Italy: 1805. Limited edition of 250 copies. Volume from Alfieri's OPERE, or collected works, comprised of odes to the American Revolution, printed here in a limited edition of 250 copies. Alfieri was an Italian dramatist and poet who published several poetical works on the American Revolution. Read More about Opere di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti: L'america Libera

London: printed for T.N. Longman, and L.B. Seeley, 1797. Almon, a British publisher, was the primary source for British publications concerning American political and military affairs throughout the Revolution, publishing the important periodical THE REMEMBRANCER. Read More about Biographical, Literary, and Political Anecdotes, of Several of the Most Eminent Persons of the...

[Verplanck's Point?]: September 19, 1782. Chaloner served as the Deputy Commissary of Purchases for the Middle Department of the Continental Army from 1777 to the end of the war. The period after Yorktown but prior to the signing of the Treaty of Paris saw continued operations of the Continental Army..... Read More about Engraved partly-printed Revolutionary war era cashier's check, signed by Chaloner as the Deputy...

[Connecticut]: November 1771. Signed by Two Connecticut Signers of the Declaration. List of monies paid to twelve members of the House of Assistants of the Connecticut General Assembly, signed by several of them, including two future Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Roger Sherman and Oliver Wolcott.  Sherman is notable..... Read More about Manuscript document, signed by both Sherman, Wolcott and others, being a list of monies owed to...

White Plains [NY]: October 23d 1776. CONTINENTAL RECEIPT FROM THE SAW PITTS. An early receipt of the war, dated “White Plains Oct. 23d, 1776,” and written from the “Saw Pitts,” now Port Chester, NY, six days before the rout of the Continental Army at the Battle of White Plains, reading..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Receipt, Signed "Frederick Tracy" for eight barrels of flour from...

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

Hartford & Windham [CT]: 1785. A SOLDIER FOR JUST FIVE WEEKS. Too young for marriage and children, but old enough to join the fight for independence, these documents may be the last few remaining records of a largely forgotten soldier of 1776. Samuel Robinson III (1757-1776) was born in the..... Read More about A Group of Two Manuscripts and One Document, Attesting to the Service of Samuel Robinson in the...

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

New York: Privately printed for William Loring Andrews, 1897. One of 80 copies printed by The Gilliss Press on handmade paper. Read More about Fragments of American History

Philadelphia: Printed for the Subscribers, by Robert Bell, 1773. First edition under this title, and the third American edition overall. SIGNER JOSHUA BABCOCK'S COPY. This work originally appeared in 1772 as a fifth volume to Bell’s edition of Blackstone, under the title An Interesting Appendix to Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries..... Read More about The Palladium of Conscience or, The Foundation of Religious Liberty Displayed, Asserted, and...

Barnstable, [Mass]: October 01, 1796. 'I Sacrificed My All in the Revolution'. Joseph Otis (1728-1810), the brother of zealous Massachusetts patriot, James Otis, and a former General of militia known popularly as “Brigadier Otis, was appointed by George Washington, as Collector of Customs for the district of Barnstable, Massachusetts, a...... Read More about Autograph letter signed, ("Joseph Otis") to Jonathan Jackson ("Sir")...

London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1784. Second edition. A vigorous argument in favor of trade between the United States and Europe. Bingham argues that Great Britain, especially, is in a position to promote American trade and to benefit from it. Bingham, founder and director of the Pennsylvania Bank, lived in..... Read More about A Letter from an American, now Resident in London, to a Member of Parliament, on the Subject of...