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[New York]: [Privately-printed], [1822]. Relates to the controversy concerning control of the North-River Bank between the early American financier, banker and stock trader Jacob Barker and the Director of the Bank David Rogers, with Barker being convicted in court of challenging Rogers to a duel after Rogers had slandered him.....  Read More Item Details for Jacob Barker to His Creditors [caption title] Add to Wish List

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Venice: Appresso Marco Ginammi, 1636. First edition in Italian. An Anti-Slavery Milestone. Bartoloméo de Las Casas, the great Spanish priest and advocate of the Indians, had witnessed the atrocities committed by the Spaniards in the New World, and upon his return to Spain he initiated a series of attacks on.....  Read More Item Details for Il supplice schiavo indiano ... tradotto in Italiano per opera di Marco Ginammi Add to Wish List

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Philadelphia: Printed for John Fenno, by John Bioren, 1797. First edition. Hamilton Confesses to His Affair with Mrs. Reynolds. The first edition of the infamous "Reynolds pamphlet," in which Hamilton describes his affair with Maria Reynolds and admits to paying off a blackmailer. In the pamphlet Hamilton takes the extraordinary.....  Read More Item Details for Observations on certain documents contained in No, V & VI of “The History of the United States, for the Year 1796.” In Which the Charge of Speculation against Alexander Hamilton, Late Secretary of the Treasury, Is Fully Refuted Add to Wish List

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