London: Printed by H. Haines, at Mr. Francklin's, 1733. Stated second edition, issued the same year as the first. 8vo, removed, 76 pages. One of the pamphlets aimed against Walpole's proposed salt tax, part of the popular clamor that effectively defeated the minister's proposal. Kress 4061. More
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co., Industrial Publishers, Booksellers and Importers, 1884. First edition. 8vo, self-wrappered pamphlet, 8 pages. An uncommon attack on Abram S. Hewitt and his theories of free trade, from the arch-protectionist Henry Carey Baird, suggesting Hewitt's philosophies aim "to sink man to the nethermost hell of..... More
London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1795. Preceded by an edition dated 1789 and by earlier separate editions of the first two titles. 8vo, removed, [6], 354 pages (lacks half-title). The second baronet and High Sheriff of Northumberland proposes much in the way of detailed fiscal reform, including a proposal against..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by J. R. A. Skerrett, 1826. First edition. 12mo, removed pamphlet, [i]-xvi, [9]-27 pages. One of the Philadelphia publisher and author's many tracts in favor of protection for American industry; his preface and notes come near to outstripping the anonymous British essay. American Imprints 24007. More
Washington, D.C. [n. p.], 1896. First edition. 8vo, unbound, 16 pages. Arguing against the free coinage of silver, with reference to redemption of treasury bonds. More
[Upstate New York]: Published by the Author, 1838. First edition. Large 8vo, original diaper grain blue cloth, brown morocco label, gilt lettering, 456, [1] pages. Copyright notice for the Northern District of the State of New York, under Merryweather’s name. Something of a black book of English royal crimes (the..... More
Yorkville, Ill. James M. Gale, 1898. First edition. Unbound bifold pamphlet, approx. 7.25 x 4.75 inches, [6] pages. Gale proposes in great detail a scheme of radical monetary and currency reform, as well as the establishment of national bank, with a new bank to be built in each town (creating..... More
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[Portland, Me.? New Era Publishing Co., 1878]. First edition. Broadside handbill, approx. 8.25 x 5 inches. "In politics the New Era is devoted to the interests of the new National Greenback Party, and the restoration of business and prosperity throughout our land. This paper does not believe that people who..... More
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(Boston: n. p., 1857). First edition. 8vo, unbound pamphlet removed from a nonce volume, 12 pages. A lively, vituperative and uncommon attack on the financial policies that led to the Panic of 1857, with much in the way of sectional attacks on the South. Includes flings against former Mississippi senator..... More
[Boston]: Printed by James Loring, 1823. First edition. Original blue paste-paper wrappers, 7 x 4.63 inches, 51, [1] pages. The prospectus and terms behind the newly-formed Boston insurance company that would be responsible for steering investment capital into the development of New England industry, all under the guidance of its..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by William F. Geddes, August 1, 1832. Stated third edition. Original printed orange wrappers, 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 28, [4] pages. Matthew Carey’s defense of Jackson’s position against South Carolina and the ordinance of nullification. Carey seems to have had various editions of this example of his political..... More
Boston: Printed by John Eliot, Jun. 1809. First edition. Original marbled wrappers, 6.31 x 4.06 inches, 24 pages, stitched. An attractive pamphlet, perhaps intended to suggest possibilities for investment, for one of the earliest Rhode Island Coal companies. (The Aquidneck Coal Company was incorporated the same year.) The Rhode Island..... More
Philadelphia: Ringwalt & Brown, Steam Power Book and Job Printers, [1866]. First edition. 8vo, later blue wrappers, 10 pages. An argument at length from this Detroit resident that export duties on cotton will allow the United States to redeem currency with specie payments; this will also allow for eventual abolition..... More
Detroit: Tribune Book and Job Establishment, 1869. Third edition? 8vo, original printed rose wrappers, 11 pages. An argument at length from this Detroit resident that export duties on cotton will allow the United States to redeem currency with specie payments; this will also allow for eventual abolition of other duties..... More
[N. p., but Washington, D.C.?]: n. p., [1812]. First edition. Contemporary blue wrappers, 8.38 x 5.25 inches, 27, [1] pages. Saddle stitched, with an additional almanac-style string tie at the head of the spine. The schedule of duties for 1812 on imports into the United States, with columns for rates..... More
Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 1894. First edition. 8vo, original purple cloth, gilt lettering. Frontis portrait. With Trumbull’s pseudonym “Wheelbarrow” at the head of the title. Arguments on questions of national economics from the man who had worked as a railroad laborer before becoming a lawyer and state legislator: “While aspiring..... More
Lowell: Leonard Huntress, Printer, 1841. First edition. Unbound stitched pamphlet, 9 x 5.63 inches, 24 pages. The former mayor of Lowell answers attacks on the labor and social conditions of the factory girls in the mills in Lowell, with much on the systems and laws in place to insure education..... More
