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Number | Date | Description |
G1-008 | 1648 | An orIgInal Act of the
Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, seeking to abolish the hated House of Lords. |
E5-001 | 1764 | A very early prIntIng
-almost certainly the fIrst- of Ben Franklin's "bagatelle" "The Parable of PersecutIon". |
E6-050 | 1792 | News of America's first
Indian War and the successful rising of Haitian slaves, in a very scarce magazine. |
E3-226 | 1793 | Louis XVIII declares
himself King of revolutionary France, in a rare Boston broadside newspaper Extra. |
E2-204 | 1800 | Fine early report of of
the death of George Washington - in a rarely-seen newspaper from Paris. |
G4-007 | 1804 | The coining of the 1804
Dollar at Matthew Boulton's Birmingham Mint is the subject of fine article of numismatic interest in a great
early British magazine. |
E2-197 | 1805 | A fine account of the
Second Inauguration of Thomas Jefferson, with his memorable Inaugural Address. |
E3-310 | 1822 | Unique Volume One Issue
of the first newspaper printed In Florida. |
B-013 | 1831 | A remarkable copper-engraved
illustrated broadsIde of the CoronatIon of England's KIng William IV. |
E1-325 | 1831 | Important Mormon history
in the Baltimore newspaper reporting Joseph Smith's announcement that his followers are to leave hostile New
York for "the promised land" which has been revealed to him to be in Ohio. |
G1-282 | 1833 | A unique large folio
broadside of an upcoming agricultural fair, printed as the last page of the town's weekly newspaper.
|
G2-213 | 1833 | Scarce issue of the
monthly magazine of the American Colonization Society, founders of Liberia, and dedicated to ending America's
slavery woes by repatriating the unfortunates to a republic of their own in Africa. |
G1-247 | 1836 | Of great numismatic
interest is this Baltimore newspaper with a page one report of the new Gobrecht Seated Liberty silver dollar,
the first dollar coins minted in a generation. |
G1-248 | 1841 | The fIrst appearance In
prInt of a story by the great AmerIcan poet Walt WhItman, "The Child's Champion", on the heartbreak of growing
up in an alcoholic home. |
G1-225 | 1845 | FIrst prIntIng of Edgar
Allen Poe's "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether". |
G1-279 | 1845 | The past comes alive in
this handwritten New Orleans estate Inventory, with several pages of names and descriptions of the
plantation's slaves.. |
G1-303 | 1845 | An Important antislavery
newspaper owned by the Liberty Party's presidential candidate and prominent Abolitionist James G. Birney.
|
G2-284 | 1845 | Rare newspaper containing
an announcement of "A GREAT MATCH AT BASE BALL", the game between the "New York Bass [sic] Ball Club" with the
Brooklyn club to be held tomorrow at the famed "Elysian Fields" ball park. |
G1-250 | 1847 | Several issues of the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Walt WhItman's edItorshIp, each being one of only two known surviving
examples of the date. |
G2-212 | 1851 | First edition of sheet
music containing the words and music of Stephen Foster's classic "Plantation song "Oh Boys Carry Me 'Long.
|
N-615 | 1851 | An original Washington daily
newspaper owned by a future United States President, James Buchanan'. |
G1-037 | 1853 | A rare and graphic slave
narrative written by a woman, being the fIrst appearance In prInt of AfrIcan-AmerIcan author Harriet Jacobs.
|
G1-231 | 1855 | The first -and only- issue
of Hawaii's first women's newspaper. A very uncommon survivor!. |
G3-258 | 1855 | A remarkable collection
of scarce antebellum Tennessee legal imprints. |
G4-016 | 1857 | One of the first articles
in an American newspaper on the coin collecting "mania", with an illustration of the brand new Flying Eagle
Cent. |
G4-015 | 1857 | Great account of the
sinking of the treasure ship Central America carrying millions in California gold, which has been
recently salvaged from the sea floor in an epic modern adventure. |
G1-560 | 1860 | Fine early California
pamphlet, with original printed wraps, celebrates at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the New Pioneer Hall,
where only pre-1849 Californians can be members, and honoring John Sutter, whose discovery of gold at his mill
prompted the great Gold Rush. |
G1-249. | 1863 | The orIgInal fIrst
prIntIng of Walt WhItman's Civil War article, "The Great Army of the Sick", in the great New York
Times. |
G4-009 | 1869 | A fine example of the
much-sought Harper's Weekly issue containing an engraving men of the Cincinnati Red Stockings club, in
this first season of American Professional baseball. |
G4-006 | 1872 | Full bound year of an
Indian publication using actual pasted-in photographs for illustration, a year before the first mentioned
example of the practice. |
G1-389 | 1872 | An unrecorded and probably
unique annual volume of the Lynn (Mass.) Daily Transcript containing one of the earliest writings of
Mary Baker Eddy in defense of her new religious ideas which would become the foundation of the Christian
Science Church. |
G5-005 | 1875 | Remarkable intact archive
of documents of the worldwide voyage of the schooner John F. Krantz of Portland, Maine. |