[Rarebooks] F/S 26 Issues Phila Public Ledger 1842-1852 Newspaper Mexican war, Texas & more
Garry R Austin
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Sat Jun 11 11:23:09 EDT 2016
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We offer for your consideration net to all and postpaid @ $95 the following;
"The Public Ledger was a daily newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
published from March 25, 1836 to January 1942. Its motto was "Virtue
Liberty and Independence". For a time, it was Philadelphia's most
popular newspaper, but circulation declined in the mid-1930s". Wikipedia.
Each issue is as follows;
The Public Ledger. Philadelphia: Folio broadsheet, approx 17' x 21'; pp;
4; Last page advertisements and Shipping Notices have small cuts heading
the ad or notice.
These papers have been folded and stored in a box for decades; Moderate
wear, toned, generally good or better with an occasional split at a
fold; Damaged issues noted in thumbnail descriptions below.
26 Issues 1842-1852 Mexican War News; California; Texas; Kossuth;
Finance; Politics; New Orleans; Cuba; Clay, Calhoun, Webster et al;
World News etc.
May 27, 1842
The Kentuckian In Havana
Washington DC News
Financial News from New Orleans
May 30, 1842
Dorr Rebellion
Mob Violence in New Orleans
Anti-Slavery Convention
November 4, 1844 (Masthead damaged)
Blizzard In Western New York
Financial News / Various Markets, Cattle etc.
June 2, 1846
Damaged; one column at right edge approx 8 inches removed
Mexican War News ; Battles On The Rio Grande
August 12, 1846
Mr Wise's Balloon Ascension At Westchester
Acts Passed By The Congress
October 26, 1846
Mexican News
A New Planet
The Riot At Canton China
Monteray California
April 2, 1847
Battle Of Buena Vista, Mexican & American Accounts
April 16, 1847
Vera Cruz
October 2, 1847
Gen. Wool & Military Discipline
Washington DC News
October 19, 1847
Texas war News
March 6, 1848
Burning Steamboats in Cincinnati
Gen. Taylor is a Whig
News From West Africa
March 11, 1848
Gen Scott in Santa Fe
A letter from Mr. Wilmot
August 3, 1849
News of Texas, Mexico & California
August 17, 1849
California Migration (Wagon Trains)
Texas, Mexican & Southwestern News
April 20, 1850
Mutiny on British Ship Brant
Saco (Me) Tragedy
Washington DC News
May 14, 1850
Article on the revocation of death penalty for Arson (Incendiarism)
California News
Abolitionism Activities Suppressed in the North
April 25, 1851
News From Texas
European News
August 20, 1851
News of Mexico
Possible Purchase of Cuba by the US
Feb 2, 1852
Kossuth's Address to the Ladies of Pittsburgh
Letter From Washington
Letter From Havana
Feb 3, 1852
California News
Feb 5, 1852
Kossuth's Interview With Henry Clay
Execution of Lawrence Reilly
Other Kossuth News
Constitution of the Sandwich Islands
Feb 24, 1852
Cleveland Riot
Patent Office Abuses
Feb 27, 1852
Uniform RR Track Guage Bill
Iowa Land Bill
Attempted Assassination of Spanish Queen
April 13, 1852
Whig Convention
Arrival from California the El Dorado with $800,000 in Gold
April 22, 1852
Texas Debt
Gold Discovered on Queen Charlotte's Island
June 24, 1852
Arrival Of The Steamship Niagara
European News
Letter From Lake Superior (Mining Interest/ Copper)
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