Copenhagen: C.G. Proft Sohn, 1794. Earliest Danish printing. Second German Edition, but the first with this title of... Read More about Gesunder Menschenverstand. An die Einwohner von America gerichtet
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Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1835. First edition, a regular paper issue? Said to have been issued in thin, regular and thick paper issue, the first two from same setting imposed on 8vo and thick paper issue imposed as 4to. Type on title slightly larger than other copies that..... Read More about Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette delivered at the Request of Both...
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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
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Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1846. Fourth edition. Read More about A Narrative of the Captivity of Col. Ethan Allen. Written by Himself
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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...
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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 about Autograph Manuscript Receipt, Signed "Frederick Tracy" for eight barrels of flour from...
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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 about Autograph Letter signed ("Rich Wescoat") to Major JOSHUA MERSEREAU in Elizabeth Town...
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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 about Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine. To Which is Added the Argument of Mr....
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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 about Autograph Manuscript Order, Signed "James Church" and "O[liver] Ellsworth" ...
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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 about A Group of Two Manuscripts and One Document, Attesting to the Service of Samuel Robinson in the...
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[Philadelphia]: [circa 1778]. An extraordinary group of 18th century silhouette portraits of notable Philadelphia women: Margaret "Peggy" Shippen (who would later become Mrs. Benedict Arnold), Margaret "Peggy" Chew and Rebecca "Beckey" Redman. The dating of the silhouettes is ascribed based on the J. Whatman watermarks (Heawood 1846 and 1846a, dating..... Read More about Revolutionary War-era hand-cut silhouette portraits of Peggy Shippen, Becky Redman and Peggy...
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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
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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 about Le Père Avare, ou Les Malheurs de L'Education; Contenant une idée de ceux de la Colonie de...
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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...
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Paris: A. Sauton; Philadelphie: J.-B. Lippincott; Leipzig: J.-A. Brockhaus, 1872. Read More about Les Français en Amérique pendant la Guerre de l'Independance des États-Unis 1777-1783
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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")...
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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 about COMPLOT D'ARNOLD ET DE HENRY CLINTON CONTRE LES ETATS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE ET LE GENERAL WASHINGTON...
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Boston: Sheoard, Clark & Brown, 110 Washington Street, 1857. First edition. Read More about A Biographical Sketch of Gen. Joseph Warren, Embracing the Prominent Events of His Life, and his...
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Valenciennes [France]: 2 avril, 1792. From the American Revolution to the Guillotine. A superb piece written shortly after Biron's promotion to Lieutenant General. Having been authorized to have to aides-de-camp, he asks the expedition of his patent to Mr de Preissac (Louis-Lambert de Preissac). Reading in part: "Ayant été autorisé..... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("Biron") ordering the expedition of the appointment of his...
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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 about Guerre d’Amérique 1780-1783. Journal de Campagne
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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 about Mémoires de ... sur la Révolution Française
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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 about A New Ministry: The Very Important Debate of the House of Commons on Mr. Coke's Motion for an...
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London: Printed for J. Almon, Opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, 1780. Second edition. A British Defeat in the Revolutionary War. Burgoyne's well-written account of the disastrous British military expedition from Canada in 1777. While his army was intended to descend from Canada to cut the states of New England off from the..... Read More about A State of the Expedition from Canada, as laid before the House of Commons, by Lieutenant-General...
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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 about Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents ... the Second edition
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London: Printed by T. Bensley Published for the Author, 1809. First Edition, with rare errata slip tipped in at half-title. Campbell's famous narrative poem. Read More about Gertrude of Wyoming
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Cheerry Valley: The Cherry Valley Gazette Print, 1880. Thirdt Edition. An important contribution to the history of New York's border wars, and a book that excited much attention, inspiring several other frontier histories in New York and adjoining states. "A pioneer work in the annals of early western New York..... Read More about Annals of Tryon Country; or, the Border Warfare of New York, During the Revolution
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