[Rarebooks] FS: Small But Cool 19th Century Americana

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera & Photographs]

Three 19th C. Americanaisms:

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[1856] Speech of Hon. Jacob Collamer of Vermont, on Affairs in Kansas 
delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 3 and 4, 1856.  
Printed at the Congressional Globe Office in Washington in 1856. Senator 
Collamer, a stout abolitionist who had been elected to the Senate as a 
member of the new Republican party the prior year, had a “reputation as 
the best lawyer in the Senate. His colleagues were known to pay close 
attention to his remarks on the Senate floor even though he spoke 
infrequently and even then too quietly to reach the entire chamber or 
the galleries. Charles Sumner referred to Collamer as the 
"Green-Mountain Socrates" [Wikipedia]. Disbound, in new paper covers. 
5.5”x8.75”, 29 pages. Minor soil, light foxing. $25

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[1816] A Circular Letter from the Massachusetts Peace Society, 
Respectfully Addressed to the Various Associations, Prebysteries, 
Assemblies, and Meetings of the Ministers of Religion in the United 
States. Printed in Cambridge by Hilliard and Metcalf in 1816. A 12-page 
circular letter and a 4-page Constitution of the Society, which had been 
founded the previous year by Thomas Dawes, William Phillips, Elisha 
Ticknor, Thomas Wallcut and Noah Worcester. Worcester is credited as the 
author of this text, which addresses clergymen throughout the 
Commonwealth and asks troubling questions such as, when both sides in a 
war pray to God to be on their side, what’s God to do? The MPS lasted 
until 1828, when it joined other like-minded societies and merged into 
the American Peace Society. High-minded as it was, the Society had its 
pragmatic moments- it supported the Civil War as being a just action 
against the criminal enterprises of slaveholding and secession. Disbound 
pamphlet. 5”x8.25”, 16 pages. Some foxing and soil, minor wear. $25

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"The United States Review. 'Democracy'. March, 1853. Vol.1, No.3 " 
Published in New York by Theodore A. Foster. The third issue of this 
short-lived periodical, which lasted only a few years. The contents are 
a variety of political news and commentary about the United States, 
England and Europe, with some poetry and literary reviews thrown in. 
Very uncommon in the marketplace. Softcover. 6"x9.25". 288 pages. Not in 
great condition- soil and wear to the covers with a chunk out of the 
front cover, a tear in it, and chips all around. The last 20 or so 
leaves have evidence of bio-predation in the form of holes, increasing 
as you go to the end- there is no actual text loss until the final two 
leaves, with minimal loss on the next to last leaf and some half-dozen 
words missing on the last leaf. $25

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