AMERICAN / NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL PAMPHLETS BOUND VOLUME, comprising 11 different titles: (1) The Great Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1868. 290pp; (2) Washington's Farewell Address; the Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification; and the Declaration of Independence. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1862, 30pp; (3) Whiting, The War Powers of the President and the Legislative Powers of Congress in Relation to Rebellion, Treason and Slavery., Boston: John L. Shorey, 1863, 143pp; (4) Perley, Trial by Jury. A Charge to the Grand Jury. Concord: McFarland & Jenks, 1867, 20pp; (5) Decision of Judge Leavitt, of Ohio, in the Vallandigham Habeas Corpus Case. Philadelphia: Printed for Gratuitous Distribution, 1863, 16pp; (6) Webster, A Funeral Oration, Occasioned by the Death of Ephraim Simonds, of Tempeton, Mass., a Member of the Senior Class in Dartmouth College, Who Died at Hanover, N. H., June 18th, 1801, at 26. Hanover: Dartmouth Press, 1855, 10pp; (7) Mr. Webster's Speech, in the U. S. Senate, March 23, 1848, upon the war with Mexico. Boston: Eastburn's Press, 1848, 24pp; (8) Mr. Webster's Speech in Defense of the Christian Ministry, and in favor of the Religious Instruction of the Young. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1844, 60pp; (9) Webster, Address, Delivered at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1843, on the Completion of the Monument. Boston: Press of T.R. Marvin, 1843, 39pp; (10) Webster, A Discourse in Commemoration of the Lives and Services of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Delivered in Faneuil Hall, Boston, August 2, 1826. Boston: Cummings, Hilliard and Company, 1826, 62pp; and (11) Yerrinton, The Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the Town of Lancaster, N. H., July 14, 1864. Lancaster: E. Savage, Bookseller, [1864], 72pp. Inscribed "Alfred R. Evans, Hanover, N.H., Dec. 16, 1871" to front flyleaf, name also on some individual titles. Leather and marbled binding.
Provenance: From a Shenandoah Co., Virginia estate library.
Being sold to benefit Search Group Home, Mt. Jackson, VA.
Catalogue Note: Compiled by New Hampshire politician and judge Alfred Randall Evans (1849-1930), while attending Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH in 1871. Evans was in the class of 1872.
Very good condition, interior tight and mainly clean with some very scattered toning and spotting, binding with wear and cracking/flaking to spine.
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