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London: G. Wilkie, J. Cuthell, J. Stockdale, [et al.], 1816. 8vo. Leaves 21 x 13 cm. [2], xxviii, 554 pages, plus frontispiece portrait of the author. Indexes to the text and the editor's footnotes. Contemporary quarter calf with raised bands and gilt spine decorations over marbled boards with calf tips. Light wear to extremities; rubbing and a few scuffs to boards; front joint very slightly started at the base, but the binding is solid. Marginal foxing to the frontispiece; title page a little tanned and with offsetting from the frontispiece; light scattered foxing throughout. Still, about very good. Later edition. Stated as "A New Edition, with supplemental notes, and a preface biographical and critical," but probably the third edition thus, the first such having been published in 1807 soon after de Lolme's death. The work originally appeared in French in 1771 with an edition in English following in 1775. A landmark study of the English constitution. Well-received in Britain and on… Read More

London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1863. xiii, [1], 57 pages. Original printed wraps bound into red library cloth with gilt spine title and gilt call number on front cover. [21 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on title and one other leaf, and small number stamp on verso of title and in margin of one other page. Else very good. A few tiny traces of foxing, but interior is generally clean and bright. Later printing, issued within a few months of the first. Stated as the "tenth thousand." I have also seen references to issues stated as the "fifth thousand" and "seventh thousand." The "letter" is dated Oct. 30, 1863. George McHenry was a pro-Confederate Pennsylvanian, who moved to England at the outbreak of the Civil War. He formerly served as a director of the Philadelphia Board of Trade. He promoted the Southern cause in the Britain and published a book, "The Cotton Trade: Its Bearing upon the… Read More

New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1899. [10], 472 pages. Original dark blue cloth, lettered in gold. Top edge gilt. [22.7 cm.] A bright, near fine copy with slightest rubbing to spine ends and corners, small, very faint spot to front cover, and some light offsetting, apparently from original dust jacket (not present) on two preliminary pages and the rear endpapers. Partially unopened. FIRST EDITION. American politcs, 1815 to 1840. Discusses origin of Jackson/Clay feud; Missouri Compromise; Jackson's election and rise of Jacksonian democracy; Tariff of 1832 and the Nullification crisis; National Bank; recognition of Texas; etc.

N.Y.: Greely & McElrath, Tribune Office, [1844. Imprint at base of p. [1].] 12 pages. Self-wraps; stab-stitched (perhaps added). 22 x 13.5 cm. Removed from a bound volume. Small paper remnant on the gutter of the first page (from later plain wraps, removed and retained). Else good only. Short closed tear to first and final leaves, affecting one word with no loss; scattered foxing and soiling; tiny hole to margin of one leaf. Provenance: Small printed bookplate of Joseph Keith Newell (1837-1895), Springfield, Mass., who served in the Civil War as a captain of Co. I, 10th Massachusetts. He later wrote the regimental history, “Ours:” Annals of the 10th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers (1875) and was a merchant and councilman in his native city. Newell's bookplate appears on the aforementioned later wraps. (The wraps also bear later library treatments and are crudely bound in a library folder, but there are no marks to the pamphlet itself). EARLY EDITION, PERHAPS THE FIRST. There… Read More

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [1948-1950]. Two volumes. xv, [1], 607 and vii, [1], 608 pages, plus portrait frontispiece and plates in each volume. Original red cloth. 24 x 16 cm. Very good plus in good only dust jackets. Bookplate on each front pastedown, mild marginal foxing to plates and facing pages, still a nice set. Jackets are rubbed and soiled and have several tears with repairs on the verso and a few small chips. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE EDITOR, AUBREY LEE BROOKS, on the front free endpaper of the first volume. Brooks was a political ally of Chief Justice Clark and later his biographer. Some of the correspondence in these volumes is his own. Clark once called Brooks "the foremost and most successful lawyer in North Carolina." --qtd. in the "Dictionary of North Carolina Biography." Walter McKenzie Clark (1846-1924) served as justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1889 and was chief justice from 1903-1924. He was a… Read More

Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1968. xvii, 326 pages. Original tan cloth. 22.5 x 15 cm. A fine, fresh copy in about very good dust jacket. Jacket shows tiny tear to head of spine panel, short (2 cm) closed tear to rear panel, and sun-fading to the spine panel and a small portion of the front panel. FIRST EDITION. "In this study of the Federalists in the South during the formative years of the Republic, Mr. Rose shows . . . that it was the Federalists rather than their Republican opponents who originated many of the basic party structures and devices for eliciting wide public support . . . Usually dismissed as reactionaries in a new era of liberalism, the Federalists during this period were an active political force that claimed the loyalties of many of the leaders in state and local government and established considerable support among southerners for the federal policies of George Washington and John Adams." --dust jacket.

Philadelphia: John D. Avil & Co., 1883. 320, iii pages, plus [1] page errata. Portrait frontispiece and three plates (one view and two portraits). Original embossed purple cloth stamped in gold on the spine. [20.5 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with light evidence of call number removal at base of spine, tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on title and one other text leaf, and number stamp on verso of title and in margin of one other page. Else about very good. Tissue guard for frontispiece lacking. Mild to moderate foxing to plates and facing pages. FIRST EDITION. Benjamin Franklin Perry (1805-1886), a noted South Carolina Unionist, was a state legislator, newspaper editor, and governor of his state in 1865. Although he was a leading voice against secession in the years before the Civil War, he served South Carolina under the Confederacy as a state representative and district judge. This volume contains memoirs of 50 prominent American politicians, including a… Read More

Greenville, S.C.: Shannon & Co., Printers, 1889. Printed at head of title page: "With Respects of Mrs. Governor B.F. Perry." [4], iii, [1], 397, [3] pages, plus frontispiece and one plate. Original black cloth stamped in gold on spine and in blind on covers. [23.4 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with faint evidence of removed call number at base of spine, tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on title page and plates, and number stamp on verso of title and in margin of one other leaf. Else about very good. Light wear to spine ends and corners; small nick to edge of front board; spine a little faded; some faint speckling to cloth. Just a little foxing to first and last few leaves. FIRST EDITION. This is a posthumously published successor volume to Perry's "Reminiscences of Public Men" (1883). As in the earlier volume, there are memoirs of a number of prominent politicians (44 sketches in all), but a substantial portion of this book (pp. 199-383)… Read More