ORATION ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF GILBERT MOTIER DE LAFAYETTE.
Washington: 1835. 94pp, disbound else Very Good. Sabin 295. AI 29946. More
Washington: 1835. 94pp, disbound else Very Good. Sabin 295. AI 29946. More
Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1825. Modern cloth [bookplate on front pastedown] with title stamped in gilt on spine.85, [3 blanks] pp. Document 91, of the 18th Congress, 2d Session. Light rubberstamp at upper margin of page 3. Scattered light to moderate foxing, Good+. Adams, President Monroe's Secretary of State, reports..... More
Amsterdam: Blaeu, [mid-1600's]. Engraved map with good early hand coloring, 22-1/2" x 18." French text on verso. Published in Le Theatre du Monde between 1638-1658. Very Good. The original plate, by Jodocus Hondius, is derived from John Smith's Map of Virginia of 1612. When Hondius died in 1629, Blaeu, who..... More
London: J. Wright: 1798. 16mo, contemporary plain wraps [moderately worn], stitched. 24pp, Good+. The French have "commenced the mad career in which they are engaged, with the settled design of destroying all Religion and all Governments in the world." NUC records two other issues, neither of them 'abridged.' Not in..... More
Boston: Manning & Loring, 1799. 27, [1 blank] pp. Disbound and lightly dusted, else Very Good.. "More than an ordinary fourth of July oration" [Sabin]. Lowell, a prominent Federalist, warns of the "Gallic faction in this country," supporters of "the inhuman and savage atrocities which have disgraced the French Revolution."..... More
New York: M'Lean & Lang, 1798. 22pp, without the final blank. Bound in modern marbled wrappers. Light scattered foxing, Very Good. Wells "revised for publication the collected papers known as 'The Federalist', bringing out the fifth edition in 1802" [DAB]. A Federalist who allied himself with Hamilton, "he frequently crossed..... More
Folio sheet, folded to 4pp, about 25 lines of ink manuscript on each pages [1] and [2]. Final leaf is blank. One archivally repaired short closed tear [no loss], Very Good. When he wrote this informative Letter, Brigadier General Wool, the Army's Inspector-General, was on official business in Washington. During..... More
Edinburgh: 1794. [2], 156pp, with half title. Disbound without wraps or covers, else Very Good. Young lauds the English political tradition: "on political, as well as other subjects, every man is allowed to think for himself, to express, and even to publish his thoughts, without fear of danger; so long..... More