo. Emblem of the city of Boston to title page. Original blue coated card wrappers title and emblem of the city of Boston to front cover in black. Small pencilled annotation to front cover library stamp of Tufts College to title page. Wrappers lightly soiled and rubbed in places with one small chip slight colour bleed to verso of wrappers internally clean and bright. A very good copy of this fragile publication. BAL III 23. Arthur Versluis American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions 1993. hardcover
183590478Boston MA: Prentiss Whitney / Boston Bewick Company 1835. Broadside. Fine. 26 x 21 x 1.0. Broadside. Condition: Fine. Prentiss Whitney / Boston Bewick Company Boston MA 1835. 1 pages. Paper on cloth backing hand-colored covered with a thin ancient layer of protective lacquer or varnish. No folds or tears. Short wrinkles on the untaut paper surface. Framed in glass. Size: 26 x 21 x 1.0. An imposing and beautiful broadside document! Prentiss Whitney of Boston Massachusetts published this beautiful copy of the Declaration of Independence. It is approximately 26"" tall by 21"" wide. It has a four-line title printed in 4 different fonts. The text of the document is primarily in a handscript font with some words enlarged and bolded in print type of four different fonts. Bottom section contains the signature replicas. The entire document is surrounded by two intertwined vines which encircle 13 state medallions filled with symbolic vignettes and an eagle and shield Federal medallion. Vines and medallions are fully hand-colored. At the very bottom is printed: 'STEREOTYPED BY THE BOSTON BEWICK COMPANY. PUBLISHED BY PRENTISS WHITNEY 30 WASHINGTON STREET.' It is undated but probably published in 1835. Prentiss Whitney 1787-1870 was an auctioneer publisher of historic patriotic American prints and an entrepreneurial investor at 30 Washington St. Boston in the 1830's and 1840's. His ancestor Rev. Peter Whitney of Northborough Ma was one of the first to call for publishing the Declaration of Independence 'American independence vindicated. A sermon delivered September 12 1776. At a lecture appointed for publishing the Declaration of Independence passed July 4 1776. By the representatives of the United States of America in general congress assembled'. The Boston Bewick Company no. 47 Court Street Boston was an association of authors artists printers and bookbinders which was in existence from 1834-1838. It is mostly known for producing engravings and for hiring Nathaniel Hawthorne as editor of the 'American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge'. The Act to incorporate the Boston Bewick Company states it is founded for: 'the purpose of employing improving and extending the art of engraving polytyping embossing and printing and carrying on the business thereof.' 1835 Boston Bewick ad: 'Engraving Stereotyping and Printing.: Boston Bewick Company. The Boston Bewick Company Respectfully Give Notice that They are Ready to Receive Orders for Engraving on Wood Steel and Copper; and for Copper-plate Letter Press and Xylographic Printing in All Their Branches.' Prentiss Whitney's prints are excessively scarce. The only other known copy of Whitney's 'Declaration' is in the Albert H. Small Declaration of Independence Collection University of Virginia. Whitney's other prints include an 1835 engraving titled 'Destruction of Tea in Boston Harbor in 1773' which was painted by artist George Loring Brown and engraved by Richard P. Mallory Collection of the Boston Athenaeum. 'The Capture of H.B.M. Sloop of War Frolic Capn. Whinyates by the U.S. Sloop of War Wasp Capn. Jab Jones on the 18th of Oct. 1812' Aquatint drawn and engraved by F. Kearny from a sketch by Lieutenant Claxton of the Wasp U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis. 'The Battle at Bunker's Hill or the Death of General Warren' Painted by John Trumbull and engraved by J. Norman. History::U.S.A.::Pre-Civil War Military History::USA::Revolutionary War History::U.S.A.::General/Other RBRoffice RBRoffice Prentiss Whitney / Boston Bewick Company unknown
