Four Important Works in One - 3 Early Lancaster Imprints, Treasury Reports
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Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar
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Four Works Bound as One: Facts and Arguments Respecting The Great Utility of An Extensive Plan of Inland Navigation in America, By a Friend to National Industry, Printed by Wm. Duane, Philadelphia, 1805, 61 pp plus errata. Receipts and Expenditures in the Treasury of Pennsylvania, From the First Day of December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Three, to the Thirtieth of November, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Four, Inclusive. Printed by Burnside and Smith, Lancaster (PA), 1804, 150 pp. Receipts and Expenditures in the Treasury of Pennsylvania, From the First Day of December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Three, to the Thirtieth of November, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Five, Inclusive. By the Legislature Authority, Printed by Benjamin Grimler, Lancaster, 1805, 141 pp. The Trial of Alexander Addison, Esq. President of the Courts of Common Pleas in the Circuit Consisting of the Counties of West Moreland, Fayette, Washington and Allegheny, On an Impeachment, by The House of Representatives, Before the Senate of The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Taken in Short Hand by Thomas Lloyd, Printed by George Helmbold, Junior for Lloyd and Hembold, Jun. Lancaster, 1803, 154 pp, plus fourteen pages of Appendix. 8.5 x 5.5”, original PA half leather, 8vo. In fair condition. Early Republic half leather binding has moderate wear to extremities with scuffing to leather tips and end bands. Marbled boards are toned, scuffed and lightly soiled. Red morocco spine label is intact, albeit scuffed. Antiquarian manuscript labels adhered to spine. Small instance of worm damage to spine at bottom compartment. No other instances of worming present. Rear board slightly curved from previous water damage. Joints are creased with dryness. Facts and Arguments frontis is torn and missing large segments. Chipped and stained with irregular folding at gutter. Private Library of H.S. Brinser stamped at title page with dampness staining persisting throughout each work. 8 pp is torn at top edge with yellowed, non-archival tape repair. Texts are toned with scattered foxing, some leaves rippled from previous water exposure. Rear end papers are afflicted with old hand ownership and manuscript doodles. Binding remains intact. Please see photos. Extremely scarce, especially the two Treasury Receipts. Facts and Arguments is one of the earliest American works entirely devoted to canals. The author strongly advocates the advancement of navigable communication between the states in the Northeast, South and Midwest, with emphasis on Pennsylvania, but citing New York, Virginia, Louisiana, Ohio, etc. He lists the advantages for trade in manufactured and agricultural goods The Trial of Alexander Addison, Esq. is the court stenography of Addison, a pugnacious reactionary. He defended the Alien and Sedition Acts and severely criticized the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. He was impeached and removed from the bench on a charge of slander arising from his refusal to allow an associate judge to address a jury. Alexander Dallas was the prosecutor. Second and best edition, with appendix which collects material on impeachment, absent from the first edition, which was also published in 1803. It includes not only the trial with much material on the nature of impeachment and Addison’s lengthy justifications of his conduct.…
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- Four Important Works in One - 3 Early Lancaster Imprints, Treasury Reports
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- Various
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- 1805
- Condition
- Fair
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