![[AMERICANA--PAMPHLETS] Group of six rare 19th century pamphlets.](/sites/default/files/styles/auction_slider/public/images/lots/2022-03-22/1540262.jpg?itok=9Hnb1H8W)
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Lot 5
[AMERICANA--PAMPHLETS] Group of six rare 19th century pamphlets.
Comprises PUTNAM, DANIEL. Account of the Battle of Bunker's Hill. With a Letter to Maj. Gen. Dearborn, Repelling His Unprovoked Attack on the Character of Gen. Israel Putnam. Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1818; Exposition of Motives for Opposing the Nomination of Mr. Monroe for the Office of President of the United States. City of Washington: Jonathan Elliot, 1816; Massachusetts Election! First Monday in April next. American nomination. Major-General Henry Dearborn, for Governor.... Boston: Office of the Yankee, [1817]. Samuel J. Prescott's copy, his name at ink to the head of the first page; EVERETT, ALEXANDER H. Address delivered at Charlestown, Massachusetts, on the 17th of June, 1836, at the request of the young men, without distinction of party in commemoration of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Boston: Beals & Greene, 1836. Presentation copy from the publishers (front wrapper); THAYER, NATHANIEL. A Sermon, delivered August 20, 1812; the day "of Publick Humiliation and Prayer," appointed by the National Government, who had declared War against Great-Britain. Worcester: Isaac Sturtevant, 1812. Samuel J. Prescott's copy, gift inscription at head of self-wrapper; and YOUNG, ALEXANDER. A Discourse occasioned by the Death of the Hon. William Prescott LL.D.... Boston: Charles C. Little and J. Brown, 1844. Inscription to J.F. Prescott on front wrapper. All six in original wrappers or self-wrappers, stitched as issued. All uncut and as issued, the second work with a dark stain affecting the lower margin, generally some light wear but a sound group overall.
The first work listed above is Daniel Putnam's defense of his father against the imputations of incompetence and cowardice issued by Henry Dearborn, a controversy that raged for some thirty more years, and which cost Dearborn his bid for the governorship of Massachusetts (the third pamphlet, a campaign publication, extolls Dearborn's virtues). The second work is an anonymous Federalist attack on Monroe's candidacy for President.
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