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TITLE:

Date:

Cover/Issue & Condition:

Price

New-England Palladium

3/13/1801

Boston, 4 pages. Sketches on the State of Europe page 1. Good, tape repairs

$15.00

New-England Palladium

2/26/1802

Boston, 4 pages. Fair/Good, tape repairs

$12.50

London Gazette

6/28/1833

Small size, 26 pages – G/VG

$20.00

New-York Mirror, The

1834

Bound volume of this smaller-size weekly newspaper (approx. 10" x 13.5" page size) containing 8 page issues from Vol. XI No. 39 (3/29/1834) to Vol. XII No. 52. "A Weekly Journal, Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts" - approx. 64 issues and approx. 512 pages, and index for Vol. XII. Includes the following steel engraving/plates: New York From Brooklyn Heights, Delaware Water Gap, George H. Hill - Comedian, Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh NY, Evening - A Scene in the Highlands NY. Marbeled boards, leather spine and corners. Condition - Good - a nice tight copy, minimal foxing, 1 torn page, and one tear at the edge of one print

$175.00

Public Ledger (Phila.)

3/25/1836

(REPRINT). Vol. 1 No. 1 edition – Good

$10.00

The Keystone (Harrisburg PA)

9/6/1837

Letters from the West (Michigan). 4 pages – Good, some holes

$10.00

Pennsylvania Inquirer

11/14/1837

4 pages. Predecessor to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Good – a number of small fold tears

$10.00

The Keystone (Harrisburg PA)

11/15/1837

Mr. Ingersoll’s Speech on the Judiciary. 4 pages – Good

$10.00

The Keystone (Harrisburg PA)

12/16/1837

PA Sec’t. of Treasury Report – 4 pages – Good

$10.00

The New Yorker

1838 Issues

Small page-size weekly published by Horace Greeley (prior to The New York Tribune). 8 or 16 pages each. 11/3, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24. – Good, from a bound volume

$12.50 ea.

 

1839 Issues

2/2, 2/9, 2/16, 2/23, 4/6, 4/20, 4/27, 5/11 – Good, from a bound volume

$12.50 ea.

Lancaster (PA) Examiner and Herald

11/22/1838

4 pages – Fair/Good, torn section from bottom of 1st page, other tears

$7.50

The Keystone (Harrisburg PA)

1839 Issues

3/27, 4/10 – 4 pages each – Good

$10.00 ea.

 

The Keystone

1/8/1840

4 pages, with PA Governor’s Message reprinted on page 1. Good

$10.00

The Age (Lancaster Pa)

10/17/1840

Vol. 1, No. 1 issue – 4 pages, primarily religious and temperance articles – Fair/Good – small fold tears, small stains.

$15.00

Pennsylvanian, The (Phila.)

1849 issues

4 pages – 3/24 , 4/21– Good

$10.00 ea.

Olive Branch (Boston)

12//22/1849

4 page family paper – Good

$7.50

 

Pennsylvanian, The (Phila.)

1850 issues

Each 4 pages 2/2, 2/16, 2/23, 3/2, 3/16, 4/13, 4/16, 4/27, 5/11, 5/25, 7/20, 7/27, 8/10 – Good

$10.00 ea.

Olive Branch (Boston)

9/14/1850

4 page family paper – Good

$7.50

Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing Room Companion

4/12/1851

Vol. 1 No. 3 issue, published in Boston. 8 pages, with a number of woodcut illustrations. Good, edge tears

$25.00

Olive Branch (Boston)

9/13/1851

4 page family paper – Good

$7.50

Pennsylvanian, The (Phila.)

10/18/1851

4 pages – Fair/Good, edge chipping

$7.50

Olive Branch (Boston)

12/27/1851

4 page family paper – Good

$7.50

Boston Investigator

1/28/1852

“Devoted to the Development and Promotion of Universal Mental Liberty”. 4 pages, folded - Good

$10.00

New York Daily Tribune

8/7/1852

Outer 4 of 8 pages only – Good

$6.00

New York Evening Post

8/10/1854

Our Relations with Spain - Presidential Statement, Murder at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Brooklyn Tragedy, Chapters from Dicken's "Hard Times" – 4 pages – Good

$10.00

New York Weekly Tribune

11/24/1854

Discoveries of Ancient Cities in Guatemala, New York on Prohibition, Excellence in Industrial Art, Governor Price (of Missouri) and President Pierce, Swamp Land Frauds in Iowa, Affairs in Kansas, Professor Hare on Spirit Manifestations (4 columns) – 8 pages – Good

$10.00

New York Daily Tribune

12/21/1854

Fire in New York City Assembly Rooms, "Temperance Jubliee",  2 columns on Nicaragua, Mexico – Good, water stain

$7.50

New York Daily Tribune

1/27/1855

8 pages, uncut. Congressional Reports, Mass. Anti-Slavery Society, Trial by Jury, Justice in Brooklyn, Kansas and Slavery – Good

$15.00

New York Observer

6/14/1855

4 pages – Religious Section – Good

$5.00

New York Observer

4/24/1856

Published by Sidney Morse – Sidney Edwards Morse was also an accomplished scientist and inventor, collaborating with Samuel on a pump design, working with Henry Munson in the development of a color printing process, and inventing the bathometer for sea exploration. He continued Jedediah Morse's geographical work and, at his father's suggestion, furthered the cause of conservative Protestantism by establishing religious newspapers in Boston and New York. All uncut – ½ religious, ½ Secular content,  each 8 pages.  Good to VG. Available – 4/24/1856, 5/1/1856, 5/29/1856, 6/12/1856, 7/3/1856, 7/24/1856, 8/14/1856, 8/21/1856, 10/2/1856, 11/6/1856 – more issues listed individually below.

$10.00 ea.

Ladies’ Enterprise (Boston)

4/5/1856

Weekly Women’s newspaper. Vol. 3 No. 14, 8 pages – Good

$15.00

New York Semi-Weekly Tribune

10/21/1856

"Campaign Edition" - reports on the Presidential Campaign between James Buchanan and John C Fremont (whom the paper endorsed). Many columns ofn Fremont. Also: Reports from Nicaragua, French RR Fraud, Large Fire in Philadelphia, The Kansas Emigrants by L. Maria Child, Visit to New Brunswick, Cotton Manufacture in Brazil, Visit to the Lackawanna Coalfields, Appeal of the Leavenworth Sufferers, Kansas. 8 pages – G/VG

$15.00

Dollar Weekly Pennsylvania

1/3/1857

Published in Phila. 4 pages – Good, edge tears

$10.00

New York Daily Tribune

3/3/1857

8 page uncut paper. St. Davids Benevolent Society, Career of a New York Lady-killer, NY politics reports, California Politics, Report from Nebraska – Good

$10.00

New York Daily Tribune

3/4/1857

8 page uncut paper. Mr. Sumner in the Senate, Bloodshed in Kansas, The Burdell Marriage, Havana – Fair/Good

$7.50

New York Daily Tribune

3/11/1857

8 page uncut paper. Emancipation in Missouri speech, Southern States of the North American Union, Commercial Matters – Fair/Good

$7.50

New York Daily Tribune

3/16/1857

8 page uncut paper – Good

$7.50

New York Daily Tribune

3/20/1857

8 page uncut paper. Academy of Music in Philadelphia (just opened - 2 columns), Canal Tolls, Thunderstorms, Letter on Education of Colored People – Good

$10.00

Christian Freeman Family Visitor (Boston)

6/12/1857

4 pages – Good

$10.00

The Child’s Paper

October, 1857

American Tract Society, small-size 4 page monthly – Good

$7.50

New York Daily Tribune

10/1/1857

8 pages uncut. Steam Boiler Explosion, Race Track, PA Agriculture Fair – good, water stain

$7.50

New York Daily Tribune

8/5/1858

Canada vs. US Cricket Match, Washington Reports, Williamsburg in Arms, Accident on Housatonic Railroad – Good, water stain

$7.50

American Union

12/4/1858

From Boston – 4 page Family paper – Good, edge chipping, some tears.

$7.50

The Pennsylvanian

5/21/1859

4 pages – Good

$10.00

 

The Weekly Press (Phila.)

1860 Issues

8/4, 9/1, 9/15, 9/22 – 8 pages each – Good to G/VG

$10.00 ea.

Dollar Weekly Pennsylvanian (Phila.)

1/28/1860

“Adam Bede” by George Elliot serial on page 1, portrait of Charles Ritter also on page 1. 4 pages – Good

$15.00

Moore’s Rural New Yorker

5/18/1861

Horseback Riding for Ladies, with illus. on page 1. 8 pages – Good, stains, removed from a bound volume

$10.00

Moore’s Rural New Yorker

5/25/1861

Horseback Riding for Ladies, with illus. on page 1. 8 pages – Good, stains, removed from a bound volume

$10.00

Weekly Journal of Commerce (NYC)

1/9/1862

8 pages – Good

$12.50

Boston Daily Journal

5/5/1862

4 pages – local and Civil War news – Good, center tear

$15.00

Boston Daily Journal

8/14/1862

4 pages – local and Civil War news – Good

$20.00

New York Daily Tribune

9/23/1862

Cavalry Raid at Williamsport, Burying the Dead, Great Crowd at Hagerstown, Lists of Killed and Wounded (1/2 of the last page), Reconnaissance Toward Shepherdstown, Pursuit of the Enemy, Illness of General McClellan, Attack on Munfordsville, The War in Kentucky. 8 pages – Good

$20.00

Boston Daily Journal

5/20/1863

4 pages – local and Civil War news – Good

$20.00

New York Weekly Tribune

5/30/1863

8 pages, uncut.  Filled with Civil War news. G/VG – back 2 pages missing edge piece.

$20.00

New York Observer

11/5/1863

8 pages – Good

$10.00

New York Herald

5/27/1864

 8 pages, uncut. Sherman’s Advance on Atlanta, map of area on front page – G/VG

$75.00

Philadelphia Inquirer

6/23/1864

8 pages, uncut. General Grant’s Army, Sheridan’s Great Raid, etc – Good

$20.00

Philadelphia Inquirer

7/1/1864

8 pages, uncut. Filled with Civil War news - Good

$20.00

Philadelphia Inquirer

10/8/1864

8 pages, uncut. Filled with Civil War news - Good

$20.00

Philadelphia Inquirer

3/18/1865

8 pages, uncut. Filled with Civil War news - Good

$20.00

Philadelphia Inquirer

3/20/1865

8 pages, uncut. Filled with Civil War news - Good

$20.00

Philadelphia Inquirer

3/24/1865

8 pages, uncut. Filled with Civil War news - Good

$20.00

Philadelphia Inquirer

3/30/1865

8 pages, uncut. Battle of Hare’s Hill, Gen. Lee’s Official Report, North Carolina Reports – Good, fold holes

$20.00

Philadelphia Inquirer

3/31/1865

8 pages, uncut. Filled with Civil War news - Good

$20.00

Philadelphia Inquirer

4/1/1865

8 pages, uncut. Filled with Civil War news - Good

$20.00

Philadelphia Inquirer

6/6/1865

8 pages, uncut. ENTIRE Front and Last pages are reprinted testimony of the trial of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators – Good, some light staining

$25.00

Philadelphia Inquirer

6/10/1865

8 pages, uncut. Trial of the Lincoln Conspirators accounts, Arrival of Grant at West Point, News from the west – G/VG

$15.00

 

Philadelphia Inquirer

2/27/1866

8 pages, uncut. Restoration of the South - Views of President Johnson, Railroad Controversy, From Fortress Monroe, Cabinet and the Veto, Rebel Debt – G/VG – 3” tear

$15.00

Philadelphia Inquirer

6/29/1866

8 pages, uncut. Princeton Commencement, Congress reports, Honors to the Rebel Dead, Short report on the victory of the Phila. Athletics Baseball, History of PA in the War, Letters from San Francisco – G/VG

$15.00

Philadelphia Inquirer

8/2/1866

8 pages, uncut. Phila. Conventions, General Grant's New Staff, Sheridan's Opinion of New Orleans Riot, European News, St. Lawrence Cable – Fair/Good – large piece of 2 pages missing.

$10.00

Philadelphia Inquirer

8/3/1866

8 pages, uncut. Appointments by President Johnson, Riots in New Orleans, General Sheridan Opinions, West Point Changes, Dartmoor Prison Reminiscences, The Ocean Telegraph, War in Germany – Good

$10.00

New York Weekly Tribune

11/28/1866

Condition of the South, Equal Rights Convention – Fair

$5.00

New York Weekly Tribune

12/26/1866

8 page uncut paper from NYC. Tax on Cotton, 2500 More Out of Work, General Sheridan's Explanation, Transatlantic Steamships, Letter from Mr. Greeley from Davenport Iowa, Paris Exhibition, Buffalo Hunt on the Union Pacific Railroad – Fair/Good, edge tears, stains

$10.00

Philadelphia Inquirer

3/30/1867

8 pages, uncut. Francis Joseph as King of Hungary, Changes in Army/Navy, State Legislation, The Impeachment – Good

$10.00

The World (New York)

4/24/1867

Reconstruction articles. 4 pages, uncut. G/VG

$10.00

Philadelphia Inquirer

5/4/1867

8 pages, uncut. Fortress Monroe, 8 Hour Movement, Withdrawal of Gladstone, Baltimore Convention Elects Blacks, The Japanese Commission – Good

$10.00

New York Observer

1/23/1868

Letters from the Alahmbra, The Human Voice, Climate of California, Railway Safety, the Pope – Good

$7.50

Lancaster (PA) Inquirer

2/15/1868

4 pages – Fair/Good, tears

$7.50

New York Observer

5/14/1868

8 pages, uncut. Letters from the Alahambra, Books, Suicides Increasing, Liberalism and Crime, Horse Racing – G/VG

$10.00

Lancaster PA Inquirer

5/9/1868

4 pages – Good

10.00

New York Observer

9/17/1868

8 pages – Good – water stain across paper

$7.50

New York Observer

1/7/1869

8 pages, uncut. Paralysis, Letters from Russia - A Sunday in Moscow, Sinai and the Pyramid – Good

$10.00

Commercial Exchange and Medical Review

11/8/1869

Published in Lancaster PA, Vol. 1 No. 4, 4 pages – G/VG

$12.50

Cincinnati Weekly Times

1869 Issues

Family Paper (Nice masthead) – 4 lg. Pages – 5/13, 12/2 – G/VG

$10.00 ea.

 

Saturday Night

1/1/1870

Illustrated fiction, articles. 8 pages, uncut – Good, some edge tears

$7.50

The Foreign Missionary

November, 1870

Small-size, 4-page, illustrated religious monthly, published in NY – G/VG

$7.50

New York Observer

5/11/1871

8 pages, uncut. Letter from the South (Augusta Georgia ), Railway Travel in India, War in France, American Museum of Natural History (NY) – Good

$10.00

New York Observer

5/18/1871

8 pages, uncut. Northern Christians Helping the Southern, Letters on India - The Holy City of the Hindoos, Letters from the South – Good

$10.00

Cincinnati Weekly Times

8/10/1871

Family Paper – 4 lg. Pages. Good

$10.00

New York Weekly Times

5/15/1872

8 pages, uncut – Good

$7.50

The (Phila.) Press

9/21/1872

8 pages – from bound volume. The Ambition of Greeley, Father Burke Lecture – Good

$7.50

Vidette of Camp 73, PA (Cressona PA)

12/14-18, 1872

4 page program from the Odd Fellows Hall, local ads – Good

$10.00

Evening Telegraph (Phila.)

7/22/1873

Shah in France, Cable News, etc. – 8 pages, uncut – Good

$10.00

Delaware County Republican (Chester PA)

11/28/1873

4 pages – G/VG

$12.50

Delaware County Republican (Chester PA)

12/19/1873

With 2 columns of Chester History, article on Mormonism - 4 pages – G/VG

$15.00

The Daily Graphic (NYC)

1/6/1874

Landmark “Illustrated Evening Newspaper”. “A Study of Idiots” illus. on front page. 8 pages, uncut – complete – G/VG

$15.00

Delaware County Republican (Chester PA)

1/9/1874

4 pages – Good

$10.00

New York Tribune

1/30/1874

8 pages, uncut. The Cuban Insurrection, Dr. Livington's Death Confirmed, The Stationary Scandal, Full-page lecture on The Moon with illustrations – G/VG

$10.00

New York Tribune

2/3/1874

8 pages, uncut. Indian Policy, The Louisiana Case, British Elections, full-page lecture on Stars, Railway Interests, Daring Train Robbery, Crime – G/VG

$10.00

New York Tribune

3/6/1874

8 pages, uncut. Questions, Improving the Mississippi, Custom House Spies, The Polaris Voyage, British Elections – G/VG

$10.00

The Daily Graphic (NYC)

3/16/1874

Landmark “Illustrated Evening Newspaper”. “Vacant Chair in the US Senate” (Death of Charles Sumner  - Double page of additional illus within). 8 pages, uncut – complete – G/VG

$15.00

New York Tribune

3/17/1874

8 pages, uncut. Senator Sumner's Funeral, Jayne and Sanborn Swindles, British Liberals, New Victor Hugo Novel, Steam on the Canals, Tribute to late President Fillmore – G/VG, small stain

$10.00

New York Tribune

3/27/1874

8 pages, uncut. Inflation Condemned, NY City News, Sanborn Contract Frauds, Civil Service Reform, Installment of Victor Hugo's "Ninety-Three" – G/VG

$10.00

The Daily Graphic (NYC)

8/22/1874

Landmark “Illustrated Evening Newspaper”. “The Beecher-Tilton Scandal” – with facsimiles of letters on all 16 pages within. Complete – G/VG

$15.00

The Daily Graphic (NYC)

9/11/1874

Landmark “Illustrated Evening Newspaper”. Front page portrait of Francis Moulton – regarding The Beecher-Tilton Scandal – with facsimiles of letters on some inside pages, and supplement on same.  16 pages, complete  – G/VG

$15.00

Delaware County Republican (Chester PA)

3/5/1875

4 pages – G/VG

$12.50

 

Boston Weekly Globe

1876 Issues

8 pages each – 9/6, 10/18, 12/20, 12/27 – Good to G/VG

$12.50 ea.

Oxford (PA) Press

5/24/1876

4 pages – Good

$10.00

The Laramie (Wyoming) News

?, 1876

4 page illus. paper – many Lottery promotions within, front page illus. from the Centennial Exhibition – Good, some edge tears

$25.00

New York Herald

8/2/1876

Impeachment vote in the Senate of W.W. Belknap, Windsor Howe 100th Anniversary, International News, Georgia Democrats, Racing at Saratoga Reports (& other races). 8 pages, torn section in middle

 

Grocer’s Price Current and Produce Reporter

9/30/1876

Small-size trade weekly. 8 pages – G/VG

$10.00

Weekly Express (Lancaster PA)

11/25/1876

Large page-size Family newspaper. 4 pages – Good

$10.00

Sabbath School Visitor

12/1/1876

Small page-size, illus. weekly. “Hunters of the North” with illus. on page 1. 4 pages – G/VG

$7.50

Phila. Evening Herald

2/15/1877

Latest Doings at Washington, Sporting Events, Boys Central High School Commencement. 4 pages – Good, edge tears

$10.00

Weekly New Era (Lancaster PA)

6/1/1878

Prohibition Nominations, Politics. 8 pages, uncut – Good.

$10.00

Daily Local News (West Chester PA)

6/20/1878

Valley Forge Centennial Celebration edition. 4 pages, split (removed from bound volume) – Good

$15.00

Philadelphia Inquirer

10/1/1878

“The Work of Death” – Yellow Fever deaths. 8 pages – Good

$15.00

The Times (Phila.)

1/21/1879

“Inauguration Day” reports – Penna. Governor at Harrisburg. 4 pages – Good

$10.00

The Times (Phila.)

2/8/1879

4 pages. World Champion at Billiards,  The State’s Salons, etc. – Good, edge tears

$10.00

Farm & Fireside

3/1/1879

Published at Springfield Ohio. 8 pages, uncut – G/VG

$10.00

Trifet’s Monthly

August, 1879

Small-page size paper published at Boston. 8 pages, Bret Harte poem on page 1 – Good

$12.50

Delaware County Republican (Chester PA)

8/22/1979

4 pages – Good

$10.00

 

Weekly World (New York)

4/20/1881

Various news – 8 pages, uncut – Good

$10.00

The Daily Graphic (NYC)

5/20/1881

Landmark “Illustrated Evening Newspaper”. Garfield Political Cartoon on front page. 8 pages – Good, some edge stains.

$15.00

Daily Pottstown (PA) Ledger

7/7/1881

“Cheerful News! Favorable Condition of President Garfield” report – 4 pages – Fair/Good, taped

$7.50

Daily New Era (Lancaster PA)

9/13/1881

“The President” – Recovering from Gunshot wound. 4 pages – Good

$10.00

Daily New Era (Lancaster PA)

9/21/1881

“The Murdered President”, “The Funeral Train”, “Honoring the Dead” – 4 pages – Good

$15.00

Daily New Era (Lancaster PA)

9/23/1881

“Our National Sorrow”, “The Last Sad Look” – 4 pages, Fair/Good, chipping

$10.00

New York World – Weekly Edition (New York NY)

1882 Issues

1/11, 7/26, 10/25 - Various News – 8 pages – Good, edge tears

$7.50 ea.

Home and Farm

3/1/1882

Published at Louisville KY. 8 pages – Good

$10.00

Weekly New Era (Lancaster PA)

5/27/1882

4 pages – Good, edge tears

$7.50

Daily New Era (Lancaster PA)

1883 Issues

4 pages each – 8/28, 12/31 – Good

$7.50 ea.

Daily New Era (Lancaster PA)

1884 Issues

1/15, 2/29, 7/22 – Good

$7.50 ea.

Lutheran Observer, The

5/30/1884

Phila. Publication. 8 pages uncut – Good, tears

$7.50

Weekly New Era (Lancaster PA)

7/12/1884

4 pages – Good, edge tears

$7.50

The Daily Graphic (NYC)

12/16/1884

Landmark “Illustrated Evening Newspaper. “Monopoly vs. Commerce” front page cartoon. 8 pages – Good.

$15.00

Weekly New Era (Lancaster PA)

4/25/1885

4 pages – Good, edge tears

$7.50

The World (NYC)

8/5/1885

“The Last Journey” – Funeral of President Grant. 8 pages – Good

$15.00

New York Ledger, The

8/22/1885

8 page fiction newspaper – Good

$12.50

The Farmer’s Call

11/28/1885

Published at Quincy Mass, 8 pages. Good, uncut

$10.00

The Agricultural Progress

8/1/1886

8 page uncut paper. Lead article "A Plea For Scientific Agriculture". Great Agrarian mast-head! G/VG

$10.00

The Interior (Chicago)

12/16/1886

8 pages – Good

$7.50

The Press (Phila.)

2/25/1887

“The Veto Sustained”, Earthquake in Genoa. 4 pages – Good, edge tears

$7.50

Pittsburg Press, The

2/13/1888

8 pages. “Dark Horse Jubilee Day” – Good

$7.50

Weekly Mail and Express (New York)

5/16/1888

8 pages, specimen copy. Good

$7.50

Philadelphia Inquirer

7/14/1888

8 page uncut paper – G/VG

$10.00

York (PA) Gazette

11/9/1888