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- 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
- 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
- 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.
Request a photo for this item.- Item Number: 473391
- 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.
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- Item Number: 716930
- 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
- Report of the Committee of Claims ... relative to the Payment for horses Lost or Destroyed in the Public Service.
- ISBN: NA Price: $32.12
- Publisher: Washington: A. & G. Way, printers Date Published: 1814
- Description: 4 pp.; issued as (13th Congress, 3d Session, H) 28; extraction roughness at spine, general age toning, now disbound in self wrappers; concerns privately owned horses lost during Governor Shelby's 1813 expedition against Canada and Andrew Jackson's campaign against the Creek Indians. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: horses, War of 1812, Creek War Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 335160
- 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
- In Senate of the United States. January 24, 1828. Mr. Ruggles made the following report ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $41.33
- Publisher: Washington: Date Published: 1828
- Description: 18 pp.; issued as 20th Congress, 1st Session, [S] 61; untrimmed and tied into self wrappers with two later stab holes near spine that miss text; incorporates all the material from Ruggles short report of 1826 and 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: 370834
- Report of the Committee of Ways and Means on the Petitions of Simon Forrester, David D. Pulsifer, and Boardman and Pope, and others importers of goods from British settlements beyond the Cape of Good Hope; ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $32.15
- Publisher: Washington City: printed by Roger C. Weightman, Date Published: 1812
- Description: ... also on a bill from the Senate, embracing the cases of the petitioners. December 29, 1812.; small octavo, 12 pp. light extraction roughness at spine, signature of James Emott on cover, general age toning, corner creases, good+ only in self wrappers; concerns the problems of ships whose long voyages began before the passage of the Non Importation Act. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: War of 1812, commerce Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 377717
- The Bladensburg Races
- ISBN: NA Price: $29.59
- Publisher: NP Date Published: 1865
- Description: 8 pp., original paper wrappers (softcover), very good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: americana war of 1812 poetry Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 399529
- Report of the Secretary of War ... relating to the settlement of claims of several of the States, to reimbursement of money expended by them, in calling out and supporting militia, without the sanction of the General Government.
- ISBN: NA Price: $32.12
- Publisher: Washington: Printed by William A. Davis, Date Published: 1816
- Description: 65 pp.; issued as (14th Congress, 1st Session, H) 65; age staining throughput but entirely readable and not fragile, light extraction roughness at spine and now in self wrappers; the general principle is that while individual States have the right to call out militia to counter hostile forces they should not expect the General Government to cover expenses unless there has been prior authorization. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: War of 1812, militia Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 405348
