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Item #39793 STIPPLE ENGRAVING BUST PORTRAIT OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, TORSO DIRECTED SLIGHTLY RIGHT,...

STIPPLE ENGRAVING BUST PORTRAIT OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, TORSO DIRECTED SLIGHTLY RIGHT, FACE TURNEDSLIGHTLY LEFT AND EYES LOOKING FRONT, FUR COLLAR ON COAT, ROLLING SHIRT COLLAR. CAPTIONED: FRANKLIN/ NE A BOSTON LE 17 JANVR 1706./ MORT A PHILADELPHI IN 1790."

[Paris? F. Bonneville; Delatour Sculp. Small oval bust portrait, 2 1/16" x 2 3/8"; printed within raised rectangular border, 2 5/8" x 4 1/4"; printed on partly untrimmed sheet of thick paper 8 5/8" x 12 3/8". Portrait done using stipple effect. "F. Bonneville del" and "Delatour Sculp." printed outside..... More

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Item #39657 STIPPLE ENGRAVING OVAL BUST PORTRAIT OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, FRONTIERSMAN'S FUR COLLAR...

STIPPLE ENGRAVING OVAL BUST PORTRAIT OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, FRONTIERSMAN'S FUR COLLAR ON COAT, OPEN SHIRT COLLAR. CAPTIONED: "BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, NE A BOSTON LE 17 JANVIER 1706./ MORT A PHILADELPHI EN 1790./ F. BONNEVILLE DELI. GAUTIER SCULP.].

Paris: chez L'Auteur rue du Theatre Francais N4, [c. 1780-1820]. Oval stipple engraving, 3-5/8" x 4-1/2" on 7-7/8" x 10-3/8" sheet. Along the oval in small type: F. Bonneville Deli. Also: Gautier Sculp. Very Good. British Museum Registration #1927,0308.62. Edwin Babcock Holden Collection #13813 [1910]. More

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Item #34489 MEZZOTINT BUST PORTRAIT OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, DIRECTED LEFT, FACING FRONT, WEARING...

MEZZOTINT BUST PORTRAIT OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, DIRECTED LEFT, FACING FRONT, WEARING THICK CURLED WIG AND COAT WITH WHITE CRAVAT, OVAL OVER BASE ENGRAVED "D. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, ET VITA INTER AMERICANOS ACTA, ET MAGNIS ELECTRICITATIS PERICULIS CLARUS.", WITHIN RECTANGLE BORDER. [At very bottom: J.E. HAID SCULP. A.V. 1778.].

[n.p. 1778]. 5-1/2" x 8-1/4". Mounted to 8-1/2" x 11" buff paper backing with two tape tabs on verso. Right edge reinforced with archival tape on blank verso. Very Good The scarce first edition of Haid's mezzotint portrait of Franklin. Haid made two portraits of Franklin using the same captions..... More

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Item #41061 "FRANCKLIN" [sic]. MEZZOTINT BUST PORTRAIT OF A BESPECTACLED BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,...

"FRANCKLIN" [sic]. MEZZOTINT BUST PORTRAIT OF A BESPECTACLED BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, WEARING A GREY BUTTONED COAT AND ANGLED SLIGHTLY TO THE RIGHT, A SMALL SMILE ON HIS FACE.

[Paris? 1790-1795?]. Uncolored oval bust portrait of a bespectacled Benjamin Franklin. 8-1/4" x 9-3/4", on a 10-1/2" x 13-3/4" sheet. Portrait surrounded by a black oval border. The portrait is captioned "Francklin." Directly beneath the oval border in small type is printed "Vanloo Pinxt" to the left and "P.M. Alex..... More

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Item #19726 [MR. HALLETT'S REPLY TO MR. WILSON'S "PERSONAL EXPLANATION."] "THE QUESTION OF...

[MR. HALLETT'S REPLY TO MR. WILSON'S "PERSONAL EXPLANATION."] "THE QUESTION OF VERACITY" EVADED BY SENATOR WILSON AND AGAIN SETTLED AGAINST HIM.

[np: 1856]. 8pp, stitched, light wear and folds. Caption title [as issued]. Very Good. Inscribed in ink on title page, 'With respects of B.F. Hallett.' During the 1850s Hallett-- in his early years a Jacksonian reformer and advocate of Indian rights-- was "a 'Doughface' steering by Southern charts" [DAB]. This..... More

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THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ESTABLISH FORMS OF GOVERNMENT. MR. HALLETT'S ARGUMENT IN THE RHODE ISLAND CAUSES, BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, JANUARY, 1848. NO. 14. MARTIN LUTHER VS. LUTHER M. BORDEN AND OTHERS. NO. 77. RACHAEL LUTHER VS. THE SAME.

Boston: Beals & Greene, 1848. Large 8vo. 71, [1 blank pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers [lightly dusted]. A clean text. Near Fine. Rhode Island authorities, acting under a decree of martial law, arrested Martin Luther, a shoemaker, for acting as moderator of the Warren Town meeting, which was held..... More

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Item #40585 THE EX-CHIEF JUSTICE, AND THE PRINTER; BEING A REPORT OF A TRIAL FOR LIBEL, TITUS...

THE EX-CHIEF JUSTICE, AND THE PRINTER; BEING A REPORT OF A TRIAL FOR LIBEL, TITUS HUTCHINSON VS. B.F. KENDALL; HAD BEFORE THE HONORABLE COUNTY COURT, FOR THE COUNTY OF WINDSOR, AND STATE OF VERMONT, MAY TERM, 1836; INCLUDING PLAINTIFF'S DECLARATION, PLEADINGS, TESTIMONY, ARGUMENTS, CHARGE, AND VERDICT!!! WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING MANY INTERESTING REMINISCENCES, MORCEAUS, AND INCIDENTS, WITH WHICH THE PUBLIC LIFE AND MEANDERING COURSE OF THE LATE "EVERLASTING CANDIDATE," ARE SO PROFUSELY VARIEGATED. . . BY THE DEFENDANT.

Woodstock, VT: J.B. & S.L. Chase, & Co., 1836. ix, [1 blank], [11]-72 pp, as issued. Disbound and foxed. Inscribed at head of title page, "T.H. Hall To Hon. W.C. Bradley." Good. "Being a history of tergiversation in politics for twenty-five years, culminating in a bitter personal quarrel" [Gilman]. "Arising..... More

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