Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

219 220 c   (PRESIDENTS—1828.) Benton, Thomas Hart. Some Account of Some of the Bloody Deeds of General Jackson. Illustrated broadside, 21 x 15 inches; dampstaining, toning,worn at edges and along folds with moderate loss in four spots. Np, [1828] [500/750] One of the famed “coffin handbills.” It opposed Andrew Jackson’s 1828 candidacy by recounting the cruel executions of his own soldiers during the CreekWar.An inset to the right depicts Jackson stabbing a man on the streets of Nashville.The author of the text, SenatorThomas Hart Benton (1782-1858), had brawled with Jackson back in 1813, so he had some personal experience with his subject. Reilly 1828-2. 219 c   (PRESIDENTS.) Adams, John Quincy. Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette. 94 pages. 8vo, red morocco binding, minor wear, rebacked by Vernon Wiering; stain on inner margin of title page; inscribed by John Quincy Adams to the Lawrenceville Lyceum on the front free endpaper above a faint inked “withdrawn” stamp, other pencil notes on endpapers and flyleaves. Washington, 1835 [2,500/3,500] Adams inscribed this copy “The Lawrenceville Lyceum, from John Quincy Adams” in 1836, the year after its publication. Sabin 295; Shaw & Shoemaker 29946. 220