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Burgh, James:

POLITICAL DISQUISITIONS; OR, AN ENQUIRY INTO PUBLIC ERRORS, DEFECTS, AND ABUSES. ILLUSTRATED BY, AND ESTABLISHED UPON, FACTS AND REMARKS, EXTRACTED FROM A VARIETY OF AUTHORS, ANCIENT AND MODERN. CALCULATED TO DRAW THE TIMELY ATTENTION OF GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE, TO A DUE CONSIDERATION OF THE NECESSITY, AND THE MEANS, OF REFORMING THOSE ERRORS, DEFECTS, AND ABUSES; OF RESTORING THE CONSTITUTION, AND SAVING THE STATE.

Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Robert Bell... 1775. Volumes I and II [of three]. xxiii, [9], 486, [2- publ. advts.]; vii, [9], 477, [3] pp. Each volume in very worn sheep [volume I covers detached but present]. Text clean in volume I; volume II has tears with loss at pages..... More

Price: $850.00

Southey, Robert:

POEMS BY ROBERT SOUTHEY. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, for Joseph Nancrede, 1799. 132pp. Pages 126-132 are bookseller advertisements. Original covers are quite worn and Included are poems on the Slave Trade, a poem To Mary Wollstonecraft, and The Triumph of Woman. Evans 36345. More

Price: $450.00

Lowth, Robert:

A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH GRAMMAR. WITH CRITICAL NOTES.

Philadelphia: R. Aitken, 1775. 12mo. xii, 132 pp. Original half sheep boards are worn and detached [but present]. Margins browned but text clean. Good+. Evans 14169. Hildeburn 3235. More

Price: $375.00

Griffith, John:

A JOURNAL OF THE LIFE, TRAVELS, AND LABOURS IN THE WORK OF THE MINISTRY, OF JOHN GRIFFITH, LATE OF CHELMSFORD IN ESSEX, IN GREAT BRITAIN, FORMERLY OF DARBY, IN PENNSYLVANIA.

Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1780. Original sheep, raised spine bands. Light rubbing.Bookplate of Michael Zinman. Lacking the front free endpaper. [2], iv, 426 pp, as issued. [bound with] Griffith, John: SOME BRIEF REMARKS, UPON SUNDRY IMPORTANT SUBJECTS, NECESSARY TO BE UNDERSTOOD AND ATTENDED TO BY ALL PROFESSING THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. PRINCIPALLY ADDRESSED..... More

Price: $250.00

Woodward, Samuel:

A SERMON, PREACHED AT THE ORDINATION OF THE REVEREND MR. JOHN MARSH, TO THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE FIRST CHURCH, IN WETHERSFIELD, CONNECTICUT, JANUARY XII, 1774.

New-Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, 1774. 30pp, with the half title. Stitched, spotting at upper quadrant, dusted, upper corners of final leaves torn, with slight effect on text of last leaf. Good. Edward Eells gives the Charge, and Samuel Lockwood the Right Hand of Fellowship. Woodward contrasts the religious person's voluntary..... More

Price: $125.00

Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernardin de:

BEAUTIES OF THE STUDIES OF NATURE: SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF SAINT PIERRE.

New York: Re-Printed for H. Caritat, Bookseller... 1799. vii, [8]-332, [3], [1 blank] pp. Bound in original sheep [rubbed], scattered light foxing. About Very Good. Evans 36266. NAIP w029954. More

Price: $125.00

Washburn, Azel:

TWO DISCOURSES DELIVERED IN THE COLLEGE CHAPEL, AT HANOVER, NEWHAMPSHIRE. BY THE REV. AZEL WASHBURN, A.M.

Hanover: From the Eagle Office, of Dunham & True, 1795. 30pp. Disbound a bit roughly, light spotting, tear at the bottom of page affecting about ten words. Good only. Evans 29833. More

Price: $25.00

[Protestant Episcopal Church in America:

THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER, OR PSALMS OF DAVID.

Boston: I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, Sold by them and the other Booksellers in Boston... Oct. 1800. [384], 70, [2- Alphabetical Table of Psalms] pp. Printed in two columns per page. Covers lacking. Scattered light spotting to text, fore-edge consistently spotted. Good+. Adapted from early British titles of the Church of..... More

Price: $250.00

[New York City] Jacob Radcliff, Mayor:

PRINTED DOCUMENT SIGNED, AS MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, AUTHORIZING PAYMENT TO JNO ANDERSON FOR WORK ON THE FULTON ST. PIER, NOV. 10, 1817.

[New York: 1817]. Printed in typescript, completed in manuscript, "To the Treasurer of the City of New-York," instructing payment of Fifteen hundred dollars,"By order of Common Council." Signed as well by the Comptroller [G.N. Bleecker] and Clerk. Text surrounded by decorative border. A colorless indented 'X' mark is present, evidently..... More

Price: $100.00

[New York City] Stephen Allen, Mayor:

PRINTED DOCUMENT SIGNED, AS MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, AUTHORIZING PAYMENT TO J. HALSTEAD FOR "SUPER OF BUILG FULTON MARKET 64 DAYS TO 14 INST," OCT. 29, 1821.

[New York: 1821]. Printed in typescript, completed in manuscript, "To the Treasurer of the City of New-York," instructing payment to J. Halstead of $192, "By order of Common Council." Signed as well by the Comptroller [G.N. Bleecker] and Clerk. Text surrounded by decorative border. A colorless indented 'X' mark is..... More

Price: $100.00

Hall, Joseph:

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO COLONEL BENJAMIN SHAW OF FRANKLIN, MAINE, FROM WASHINGTON, 14 FEBRUARY 1837, DESCRIBING POLITICAL MATTERS AND PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON AT THE END OF HIS PRESIDENCY.

Washington: 1837. [4]pp, entirely in ink manuscript, on a folded folio sheet, folded for mailing, addressed on integral blank leaf to Shaw. Postal cancel from Washington, with Free Frank notation signed by Hall. Wax seal hole not affecting any text. Very Good. Joseph Hall was a Jacksonian Congressman from Camden..... More

Price: $450.00

Randall, Samuel Jackson [Ulysses S. Grant]:

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED FROM CONGRESSMAN RANDALL TO AN UNKNOWN RECIPIENT, FROM WASHINGTON, 19 MARCH 1869.

Washington D.C. 1869. Single page, entirely in ink manuscript, Very Good. Randall was a Pennsylvania Democrat, born in Philadelphia and a Union soldier during the War. He was Speaker of the House 1876-1881. This letter is an early, unfavorable evaluation of President Grant's character, only two weeks after Grant's inauguration..... More

Price: $175.00

Ogden, David B.:

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO HIS FRIEND AND FELLOW FEDERALIST WILLIAM MEREDITH ESQUIRE OF PHILADELPHIA, 18 DECEMBER 1812.

New York: 1812. Folio sheet, folded to [4] pp, integral address leaf addressed to Meredith with New York postal cancel. Folded for mailing, tear from wax seal with loss of a few words. Else Very Good. One of the era's outstanding lawyers, a Federalist and then a Whig, Ogden argued..... More

Price: $175.00

[Grant, Ulysses S.] White, Grace:

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED FROM GRACE WHITE TO HER AUNT, DESCRIBING THE INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT GRANT, DATED WASHINGTON, MARCH 6, 1869.

Washington, D.C. 1869. 4pp, on a folded octavo sheet. Clear, clean, Very Good. Grace White [c.1844-1903] was the daughter of Ashton Stoodely Hall White [c.1819-1902], a native of New Hampshire. He moved to Washington, D.C. in the early 1840s, serving in the Treasury Department of the U.S. General Land Office..... More

Price: $250.00

St. Pierre, Bernardin de:

PAUL AND VIRGINIA, AN INDIAN STORY. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF J.H.B. DE ST. PIERRE.

Wrentham, (Mass.): Nathl. and Benj, Heaton, 1799. 12mo. 180pp. Later cloth. Very Good. Evans 36267. Welch 1143.3. Howes D476. More

Price: $175.00

[Massachusetts Democratic Party]:

ADDRESS OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF MASSACHUSETTS TO THE ELECTORS OF THE COMMONWEALTH, AND ESPECIALLY TO ALL TRUE-HEARTED AMERICANS, BY BIRTH OR ADOPTION, WHO IN TIME OF WAR WILL STAND BY THEIR COUNTRY!

[Barnstable]: Printed at the Office of the Barnstable Patriot, [1847]. Folio broadside, folded to 8pp. Uncut, with caption title as issued. Generously margined, light margin spotting, Very Good. The Committee charges that Massachusetts Whigs, like their despised Federalist ancestors who opposed the War of 1812, disgracefully refuse to support the..... More

Price: $500.00

Pendleton, George H.:

COMMON SENSE FOR THE PEOPLE. OUR COUNTRY AND ITS CONDITION. SPEECH OF HON. GEO. H. PENDLETON, AT BANGOR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20TH, 1868.

[Bangor: 1868]. 8pp. Caption title, as issued. Disbound, else Very Good. Pendleton had been George McClellan's running mate on the 1864 Democratic ticket. A Copperhead in the tradition of his fellow Ohioan Clement Vallandigham, he also lost his bid that year for re-election as Congressman. Here, speaking in behalf of..... More

Price: $175.00

Webster, Noah:

THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE. CONTAINING A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL AND OTHER VALUABLE ESSAYS, IN PROSE AND VERSE, AND CALCULATED BOTH FOR INSTRUCTION AND AMUSEMENT.

New York: Printed by Samuel Loudon, 1787-1788. A consecutive run of this important monthly, from December 1787 through November 1788. Each issue disbound and lightly spotted. Four plates are referred to in the text, not present here. Else Very Good in a modern cloth case. Webster's first review of..... More

Price: $2,500.00

[Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church:

HELP FOR THE COLORED GIRL.

[Cincinnati: @1880?]. [2] pp. Caption title, as issued, Very Good. "All eyes are turned to the North for help... To-day in their miserable cabins, the colored women of the South are gazing wishfully and prayerfully toward Northern homes." Guidance is needed for "dark sisters," whose experience in slavery taught them..... More

Price: $350.00

[Stiles, Ezra]:

ORATIO INAUGURALIS HABITA IN SACELLO COLLEGII YALENSIS, QUOD EST NOVO-PORTU CONNECTICUTTENSIUM, IN NOV' ANGLIA...

Hartfordiae: Watsoni et Goodwini, 1778. 40pp. Disbound and lightly foxed, else Very Good. This is the inaugural oration of Ezra Stiles, seventh president of Yale, from 1778 to 1795. The entire pamphlet is in Latin. A contemporary hand has written in ink, on the blank portion of page 40, "Errata..... More

Price: $250.00

[Hirzel, Hans Caspar]:

THE RURAL SOCRATES; OR AN ACCOUNT OF A CELEBRATED PHILOSOPHICAL FARMER, LATELY LIVING IN SWITZERLAND, AND KNOWN BY THE NAME OF KLIYOGG.

Hallowell [District of Maine]: Printed by Peter Edes, 1800. Bound in modern red buckram, with institutional bookplate on front pastedown, with rubberstamp release. xii, [3], [1 blank, [1]-203, xiii pp. Text in Very Good condition, overall Good+. The book was first printed in Zurich in 1761, in the German language. Evans..... More

Price: $175.00

[Rhode Island]:

THE PUBLIC LAWS OF THE STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS, AS REVISED BY A COMMITTEE, AND FINALLY ENACTED BY THE HONOURABLE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, AT THEIR SESSION IN JANUARY, 1798. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, THE CHARTER, DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, ARTICLES OF OF CONFEDERATION, CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, AND PRESIDENT WASHINGTON'S ADDRESS OF SEPTEMBER, 1796.

Providence: Carter and Wilkinson, 1798. 648 [of 652pp, lacking the last two index leaves]. Bound in contemporary sheep [boards nearly detached, very worn]. Scattered foxing. Good. "The fifth revision of the Rhode Island laws" [Alden], and the first since 1767. Evans 34453. Alden 1581. II Harv. Law Cat. 459. Bartlett 172..... More

Price: $175.00

Mallet du Pan, Jacques:

THE HISTORY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HELVETIC UNION AND LIBERTY. SECOND AMERICAN EDITION.

Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, for J. Nancrede. August,, August, 1799. 8vo. [vi], [7]-240pp. Engraved emblematic frontis. Bound in modern marbled boards, with front board detached but present. Bit of frontis ghosting on the title page. Good+ or better. The Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed., notes, "Mallet du Pan has..... More

Price: $125.00

Roland, Mme. [Marie-Jeanne]:

AN APPEAL TO IMPARTIAL POSTERITY. BY MADAME ROLAND, WIFE OF THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR. OR, A COLLECTION OF TRACTS WRITTEN BY HER DURING HER CONFINEMENT IN THE PRISONS OF THE ABBEY, AND ST. PELAGIE, IN PARIS. IN FOUR PARTS. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH ORIGINAL. PUBLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF HER ONLY DAUGHTER, DEPRIVED OF THE FORTUNE OF HER PARENTS BY SEQUESTRATION. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION- CORRECTED.

New York: Printed by Robert Wilson, for A. Van Hook, proprietor of the reading-room, 1798. Two volumes: ix, [1 blank], [11]- 202, [1]-164, [2 blanks]; 202, 235 [i.e., 237], [1 blank] pp. Contemporary sheep, red morocco spine labels. Front free endpaper torn in each volume. Light scattered foxing. About Very..... More

Price: $250.00

Watts, Isaac:

HORAE LYRICAE. POEMS, CHIEFLY OF THE LYRIC KIND. IN THREE BOOKS.

Windham [CT]: John Byrne, 1798. 12mo. xxi, [1 blank], [23]- 208pp, Original sheep [rubbed, worn]. Lacking the free endpapers. Light to moderate foxing. Good+. Evans 34966. Trumbull 1585. More

Price: $125.00

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