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[Philadelphia. July 4, 1775]. Broadsheet, approximately 16 1/4 x 10 inches. Edges chipped, upper left corner nearly torn away. Several small binding holes, not affecting text. Tanned, light foxing. Verso moderately soiled. About good. Supplement to the Philadelphia newspaper, PENNSYLVANIA PACKET, published by John Dunlap in various guises until 1800.....
![POSTSCRIPT TO THE PENNSYLVANIA PACKET. No. 165. [caption title]. John Dunlap, Pennsylvania](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM51560.jpg?v=1640366526)
[Philadelphia. December, 1774]. Broadsheet, approximately 16 1/4 x 10 inches. Edges slightly chipped, several small binding holes not affecting text. Tanned, light foxing. Good. Supplement to the Philadelphia newspaper PENNSYLVANIA PACKET, published by John Dunlap in various guises until 1800. At this time, the periodical was printed weekly, and often.....
London: Printed for the Author... 1792. [48],455pp. including subscribers list. Modern green half morocco and cloth. Internally clean. Very good. "Valuable as indicating the state of public feeling anterior to the Revolution. 'Mr. Eddis's letters are forty in number. The first contains an account of the country, the government, trade.....
London. 1780. [4],71,[1]pp. Half title. Modern paper boards, printed paper label. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Minor soiling to half title, otherwise text quite clean. Very good. In a tan half morocco and cloth folder. One of Eden's several letters written to the Earl of Carlisle, this one examining the.....
London. 1779. [4],163pp. Half title. 20th-century red morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Spine lightly sunned. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Very minor scattered foxing. Near fine. Second edition, published the same year as the first. A collection of letters urging England to press on against the rebels until colonial.....
Dublin. 1779. 47pp. Modern paper boards, printed paper label. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Very minor soiling. Very good plus. In a tan half morocco and cloth folder. One of Eden's several letters written to the Earl of Carlisle, this text encourages the close economic relations of England and Ireland.....
Newport, R.I. May 7, 1770. [1]p. manuscript on a 9 1/4 x 14 3/4-inch sheet. Lightly backed by tissue. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth box, spine gilt. A record of Rhode Island merchant and lawyer William Ellery's financial dealings, signed by him six years before he signed.....
Hartford. November 30, 1775. [1]p., 6 x 8 inches, ten lines of text; docketed on verso. Old fold lines. Minor soiling. Near fine. Key manuscript document, written and signed by Oliver Ellsworth, revealing the interaction between the colonies during the earliest stages of the American Revolution, and the financial interchanges.....
London. 1769. [2],35pp. Lacks half title. Modern paper boards, printed paper label. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing and soiling. Very good. In a tan half morocco and cloth folder. Commentary on William Pitt the Elder's conduct during his term as Prime Minister. It was under Pitt's administration that.....
Indianapolis; Kansas City: Bowen-Merrill Company, 1896-1897. 1186pp. with numerous in-text illustrations. Quarto. Two volumes. Original red publisher's cloth, boards gilt stamped, spine gilt. Corners bumped, edges worn, hinges starting, spine extremities somewhat frayed. Small bookplates on front and rear pastedowns. Minor dust soiling to edges of text block. Good plus.....
Boston. [ 1797?]. [4],100pp. Gathered signatures, stitched, as issued. Tanned, scattered foxing. In original state, overall just about very good, untrimmed. Boston edition of this British view of the conflict which brought tensions and a split between the United States and France in an "undeclared war." Erskine spends some time.....
[Paris]. 1782. [2],158pp. Engraved frontispiece. Modern blue morocco and mottled paper boards, spine gilt. Gilt insignia of the French "Order of the Star" ("Monstrant Regibus Astra Viam") on front board and on bookplate on front pastedown. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Final text leaf lightly browned around edges. Near fine. Authorship.....
New Haven: William Reese Company, 2008. [12],xv,[1],448pp. With a total of forty-two original leaves from 18th-century American books bound in on stubs. Quarto. Half red morocco and grey cloth, spine stamped in gilt, a.e.g. New. In a cloth slipcase. One of only twenty copies. Charles Evans' AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY, begun in.....
New York: Peter Smith, 1941-1942, 1962. Thirteen volumes. Original orange cloth, spines printed in black. Very light wear. Lacking index volume. Very good. The Peter Smith reprint of an indispensable Americana reference, still the primary guide to early American imprints. Treats American imprints through 1800, with volume 13, covering 1799-1800.....
London: Wm. Faden, December 1, 1777. Copper-engraved map on two joined sheets, 32 x 24 inches in total, with original outline color. A bit of light wear around the edges. In very good condition. Matted. This elegant composition depicts New Jersey in finely engraved detail at a large scale of.....
Philadelphia: Published for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, by Henry Carey Baird, 1853. 48pp. Contemporary half cloth and paper boards, paper label on front cover. Spine head chipped, joint partially split, boards unevenly toned, light staining. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown, a couple of leaves mildly wrinkled. Good. Lieut. William.....
Paris. 1785. [4],xvi,234pp. plus folding map. Half title. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt extra, leather label, patterned endpapers. Extremities rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf. Internally clean. Very good plus. The first French edition of Filson's pioneering history of the settlements in Kentucky, issued the year after.....
Paris: Chez Buisson, 1785. [4],xvi,234pp. plus folding map. Half title. Contemporary French mottled calf, rebacked, retaining original spine tooled in gilt, morocco gilt label, marbled endpapers. Light wear to extremities. Later ink annotations on front free endpaper, titlepage, and final leaf, else quite clean internally. Later bookseller's label on rear.....
Fishkill, N.Y. December 14, 1779. [2]pp. on recto and verso of first leaf, and docketed on verso of integral blank leaf. Faint fold lines. Near fine. A letter from the enterprising John Fitch, future steamboat pioneer, during his checkered service in the Continental Army. Having entered into an unhappy marriage.....
Shrewsbury. 1776. [2],viii,130pp. 12mo. Dbd. Light tanning. Very good. First edition of this pro-British pamphlet in which the author uses scripture to prove the British right and authority to tax and control the American colonies. Fletcher writes that though the British may subdue the colonies by the sword, they will.....
Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1929. 216pp. Wrappers. Very good. Publishes a number of diaries and documents for the first time.
![GOBIERNO DE ESTADO DEL CONDE DE FLORIDABLANCA [manuscript title]. Moñino y. Redondo...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM49391.jpg?v=1593711765)
Spain. November 6, 1789. [128]pp. In Spanish. Folio. Contemporary vellum, pigskin loop closures. Minor soiling to binding. A few small tears, minor scattered soiling. Written in a neat and legible humanist-style hand. Bookplate of Dr. Don Vicente Bas de Tejada on final leaf. Very good. A manuscript report addressed to.....
Exeter, N.H. The News-Letter Press, 1879. [2],24pp. Self-wrappers. Slightly dust-soiled. Overall, very good. One of 150 copies. An account of a frontier expedition under Gen. Sullivan against the Seneca and British in which Fogg took part in 1779. A scarce Howes item we have not previously encountered.
London. 1876. xiii,[2],500pp. plus five plates. Original publisher's cloth, gilt. Front inner hinge cracked, extremities worn. Bookplate on front pastedown. Ownership inscription of Emma W.W. Burgoyne on verso of half title. Light scattered foxing. Good. Evidently a family copy of this biography of Burgoyne, covering the American Revolution in some.....
Brooklyn. 1888. 57pp. Small folio. Modern cloth, paper label. Slight fore-edge chipping on first few pages. Very good, partially unopened. A useful bibliography helping to elucidate the often murky printing history of early American legislation. The work actually covers Congresses all the way through the late 1780s.
