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, TRANSMITTING A REPORT FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE, WITH COPIES OF THE CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE, TOUCHING THE INTERPRETATION OF THE EIGHTH ARTICLE OF THE TREATY FOR THE CESSION OF LOUISIANA. FEBRUARY 17, 1825.
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
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
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
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RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED TO THE STATE CONVENTION OF A.D. 1846, BY A VICTIM OF THE MAL-ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN NEW-YORK. FLAGRANT SUBVERSION OF THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.
New-York: Printed by Michael T. O'Connor, [1846]. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 24pp. Dusted, wrapper wear to spine and corners. Good+. Anthony Verren sued Barthelmy for libel; Barthelmy considered his loss an outrage, and blamed it on the corruption, incompetence, and malevolence of the New York judicial system. Barthelmy's pamphlet protests..... 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
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. Contemporary..... More
NOVA VIRGINIAE TABULA.
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
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
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, light dusting. Very Good. Though little known today, Cass was a leader of the Democratic Party for thirty years, its 1848 presidential..... 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
PORCUPINE'S POLITICAL CENSOR, FOR SEPT. 1796. CONTAINING, THE LIFE OF TOM PAINE, INTERSPERSED WITH REMARKS AND REFLECTIONS...
Philadelphia: Published by William Cobbett, [1796]. [2], [251]-327, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, light foxing. Very Good. "It is not clear whether this edition was ever issued separately." NAIP. It was, like several other of Porcupine's Censors, also issued as part of Cobbett's 'Porcupine's Works.' This printing is a variant of..... More
MANUSCRIPT LETTER PURPORTING TO BE WRITTEN AND SIGNED, BY S. DILLINGHAM, CAPE FRANCOIS, HAITI, JULY 12, 1797, TO MESSRS. IMLAY & TUTHILL, MERCHANTS, PHILADELPHIA: "GENTLEMEN| THE 5TH INST. I WAS TAKEN BY A FRENCH PRIVATEER AND CONDUCTED TO JEAN REBEL [sic]. MYSELF AND PAPERS SENT TO THIS PLACE. I HAVE THIS DAY BY THE ASSISTANCE OF MR. DODGE GOT MY CLEARANCE, WITH PERMISSION TO PROCEED TO GONAIVES. I HAVE WRITEN [sic] MORE FULL BY ANOTHER CONVEYANCE. FOR YOUR FURTHER INFORMATION I ENCLOSE MR. STILES LETTER. AMERICAN PRODUCE HERE IS LOW AND THAT OF THE ISLAND HIGH. AT GONAIVES QUITE THE REVERSE. THERE ARE MANY OF OUR COUNTRYMEN IN MY SITUATION AND SOME WORSE UPWARD OF THIRTY AMERICAN VESSELS NOW IN THE MOLE [sic] UNDER ADJUDICATION."
6.5" x 8.5". [4] pp, folded, untrimmed. Letter is written on rectos only; page [4] with address, wax seal remnant, and docketing information. Folded for mailing. Light browning, Very Good. We are unfamiliar with S. Dillingham's handwriting and thus do not warrant that the letter bears his actual signature or..... More
LETTRES EDIFIANTES ET CURIEUSES ECRITES DES MISSIONS ETRANGERES PAR QUELQUES MISSIONARIES DE LA COMPAGNIE DE JESUS, XX. RECUEILL.
A Paris: Chez Nicolas le Clerc, 1731. xlviii, 449, [17] pp. Original sheep [rubbed, front joint cracked but holding], spine decorated with gilt and raised spine bands, gilt lettered red spine label. Marbled endpapers and edges. Minor age toning, minimal foxing. Very Good. Volume XX of this set. The 1730..... More
JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS, BEGINNING ANNO TRICESIMO GEORGII SECUNDI, 1756. VOL. XXIX.
[London: 1777]. Large folio, unbound and untrimmed. 708, [1 errata], [1 blank] pp, as issued. Occasional light toning, else Near Fine. ESTC explains that the Journal, whose entries end on 18 September 1760, was not printed until 1777. Entries appear on a variety of topics, some concerning the French and..... More
ESSAYS UPON FRENCH SPOLIATIONS, WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS UPON THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMERCE. BY FITZSIMMONS, A NATIVE OF PENNSYLVANIA. "COMMERCE IS THE GOLDEN CIRCLE OF THE GLOBE."
Philadelphia: James G. Watts. October, 1826. Stitched, 31 + [1] pp. Tanned, Good+. The bibliographers are content to call the author 'Fitzsimmons,' with no suggestion of his true name. These are twenty short essays, preceded by an introduction 'To the People of the United States,' exposing "the manifest injustice of..... More