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Chicago: Jevne & Almini, 1866-1867. First Edition. Plates Documenting Chicago Before the Fire, with the Original Prospectus. A marvelous collection of views of Chicago - drawn, described, and published by Chicagoans - providing the best visual description of the city before the destruction wreaked by the Great Fire of 1871.....  Read More Item Details for Chicago Illustrated. 1830. 1866. Literary Description by James W. Sheahan Esq. Illustrations by the Chicago Lithographing Co [wrapper title] Add to Wish List

Item #332978

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Cambridge: John Owen, 1842. First edition. "In 1799 [Cleveland] visited the northwest coast, including Alaska, and in 1803 California ... [he] was at the Old Sitka site of the first Russian establishment the day following Baranov's making a deal with Katleut, a Sitkan chief, which enabled him to start building.....  Read More Item Details for A Narrative of Voyages and Commercial Enterprises Add to Wish List

Item #346072

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Washington, D.C: George S. Gideon, July 6 to November 16, 1848. Whig Campaign Newspaper for Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. Scarce complete run of the weekly political newspaper "devoted to the support of Taylor and Fillmore" published during their campaign in the Election of 1848, which pitted the Whig Zachary.....  Read More Item Details for The Battery Add to Wish List

Item #346068

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[Great Britain]: [circa 1761]. Towards the end of the French and Indian War, William Pitt started a specie grant program to reward colonies for raising troops, thus putting the colonies in competition with each other for a share of an annual 200,000 pounds. With specie scarce in the colonies, the.....  Read More Item Details for Manuscript document signed "George R" authorizing payment of £60,634 to the Province of Massachusetts Bay in compensation for levying, clothing and paying troops to fight against the French Add to Wish List

Item #319882

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London: Printed for W. Johnston [and others], 1769. Second and best edition including her correspondence with Benjamin Rush. Catharine Macaulay (1731-1791), sometimes referred to as the "Celebrated Mrs. Macaulay" and described as the first English female historian, proved an influential Whig political theorist, best remembered for her multi-volume History of.....  Read More Item Details for Loose Remarks on Certain Positions to be Found in Mr. Hobbes’ Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society with a Short Sketch of a Democratical Form of Government in a Letter to Signior Paoli ... The Second Edition with Two Letters one from an American Gentleman to the Author which contains some comments on her Sketch of the Democratical Form of Government and the Author's Answer Add to Wish List

Item #345661

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Swanzey [i.e. Swansea], Bristol County, Massachusetts Bay: March 14, 1718/9. Hall owed money for "team works done in hauling a cannew and for one jackit sold and delivered..." Read More Item Details for Manuscript document signed, as Justice of the Peace, ordering the arrest of Joshua Hall, "an Indian man of Swanzey" for failing to pay Joseph Cobs for work done and goods delivered Add to Wish List

Item #324464

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London: Printed for J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane, 1733. Preferred third edition with the additional Vindication. “The Preamble to this pamphlet ... contains a summary of the various imposts on tobacco landed in England, an account of the complicated customhouse procedures, & of the frauds most prevalent at importation & exportation.....  Read More Item Details for The Case of the Planters of Tobacco in Virginia, as represented by themselves; signed by the president of the council, and speaker of the House of Burgesses. To which is added, a vindication of the said representation Add to Wish List

Item #345470

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New London: Printed and Sold by L. Green, 1725. First edition. A New Direction: Connecticut’s First Book of Verse. “The first book of verse in Connecticut. Joseph Dewey, a maker of woolen cloth in Colchester...bore the expense of printing on condition of inserting his advertisement of three pages at the.....  Read More Item Details for Poetical Meditations, being the Improvement of some Vacant Hours … with a Preface by the Reverend Mr. Bulkley of Colchester Add to Wish List

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