Early Boston Newspapers Plus

Lot of six including two copies of a scarce Union newspaper, the North Carolina Times, New Berne, N.C., sated Saturday Feb. 20, 1864, Vol. 1 No. 10, tabloid size(14 x 20”) folded single sheet with four pages. This newspapers slogan was Liberty and Union Now and Forever, One and Inseparable. General Burnsides captured New Berne in 1862 and it remained in Union hands throughout the war. Paper was in operation under the above name for from 1864-65 and was semiweekly. Has war news from Richmond Examiner. Has note on introduction of a bill drafting all free Negro males from 18-50 years of age into the Confederate army. Other items such as southerners reaction to African American Union forces stationed in captured southern cities and other interesting war news; plus tabloid, (10 ½ x 14”) single sheet four page temperance newspaper, The Boston Spy, Boston, Wed. June 24, 1840, Vol. 1, No. 26; plus broadsheet, New England Washingtonian, Sat. Morning, May 18, 1844, Vol. III, No. 18, temperance newspaper single folded letter sheet with four pages. Boston, Mass. 1843-1850; plus Boston Daily Advertiser, Sat. Morning, June 26, 1875, broad sheet, single folded letter sheet with four pages; and Boston Morning Journal, Thursday, Morning July 1, 1875, broadsheet, single folded letter sheet with four pages. Condition all with normal folds, 1 st VG; 2 nd separated in half vertically; 3 rd minor short tears, VG; 4 th & 5 th some tears, still VG-; 6 th many short tears, especially at central vertical fold, only G.