The Hague: August 1, 1795. "The character of the American people is so universally and essentially republican..." Nathaniel Freeman, Jr. (1766-1800) was a Harvard classmate of Adams. Initially elected to the Fourth Congress as a Federalist Representative in 1795, he would change party affiliation to Jefferson's Democratic Republicans in 1797..... Read More about Important Autograph Letter Signed, to Nathaniel Freeman, on the disagreements between Federalists...

Cambridge: Samuel and Ebenezer Hall, July 21, 1775. An important issue published during the Siege of Boston, including a lengthy account of the reading of the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms in Cambridge and on Prospect Hill. Other Revolution related content includes a printing of..... Read More about The New England Chronicle: or the Essex Gazette ... July 21, 1775

Providence: John Carter, October 11, 1777. Battles of Saratoga and Brandywine. 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..... Read More about The Providence Gazette; and Country Journal ... October 11, 1777

Washington, D.C: Judd & Detweiler, Printers, 1891. First edition. Anna Ella Carroll (1815-1894), a descendant of Signer of the Declaration Charles Carroll and the daughter of the Governor of Maryland, became active in politics in the 1850s as a member of the Know-Nothing party and a supporter of Millard Fillmore..... Read More about A Military Genius. Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland, ("The great unrecognized member of...

New York: April 10, 1865. The End of the Civil War. An historic issue of the New York Times, published the day following Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox, including the correspondence between the two discussing and accepting terms. Read More about The New-York Times ... April 10, 1865 ... Union Victory! Peace! Surrender of General Lee and His...

Philadelphia: John Bioren, 1800. First edition. The present work concerns the trial and subsequent imprisonment of Thomas Cooper, an Englishman by birth who loved in Northumberland, Pennsylvania and worked as a lawyer and newspaper editor, for violating the Alien and Sedition Act. In 1799, he had requested John Adams to..... Read More about An Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper, of Northumberland; on a charge of libel against the...

Guadeloupe: January 29, 1759. A firsthand account of the bombardment of Basse-Terre. Lt. Colonel Cunninghame's journal outlines the early days of the invasion of Guadeloupe, a pivotal action in the Seven Years' War, in which the British would ultimately take control of the island from the French. Beginning on 13..... Read More about Journal & Plans from Lt. Colonel Cuninghame. Chief Engineer on the Expedition with Major...

New Providence, Bahamas: July 13, 1767. Florida Shipwreck. The Brigatine Apollo left the bay of Honduras on 11 June 1767 bound for Rhode Island on a course through the Gulf of Florida. "That about one of the clock in the morning of the day following, the said Brigantine got on..... Read More about Contemporary true copy of a manuscript document signed by notary William Bradford, deputy...

New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885-1886. First edition, the deluxe binding. Deluxe Copy in Superior Condition. The president and Civil War general's remarkable memoir, written in the final years of his life as he was suffering from terminal throat cancer. Suffering both physically and financially, as the result of financial..... Read More about Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

Charles City, Va: July 9, 1773. Jefferson Seeks to Settle His Father-in-Law's Estate, Including the Sale of Hundreds of Slaves: An Early and Important Letter. An outstanding, early, and lengthy Thomas Jefferson letter, written in the immediate aftermath of the death of his wife's father, John Wayles, and seeking to..... Read More about Manuscript Letter Signed, from Thomas Jefferson to English merchants Farrell and Jones, regarding...

Boston: Benjamin Edes & Sons, 1780. The John Carter Brown Copy. Final version of the first Massachusetts state constitution, a document of capital importance in the framing of subsequent state constitutions and the United States Constitution as well.  A slightly more radical constitution was proposed in 1778 which, for example..... Read More about A Constitution or Frame of Government, Agreed upon by the Delegates of the People

Richmond, VA: July 29, 1800. Election of 1800. The Election of 1800, sometimes referred to as the Revolution of 1800, was a significant moment in American political history, being the first election in which the power of the Federal government transferred from one party (John Adams's Federalists) to the other..... Read More about Partly-printed document signed by Monroe, appointing John Coulter [i.e. Coalter], William...

Boston: Reprinted for Nicholas Boone, 1721. Second edition. The Brinley Copy. The Brinley copy of the second edition of one of the most important New England books, possibly rarer than the first of 1669.  First issued in a very rare 1669 Boston edition, this second American edition includes a supplement..... Read More about New England's Memorial: or, A Brief Relation of the most Memorable and Remarkable Passages of the...