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

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 about A History of the American Revolution; Comprehending the Principal Events both in the Field and in...

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 [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" ...

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 about The Parliamentary Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons...

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 about History of the War with America, France, Spain and Holland commencing in 1775 and ending in 1783

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

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...

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 about The Palladium of Conscience or, The Foundation of Religious Liberty Displayed, Asserted, and...

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

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...

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...