[London]: January 27, 1757. Court Martial of Capt. Thomas Graves, 1757: Manuscript Verdict. Remarkable record of a critical... Read More
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Albany, (New York): Pratt & Clark, 1814. Later edition. Read More
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Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1846. Fourth edition. Read More
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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
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Hartford: 1824. First edition. Read More
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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
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[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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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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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
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![Autograph Manuscript Order, Signed "James Church" and "O[liver] Ellsworth" to John Lawrence, for payment to the widow of Col. William Douglas for "Extraordinary Trouble in obtaining Pay for his Regt." American Revolution.](/pictures/thumb/308472_1.jpg?v=1504722606)
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 it's favorite sons, reading: "Sir pay to Hannah Douglas Executrise (sic) to the Estate of Col. William Douglas... Read More
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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
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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
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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.](/pictures/thumb/250344.jpg?v=1459971492)
[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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[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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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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Paris: A. Sauton; Philadelphie: J.-B. Lippincott; Leipzig: J.-A. Brockhaus, 1872. Read More
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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
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Boston: Sheoard, Clark & Brown, 110 Washington Street, 1857. First edition. Read More
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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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Paris: Librairie Militaire de J. Dumaine, 1881. First edition. Career military officer Claude Blanchard (1742-1803) accompanied Rochambeau to America; this is his campaign diary. Read More
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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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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
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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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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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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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