Paris. April 28, 1780. 2pp. Modern marbled paper over boards, gilt paper spine label. Bookplate to rear pastedown. Horizontal crease to text leaf, else fine. A supplement to the Parisian periodical LA GAZETTE FRANCOISE, the leading source of French news on the American Revolution. This issue outlines French naval movements.....
Paris: M. Godefroy, [ 1784]. Sixteen engraved plates: engraved titlepage with vignettes, twelve scenes, two maps, and a final plate celebrating the peace of 1783. Quarto. 19th-century red morocco, rebacked; spine gilt, gilt dentelles. Light foxing. Very good. A very nice collection of Revolutionary views, one of the few contemporary.....
[Boston: Edes & Gill, November 20, 1772]. Broadside, 13 x 12 inches. Signed in manuscript "William Cooper" and addressed in ink to the Select-Men of "Kingston" below the text. Ink notation on verso reading: "To the Select Men of Kingston." A few areas of paper loss, most significantly to the.....
[N.p. ca. 1780-1783]. [3]pp. on two large bifolia, each approximately 17¾ x 11½ inches. Previously folded. Blindstamped "ARCHIVES DE CHASTELLUX" on the verso of both bifolia. Closed tear from inner margin of first bifolium, not affecting manuscript. Patches of light dampstaining. Very good. Untrimmed. A pair of illustrated period battle.....
Geneva. 1780. [2],[97]-144,[1]pp. plus a 4pp. Supplement laid in. Gathered signatures, stitched. Fine. Untrimmed. With original printed advertising band. The July 15, 1780 issue of the French political periodical, JOURNAL HISTORIQUE ET POLITIQUE.... This issue contains political news from Turkey, Russia, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, and France. The.....
[N.p. N.d., likely 1900s]. Single sheet of textured rag paper, 36 x 25 inches. Mild edge wear and light wrinkling. Very good. A striking gravestone rubbing of the original slate headstone of William French, one of two young colonists killed by British troops in Westminster, Vermont on March 13, 1775.....
Antwerp [i.e. Paris]. 1776-1779. Ten complete volumes (of fifteen), plus a significant portion of the eleventh. Complete collation available upon request. Eleven volumes bound in contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, leather labels, edges painted red; plus seventeen individual issues, most in original wrappers. Bound volumes: Corners bumped, edges slightly worn.....
Sharon, Ct. Jan. 26, 1777. [1]p. Quarto. A few small chips at edges. Lightly dampstained. About very good. In a blue half morocco clamshell case, spine gilt, red leather labels. A list of expenses incurred by Thomas Hamlin, a soldier from Sharon, Ct., during illness while serving in the Continental.....
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London. 1776. Mezzotint engraving, 14 x 9 1/4 inches; mounted and framed to 21 x 16 1/2 inches. Trimmed to edge of image, mounted and matted. Quite clean. Very good. Engraved three-quarter length portrait of Commodore Esek Hopkins, showing him in his Continental uniform with one hand upraised and pointing.....
London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1774. [2],1251-1252pp. Folio. Dbd. Sewing holes from former binding at gutter, else fine. The Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773 unified both the protesting colonists in America and the forces of reaction in Great Britain in their respective positions. News of.....
[Philadelphia. 1775]. [4]pp. on bifolium sheet. Folio. Very minor soiling and chipping at edges. Fine. Printed in Philadelphia on the day of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, opening the American Revolution, by the man who would print the Declaration of Independence the next year. This supplement to the PACKET.....
[Boston: Printed by Benjamin Edes], Nov. 2, 1776. Broadside, 15 x 9 1/2 inches. Several folds, minor staining, fold lines reinforced with archival tape on verso. Good. Early November 1776 was a dark moment for the American side in the Revolution. Washington had been routed from New York, the victory.....
[Portsmouth, N.H. 1775]. [3]pp. on a single folded sheet. Lightly silked. Minor edge chipping, a handful of clean tears expertly repaired, second leaf inset into slightly larger backing sheet. Very good. Official manuscript copy of a document by His Majesty's Court of General Sessions of the Peace in New Hampshire.....
New York. September 28, 1775. Broadside, approximately 9 x 8 inches. Marginal chips and tears, adhesive residue on blank verso. Light tanning. Good. In a half morocco box. An extremely rare revolutionary-era New York broadside, promulgated by the Friends to Liberty in September 1775, encouraging electors to reject sitting pro-British.....
Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap, 1782. [2],698 [i.e. 697]pp. plus errata page. Tall folio. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Text evenly toned, scattered foxing, occasional bit of dampstaining. Leaf Gg has a long closed tear in the lower margin, not costing any text. Very good. Untrimmed. This copy bears.....
Lyon. [1780]. Engraving with letterpress text beneath, the whole measuring 9 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches. Mounted at corners to modern heavy paper. Lightly soiled. Trimmed a bit close at top edge, but not into image. Very good. Engraving with printed enumerated text beneath in French and Dutch, satirizing England's.....
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[Netherlands. 1780]. Engraving, 10 x 15 inches (plate mark) on a sheet 13 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches. Very minor soiling. Fine. Matted. This cartoon shows a wealthy Dutch merchant at center, surrounded by several artisans and tradespeople, all gathered around a trunk full of money bags. The central merchant.....
[London. 1780]. Five documents, totaling [23]pp. Large folio sheets, folded into four panels, with docketing information on verso of final leaf. Minor soiling. Near fine. In a blue half morocco and cloth box. Court documents relating to the appeal case of the Massachusetts ship Nicholas, captained by Nathaniel Atkins, which.....
London: Printed by Mark Baskett, 1765. [2],579-596pp., including general titlepage. Folio. Dbd. Tiny worm hole in lower edge of textblock (no text affected), a few spots of light foxing. Very good. In a brown cloth chemise and half brown morocco and cloth clamshell box, gilt. A fine separate printing of.....
London: Printed by Mark Baskett, 1767. [2],655-664pp. Folio. Dbd. Minimal foxing, otherwise fine. The Townshend Acts, which came after the resented Stamp Act of 1765, levied further antagonizing duties on the American colonies for such imports as glass, paper, lead, paint, and tea. They also created a reorganized Board of.....
London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1782. [2],787-788pp. Folio. Modern blind-tooled half calf and marbled boards, printed paper label. Light shelf wear, stab holes from original sewing in gutter margin. Near fine. The act which officially set the stage for the conclusion of the American Revolution. While King.....
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1898-1900. Thirty-two volumes. Uniform green cloth, stamped in gilt. Minor shelf wear. Overall very good. The Standard Library Edition of this monumental set of biographies of great American statesmen. There are 28 book-length treatments of such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams.....
[London. 1778]. 3pp. plus printed docket title on verso of second leaf. Bifolium. Three early horizontal folds. Very minor foxing and soiling. Near fine, untrimmed. The rare Parliamentary printing of a bill relating to American trade under consideration by the House of Commons. In 1660, during the reign of Charles.....
Boston: Printed and sold by the Printers and Booksellers, [1765]. [24]pp., including a Paul Revere engraving on p.[17]. Stitched. Small tape repairs on four leaves. First and last pages soiled, text evenly tanned. Foredges chipped, not affecting text. A good copy. The self-styled "Second Edition" of this 1766 almanac by.....
London: Printed for William Lane, 1789. Two volumes. [4],vii,[21],467; [4],558pp., plus partially handcolored folding map and eight plates (five folding). Half titles. Modern half mottled calf and contemporary paper boards, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt red morocco label. Boards rubbed and shelf worn, corners bumped, spines a bit sunned.....
