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Item #366584 Extraordinary autograph letter signed "J. Q. Adams" to William Cranch, on the...

A Founding Father on the Constitution

Extraordinary autograph letter signed "J. Q. Adams" to William Cranch, on the proposed Constitution, detailing at length his objections to...

Newburyport: December 8, 1787. A Founding Father on the Constitution. Both John Quincy Adams and his first cousin William Cranch (1769-1855), whose mother was Abigail Adams's sister, graduated Harvard in 1787. Cranch would go on to read the law in Boston under Massachusetts Supreme Court Judge Thomas Dawes, while Adams..... Read More about Extraordinary autograph letter signed "J. Q. Adams" to William Cranch, on the proposed...

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Item #232874 Autograph Letter, signed. To William Hayley Esq. "The character you sustain in the...

Barlow to Hayley, Student to Mentor

Autograph Letter, signed. To William Hayley Esq. "The character you sustain in the literary world induces me to request your...

Hartford, Connecticut: June 14, 1787. Barlow to Hayley, Student to Mentor. An important letter on the state of art and literature in early America. Hayley was a major influence on Barlow. Read More about Autograph Letter, signed. To William Hayley Esq. "The character you sustain in the literary...

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Item #326744 The American Harmony: or, Royal melody complete ... The Seventh Edition, with...

The American Harmony: or, Royal melody complete ... The Seventh Edition, with Additions. By William Tans'ur, Senior.

Newburyport: Daniel Bayley, 1771. The Seventh Edition, with Additions. Bayley published "editions and issues of Tans'ur's The Royal Melody Complete, Williams's Universal Psalmodist and Tansur-Williams-Bayley's The American Harmony that appeared in New England between 1767 and 1774, thereby creating a major bibliographic tangle. Because some of the same engraved plates..... Read More about The American Harmony: or, Royal melody complete ... The Seventh Edition, with Additions. By...

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Item #228513 Autograph Letter Signed to Jonathan Belcher, SIGNED BY BOTH MEN. Jonathan Belcher,...

Autograph Letter Signed to Jonathan Belcher, SIGNED BY BOTH MEN.

Concord: March, 9, 1737. Belcher was the colonial govenor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire and later of New Jersey. This interesting letter is addressed to Belcher as govenor of N.H. and concerns the "swapping" of a horse, "a Mair." The transaction was a bit shady and a controversy resulted, with..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed to Jonathan Belcher, SIGNED BY BOTH MEN

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Item #6534 Histoire de la Virginie. Robert Beverley

One of the First Histories of Virginia

Histoire de la Virginie.

Paris: Pierre Ribou, 1707. One of the First Histories of Virginia. An early edition (published the same year as the Amsterdam and Orleans editions) of the earliest history of Virginia, after Captain John Smith’s. Written by a planter who spent most of his life there. It was written primarily to..... Read More about Histoire de la Virginie

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Item #365685 Constitution of the United States of America: Rules of the House of Representatives,...

Constitution of the United States of America: Rules of the House of Representatives, Joint Rules of the Two Houses and...

Washington, D.C: Thomas Allen, Printer to the House, 1837. Pages 111-222 comprise Thomas Jefferson's Manual on Parliamentary Practice. From the library of James Murray Mason, member of the House of Representatives from Virginia who authored the Fugitive Slave Act; his house in Winchester was destryed by Union soldiers during the..... Read More about Constitution of the United States of America: Rules of the House of Representatives, Joint Rules...

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Item #264701 Nouveaux Voyages dans L'Amerique Septentrionale, contenant une collection de lettres...

Nouveaux Voyages dans L'Amerique Septentrionale, contenant une collection de lettres écrites sur les lieux, par l'auteur, à son ami, M....

Amsterdam et à Paris: Chez la Veuve Duchesne, 1778. Nouvelle edition. Account of the author's third visit to Louisiana, then a Spanish colony, in 1771-1772. According to Sabin, the 1778 edition differs from the 1777 only in the title page. His first book, published in 1768, landed him in prison..... Read More about Nouveaux Voyages dans L'Amerique Septentrionale, contenant une collection de lettres écrites sur...

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Item #313300 Proposals for Printing a New Weekly Paper, called The Boston Chronicle. Boston...

Early American newspaper prospectus

Proposals for Printing a New Weekly Paper, called The Boston Chronicle.

Boston: Printed by Mein and Fleemin[g], [October] 22, 1767. Early American newspaper prospectus. Rare early American newspaper prospectus, announcing publication of The Boston Chronicle, a weekly Loyalist paper. "John Mein, a bookseller, was the publisher, and John Fleeming the printer. With the beginning of the second year the size of..... Read More about Proposals for Printing a New Weekly Paper, called The Boston Chronicle

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Item #62623 The Boston Chronicle. Monday May 1 to Thursday, May 4. 1769. Vol. II No 18. No. 89

The Boston Chronicle. Monday May 1 to Thursday, May 4. 1769. Vol. II No 18. No. 89.

Boston: Printed by Mein and Fleming, 1769. Mein was the owner of the "London Bookshop" and a lending library; one of his patrons was John Adams. Quickly becoming popular, the shop began to gross £80 weekly. Mein was elected a Boston constable, a post he never could have attained without..... Read More about The Boston Chronicle. Monday May 1 to Thursday, May 4. 1769. Vol. II No 18. No. 89

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Item #345227 The Constitution. Agreeably to the Resolve the Legislature in May, freemen may be...

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The Constitution. Agreeably to the Resolve the Legislature in May, freemen may be qualified on the first Monday of October...

[New Haven]: [1804]. Unrecorded. Much of the broadside is comprised of an argurment in favor of the new state Constitution, under the caption heading To the Freeman of New Haven County. The various controversial points are reviewed, including the sections on religious conscience and on qualifications of electors, noting in..... Read More about The Constitution. Agreeably to the Resolve the Legislature in May, freemen may be qualified on...

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Item #217781 Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents ... the Second edition. Edmund Burke

"a volume might be written on this melancholy subject"

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents ... the Second edition.

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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Item #247225 Typed Letter, signed (“Harold H, Burton”) to Harry Barnard of the Altgeld...

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master”

Typed Letter, signed (“Harold H, Burton”) to Harry Barnard of the Altgeld Centenary Committee of Illinois in Chicago, regarding the...

Washington, D.C: December 21, 1947. “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master”. “… I am glad to know that Mr. Justice William O. Douglas of this Court will speak at the public dinner to be held in observance of the 100th Anniversary of..... Read More about Typed Letter, signed (“Harold H, Burton”) to Harry Barnard of the Altgeld Centenary Committee...

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Item #228631 Manuscript Deed to a Piece of Land in Essex County, New Jersey, with Legal...

Manuscript Deed to a Piece of Land in Essex County, New Jersey, with Legal Description, April 12, 1774. [With:] Manuscript...

Elizabeth, New Jersey: April 12, 1774. The document, written in a neat secretarial hand, if for a tract of land on Canoe Brook in Essex County, New Jersey, near "the Road that crosses the Mountains from Newark to Morris Town", that is being sold by to Frederick Jones by Jonathan..... Read More about Manuscript Deed to a Piece of Land in Essex County, New Jersey, with Legal Description, April 12,...

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Item #228514 [Manuscript Quit Claim to a Piece of Land in New Jersey owned by Thomas Gardner.]....

[Manuscript Quit Claim to a Piece of Land in New Jersey owned by Thomas Gardner.].

[New Jersey]: March 9, 1747/8. This is a quit claim to a tract of land on Canoe Brook in Essex County, New Jersey, owned by Gardner, and assigning title to Samuel Gardner, probably a relative. The very densely written document is signed by Isaiah Ball, Gershom Wood and Thomas Gardner..... Read More about Manuscript Quit Claim to a Piece of Land in New Jersey owned by Thomas Gardner

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Item #228523 Autograph Document, Signed ("Thad. Mason"), as Clerk of the Middlesex Courts for a...

FAMILY FARM FROM A 1663 LAND GRANT

Autograph Document, Signed ("Thad. Mason"), as Clerk of the Middlesex Courts for a legal deed between Abigail and Benjamin Waters...

Charlestown, [Mass.]: May, 1757. FAMILY FARM FROM A 1663 LAND GRANT. In 1663, Francis Norton and Nicholas Davison were granted 500 acres by Charlestown for various services rendered to the town. Norton was a haberdasher and successful merchant, who made most of his money in the fur and fish trades..... Read More about Autograph Document, Signed ("Thad. Mason"), as Clerk of the Middlesex Courts for a...

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Item #353259 Autograph letter signed, to his wife, on the contentious election of 1737 and other...

On a Controversial Election

Autograph letter signed, to his wife, on the contentious election of 1737 and other news from New York.

New York: September 7, 1737. On a Controversial Election. Colden (1688-1776) a physician and natural scientist, served as the first colonial representative to the Iroquois Confederacy and author of The History of Five Indian Nations (1727), and later as member of the provincial council, lieutenant governor and other positions of..... Read More about Autograph letter signed, to his wife, on the contentious election of 1737 and other news from New...

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Item #346776 An Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper, of Northumberland; on a charge of libel...

An Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper, of Northumberland; on a charge of libel against the President of the...

Philadelphia: John Bioren, 1800. First edition. The present work concerns the trial and subsequent imprisonment of Thomas Cooper, an Englishman by birth who loved in Northumberland, Pennsylvania and worked as a lawyer and newspaper editor, for violating the Alien and Sedition Act. In 1799, he had requested John Adams to..... Read More about An Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper, of Northumberland; on a charge of libel against the...

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Item #259281 THE SCRIPTURE-BISHOP VINDICATED: A Defence of the Dialogue Between Praelaticus and...

THE SCRIPTURE-BISHOP VINDICATED: A Defence of the Dialogue Between Praelaticus and Eleutherius, Upon The Scripture-Bishop, Or The Divine Right of...

Boston: Printed by S. Kneeland ...D. Henchman, [Cornhill], 1733. First edition, with half-title. Jonathan Dickinson (1688-1747) was born in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and attended one of the earliest classes at Yale College, graduating in 1706. While there are not a lot of details of his early life, he did end up..... Read More about THE SCRIPTURE-BISHOP VINDICATED: A Defence of the Dialogue Between Praelaticus and Eleutherius,...

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Item #314744 Dutch-American Illustrated manuscript broadside of Psalm 130 with allegorical...

Vivat Oranje

Dutch-American Illustrated manuscript broadside of Psalm 130 with allegorical elements.

[The colony of New York]: 1746. Vivat Oranje. An allegorical depiction of Dutch-American cultural heritage and a plea for assistance in troubled times. The central motif is a manuscript musical setting based on a Dutch text of Psalm 130, De profundis: Uyt de diepten, o Heere, Myner benauwtheyt groot, roep..... Read More about Dutch-American Illustrated manuscript broadside of Psalm 130 with allegorical elements

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