Boston: Thomas Fleet, 1797. 35, [1 blank] pp, with half title and final blank]. Disbound, light rubberstamp and foxing. Good+. America is blessed with climate, natural resources, geography and all other physical requisites of the good life. Cumings praises the enlightenment of the government and people. "Our lot is cast..... More
Boston: Samuel Hall, 1795. 30pp + final blank, half title. Formerly stitched, now loose, else lightly worn and Very Good. A Federalist approbation of the constitutional state of the Union. Although "the general liberties of the nation might, perhaps, be ultimately endangered...were the general government to swallow up" the states..... More
Salem: Thomas C. Cushing, 1795. Stitched, untrimmed, moderate spotting. 30pp, lacking the half title and last leaf. "Excellent treatise on the principles of liberty and on the new Constitution, with remarks on the Revolution" [Jenkins]. Wadsworth says, "Liberty is the birthright and common cause of mankind. It is not the..... More