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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. American Revolution, Richard Wescoat.

Entrepreneurs of the Revolution

Autograph Letter signed ("Rich Wescoat") to Major JOSHUA MERSEREAU in Elizabeth Town (New Jersey) regarding an order for lumber from...

[Burlington]: 7 April 1783. Entrepreneurs of the Revolution. 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... Read More

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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. American Revolution, William Pitt, Lord Chatham.

Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine. To Which is Added the Argument of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of...

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

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Manuscript document from a ""Committee"" of Sudbury, Mass., appointed to estmate the "services of the several inhabitants [of Sudbury] … in the present war with Great Britain from the 19th April, 1775 [Battle of Concord], to the present time”. American Revolution.

Paying the Minute Men of Sudbury

Manuscript document from a ""Committee"" of Sudbury, Mass., appointed to estmate the "services of the several inhabitants [of Sudbury] …...

[Sudbury, Mass.]: n.d. [ca. 1777]. Paying the Minute Men of Sudbury. A calculation of the services of the Sudbury militia who contributed greatly to the defense of the surrounding communities, begining with the Battle after Lexington & Concord, on, 19 April, 1775. The estimates are divided by communties served, and... Read More

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Photograph of the elm tree (now gone) of Cambridge, Mass., under which George Washington (by legend) took command of the Continental Army on July 3, 1775. American Revolution.

The Legendary Washington Elm

Photograph of the elm tree (now gone) of Cambridge, Mass., under which George Washington (by legend) took command of the...

[Cambridge, Mass: ca. 1920?]. The Legendary Washington Elm. Fine large photograph of the "Washington elm", which was enshrined in 1902 and died a little over twenty years later. This photograph shows the tree already moribund, with monument beneath bearing the carved inscription which preserved the legend: UNDER THIS TREE WASHINGTON... Read More

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Le Père Avare, ou Les Malheurs de L'Education; Contenant une idée de ceux de la Colonie de l'Isle de C***. Anonymous.

Contemporary Satire of Rousseau’s ‘Émile’

Le Père Avare, ou Les Malheurs de L'Education; Contenant une idée de ceux de la Colonie de l'Isle de C***...

Paris: Desventes de Ladoué, 1770. First edition. Contemporary Satire of Rousseau’s ‘Émile’. 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... Read More

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Autograph Letter, signed (“B Arnold”), to the Adjutant Quartermaster General, requesting fresh horses. Benedict Arnold.

Requesting Horses For Courier Duty, Possibly to the English

Autograph Letter, signed (“B Arnold”), to the Adjutant Quartermaster General, requesting fresh horses.

Headquarters, Robinson House [Garrison, N.Y.]: Sept. 1, 1780. Requesting Horses For Courier Duty, Possibly to the English. A letter written by General Benedict Arnold the day after receiving word that British General Henry Clinton had agreed to his price for turning his coat.  In his letter, Arnold requests fresh horses... Read More

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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. William Blackstone.

JOSHUA BABCOCK'S COPY

The Palladium of Conscience or, The Foundation of Religious Liberty Displayed, Asserted, and Established, Agreeable to its True and Genuine...

Philadelphia: Printed for the Subscribers, by Robert Bell, 1773. Second American edition. JOSHUA BABCOCK'S COPY. This work originally appeared the previous year as the fifth volume to the Blackstone's Commentaries. The first American edition appeared in 1773 though under a different title. Blackstone's work attempts to codify personal rights and... Read More

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Autograph Letter Signed, to Lewis Pintard. Elias Boudinot.

"i will send you a Cypher ..."

Autograph Letter Signed, to Lewis Pintard.

Philadelphia: Jan. 29, 1783. "i will send you a Cypher ..." A letter to his brother-in-law, Lewis Pintard, during Boudinot's term as President of the Continental Congress (November, 1782 - November 1783), during which the Treaty of Paris was concluded, whereby Britain recognized (among other things) American independence. Boudinot also... Read More

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A New Ministry: The Very Important Debate of the House of Commons on Mr. Coke's Motion for an Address to His Majesty. British Politics, House of Commons.

The Fox-North Coalition and "the Calamities of a long and ruinous War"

A New Ministry: The Very Important Debate of the House of Commons on Mr. Coke's Motion for an Address to...

London: Bladon, 1783. The Fox-North Coalition and "the Calamities of a long and ruinous War" Scarce. The debate on Coke's motion to form a new government, which led to the short-lived Fox-North coalition of 1783 (though collapsed after a year). Speakers included Fox, North, Pitt, Coxe, and others. Coxe's original... Read More

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Autograph Letter signed, to Hon. Isaac Wayne, Congressman from Pennsylvania and son of the Revolutionary War hero General Anthony Wayne. James Buchanan.

Predicting 1828 - a Letter to the Son of “Mad Anthony” Wayne

Autograph Letter signed, to Hon. Isaac Wayne, Congressman from Pennsylvania and son of the Revolutionary War hero General Anthony Wayne.

Washington, D.C: 4 May, 1826. Predicting 1828 - a Letter to the Son of “Mad Anthony” Wayne. A superb letter in which the future President discusses candidly the prospects of the candidates in the 1828 Presidential election — John Quincy Adams vs. Andrew Jackson. Buchanan had originally been a supporter... Read More

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A State of the Expedition from Canada, as laid before the House of Commons, by Lieutenant-General Burgoyne, and Verified by Evidence; with a Collection of Authentic Documents and an Addition of many Circumstances which were prevented from appearing before the House by the Prorogation of Parliament. Written and Collected by Himself, and dedicated to the Officers of the Army he commanded. John Burgoyne.

A State of the Expedition from Canada, as laid before the House of Commons, by Lieutenant-General Burgoyne, and Verified by...

London: Printed for J. Almon, Opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, 1780. Second edition. Burgoyne's well-written account of the disastrous military expedition from Canada in 1777, in which he proves that his army was ill-equipped and outnumbered. "One of the best sources on the campaign" - Streeter catalogue. This copy bears interesting traces of... Read More

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Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents ... the Second edition. Edmund Burke.

"a volume might be written on this melancholy subject"

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents ... the Second edition.

London: J. Dodsley, 1770. Second edition, first printing. "a volume might be written on this melancholy subject" Burke analyzes several issues troubling the country, inlcuding the situation in America; he "touches briefly on the effect of the current state of affairs in the colonies and the colonists's growing feeling of... Read More

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