Chuquisaca: Imprenta Boliviana, May 30, 1827. [2],33pp. In Spanish. Pages 17 and 21 reversed due to printer's error. Gathered signatures, stitched. Clerical ink inscription ("763 G.R.M.") in inner margin of titlepage. Minor light staining. Very good, untrimmed. In a half morocco box. The extremely rare second and last official edition.....
![EL IRIS DE LA PAZ [caption title]. Bolivia](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM51530.jpg?v=1593711806)
[La Paz]: Imprenta del Colejio de Educandas, 1829. Broadside, [2]pp., 17 x 12 1/2 inches. Previously folded, with tears along fold lines repaired by tape on the verso. A few minor chips and small tears at edges. Two other small holes not affecting text. Lightly tanned and dampstained. Good. A.....
![PROCLAMA. EL CONGRESO A LA NACION, ¡BOLIVIANOS! [caption title]. Bolivia](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM51534.jpg?v=1593711807)
[Chuquisaca. 1837]. Broadside, 12 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Several chips and tears, one two-inch tear at lower right edge. Light foxing and tanning. About good. Nationalist broadside issued by the Bolivian congress in 1837, addressed to the people and exhorting them to have faith in the strength of the.....
Sucre: Tipografia de la Libertad, September 23, 1887. Broadsheet, [2]pp., 12 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Several chips, small tears, and moderate tanning at edges. Top two corners torn away, and two further top edge tape repairs, not affecting text. Several tears along fold lines. About good. A Bolivian broadside.....
Sucre. 1887. Broadsheet, 13 x 8 1/2 inches. Creased, chipped at extremities. Good. Concerns the Bolivian retreat at Camarones in 1879. The author feels a patriotic obligation to call attention to this period, lest time clear the guilt of the delinquents.
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[Chuquiasca. 1839]. Broadsheet, [2]pp., 12 3/4 x 8 inches. 2 1/4 inch tear at lower right edge, minor soiling and tanning. Good. A short address to the Bolivian people by newly elected president José Miguel de Velasco in 1839, denouncing the previous ten years of dictatorship under Andrés de Santa.....
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1792. [8],283pp. Contemporary three quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt morocco spine label. Boards a bit rubbed and edgeworn, hinges worn. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Very clean internally. Very good overall. Boothby's treatise is a critique of two of Thomas Paine's later works, dealing.....
Boston. Nov. 5, 1803 and June 28, 1809. Vol. XL, No. 2048, and Whole No. 2633. Two issues, [4]pp. each. Folio newspaper. Tanned, old folds, old ink signature and some wrinkling. Good. The earlier issue includes a brief biography of Lucien Bonaparte and various political notices, most importantly regarding the.....
[Quebec. 1855]. 24pp. Original blue printed wrappers. Minor edge wear, light dust-soiling. Very good. An offprint of an article which first appeared in the journal, THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEBEC. The work concerns the establishment of the boundary line between the United States and Canada.....
![AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM H.M. BRACKENRIDGE TO RICHARD S. COXE]. Henry M. Brackenridge](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM15774.jpg?v=1599237789)
Tarentum, [Pa]. Jan. 5, 1848. [3]pp. written on folded folio sheet, addressed on verso. Small burn hole in lower left corner not affecting text. Very good. Brackenridge is best known for his first book, VIEWS OF LOUISIANA... (Pittsburgh, 1814). Richard Coxe, to whom he addresses this letter, was a distinguished.....
[Philadelphia. 1840?]. 23pp. Dbd. Light foxing and wear to outer leaves. Very good. Untrimmed. Pamphlet concerning the scandalous amounts of legal fees collected by the Philadelphia County Sheriff's Office, originally published in 1819.
[London. 1714]. Broadsheet, 15 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches. [1]p. Printed docket title on verso. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Small portion of inner margin excised, with no loss to text. Very light foxing and offsetting. Very good. A rare and interesting British political petition.....
[Leicester? 1715]. 10pp. Dbd. Early stab holes in left margin. Mild foxing. Very good, untrimmed and unopened. A fascinating political pamphlet relating to charges of fraud, intimidation, and violence in the Leicestershire election of February 1714. The author of the pamphlet rebuts recent charges made in the "Flying Posts and.....
London. 1714. [2],18pp. Dbd. A critique on the previous two Parliaments, whom the author lambasts as such: "...it was impossible that so many Corruptions should have crept into an Administration, without the Cowardice, Treachery, or Bribery of your Representatives."
London. 1762. [2],871-872pp. Dbd. Folio. Light tanning. Very good. A scarce official Parliamentary printing of this important act that made permanent a law that was originally passed in 1729, and renewed periodically thereafter. The act was vital in mandating contracts and providing other protections for merchant seamen and thereby improved.....
London. 1773. [2],455-466pp. Dbd. Folio. Light tanning and offseting. Still very good. Scarce official printing of this act of Parliament which renewed the Mutiny Act. The legislative body renewed the act annually until 1879. OCLC locates eight copies.
London. 1773. [2],459-462pp. Dbd. Folio. Light tanning and offsetting. Still very good. Scarce official Parliamentary printing of this 1773 act bounding two previous acts regarding regarding the naturalization non-British immigrants to American colonies and foreigners in the British army. Primarily, it restricted such naturalized citizens from holding public office. OCLC.....
[London. 1787]. 267-270pp. Dbd. Folio. Small pinholes at gutter margin. Light tanning and occasional light foxing. Still very good. Very scarce act of Parliament regulating trade between the new United States and remaining British colonies in America, particularly the West Indies, on a variety of goods, including lumber, iron, and.....
[London. 1788]. 507-515pp. Dbd. Folio. Light tanning and occasional foxing. Still very good. Extremely scarce official printing of this 1788 continuing act for a number of laws that regulated British trade with the United States. ESTC locates only one copy.
London: Edward Owen, 1753. 46pp. plus two folding tables. Quarto. Dbd. Light staining to last leaf. Slight worming in outer margin of last few leaves, not affecting text. Very good. Pamphlet dealing with international law and the British seizure of Prussian ships. The second table is entitled, "List of all.....
London. Nov. 8, 1793. 4pp. Folio. Neatly silked on both sides. Minor soil. Very good. Includes an account of the trial of Marie Antoinette, and an advertisement for several works by Thomas Paine.
London; Edinburgh. 1681-1735. Five volumes. Slightly later calf bindings. Good plus. A assemblage of five sammelbands collecting over forty English and Scottish pamphlets addressing religious and political issues in Britain at the beginning of the 18th century. Published during a period of renewed strife, they contain much immediate reaction and.....
London. 1740. Engraving with hand-coloring, measuring 14 x 8 3/4 inches. Minor soiling. Color quite bright and fresh. Very good. A satire against French Cardinal Fleury, Chief Minister to Louis XV, published during the frenzy of celebrations over Admiral Vernon's victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Porto Bello.....
[London]: Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, March 18, 1816. 2pp. plus docket title printed on verso of second leaf. Folio. Early horizontal folds. Near fine, untrimmed. Official Parliamentary draft printing of a commercial agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States, passed just over a......
Washington. 1858. 16pp. Printed on a single folded sheet, untrimmed and unopened. Old folds. Very good. Broderick was a Democratic Senator from California and an anti- slavery advocate. In the bitter fight over the admission of Kansas under the pro-slavery Lecompton constitution, he allied himself with Stephen Douglas and other.....
