Washington, D.C: Thomas Allen, Printer to the House, 1837. Pages 111-222 comprise Thomas Jefferson's Manual on Parliamentary Practice... Read More about Constitution of the United States of America: Rules of the House of Representatives, Joint Rules...
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Salem, [MA]: 1745. Debts After Death. An interesting, if slightly morbid, collection of 18th century Salem history. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Benjamin Young (c.1697-1745) was the son of William Young and Sarah Whittaker (the great-great grand parents of Mormon leader Brigham Young). Benjamin married Mary Howard in 1722. He died..... Read More about Demands for Payment Against the Estate of Benjamin Young
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Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1919-24. First edition. Read More about Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts 1715-1724
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Charlestown [MA]: July 31st 1759. "I HAVE BOUGHT THE HOUSE YOUR MOTHER LIVES IN" A letter advising Waters that Townsend has "bought the house your mother lives in and that I want it empty in order to live in."Further reading in part: "I am sensible that difficulty attends removing your..... Read More about Autograph Letter, Signed "Samuel Townsend," to Benjamin Waters of Salem
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Hartford: Published by Silas Andrus. [Roberts & Burr Printers (vol 1); Printed by S. Converse-New Haven], 1820. First American edition from the London edition of 1702. An indispensible source for the history of New England, both for its biographies and its history of civil, religious, and military affairs. The work..... Read More about Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from its first...
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Paris: Chez Froullé, libraire, quai des Augustins, 1788. First edition. Mazzei emigrated to America from Italy in 1773 and introduced the cultivation of grapes and olives to the United States. He became a neighbor of Jefferson in Virginia, settling near Monticello at Jefferson's request, and this association led to their..... Read More about Recherches historiques et politiques sur les États-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale: où l'on...
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Salem, [MA]: 7 May 1762. AN EARLY PIONEER OF SMALL POX VACCINATION. These items offer a quaint glimpse of a beloved New England Physician. Edward Augustus Holyoke (1728-1829), the son of Rev. Edward Holyoke (1689-1769) and Margaret Appleton, was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts on August 1, 1728. Holyoke moved with..... Read More about Autograph Document, Signed ("E. A. Holyoke"), and Manuscript Medical Prescription
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Paris: Levrault, Schoell et cie, 1804. First edition. Best known as a botanist and the author "North American Sylva," Michaux chronicles here an 1800-mile journey through the regions west of the Allegheny Mountains. Read More about Voyage à l'ouest des monts Alléghanys, dans les états de l'Ohio, du Kentucky, et du...
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Boston: Reprinted for Nicholas Boone, 1721. Second edition. The Brinley Copy. The Brinley copy of the second edition of one of the most important New England books, possibly rarer than the first of 1669. First issued in a very rare 1669 Boston edition, this second American edition includes a supplement..... Read More about New England's Memorial: or, A Brief Relation of the most Memorable and Remarkable Passages of the...
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Amsterdam: Les Héritiers E. Van Harrevelt, 1784. First edition. Joseph Mandrillon was born in Bourg, France, in 1743 and died in 1794. He came to America in the hopes of establishing a banking-house and returned to France at the beginning of the French Revolution, to ill effect: he was guillotined..... Read More about Le Spectateur Américain. Ou Remarques Générales sur l’Amérique Septentrionale et sur la...
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Chester, Province of New Hampshire: 10 January 1745/6. James Varnum of Chester, New Hampshire agrees to sell to Joseph Basford of Chester a piece of land with the western edge bordering Varnum's land and the southern edge on Basford's. The price was £48 for the three acres. Document signed by..... Read More about Printed deed/land transfer, accomplished, signed “James Varnum”
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Burlington: Printed by Isaac Collins, Printer to the King, for the Province of New-Jersey, 1776. The standard compendium of eighteenth-century statutes of New Jersey, published after many delays and tribulations, on the eve of the Revolution. Read More about Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, from the Surrender of the Government...
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New York: William Bradford, 1713. William Bradford's Laws of New York. A major early New York imprint from the press of William Bradford, the "pioneering printer of the English middle colonies" (DAB) and first printer of New York. Bradford (1663-1752) originally settled in Pennsylvania, where he began operating a printing..... Read More about The Laws of Her Majesties Colony of New York
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Boston: Marshall Jones, [1921]. First edition. Read More about Furniture of the Pilgrim Century (of American Origin) 1620-1720, Including Colonial Utensils and...
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Copenhagen: C.G. Proft Sohn, 1794. Earliest Danish printing. Second German Edition, but the first with this title of Paine's influential pamphlet Common Sense (1776), advocating America's independence from Great Britain. Common Sense in German. Second German Edition, but the first with this title of that most influential pamphlet, Common Sense..... Read More about Gesunder Menschenverstand. An die Einwohner von America gerichtet
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1874. First edition. Number 60 of 75 large paper copies printed. Large Paper. France and England in North America, Parkman's history of the European colonization of North America, was published in seven parts between 1865 and 1892, with each part issued separately as follows: Pioneers..... Read More about The Old Régime in Canada
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Berlin: 1770. Second edition. In spite of never having traveled to the American continent, de Pauw was considered a foremost expert on the new world and its natives, wildlife, climate, and vegetation. “The author endeavors to show the inferior character of everything American, especially the inhabitants” (Sabin). A fascinating document..... Read More about Recherches Philosophiques sur les Américains, ou Mémoires Intéressants pour Servir à...
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London: Printed for J. Batley ... and for Sam. Gerrish, in Boston, New England, 1727. First edition. From the library of the noted early American scientist John Winthrop (1714-1779), the great-great-grandson of the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. At the time of publication Winthrop was a student at Harvard..... Read More about Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions ... To which is added, a sermon after his funeral...
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Wilmington: James Adams, 1783. Includes William Penn's A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers. Read More about Three treatises, in which the fundamental principle, doctrines, worship, ministry and discipline...
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Andover, [Massachsetts]: 1744. Phillips was the minister of the parish of South Andover for 60 years (until his death in 1771), and author of an "Elegy" (1718) and numerous religious treatises and occasional sermons. His son, John, became a merchant in Exeter, NH, and a member of the New Hampshire..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed, to Edward Bromfield sending his thanks to Bromfield for giving an...
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London: Lockyer Davis, 1781. First edition. Adams and Howes disagree as to which of the two issues of this title appeared first (both issued in 1781). The present copy includes the portrait frontispiece of Raynal. Read More about Révolution de l'Amérique
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[Boston]: [Printed by T. & J. Fleet and Edes & Gill], [1771]. Paul Revere. Colonial Amanac with Revere Engravings. The cuts include portraits of the dwarf Emma Leach, "The Patriotic American Farmer" John Dickinson and Catharine M'Caulay. The unsigned cuts are attributed to Revere based on the style and charges..... Read More about An Astronomical Diary; or Almanack for the Year of our Lord Christ 1772
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London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. Millan, 1765. First Edition. Classic Account of the French and Indian War. First edition of this classic narrative of the French and Indian War. Rogers acted as a scout for the 1755 expedition against Crown Point, and in 1756 became captain..... Read More about Journals of Major Robert Rogers: Containing an Account of the several Excursions he made under...
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Oxford: Printed for private circulation, by Parker & Co, 1881. One of 250 copies. Family history of the Evelyn family, from their earliest migration to the American colonies, and including the history of Captain William Glanville Evelyn, who served in the British Army during the American Revolution. Read More about The Evelyns in America: Compiled from Family Papers and Other Sources, 1608-1805
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[New York? n.d., after 1863]. A nicely executed manuscript copy of the first book on angling written and printed in English-speaking America, Seccombe’s sermon (Boston, 1743) is a rare book. This manuscript appears to have been produced in the second half of the nineteenth century. The text was not reprinted..... Read More about Business and Diversion Inoffensive of God, and Necessary for the Comfort and Support of Human...
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Philadelphia: Globe Printing House, 1888. First edition. Read More about History of the American Theater: Before the Revolution
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