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- A Discourse, delivered at Byfield, on the Annual Fast, April 9, 1813
- ISBN: NA Price: $173.51
- Publisher: Newburyport (Massachusetts): Printed and sold by E. W. Allen, Date Published: 1813
- Description: first edition; 24 pp.; age and light damp staining, library markings, now disbound in self wrappers, complete and paper not fragile but reading copy only; pacifist, pro-British, and strongly opposed to the War of 1812; President James Madison, who is certainly no Hezekiah, comes under particular censure "... now your sons must be drafted to bleed on the hill of battles, that he, like Judas, may hold the treasures of the nations, and rank with the nobels of the land",. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: pacifism, War of 1812, James Madison Show items similar to this.
Request a photo for this item.- Item Number: 716930
- The Naval Monument, containing official and other accounts of all the battles fought between the navies of the United States and Great Britain during the late war; and an account of the war with Algiers ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $75.02
- Publisher: Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co., Date Published: 1851
- Description: viii, 326, [2], [8] (ads) pp., 23 plates including the frontispiece, all called for in list of plates (one bound out of place), title calls for 25 engravings and usualy issued with a plan or plans but none present here; red cloth with black leather spine rubbed, text and illustrations shaken and age stained, reading copy only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: War of 1812, War with Algeria, HTM Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 750921
- Historical Sketches of the Late War, Between the United States and Great Britain; Blended with Anecdotes Illustrative of the Individual Bravery of the American Sailors, Soldiers, and Citizens, Embellished with Portraits, etc. Third edition
- ISBN: NA Price: $317.49
- Publisher: Philadelphia: Thomas DeSilver Date Published: 1816
- Description: third edition; xii, [13]-367, [1] (directions to the binder) pp. + plates, however lacking the three folding plates of Fort Stephenson, Battle of Niagara & Fort Erie; rebound in modern red cloth, a.e.g., hand stamps & inked note to title page, with hand stamps to the ads page and the directions to the binder. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: War of 1812 Naval Military History Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 473391
- History of the American Privateers, and Letters-of-Marque, During Our War with England in the Years 1812, '13 and '14. Interspersed with several Naval Battles between American and British Ships of War.
- ISBN: NA Price: $32.06
- Publisher: NY: Published by and for the Author, Geo. P. Putnam, agent, Date Published: 1861
- Description: Third Edition, revised, corrected and enlarged; liv, [2], 882 pp., portrait frontispiece, 7 plates of ships (in this copy one of them in duplicate); original cloth worn and stained with front cover detached along with early leaves, late leaves damp stained and one tattered, general age toning, reading copy only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: War of 1812, naval operations, privateers, privateering Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 690655
- Papers Presented to the House of Commons, relating to the Correspondence with America, on certain Orders in Council ... 1st February 1809. {with} Further Papers Presented to the House of Commons ... 22d February 1809
- ISBN: NA Price: $25.80
- Publisher: (London): Date Published: 1809
- Description: 2 items, both narrow folio, 15, [1] pp. and 16, [2] pp.; slight extraction roughness at spines, else very good+ and untrimmed copies, now in self wrappers; mostly correspondence between George Canning and William Pinkney but also includes a long communication from President Madison to David Erskine; slight extraction roughness at left margin, else very good+ in self wrappers and untrimmed copies. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: United States, Great Britain, foreign relations, James Madison Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 485286
- Papers Presented to the House of Commons, by Mr. Secretary Canning, relating to America ... 14th February 1809. (with) Papers Presented to the House of Commons, by Mr. Secretary Canning, relating to America ... 2d June 1809.
- ISBN: NA Price: $47.22
- Publisher: London Date Published: 1809
- Description: 2 items; narrow folio, 40, [2] pp + 5, [2] pp..; light extraction roughness at spine, general light age toning, now in self wrappers. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Great Britain, United States, foreign relations, James Madison, oversize Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 585006
- (1812.) Minutes of Evidence, taken before the Committee of the Whole House, To whom it was referred, to consider of the several Petitions which have been presented to The House, in this Session of Parliament, relating to The Orders in Council.
- ISBN: NA Price: $394.91
- Publisher: [London]: Date Published: 1812
- Description: narrow folio, [iv] (title, index), 687, [1] pp.; some soiling and age spotting on early and late leaves still overall clean and untrimmed but needs rebinding,; testimony from merchants, manufacturers, importers, exporters, et al. on the many economic problems created by the Orders in Council of Jan. 7 and Nov. 11, 1807 aimed at strangling neutral commerce, the United States being the chief target; shortly after this investigation the orders were repealed but too late to prevent the War of 1812. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Great Britain, United States, commerce, economics, War of 1812 Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 534528
- Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, being an Answer to the Report of the Committee to whom was referred his letter of the 22d of September last, relative to the loss of his contingent account and vouchers.
- ISBN: NA Price: $33.74
- Publisher: Washington: Date Published: 1814
- Description: 21 pp., 3 folding tables; issued as (13th Congress, 3d Session, H) 35; general age toning but not fragile, light extraction roughness at spine and now in self wrappers; an attempt to reconstruct or explain various records lost or thrown into turmoil when the Capitol was burned, matters are complicated by the fact that Magruder himself was visiting the springs for his health at the time. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: War of 1812 Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 335154
- Report of the Committee of Claims, on the Petition of William Henry Washington.
- ISBN: NA Price: $34.05
- Publisher: Washington City: Roger C. Weightman, printer, Date Published: 1814
- Description: 4 pp.; issued as (13th Congress, 3d Session, H) 35 (sic, should be 36); extraction roughness at spine, age toned, now disbound in self wrappers; Corporal Philip Boilia felt it was his duty to blow up Washington's house on the western end of the Potomac bridge so that public stores would not fall into the hands of the enemy, the Committee agrees the petitioner should be compensated. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: War of 1812 Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 335155
- Commerce. Cahiers trimestriels publies par les soins de Paul Valery, Leon-Paul Fargue, Valery Larbaud. Cahiers I, II, III, IV
- ISBN: NA Price: $85.08
- Publisher: Paris Date Published: 1924
- Description: nos. 1-4; includes James Joyce, Rilke, Aragon, Breton, Claudel, Larbaud, et al., original paper wrappers, very good. Volumes Included: 4
- Subject: James Joyce Poetry Literary Criticism Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 566148
- Journal of the Transactions in Scotland, during the contest between the Adherents of Queen Mary, and those of her Son, 1570, 1571, 1572, 1573 by Richard Bannatyne, Secretary to John Knox.
- ISBN: NA Price: $329.52
- Publisher: Edinburgh: J. Ballantyne & Co. for A. Constable & Co. and J. Murray, Date Published: 1806
- Description: first printed edition, transcribed from manuscript by Sir John Graham Dalyell, also contains Letters from Secretary Maitland and the Earl of Morton, 1572; An account of the Death of the Earl of Huntly, 1576; Confession of the Earl of Mortoun, 1581; Mutual aggressions by the contending factions, 1570; xxiii, [1], 540, [4] (ads) pp., frontis.; library hand stamp on title, text age toned with occasional age spotting but untrimmed and not fragile, overall good+ in later blue cloth. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Scotland, Mary Stuart, James VI Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 487629
- Singleton Ketcham ... the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made the following Report.
- ISBN: NA Price: $5.77
- Publisher: Washington: Blair & Rives, printers, Date Published: 1836
- Description: 1 page; issued as 24th Congress, 1st Session, HR 667; single sheet with extraction roughness at margin, light age speckling; Ketcham?s papers are now in order and is now recommended for a three fourths disability pension for a hip wound he received outside Plattsburg in 1814. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: War of 1812, pensions Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 370868
- Me and the General. Written and Illustrated by Adelaide H. and John C. Wonsetler.
- ISBN: NA Price: $40.00
- Publisher: NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Date Published: 1941
- Description: first edition, signed by both authors on front free endpaper, also by John Bean Wonsetler above his name on the dedication page; [x], 299, [1] pp., double page pictorial title, color plates, illustrations in text, all by John C. Wonsetler; the colorful pictorial jacket darkened and rubbed at spine but overall a very good copy in original cloth; juvenile fiction set in the War of 1812. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: fiction, War of 1812 Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 639153
- Account between U. S. and State of Maryland. (To accompany Senate bill No. 305.) ... the Committee of Ways and Means, made the following Report.
- ISBN: NA Price: $29.94
- Publisher: Washington: Date Published: 1855
- Description: 8 pp.; issued as 44d Congress, 2d Session, HR 31; light extraction roughness and age toning, now in self wrappers; conserns sums borrowed by Maryland to pay and equip her militia during the War of 1812. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: War of 1812, Maryland Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 450040
- An Impartial and Correct History of the War between the United States of America and Great Britain ... Comprising a Particular Detail of the Naval and Military Operations ... Carefully Compiled from Official Documents.
- ISBN: NA Price: $45.38
- Publisher: Belfast: Joseph Smyth Date Published: 1816
- Description: reprint of the New York 1815 edition and the first for foreign readers; 12mo, 300 pp., marbled paper covered boards with calf spine and corners; library book plate and markings, binding rubbed, previous owner's name on title, text age toned,. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: War of 1812, Americana, wark Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 530535
- Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to fines imposed on the Militia of Pennsylvania, for Non-performance of Military Duty in the Late War, &c. &c.
- ISBN: NA Price: $77.27
- Publisher: Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton, Date Published: 1822
- Description: 24 pp.; issued as [17th Congress, 1st Session, H] 25; light extraction roughness at spine, text darkening but not fragile, becoming disbound in self wrappers,. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: War of 1812, Pennsylvania Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 258945
- Report of the Committee of Claims, on the Petition of Jacob Shinnick and Schoultz and Vogeler, of Christian Chapman and of the Administratrix of John Calef, Deceased.
- ISBN: NA Price: $34.44
- Publisher: Washington: A. and G. Way, printers Date Published: 1814
- Description: 4 pp.; issued as (13th Congress, 3d Session, H 30; extraction roughness at spine, text age toned, now disbound in self wrappers; Chapman and Calef were owners of rope-walks near Baltimore that were destroyed by orders of General Samuel Smith when the British threatened the city. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: War of 1812, Baltimore Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 335156
- Two Sermons: The First, preached on Thursday, July 30; the Second, preached on Thursday, August 20, 1812: being days of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, appointed by Public Authority.
- ISBN: NA Price: $32.44
- Publisher: Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, J. Maxwell, printer, Date Published: 1812
- Description: first edition; small octavo, 41 pp.; library markings, title repaired at corner, spine trimmed and later side stapling, complete but overall good only; although the sermons seem innocuous enough at first glance in his prefatory remarks Abercrombie makes it clear that he fears the French and the . Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: War of 1812, sermons Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 360636
- History of the Late War between the United States and Britain: Comprising a minute account of the various military and naval operations. Sixth edition, improved and revised by the author
- ISBN: NA Price: $29.95
- Publisher: Philadelphia/Pittsburgh: James Kay, jr. & Brother/John Kay & Co. Date Published: 1836
- Description: frontis., 289, [1] (ads) pp. + 2 plates (only); old full calf, worn & now disbound with covers retained. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: War of 1812 americana Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 367195
- In Senate of the United States, January 17, 1826. Mr. Ruggles, from the Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of sundry citizens of Baltimore ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $78.10
- Publisher: Washington: Date Published: 1826
- Description: 3 pp.; issued as 19th Congress, 1st Session, SR 18; extraction roughness at spine, text browned, now disbound in self wrappers; concerns compensation for the twenty four vessels deliberately sunk at the mouth of Baltimore harbor opposite Fort McHenry in September 1814 by order of General Samuel Smith. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Baltimore, War of 1812 Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 370833
