Paris: Chez Froullé, libraire, quai des Augustins, 1788. First edition. Mazzei emigrated to America from Italy in 1773... Read More about Recherches historiques et politiques sur les États-Unis de l'Amérique...
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Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson & Son, 1818. First edition. "Prior to the adoption of the present governement of the United States of America, it was not practicable to collect the facts and data for a statistical account of our country; the more important civil institutions were then exclusively under the control..... Read More about Statistical Annals Embracing Views of the Population, Commerce, Navigation, Fisheries, Public...
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[Rockingham County NH]: May 15, 1769. A memo written during Bartlett’s tenure as justice of the Peace for Rockingham County, recording an agreement for the transfer of a deed from Joseph Chandler to Josiah Judkins upon payment of a note. American physician, statesman, and jurist, Josiah Bartlett (1729-1795), was born..... Read More about Autograph document signed Josiah Bartlett ("J Bartlett"
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Boston: William Veazie, 1865. Number 14 of 25 copies printed in Royal Quarto. ONE OF 25. Read More about Advertisements for The Unexperienced Planters of New England, Or Anywhere; Or, the Pathway to...
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London: Thomas Wilcox, 1757. First edition of the first history of New York. Peter Stuyvesant's Copy. This example signed multiple times by Petrus "Peter" Stuyvesant (October 13, 1727 – October 7, 1805), a New York landowner and merchant who was the great-grandson of his namesake, Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch..... Read More about The History of the Province of New-York, from the First Discovery to the Year M.DCC.XXXII
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Perth Amboy [NJ]: August 30, 1726. East Jersey Proprietor. An important Somerset County document relating to the colonial history of New Jersey. The land in the Raritan Valley of New Jersey, encompassing what is now Somerset County, was acquired by the East Jersey proprietors in the 1680s, through several purchases..... Read More about Manuscript Indenture signed (“Char. Dunster”), also signed (“Lewis Morris"),...
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Bedford County, July 17, 1772. On April 16, 1762, he resigned his commission, and, in 1764, he settled in Ligonier Valley, Pennsylvania, where he purchased land and erected mills. He was the largest landowner in Western Pennsylvania. In 1770, St. Clair became a justice of the court, of quarter sessions..... Read More about Document Signed for the recovery of a debt owed by Thomas Hayslack to Robert Atkins in Bedford...
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Newburyport [MA]: January 22, 1775. Reading: "Cusen, This comes to aquaint (sic) you that thro the goodness of God we are all well I present + hope that this will find you with your wife + children in the enjoyment of the Like Blessing. I have sent you enclosed a...... Read More about Autograph Letter, Signed "John Stone" to Benj. Watters in Salem, MA requesting that...
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Philadelphia: Printed by John Ward Fenno, 1799. First edition. The Journal prints President Adams's Address to Congress of December 8, 1798, discussing at length the "alarming and destructive pestilence" which had prevented the assembling of the government at Philadelphia; and recommending that Congress pass public health measures, by virtue of..... Read More about Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, Being the Third Session of the Fifth...
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New York: Francis Childs and John Swaine, [1789]. First edition. The First Session of the House of Representatives, with a Preliminary Printing of the Bill of Rights. This rare original printing of the Journal for the first session of the House of Representatives covers the activities of the House from..... Read More about Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
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Boston: John Russell and John West, 1800. A biographical sketch and eulogy of George Washington, with his will also included. One of many laudatory works occasioned by his death. With a list of subscribers. Read More about WASHINGTON'S POLITICAL LEGACIES. TO WHICH IS ANNEXED AN APPENDIX...WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE OF...
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London: Felix Kingston, 1622. Expanded second edition. A foundation tract of British settlement in North America by "the father of Newfoundland". This is the second edition, enlarged with "A Loving Invitation" (also printed separately) as well as 15 pages of letters in the rear which give the earliest and only..... Read More about A Discourse and Discovery of New-Found-Land, with many reasons to procue how worthy and...
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