Philadelphia: Printed and sold by William and Thomas Bradford... 1775. [4],iv,239pp. Half title. Antique half calf and marbled boards. Light tanning and foxing. Some staining in gutter margin of first half of text. Else very good. The journals of the second Continental Congress, covering its activities from convening on May.....
Philadelphia: Printed by William and Thomas Bradford, at the London Coffee House, 1774. [4],132pp. Half title. Bound to style in three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt extra, leather label. Half title lightly soiled, contemporary ownership inscription ("Thos. Sinclair"). Light scattered foxing and soiling to text; p.15 torn at edge.....
London: J. Almon, 1775. [2],66,[2]pp. Half title. Modern blue wrappers. An internally near fine copy. This collection prints those portions of the entire Journal of Congress for that session which had not been printed earlier for British readers in the British edition of EXTRACTS FROM THE VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS... (1774).....
Philadelphia: Robert Aitken, 1777. [2],513,[23]pp. Early 19th-century sheep and marbled boards. Rubbed, some wear on spine ends and corners. Text uniformly toned. Very slight paper nicks at edge of title-leaf, slight paper loss at corners of a few index leaves. With the signature of Richard Bland Lee on the titlepage.....
York-town, Pa. Printed by John Dunlap, 1778. [2],520,xxvii pp. Contemporary paper boards, spine with paper loss, front board detached. Contemporary ownership inscription of Solon Stevens on front fly leaf. Light, even toning. Some minor soiling. Very good, in original unsophisticated condition. In a red half morocco and cloth box, spine.....
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Philadelphia & York-town. 1777-1778. Two volumes. [2],310,[12]; [2],520,[27]pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt. Light foxing and soiling. Very good. Untrimmed. A nice set of the Journals of the Continental Congress for the first two years. The first volume was published by Robert Aitken in Philadelphia, and was.....
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Philadelphia: From Folwell's Press, 1800-1801. Thirteen volumes. Original boards. Vol. I-V with original paper spines, paper labels. Vol. VI-XIII with in original paper boards, old vellum rebacking of each volume. Free endpapers excised from several volumes. A few volumes also have reinforced gutter on titlepage. Otherwise a crisp, clean, untrimmed.....
[Philadelphia? John Dunlap? 1778?]. Broadside, 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Old fold lines. Wear at some folds, one repaired on verso with tissue. Contemporary manuscript notations in text, signed by Henry Laurens. Very good. The printed instructions issued by the Continental Congress to privateers during the American Revolution, in.....
Belfast: Reprinted by James Magee, 1775. 24pp. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light tanning and foxing. Very good. A very scarce Irish printing of this 1775 sermon delivered in Philadelphia by Thomas Coombe, with a dedication to Benjamin Franklin, "illustrious citizen and philosopher." Coombe was an Anglican.....
London. 1839. Two volumes. xxxv,[v]-xii,456; xii,481pp. plus frontispiece and map in each volume. Modern paper boards with paper spine, printed paper label. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Internally clean. Very good. First London edition of this popular and oft- reprinted work, published the same year as the first American edition. Much.....
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1856. vii,[13]-508,[4]pp. plus 15 engraved plates. Publisher's brown cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt. Head and tail of spine chipping, some chipping to edges. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Later bookplate and ownership signature on front pastedown and flyleaf. Mild foxing throughout. Good. Later edition.....
Washington. 1903. 27pp. Original printed wrappers. Front wrap detached and chipped. Internally very good. A pamphlet depicting the sufferings of an American patriot, published by Cornelius' descendants.
Ormskirk. 1806. [iv],101,[1],[2],103-145,[1],[2],[147]-252pp. plus five engraved plates. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, rebacked in brown cloth. Corners lacking leather, boards rubbed, remaining leather chipped, library reference number at spine tail. Early 20th-century bookplate on front pastedown, amateur tape reinforcement to the hinges, binding broken after the titlepage and after.....
London: John Murray, 1859. Three volumes. xvi,560; vi,577,[1]; vi,621pp. plus portrait frontispiece, folding genealogical table, and two folding maps. Contemporary three-quarter calf and pebbled cloth, gilt spine titles. Noticeable abrading and wear to the bindings. Library bookplate on each front pastedown from the Royal United Service Institution's lending library, modern.....
London. 1783. [2],xvi,[6],260pp. plus errata slip (tipped in after titlepage) and folding table. Modern paper boards, printed paper label. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing and soiling. Very good. Untrimmed. In a red half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. Cornwallis' defense of his conduct during the Yorktown.....
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1793. 240pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, original morocco label. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Some light foxing and soiling. Very good. The first American edition, based on the first London edition of 1782. Crèvecoeur came to America during the French and Indian War.....
Maastricht: J.E. Dufour & Phil. Roux, 1785. Two volumes. xxiv,457,[1]; [4],431,[1]pp. Half title in each volume. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards. Spines and covers worn, front board of first volume detached. Bookplate of Caspar Joseph von Weber on front pastedown of first volume, Weber's ownership signature on each.....
Paris: Chez Cuchet, 1784. Two volumes. xxiv,[iv],422,[2]; [4],iv,400,[2]pp. Half title in second volume. Contemporary mottled calf, spines richly gilt. Boards and outer joints with instances of moderate wear. Occasional minor foxing, light dampstaining in upper corner of final sixty pages of second volume. A very good set. The first French.....
Paris. 1784. Two volumes. xxiv,iv,422,[2]; [4],iv,400,[2]pp. Half title in second volume. Bound in mismatched contemporary calf, first volume with spine richly gilt. Boards of second volume quite worn, spine badly chipped. Bookplate on front pastedown and early signatures on titlepage of first volume. Some foxing and tanning. A good set.....
Boston: Printed by T. & J. Fleet, 1783. 55pp. Half title. Modern three quarter morocco and cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Contemporary ownership signature on half title, bookplate on rear pastedown. Very good, untrimmed. Cumings preaches on the obligations of the leaders to the followers, and vice versa. He also.....
New York. 1842. 578,[2]pp. plus plate. Frontispiece portrait. Original cloth. Rubbed, frayed at head and toe of spine, rear hinge cracking, some tanning and scattered foxing. Good. Curwen, an American-born Loyalist and author, led the New England expedition against Louisburg in 1744. He was judge of admiralty at the outbreak.....
New London: Printed and sold by T. Green, [ 1774]. [32]pp. including a woodcut portrait of Jonathan Shipley on the titlepage and a woodcut of a lunar eclipse on p.[32]. Later stitching. Original stab holes in inner margin. Titlepage and last page age-toned and soiled. Moderate age-toning and soiling internally.....
London. 1775. [4],60pp. Half title. Dbd. Very minor foxing. Very good. A reply to the address of the Continental Congress issued in October of 1774. "A conciliatory plea, written for colonial consumption" - Howes.
London. 1817. 96pp. Later half calf and marbled boards, backstrip perished. Titlepage and final page soiled, else very good. Later edition, abridged. "Davis came to the United States in search of literary employment, and had much intercourse with Col. Burr, Jefferson, and others, concerning whom he gives many new facts".....
London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1783. [2],129,[5]pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Titlepage expertly repaired along gutter. About very good. The third edition, "with additions," published a year after the first. Day (1748- 89) was a remarkably intelligent and provocative Englishman. He was "a holder and practitioner.....
