ORATION ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF GILBERT MOTIER DE LAFAYETTE.
Washington: 1835. 94pp, disbound else Very Good. Sabin 295. AI 29946. More
FRANCE
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMUNICATING TO THE HOUSE SUCH INFORMATION AS HE HAS RECEIVED TOUCHING A SUSPENSION OF THE ARRETE OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, MENTIONED IN HIS MESSAGE OF THE 28TH OF JANUARY LAST. MADE IN PURSUANCE OF A RESOLUTION OF THIS HOUSE, OF YESTERDAY.
Philadelphia: Fenno, 1799. 6, [2 blanks] pp. Folded, uncut folio leaf. Very Good. Adams warns Congress that France "subjects explicitly and exclusively American seamen to be treated as pirates, if found on board ships of the enemies of France." Adams also transmits Lord Grenville's letter to Rufus King, American Minister..... More
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING A REPORT AND SUNDRY DOCUMENTS, FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE, OF THE DEPREDATIONS COMMITTED ON THE COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES SINCE THE FIRST OF OCTOBER, 1796; IN PURSUANCE OF A RESOLUTION OF THE HOUSE, ON THE TENTH INSTANT. JUNE 22, 1797. ORDERED TO LIE ON THE TABLE. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Philadelphia: Printed by W. Ross, near Congress-Hall, [1797]. 10, [148] pp, as issued. Bound in later quarter calf and marbled paper over boards, contemporary spine label. Folding table at the end of Document No. 4. Very Good. Secretary of State Pickering, whose report runs through page 10, discloses that "armed..... More
JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS, BEGINNING ANNO DECIMO SEPTIMO GEORGII TERTII, 1776. VOL. XXXV.
London: [c. 1808]. Large folio, unbound and untrimmed. 820pp, occasional toning. Near Fine. Shipping charged at cost. "Volumes i-xiii (1509-1681) of the journals were delivered in 1771, nine more in 1774, and again nine, bringing the journals down to 1767, in 1777. .. the order to print the journal for..... More
THE SPEECH OF MR. AMES, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. . . ON THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1796, IN SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING MOTION: RESOLVED, THAT IT IS EXPEDIENT TO PASS THE LAWS NECESSARY TO CARRY INTO EFFECT THE TREATY LATELY CONCLUDED BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE KING OF GREAT-BRITAIN.
Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1796. [4], 59, [1 blank] pp, with the half title [torn at top blank portion]. Stitched, untrimmed, light to moderate foxing. Good+. Congress's most eloquent Federalist and Anglophile advocates adoption of the Jay Treaty with England. His support assured its passage. He warns the opposition "that a...... More
HISTORY OF THE WAR WITH AMERICA, FRANCE, SPAIN, AND HOLLAND; COMMENCING IN 1775 AND ENDING IN 1783. IN FOUR VOLUMES WITH PORTRAITS, MAPS AND CHARTS.
London: Published by His Majesty's Royal Licence and Authority. For John Fielding, Pater Noster Row; and John Jarvis in the Strand. 1785-1786. Four volumes: [2], ii, [3]-448 pp, plus six portrait plates [including frontis plate of George III]; [2], 449 pp, plus two folding maps and four portrait plates; [2]..... More
ESSAYS, CIVIL, MORAL, LITERARY & POLITICAL: WRITTEN AFTER THE MANNER OF M. DE MONTAGNE: INTERSPERSED WITH CHARACTERS, PORTRAITS & ANECDOTES. BY THE CELEBRATED MARQUIS D'ARGENSON, MANY YEARS PRIME MINISTER OF FRANCE;- AND WHO WAS HONOURED WITH THE PARTICULAR INTIMACY OF THE LATE KING OF PRUSSIA TRANSLATED FROM HIS VALUABLE MANUSCRIPTS FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
Worcester: Thomas, Son & Thomas Sold by Them at the Worcester Bookstore March, March, 1797. 12mo. 228pp. Light age-toning and minor wear. Bound in full leather [rebacked]. Very Good FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Evans 31748. NAIP w032044. More
HONITON, DEVON, DECEMBER 13TH, 1792. AT A NUMEROUS AND RESPECTABLE MEETING OF THE INHABITANTS OF THIS TOWN AND NEIGHBOURHOOD, HELD THIS DAY, AT THE GOLDEN LION INN, IN THIS TOWN, TO SUPPORT THE KING AND CONSTITUTION, AS NOW ESTABLISHED. MR. EDWARD HOLLAND IN THE CHAIR. RESOLVED, THAT WE WILL FORM OURSELVES INTO A SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVING LIBERTY AND PROPERTY, AGAINST LEVELLERS AND REPUBLICANS. TO BE ENTITLED "AN ASSOCIATION FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT OF THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION."
[Honiton, England: 1792]. Folio leaf, 16" x 13." Folded to [4] pp. Printed on verso of first leaf and recto of second leaf only. Light old folds, spine with early reinforcement tape. Text clean and bright. Very Good. Public enthusiasm for the tenets of the French Revolution and Thomas Paine..... More
PEKIN, YEDDO, SAN FRANCISCO. VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE PAR LE COMTE DE BEAUVOIR...OUVRAGE ENRICHI DE QUATRE CARTES ET DE QUINZE GRAVURES-PHOTOGRAPHIES PAR DESCHAMPS. CINQUIEME EDITION.
Paris: Henri Plon, Imprimeur-Editeur Rue Garanciere, 1872. 10. 1872. 359, [1] pp. Frontisplate illustration of the Great Wall of China '28 mars 1867'. Four color maps, fifteen engravings. Original printed paper wrappers [light dustsoiling, edgeworn, spine split at pp. 182-183]. Untrimmed. Light wear, one hanging chip [loss of a few..... More
MANUSCRIPT LETTER ADDRESSED TO JAMES HOLFORD, ESQ., NEW YORK, DATED JAN. 29TH, 1847, STEAMER FEB. 4TH, FROM N. BERRY OF PARIS: YOUR FAVOR OF THE 5TH ULTO. REACHED ME EARLY THIS MONTH. I SHOULD HAVE REPLIED TO IT SOONER BUT THERE WAS LITTLE CHANCE OF ANY SAILING PACKET ARRIVING OUT AS SOON AS THIS STEAMER. I AM EXCEEDINGLY SORRY TO INFORM YOU THAT THE INFERENCE YOU DREW FROM MY HAVING TWO ESTABLISHMENTS & C. "THAT I MUST HAVE CONSIDERABLE FUNDS" IS UNFORTUNATELY NOT CORRECT. WAS IT SO YOU WOULD HAVE HEARD FROM ME LONG SINCE. IT IS A VERY NATURAL INFERENCE FOR YOU TO MAKE ACCUSTOMED TO DO BUSINESS WITH LARGE MEANS. AFTER MY TOTAL RUIN FROM THE EFFECTS OF 1837 AND 1839, I ENDEAVORED TO MAKE SOME BUSINESS ARRANGEMENTS IN N. YORK BUT IT REQUIRED CAPITAL TO GIVE THE NECESSARY SECURITY TO PARTIES IN EUROPE WHO MIGHT GIVE ME THEIR BUSINESS & AS I COULD NOT OBTAIN THAT, I WAS FORCED TO RELINQUISH IT. CONSEQUENTLY THERE REMAINED NOTHING ELSE FOR ME TO UNDERTAKE BUT TO RETURN TO PARIS & ENDEAVOR TO RE-ESTABLISH A COMY. BUSINESS WHICH I DID WITHOUT A PENNY, IN FACT BORROWED MONEY TO PAY MY EXPENSES. I HAD BUT LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT BUT IT WAS MY ONLY RESOURCE TO GET A LIVING.| I AM HAPPY TO SAY I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PAY MY EXPENSES DURING THE EIGHTEEN MONTHS I HAVE BEEN HERE... YOUR OBEDIENT SERVANT, N. BERRY.
Paris: 1847. 8" x 10.5", manuscript. [4] pp, [2 leaves glued together at left margin apparently by author]. Second leaf is short letter addressed to Messrs. Holford C. of London, dated Paris, Jan. 30, 1847, which appears to ask that the attached letter be forwarded to James Holford. Some age..... More
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THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES: OR, THE OVERTHROW OF THE PAPAL TYRANNY IN FRANCE, THE PRELUDE OF DESTRUCTION TO POPERY AND DESPOTISM; BUT OF PEACE TO MANKIND...THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FROM THE SECOND EUROPEAN, TO WHICH LARGE ADDITIONS WERE MADE.
America: Printed at Providence (R. Island) by Carter and Wilkinson, and sold at their Book and Stationary Store, 1794. [4], iii, [1 blank], 83, [1 blank] pp + A Synoptical Table of Prophetic Numbers [folded, as issued]. Stitched, lightly worn, contemporary plain wrappers separated from text block. Very Good. Light..... More
SIGNED SPECIAL LICENSE FOR TRADE VESSEL TO TRAVEL TO THE UNITED STATES, DATED AUGUST 20, 1830. WITH SIGNATURE AT THE END PURPORTING TO BE THAT OF EMPEROR NAPOLEON.
Broadsheet, 13.5" x 19". Split along folds into four equal sections, repaired with tape on recto, two short splits along other vertical folds. Words under tape illegible unless held to a light. Scattered foxing and spotting. Left edge clipped with loss of words that had been printed vertically. Good. This..... More
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J.P. BRISSOT, DEPUTY OF EURE AND LOIRE, TO HIS CONSTITUENTS, ON THE SITUATION OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION; ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE ANARCHISTS, AND THE EVILS IT HAS CAUSED; AND ON THE NECESSITY OF ANNIHILATING THAT INFLUENCE IN ORDER TO SAVE THAT REPUBLIC. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.
New York: Re-Printed by Childs and Swaine, for F. Childs and Co. Berry, Rogers, and Berry, and Thomas Allen, 1794. [2], 109, [1 blank] pp. Disbound and lightly foxed, Good+. Contemporary clergyman Joseph Bloomfield's copy, with his signature. This is the first and only 18th century American edition. Brissot was..... More
AN ORATION, SPOKEN AT HARTFORD, IN THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT, ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, JULY 4TH, A.D. 1799.
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1799. 23, [1 blank] pp. Stitched and untrimmed. Scattered foxing and spotting. Early ownership signature at head of title [loss of letter due to small tear]. Good+. A Connecticut Federalist attacks the French Revolution and the "utter depravity" of its leaders, who would foment a slave..... More
REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, AND ON THE PROCEEDINGS IN CERTAIN SOCIETIES IN LONDON, RELATIVE TO THAT EVENT. IN A LETTER INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SENT TO A GENTLEMAN IN PARIS.
Philadelphia: D. Humphreys, for Young, Dobson, Carey, and Rice, 1792. 256pp. Lacking boards. Light to moderate foxing, Good+. "One of the most brilliant of polemics" [PMM]. Although Burke had supported the American Revolution, the slaughter and excesses of the French Revolution were more than Burke could stomach. This is the..... More
A DIGEST OF THE NEW MILITIA LAW, WHICH RECEIVED THE ROYAL ASSENT, APR. 8. 1762.
London: Printed by H. Woodfall and W. Strahan... 1762. 12mo. [2], 82pp. Two rubberstamps of the Inner Temple Library on blank portions of the title page, and one on the blank verso. Title leaf dusted, else a clean text bound into modern marbled boards. Good+. A scarce Digest, issued during..... More
SOUND AN ALARM: ABRIDGED. ADDRESSED TO THE SERIOUS CONSIDERATION OF ALL THE INHABITANTS OF GREAT BRITAIN, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST; BY WAY OF APPENDIX TO "REFORM OR RUIN."
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
A TRUE AND MINUTE ACCOUNT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BASTILLE.
Medford, (Massachusetts.): For William Hunt, 1800. 34, [2 blanks] pp. Stitched in contemporary plain wrappers, untrimmed. Foxed, Good+. With the ownership signature, 'S. Treadwell,' at top of title page. Calet explains that he is "a French Protestant, Who had been a Prisoner, there upwards of Twenty Years, and in what..... More
THE ANTI-GALLICAN SENTINEL. DEDICATED TO ALL NATIONS. TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, BY A GENTLEMAN OF THIS CITY.
New York: Ezra Sergeant, 1809. 71, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, Near Fine. [offered with] THE ANTI-GALLICAN SENTINEL, SECOND PART. Philadelphia: Fry and Kammerer. 1810. 48pp, disbound, minor scattered foxing. Very Good. These are the first American editions of Capmany's widely circulated attack on Napoleon, written "to awaken the energies of..... More
NOW AND THEN, OR HOW TO MEET AN OLD FRIEND WITH A NEW FACE.
New York: Peter Smith [Currier & Ives], 1848. Folio lithograph broadside, oblong 14" x 19." Copyright information in manuscript at blank lower margin. Mounted to a thin board [chip at top right corner of board], light dusting. Very Good. Though little known today, Cass was a leader of the Democratic..... More
LES PETITS VOYAGEURS EN CALIFORNIE.
Tours: Ad Mame et Cie, 1853. [1-half title], [1], [1 blank], [frontis], 188 pp. Chromolithographic frontispiece and 7 chromolithographic plates with tissue guards. Original pictorial paper covered boards in color and gilt [minor wear], all edges gilt. Front board illustration of a large sailing boat at sea, with a smaller..... More
PORCUPINE'S POLITICAL CENSOR, FOR NOVEMBER 1796. CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS ON THE INSOLENT AND SEDITIOUS NOTES, COMMUNICATED TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES BY THE LATE FRENCH MINISTER ADET.
Philadelphia: Printed for, and sold by, William Cobbett. Nov. 1796. 78 pp. Disbound, else Very Good. Cobbett's blistering attack on the "Gallic usurpers" and especially Minister Adet, with a strong defense of President Washington and his stewardship of foreign policy. Adet, egged on by the Francophiles in Washington's administration (particularly..... More
OBSERVATIONS ON THE EMIGRATION OF DR. JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, AND ON THE SEVERAL ADDRESSES DELIVERED TO HIM, ON HIS ARRIVAL AT NEW-YORK.
Philadelphia: Bradford, 1796. 64pp, disbound. Scattered foxing. Good+. Cobbett pillories the Francophile Priestley in this piece, first printed in 1794, a "bitter attack on Priestley because he was representing himself as a victim of English persecution. Priestley's home, manuscripts, and apparatus had been burnt by a mob in Birmingham, England..... More
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ENGRAVING ON PAPER OF JEFFERSON DAVIS, A BUST PORTRAIT FACING LEFT, WEARING A SUIT AND BOWTIE.
Paris: 1862. Engraving on paper, 16-1/2" x 22-1/2"; image 8" x 10-3/4" . Beneath image is the caption: "Metzmacher del et sc./ 1862." Minimal edgewear. Fine. Pierre Guillaume Metzmacher [born 1815], a French engraver, was active from about 1845-1872. This variant, unlike the copy at the National Portrait Gallery and..... More
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ENGRAVING ON PAPER OF JEFFERSON DAVIS, A BUST PORTRAIT FACING LEFT, WEARING A SUIT AND BOWTIE.
Paris: Berlin, Paris, London, La Haye, New York, 1862. Engraving on paper, 9-1/2" x 12-1/4." Beneath image is the caption: "Metzmacher del et sc./ 1862." Handcolored. Light foxing in the blank portions, else Very Good. Pierre Guillaume Metzmacher [born 1815], a French engraver, was active from about 1845-1872. Jefferson Davis's..... More