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

Baltimore: Printed for Franklin Betts. wm. Woody, Jr. printer, 1822. First edition thus, using sheets from 1819 edition with new title-page. Sabin notes that, although the author given on the title-page is Paul Allen, the work was actually written by John Neal and "Mr. (Tobias) Watkins."  A standard history of... Read More

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

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

Hartford [CT]: June 28th 1777. SMALL COMPENSATION FOR A LIFE AND FORTUNE LOST. An important testament offering proof of the sacrifice and hardship of a memorialized Connecticut hero signed by one of its favorite sons, reading: "Sir pay to Hannah Douglas Executrise (sic) to the Estate of Col. William Douglas... Read More

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

London: J. Almon, opposite Burlington House, in Piccadilly, 1775. First edition. A record of the British Parliamentary debates from November 1774 to May 1775, the critical period preceding the declaration of independence of the American colonies. Included in the second volume are the charters of the North American colonies, including... Read More

London: Published for John Fielding, 1785-6. First edition. One of the basic contemporary histories of the American Revolution, this detailed narrative was compiled largely from newspaper articles and the proceedings of the House of Commons.  It is illustrated with portraits of principals such as Washington, Clinton, Greene, Cornwallis, Burgoyne, Lafayette..... Read More

Paris: A. Sauton; Philadelphie: J.-B. Lippincott; Leipzig: J.-A. Brockhaus, 1872. Read More

Paris: 1831. Second edition, after the first of 1816, of this study of the treachery of Benedict Arnold.  The portraits are of Arnold and George Washington, and the plan is of "des Forts, Batteries et Poste de West-Point 1780." Read More

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

Paris: Chez Giguet, 1801. First edition printed from the original manuscript. Bouillé was a French general who served in the West Indies and distinguished himself as a commander of French forces in the American Revolution; he was the cousin of La Fayette. He was also Lieutenant-General of the Royal forces... Read More

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