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Evidence of Vendetta of Jefferson Davis & Franklin Pierce Against Winfield Scott by Winfield Scott

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Seller: The Raab Collection

Title: Evidence of Vendetta of Jefferson Davis & Franklin Pierce Against Winfield Scott
Author: Winfield Scott
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 24/10/1854. Scott was the senior American general in the Mexican War, and the most successful, as it was forces under his command that took Mexico City and forced the Mexicans to sue for peace. They ended up ceding all of their territory north of the Rio Grande to the United States for $15 million, which constituted a sudden increase in the size of the U.S. almost equal to the Louisiana purchase. This presented President Polk with a fantastic achievement for his administration; however, back in Washington Polk was facing criticism for spending too much money on the war. To reduce expenses, Scott was ordered to collect payments from the Mexican states to cover the cost of the American occupation. He soon discovered that he had enemies in the military, composed of generals who resented the appreciation he was receiving, or who were afraid that the hero would become a viable presidential candidate of the Whig Party. They began complaining to Washington that Scott was not raising enough money, and that he was spending too much. Polk, likely to derail Scott’s political prospects, called Democratic Senators Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and Lewis Cass of Michigan to investigate, and they recommended that Scott be removed from command of the occupation forces. So Scott, the general who made the war a success, was fired; and the Whig nominee in 1848 was not him but Zachary Taylor.In 1852, Scott won the Whig nomination, but the slavery question had split his party and discounted the value of that nomination. His rival, the Democratic nominee Franklin Pierce, was also a general in the Mexican War, but one whose military record was anything but extraordinary. Pierce resented Scott, but the Democrat easily won the election. Scott remained head of the U.S. Army, and when he petitioned the new President Pierce to move army headquarters to New York, Pierce was glad to get Scott out of Washington and approved. Soon, however, the Pierce administration launched a campaign that can only be called a vendetta against Scott. Scott had incurred significant personal expenses connected with the Mexican War, as he had personally advanced monies that were entitled to be reimbursed. He had kept a record of both these expenses and the money he had collected during the occupation of Mexico, and submitted “an itemized statement” to the War Department in 1854.He had also made various expenditures from government funds on behalf of his army. The new Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis, decided that Scott should not be entitled to reimbursement for all of his expenses, and that, in fact, he had misspent government funds and needed to set off those expenses against the large amount he owed to the U.S. Treasury. Davis argued that Scott had failed to secure required “special written orders from his superiors” before incurring expenses. Moreover, according to Scott, the, “usages of war and prize money in the naval service” entitled him to a commission of approximately $11,000. So by depriving Scott of tens of thousands of dollars he was owed (an amount equal to over $500,000 today), Davis and Pierce seem to have hoped to ruin Scott financially.Autograph Letter Signed, 3 pages, Headquarters of the Army, New York, October 24, 1854, to Francis Burt, 3rd Auditor of the Treasury, maintaining that Davis was using phony records against him and complaining that he could make no sense of them. The Third Auditor was responsible for all financial matters related to the army. “Expecting to be in Washington early the next month for the purpose of settling my accounts for disbursements in Mexico in 1847-8, I will beg you to oblige me with the items making up the $15,417.54 which the Secretary of War, in a letter dated May 22, 1854, tells me stands charged to me on the books of the Treasury Department. I have already received from your office through the 2nd Controller & the Secretary of War abstracts of those accounts marked B, C, D, E &F. From these it is impossible for me to pick out the particular items objected to which compose the sum $15,417.54. May I also beg that you will have the goodness to send me a copy of the abstract A of the same series??And in this place I beg to say that the five abstracts before me are not mine, but seem to be hashed out of two which I did not furnish...”The recipient was a South Carolina Democrat whom Pierce appointed to his Treasury Department post in 1853. However, apparently unbeknownst to Scott, Burt was no longer holding that office, as Pierce had named Burt the first governor of the Nebraska Territory. Eight days before writing this letter Burt was sworn in in Nebraska; two days later he died, after a term of two days. So when this letter was penned, Burt had been dead for six days. His successor as Third Auditor was Robert Atkinson, already in office for two months; and he would have received Scott’s letter.Eventually Pierce and Davis agreed to pay Scott a sum far less that what Scott was expecting. So Scott ended up losing money for his efforts in Mexico. He did, however, have the last laugh on Davis. In 1861, when Davis was president of the Confederacy, Scott (though a native Virginian) remained with the Union. He developed the Acaconda Plan for strangling the Confederacy by blockading its ports and controlling crucial rivers, a plan that played a major role in the final Union victory.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Announces the Birth of His First Child by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Title: Alfred Lord Tennyson Announces the Birth of His First Child
Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 08/1852. It was in 1850 that Tennyson reached the pinnacle of his career, publishing his masterpiece, ""In Memoriam A.H.H."", dedicated to his close friend Arthur Henry Hallam. Later the same year, he was appointed Poet Laureate by Queen Victoria, succeeding William Wordsworth. In the same year, Tennyson married Emily Sellwood, whom he had known since childhood. In 1852, they had their first child, a son. Emily was sleepless and unwell for close to 2 weeks after the birth.,That son, Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, would serve as the second Governor-general of Australia, in office from 1903 to 1904. He was previously Governor of South Australia from 1899 to 1902.Franz Anton Mesmer was a German physician with an interest in astronomy. He theorized the existence of a natural energy transference occurring between all animated and inanimate objects; this he called ""animal magnetism"", sometimes later referred to as mesmerism. Mesmer's theory attracted a wide following between about 1780 and 1850, and continued to have some influence until the end of the 19th century. Like many Victorians, Tennyson had a strong interest in mesmerism.The recipient of this letter, James Marshall, was a long time family friend who attended Hallam's baptism. The letter has been in a private collection for generations.Autograph letter signed, no date but mid-August 1852, to close friend James Marshall. ""Did you not get mine announcing the birth of a son? I fear your wife is unwell as she would have written. Let us know. Mine has had 8 or 9 days of suffering and sleeplessness till I got her right with mesmerizing. The new boy is well...""

ONE ARM AND OTHER STORIES by WILLIAMS, Tennessee

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Title: ONE ARM AND OTHER STORIES
Author: WILLIAMS, Tennessee
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very mild darkening to the spine. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase
Description: (New York): New Directions, (1948). First Edition. Hardcover. Very mild darkening to the spine. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Parchment-backed decorated boards. Crandell A8.I.b. Copy #12 of only 50 numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. This copy belonged to Frederic Dannay, half of the writing team that was mystery writer Ellery Queen, and though it has no ownership markings it comes with a signed statement of provenance from Dannay's son.

Pastorals, Elegies, Odes, Epistles, and Other Poems. By Mrs. Allen by Allen, [Brasseya]

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Title: Pastorals, Elegies, Odes, Epistles, and Other Poems. By Mrs. Allen
Author: Allen, [Brasseya]
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Abingdon, (Md.): Printed by Daniel P. Ruff, 1806 First edition. Contemporary tree calf with later gilt-lettered black morocco label. Twelvemo. Binding extremities lightly worn. Spine label is worn and chipped with the loss of a few gilt letters. Tear on the Table of Contents leaf affecting a small portion of text. Some light browning and intermittent foxing. Still, a good copy. Brasseya Allen (1762-1831) published only one book, Pastorals, Elegies, Odes, and Epistles, and Other Poems, which she dedicated to Thomas Jefferson. It contains numerous themes: elegies to lost loved ones and friends, epistles to the poet William Hayley, an ode on "General Washington's Accepting the Command of the Army in 1798," and more.

Times Cook Book No. 2. 957 Cooking and Other Recipes by California Women; 79 Recipes For Spanish Dishes; 109 Recipes for Soups; 135 Recipes for Salads. . .Brought Out By The 1905 Series of Prize Recipe Contests in the Los Angeles Times by [LOS ANGELES]

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Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs

Title: Times Cook Book No. 2. 957 Cooking and Other Recipes by California Women; 79 Recipes For Spanish Dishes; 109 Recipes for Soups; 135 Recipes for Salads. . .Brought Out By The 1905 Series of Prize Recipe Contests in the Los Angeles Times
Author: [LOS ANGELES]
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description: Los Angeles, The Times-Mirror Company, 1905., 1905. First edition, first issue (with 25 cents price on the front cover). 8vo. Illustrations; advertisements. Original red cloth, stamped in black (marginal stains on several pages). Good. 110 pages. Cover title: "Los Angeles Times Cook Book No. 2." Cagle & Stafford 485. Glozer 173.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Hotel Lankershim by Los Angeles

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Title: Hotel Lankershim
Author: Los Angeles
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hotel Lankershim, Seventh and Broadway. Los Angeles, ca. 1941. Folding 3 panel brochure. 9" x 10 3/8". Map. Yellow and brown pictorial wrappers. Very good. Includes rates (from $2.50 daily), directions, etc.

Portrait photolithograph, folio size by Welch, William Henry

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Title: Portrait photolithograph, folio size
Author: Welch, William Henry
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Berlin: Adolf Eckstein, 1910. 46.5x30cm.. Includes biographical cover page. Very good condition.

Cyclopedia of New Jersey Biography: Memorial and Biographical

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA

Title: Cyclopedia of New Jersey Biography: Memorial and Biographical
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: American Historical Society, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 305pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Small owner label on front pastedown, contemporary owner signature on front pastedown and foreword, light wear, gutter neatly strengthened in one place, very good or better. Frontispiece portrait is of George B. McLellan and first entry is Craig A. Marsh.

[Bookseller Catalogue]: Catalogue 55: Literary First Editions, Illustrated Books, Fine Printing, Poetry: James S. Jaffe Rare Books

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Title: [Bookseller Catalogue]: Catalogue 55: Literary First Editions, Illustrated Books, Fine Printing, Poetry: James S. Jaffe Rare Books
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Haverford, Pennsylvania: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, 1995. Softcover. Fine. Stapled wrappers. Octavo. 68pp. Fine.

The White Deer, Illustrated by the Author and Don Freeman by THURBER, James

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Title: The White Deer, Illustrated by the Author and Don Freeman
Author: THURBER, James
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945. First Edition. Boards. Near fine/very good. James THURBER and Don FREEMAN. A Wartime Book. First edition. 8vo; 115pp; white-stamped title and author name on green cloth over board; b&w illustrations in text; 4 color illustrated plates by Don Freeman inserted; age-toning of endpapers; color pictorial dust jacket lacking price, sunning of spine, age-toning, a few scuffs; near fine in a very good dj. A children's fairy tale about 3 brothers, sons of King Clode, who set out to win the hand of a princess in an enchanted wood.

VITRAUX DEFRANCE AUX DOUSIÈME ET TREIZIÈME SIÈCLES by VERRIER, JEAN

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Title: VITRAUX DEFRANCE AUX DOUSIÈME ET TREIZIÈME SIÈCLES
Author: VERRIER, JEAN
Seller: L'Estampe Originale (United States)
Description: Paris., Histoires des Arts Plastiques., 1949. Printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris Folio. 18pp. intro. and notes on the plates. 10 colored plates suitable for framing and 5 figures in black and white. 47 pp total. Reproduction of stained glass windows from famous French cathedrals.

The Bridge of Time by Warner, William Henry

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Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper

Title: The Bridge of Time
Author: Warner, William Henry
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Scott and Seltzer, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering & decoration under black & blue illustrated dust jacket priced $1.75, color frontispiece, 372 pp. Edgewear to DJ and small chips to corners of top of spine panel; book itself has foxing and moderate spine slant from reading. A time-travel romance in which a High Priest of the Pharoahs is transported to modern Europe. "As the conflagration across the water continued to spread, and the armies of the nations, locked in deadly combat, surged back and forth across the face of Europe, Rames grew anxious as to America's being drawn into the maelstrom and the difficulty which might ensue for him to get back to the secret chamber in the Theban hills.

Sand and rock

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Title: Sand and rock
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: New York: American Tract Society, 1840. 32mo, pp. 16; engraved illustrations throughout; bound with: Memoir of little George; or, "It is very mean to tell lies". New York: American Tract Society, [ca. 1850s]. Together in red cloth over marble boards, gilt spine, some shelf wear, edges rubbed, a bit foxed throughout, a good copy.

Death of a Ghost by Allingham, Margery

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Title: Death of a Ghost
Author: Allingham, Margery
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1942. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Reprint. Spine lettering faded, else very good in publisher's black boards.

Hang up on war! [handbill]

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Title: Hang up on war! [handbill]
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: New York: Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, 1970. Handbill. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet printed both sides, horizontally fold creased, otherwise very good. Depicts an angel standing on the globe holding up a peace sign with a severed telephone wire coiled around him. Outlines how to avoid paying the 10% tax levied on telephone service in 1966 to help pay for the Vietnam War. Undated, but the sample telephone bill used as an illustration has an early 1970 date.

Avon (Then & Now) [New York] by Wright, Peter J.; Howard, Nora O

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Title: Avon (Then & Now) [New York]
Author: Wright, Peter J.; Howard, Nora O
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780738573816
Condition: Very Good
Description: Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2010. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 6x0x9. First edition. Ink scribble on front cover, ink gift note on half-title page. 2010 Soft Cover. 95 pp. Once known as Northington, a northern parish of Farmington, Avon was incorporated in 1830 after the construction of the Farmington Canal. Located at the juncture of the Albany Turnpike, the Farmington Canal, and later the Farmington Canal Railroad, Avon became a transportation and commercial center of considerable importance through the 19th century.

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