MR. WEBSTER'S SPEECH ON THE PRESIDENT'S PROTEST:; Delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 7, 1834
by WEBSTER, Daniel
Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1834. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 31. Three copies disbound, two unbound. VG.
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Scientific American, New York, May 21, 1895., Volume LXXII,, No. 4
New York: Munn & Co., No. 361 Broadway, 1895. Ephemera no binding. Very good. Folio (16 ¼" x 11 ¼"); pp322-336; illustrated wrapper; 3" split at tail of wrapper fold, chipping to bottom edge, hand-soiling and shelf-wear to wrapper; very good. Advertised as a Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry and Manufactures. Contents include: The New American Yacht The Defender; Electric Lighting and Heating; Meal of Sunflower Cake; Spectroscopic Observations of Saturn at the Allegheny... Read More
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The Devil and Daniel Webster
by BENÉT, Stephen Vincent; Harold Denisen, illus
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1937]. First Trade Edition. Slim octavo (21cm.); original cloth in blue and white pictorial dust jacket; 61pp.; illus. Light wear to jacket and cloth extremities, jacket edges a bit toned, jacket and cloth spines rather sunned (more so to the former's), slightly later ownership rubberstamp of a Georgia and John Chapman to front free endpaper, front pastedown a bit foxed. Overall Very Good. Faustian novella set in New Hampshire and adapted into film twice,... Read More
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The Fugitive Slave Rescue Trial of Robert Morris: Benjamin Robbins..
by Gordan III, John D.
2013. ISBN-13: 9781616193928. ISBN-10: 1616193921. Gordan, John D., III. The Fugitive Slave Rescue Trial of Robert Morris: Benjamin Robbins Curtis on the Road to Dred Scott. xix, 120 pp. 19 illustrations. Clark, New Jersey: Talbot Publishing, 2013. ISBN-13: 9781616193928. ISBN-10: 1616193921. Hardcover. New. $39.95 * Relying on extensive surviving original records, this book analyzes the November 1851 trial in the federal circuit court of Robert Morris, the second black admitted to practice in Massachusetts, for rescuing a fugitive slave... Read More
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Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster, Delivered in the House of Representatives... on a Bill Making further provisions for filling the ranks of the Regular Army..
by WEBSTER, Daniel
Alexandria: Printed by Snowden & Simms, 1814. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo. 13pp. Removed. A couple of faint horizontal bends, but still very good.
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Report of the Committee of Arrangements Appointed by the Common Council of the City of New York, to Render a Suitable Tribute of Respect to the Memory of the Hon. Daniel Webster Late Secretary of State of the United States
New York: McSpedon & Baker, 1853. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good with a bookplate on the front pastedown, fraying at the spine ends, corners worn through.
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Speech of Mr. Webster on Mr. Clay's Resolutions. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 7, 1850
by Webster, [Daniel]
[Washington, D.C.]: Gideon & Co., Printers, 1850. Second edition. Self wrappers. Very good untrimmed, partially unopened copy, top edge sunned, a few untrimmed edges worn.. 15 pp. 8vo. In supporting Clay's compromise, Webster alienated his Northern supporters and friends, which, as Goodspeed noted in an early catalogue, led to Whittier's poem Ichabod: “So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn, Which once he wore!, The glory from his gray hairs gone, Forevermore!” LCP. Afro-Americana, 11020.
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REMARKS...ON THE REMOVAL OF THE DEPOSITES (sic), AND ON THE SUBJECT OF A NATIONAL BANK:; Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January, 1834
by WEBSTER, Daniel
Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1834. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 21. Disbound. A VG clean copy.
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AN ORATION,; Pronounced at Hanover, New-Hampshire, the 4th day of July, 1800; being the twenty-fourth anniversary of American independence
by WEBSTER, Daniel
Hanover NH: Moses Davis, 1884. A type facsimile of the first edition. 8vo, pp. 15. Printed self wraps (lacks the top foredge corner) Cover and edges chipped. See Evans 39035; OCLC: 44164760; Sabin, 102254. Scarce. This is Webster's first published work, a speech delivered when he was but 18 years old. Daniel Webster, b. Salisbury, N.H., Jan. 18, 1782, d. Oct. 24, 1852, statesman, lawyer, and orator, was his era's foremost advocate of American nationalism. A farmer's son, he... Read More
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The New Neurotic Realism
by Price, Dick
London: Saatchi Gallery, 1998. Hardcover. VG/VG. Color-illustrated boards with white lettering, matching dust jacket. Unpaginated. Color illustrations. Contents: David Falconer -- Steven Gontarski -- Brian C. Griffiths -- Roger Hiorns -- Mark Hosking -- Ron Mueck -- Tim Noble & Sue Webster -- Andreas Schlaegel -- Tomoko Takahashi -- Keith Wilson -- Luke Gottelier -- Tom Hunter -- Sarah Jones -- Katia Liebmann -- Paul Smith -- Hannah Starkey -- Jason Brooks -- Cecily Brown -- Daniel Coombs... Read More
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SPEECH...ON MOVING FOR LEAVE TO INTRODUCE A BILL TO CONTINUE THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES FOR SIX YEARS.; Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 18, 1834
by WEBSTER, Daniel
Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1834. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 16. Disbound. Some foxing, o/w VG. Another copy, edges chipped, some foxing and browning, o/w VG.
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The Papers of Daniel Webster: Speeches and Formal Writings (Series Four, Vol. 1: 1800-1833 & Vol. 2: 1834-1852)
by WILTSE, Charles M. & BEROLZHEIMER, Alan R.
Hanover: University Press of New England, 1986. hardcover. near fine. 2 volumes. 641 & 700 pages. Thick 8vos, black and greenish-grey cloth, maroon spines. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1986. A near fine set.
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The American Art Journal, Volume IV, Number 2, November 1972
by Morse, John D. and Lawrence A. Fleischman (Editors)
New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1972. Softcover. VG, clean, bright and tight. Very light shelf wear to covers.. Mustard yellow wraps with black lettering and bw illus. 125 pp. with bw figures throughout, numbered by article. The articles in this issue were presented as papers at the Symposium on Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture in Wilmington, Delaware, on April 14, 1972. This was the first concentrated research on the subject with papers by Richard P. WUnder, William H. Gerdts, J. Carson... Read More
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The American Biographical Sketch Book
by Hunt, William
New York: Nafis & Cornish, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. fair. Lg. octavo. 408pp. Original cloth richly decorated in gold. Marbled page edges. Frontisportrait of Zaddock Pratt. Engraved title-page. Includes biographies of 18th & 19th centuries American personalities such as John Quincy Adams, Benjamin Franklin, James Fennimore Cooper, Thomas Jefferson, Washington Irving, Frederick Tallamadge, Martin van Buren, Daniel Webster, and many others. Illustrated with b/w reproductions of engravings and drawings. Heavy age wear and staining on binding. Head and... Read More
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SPEECH...IN THE SENATE, IN REPLY TO MR. CALHOUN'S SPEECH,; On the bill "Further to provide for the collection of duties on imports." Delivered on the 16th of February, 1833
by WEBSTER, Daniel
Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1833. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 48. Two copies, one disbound, the other unbound. VG. S&S 22568 (5).
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The Rhode Island Question. Mr. Webster's Argument in the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Case of Martin Luther vs. Luther M. Borden and Others, January 27th, 1848
by WEBSTER, Daniel
Washington: J. & G. S. Gideon, 1848. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 26pp. Printed beige wrappers. Very faint pencil name and a small spot, both on front wrap, tiny nick in one corner, light vertical crease, a very good copy.
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Speeches and Forensic Arguments
by Webster, Daniel
Boston: Perkins & Marvin and Gray & Bowen, 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. [1], viii, 520 pages, [1]. Frontispiece engraving of Webster. Paper covered boards with paper title label on the spine. Untrimmed text edges. Binding is in poor condition. Both covers are detached. Tears to the cloth spine. Light to moderate scattered foxing throughout the text. Contents include speeches commemorating Plymouth settlement 1820; Speech on the Bank of the United States 1815; Speech on the Tariff... Read More
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The Unequalled Collection of Engraved Portraits Belonging to Hon. James T. Mitchell...Embracing Statesmen of the Colonial, Revolutionary and Present time, Including the Extensive Collection of Portraits of Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Henry Laurens, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster, also Chief and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, Attorneys-General of the United States, Judges, Lawyers..
by Mitchell, James Tyndale and Howard Coppuck Levis
[Philadelphia]: [not identified], 1907. Catalogue No. 944, Part V.. Paperback. Good- (Front cover is separated from the textblock; plate between pages 118 and 119 has dampstaining at the top; wraps has extensive shelf/edgewear, sunning and chipping; pages are age-toned and shelf/edgeworn; textblock has shelf/edgewear; price list has a closed tear at the top.). Green wraps with a mounted illustration and black lettering; three preliminary leaves; 134 untrimmed pp.; frontispiece; richly illustrated; unopened price list and "Notice" sheet is... Read More
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The Death of Mr. Webster: A Sermon Preached in Hollis-Street Meeting-House, on Sunday, Oct. 31, 1852. By Thomas Start King, Pastor of the Church
by King, Thomas Starr
Boston: Benjamin H. Greene, 1852. First edition. Cloth spine over stitched paper wrappers. Browned at the edges, front wrapper soiled, rear wrapper chipped at the edges, otherwise about very good.. 40 pp. 8vo. Thomas Starr King (1824-1864), a Universalist and a Unitarian minister, later moved to California and lectured widely, including "Webster and the Constitution" as one of his standard pieces. Sabin 37844.
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Book of Americans
by Benet, Rosemary & Stephen Vincent
New York: Rinehart & Co, 1933 115 pgs. Turquoise cloth pictorially stamped in red and black, previous owner's name in the margin of table of contents; pictorial dust jacket with light dust soil and slightly darkened spine, original price intact ($3.00). Poems about famous Americans, illustrated with detailed woodcuts by Charles Child. Stephen Vincent Benet is best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning poem, John Brown's Body and his short stories, "The Devil & Daniel Webster," and "By... Read More
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The Devil and Daniel Webster
by BENET, Stephen Vincent
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Reprint (probably third printing). Illustrated nu Harold Dennison. A bit of wear at the crown near very good, in good third printing dustwrapper with chipping and tears mostly on the spine ends. Bookplate of Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin on front pastedown. Benét's most famous story, one of the most anthologized stories in American literature, a wonderful New England-folktale version of *Faust*.
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Educated Dogs of To-Day
by Dogs. Sanborn, kate (Auth)
Boston: Privately Printed / McGrath-Sherrill Press, 1916 77 pgs. Grey paper over boards with pastedown to upper cover, titled in black ink, unevenly soiled upper cover, extremities worn, bookplate removed from endpaper, light to moderate foxing, some offsetting opposite photo illustrations. A survey of various working dogs including, Life Saving, Police, Fire Department, Military, Brotherhood of Hero Dogs, Dogs Trained for the Stage, Friends and Companions, Burden and Service, and Hunting. Printed on high quality paper. Illustrated with photographs and... Read More
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A Review of "A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster, Preached at the Melodeon on Sunday, October 31, 1852, by Theodore Parker, Minister of the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society in Boston."
by Junius Americanus (George Osborne Stearns, pseud.)
Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1853. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Wrappers chipped, edges darkened, tear to top corner of title page, offsetting on two pages, else leaves clean; overall a good+ or better copy.. 89 pp. 8vo. Presentation copy (only first name remains) signed "With the Respects of the Author." Theodore Parker was a New England Transcendentalist and anti-slavery activist. Stearns felt Parker's sermon pernicious: "By an unheard of ferocity of attack upon the dead... Read More
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning.
by LEE, Laurie.
London:: Folio Society,. Fine. 2011. Hardcover. Introduction by Jason Webster. Second printing thus. Fine in a fine slipcase. .
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Catalogue of 3,800 Named and Dated American Silhouette Portraits by August Edouart 1789-1961
by Jackson, Mrs. F. Nevill
Kennington: Wakeham Typ. (Printers), n/d. Softcover. Good. Clean, tight interior, but covers have detached, and back cover has foxing.. Pale green paper wraps with black lettering. 32 pp. with images inside both covers. Catalogue of silhouette portraits by Edouart. They were very popular at one time. A few are pictured: John Tyler, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Franklin Pierce, Millard Filmore, The Foote Family, and The Carry Family. The History of a Great Collection, about Edouart, who was the... Read More
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