Ocean City, N.J: Ocean City Fishing Club [printed by Eakins, Palmer & Harrar, Philadelphia], 1918. Ocean City Fishing Club. Founded in 1913, the Ocean City Fishing Club is the oldest continuously operated fishing club in the country. Extensively illustrated club book, with portraits and anecdotes of many members (Bruns notes..... Read More about 1918 Year Book. Ocean City Fishing Club

Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, 1814. His intention in this pamphlet is to show that the seat of earthly magnetic power comes from the center of the earth. The author was from Washington, Georgia. Read More about An Essay on the Central Influence of Magnetism

New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. [1920?]. Signed by the famous Congregationalist minister who took over Henry Ward Beecher’s congregation: “Yours sincerely / Lyman Abbott.” Provenance: C.N. Thomas of Underwood and Underwood. Read More about Photographic portrait of Abbott, seated at his desk

Boston: T. R. Marvin, 1845. The American Missionary Society was amongst the leading advocates in the fight to denounce slavery. This text gives an informative insight into one of the most influencial anti-slavery organization, in additin to an historical statement of previous proceedings. Read More about Report of the Committee on Anti-Slavery Memorials

Boston: William Carter and Brother, 1863. Second edition (?). Parsons (1797-1882) was a professor in the Harvard Law School. Secession came as a rude shock to his belief that the work of the constitutional fathers was "near to the perfection of republican government." Here, he argues that he can "discern..... Read More about Slavery. Its Origin, Influence, and Destiny

Philadelphia: Printed by John Richards, 1839. First edition. The Quakers’ long and honorable opposition to slavery — from as early as the 17th century — is well documented. Read More about An Address to the Quarterly, Monthly and Preparative Meetings, and The Members Thereof, Composing...

Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1851. First Edition. Reprinted from the North American Review, October, 1851. The author carefully issues that include “how far and how fast is the institution of slavery susceptible of change and amelioration - what are the prospects of its being removed - and..... Read More about Slavery In The United States: Its Evils, Alleviations And Remedies

New York: John A. Gray, 1860. In 1860, abolitionist, Gerrit Smith, brought a libel suit against several prominent northern Democrats of the “Vigilant Association,” for publishing accusations that Smith had full knowledge of John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry beforehand and that he was a member of what became known..... Read More about Gerrit Smith and the Vigilant Association of the City of New-York

Boston: A. T. Hotchkiss & W. P. Fetridge, 1853. Reprints the famous debate between Webster (“most famous American oration of the nineteenth century” — Howes) and Hayne over protective tariffs, in which issues of wide-ranging significance (States’ rights, slavery, the Constitution, etc.), were debated with the kind forensic brilliance rarely..... Read More about Speeches of Hayne and Webster in the United States Senate, on the Resolution of Mr. Foot,...

Washington, D.C: October 23, 1969. Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson writes to Targ, thanking him for sending a copy of The Establishment is Alive and Well by Art Buchwald. "My preoccupation with the activities surrounding the publication of my own book has kept me from the immediate enjoyment of..... Read More about Typed note signed ("Dean Acheson"), 1 p, to William Targ, Editor-in-Chief at Putnam's

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd, 1895. First edition. Signed on ffep: "H.C. Lodge/ 1765 Mass Avenue/ Dec. 1895." Brooks Adams (1848-1927), American historian, b. Quincy, Mass.; son of Charles Francis Adams (1807–86). His theory that civilization rose and fell according to the growth and decline of commerce was first..... Read More about The Law of Civilization and Decay. An Essay on History

Boston: Press of the Boston Daily Advertiser, L. L. Lewis, Printer, 1829. First edition, with a period in imprint at end of “Congress-street”. The previous October the National Intelligencer had contained a statement made by the President denouncing “certain citizens of Massachusetts as having been engaged in a design to..... Read More about Correspondence between John Quincy Adams, Esquire President of the United States and Several...

Boston: Published by Oliver and Munroe, 1808. First edition. Page 4 numbered though comparison of the issue with the page unnumbered shows no differences. Commenting upon American co-minister in Great Britain Pickering's pamphlet on the Embargo and the the controversy between England and the United States. Adams felt the need..... Read More about A Letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis...on the present State of Our national Affairs: With...