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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. [Early 19th Century Hanover Pennsylvania Newspapers] Large folio, bound in contemporary leather-backed, marbled boards. Some rubbing to leather. Scattered staining, but generally good. 75 issues. An 19th-century weekly and semi-weekly Democratic newspaper published in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Includes an interesting article on the Potato blight (which helped cause the great famine in Ireland). Also includes a military map showing Matamoras's positions on the Rio Grande and Gen. Zachary Taylor's American camp during the Mexican American War. Includes an illustration and article showing a Revolutionary War veteran reading about the war in Mexico. Includes messages by President James Polk about the war. From the library of Mr. George W. Stark.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. [Early 19th Century Hanover Pennsylvania Newspapers: Also includes a large broadside advertising the death song in the memory of President Andrew Jackson] Large folio, bound in contemporary leather-backed, marbled boards. Some rubbing to leather. Scattered staining, but generally good. 348 pages. Includes 37 issues, Vol.1, No.1-37, January 12, 1844 - September 28, 1844 printed by the Planet and Weekly news. This has been bound with it's successor paper, The Hanover Spectator which includes 50 issues, Vol.1, No. 1-50, Oct. 2, 1844 - Sept. 19, 1845. The Planet and Weekly News succeeded The Democrat and was shortly thereafter renamed "The Hanover Spectator" after being sold to Senary Leader. Leader turned the paper into a pro-Whig paper, whereas it was as a Democrat paper before that point. The Planet supported James K. Polk. Numerous articles in the Spectator about the Henry Clay ticket for the 1844 Presidential election against Polk. Includes a lengthy article from James Tyler about the Annexation of Texas (Aug. 24, 1844). …