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- 10 ISSUES OF THE NEW YORK EVENING POST 1801 - 1802, THE AGE OF
JEFFERSON, 4 page issues, numerous merchant and shipping ads,
political news of the day. The Post was founded by Alexander
Hamilton with about US $10,000 from a group of investors in the autumn
of 1801 as the New York Evening Post, a broadsheet.
Hamilton's co-investors included other New York members of the
Federalist Party, such as Robert Troup and Oliver Wolcott, who were
dismayed by the election of Thomas Jefferson as U.S. President and the
rise in popularity of the Democratic-Republican Party. The meeting at
which Hamilton first recruited investors for the new paper took place
in then-country weekend villa that is now Gracie Mansion. Hamilton
chose William Coleman as his first editor. 1 - 1801 issue [#18] and 9
dated in various months in 1802. Condition is very good to fine, usual
handling blems, light age tone, very early
issues..............................................................$125.00
22801
- A GROUP OF 7 EARLY PAPERS FROM 1800 - 1810, 6 DIFFERENT TITLES,
The Spectator, NY, 1800, The Salem Gazette, Salem, Mass. 1804 [2].
Relfs Philadelphia Gazette, 1805, The Democrat, Boston, 1806, Columbian
Centinel, Boston, 1809, Connecticut Mirror, Hartford, CT, 1810, good to
very fine, some minor archival repairs needed on two, all intact issues
of 4 pages, read 10 years of early American
history.........................................$70.00 22802
- THREE ISSUES OF THE AMERICAN MERCURY 1812, Hartford, CT.,
February 26th, 1812, March 4th, 1812, April 8th, 1812, 3 issues leading
up to the beginning of the War of 1812, proclamations by President
Madison, hostile feelings between England and the United States
evident, an embargo placed on British goods by Congress, all three
papers intact, some small splits at edge, good to very
good.........................................................$35.00/for
all three 22803 - THE
WAR OF 1812 IN PRINT, THE WEEKLY MESSENGER, BOSTON, February
11th, 1814 and March 18th, 1814, 4 pages each, speech of Daniel Webster
on a bill to fill the ranks of the regular army, news of General
Wilkinson's army near Plattsburg. News of Napoleon in Europe, our
military disasters, good to very good, some edge tears restored on one
issue, the group..............................................$25.00/the
pair EARLY
CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY WORK
22804 - THE
CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, New York, Volume 1 issues
October 21st, 1826 to March 27th, 1827, 21 issues. The
voice of the Methodist-Episcopal Church in America. 4 pages, news of the
Church's work in missions around the world and in the US with Indians,
foxed but firm paper, the lot of 21
issues.................................................$65.00
THE OLD WEST IN
1875 22823
- THE OLD WEST, THE DAILY NEW MEXICAN, Santa Fe, New Mexico, two
issues August 10 and 11th, 1875, 4 pages each. In English and Spanish,
local news and news via telegraph into Santa Fe, large merchant ads,
fine, the lot of two different issues..............$69.00
2137 - THE COLUMBIAN CENTINEL/MASSACHUSETTS
FEDERALIST, Boston, Mass. 3 complete issues, March 28th,
April 8th, May 6th, 1801. 14" X 20", news includes
letters by Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. A letter regarding Cow Pox
and Small Pox, a letter from Napoleon Bonaparte, with much more news of
the day. The Columbian Centinel (1790 - 1840) was a
Boston, Massachusetts, newspaper established by Benjamin Russell. It
continued its predecessor, the Massachusetts Centinel and the
Republican Journal, which Russell and partner William Warden had
first issued on March 24, 1784. The paper was "the most
influential and enterprising paper in Massachusetts after the
Revolution. In the Federalist Era, it was aligned with Federalist
sentiment. Until ce. 1800 its circulation was the largest in Boston,
and its closest competitor was the anti-Federalist Independent
Chronicle ("the compliments that were frequently exchanged by
these journalistic adversaries were more forcible than polite").
All three issues in fine condition..................................3
@ $69.00
 7143A
- 7TH RHODE ISLAND INFANTRY, Private Herbert Daniels, Company
C, 7th Rhode Island Infantry. A grouping of 64 letters, 35 are
war dated to the end of his service, 29 are post war. 99% have nice
stamped postal covers. The War date letters are datelined from
various posts such as Kentucky and Virginia. Some are from him while in
transit from and to Massachusetts during the war, I or two from Salina
to him. 99% of the letters are from him to his lover Mrs. Salina
Waterson of Worcester, Mass. some of the letters are in pencil, some
light. Herbert carried on a torrid love relationship during the war and
his post war letters also contain some of the same element. These are
camp letters with a lot of personal information about the pair, his
longing for her during and after the war. These letters were quickly
scanned for content and put back into the original envelopes. The group
comes with a copy picture of Daniels as he is seen in the regimental.
64 letters, 62 stamped covers. The
lot.............................................................SOLD
[this is figuring the post-war letters at 0 and the stamped covers are
worth $100 alone]
  60701
- A LOT OF 25+ ANTEBELLUM NEW ORLEANS NEWSPAPERS, all dated in
the 1850's are primarily the famous New Orleans Delta
with some New Orleans Crescent's. All 4 pages are
18" X 24". These papers have ads for the sale of SLAVES
and for the recapture of run-a-way SLAVES, ILLUSTRATED
Mississippi River Steamboat ads, steamship and sailing ship ads, early
medical ads, and much more. We have gone over our stock and have
put this group together that have faults but all papers are complete.
Some have edge tears that we have restored with archival tape, some
have some stains, some have old archival tape repairs and some have
edge chips where dis-bound. These are an excellent deal for the
collector or dealer. 25+..........................................$250.00
With a few extra thrown in
that is less than $10 each!
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