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1832. Written on folio sheet, 32 x 41 cm., with 26 voters names listed down right hand side and a small extra piece (19 x 10 cm.) pinned on with names of voters 27-41. Eighteen electors are listed across the top, nine for Jackson and nine for Clay, along with the tally for each. Under the section for School Commissioner, only one person is listed as running (Alpha Frisby), the rest of the column has been cut away, probably blank usable paper. Old fold lines, some separations, a tender copy. The electors for Andrew Jackson defeated Henry Clay's handily, 35 to 5. Certified by five people including two judges. An interesting piece of voting ephemera in the 1832 election that of course Jackson won. No hanging chad.

Windsor, VT, 1831. Broadsheet printed in four colums on both sides, 19 x 14 inches. An early printing of this state of the union message which was delivered in Washington 6 December 1831; the editor acknowledges assistance of the stage company in his expedited receipt of this text. Ink owner's name. A fine untrimmed copy.

(Washington, DC), 1829. Autograph letter. 4to. 4-pages on a bifolium sheet of paper (watermark "Amies Philada." with their dove mark), approximately 250 words, in part: "My Dear General, I entreat you to send me word of hope or comfort, for my situation is mortifying and distressing beyond all expression! After having been rear'd in affluence and cherish'd through life with the most unbound ed affection, I now find myself overwhelm'd with desolation, and poverty staring me in the face!" Decatur's correspondence with Andrew Jackson began sometime in the previous year, and has been described as "on terms of increasing intimacy and familiarity by Tom Coens, an editor of the Papers of Andrew Jackson. In the present letter, though opening with her own plight of near-destitution, the author's aim was to garner aid for her friend William G. Ridgley (ca. 1788-1861), the chief clerk of the Board of Naval Commissioners, whose overly-stretched household included his wife, eight children, an elderly mother, and… Read More

City of Washington: Printed by Francis Preston Blair, 1834. 8vo. 15 pp. [printed double-column]. Disbound pamphlet; some foxing, but a good copy. First edition. Jackson responds to the Senate's accusation of usurpation of powers after his withdrawal of federal funds from the Bank of the United States. Also prints Jackson's supplemental message of April 21, 1834. Sabin 35356. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 25093.

[Boston?] District Court of Massachusetts copyright: E. Bailey, 1836. Complete text of Andrew Jackson's first inaugural address, engraved throughout, printed in miniature on white glazed heavy card stock, 16 1/2 x 12 cm., enclosed in a decorative leaf border. Vignette portrait of Jackson, plus a paragraph of biographical information, centered above the text of the address: "Gen. Andrew Jackson was born at Waxsaw, South Carolina March 15th, 1767...." Jackson's facsimile signature at the end and copyright notice along the bottom of the card. Some light soiling at the edges of the card, else very good. A first edition thus. OCLC lists three copies: Library of Congress, AAS, and SMU. A scarce keepsake edition of Jackson's first inaugural address, evidently produced by Ebenezer Bailey. A later state was published by N. Dearborn in Boston in 1845, following Jackson's death.

(Atlanta, GA: V.P. Sisson, printer, 1887. First edition. 8vo. 16 pp. Summary of a media dispute over charges that Thurman, an ex-Senator from Ohio, made against Jackson, accusing him of saying "the doctrine of secession is not dead" and of ungentlemanly behavior. De Renne Catalogue II, p. 858. Original printed wrappers (a little wear around the edges).

Washington, (DC): Globe - Extra [printed at head of sheet}, [edited] by F.P. Blair, 1831. Broadside newspaper extra, 23 x 15 inches, large display type for "Globe - Extra." Jackson's 1831 state of the union message. A rosy picture of affairs, with plentiful crops and commerce, amicable relations with nations around the world, etc.; no mention of the nullification controversy that would arise the following years. Only the Native American discord: "It is commonly believed that perseverance for a few years in the present policy of the Government, will extinguish the Indian title to all lands lying within the States composing our Federal Union, and remove beyond their limits every Indian who is not willing to submit to their laws." Not recorded separately on OCLC. Folded (small break at several corner folds), old tideline and browning; hole in top margin (not affecting text). Still a good example.

[Portland, ME, 1832. Broadside. 33 x 20.5 cm. printed in two columns, with a few ink and pencil corrections, with four names signed beneath in ink, and pasted below a slip of paper with ten more signatures in ink. Paper browned, shallow chips along right margin. This title not in American Imprints, Sabin or OCLC. Among the signatures, Wm Woodbury, William W. Woodbury (Jr.), and Samuel Porter were involved in maritime business; other names: Philip Greely, Thomas Harris, David Ross, Hiram H. Dorr, Daniel Garland, Wm. B. Nason, Henry Moore, Benjamin Larrabee, Joshua Green, Samuel Libby (sp?), and James Read. [Another version, with a slightly different title "Address to the People of Maine," which begins with the same text, is listed on OCLC at NY Historical Soc., AAS and Harvard]. The text of this broadside takes issue with the re-election of Pres. Andrew Jackson and urges the citizens of Maine not to shirk their duty as voters. It is addressed "to a subject involving, as we conscientiously believe,… Read More

Tuscaloosa [AL]: Wiley, McGuire and Henry, Prs, 1832. Broadside printed on silk, 60 x 49 cm, first line of title in bold capitals, the text enclosed within a wide ornamental border. Old staining to margins, partly into text, but all legible, damage and some loss to upper margin of broadside, extending at one point into the decorative margin and a few of the letters in the title word "President," fringe along lower edge darkened, fringe along upper edge perished. Corners of the broadside tipped onto a backing board. Jackson's famous proclamation of December 10, 1832, responding to an ordinance passed by the state of South Carolina exempting itself from acts passed by the United States Congress in 1828 and 1832 relating to "the imposing of duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities" and its threat to withdraw from the Union. Also known as the "Nullification Proclamation," Jackson denounced nullification as treason and insisted that the several states did not have a right to… Read More

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1860. Second edition ("specimen" portions were published in a 215 page edition in 1858). 8vo. 632 pp. Expansive treatise on the mineral waters of the Allegheny Mountains. Sabin 35453 (for the 1858 edition). Original brown cloth (rubbed, spine ends a little frayed); pencil notes on endpapers, but a good solid copy.

Washington, DC: Printed at the Office of the sun, 1835. 8vo. 16 pp. Disbound pamphlet; owner's name on rear leaf, some foxing. State of the Union address, devoted primarily to the issue of relations with France and disagreements over the 1831 treaty providing for French payment of "claims of American citizens for spoliations during the Napoleonic wars" (DAB).

Urbana, (IL): U. of Illinois Press, 1978. Second edition, with additional documents and notes. 8vo. 2 volumes: xxxi, 376; (4), 377-806 pp. Illustrated, plates, facsimile, endpaper maps. Editor's preface: "In matters related directly to the planning and completion of the expedition, I have attempted to present all the extant non-journal material." Brown cloth, gilt spine titles, publisher's slipcase with printed label on upper board. (#5738).

(Troy, NY): Troy Budget -- Extra, 1828. 8vo. 16 pp. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched; punch holes from binding with other pamphlets, some browning to text but a very good copy. First edition. The convention was particularly exercised by the Adams administration's wasteful spending. OCLC cites five copies (Boston Athenaeum, Yale, NY State Library, Pittsburg, Cornell). AMERICAN IMPRINTS 32944 (NjR only).

Washington, (DC): Printed by Duff Green, 1831. First edition. 8vo. 52 pp. Howes J-6 and C-29. Field 371. Servies 1536: "Calhoun's reply to a query of W.H. Crawford on Jackson's orders prior to the occupation of St. Marks and Pensacola; extracts of letters, 1818-1831, exchanged between Monroe and Jackson." Disbound pamphlet. Some foxing, but very good.

Worcester, MA: Putnam, Davis and Co, 1894. First edition, 1/ 35 copies on large paper (this #14). 4to. xii, (2), 332 pp. 14 illustrations from photographs by J. C. Lyford, plates, illustrated paper onlay on title page. Following the development of plant life and other features of the natural world in Worcester County, Massachusetts, through the seasons from early spring to fall, with appendices recording lists of flora, trees, and shrubs of the county. Inscribed on the front endpaper "To / Susan P. Player / from Alex. H. Vinton / Xmas. 1894"; Vinton (1852-1911) was the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts (1902-1911) and served as rector of All Saints Church in Worcester (1884-1902). Very good copy, the fore-edge untrimmed. Original tan textured cloth, printed paper spine label. (11235).

Boston, [MA]: Published by Henry Bowen, Province House Row, Washington-Street, 1829. 16cm. 36 pp. Sewn & uncut, as issued. Period signature of A. Wardner, Windsor. Allen Wardner was a Vermont banker, businessman and politician. Howes J-29: "One of the earliest treatises on the subject, issued prior to the completion of any American railway." Four editions were published the same year. Rink 5949. Thomson 307.

Washington, [DC]: National Intelligencer--Extra, 1835. Large folio broadsheet, six columns on the recto and five on the verso. Browned, some spotting, old fold lines, with some small breaks at folds, slight loss to a few words. Pres. Jackson's State of the Union address extolling being debt free, income through selling land, not renewing Second Bank of the United States as one can see its unnecessary. This is often cited as being an affecting agent in the panic of 1837 when many state banks failed.

DC: Green & Jarvis, 1829. First edition, Nos. 1-36 (all published). 8vo. 580 pp. The "United States Telegraph" was published in Washington by Duff Green, 1826-1837; this weekly extra was "devoted exclusively to the Presidential Election" between Andrew Jackson and the sitting President, John Quincy Adams. Considerable wear to leather at base of spine, text foxed, upper rear corners somewhat nibbled (though not affecting text), owner's name and book label on front pastedown, several ink manuscript notes by him in margins; a good, but complete copy. Contemporary law sheep-backed marbled boards (all very rubbed). (#7442).

Philadelphia, (PA): W. Marshall & Co, 1840. Second edition. 24mo. 218 pp. Typical laudatory campaign biography. Sabin 30586 (for the first edition; cf. Sabin 35422 for the fourth and fifth editions). American Imprints 40-3526. Thoroughly foxed, gift inscription, a good copy. Original gilt-stamped decorated black cloth (rubbed, spine ends frayed). (#8154).

Paterson, New Jersey: Alexander S. Gould, Printer, 1832. Broadside, printed on silk. 66 x 51 cm. Seven columns of text. A few pieces missing along outer margins of border, a few tears within text. Jackson attacks the South Carolina Convention that passed the nullification ordinance, denounces nullification as treason and rebellion, and warns the people of South Carolina to obey the laws and states that for one state to annul is incompatible and inconsistent with the principles of the Union. Not in Threads of History. OCLC lists other copies on paper and silk, with different imprints, but no locations found for Paterson, New Jersey. Not found in FELCONE: New Jersey Broadsides before 1900.