Federal Period
LOUISIANA PURCHASE & ELECTION OF JEFFERSON
1804-Dated Federal Period Imprint, LOUISIANA PURCHASE & ELECTION OF PRESIDENT JEFFERSON, Complete, Very Fine.
Original Imprint, fully titled: “ORATION, IN HONOR OF THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT JEFFERSON, AND THE PEACEABLE ACQUISITION OF LOUISIANA, DELIVERED AT THE NATIONAL FESTIVAL, IN HARTFORD, ON THE 11th OF MAY, 1804, printed for the General Committee of Republicans, From Sidney's Press, 1804. - By Abraham Bishop”. This imprint on period laid paper, 24 pages, complete. Specially housed within modern half cloth and marbled outer boards, burgundy leather with a gold leaf embossed label on its spine which reads: “ORATION ON JEFFERSON - BISHOP - 1804”. Well printed and clean overall, some internal closed tears at the spine gutter of leaves, partly untrimmed. This was an influential address on the recent acquisition of the Louisiana Territory from France, with a highly partisan in outlook, in part: "To Federalists, this territory, for which they would have shed blood, now seems a barren waste, where no verdure quickens; but to us it appears fruitful, abounding in broad rivers and streams, producing whatever is necessary to our commerce with foreign nations." Shaw & Shoemaker distinguish two printings of this pamphlet, the other originating from Hartford. It is just possible that they are one and the same printing. Either way its content contains historically important political text. An important Louisiana Purchase related imprint and rare.