[Rarebooks] Sold Thank you Sold F/S 26 Issues Phila Public Ledger 1842-1852 Newspaper Mexican war, Texas & more

[Garry R Austin]

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"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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