Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1846. Fourth edition. Read More

Hartford: 1824. First edition. Read More

[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

Hartford [CT]: September 8 1780. BALANCE DUE FOR THREE YEARS SERVICE IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. From the Battle of Valcour Island in 1776, to the brutal winter encampment in Morristown, New Jersey in 1779-1780, Daniel Everts (1749-1833) was a participant and witness to some of the most crucial periods of... Read More

Hartford [CT]: Nov. 27th 1781. PROVISIONS FROM THE "PROVISION STATE" A document portraying the way in which the state of Connecticut paid for soldiers and provisions for it’s troops and the Continental Army. Dubbed “The Provision State” by George Washington, Connecticut supplied more food and cannons for the war than... Read More

[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

[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

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

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