Price: $450
Italy: 1805. Limited edition of 250 copies. Volume from Alfieri's OPERE, or collected works, comprised of odes to the American Revolution, printed here in a limited edition of 250 copies. Alfieri was an Italian dramatist and poet who published several poetical works on the American Revolution. Read More Item Details for Opere di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti: L'america Libera Add to Wish List
Item #253287
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Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1846. Fourth edition. Read More Item Details for A Narrative of the Captivity of Col. Ethan Allen. Written by Himself Add to Wish List
Item #302136
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[Valley Forge, PA]: January 10, 1778. A letter written by William Bradford, Jr., Deputy Muster Master General for the Continental Army, to Joseph Clark of the New Jersey Militia, written from the brutal winter encampment of Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-78. In it Bradford expresses concern at not..... Read More Item Details for [Autograph letter, signed, from the Deputy Muster Master General to New Jersey militia officer Joseph Clark, written from Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78, leaving Clark in charge in Bradford's absence] Add to Wish List
Item #247974
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Philadelphia: Printed by William and Thomas Bradford, 1774. Early Philadelphia edition. One of the most significant documents of the American Revolution, condensing the most important proceedings of the First Continental Congress between Sept. 5 and Oct. 26, 1774. The work publishes the Declaration of Rights, passed Oct. 14, by which..... Read More Item Details for Extracts from the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental Congress, Held at Philadelphia on the 5th of September 1774. Containing the Bill of Rights, a List of Grievances, Occasional Resolves, the Association, and Address to the People of Great-Britain, and a Memorial to the Inhabitants of the British American Colonies Add to Wish List
Item #376862
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[Squirrel Hill Farm, Pa.]: Jan. 15, 1778. Letter of complaint written by Thomas Galbraith to General Edward Hand, stationed at Fort Pitt, decrying the damage to his property caused by the militia stationed at Palmers Fort. He writes, "My farm at Squirrel Hill hath been this Fall their place of..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed, from Thomas Galbraith to General Edward Hand, complaining of the military's depredations to his property Add to Wish List
Item #352125
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Philadelphia: Leary, Stuart & Company, [1876]. First published in 1847, here reissued around the time of the Centennial. Read More Item Details for The Legends of the Revolution. "1776." or, Washington and his Generals Add to Wish List
Item #375885
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Hartford: Silus Andrus and Son, 1854. Thacher served as medical assistant at the opening of the Revolution. He describes the retreat at Ticonderoga, the ill-fated Penobscot expedition, and provides an excellent eyewitness account of the execution of Major Andre. He also gives accounts of the siege of Yorktown and the..... Read More Item Details for Military Journal during the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783 Add to Wish List
Item #375883
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Boston: Beacon Press, 1898. First edition. Campbell was a lt. colonel in the famed Scottish Highlanders, when he was captured in Boston Harbor during a naval engagement with a fleet of Yankee privateers in 1776. A scarce history of his life and internment during the war as well as an..... Read More Item Details for Sir Archibald Campbell Of Inverneill Sometime Prisoner in the Jail at Concord Massachusetts Add to Wish List
Item #371375
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[Burlington]: 7 April 1783. The lands contained all the necessary materials for shipbuilding, and in the Revolutionary War its "bog iron" made cannon balls while its hidden coves sheltered privateers. Blast furnaces, sawmills, glass factories, and brick and tile works followed until the Industrial Revolution drew its people away. Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter signed ("Rich Wescoat") to Major JOSHUA MERSEREAU in Elizabeth Town (New Jersey) regarding an order for lumber from the Mersereau and his brother, John Add to Wish List
Item #215615
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Philadelphia: Key & Biddle, 1834. First Edition. Collects speeches by Chatham, Burke and Erskine concerning legal issues connected with the American Revolution and other topics, as well as Mackintosh's speech in the trial of Peltier, a French Royalist emigré, for libel of the First Consul of the French Republic (Buonaparte)..... Read More Item Details for Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine. To Which is Added the Argument of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier. Selected by a Member of the Philadelphia Bar Add to Wish List
Item #35504
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Boston: Lee and Shepard, [circa 1850]. Read More Item Details for Pictorial History of the American Revolution Add to Wish List
Item #375884
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Hartford & Windham [CT]: 1785. Too young for marriage and children, but old enough to join the fight for independence, these documents may be the last few remaining records of a largely forgotten soldier of 1776. Samuel Robinson III (1757-1776) was born in the Central Village of Windham, Connecticut, and..... Read More Item Details for A Group of Two Manuscripts and One Document, Attesting to the Service of Samuel Robinson in the Continental Army and Orders for Payments to be Made to His Estate Add to Wish List
Item #308429
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Philadelphia: Benjamin Towne, August 31, 1776. Vol. II, Num. 252. This issue includes very early reporting on the news of George Washington's retreat at the Battle of Long Island: "This day's post brings us the agreeable intelligence of General Washington having effects a safe retreat for our army out of..... Read More Item Details for The Pennsylvania Evening Post ... Saturday, August 31, 1776 ... [containing news of Washington's retreat at the Battle of Long Island] Add to Wish List
Item #369649
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Philadelphia: Benjamin Towne, March 2, 1776. Vol. II, Num. 174. In December 1775, Great Britain passed the Prohibitory Act, removing the colonies from the protection of the crown, banning trade with them, and allowing seizure of American ships at sea. John Adams, writing to Horatio Gates on March 23, left..... Read More Item Details for The Pennsylvania Evening Post ... Saturday, March 2, 1776 ... [with the first printing of radical James Cannon's letter advocating for independence, written under the pseudonym Cassandra] Add to Wish List
Item #369662
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Providence: John Carter, October 11, 1777. Includes news of both the ongoing Battle of Saratoga (under the dateline Kingston, Sept. 29), as well as an account dated September 25 of the Battle of Brandywine. The front page includes a printing of a letter by Edmund Burke on the Affairs of..... Read More Item Details for The Providence Gazette; and Country Journal ... October 11, 1777 Add to Wish List
Item #352424
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New York: Privately printed for William Loring Andrews, 1897. One of 80 copies printed by The Gilliss Press on handmade paper. Read More Item Details for Fragments of American History Add to Wish List
Item #323542
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Paris: Desventes de Ladoué, 1770. First edition. A satirical response to Rousseau’s Emile ou l'Education (1762). Where Émile is guided by a wise tutor, the author of Le Père avare mocks from the outset Rousseau’s dictum “le véritable précepteur est le père”, for the narrator’s father M. d’Erigny grew up..... Read More Item Details for Le Père Avare, ou Les Malheurs de L'Education; Contenant une idée de ceux de la Colonie de l'Isle de C*** Add to Wish List
Item #307572
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Boston: Wells and Lilly-Court Street, 1828. First edition. The first of two volumes, the second of which was published the following year. Read More Item Details for The Life of Elbridge Gerry With Contemporary Letters to the Close of the American Revolution Add to Wish List
Item #222376
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Philadelphia: Printed for the Subscribers, by Robert Bell, 1773. First edition under this title, and the third American edition overall. This work originally appeared in 1772 as a fifth volume to Bell’s edition of Blackstone, under the title An Interesting Appendix to Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of..... Read More Item Details for The Palladium of Conscience or, The Foundation of Religious Liberty Displayed, Asserted, and Established, Agreeable to its True and Genuine Principals, Above the Reach of all Petty Tyrants ... Being a Necessary Companion for Every Lover of Religious Liberty... And an Interesting Appendix to Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England Add to Wish List
Item #301013
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Paris: A. Sauton; Philadelphie: J.-B. Lippincott; Leipzig: J.-A. Brockhaus, 1872. Read More Item Details for Les Français en Amérique pendant la Guerre de l'Independance des États-Unis 1777-1783 Add to Wish List
Item #264687
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Philadelphia: Published by Thomas Dobson,, at the Stone House, No. 41, South Second Street, William Fry, Printer, 1814. First American edition of this classic and important treatise on colors and dyeing techniques. First published in London in 1794 as a single volume, this edition is reprinted from the second and..... Read More Item Details for Experimental Researches Concerning the Philosophy of Permanent Colours; and the Best Means of Producing Them, By Dyeing, Calico Printing, &c. Add to Wish List
Item #371961
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Paris: 1831. Second edition, after the first of 1816, of this study of the treachery of Benedict Arnold. The portraits are of Arnold and George Washington, and the plan is of "des Forts, Batteries et Poste de West-Point 1780." Read More Item Details for COMPLOT D'ARNOLD ET DE HENRY CLINTON CONTRE LES ETATS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE ET LE GENERAL WASHINGTON (SEPTEMBRE 1780) Add to Wish List
Item #251613
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Germantown: Christopher Saur, 1775. Seventh edition. German translation of the New Testament published in Pennyslvania by Christopher Saur II, son of Christoph Saur the elder, a native of Wittgenstein, Germany. The elder Saur emigrated to Germantown, Pennsylvania and practiced medicine before turning to printing. It was he who printed the..... Read More Item Details for Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn Jesu Christi Add to Wish List
Item #376212
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London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1784. Second edition. A vigorous argument in favor of trade between the United States and Europe. Bingham argues that Great Britain, especially, is in a position to promote American trade and to benefit from it. Bingham, founder and director of the Pennsylvania Bank, lived in..... Read More Item Details for A Letter from an American, now Resident in London, to a Member of Parliament, on the Subject of the Restraining Proclamation; and Containing Strictures on Lord Sheffield's Pamphlet on the Commerce of the American States Add to Wish List
Item #353941
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Paris: Chez Giguet, 1801. First edition printed from the original manuscript. Bouillé was a French general who served in the West Indies and distinguished himself as a commander of French forces in the American Revolution; he was the cousin of La Fayette. He was also Lieutenant-General of the Royal forces..... Read More Item Details for Mémoires de ... sur la Révolution Française Add to Wish List
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