Copenhagen: C.G. Proft Sohn, 1794. Earliest Danish printing. Second German Edition, but the first with this title of... Read More about Gesunder Menschenverstand. An die Einwohner von America gerichtet
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Hartford: Typis Watsoni et Goodwini, 1778. First edition. President Stiles' Inaugural address in 1778 during the Revolution. Read More about Oratio Inauguralis habita in sacello Collegii Yalensis, quod est Novo-Portu Connecticuttensium,...
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London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1792. First edition. Elias Boudinot's copy. Elias Boudinot's copy with his signature on the title and along the gutter on page 80. Boudinot (1740-1821) was in the Continental Congress 1777-78 and 1781-83, he was President of Congress 1782, served in the..... Read More about Travels into Norway, Denmark, and Russia, in the years 1788, 1789, 1790 and 1791
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Paris: Au Bureau du Courier de la Librairie, rue de la Harpe, An VI-1797. First edition. Read More about Recueil de cantiques, odes et hymnes, pour les fêtes publiques, religieuses et morales des...
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Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Burnham, for the Author, 1840. First edition. Read More about Reminiscences of the Last Sixty-Five Years, Commencing with the Battle of Lexington. Also,...
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Providence: John Carter, 1787. First edition. A Landmark of the Principle of Judicial Review. In 1786, the Rhode Island legislature had passed laws requiring the acceptance of Rhode Island paper currency as legal tender without discount and providing that violators should be tried without jury. Varnum, as counsel for Weeden..... Read More about The Case, Trevett against Weeden: on Information and Complaint
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Fauquier County [VA]: 3rd May 1759. Early Colonial Virginia Land Survey. A relevant piece of Old Virginia history mapping a section of Lord Fairfax's large land holding and giving insight into the life leases therein. The “Manor of Leeds” was named for Leeds Castle, the seat of the Fairfax family in..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Survey, Signed "Joseph Moffet" to Joseph Williams for a Lott of...
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Philadelphia: J.P. Ayres, 1825. First edition. One of two issues of the first edition, published the same year. Standard biography, with good coverage of significant events in the war. Read More about Life of the Marquis de La Fayette; Major-General in the Service of the United States of America,...
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London: 1811. Walsh founded the first American quarterly, the AMERICAN REVIEW, the same year the present work was published. This is the first separate edition, as the text first appeared in the AMERICAN REVIEW. Read More about An Inquiry into the Past and Present Relations of France and the United States of America
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March 19, 1813. Armstrong (1758-1843) a delagate to the Continental Congress, a U.S. Senator from New York and briefly Secreatry of War under James Madison (1813-4) during the War of 1812. He was forced to resign as Secretary of War in September 1813, after failing to defend Washington from the..... Read More about Partially printed document signed ("John Armstrong") as Secretary of War, appointing...
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Providence: Printed by John Carter, [1800]. First Edition. Read More about An Oration Pronounced at the Baptist Meeting-House in Providence, on Tuesday the Seventh of...
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New York: 1900. First Edition. INSCRIBED. Inscribed "To The Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge with regards of Hilary A Herbert.".Henry Cabot Lodge declares in the preface to this book that it deserves "a permanenet place in the Washington Literature". Leila Herbert was the daughter of Secretary of the Navy, etc., but..... Read More about The First American His Homes and His Households
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New York: Blue Ribbon Books, [1931]. Read More about George Washington. The Image and the Man
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New York: Dana and Company, 1856. First edition. Watson travelled through most of the American colonies in 1771, though he spent the rest of the war in France. In 1785, after lengthy European travels, he returned to America, and there are numerous acccounts of later travels in upstate New York..... Read More about Men and Times of the Revolution: or, Memoirs of Elkanah Watson, including Journals of Travels in...
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Garden City, NY: Garden City, [1930]. Read More about A Gentleman Rebel. The Exploits of Anthony Wayne
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New Bedford, (Mass.): John Spooner, 1795. First edition. West Answers to Jonathan Edwards's Determinism. The first part of West's defense of free will was printed first in 1793 (Evans 26469 ). As West explains in his "Introduction to the Second Part", he was advised by his publisher to wait for..... Read More about Essays on Liberty and Necessity; in which the True Nature of Liberty is Stated and Defended; and...
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Stamford, Connecticut: 6 June 1776. A Signer Writes One Month Before the Declaration of Independence. William Williams (1731-1811), delegate for Connecticut to the continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes on June 6, 1776, as clerk for the Governor of the Council of Safety to the..... Read More about Autograph Document Signed ("Wm Williams, Clerk"), to Connecticut Committee of Pay Table
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[New York]: Belfast printed: New-York, re-printed by H. Gaine, in Hanover-Square, 1776. First American Edition. "A collection of English precedents, relating to the office of a justice of the peace .. To which is prefixed, copy of the commission of the justice of the peace; with some observations thereon."--iv, 86..... Read More about The Young Clerk’s Vade mecum: or, Compleat law-tutor. Being a useful collection of a great...
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