Basilae: In officina Heruagiana, 1538. Collection first published by Froben, 1518. With Provenance to a 17th Century Clergyman in New York. With ownership signaure to the title page: "Ex Libris Johannis Miller pret. 1s. 0d Anno Dm 1693", a further ownership signature to the recto of the last leaf "Ex..... Read More about Fabulae Graece et Latine, cum aliis opusculis, quorum, index proxima refertur pagella

Boston: Thomas & Andrews, May, 1812. Thomas Mellon's Copy. The first edition of this early, influential American atlas was published at Philadelphia in 1804, with an editions following at Boston in 1805. The present 1812 edition with seven new maps added (Austalasia, Polynesia, New-Granada, Carracas, Peru, Chili, and La Plata)..... Read More about A New and Elegant General Atlas

London: John Baskett, 1719. First edition. First Collected Laws of Bermuda. Read More about Acts of Assembly, Made and Enacted in the Bermuda, or Summer-Islands, From 1690, to 1713-14

[New Haven]: [1804]. Unrecorded. Much of the broadside is comprised of an argurment in favor of the new state Constitution, under the caption heading To the Freeman of New Haven County. The various controversial points are reviewed, including the sections on religious conscience and on qualifications of electors, noting in..... Read More about The Constitution. Agreeably to the Resolve the Legislature in May, freemen may be qualified on...

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. First edition. One of the earliest books on American college football. Includes chapters by William Mann Irvine: "The Wedge: Its Development and Use"; Frank Walton Hallowell: "The End-Rusher"; Wallace Charles Winter: "The Tackle."; Hector William Cowan: "The Guard"; George, William James George: "Centre-Rush."; Edgar Allan..... Read More about University Foot-Ball: The Play of Each Position Treated by a College Expert

Philadelphia: Seddon, Carey, Spotswood, Cist and Trenchard, 1786. An early issue, complete with its table and engraved plate, and in the original wrappers: rare thus. "This was the most ambitious project in magazine publication yet attempted in this country" (Evans). Publication began in September 1786 and continued to May 1787..... Read More about The Columbian Magazine, or Monthly Miscellany for November, 1786

Philadelphia: J. & T. Doughty, 1830-1833. First edition. COMPLETE SET - THE PHILLIPS COPY. "A mine of information on contemporary sport and natural history" (Phillips). A landmark of American sporting publication, issued in parts by the brothers Thomas and John Doughty. Subscriptions dwindled after Thomas departed for Boston, and the..... Read More about The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports

Washington, D.C: [Gales & Seaton], February 20, 1822. 17th Congress, 1st Session, House Report No. 47. A request that the association formed by Chazotte be allowed to purchase land in the Key Largo area for the purpose of cultivating coffee, cocoa and tropical fruits. Pages 13 through 30 comprise a...... Read More about Report of the Committee on the Public Lands on the Petition of Peter S. Chazotte and others, in...

Boston: February 27, 1783 - November 17, 1785. "On 30 Aug. 1783, with Anglo-American hostilities having ceased and eager to profit from the commercial opportunities offered by the Dutch-American Treaty, De la Lande & Fynje signed a five-year contract with Boston merchant and loyalist Frederick William Geyer (d. 1803). The..... Read More about Manuscript retained letterbook of the Boston merchant firm William Foster & Company,...

London: Thomas Baskett, 1733. This Parliamentary Act authorized a grant of £10,000 "for establishing the colony of Georgia in America, to be applied toward defraying the charges of carrying over and settling foreign and other Protestants in the said colony" (p. 448). The act further authorizes the application of £500,000..... Read More about Anno Regni Georgii II Regis ... An Act for enabling His Majesty ... to pay ... Ten Thousand...

Philadelphia: Printed by William Duane, 1811. First edition, translated and revised by Thomas Jefferson. This is the first edition, and an edition in French did not appear until 1817. In his preface the author states that he wrote this work, in which he extols the superiority of the republican constitution..... Read More about A Commentary And Review of Montesquieu’s Spirit of Laws. Prepared for Press From the Original...

New York: O. Halsted, 1832. Second edition. THE AMERICAN BLACKSTONE. A landmark in American and International legal commentary, the first edition of Kent's classic was issued in four volumes from 1826 to 1830. This second edition is also very uncommon. The work, notes the DNB, “still remains the foremost American..... Read More about Commentaries on American Law

Galveston: 1870. This broadside, published by Galveston's largest newspaper, includes a printing of Lee's General Orders No. 9, as well as a poem titled Lee at the Wilderness. Read More about The Galveston News. In Memory of the Death of Robert E. Lee