Boston: White and Adams, 1780. 18pp, without the half title. Modern wrappers over boards. Trimmed closely at the outer margin, barely touching a single letter. Lightly toned, Good+. This plea for ratification of the State Constitution, drafted by John Adams, reflects the American insistence on strictly limited government, with..... More
Philadelphia: Printed, by Robert Bell... 1777. [6], 159, [1] pp, plus folding plate [outer blank corner torn]. Pages 97-104 misnumbered 79-86, as issued. Printed on pale blue paper. Lacking the half title, disbound with some loosening. Else Very Good. Several of these "Essays are translated from a Periodical Work, published..... More
Worcester, Massachusetts: Printed by Isaiah Thomas, And Sold, Wholesale and Retail, at his Bookstore. 1788. 24mo. viii, [9]-112, [7- bookseller advts], [1 blank] pp, as issued. Modern marbled boards and paper spine title. 18 items on exhibition, each with woodcut illustration. Fine in a cloth clamshell case with paper label..... More
New York: Hodge, Allen, and Campbell, and for T. Lloyd, the Proprietors, 1790. 449 [i.e., 471], [1 blank] pp, as issued. Some leaves are foxed. Good+ in modern marbled boards, rebacked in calf with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Second edition of the second volume of the Register, originally published in..... More
Annapolis: Printed by Frederick Green, Printer to the State, 1787. Folio, bound in modern paper over boards [some soil]. [458]pp. Some darkening and spotting, particularly to margins of early leaves; a light old rubberstamp. Several ink notations, in a knowledgeable and contemporary hand, in index and appendix. Text generally clean..... More
New York: Hugh Gaine, 1764 and 1766. Volume I: iv, 840, [2] pp. Folio, printed in double columns. Text generally clean, occasional foxing or tanning. Several errors in page numbering but text consecutive and complete, Very Good. Volume II: [2] 811, [1 blank], viii pp. Folio, printed in double..... More
Boston, New-England: Printed by R. and S. Draper, for the Honourable and Reverend the President and Fellows of Harvard-College, 1763. [2], v, [1], 83, [1 blank] pp, with the half title. Original marbled paper over boards, rebacked in calf with modern gilt-lettered spine label on red morocco. Scattered light foxing..... More
Boston: T. and J. Fleet, in Cornhill, and J. Gill... 1779. 38pp, with the half title [which has loosened]. Disbound. Else Very Good. Stillman had been an original trustee of Rhode Island College [later Brown University] and, after the Revolution, served as one of Boston's twelve delegates to the..... More
Baltimore: Printed by Yundt and Brown, No. 12, South Gay-Street, [1798]. Broadside. 7-7/8" x 20". Printed in three columns. Lightly toned. Light foxing. Very Good. Matted. When this broadside was published Smith was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland. A resident of Baltimore, he had served with distinction in the Revolution..... More