Search Results: Early Newspapers from AARDWOLF Fine Books

Maturin Murray Ballou, Boston, 1856; 11"x 15", 16 pages. Ballou’s Pictorial Drawing Companion for Saturday, November 15, 1856, with a full two-page feature article on Springfield, Illinois. Beautifully illustrated with detailed wood engravings by Boston engraver Samuel Smith Killburn showing the Springfield State House, Railroad Station, Courthouse, Bank, and a view of Washington Street. Other items of note include a richly illustrated two-page story on the newly erected Cosmopolitan Art Association Gallery in New York, with a lengthy description of the building’s features by its architect, Karl Gildemeister (1820-1869); a lyrical poem by noted Irish poet Felicia Hemans entitled "Bernardo del Carpio" illustrated with five engravings of dramatic scenes from the story; a report on early female explorer Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797-1858), accompanied by an engraved portrait; and a large full-page engraving on the back page picturing Shakespearean actor Edwin Forrest dressed for five… Read More

Charles O. Rogers, Boston, 1861; 20 1/2" x 26 1/2", 4 pages. The Boston Morning Journal for Saturday, October 26, 1861, with much news from the nascent Civil War, begun just six months previous. Notable contents include a proclamation from Abraham Lincoln authorizing Gen. B.F. Butler to raise six regiments of volunteers for the War from the New England states, each soldier to be paid $13 a month and a $100 bounty at the end of the war; a recruiting ad from Brigadier General Wm. W. Bullock of the M.V.M. requesting enlistees for the infantry, sharpshooters, cavalry, and light brigade, with special appeals to the Germans and Irish of Massachusetts to form and fight in their own regiments (a Catholic priest to be provided for every Irish regiment); an extended account of a returned soldier, native of Boston, pvt. Richard Rowe, member of the first regiment of fusiliers, who was shot and captured at Bull Run, relating his experiences and describing the Confederate doctors at Richmond as kindly… Read More

Benjamin Russell, Boston, 1826; Folio (15 1/2" x 21 1/2"), 4 pages. Benjamin Russell’s Columbian Centinel for Saturday Morning, Feb. 25, 1826, with much official news of the proceedings of both the Congress of The United States and of the Boston legislature, plus national and local news, together with numerous classified and box advertisements. Among the stories are a report on a proposed Constitutional Amendment to change the way the President and Vice President of the United States are elected, with a lengthy dissent by Congressman Henry R. Storrs of New York; a Proclamation by Massachusetts governor Levi Lincoln for a "Day of Public Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer," to take place throughout the Commonwealth on Thursday, April 6, soliciting the cooperation from the clergy and faithful of all religious faiths; a lengthy story on the proposal for a Cape Cod Canal between Massachusetts and Buzzard’s bays; an article on the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the… Read More

Blood & Engarde, Clayton, NJ, 1869; 19" x 24", 4 pages; attractive large engraved masthead. The inaugural, and very possibly sole existing issue of The Clayton Enterprise, 28 column weekly newspaper published at Clayton, Gloucester County, New Jersey and dedicated to news of local interest in relation to politics, agriculture, business, and homemaking, together with wider regional, state, national, and international news briefs, select literary readings, train schedules & fares, and useful and entertaining miscellanea.. Some lengthier articles included:**A spirited promotional piece on the village of Clayton extolling its salubrious climate, agricultural richness and productivity, adjacency to West Jersey Railroad with terminus at Philadelphia, good society, schools, churches, generous and hospitable people of high moral standard, and low price of land. Special attention is drawn to the engineering prowess of John Moore, whose great energy and industriousness were in great measure… Read More

Charles Landis, Vineland, NJ, 1875; 21" x 28", 4 pgs., plus 2 pg. Supplement. March, 1875 issue of The Vineland Rural newspaper, published by dynamic 19th century visionary Charles K. Landis (1833-1900), founder, designer, developer, and promoter of Vineland, New Jersey. After traveling throughout the United States in search of an ideal location, Landis settled upon Cumberland County, New Jersey as the site to realize his plan for a place of beautiful homes, manufacturies, businesses, schools, and churches, populated by hardworking, prosperous, contented citizens, all laid out with a mind toward beauty, and surrounded by thriving farms. "I desired to make Vineland so desirable a place to live in by reason of its various privileges, and over all to throw such a halo of beauty, as to make people loath to leave it." After purchasing 20,000 acres in 1861 from prominent Quaker landowner Richard D. Wood, Landis quickly set about drawing up plans, clearing a wide boulevard, and… Read More

Samuel Harrison Smith, Washington, DC, 1809; Folio (12 1/2 " x 19"), two pages (single leaf printed front and back). Samuel Harrison Smith’s National Intelligencer newspaper for Friday, May 19, 1809, with a lengthy front page letter over three full columns in length by John Adams addressed to the publishers of the Boston Patriot News in response to a recently published criticism. In it Adams recounts in minute detail his reasoning and corresponding actions with respect to the 1799 diplomatic mission to France undertaken by his team of representatives, which eventually resulted in the Convention of 1800 or "Treaty Of Montefontaine," ending America’s Quasi-War with France, which was initiated by Talleyrand’s 1796 order allowing for the seizure of American merchant ships. In the letter Adams reveals that his original choices for the diplomatic team were Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth, Patrick Henry, and Williams Vans Murray, Minister to the Netherlands at the time. Justice… Read More

Roycroft Press, East Aurora, NY, 1908; First Editions; 12 mo. (4 1/2" x 6"); card wraps. Three issues of Elbert Hubbard’s avant garde monthly publication "The Philistine" containing numerous informative and perceptive articles to include: A lengthy dissertation on the differences between the Shaker and Oneida communities; Commentary on an article in the North American Review by ex-governor D.H. Chamberlain of South Carolina, written from his deathbed, regarding his views of the implausibility of an afterlife; A lengthy homage to private business, which Hubbard considers a divine calling superior to religion; An article on the genius of Thomas Paine; An incisive piece on the predatory nature of women; A scathing Hubbard condemnation of an article by Edward Bok in the Ladies’ Home Journal alleging widespread damage to women and babies in the United States from uncontrolled venereal disease; and A lengthy treatise on good health and the inverse relationship it bears with the… Read More